A chemist???

One of the blowhards who frequently visits Skypeland told us he was a "chemist" when we were discussing the claim of the Grand Ayatollah of Iran that methanol was "clean" and permissible to consume for Muslims (as long as the person consuming it did not know it was intoxicating). After this, a lady was talking about a Gecko that was climbing on the ceiling of her bedroom. I mentioned that what made this so amazing was that it was believed that Geckos were able to do this by Van der Waals forces. Our "chemist" claimed that he had never heard of this force.

I said that this was a very common force and should be well known to all chemists, even high school chemistry students. I offered to read the Wikipedia article about Van der Waals forces and the chemist and the room agreed that I should read this article. As soon as I started to read it, this "chemist" and an Irish lady interrupted to mock me for reading the description. I stopped. They begged me to read more, but I declined...I had interacted with this "chemist" before. No reason to argue with someone like this...

The "chemist" also claims to be a French Canadian who is half Chinese and who is living in China and teaching English. In fact he has an Irish accent, and according to a friend he lives in Ireland, and might move to China within a year. He does not actually speak French. Well who knows what the truth is...

The Irish lady announced she had no idea who the Iranian President Ahmadinejad is, even though this was the subject of the room (the Iranian host likes to refer to Ahmadinejad as "monkey face"). The Irish lady stated that at least she did not say anything stupid about a gecko. She said that the US was a bad country because it had no business being in any other country. She said she thought the US was just there for oil.

She nattered on and on. Eventually she used the word "derogative". I said the correct word was "derogatory". She got angry and said derogative is the right word in Irish. I looked it up, and they are synonymous, but derogatory is a far more common word apparently. I tried to apologize and said what I learned, but she just wanted to shoot her mouth off and talk over me. I apologized again, but I am sure she did not understand since she was busy talking herself. She said that "derogative" was more "politically correct". She said "You owe me an apology you fucking dumbass". I said I had apologized again. She wanted to stop a discussion about whether soldiers were "Mickey Mouses" repeatedly to talk to me. So she sent me a text message instead:

[5:01:45 PM] l says: Political correctness (PC or politically correct) is a term used to describe language

[5:02:25 PM] Bob in MD says: yes ma'am

[5:02:36 PM] l says: (puke)

[5:06:19 PM] l says: Pity u cant be so polite all the time

[5:21:46 PM] l says: I would not give you or any other of your racist friends the privelage of having me in your Company, Your a Sick Idiot- Yankie- No brainer who cannot see outside yourself, I pity you I really do.
[5:22:21 PM] Bob in MD says: Thank you.

She had sent me an icon showing a smiley face vomiting. Wow, how impressive and compelling. Politically correct? What does that mean? She sure showed me up, and proved she was correct, didn't she?

The room descended deeper and deeper into nonsense, with people discussing whether or not soldiers were "Mickey Mouses" or not. Then someone started talking about the new "implosion bomb" of Russia. He said that the US did one over Florida a year and a half ago and it destroyed all of Florida.

They started arguing about whether a man from South Africa had a South African accent or not, and whether he was a secret Indian or Pakistani pretending to be a South African. This putative South African was arguing about how Iran had the right to have a nuclear weapon, and claimed that South Africa did not disarm itself and still secretly had nuclear weapons. This person was speaking nonsense, and I said it did not matter who he was or where he was from; he was still speaking nonsense.

A friend told us about the difference between rights in the US, and priveleges in the UK. People did not agree and started to interrupt. I weighed in with the comment that Kevin Cahill's book "Who Owns the World" made the argument that the situation in the US was very different than it was in the UK and Australia and Canada etc. Cahill works for the Economist magazine and researched this for several years, and found out that in the UK, the Queen owns almost all the land, as well as in many other places.

This was frantically argued against by some others. The UK "chemist" argued that he was correct in his claim that the Queen has no role in the government of any countries, but had no evidence. The more he spoke, the more ludicrous he became. He claimed that Canada is under no influence of the Queen (I guess he is ignoring the existence of the Governor Generals and Lieutenant Governor Generals).

Someone asked if this guy was French, and I said he was not. He wanted to argue against this, and he said he was born in Montreal. So I started to talk to him in French, and of course he could not reply. He then claimed that the English royal family was converting to Catholicism.

Then they claimed an American with a slight Italian accent living in Italy sounded identical to a Romanian who lives in Germany. I was astounded to hear this claim. But I think it is indicative of their ability to comprehend what they hear...

The South African stated that South Africans are like military soldiers from birth. He said I was from the Southern Hemisphere. He said I was from Iran. He was clearly drunk. Then he started arguing with the UK guy from China. These two drunks talked to each other and started arguing, and speaking just pure nonsense.. The UK guy started to insult the South African, saying that they had nothing to contribute to the rest of the world. The South African wanted to argue about why China is successful. A third drunk from Germany joined in, and they argued about energy usage and made absolutely no sense. After a while, I decided I had had enough and left...