Zeno Marx
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Do you know anyone like this? Have one of these in your circle?
Fighting about facts, my mother calls it. We do it all the time. Argue over something that's actually one thing or another.
-Pete Campbell
In the Campbell bedroom Trudy has just gotten out of the shower wrapped in a towel. Pete chuckles. She asks what's funny. He says he just remembered in the last conversation he had with his dad they were arguing about whether a certain dude bred Boston Terriers or French Bulldogs. Trudy says she's sorry they were arguing and that neither of them knew it was the last time they would speak. Pete is bemused that they were "fighting about facts," as his mother calls it. Arguing over something that is, in fact, one thing or another. Turns out Pete was wrong; they were French Bulldogs. He says when he woke up he felt fine for a minute, and then he remembered. She tells him to remember the good times. He says, "Right." -IMDB reviewer
I know this guy. This is his modus operandi. To argue with people over things that are not up for belief, but are indeed one way or the other, one thing or the other.
We were talking about something that led to Boise, ID. I said in simple passing: 1) they're suffering from bad drought right now 2) they're a sizeable city in the middle of a desert.
His response was, "I haven't heard they're in a drought." And then a little later, "Boise isn't a desert."
I didn't care about the desert thing, but while we were talking, I pulled up a drought map from the US Farm Report. They show these cool NASA images of the earth once a week. The ones of interest to farmers are the drought map and the root moisture map. Boise is in an area in one of the worst drought situations on the USA map. I try to show him the map, and then he says something about climate change and it not being man-made. That was never part of the conversation. I had no intention of getting political in this. That's a whole other train wreck that I avoid at all costs in public. He wouldn't look at the map. He was dead set on making his own conversation, manipulating words and skirting the facts.
Know anyone like this?
Fighting about facts, my mother calls it. We do it all the time. Argue over something that's actually one thing or another.
-Pete Campbell
In the Campbell bedroom Trudy has just gotten out of the shower wrapped in a towel. Pete chuckles. She asks what's funny. He says he just remembered in the last conversation he had with his dad they were arguing about whether a certain dude bred Boston Terriers or French Bulldogs. Trudy says she's sorry they were arguing and that neither of them knew it was the last time they would speak. Pete is bemused that they were "fighting about facts," as his mother calls it. Arguing over something that is, in fact, one thing or another. Turns out Pete was wrong; they were French Bulldogs. He says when he woke up he felt fine for a minute, and then he remembered. She tells him to remember the good times. He says, "Right." -IMDB reviewer
I know this guy. This is his modus operandi. To argue with people over things that are not up for belief, but are indeed one way or the other, one thing or the other.
We were talking about something that led to Boise, ID. I said in simple passing: 1) they're suffering from bad drought right now 2) they're a sizeable city in the middle of a desert.
His response was, "I haven't heard they're in a drought." And then a little later, "Boise isn't a desert."
I didn't care about the desert thing, but while we were talking, I pulled up a drought map from the US Farm Report. They show these cool NASA images of the earth once a week. The ones of interest to farmers are the drought map and the root moisture map. Boise is in an area in one of the worst drought situations on the USA map. I try to show him the map, and then he says something about climate change and it not being man-made. That was never part of the conversation. I had no intention of getting political in this. That's a whole other train wreck that I avoid at all costs in public. He wouldn't look at the map. He was dead set on making his own conversation, manipulating words and skirting the facts.
Know anyone like this?
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