Desert island discs

[Cynical Ninja]

OK, CN...

You cultivate redundance in others by failing to comprehend simple explanations the first or second time out, likely because you really have no interest in understanding other people's points of view. IMO.

So, here we go again - in final simply spelled-out response to your redundant bullshit claims...

You made it a competition by continually insisting that other participants' PERSONAL choices were stupid, unlike yours. You went so far as to label some of those posters who chose to participate in your little OP exercise "mong", "moron" "retarded", etc...

Now, you've extended your need to "win" (although you lack the ability to satisfy it, IMO) by calling me a redundant retard. This wounds me deeply and is quite surprising, coming from you. I took a survival book, 8 songs that I like, and some logic games/puzzles - all approved by you. I didn't violate your rules, I simply expressed a difference of opinion with you regarding your perceived "stupidity" of other people's choices and pointed out the ambiguity in your OP parameters.

Still, due to your need to "win", you've called me a "cheater", in part because you mistakenly thought that "a desert island" means an island in the desert or an island only containing sand. I've known since childhood that in the context of being stranded on a "desert island", the word "desert" is an adjective, not a noun. It means "desolate", "uninhabited", etc... It has nothing to do with the location of the island and certainly doesn't mean that the island only has sand.

There are dozens of uninhabited (desert) islands around the world. Islands, by definition, are surrounded by water (courtesy definition; just in case that's news to you as well). They are often rife with birds, animals, fungi, vegetation, etc... Those are facts about which you were ignorant when you started this thread.

While a dictionary and/or encyclopedia would have undoubtedly helped you avoid displaying your ignorance in full view, I understand that you may have seen a photo of one of a myriad of desert islands on the planet in your big colored picture book and wrongly assumed that it was the only (or even the most common) type in existence, therefore impractically leading you to expect others to know the type of island to which you were referring. Shit happens.

No big deal, CN. This isn't serious business or anything to pop a vein over - it's all in fun (for me, anyway). And, while your ignorance led astray some of us with more knowledge about desert islands than you and caused you such visible frustration, there's a silver lining. You've learned from others in this thread and improved your vocabulary in the process. You're no longer as ignorant and, should you choose to retain this gift of knowledge on the subject, you can't be viably accused of being stupid about it either. In that sense, I do, in fact, consider you the winner here.

Also, you're welcome for the fact that I never called you a "cheater" for selecting and describing a luxury item with practical applications - which you later prohibited others from doing. I'm not a suspicious person by nature, so I don't think you were cheating. I think you're just of the mindset that your own rules don't apply to you. Or, more likely, you simply didn't realize that you were the first to breach your own "none-practical" parameters and set the stage. So, really, you were only demonstrating ignorance again, not malice. No harm done - it made for some serious laughs.

Anyway, CN, you could have avoided a lot of self-inflicted frustration by labeling this thread and the exercise therein, "Death Row without a Guard Discs". Then, you wouldn't have had to struggle with the shocker of indigenous island life being brought up as the discussion and mocking continued. If you'd labeled it that way, it would have helped you to ensure that everyone imagined the solo existence more similarly to how you imagine it (filled with despair and suicidal thoughts). Instead, the way that you hosted the exercise, "desert island" had no relevance whatsoever to the exercise.

To close out this novel of a post, I think you made it a competition, and in so doing (and in my reflecting on the thread in the context of a competition), I think you lost to those who weren't competing and just doing their own thing and having fun. That's JMO. If you insist that you weren't competing or still insist that your choices were smarter than those of others, I won't argue with you. No problem with a difference of opinion there.

I'm leaving the virtual island now - it was fun, but it's run its course for me. Thank you for hosting.

P.s. do hope that you had some fun here despite the differences in opinions and styles - I truly did.

A - I know many REAL desert islands have flora and fauna and animal life I've seen documentaries about them and everything thanks! You patronising twit!. The island in Desert Island Discs ISN'T REAL this is the essential difference. The fact the central premise of Desert Island Discs is that the things you decide to take with you are the ONLY THINGS YOU HAVE AVAILABLE TO YOU. Thus making it important for you to think hard about what you choose see? If the island had an abundance of magic mushrooms I'd pick any 8 songs it wouldn't matter! if I was off my face on mushrooms ANYTHING would sound good thus making the 8 song choice pointless. The fact is you missed the point entirely but you will of course never admit this.

B - “real desert islands aren't like the fictional one in desert island discs this makes me cleverer than you”. Patronising drivel of the most self deluded kind I'm afraid. THERE IS NOTHING ON THIS ISLAND. You should tattoo a mirror image of that fact on your forehead for posterity to remind yourself when you are trying on your dunce hat at a jaunty angle at your dressing table. You constantly going on about real desert islands is like playing super mario world and going “trees and clouds aren't square in real life what were they thinking?!

C - me pointing out taking a dictionary was retarded didn't turn it into a competition and its not an opinion its a fact. I don't know if its some kind of misplaced show of support or loyalty towards maggotyboo from you but you have yet to name one practical application for a dictionary on a desert island. Because there isn't one. I reserve the right to point it out when someone says something blatantly stupid. Breaking the rules of something that isn't a competition is pointless and not big or clever.

D - in an attempt to highlight my supposed “ignorance” you have in fact highlighted your own.

Now stop desert island discs I want to get off!