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[Metaphor]

No, an excuse is pretext for any choice. The excuse may be justifiable or not.

No.

I had reasons for not shopping at MyPillow, not 'excuses'. But, I don't need either a reason or an 'excuse'. I can not spend my own money at a shop for any reason or no reason at all.

 

[laughing dog]

It's not an excuse. It's a sufficient but not necessary reason. Bad behaviour requires excusing. Not spending my money at a particular store is not bad behaviour. I am entitled to withhold my money from a particular business for any reason or no reason at all.

I said nothing about bad behavior. Of course it was an excuse, Excuses are not solely for bad behavior.

It's the primary denotation of the word, laughing dog.

excuse

verb
verb: excuse; 3rd person present: excuses; past tense: excused; past participle: excused; gerund or present participle: excusing
/ɪkˈskjuːz,ɛkˈskjuːz/
seek to lessen the blame attaching to (a fault or offence); try to justify.

noun
noun: excuse; plural noun: excuses
/ɪkˈskjuːs,ɛkˈskjuːs/
a reason or explanation given to justify a fault or offence.

Thank you for opening up your pedantic box. Excuse also refers to justification.

Yes, to justify a fault or offense.

Correcting you on your incorrect usage is not pedantry. Language, as I'm sure we are both aware, has rhetorical weight. Your use of the word 'excuse' implied some behaviour I needed to justify, whether you were aware of that implication or not.

It is not a fault or offence to not shop at a particular store, for any reason or no reason at all.

As you tacitly admit with “primary denotation” there are multiple nuanced meanings of excuse. You are mistaken as anyone familiar with English knows.

Your insistence on only one meaning is pedantry. I know what I did and thought when I posted - you do not. I made no implication.

 

[Metaphor]

As you tacitly admit with “primary denotation” there are multiple nuanced meanings of excuse. You are mistaken as anyone familiar with English knows.

Your insistence on only one meaning is pedantry. I know what I did and thought when I posted - you do not. I made no implication.

Stop excusing the rhetorical implications of your word choice. You made an implication with your word choice whether you knew it or not. You make excuses for being late. You don't make an excuse for helping out a friend. You can help someone out for any reason or no reason at all.

 

[laughing dog]

As you tacitly admit with “primary denotation” there are multiple nuanced meanings of excuse. You are mistaken as anyone familiar with English knows.

Your insistence on only one meaning is pedantry. I know what I did and thought when I posted - you do not. I made no implication.

Stop excusing the rhetorical implications of your word choice. You made an implication with your word choice whether you knew it or not.

I made no implication. Your confuse your inferences with implication. I am not responsible for your illusions nor the resulting stupid accusations.

 

[Metaphor]

As you tacitly admit with “primary denotation” there are multiple nuanced meanings of excuse. You are mistaken as anyone familiar with English knows.

Your insistence on only one meaning is pedantry. I know what I did and thought when I posted - you do not. I made no implication.

Stop excusing the rhetorical implications of your word choice. You made an implication with your word choice whether you knew it or not.

I made no implication. Your confuse your inferences with implication. I am not responsible for your illusions nor the resulting stupid accusations.

Yes, you made an implication whether you knew it or not. The primary denotation of the word 'excuse' accords with that implication.

I accept that you did not mean to make the implication that you did.

 

[Toni]

No, an excuse is pretext for any choice. The excuse may be justifiable or not.

No.

I had reasons for not shopping at MyPillow, not 'excuses'. But, I don't need either a reason or an 'excuse'. I can not spend my own money at a shop for any reason or no reason at all.

Absolutely!

If I were looking for an excuse to not do business with MyPillow, I could fall back on any kind of excuse: I heard bad things about the quality, I only buy organic, I don’t need any pillows now….

Or I could simply not do business with them.

Excuses that I might invent would be more to avoid an argument or to avoid hurt feelings: I won’t buy your fundraiser candy because I don’t believe in the cause it supports would cause an argument or hurt feelings. I won’t buy your fundraiser candy because I’m avoiding sweets or because I’m watching my budget avoids such unpleasant issues.

 

[laughing dog]

As you tacitly admit with “primary denotation” there are multiple nuanced meanings of excuse. You are mistaken as anyone familiar with English knows.

Your insistence on only one meaning is pedantry. I know what I did and thought when I posted - you do not. I made no implication.

Stop excusing the rhetorical implications of your word choice. You made an implication with your word choice whether you knew it or not.

I made no implication. Your confuse your inferences with implication. I am not responsible for your illusions nor the resulting stupid accusations.

Yes, you made an implication whether you knew it or not. The primary denotation of the word 'excuse' accords with that implication.

I accept that you did not mean to make the implication that you did.

Your pedantic response (primary denotation) is ironic because it admits to other “denotations”.

You continue to confuse your conclusion with my implication. I cannot be held responsible for yiur delusions.

 

[Metaphor]

Your pedantic response (primary denotation) is ironic because it admits to other “denotations”.

You continue to confuse your conclusion with my implication. I cannot be held responsible for yiur delusions.

Of course it admits to other denotations. If you meant one of the less widespread meanings that did not imply fault or blame, I have already accepted that. But that does not mean your words did not imply fault or blame, because that's what the primary meaning of 'excuse' does imply.

Precisely why you think it is unreasonable for me to use the primary denotation of a word to understand your meaning, I'm sure I don't know.

 

[laughing dog]

Your pedantic response (primary denotation) is ironic because it admits to other “denotations”.

You continue to confuse your conclusion with my implication. I cannot be held responsible for yiur delusions.

Of course it admits to other denotations. If you meant one of the less widespread meanings that did not imply fault or blame, I have already accepted that. But that does not mean your words did not imply fault or blame, because that's what the primary meaning of 'excuse' does imply.

You continue to rely on pendantry to excuse your faulty conclusion - the implication resides solely in your head.

Precisely why you think it is unreasonable for me to use the primary denotation of a word to understand your meaning, I'm sure I don't know.

No need for you to state the obvious - you don’t know and cannot admit a mistake.
When confronted with evidence of your faulty conclusion, you double down.

Feel free to persist in the disingenuous pedantry you have started.

 

[Metaphor]

Your pedantic response (primary denotation) is ironic because it admits to other “denotations”.

You continue to confuse your conclusion with my implication. I cannot be held responsible for yiur delusions.

Of course it admits to other denotations. If you meant one of the less widespread meanings that did not imply fault or blame, I have already accepted that. But that does not mean your words did not imply fault or blame, because that's what the primary meaning of 'excuse' does imply.

You continue to rely on pendantry to excuse your faulty conclusion - the implication resides solely in your head.

Precisely why you think it is unreasonable for me to use the primary denotation of a word to understand your meaning, I'm sure I don't know.

No need for you to state the obvious - you don’t know and cannot admit a mistake.
When confronted with evidence of your faulty conclusion, you double down.

Feel free to persist in the disingenuous pedantry you have started.

I was justified in drawing the conclusion that I did, since the primary meaning of the word 'excuse' implies some faulty behaviour. I accept that you meant some other meaning of excuse that does not imply faulty behaviour.

I am being neither pedantic nor disingenuous. That is a faulty conclusion you have arrived at.

 

[TV and credit cards]

Oh for the love of god.

 

[Jarhyn]

Oh for the love of god.

Like, I'm just watching for amusement at this point, watching someone make excuses about his excuses as resulted from his unexcused failure of colloquial use of "excuse", when for most of us the only difference between an excuse and a reason is:

If considered after the fact, it is an "excuse".

If not necessary nor sufficient to the behavior before nor after the fact, it is an "excuse".

Only when used BEFORE the behavior, and it is a causal motive to the effect, only then is it a "reason".

 

[laughing dog]

Oh for the love of god.

An odd phrase for an atheist to use, but completely appropriate in this instance.

 

[laughing dog]

Mr. Lindell needs those sales.

"Reputational risk" Lindell has ties from bank severed.

MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell has been terminated as a client by the Minnesota Bank & Trust a month after the financial institution described him as a "reputation risk."

and
Lindell urges jail for GA secretary of state

MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell said Friday that Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger should be put in prison as he delivered dozens of boxes containing "thousands" of affidavits to Georgia's Capitol on Friday, urging a forensic audit of the state's 2020 election results

and a slightly older story
Idaho sends Lindell a cease and desist order and 6K bill

Three months after a state investigation disproved MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell’s accusations of voter fraud in Idaho, the information remains on Lindell’s wesite. Idaho government officials want it gone.
They also want Lindell to pay the state for the money it spent proving Lindell’s allegations wrong.
Secretary of State Lawerence Denney and Attorney General Lawrence Wasden sent a cease-and-desist letter to Lindell on Tuesday. They asked Lindell to “promptly remove all false statements about Idaho’s elections from your website” and “refrain from making similar statements in the future.”
“Despite knowing your statements about Idaho’s elections are false, you have not removed your ‘Big Lie’ chart and continue to perpetuate your false statements,” the letter stated. Idaho is also coming for Lindell’s wallet. The letter requested he send $6,558.83 to the secretary of state’s office to cover the money it spent refuting his claims. The office first announced plans to seek payment in Octo

Mr. Lindell is going to be feeling much more oppression from the rational world . I don't think there are enough of his ideological sympathizers to buy enough pillows to keep him afloat.

 

[Metaphor]

I don't think there are enough of his ideological sympathizers to buy enough pillows to keep him afloat.

"Afloat"?

According to various websites, Lindell has a net worth of between US$50m (low end estimate) to US$300m (high end estimate).

Even taking the low end estimate, that's more than I'll earn in my entire lifetime, so I don't think he's worried about his next lecky bill.