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How the Mueller Investigation Could Play Out for Trump

Whoa. We've got to distinguish between nit picking and splitting hairs now? Isn't the literal meaning of nit picking when a person sifts through hair to remove lice eggs?

20 out of 20 thesauruses that I looked at describe the two idioms as synonyms.

At that point I came to view it as a fact.
 
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I lost credibility? Dang it. People are going to to look at the words that I write and take them less seriously? That sucks.

You lost all credibility with me when jwlcosu claimed that you are not as smart as he used to think that you are.
 
Says the guy holding them in his hands and walking away...

no.

LOL, wonder why you think he'd take my side here...? maybe because he's capable of reading?

gee, i wonder what would make me think that. maybe because every time you get in over your head making up "facts" or revising history or just generally spouting moronic nonsense making an ass of yourself he feels the need to chime in to bail you out - usually by making an issue of some irrelevant detail.

like for example, what he is doing here - trying to make the point that I'm drawing a distinction between splitting hairs and nit picking when i was simply (and pretty clearly) making the point that you're a moron. it's almost like a big brother constantly coming to the aid of his little brother who is always picking fights he cant win.
 
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Whoa. We've got to distinguish between nit picking and splitting hairs now? Isn't the literal meaning of nit picking when a person sifts through hair to remove lice eggs?

its almost as if i could have predicted this.

Oh wait...
Maybe Gulo will come along and sacrifice more of his credibility to take your side on this by making it seem like I'm saying something I'm not and you guys can pretend that validates your nonsense and proves you were right all along.
 
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gee, i wonder what would make me think that. maybe bec every time you get in over your head and make an ass of yourself he feels the need to chime in to bail you out - usually by making an issue of some irrelevant detail.

like for example, what he is doing here - the pedantic nit picker is trying to make the point that I'm drawing a distinction between splitting hairs and nit picking when i was simply (and pretty clearly) making the point that you're a moron. it's almost like a big brother constantly coming to the aid of his little brother who is always picking fights he cant win.
Big brother? After nits and hairs we're supposed to talk about pots and kettles.
 
20 out of 20 thesauruses that I looked at describe the two idioms as synonyms.

At that point I came to view it as a fact.
It's some next level shit.


Getting called a nit picker for pointing out that someone is splitting hairs between nit picking and splitting hairs.


Message board art right there.
 
It's some next level shit.


Getting called a nit picker for pointing out that someone is splitting hairs between nit picking and splitting hairs.


Message board art right there.

you're like a dog with a bone. MC rewrites history getting all of the Vietnam war wrong other than 1 or 2 dates (he basically thinks Vietnam is communist because Truman hurt Ho Chi Minh's feelings by backing a democratic government instead of his murderous regime that was already communist) but now we're gonna go on for pages about a point I wasn't making. You're trying pretty hard to deflect and disagree with me here. If I had just said "it's not ONLY splitting hairs..." you think you would have gotten the point that I was actually making? Probably, but chances are you'd find something other than the actual subject of the discussion to nit pick or would that be splitting hairs? I'm really struggling with the difference between the two.
 
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20 out of 20 thesauruses that I looked at describe the two idioms as synonyms.

At that point I came to view it as a fact.

challenge. can't be more than 8, 10 thesauruses, max. Even if there were, I think you would have stopped before you got to the high single digits.
 
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challenge. can't be more than 8, 10 thesauruses, max. Even if there were, I think you would have stopped before you got to the high single digits.

Maybe 20 was hyperbolic but whatever...

I?m not gonna sit here and split hairs over it.
 
You're trying pretty hard to deflect and disagree with me here.


You detect that much effort on my part? How flattering.


I have a long history of changing topics on this board. You're the first to take it personally.
 
You detect that much effort on my part? How flattering.

well, considering the point you can't seem to let go of, while you completely ignore that actual argument, and you realize this is your mo in multiple threads, it's actually not that hard to detect.

I have a long history of changing topics on this board. You're the first to take it personally.

I'm not taking it personally, I merely pointed it out. you seem to have an issue with it though.
 
well, considering the point you can't seem to let go of, while you completely ignore that actual argument, and you realize this is your mo in multiple threads, it's actually not that hard to detect.



I'm not taking it personally, I merely pointed it out. you seem to have an issue with it though.


What are you declaring to be the actual argument of the Mueller investigation thread?
 
I can relate.

yeah, I suppose you can. perhaps you and MC should get together and hold each other accountable for staying on topic. You can call him out when he posts off topic misstatement of fact or when he revises history to suit his agenda and he can give you a heads up whenever you pick up on a minor detail, misinterpret it and go off on a tangent about something I'm not saying.
 
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