Ban people who use the phrase "prolier than thou"

[synthesis]

Seriously, you're embarrassing the rest of us.

[Bright Banana Beard]

Oh please! I know I am prolier than thou!


I agree with you, this is really a stupid argument.

[synthesis]

I meant more when people use it to characterize other people's arguments.

[Bright Banana Beard]

That is what I'm saying...

[synthesis]

Ah, right. Minor fail on my part. Fuck the Internet.

[La Comédie Noire]

The phrase "bread and circuses" should go too. Whoever first thought of the historical allusion was clever, now it's just getting stupid.

[ZeroNowhere]

I would much prefer that arguments which are legitimately described by the phrase 'prolier than thou' could end.

[Sasha]

i agree with this proposal, but just because i'm more prole than any of you...

[Widerstand]

I meant more when people use it to characterize other people's arguments.


I would much prefer that arguments which are legitimately described by the phrase 'prolier than thou' could end.

I think we should implement both, and ban everyone who says prolier than thou as much as anyone who makes prolier than thou arguments.

[Quail]

What is an acceptable way of expressing the phrase "prolier than thou"? It may be annoying, but at least it's fairly short and to the point.

[Jazzratt]

We'll get right on it as soon as people stop blathering on about how being so much more working class than someone with an ounce of nouse means that, just to pull a wild example out of a hat at random, shooting someone repeatedly in the genitals and legs is a reasonable way of behaving.

[Tablo]

We'll get right on it as soon as people stop blathering on about how being so much more working class than someone with an ounce of nouse means that, just to pull a wild example out of a hat at random, shooting someone repeatedly in the genitals and legs is a reasonable way of behaving.
I second this.

[Wanted Man]

It is old, but it shows up every once in a while. I don't see why. There are much worthier words like "manarchist" that are never used on Revleft anymore. :(

[Sean]

Its not a stupid argument, its preempting a stupid argument and at least link to my post you gurning shite. Who do you mean the rest of us? Mate, I've been taking the piss out of people's mannerisms on the internet since before you were even online. You sit there with your little poser blog post while the real jerks are out doing the ground work, making dead baby jokes about Jeremy Kyle. I'd love to see some of your credentials before I consider you lord and master of revleft pisstaking.

Oh shit I guess now I'm being...


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TROLLIER THAN THOU!!!

[synthesis]

Its not a stupid argument, its preempting a stupid argument and at least link to my post you gurning shite. Who do you mean the rest of us? Mate, I've been taking the piss out of people's mannerisms on the internet since before you were even online. You sit there with your little poser blog post while the real jerks are out doing the ground work, making dead baby jokes about Jeremy Kyle. I'd love to see some of your credentials before I consider you lord and master of revleft pisstaking.

Oh shit I guess now I'm being...


wait for it...


TROLLIER THAN THOU!!!
Well played.

[Wanted Man]

Its not a stupid argument, its preempting a stupid argument and at least link to my post you gurning shite. Who do you mean the rest of us? Mate, I've been taking the piss out of people's mannerisms on the internet since before you were even online. You sit there with your little poser blog post while the real jerks are out doing the ground work, making dead baby jokes about Jeremy Kyle. I'd love to see some of your credentials before I consider you lord and master of revleft pisstaking.

Oh shit I guess now I'm being...


wait for it...


TROLLIER THAN THOU!!!

:lol:

One problem with the phrase "prolier than thou" is that it's not really effective. It needs to be expanded a bit to really guilt-trip people. Stuff like:

"You're just a nerdy little shit in his mother's basement while the real activists are out getting shit done."
"Oh yeah? Well, we'll see who's right when we see you (...)ists in the unions. Oh wait." (also known as the RED DAVE Gambit)

[Os Cangaceiros]

It actually is a good descriptive term for a real phenomenon, IMO.

That said, I'm a professional car parker who lives with a nurse, a grocery store cashier and a waitress. One's living arrangements don't get much prolier than that! *fuck the service industry*

(Cue "I'm So Prole" song, set to the tune of "I'm So Hood".)

[Widerstand]

It actually is a good descriptive term for a real phenomenon, IMO.

That said, I'm a professional car parker who lives with a nurse, a grocery store cashier and a waitress. One's living arrangements don't get much prolier than that! *fuck the service industry*

(Cue "I'm So Prole" song, set to the tune of "I'm So Hood".)

Actually, I go drinking eating and chatting with syndicalist union members everyonce in a while.

How fucking proleculture is that.

[The Garbage Disposal Unit]

Autocoms! Prole out!

[The Red Next Door]

We'll get right on it as soon as people stop blathering on about how being so much more working class than someone with an ounce of nouse means that, just to pull a wild example out of a hat at random, shooting someone repeatedly in the genitals and legs is a reasonable way of behaving.


If I had my way; his brain would be a part of my design piece for class. "Bulletsplatter"

[Jazzratt]

If I had my way; his brain would be a part of my design piece for class. "Bulletsplatter" Well then you must be a real hard man with massive testicles. :rolleyes:

[The Red Next Door]

Well then you must be a real hard man with massive testicles. :rolleyes:

My testicles are really small.

[Kuppo Shakur]

Hello this is Kuppo.

My testicles are really small.
What you say.

Thank you.

[Obs]

Its not a stupid argument, its preempting a stupid argument and at least link to my post you gurning shite. Who do you mean the rest of us? Mate, I've been taking the piss out of people's mannerisms on the internet since before you were even online. You sit there with your little poser blog post while the real jerks are out doing the ground work, making dead baby jokes about Jeremy Kyle. I'd love to see some of your credentials before I consider you lord and master of revleft pisstaking.

Oh shit I guess now I'm being...


wait for it...


TROLLIER THAN THOU!!!
You motherfucker, this was exactly what I was thinking as I read this thread.

[synthesis]

It actually is a good descriptive term for a real phenomenon, IMO.

I'm not saying that the phrase isn't descriptive enough but rather that it is corny as fuck.

[Martin Blank]

I'm not saying that the phrase isn't descriptive enough but rather that it is corny as fuck.

The kids can keep the phrase and bat it around like a toy mouse. Those of us who really are prolier than thou have moved on to new terminology, and no longer take umbrage at your silly pretensions.

So sayeth Darth Prole, Dark Lord of the Sith Admins.

Somewhere in Cyprus, Fuserg9's head just exploded. :D

[synthesis]

None of that made any sense to me whatsoever. Translation, please.

[Martin Blank]

None of that made any sense to me whatsoever. Translation, please.

As someone who genuinely is prolier than thou, I no longer need to assert as such by using that phrase. I have achieved a Zen-like state of proliness, so use of the phrase is now beneath me. Thus, I leave it to the pretenders to toss it around and play with it.

It is absolutely amazing how much I can sound like a pretentious prick when I put my mind to it. :cool:

[Tablo]

I seriously imagine the administrative forums as some kind of sith council meeting...

[Blackscare]

>It is absolutely amazing how much I can sound like a pretentious prick when I put my mind to it.

>when I put my mind to it.

>when

[synthesis]

I have achieved a Zen-like state of proliness, so use of the phrase is now beneath me.

This doesn't really seem like a contextualized or prolistic analysis of the situation. You should really learn a lesson from Evander Prolyfield and choose your battles wisely before you find yourself in a prole you can't dig yourself out of.

[Q]

Silly bunch of proles...

[ZeroNowhere]

As someone who genuinely is prolier than thou, I no longer need to assert as such by using that phrase. I have achieved a Zen-like state of proliness, so use of the phrase is now beneath me. Thus, I leave it to the pretenders to toss it around and play with it.
True proletarians have no time for inner peace, there is serious work to be done.

[ÑóẊîöʼn]

I actually like the turn of phrase. It succintly sums up the sneering arrogance and affected, well, "proliness" of the toffee-nosed schmucks who are quite rightly tarred with that fine rubric.

I also can't help but recognise that some "prolier-than-thou" types also bandy about words like "lumpen scum". Nothing like painting the snobbish elitism of the ruling class red and looking down your nose at those worthless wasters, eh?

[Martin Blank]

This doesn't really seem like a contextualized or prolistic analysis of the situation. You should really learn a lesson from Evander Prolyfield and choose your battles wisely before you find yourself in a prole you can't dig yourself out of.

I suppose that a more "prolistic analysis" in your opinion would be: "I don't have to prove shit to you or any other motherfucker; what, are you brand new to this world?"


True proletarians have no time for inner peace, there is serious work to be done.

Ah, but you are wrong. It is through the serious work that we find inner peace. It is through class war that we find our poetry, our music and our art. And we commit to serious work today so we may pass on to the next generation poetry, music and art, without the need for them to experience the class war.

Those who reach the apex of a Zen-like proliness are philosopher warriors in the truest sense of the term. They do not rest themselves on the corpses of the academic, but truly grapple with the whole of the questions at hand, so they may then apply the fruits of their journey of discovery to the battles to come -- and thus realize wherein is the nexus of thought and action.