Reasons Why I Love The Internet
A Stupid Convo With A More Than Stupid Wrestling Fan:
I read what was a pretty simple article about Eric Bischoff tweeting the following comment...
You can lead them to drink, but not how to find water!
Let's face it... That sentence doesn't make a whole lot of sense. Someone replied as a comment to the news post:
Isn't it supposed to be:
"You can lead them to water, but you can't force them to drink"
You can lead them to water but you can't find water ... that doesnt' make sense.
Seems like a perfectly legitimate post to me... But some dumb fuck with a "I come off as smart somewhere on the internet" attitude replied with:
Use some logic.
You can take anyone anywhere and give them something to drink.
It is hard to teach someone anywhere to be able to find a location so they can drink themselves.
Broken down so you can understand:
I can give you a glass of water and you can drink it no problem.
On the other hand it is hard to teach you to find an area with water and a drinking cup without basic motor skills and exploratory knowledge to fend for yourself.
This guy/girl is arguing a useless point, for one thing... But they also manage to pull the "I'm clearly smarter than you" card while making no sense at all.
I replied:
Your explanation doesn't make what Bischoff said any more intelligible.
Dude basically said. "You can show a horse where water is, but not where to find water".
I thought the shit would be just about over right there. Usually as the news on the site gets a day old, people move on to comment on new stories, so I figured I'd never even get a reply back. Stupid me.
This dumb shit replies with:
Pay attention then.
Lets look at your version:
"You can show a horse where water is, but not where to find water".
Showing a horse where water is at in and of itself is the showing where to find said water.
That is not what Eric said or attempted to convey.
Maybe you require a broken down explanation as well:
What Eric said is equivalent to I can buy/give you a car. But it is far harder to teach you how to drive it.
I can give you a fish for dinner, but it is harder to teach you to fish for yourself.
I can break and water down examples for you to understand but it is harder to teach you to use logic and creative philosophy to understand things
::sigh::
Me:
Oh I paid attention, sir/ma'am... Your original explanation was a sh!tload shorter than the second explanation you claimed was "Broken down so you can understand".
Stop trying to argue a sh!tty point.
"I can break and water down examples... blah blah"
You don't have to explain... He didn't make sense, and no matter how much "logic" you try to put behind his meaning, you're still going to be wrong.
Go back to whatever forum it is that you wish you moderated, jump back on your soap box, and pull your "I'm smarter than you" routine over there.
"Showing a horse where water is at in and of itself is the showing where to find said water."
Where water "is at"???
Play Sammy Smartguy on whatever forum it is you came from.
What I'm wondering, is why this person chooses to be the "smart guy" by defending a completely ridiculous statement... It's not like we were talking politics, I didn't exactly knock the person when I first replied, and I'm pretty sure he/she and Eric Bischoff aren't related in any way. It's not as if he or she was defending a friend.
Where in a persons head do they decide they want to argue about an old idiom, in relation to a comment that.... oh fucking fuck it.
Fuck.
