# terminally boring mansplaining bore raging narcissists who speak with agonising slowness as to make ir elf appear intellectually weighty in love with ir own voice they yap uninterrupted in nothing but vague terms about 'vision' 'intentionality' and especially 'issues of quality' it's an issue of 'maintaining standards' you see another desiccated conservative reactionary masquerading as a thoughtful individual who spouts crap like 'to bring up a sporting metaphor' (something ridiculous about the premier league while one sits there squirming for over an hour listening to this tedious headache-inducing wet blanket drone on about ir seemingly polyversal philosophy of whatever) all apparently based on infinite years of extensive ponderous experience direct quote: 'we're like an airplane that's stuck on the ground and we need to get off the ground' fellow researcher henry swanson overhears this guff in the lab background: good grief - you pompous old stuffed shirt all you were mistakenly asked was your simple direct opinion on a commonly shared problem yet red flags started flying and flapping the moment they immediately went off on some bat-flapping tangent about abstract lofty pseudo-philosophical matters attitudes and thought-terminating cliches yapping on about things 'being a matter of the caprices of the libido' or of 'getting to the bottom of the human imbroglio' what the every loving heck-funk are you bloviating about you impossibly ancient alter trombenik from any remotely humble humane and altruistic perspective that strictly academic crud doesn't matter in the slightest they continually state they're incredibly busy but obviously still enjoy enough time in the darn day to waffle on about bs they imagine others need to hear - as opposed to immediately rolling one's eyes at such esoteric haranguing diatribalists accidentally lampooning themselves to any and all unfortunates within listening distance mere nihilistic burnouts pretending to be serious and 'deeply concerned' spit jive about so-called 'fundamental issues' - about 'building critical mass' and 'breaking the cycle' yadda-yadda whatever the cold dull heck that means all in the dim perfected tone of tiresome autodidacts sociopaths and bores everywhere elvischrist what a raging roger-todger // republic of bob