Running out of bullshit isn't the same thing as "being shut up".

[sibelian]

So, there you go.

[cyberswede]

1. How would you know?

It seems you never run out of bullshit.

[sibelian]

3. ...

nicely put!

love you too, cyberswede!

[herding cats]

2. Did you intend this to be an OP?

It has no context if so, which makes it read like a reply to an ongoing discussion.

[sibelian]

4. It's sufficiently widely applicable

to such a large number of conversations (and not just on DU) that it seems to me to be worth pointing out as a general observation.

[herding cats]

8. Oh, I get it now.

I almost posted a reply as an OP the other day and thought maybe you had that happen here.

Carry on.

[el_bryanto]

5. What is the difference between running out of bullshit and being tired of banging your head against

a wall?

Bryant

[sibelian]

9. Well, bryant, I don't know...

...but I imagine that in the first case it might be that one's hypothetical advocate has failed to notice that their position isn't being lent the credence the advocate feels it deserves because their correpsondent actually already knows better and the advocate hasn't noticed, and in the second one's hypothetical advocate is up against someone who is just pig-ignorant and can't be bothered paying attention.

The difference would seem to me to depend largely on the advocate's perceptions of the correspondent, not the position advocated.

[el_bryanto]

10. That makes sense - so when someone disagrees with me and gives up

they run out of bullshit, but when I give up arguing with someone, that's me refusing to bang my head against a wall.

Bryant

[sibelian]

11. mm, that's not *quite* what i mean...

I was more considering the possibility that it's easy to mistake uninformed ignorance for informed disagreement.

[Fumesucker]

6. Bullshit is an inexhaustable resource

[Tuesday Afternoon]

7. plenty of horse shit to go around. making more of it every day.