Tehran Condemns 300
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Can you show ME where Rue was so offensive? 'Cause I looked through the thread and I can't find it. It did seem to me like Geezer was goading Rue... you know, calling Rue obssessed and stuff. Acting like a picador and claiming it's all fun. Geezer must have been a bully when he was a kid. Or an Eddie Haskell.
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Razza,
I'm going to paraphrase a comment that Rue made in the self-reflection thread: that if they read something they consider inaccurate they feel compelled to correct that inaccuracy. It's a very straightforward approach. *
Geezer uses this against Rue. While it seems that Rue has a very difficult time letting what they perceive as an inaccurate statement be, Geezer seems to have a very difficult time not poking Rue with a needle.
* eta: This can indeed lead to a division of focus. And, over the past few years, it appears to me that Rue is finally just fed up with those who they perceive are serial-inaccurate-statement-makers.
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Tell you the truth, what this thread reminded me of is a bunch of nine-year-old boys giggling in the john over a dirty picture. It didn't start that way but that's where it went. And Rue had the misfortune of walking into it.
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Well, oddly enough, Rue clapped her hand straight over her mouth when people started bringing actual scholarship into the debate. Interestingly, she was the one that brought factual inaccuracies into the thing. I do find it horribly ironic, but Rue is probably sitting comfortably now, because for once, she was on the minority side of majority opinion, and didn't like it not one little bit. But now it would appear that people are leaping to her defense, which must make her feel awfully vindicated. For the record, I just wish we could all discuss stuff in a calm and rational manner (although I'm all for the occasional jab) rather than degerating into mean-spiritedness.
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Originally posted by JKiddo:
Can you show ME where Rue was so offensive? 'Cause I looked through the thread and I can't find it. It did seem to me like Geezer was goading Rue... you know, calling Rue obssessed and stuff. Acting like a picador and claiming it's all fun. Geezer must have been a bully when he was a kid. Or an Eddie Haskell.
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Originally posted by Rue:
Well Causal, you've joined the ranks of the assholes. Good for you.
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Quote:Such as....? QUOTE when you say that, fella!
factual inaccuracies...
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Originally posted by Rue:
Slick,
I keep waiting for the punch line ... are you going to get to it any time soon?
Here Rue uses a derogatory term to address Geezer, and while her comment isn't per se an insult, I don't think its much of a compliment either.
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Originally posted by Rue:
Hunh??? No misleading. I said exactly what I meant. You just need to R-E-A-D _ T-H-E _ W-O-R-D-S I wrote.
Here Rue is being a little condescending you have to admit.
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Originally posted by Rue:
If ever a culture deserved the Darwin Award, it would be them.
Here Rue has condemned an entire culture as not deserving of simple survival, not sure how that can be construed as anything but an insult.
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Originally posted by Rue:
Among other things he said the Spartans (in something like leather speedos) looked like unusually fit lifeguards participating in the Doo Dah Parade.
No insult here, but I did find this pretty funny and applicable to the movie and couldn't resist posting again for everyone's amusement.
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Originally posted by Rue:
...so you really do need to go back and check facts. Something you all seem to be very bad at doing.
Here Rue accuses everyone else in the thread of being bad researchers incapable of knowing the real facts.
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Originally posted by Rue:
Well Causal, you've joined the ranks of the assholes. Good for you.
This one speaks for itself I think.
Does that help JKiddo?
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Soup:
I see what you mean, but the poking is hardly one sided. I think someone else in the thread mentioned that they though Geezer and Rue were an old married couple, seems possible to me the way they shoot back and forth at each other. 
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Originally posted by JKiddo:Quote:Such as....? QUOTE when you say that, fella!
factual inaccuracies...
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Originally posted by Rue:
Before Spartans are portrayed as uber-men in the heroic western mold I think people need to know Spartan men lived together in groups exclusively and never with women. And the men in those clubs had great sex with each other.
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Originally posted by Causal:
"Spartan marriage customs fascinated other Greeks, who knew so little about them anyway. ... In fact, in sexual matters, the Spartans, true to their conservative outlook in everything, seem to have had the highest rate of monogamy in all Greece. They undoubtably had a high respect for their women and regarded them as having a greater equality than the Oriental approach to be found in Ionia, Athens, or Corinth. Also, contrary to the attitude that might have been expected among a warrior caste, homosexuality seems to have been little known--quite unlike the Thebans in northern Greece who were to make a cult among their soldiers of couples fighting side by side together, as in the infamous 'Theban Band of Lovers.'"
From Thermopylae, by Ernle Bradford, Da Capo, 1980. Bradford is British historian specializing in Mediterranean military history.
There's more up there, but that would make for an extremely long post.
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Razza,
I don't disagree with you (which is slightly different than saying I agree with you 
). And, in the context of numerous exchanges over the past many years here on the RWED, it's pretty clear that Rue and Geezer have an odd type of relationship going on (by relationship, I simply mean the way they relate to each other).
My dad likes to make an observation when we're watching sports based on his own personal experience: it's not the first guy who throws a punch who gets penalized. The refs rarely see the first infraction, they only catch the response. I've seen Rue get flack on these boards for the response while hardly any flack gets tossed at the initial provocation. And, granted, there's been so much water under the bridge that everything is a response now. And if you happen to step into the middle of that you're going to take an elbow somewhere.
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