That is, kind of like the dry heaves. I have enraged the Breitbartian trolls, and all day long, the Yiannopoulos lackeys have been yammering at my Twitter account, and all day long I’ve been tapping the block button. Although I have to admit that there was one tweet that brought me up short.
@pzmyers You are as outmatched by Yiannopoulos as you are Vox Day. Run away little man, while you still can.
— Joe Dan Shelton (@JoeDan1024) June 23, 2015
You are as outmatched by Yiannopoulos as you are Vox Day. Run away little man, while you still can.
Yes. That is very true, I agree completely. Nailed it.
Snorfle!
Vox Day can’t even outmatch my dog, let alone me, to say nothing of PZ.
I detect a note of insincerity in this :)
huh?
Vox Day is outmatched by Yanni-opolis? (
sp?)PZ, maybe he givin you a takedown for Voxie. “Yianopolous can outmatch you, V.D.!!!”
< /snark >
I hadn’t heard of this Yiannopoulos clown-shoes before so I had a look at his website.
Yep. Pretty much what you’d expect, another self-aggrandising arse who confuses saying ‘outrageous’ (his word btw) things with somehow being insightful, rather than being knowingly obnoxious.
Welp, at least I know precisely how to value his opinions now.
PZ is as outmatched by Milo as PZ is Vox Day.
PZ is not very Vox Day.
Ergo, PZ is not very outmatched by Milo.
Did I get that right?
^ Replace ‘not very’ with ‘not at all’ and I think you have it, as “not very outmatched” can be read as “somewhat / slightly outmatched”.
Oh woe, PZ, you are so dreadfully outmatched. Time to furl your tentacle beard and retire from the lists in shame. [snicker]
@numerobis #4
Exactly how I read it.
Or alternatively:
PZ is as outmatched by Milo as he is by Vox Day.
PZ is not very outmatched by Vox Day.
Ergo, PZ is not very outmatched by Milo.
And the punctuation truly is terrifying. So you better start, run-away-little-man!
Good points above. PZ is pretty much the antithesis of Vox Day, so he’s the antithesis of outmatched by Milo.
I have several half-pairs of old unsorted socks that outmatch Vox Day.
klatu@7:
Wait, does this mean P.Z. is about to be outmatched by Comma???
It’s not often I get to say this and have it be the truth, but I almost fell out of my chair. In unrelated news, fake-laminate hardwood floors are slippery. Also, too, damn PZ for making me read this while my friction-providing floor protector is drying from its latest cleaning, and therefore not in use!
“I detect a note of insincerity in this :)”
No, that’s an entirely accurate statement. I suspect most of us are equally outmatched by Yiannopoulos and Beale (i.e. not in the slightest).
I’m sure you could bring the world similar levels of spittle-flecked idiocy if you tried hard enough.
“You are as outmatched by Yiannopoulos as you are Vox Day.”
Somewhere in the world a couple of pithed frogs are out there yearning for the chance at a 4 way debate with those two. I’m betting on the frogs.
Only one question: Where’s PZ’s flaming sword?
Bah. Beale couldn’t outthink a Zabriskan Fontema on Mogadon. Not even with ‘ask a friend’.
Thanks for that. I laughed so loudly I probably woke up my sleeping wife. I’m sure there are many other
peopleentities who outmatch PZ as much as Vox Day does – Ray Comfort, Adam Baldwin, a dead earthworm, my navel lint…there’s a party game in here somewhere.Somehow this reminds me of the latest (June 17th, 2015) ‘Jesus ands Mo’ …
whirlwitch @17:
May I add athlete’s foot to your list?
Congratulations GamerGaters, your allies are ultra-conservatives, people who actually look down on gamers, and straight-up neo-nazi’s.
@ Tony! #1
I disagree; I think PZ was completely sincere. He is as outmatched by Milo as he is by VD; i.e. not at all.
Maybe he confuses insightful with inciteful. :-)
@ck, the Irate Lump #15
Vox’s sword is as to PZ’s tongue as is Milo’s hair to PZ’s beard. (Yes, I also immediately thought of the sword when reading the comparison.)
kalimac
Me, too.
What could this statement possibly be, other than a (idle) threat? It amazes me how much these knuckleheads think the internet-tough-guy act is a valid substitute for sound argumentation.
numerobis:
PZ = Scalzi???
Moggie @26, Hmmmm. Could be. Has anyone ever seen them together?
Who has VD?
Thank you, PZ, for monitoring the intertoobz for silliness so we don’t have to. Your prophylaxis is much appreciated.
Anne @27 Not as such, but I have been in the same room as Scalzi and the hairstyles are very different. Also Scalzi doesn’t have a beard.
Ariaflame @29,
Actually, Scalzi does have a beard, at least as of his blog post on 22 June: http://whatever.scalzi.com/2015/06/22/the-scalzis-go-to-london/
No visible tentacles, though. I think the jury is still out on that one.
Well, you gotta admit PZ hasn’t written even a fraction of the shitty, libertarian porn SF books than VD (and who has a more perfect set of initials?) has.
Well, to be fair, PZ hasn’t had a lot of time to write SF of any quality. It’s a full time job just riding herd on all the bloggers at FtB and making sure they all toe the party line.
/sarcasm mode off
He fails to understand that “outmatched” may be measured in negative numbers.
@tim rowledge
I’m certain that Vox Day thinks of himself more like a Grey Lensman or even an Arisian and Yiannopolous likely isn’t far behind. We, on the other hand, are nothing but zwilniks.
ArtK @33– Whereas VD and Yiannopolous are best described as a couple of Eddoreknobs…..
The Prefects?
Dammit, that was supposed to be an answer to arbor’s “Who has VD?” question. Now the joke is ruined. Damn you all! ;)