A Skeptic's Limerick

[Antipositor]

There once was a skeptic named Lou,
Who was often called "believer" and "woo,"
For daring to doubt,
The "skeptics'" verdicts about,
Things no sane person could claim that they knew.

[SorryImPsychic]

There once was a skeptic named.....

Oh that's my biography in a nutshell!

[chaggle]

Oh that's my biography in a nutshell!

Oh that's my Autobiography in a nutshell!

O0

[SorryImPsychic]

Oh that's my Autobiography in a nutshell!

O0

Not my autobiography - I didn't write it!

[Antipositor]

Not my autobiography - I didn't write it!
Not many of us seem to understand that being open minded doesn't work by having firm conclusions about things that aren't easily explained.

[SorryImPsychic]

Not many of us seem to understand that being open minded doesn't work by having firm conclusions about things that aren't easily explained.

Maybe this attitude can be fostered over time.:ponder:Society does not encourage 'open mindedness'.

[Croydon Bob]

Not many of us seem to understand that being open minded doesn't work by creating straw men, lying and repeating fallacies.

There, fixed your typos for you. O0

[Antipositor]

There, fixed your typos for you. O0
Nice illustration of building a straw man. Rewording someone else's statements to suit your argument.

[Croydon Bob]

straw man.

It's interesting that you are happy to use it as your only debating tool but don't like being on the receiving end.

[Antipositor]

It's interesting that you are happy to use it as your only debating tool but don't like being on the receiving end.
Since this thread is about fun and humour, I catch your sarcasm O0

[Croydon Bob]

Since this thread is about fun and humour, I catch your sarcasm O0

Cool.

[Admin]

Not many of us seem to understand that being open minded doesn't work by having firm conclusions about things that aren't easily explained.

Being 'open minded' has nothing to do with any conclusion you draw about anything.

If you're wondering why people don't get your argument it's because your argument is wrong.

[Pebble]

A self-proclaimed skeptic: Antipositer
Of drivel became a depositor
On many a thread
Pure nonsense was spread
Not the quality we demand of our osseter

[chaggle]

Is it the UKS bad poetry week?

[hughcumber]

Is it the UKS bad poetry week?

Yes. And here's another:

I today saw a thread with a limerick,
That appeared to be taking the mick.
The writer did declare,
With oh so little flair,
That picking on him were the skeptics.

Now the point with which he had some confusion,
As the others tried to break the illusion,
Was that an open mind,
Should not make you blind,
To drawing your own conclusion.

Reading his strawmen in the other thread,
Where all sorts of things were said,
I have to agree,
It looks like it to me,
That enough straw he has to make his own bed.

[bindeweede]

A self-proclaimed skeptic: Antipositer
Of drivel became a depositor
On many a thread
Pure nonsense was spread
Not the quality we demand of our osseter

Pebble,
I had to look up "osseter" - some sort of sturgeon apparently. Now being notoriously slow on the uptake, and possibly a trifle pedantic, I don't understand the fishy reference. Might I suggest an alternative last line?

"Not the quality we expect of an expositor".

(Slightly naughty alternative)

"I suggest he becomes a suppositor".:shocked:

[Pebble]

Pebble,
I had to look up "osseter" - some sort of sturgeon apparently. Now being notoriously slow on the uptake, and possibly a trifle pedantic, I don't understand the fishy reference. Might I suggest an alternative last line?

"Not the quality we expect of an expositor".

(Slightly naughty alternative)

"I suggest he becomes a suppositor".:shocked:

Prefer your last suggestion. As options are limited - thought that caviar was reflective of the quality usually served up.



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[bindeweede]

Prefer your last suggestion. As options are limited - thought that caviar was reflective of the quality usually served up.



Russian Caviar
Beluga Imperial Osetra Sevruga

Russian Osetra

Name Price
Russian Osetra (1 oz.) $135.00
Learn more
Russian Osetra (2 oz.) $269.00
Learn more
Russian Osetra (4 oz.) $537.00
Learn more
Russian Osetra (8 oz.) $1,071.00
Learn more
Russian Osetra (16 oz.) $2,137.00
Learn more

Being common, I've never tasted the real stuff, (I don't think the lumpfish variety from Waitrose at about £4 a jar counts). So I'm cashing in my 6 premium bonds and will see what Fortnum's can do for me. 1.8kg should last a while.

http://www.fortnumandmason.com/Product/Caspian-Beluga-Caviar,395,975.aspx

[SorryImPsychic]

Nice illustration of building a straw man. Rewording someone else's statements to suit your argument.

Also a case of sensorship of original text.

[Croydon Bob]

sensorship

If anyone else had written that I'd assume it was a deliberate joke. ;D

[Croydon Bob]

I today saw a thread with a limerick,
That appeared to be taking the mick.
The writer did declare,
With oh so little flair,
That picking on him were the skeptics.

Now the point with which he had some confusion,
As the others tried to break the illusion,
Was that an open mind,
Should not make you blind,
To drawing your own conclusion.

Reading his strawmen in the other thread,
Where all sorts of things were said,
I have to agree,
It looks like it to me,
That enough straw he has to make his own bed.

My eyes! My brains! It hurts!

How can I remove the memory of ever having read that "poem"?

:tornado:

[Antipositor]

Being 'open minded' has nothing to do with any conclusion you draw about anything.

If you're wondering why people don't get your argument it's because your argument is wrong.
I'm frequently told that I'm wrong in this forum, but rarely it seems they can back up such claims with a proper refutation. To my way of thinking, that indicates that I may be right. Is it the style of a UK skeptic to make declarations about things and let them stand as fact?

[Matt]

I'm frequently told that I'm wrong in this forum, but rarely it seems they can back up such claims with a proper refutation. To my way of thinking, that indicates that I may be right. Is it the style of a UK skeptic to make declarations about things and let them stand as fact?

Or it might be confirmation bias in that when evidence is provided you ignore it.

Shall we find out with a systematic search of times you've been called wrong and times such wrongness has been substantiated.

Care to suggest some selection criteria and venture a guess as to how rare it is that evidence is provided?

[Antipositor]

I'm puzzled by the type of skepticism that posits that something "doesn't exist" based on lack of evidence. If you run across a train track every day without looking, you may imagine that no train exists, because you have never seen one, but the more you test that supposition, the more likely some day you will be proved dead wrong.

Now, here's a tip for you "skeptics" who want to declare me wrong. Tell me why, and if you use reasonable arguments and logic, I may agree with you.

So far, it's been mostly ad hominem drivel. I expected more from the UK "skeptics."

[Croydon Bob]

So far, it's been mostly ad hominem drivel.

No. mainly it has been straw man drivel, but I agree that everything you write is drivel. ;D