Yeah, it’s an old phrase (I believe it was even funny at one stage
) but will some people never stop beating the proverbial dead horse?
The self-styled guardians of ethics and professionalism over at OT are still banging the drum about the Fractal Universe Calendar. Poor lovies haven’t had a reply from the publishers *waaaaaaaah*. Good job I’m not the publisher: I’d have replied and told them to take their impertinent noses out of my business post-haste. Mind you, I’d have used less words and a grand total of 7 letters to do so
I have to laugh at the scale of their hypocrisy when they feel it is OK for them to use spurious arguments to try and make a point – all in the name of “ethics and professionalism” of course *cough* bullshit*cough* – and yet it’s OK for them to blatantly misrepresent other people’s words and actions. Clean your own house up, boys, before tackling anyone else’s.
Here are some of my favourite relevant quotations:
The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity. [André Gide ]
Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo. [H.G. Wells ]A man generally has two reasons for doing a thing. One that sounds good, and a real one. [J. Pierpoint Morgan ]
Just remember, there’s a right way and a wrong way to do everything and the wrong way is to keep trying to make everybody else do it the right way. [M*A*S*H, Colonel Potter ]