sknydave
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His post was no more pretentious than yours is.
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His post was no more pretentious than yours is.
Disneyson 1
New Member
Hm. Strange... no refrance to Constance... or is there...?
Well then, I would say you probably don't know what the definition of the word "pretentious" is. If anything, my post was the OPPOSITE of pretentious. I was just pointing out that his "amazing discovery" was something that most Disney fans are aware of and many average guests have seen. It's not like he stumbled onto some big secret room, but he made it sound that way in his post. As I said in my earlier post, it was just funny because he prefaced the whole thing with "There is very little that I don't know about Walt Disney World", which to me seemed kind of an arrogant statement. So to follow that with something that is not an earth shattering thing was just really funny. It would be like someone saying, "There's not much I don't know about American history", and then following that by saying something like, "I just discovered that the North and South were once at war with each other!". :lol:
ttalovebug
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Montyboy
New Member
I looked up the definition. Your post was pretentious.
haveyoumetmark
Well-Known Member
Yeah, that post sounded pretty pretentious to me as well....
I'm amazed that anyone other than a very young kid would have to look up the word "pretentious", but even more amazed that after doing so, you still don't know the correct definition of it. There are three possibilities for this:
1. You didn't really look up the definition, but just SAID you looked it up (because if you really did look it up, you'd see that's not what the word "pretentious" means and that it's been misused here).
2. You did look it up, but didn't understand the explanation given for the meaning of the word "pretentious".
3. The source you looked it up in was not very credible and got the definition wrong.
You can disagree with my post, and even feel it wasn't very nice (in which case I apologize if I offended anyone as that was not my intention), but it's incorrect to call my post "pretentious" or "snobbish". The OP's claim that "there is very little I don't know about Walt Disney World", IS much closer to the definition than mine would be, but I still wouldn't even categorize that as "pretentious". It did seem, however, unjustifiably arrogant (unjustifiably because he proved with the rest of his post that he was unaware of a very basic thing about the subject of which he claimed to know nearly everything).
Whoa, I was just trying to share a funny story with you guys. :lookaroun I am the complete opposite from conceited, and I absolutely hate boastful people.
No worries. I don't think anyone thinks that about you. And I wasn't trying to say that you are a conceited or boastful person. As I stated in my post, I just got a chuckle out of it because the one remark you made about there being very little you don't know about Walt Disney World just came across kind of funny. Unfortunately, a lot of people got bent out of shape about it and seemed to think I had ripped your heart out, chewed it up and spit it out just by expressing a humorous observation. :hammer:
Montyboy
New Member
Be amazed, but other readers thought it was funny.
sknydave
Active Member
Not only was your original reply to the OP pretentious, this post is also just as pretentious. mmmm delicious irony
rbrower
Well-Known Member
Thanks for the story. I enjoyed it.
wvdisneyfamily
Well-Known Member
"Daddy always said a pound of pretention was worth an ounce of manure."
~Shelby Steeel Magnolias
~Shelby Steeel Magnolias
CaptainJackNO
Well-Known Member
You guys are hilarious.......let's all enjoy the holiday spirit now
Montyboy
New Member
You’re right CaptainJack. I feel bad that he spent so much effort with a response. I was just trying to amuse myself and get a chuckle out of other readers.
Merry Christmas :xmas:
Happy New Year :sohappy:
DisneyJunkie
Well-Known Member
Yes it is. On our last visit, my wife needed to use a wheelchair to get around in the parks with because her legs can't handle the walking. When we got to Haunted Mansion, we were directed to stand off to the side, and the CM took us into the main loading area for the ride by going through that door and hallway. It wasn't anything special, I just noticed that it cut out the stretching room bit and went right to the "doom buggy" loading stage.
"Other readers thought it was funny" that you had to look up a definition?? :hammer:
Well according to the OP, who knows almost everything about WDW, it sounds like it's akin to discovering the inner workings of NORAD. You sure you were in the right place? Did you sneak a picture with your secret spy camera, and in the process put the lives of yourself and the others in your party at risk?? Did you elude the evil CM police at every turn? :lol::lol: