What? I'm not a soldier and I don't know what "German" means.
If I see some of your levels which I hardly can solve, or not solve at all, you must have a very high IQ. But you don't know where you live, and you don't know what German means. If you are visiting someone, or go to school or where-ever, how do you find your home back then? And didn't you learn geography at school, the names of the countries and continents in the world?
Actually I was refering to the example I mentioned earlier, about the 2nd world war. Never heard of it? Well, about 70 years ago there was a man called Adolf Hitler, he was the boss of a country called Germany, and he found that people with blond hair and blue eyes are better then people with dark eyes, hair or skin. He hated dark people, especially Jews, so he made a rule that all Jews must be killed. (which was of course one of the most terrible crimes in history) And lots of those German soldiers said: well the rule says we must kill those people,
Therefore, we have to obey that otherwise we want to get banned.
Please understand me well: I'm not comparing anyone with Hitler, and I'm not saying that you would kill anyone if the rules say that you should. I'm only trying to say that you find the rules much more important then they actually are. I think that people who find rules the most important things in life, are people who, like we say in Dutch, people who are not looking further then the length of their noses.
so users will not talk about something when the other users will talk about something else.
Then we agree at that point.
However, the rule did not say ......
I tried to make you clear that it's not possible to make a rule which says everything, which is suitable for every situation. You can try to do so, but there will be situations that the rule doesn't make sense. Also, if everyone on this forum was just like you, there would be so many rules needed, that we didn't have time to play Wonderland anymore.
What I think the rule says is clearly what the rule says.
I told you that I don't agree with that, and also why, (such as: it is important in most sections .... off-topic is for silly and socialize) but if you keep stating your opinion as being a fact, I think we'd better not discuss that more.
I have no problem.
Great!
But Patrick does otherwise he or she wouldn't have created that rule.
Patrick is a human being, who can't look into the future. If he would have known years ago that you and I would have this discussion, he probably would have said:
If there are 2 (or more) different discussions in the same thread, please move 1 (or more) of them to a separate thread.
Besides, I noticed, that he just locked 2 nonsense topics, but he didn't lock this one. So I think we can say that talking nonsense bothers him more then have a good serious off-topic talking about off-topic stuff, in a thread which is actually not in use anymore. Maybe he would not agree for 100% with you or with me, but I think either, he finds you and I have a pretty interesting discussion here, no matter if it's a bit off-topic, or he doesn't give himself the time, to read all of it.
Also, pirates are people who use to steal things from other people, and don't care about rules. So if I say that I don't find rules very important, I'm actually talking like a pirate, which means that I'm still on-topic.
But seriously: Did Patrick ask you to keep an eye on people who break a rule? Did he ask you to point out that rule for those people? And did he give you permission to break a rule yourself, in such situation?
Remember that, if you say someone is off-topic, means that you are also off-topic yourself in most situations. Unless you say it in the topic: "Here a topic, there a topic, everywhere a topic topic"
And that statement was questioning it.
No, it was stating sort of a fact. He/she said that you and I were talking off-topic, which was actually well-known information. I think in some situations when there's not really a question asked, it may be a good idea to ignore it. If the other one finds it really important that you reply, he/she would probably say/ask again. Because, for example, you did your very best in the "Ok sorry" topic to keep everything according to the rules, but apparently it didn't help much, because in the meantime the topic is locked.
It probably will take centuries before everyone realizes that you are right.