glibness - classic or dud?

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it is the curse of "our generation" i think, and something i am all too guilty of at my lowest moments

as a rhetorical strategy - as differentiated from contrarianism - it is a massive DUD

glibness is i think of the main problems with why ilx has seemed so...un-empathetic lately

― jess (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 6 March 2003 20:47 (twenty-three years ago)

Jess, I used to call you glib all the time, but lately I feel like it's all I have the strength to be on ILX anymore.

It may be a dud strategy but it's also completely risk free and annoyingly ironclad, especially when the person/people you're being glib towards are trying to engage you in an earnest, well-reasoned debate.

― mark p (Mark P), Thursday, 6 March 2003 21:04 (twenty-three years ago)

(The last 'you' wasn't meant to ref. Jess specifically, although I suppose it works that way too...)

― mark p (Mark P), Thursday, 6 March 2003 21:07 (twenty-three years ago)

since I post while at work, it's pretty difficult to not sound glib

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 6 March 2003 21:07 (twenty-three years ago)

glibness can just... suck a dick.

i wasn't going to post this but a few hours ago my friend woke me up from my nap by spitting a pingpong ball at me from across the room and then i had to go and print out his essay for him and then i logged on the ilx and now i'm still too tired to think properly. sorry. i think jess will understand.

― mitch lastnamewithheld (mitchlnw), Thursday, 6 March 2003 21:12 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm not glib, I don't think, all my considered posts come out as a bit basic.

― jel -- (jel), Thursday, 6 March 2003 21:15 (twenty-three years ago)

I know Jess has thought I can be glib at times, and I hope he doesn't think ill of me for it. :-( I can certainly be very abrupt and snarky, to be sure.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 6 March 2003 21:15 (twenty-three years ago)

Ned is un-glib in person.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 6 March 2003 21:17 (twenty-three years ago)

Don't worry, Ned, we ALL think ill of you. ;)

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Thursday, 6 March 2003 21:17 (twenty-three years ago)

mmm, see i think it only really starts to bother me when it gets into areas like the one mark was describing above. resorting to that ivory tower of glib superiority when someone is legit trying to engage you in a debate is just...obviously when i was on my slash'n'burn "delete ILX NOW" campaign last summer it was my major failing and i guess this is just my quiet way of trying to come to grips with that now

(and no, ned, i dont)

― jess (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 6 March 2003 21:18 (twenty-three years ago)

Thank ya, Spencer and Jess. Sean, I'm sorry, the back bacon and flat Labatt's you're wolfing down muffled your words.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 6 March 2003 21:19 (twenty-three years ago)

sometimes glib is the only option, especially when you don't have time to engage in a deep discussion. for that, there's always e-mail.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 6 March 2003 21:21 (twenty-three years ago)

I was saying we all LOVED you, Ned. (Notice how much more clearly I enunciate when I switch to In'n'Out burgers and Bud Lite?)

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Thursday, 6 March 2003 21:22 (twenty-three years ago)

here it is:

glib -
1.a. Performed with a natural, offhand ease: glib conversation. b. Showing little thought, preparation, or concern: a glib response to a complex question.
2. Marked by ease and fluency of speech or writing that often suggests or stems from insincerity, superficiality, or deceitfulness.

― A Nairn (moretap), Thursday, 6 March 2003 21:22 (twenty-three years ago)

I was saying we all LOVED you, Ned. (Notice how much more clearly I enunciate when I switch to In'n'Out burgers and Bud Lite?)

Sean Carruthers is a wonderful man and great human being.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 6 March 2003 21:39 (twenty-three years ago)

Without glibness, I would have zero posts on ILX. (This may be a facile thing to say hah hah.)

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 6 March 2003 21:44 (twenty-three years ago)

You GLIB BASTARD. And remember that 'glib' backwards is not quite 'bling.'

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 6 March 2003 21:46 (twenty-three years ago)

it is pretty close to "bilge" tho.

― hstencil, Thursday, 6 March 2003 21:47 (twenty-three years ago)

All of my posts = e-glib.

(Listen close child; you can hear the sound of my thunder being stolen...)

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 6 March 2003 21:48 (twenty-three years ago)

Stealing from Zeus to give to Prometheus. Sorta.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 6 March 2003 21:48 (twenty-three years ago)

glib:- smooth, slippery, moving easily, fluent, voluble

― jel -- (jel), Thursday, 6 March 2003 21:52 (twenty-three years ago)

glibness for glib-jess

― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 6 March 2003 23:07 (twenty-three years ago)

http://home.iae.nl/users/vdmark/linda/lin7jk&p.jpg

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Thursday, 6 March 2003 23:15 (twenty-three years ago)

Fwiw I have tried to be less so in posting lately. It's almost like a defense mechanism, a crutch, and I don't want to use it.

― Nicole (Nicole), Thursday, 6 March 2003 23:17 (twenty-three years ago)

classic

― N. (nickdastoor), Friday, 7 March 2003 05:33 (twenty-three years ago)

I may be quipping, but I'm not quipping for you -
glib motherfucker!

― Colin Meeder (Mert), Friday, 7 March 2003 09:03 (twenty-three years ago)

glib, condescending, overearnest, wimpy, trollike, dilletante-ish, fanatical, oversensitive, young, old, cordial, gushy, paranoid, laborious, funny, defensive, arrogant, dumb...all have a place, surely?

― gaz (gaz), Friday, 7 March 2003 09:29 (twenty-three years ago)

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