Principia Discordia

Okay, in the interest of trying to provide some topical feng shui,


I'd like to talk about something that actually revolves around Discordia.


Think about your daily routine, or your daily non-routine, and talk about where there is Discordia.


Where do you do things a little differently because you have Her whispering in your ear?


Do you have any daily rituals, habits, or activities that are steeped in your Discordianness?

I FLOSS MY TEETH WIFF FLAX!

I don't look both ways before I cross the street.


I look ALL ways!

I conduct free Starbucks tests at Tim Hortons.

The most I ever do is writing on public posters and signs with a Sharpie.

Frequently it is just drawing  mustaches on faces

in my house? Nothing. At work? Nothing.

Pretty much just a Discordian in my own head

I guess daily there's not a lot; I do treat everything with a bit of skepticism. Bob Wilson's 'general agnosticism' was influential there.

Also, I get awkward and avoid giving direct answers when people start asking me questions about religion.

Depending on who it is, I'll tell them the truth.  They stop asking me those kinds of questions soon after.

Actually something I have been doing recently is using the Discordian Tarot cards :)

The only people who ever ask me about religions are cockmonglers who want to change my mind as soon as I say anything. So, I bail with a vague "I don't really do religion." And it's true, anyway. I don't do religion. When you think of religion you think of some bullshit that you believe, arranged in a list from most to least important, and you think of some kind of organization whose duty is to enforce and propogate those beliefs. I have none of that. My religion is based on the idea that religion is retarded, and beliefs are also retarded, unless they are somehow verified -- but then they're not beliefs, they're science.

And the minute I start down any possible path ending in that, whoever asked is either going to become immediately uninterested, or start talking about Jesus. Either way, no thanks. Plus this religion is too good for those fuckers, and they don't deserve to know about it. Hell I don't deserve to know about it, but some idiot left the door open and word got to me accidentally.

When I trolling the discussion threads on the local TV "news" site, I respond to quotes from the Bible with appropriate quotes from the PD.

I am very devout, I see Discordia everywhere (I have written on this) and I give Her a wide fucking berth.

I see the Lo5's pumping away like some kind of psychotic living math, like fire behind the glassy eyes of The People.

I see people driving so many cars and I wonder: what kind of miracle makes it so that these monkeys behind their wheels don't all smash into each other MORE OFTEN? Perhaps it's because THEY see the Goddess too. They know, somewhere deep deep down, they know that despite their wishful thinking there is something much bigger out there and they better drive safe unless they want to get squished like a bug.

I still try to work in 23's and 5's everywhere possible. Mostly to fuck with people like Alty who think the Lo5's is merely in their heads. WRONG!!! There's also bastards like me to tip the balance mwuahahaha.

I don't do it on this particular forum, of course, since it's hardly a mindfuck to encounter a 23 in the context of here.

Also, there's always these moments when a parable of sorts is relevant (though these days we call them "pop culture references"), if a Discordian one happens to fit the bill I make a point of mentioning it as if it's common knowledge (and explain it for anyone who wants to hear).

And on a more personal level, I try to do different things a lot. As I found out like everyone did when they were 15, it's cool to be different and "alternative". Except as you grow older, it's WAY more rewarding to be different and alternative from yourself, than it is to be diffferent and alternative from everybody else. I mean, the latter I am already, it takes no effort whatsoever because I couldn't be like everybody else even if I wanted to. But yourself is someone else, much more interesting to not be like them. So, for instance, I had one of those shitty days, when you sit on the couch and plan to do something useful and then it gets late and you think "goddamnit wtf I wasted this whole day with dumb and lazy"* and then later in the evening I had this meditation group, which is pretty awesome because every week we pick a completely different type of meditation to try out and see what it's like and that night we were doing humming. So we'd go MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM for 45 minutes. Which is of course ridiculous, but while we were doing it I was like FUCK YEAH here I was thinking my whole day was going to be wasted and worthless but here I am sitting in a room with 10 other people fucking going MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM for 45 minutes!! Ok maybe you don't get it let me explain, see a wasted day, IMO, is wasted because it's exactly the same as any other wasted day. A day which ends up with you sitting together with 10 people going MMMMMMMMMMMMMMM for 45 minutes, therefore by definition cannot be wasted (unless you do that shit every day, but let's be real here). And that's when I knew I made a really wise choice joining that group (also, because afaik none of them believe in magickal healing stones or shit like that, but are just interested in meditation and all come from different directions).

Ok I digressed a bit there. Gonna hit post now.


(*the real reason is my body or mind really needed that rest and won't let me do anything else no matter how hard I fight it, I'm learning that, but it's easy to fall in the trap because on the outside it looks exactly the same as someone who's just lazy but could do it if only he'd try a bit harder--but that's not my point here)

Quote from: Alty on June 21, 2012, 09:21:49 PM


I see people driving so many cars and I wonder: what kind of miracle makes it so that these monkeys behind their wheels don't all smash into each other MORE OFTEN? Perhaps it's because THEY see the Goddess too.

No, it's because they DON'T THINK ABOUT IT.

If they did, even for a moment, every highway in America would be an instant charnel house.

I, personally, practice discordianism as a philosophy, with a certain degree of religion in the same sense that term is used for buddhism (as in I am devoted to a path, not to an objective), consequently, my outlook is heavily influenced by it. Thus, my actions, to a certain degree, are all influenced by Discordia, I guess.

like so, today, at a family function:

Quote
dad: Did you know the Chinese own the AZ state capitol building? Our government pays RENT to the Chinese!
me: Actually it is just some private companies who own the buildings, and maybe China has a stake in it.
dad: OBAMA! GRR!
me: it was Jan Brewer and her Republican legislature who sold them, not Obama. By the way she sold them for $81 million, and this year they're buying them back.
dad: well that's good!
me: yeah. they're buying them back for $105 million. AFTER paying 2 years of lease costs on them.
dad: Those Chinese!! I can't believe it! Obama's weak!!! GRRR!
me: Ugh. Well, on the plus side I guess this means Communism really DOES work. Looks like we were on the wrong side of that Cold War thing, huh?
dad: Shut up boy.

Quote from: v3x on June 24, 2012, 04:51:20 AM
like so, today, at a family function:

Quote
dad: Did you know the Chinese own the AZ state capitol building? Our government pays RENT to the Chinese!
me: Actually it is just some private companies who own the buildings, and maybe China has a stake in it.
dad: OBAMA! GRR!
me: it was Jan Brewer and her Republican legislature who sold them, not Obama. By the way she sold them for $81 million, and this year they're buying them back.
dad: well that's good!
me: yeah. they're buying them back for $105 million. AFTER paying 2 years of lease costs on them.
dad: Those Chinese!! I can't believe it! Obama's weak!!! GRRR!
me: Ugh. Well, on the plus side I guess this means Communism really DOES work. Looks like we were on the wrong side of that Cold War thing, huh?
dad: Shut up boy.

:lulz:

Quote from: v3x on June 24, 2012, 04:51:20 AM
like so, today, at a family function:

Quote
dad: Did you know the Chinese own the AZ state capitol building? Our government pays RENT to the Chinese!
me: Actually it is just some private companies who own the buildings, and maybe China has a stake in it.
dad: OBAMA! GRR!
me: it was Jan Brewer and her Republican legislature who sold them, not Obama. By the way she sold them for $81 million, and this year they're buying them back.
dad: well that's good!
me: yeah. they're buying them back for $105 million. AFTER paying 2 years of lease costs on them.
dad: Those Chinese!! I can't believe it! Obama's weak!!! GRRR!
me: Ugh. Well, on the plus side I guess this means Communism really DOES work. Looks like we were on the wrong side of that Cold War thing, huh?
dad: Shut up boy.

WINNER.

Mostly, Discordia gets me in a more playful spirit. I actually don't have more to say to that.

Quote from: Phil N.D. Blank on June 29, 2012, 02:13:35 AM
Mostly, Discordia gets me in a more playful spirit. I actually don't have more to say to that.

That's what Eris said.



And then the Greeks went to war for 50 years.

For my very first post on this forum... (:retard:)

I will attempt to list all the behaviors that set me apart as a Discordian -- which should prove to be an interesting exercise for me. (Some of these are not strictly Discordian activities, but rather fall under the category "Activities of Which I Think Eris Would Approve." Also, not all are daily; some might take place seasonally, or simply whenever the n00d mood strikes me.)

~Writing derogatory messages on the contents of the fruit bowl, to remind my housemates of my affection for them
~General mischief and wreaking of havoc
~Strictly abiding by the Law of Fives, sometimes to the point of others' chagrin
~Meditation on Erisian & Discordian symbols -- which, in my opinion, convey powerful messages
~Quoting names, stories, and parables from PD and BIP whenever apropos
~Intense study of Eris and anything remotely related to Her, as I am deeply fascinated by the persona of Eris Herself, and what She stands for
~Heavily inspired by Erisian & Discordian symbolism and mythology in my art

And last, but not least...

~Erister EGGgasm

I've been participating in this holiday tradition for years, long before I even knew what Discordia was. I've always gotten a kick out of putting awkward, shocking, or confusing items in Easter eggs and including them in family or church egg hunts, then giggling as the unsuspecting participants reacted with surprise, amusement, or even outrage when they opened their eggs. Once I found out this was an actual Discordian tradition, I was elated, and figured the fortuitous coincidence implied I was meant to be Discordian all along. :) I also used this knowledge to continue my EGGgasm activities with newfound intensity.

WARNING: Do not read the following small print if you wish to avoid TMI!

There is a funny (albeit slightly explicit) story about how the EGGgasm idea first occurred to me outside a Discordian context. Several years ago in late March, my high school boyfriend and I happened to engage in relations at my grandmother's house while she was out shopping one day. After we had, erm..."finished," he suggested we simply disguise the used condom inside another piece of trash and throw it away. But I was suddenly overcome with an irrational paranoia that my grandma would suspect what we had done and search through her garbage to find the proof. I was unspeakably horrified at the thought of my poor grandmother discovering a used condom in her house, so I insisted that we find a more creative way to dispose of the prophylactic. Since she was decorating for Easter at the time, there was a bag of as-yet-unfilled plastic eggs on her kitchen counter. We placed the condom inside an egg, then drove away with it and tossed it outside the car window a few minutes later. The egg bounced into a ditch beside a nearby trailer park; we figured it would remain safely undiscovered there.

Weeks later, while we were on our way to my family's house to celebrate Easter with them, we passed by the same location where we had previously disposed of the condom. There were a bunch of trailer park kids with baskets playing in the ditch and the nearby field, ostensibly conducting an egg hunt. We snickered to ourselves, wondering if they'd found our "offering." From that day forward, I've been a participant in Erister EGGgasm, though for several years I didn't even know it.

(Btw, if that's not a prime example of "EGGgasm", then idk what is!)

/TMI

Quote from: SecretlyHalal on September 14, 2012, 06:09:20 AM
For my very first post on this forum... (:retard:)

I will attempt to list all the behaviors that set me apart as a Discordian -- which should prove to be an interesting exercise for me. (Some of these are not strictly Discordian activities, but rather fall under the category "Activities of Which I Think Eris Would Approve." Also, not all are daily; some might take place seasonally, or simply whenever the n00d mood strikes me.)

~Writing derogatory messages on the contents of the fruit bowl, to remind my housemates of my affection for them
~General mischief and wreaking of havoc
~Strictly abiding by the Law of Fives, sometimes to the point of others' chagrin
~Meditation on Erisian & Discordian symbols -- which, in my opinion, convey powerful messages
~Quoting names, stories, and parables from PD and BIP whenever apropos
~Intense study of Eris and anything remotely related to Her, as I am deeply fascinated by the persona of Eris Herself, and what She stands for
~Heavily inspired by Erisian & Discordian symbolism and mythology in my art

And last, but not least...

~Erister EGGgasm

I've been participating in this holiday tradition for years, long before I even knew what Discordia was. I've always gotten a kick out of putting awkward, shocking, or confusing items in Easter eggs and including them in family or church egg hunts, then giggling as the unsuspecting participants reacted with surprise, amusement, or even outrage when they opened their eggs. Once I found out this was an actual Discordian tradition, I was elated, and figured the fortuitous coincidence implied I was meant to be Discordian all along. :) I also used this knowledge to continue my EGGgasm activities with newfound intensity.

There are only TWO behaviors that make you "Discordian"..."THINKING FOR YOURSELF" and "SATURDAY NIGHT".  Without these two things, "church art" is mere vandalism, havoc is mere hooliganism, and being an asshat is just another form of being anti-social.

All the other shit you mentioned is a great example of sitting down in a restaurant and eating the menu.  For example, the "law of fives" is a method of demonstrating confirmation bias.  It's a PARODY.  Likewise, meditating on symbology is sort of like praying to a stop sign, and Eris doesn't give a shit if you give a shit about her, she's gonna fuck you up anyway.   It's what the old bag DOES.

Quote from: SecretlyHalal on September 14, 2012, 06:12:07 AM
WARNING: Do not read the following small print if you wish to avoid TMI!

There is a funny (albeit slightly explicit) story about how the EGGgasm idea first occurred to me outside a Discordian context. Several years ago in late March, my high school boyfriend and I happened to engage in relations at my grandmother's house while she was out shopping one day. After we had, erm..."finished," he suggested we simply disguise the used condom inside another piece of trash and throw it away. But I was suddenly overcome with an irrational paranoia that my grandma would suspect what we had done and search through her garbage to find the proof. I was unspeakably horrified at the thought of my poor grandmother discovering a used condom in her house, so I insisted that we find a more creative way to dispose of the prophylactic. Since she was decorating for Easter at the time, there was a bag of as-yet-unfilled plastic eggs on her kitchen counter. We placed the condom inside an egg, then drove away with it and tossed it outside the car window a few minutes later. The egg bounced into a ditch beside a nearby trailer park; we figured it would remain safely undiscovered there.

Weeks later, while we were on our way to my family's house to celebrate Easter with them, we passed by the same location where we had previously disposed of the condom. There were a bunch of trailer park kids with baskets playing in the ditch and the nearby field, ostensibly conducting an egg hunt. We snickered to ourselves, wondering if they'd found our "offering." From that day forward, I've been a participant in Erister EGGgasm, though for several years I didn't even know it.

(Btw, if that's not a prime example of "EGGgasm", then idk what is!)

/TMI

That's actually kinda squicky.

Quote from: SecretlyHalal on September 14, 2012, 06:12:07 AM
WARNING: Do not read the following small print if you wish to avoid TMI!

There is a funny (albeit slightly explicit) story about how the EGGgasm idea first occurred to me outside a Discordian context. Several years ago in late March, my high school boyfriend and I happened to engage in relations at my grandmother's house while she was out shopping one day. After we had, erm..."finished," he suggested we simply disguise the used condom inside another piece of trash and throw it away. But I was suddenly overcome with an irrational paranoia that my grandma would suspect what we had done and search through her garbage to find the proof. I was unspeakably horrified at the thought of my poor grandmother discovering a used condom in her house, so I insisted that we find a more creative way to dispose of the prophylactic. Since she was decorating for Easter at the time, there was a bag of as-yet-unfilled plastic eggs on her kitchen counter. We placed the condom inside an egg, then drove away with it and tossed it outside the car window a few minutes later. The egg bounced into a ditch beside a nearby trailer park; we figured it would remain safely undiscovered there.

Weeks later, while we were on our way to my family's house to celebrate Easter with them, we passed by the same location where we had previously disposed of the condom. There were a bunch of trailer park kids with baskets playing in the ditch and the nearby field, ostensibly conducting an egg hunt. We snickered to ourselves, wondering if they'd found our "offering." From that day forward, I've been a participant in Erister EGGgasm, though for several years I didn't even know it.

(Btw, if that's not a prime example of "EGGgasm", then idk what is!)

/TMI

Somehow, this whole story comes across to me as a contrived excuse to tell the Internet that you had sex.  :lol:

Quote from: Fidel Castro on September 14, 2012, 02:55:22 PM

Quote from: SecretlyHalal on September 14, 2012, 06:12:07 AM
WARNING: Do not read the following small print if you wish to avoid TMI!

There is a funny (albeit slightly explicit) story about how the EGGgasm idea first occurred to me outside a Discordian context. Several years ago in late March, my high school boyfriend and I happened to engage in relations at my grandmother's house while she was out shopping one day. After we had, erm..."finished," he suggested we simply disguise the used condom inside another piece of trash and throw it away. But I was suddenly overcome with an irrational paranoia that my grandma would suspect what we had done and search through her garbage to find the proof. I was unspeakably horrified at the thought of my poor grandmother discovering a used condom in her house, so I insisted that we find a more creative way to dispose of the prophylactic. Since she was decorating for Easter at the time, there was a bag of as-yet-unfilled plastic eggs on her kitchen counter. We placed the condom inside an egg, then drove away with it and tossed it outside the car window a few minutes later. The egg bounced into a ditch beside a nearby trailer park; we figured it would remain safely undiscovered there.

Weeks later, while we were on our way to my family's house to celebrate Easter with them, we passed by the same location where we had previously disposed of the condom. There were a bunch of trailer park kids with baskets playing in the ditch and the nearby field, ostensibly conducting an egg hunt. We snickered to ourselves, wondering if they'd found our "offering." From that day forward, I've been a participant in Erister EGGgasm, though for several years I didn't even know it.

(Btw, if that's not a prime example of "EGGgasm", then idk what is!)

/TMI

That's actually kinda squicky.

Also, this.

I'd feel differently about it if you had ended it with "We were horrified and ashamed,", but no.

Well I think it's a marvelous story.

Snickering about children finding your used condoms in easter eggs is something I'd be ashamed of, not something I'd consider a "funny" or "marvelous" story.

Quote from: Net on September 16, 2012, 01:07:05 AM
Snickering about children finding your used condoms in easter eggs is something I'd be ashamed of, not something I'd consider a "funny" or "marvelous" story.

Seriously. If the idea of a little kid handling a semen-filled prophylactic is funny to someone, there's something horribly awry with them.

If it's funny because they're getting some kind of kick out of "shocking" children, either they have some kind of severe emotional/developmental delay that leads them to seek validation from children, or they're still a child themselves.

Or, alternate possibility, they're the kind of person who turns into playground masturbators.

Or maybe it's ok because they were just, you know, trailer park kids.

Quote from: A Very Hairy Monkey In An Ill-Fitting Tunic on September 16, 2012, 03:09:19 AM
Or maybe it's ok because they were just, you know, trailer park kids.

Yeah, poor people don't really count as people.  It's okay to do horribly inappropriate things to their children, because they're just animals and shit.

Frankly, I find the fucktard that posted this to be a sociopath at best, and tjg92 to be a fucking idiot.

Fuck 'em both.

Quote from: Fidel Castro on September 16, 2012, 03:17:26 AM

Quote from: A Very Hairy Monkey In An Ill-Fitting Tunic on September 16, 2012, 03:09:19 AM
Or maybe it's ok because they were just, you know, trailer park kids.

Yeah, poor people don't really count as people.  It's okay to do horribly inappropriate things to their children, because they're just animals and shit.

Frankly, I find the fucktard that posted this to be a sociopath at best, and tjg92 to be a fucking idiot.

Fuck 'em both.

Unless they engage a little more and present evidence otherwise, I'm going to have to agree with your assessment.

As a longer-term exercise in Discordianism, I recently moved from Hungary to the UK with my family: wife, six kids, one dog. I proceeded to get terribly depressed and after six months I decided I didn't like it there... so we packed up again, and moved back to Hungary. Our landlord here had just gotten around to having the house painted and failed to get new tenants in, so we ended up re-renting the house we had before (praise be to Eris, we really like it here). Life is now dandy, exciting... and I learnt a very expensive lesson about attachment to a place. Oh, and all my kids learnt more English than they would have done here in six years...

Daily activities: On days I feel worthy of it, I wear the Discordian pendant I made for my wife, which she refused to wear after a trial period because "the chaos was just coming on too strong". When the opportunity presents itself (and believe me, it does, very regularly), I give thanks for the sheer unpredictability of the life I have managed to arrange for myself and remind myself that this would not have been possible without our benevolent though occasionally sadistic prankster universe playing along.

Quote from: SecretlyHalal on September 14, 2012, 06:12:07 AM
WARNING: Do not read the following small print if you wish to avoid TMI!

There is a funny (albeit slightly explicit) story about how the EGGgasm idea first occurred to me outside a Discordian context. Several years ago in late March, my high school boyfriend and I happened to engage in relations at my grandmother's house while she was out shopping one day. After we had, erm..."finished," he suggested we simply disguise the used condom inside another piece of trash and throw it away. But I was suddenly overcome with an irrational paranoia that my grandma would suspect what we had done and search through her garbage to find the proof. I was unspeakably horrified at the thought of my poor grandmother discovering a used condom in her house, so I insisted that we find a more creative way to dispose of the prophylactic. Since she was decorating for Easter at the time, there was a bag of as-yet-unfilled plastic eggs on her kitchen counter. We placed the condom inside an egg, then drove away with it and tossed it outside the car window a few minutes later. The egg bounced into a ditch beside a nearby trailer park; we figured it would remain safely undiscovered there.

Weeks later, while we were on our way to my family's house to celebrate Easter with them, we passed by the same location where we had previously disposed of the condom. There were a bunch of trailer park kids with baskets playing in the ditch and the nearby field, ostensibly conducting an egg hunt. We snickered to ourselves, wondering if they'd found our "offering." From that day forward, I've been a participant in Erister EGGgasm, though for several years I didn't even know it.

(Btw, if that's not a prime example of "EGGgasm", then idk what is!)

/TMI

1) Your grandmother knows people fuck. Better for her to find a condom in the trash where she was looking for it. Better for her to jump YOUR shit about fucking in her house than to shock some kid.

2) If my kids were little and they found an egg with a fucking used condom in it, I'd assume since it was in a plastic easter egg, some pervert put it there for them to find and I'd make a police report. Cops LOVE catching pedos, it's a pretty substantial felony catch and I'm sure they'd check for prints as well as running the DNA.

Quote from: Fidel Castro on September 16, 2012, 03:17:26 AM

Quote from: A Very Hairy Monkey In An Ill-Fitting Tunic on September 16, 2012, 03:09:19 AM
Or maybe it's ok because they were just, you know, trailer park kids.

Yeah, poor people don't really count as people.  It's okay to do horribly inappropriate things to their children, because they're just animals and shit.

Frankly, I find the fucktard that posted this to be a sociopath at best, and tjg92 to be a fucking idiot.

Fuck 'em both.

Also this.

Welcome back, Holist. I'm sorry your move to the UK didn't work out, but glad you are happily settled now. Also I hope we don't have to have that conversation about homeopathy ever again.

Quote from: Fidel Castro on September 14, 2012, 02:54:39 PM
There are only TWO behaviors that make you "Discordian"..."THINKING FOR YOURSELF" and "SATURDAY NIGHT"

Thank you for explaining what Discordianism is, so I can "think for myself" by following your definition.

Quote from: Fidel Castro on September 14, 2012, 02:54:39 PM..."church art" is mere vandalism...

I have no idea what you're talking about. I don't do "church art," nor to I vandalize.

Quote from: Fidel Castro on September 14, 2012, 02:54:39 PMFor example, the "law of fives" is a method of demonstrating confirmation bias.  It's a PARODY.

I'm well aware of the fact that the Law of Fives is a parody. I choose to follow it for the very purpose of demonstrating confirmation bias, and because sometimes it's fun(ny) to see how many steps it takes to intentionally relate any number/subject to five. It's ok to have fun with a parody, isn't it?

Quote from: Fidel Castro on September 14, 2012, 02:54:39 PM...meditating on symbology is sort of like praying to a stop sign...

I do not "pray" to symbols -- or stop signs. I'm agnostic and hold no belief in the supernatural whatsoever; therefore, I don't believe symbols contain any magical powers. I do, however, believe in the beneficial results of meditation (which are well-documented), and focusing on symbols helps me concentrate well enough to reach the meditative state I desire.

Quote from: A Very Hairy Monkey In An Ill-Fitting Tunic on September 15, 2012, 09:50:51 PM
playground masturbator

Quote from: Fidel Castro on September 16, 2012, 03:17:26 AM
fucktard

Quote from: Fidel Castro on September 16, 2012, 03:17:26 AM
sociopath

Going a little overboard here. For people who hold the Curse of Greyface to be a valuable life lesson, you guys sure seem to take a lot of things WAY too seriously. I've read thread after thread of forum members bashing newcomers for even the slightest things, like a question they felt was dumb, or a screen name they didn't particularly care for. And here I am being accused of viewing poor people as subhuman, doing "horribly inappropriate things" to kids, masturbating at playgrounds, and considering children to be mere animals. Think what you want of my story, but all these accusations are completely absurd.

The idea of those kids finding our egg made me laugh for the same reason It's Always Sunny episodes, or The Office skits, or comedians telling improper jokes make me laugh -- sometimes awkward, inappropriate situations are funny. Even when they're not, sometimes the only worthwhile response to such situations is laughter.

If, through some fault of mine, any harm were to ever befall a child, I would absolutely feel shame and horror -- not to mention the deepest remorse. Suffering is a big deal to me, especially the suffering of innocents. But I assure you no children were harmed by the contents of the egg we threw away; no suffering of any kind was caused by someone happening upon our discarded trash, IF anyone did after all. It is outrageous to insinuate that I'm some kind of classist, sociopathic child molester simply because I chuckled at the possibility of an event which -- had it actually occurred -- would've hurt absolutely NO ONE and had NO lasting effect whatsoever. How in the hell does this make me the type of person who would mistreat children or be entertained by the sight of them in pain? You people act like I showed up at a playground and raped a child, or placed a loaded gun in the middle of a crowded daycare. The words "overreaction" and "exaggeration" don't even begin to cover it.

 :lulz: ...annnnnd straight to "grayface" and "doing it wrong" because we don't all think your "leaving a used condom in an easter egg for children to find on Easter" anecdote was funny.

Of course we're going to speculate on exactly what kind of person would find something like that funny, and the directions that speculation takes isn't pretty. It's about as pretty as laughing because some little kid going to get a semen-filled condom amidst her Easter candies.

Protip: bipeds can admit when they're wrong. 

I mean, SOME measure of remorse or horror would make it all make sense, from a human perspective. "OH FUCK I can't believe that just happened! What did we do?!" followed by "we couldn't help laughing" would reflect horrormirth. But the way you presented it was sheer "Oh aren't I just the cutest and cleverest" puerile glee. You can take it back, you can clarify, but you sure as hell can't make me feel like a heel for thinking that story made you sound like a heel.

Surely to count as EggGASM it would require a condom full of ova, not sperm.

You didn't even manage to make that potential connection, did you?

Quote from: A Very Hairy Monkey In An Ill-Fitting Tunic on September 16, 2012, 03:25:48 PM
Welcome back, Holist. I'm sorry your move to the UK didn't work out, but glad you are happily settled now. Also I hope we don't have to have that conversation about homeopathy ever again.

Hey, Nigel.

Hope dies last, as they say.

I would probably have taken your welcome at face value - but I spent an hour earlier today re-reading the "music - what it is" thread. Which has been moved to the peanut gallery, but I plan to start it over. I only got about halfway through, but I am already acutely aware that I don't like you and I don't trust you - not even as much as a complete stranger on the interwebs.

Let's see how it goes this time.

holist

Well, I expect telling some straight up that you don't like or trust them is going to help you two to get along tremendously.

I frequently open business meetings with our corporate partners with such words.  Except to our special partners in catering, whom I greet with a hearty "fuck you" and make a wanking motion with my hand.  I find it helps set the mood for the coming proceedings.

Quote from: SecretlyHalal on September 16, 2012, 05:00:40 PM

Quote from: A Very Hairy Monkey In An Ill-Fitting Tunic on September 15, 2012, 09:50:51 PM
playground masturbator

Quote from: Fidel Castro on September 16, 2012, 03:17:26 AM
fucktard

Quote from: Fidel Castro on September 16, 2012, 03:17:26 AM
sociopath

Going a little overboard here. For people who hold the Curse of Greyface to be a valuable life lesson, you guys sure seem to take a lot of things WAY too seriously. I've read thread after thread of forum members bashing newcomers for even the slightest things, like a question they felt was dumb, or a screen name they didn't particularly care for. And here I am being accused of viewing poor people as subhuman, doing "horribly inappropriate things" to kids, masturbating at playgrounds, and considering children to be mere animals. Think what you want of my story, but all these accusations are completely absurd.

The idea of those kids finding our egg made me laugh for the same reason It's Always Sunny episodes, or The Office skits, or comedians telling improper jokes make me laugh -- sometimes awkward, inappropriate situations are funny. Even when they're not, sometimes the only worthwhile response to such situations is laughter.

If, through some fault of mine, any harm were to ever befall a child, I would absolutely feel shame and horror -- not to mention the deepest remorse. Suffering is a big deal to me, especially the suffering of innocents. But I assure you no children were harmed by the contents of the egg we threw away; no suffering of any kind was caused by someone happening upon our discarded trash, IF anyone did after all. It is outrageous to insinuate that I'm some kind of classist, sociopathic child molester simply because I chuckled at the possibility of an event which -- had it actually occurred -- would've hurt absolutely NO ONE and had NO lasting effect whatsoever. How in the hell does this make me the type of person who would mistreat children or be entertained by the sight of them in pain? You people act like I showed up at a playground and raped a child, or placed a loaded gun in the middle of a crowded daycare. The words "overreaction" and "exaggeration" don't even begin to cover it.

You're fucked in the head. 

That is all.

Quote from: holist on September 16, 2012, 06:18:20 PM

Quote from: A Very Hairy Monkey In An Ill-Fitting Tunic on September 16, 2012, 03:25:48 PM
Welcome back, Holist. I'm sorry your move to the UK didn't work out, but glad you are happily settled now. Also I hope we don't have to have that conversation about homeopathy ever again.

Hey, Nigel.

Hope dies last, as they say.

I would probably have taken your welcome at face value - but I spent an hour earlier today re-reading the "music - what it is" thread. Which has been moved to the peanut gallery, but I plan to start it over. I only got about halfway through, but I am already acutely aware that I don't like you and I don't trust you - not even as much as a complete stranger on the interwebs.

Let's see how it goes this time.

holist

Well, fuck you too.

Quote from: Fidel Castro on September 16, 2012, 06:22:50 PM
Well, fuck you too.

I can't place you, because many of you changed your names and you don't have a distinctive sig.

If you tell me who you were last time I was around here, I can decide if I want to respond in kind or just smile hello.

If you don't - well, I won't.

Quote from: holist on September 16, 2012, 06:32:48 PM

Quote from: Fidel Castro on September 16, 2012, 06:22:50 PM
Well, fuck you too.

I can't place you, because many of you changed your names and you don't have a distinctive sig.

If you tell me who you were last time I was around here, I can decide if I want to respond in kind or just smile hello.

If you don't - well, I won't.

TGRR/Doktor Howl.

But here's the thing, Holist...You've already decided that you're coming back on despite not liking or trusting us, announced in a fit of butthurt when Nigel said she didn't want to hear about that homeopathy garbage again.  I am on board with that...It's junk science and superstitution, and the world has enough of that.  If that is your criteria for disliking and distrusting, sign me up on your little enemies list.  I'd like to, you know, beat the rush.

It's all going to go like this, isn't it?  :lulz:

(http://i524.photobucket.com/albums/cc322/fennario99/1002609-Henri_Rousseau_la_Guerre.jpg)

Quote from: Fidel Castro on September 16, 2012, 06:38:08 PM
TGRR/Doktor Howl.

But here's the thing, Holist...You've already decided that you're coming back on despite not liking or trusting us, announced in a fit of butthurt when Nigel said she didn't want to hear about that homeopathy garbage again.  I am on board with that...It's junk science and superstitution, and the world has enough of that.  If that is your criteria for disliking and distrusting, sign me up on your little enemies list.  I'd like to, you know, beat the rush.

Well, hello there  :)

You misunderstood me. This is perhaps to do with the fact that the word 'you' is both singular and plural in English, though I think you could have cottoned on when you read my first response to you. I decided to come back because despite (and in some  instances, because of) the massive unjustified verbal bullying, I liked a number of people here. Nigel, however, is not one of them. I don't take kindly to being welcomed back by someone who, a mere six months ago, called me a racist, sexist, uneducated, inarticulate slob (my summary), and did so (I still think so, even with hindsight) without real justification, without making even a half-assed attempt at understanding what I was on about or taking me for a person she doesn't know and instead took me for a bunch of stereotypes that she knows all too well - they are the products of her own mind, after all.

Butthurt? None left. Homeopathy? It has nothing to do with my criteria for liking or disliking, as in I dislike a number of people who are firm believers in homeopathy and like a number of people who believe it is a form of getting the placebo effect to work and nothing more. I happen to think there is more there (while there is also a great deal of sloppy reasoning and woo) - but right now, that's beside the point. I do dislike intellectually dishonest people, I am not very much in favour of hypocrisy and I get bored with shallow thinking.

Oh, and Cain: I believe that at this time there's no reason whatsoever for me to make any effort to "get on well", as you put it, with Nigel.

Quote from: holist on September 16, 2012, 09:41:19 PM
You misunderstood me. This is perhaps to do with the fact that the word 'you' is both singular and plural in English, though I think you could have cottoned on when you read my first response to you. I decided to come back because despite (and in some  instances, because of) the massive unjustified verbal bullying, I liked a number of people here. Nigel, however, is not one of them.

And you misunderstand me.  While I may disagree with Nigel on a few things, and while some of my other friends may not like her at times, you are essentially a stranger.  Given that, you being openly hostile to her is a good enough reason for me to be hostile to you.

It's really just that simple, and your belief in a stupid thing like homeopathy just makes it funnier.  I'm not here to debate the supposed validity of homeopathy, I'm here to make fun of your belief in it.

Quote from: Fidel Castro on September 17, 2012, 01:16:33 AM

Quote from: holist on September 16, 2012, 09:41:19 PM
You misunderstood me. This is perhaps to do with the fact that the word 'you' is both singular and plural in English, though I think you could have cottoned on when you read my first response to you. I decided to come back because despite (and in some  instances, because of) the massive unjustified verbal bullying, I liked a number of people here. Nigel, however, is not one of them.

And you misunderstand me.  While I may disagree with Nigel on a few things, and while some of my other friends may not like her at times, you are essentially a stranger.  Given that, you being openly hostile to her is a good enough reason for me to be hostile to you.

It's really just that simple, and your belief in a stupid thing like homeopathy just makes it funnier.  I'm not here to debate the supposed validity of homeopathy, I'm here to make fun of your belief in it.

Yeah, the homeopathy discussion went out the window a few posts back. Where the fuck did this guy come from?

Not your neck of the woods, clearly.

Quote from: Fidel Castro on September 17, 2012, 01:16:33 AM

Quote from: holist on September 16, 2012, 09:41:19 PM
You misunderstood me. This is perhaps to do with the fact that the word 'you' is both singular and plural in English, though I think you could have cottoned on when you read my first response to you. I decided to come back because despite (and in some  instances, because of) the massive unjustified verbal bullying, I liked a number of people here. Nigel, however, is not one of them.

And you misunderstand me.  While I may disagree with Nigel on a few things, and while some of my other friends may not like her at times, you are essentially a stranger.  Given that, you being openly hostile to her is a good enough reason for me to be hostile to you.

It's really just that simple, and your belief in a stupid thing like homeopathy just makes it funnier.  I'm not here to debate the supposed validity of homeopathy, I'm here to make fun of your belief in it.

I want in on that.

Quote from: holist on September 16, 2012, 06:18:20 PM

Quote from: A Very Hairy Monkey In An Ill-Fitting Tunic on September 16, 2012, 03:25:48 PM
Welcome back, Holist. I'm sorry your move to the UK didn't work out, but glad you are happily settled now. Also I hope we don't have to have that conversation about homeopathy ever again.

Hey, Nigel.

Hope dies last, as they say.

I would probably have taken your welcome at face value - but I spent an hour earlier today re-reading the "music - what it is" thread. Which has been moved to the peanut gallery, but I plan to start it over. I only got about halfway through, but I am already acutely aware that I don't like you and I don't trust you - not even as much as a complete stranger on the interwebs.

Let's see how it goes this time.

holist

:lulz: I love the smell of butthurt in the morning.

OK, then. I was willing to be nice and treat you like a human being, but it sounds like you don't want that.

Quote from: holist on September 16, 2012, 09:41:19 PMI don't take kindly to being welcomed back by someone who, a mere six months ago, called me a racist, sexist, uneducated, inarticulate slob (my summary), and did so (I still think so, even with hindsight) without real justification, without making even a half-assed attempt at understanding what I was on about or taking me for a person she doesn't know and instead took me for a bunch of stereotypes that she knows all too well - they are the products of her own mind, after all.

Oh, yeah... you said some really stupid things, I called you on it, and instead of clarifying or explaining you simply flounced. Now you're carrying a torch for me because I called you on saying stupid shit that made you look silly.

Join the club.

I think this is a good morning to spend mining that thread and bumping your idiocy... thanks for reminding me about it, I would never have remembered that!

Quote from: A Very Hairy Monkey In An Ill-Fitting Tunic on September 17, 2012, 04:53:05 PM

Quote from: holist on September 16, 2012, 06:18:20 PM

Quote from: A Very Hairy Monkey In An Ill-Fitting Tunic on September 16, 2012, 03:25:48 PM
Welcome back, Holist. I'm sorry your move to the UK didn't work out, but glad you are happily settled now. Also I hope we don't have to have that conversation about homeopathy ever again.

Hey, Nigel.

Hope dies last, as they say.

I would probably have taken your welcome at face value - but I spent an hour earlier today re-reading the "music - what it is" thread. Which has been moved to the peanut gallery, but I plan to start it over. I only got about halfway through, but I am already acutely aware that I don't like you and I don't trust you - not even as much as a complete stranger on the interwebs.

Let's see how it goes this time.

holist

:lulz: I love the smell of butthurt in the morning.

OK, then. I was willing to be nice and treat you like a human being, but it sounds like you don't want that.

That's because you're so damned NIGEL all the time, ALL OF YOU, and he has to FIGHT TEH POWER!

OH GOD

CAN'T BUMP!  :argh!:

Yeah, if we would just sit pretty and smile, they wouldn't be forced to take us down a peg or two.  :lol:

Quote from: A Very Hairy Monkey In An Ill-Fitting Tunic on September 17, 2012, 05:06:58 PM
OH GOD

CAN'T BUMP!  :argh!:

Yeah, if I would just sit pretty and smile, they wouldn't be forced to take me down a peg or two.  :lol:

Why can't you bump?

Quote from: Fidel Castro on September 17, 2012, 05:07:35 PM

Quote from: A Very Hairy Monkey In An Ill-Fitting Tunic on September 17, 2012, 05:06:58 PM
OH GOD

CAN'T BUMP!  :argh!:

Yeah, if I would just sit pretty and smile, they wouldn't be forced to take me down a peg or two.  :lol:

Why can't you bump?

It's in the Peanut Gallery.

I just skimmed it, and am amused to note that other people (mostly you) were calling him racist, and you accused him of being sexist, several pages before I did because I was busy arguing with ECH about the origin of the term "grunge".  :lol:

But he latched onto me. I wasn't being very ladylike. Also I was quoting him and pointing out where HIS WORDS THAT HE TYPED sounded racist, or at least heavily Eurocentric, and it's hard to refute shit like that without actually admitting you're wrong so instead he decided that he wasn't going to talk to me until I stopped being so hostile, and then his white knight rode in to accuse me of misrepresenting him (when I quoted his entire posts, I guess that was a misrepresentation).

Quote from: A Very Hairy Monkey In An Ill-Fitting Tunic on September 17, 2012, 05:22:50 PM
But he latched onto me. I wasn't being very ladylike.

Well, can you blame him?  You being uppity and all.

Quote from: Fidel Castro on September 17, 2012, 05:26:34 PM

Quote from: A Very Hairy Monkey In An Ill-Fitting Tunic on September 17, 2012, 05:22:50 PM
But he latched onto me. I wasn't being very ladylike.

Well, can you blame him?  You being uppity and all.

I was asking for it.  :oops:

Quote from: A Very Hairy Monkey In An Ill-Fitting Tunic on September 17, 2012, 05:35:34 PM

Quote from: Fidel Castro on September 17, 2012, 05:26:34 PM

Quote from: A Very Hairy Monkey In An Ill-Fitting Tunic on September 17, 2012, 05:22:50 PM
But he latched onto me. I wasn't being very ladylike.

Well, can you blame him?  You being uppity and all.

I was asking for it.  :oops:

As were we all.  Had we been wise enough to listen, we'd know that water molecules have "memory", which means they're full of the healing qualities of piss, fish poop, human poop, and Ron Jeremy's laundry water.

Just think:  All that research into germ theory and chemotherapy, and all we REALLY had to do was go drink out of Ron Jeremy's washing machine.

Having re-read that thread, it's fascinating... simply FASCINATING... that he retains hostility towards me but is positively conciliatory towards you, despite the fact that you were much more, ah, Roger hyperbolically confrontational in that thread than I was. What could make the difference? Hmmmm... I feel like I've seen this effect before. Somewhere.

Quote from: Fidel Castro on September 17, 2012, 05:39:24 PM

Quote from: A Very Hairy Monkey In An Ill-Fitting Tunic on September 17, 2012, 05:35:34 PM

Quote from: Fidel Castro on September 17, 2012, 05:26:34 PM

Quote from: A Very Hairy Monkey In An Ill-Fitting Tunic on September 17, 2012, 05:22:50 PM
But he latched onto me. I wasn't being very ladylike.

Well, can you blame him?  You being uppity and all.

I was asking for it.  :oops:

As were we all.  Had we been wise enough to listen, we'd know that water molecules have "memory", which means they're full of the healing qualities of piss, fish poop, human poop, and Ron Jeremy's laundry water.

Just think:  All that research into germ theory and chemotherapy, and all we REALLY had to do was go drink out of Ron Jeremy's washing machine.

I feel like my education is wasted.  :cry:

Quote from: A Very Hairy Monkey In An Ill-Fitting Tunic on September 17, 2012, 05:42:24 PM
Having re-read that thread, it's fascinating... simply FASCINATING... that he retains hostility towards me but is positively conciliatory towards you, despite the fact that you were much more, ah, Roger hyperbolically confrontational in that thread than I was. What could make the difference? Hmmmm... I feel like I've seen this effect before. Somewhere.

But where?

In any case, I've warned you about being so damned Nigel.  Hungarian men aren't used to women that don't demur to whatever they say, and now you've hurt his feelings.

You should be ashamed of yourself.

Quote from: Fidel Castro on September 17, 2012, 05:45:14 PM

Quote from: A Very Hairy Monkey In An Ill-Fitting Tunic on September 17, 2012, 05:42:24 PM
Having re-read that thread, it's fascinating... simply FASCINATING... that he retains hostility towards me but is positively conciliatory towards you, despite the fact that you were much more, ah, Roger hyperbolically confrontational in that thread than I was. What could make the difference? Hmmmm... I feel like I've seen this effect before. Somewhere.

But where?

In any case, I've warned you about being so damned Nigel.  Hungarian men aren't used to women that don't demur to whatever they say, and now you've hurt his feelings.

You should be ashamed of yourself.

:oops:

I'll be in the kitchen if you need me, barefoot and... OK, well, at least I'll be barefoot.

Quote from: A Very Hairy Monkey In An Ill-Fitting Tunic on September 17, 2012, 05:52:42 PM

Quote from: Fidel Castro on September 17, 2012, 05:45:14 PM

Quote from: A Very Hairy Monkey In An Ill-Fitting Tunic on September 17, 2012, 05:42:24 PM
Having re-read that thread, it's fascinating... simply FASCINATING... that he retains hostility towards me but is positively conciliatory towards you, despite the fact that you were much more, ah, Roger hyperbolically confrontational in that thread than I was. What could make the difference? Hmmmm... I feel like I've seen this effect before. Somewhere.

But where?

In any case, I've warned you about being so damned Nigel.  Hungarian men aren't used to women that don't demur to whatever they say, and now you've hurt his feelings.

You should be ashamed of yourself.

:oops:

I'll be in the kitchen if you need me, barefoot and... OK, well, at least I'll be barefoot.

We'll also need you to wear a burhka, on account of you not being fertile anymore.  We don't want any other women getting IDEAS, you see.  Also cook in the dark, place warning signs up, and paint your door quarantine yellow. 

Or, and this is just a suggestion from my vile & diseased mind, maybe we just do the meat hammer tango on Holist's junk.  You lead, though, I suck at this.  Then we can let him drink some filthy water to heal his bits. 

And then we do it again.

For that matter, ECH, Kai, Phox, and Cain, among others, gave both Holis and Polyphosphate or whatever his name was a pretty solid trouncing. Wonder if he's just as ready to kiss and make up with them? My guess; yes, except for Phox.

Quote from: Fidel Castro on September 17, 2012, 05:56:35 PM

Quote from: A Very Hairy Monkey In An Ill-Fitting Tunic on September 17, 2012, 05:52:42 PM

Quote from: Fidel Castro on September 17, 2012, 05:45:14 PM

Quote from: A Very Hairy Monkey In An Ill-Fitting Tunic on September 17, 2012, 05:42:24 PM
Having re-read that thread, it's fascinating... simply FASCINATING... that he retains hostility towards me but is positively conciliatory towards you, despite the fact that you were much more, ah, Roger hyperbolically confrontational in that thread than I was. What could make the difference? Hmmmm... I feel like I've seen this effect before. Somewhere.

But where?

In any case, I've warned you about being so damned Nigel.  Hungarian men aren't used to women that don't demur to whatever they say, and now you've hurt his feelings.

You should be ashamed of yourself.

:oops:

I'll be in the kitchen if you need me, barefoot and... OK, well, at least I'll be barefoot.

We'll also need you to wear a burhka, on account of you not being fertile anymore.  We don't want any other women getting IDEAS, you see.  Also cook in the dark, place warning signs up, and paint your door quarantine yellow. 

Or, and this is just a suggestion from my vile & diseased mind, maybe we just do the meat hammer tango on Holist's junk.  You lead, though, I suck at this.  Then we can let him drink some filthy water to heal his bits. 

And then we do it again.

I like that idea better than I like the burkha one, although if it was a safety-orange burkha I might be convinced.

Quote from: A Very Hairy Monkey In An Ill-Fitting Tunic on September 17, 2012, 05:57:26 PM
For that matter, ECH, Kai, Phox, and Cain, among others, gave both Holis and Polyphosphate or whatever his name was a pretty solid trouncing. Wonder if he's just as ready to kiss and make up with them? My guess; yes, except for Phox.

All I know is that I have a headache because of my ear (clinic was closed due to 3 whooping cough patients inside), and I need to give my bad day to someone.  So I hope Holist comes back.

Quote from: holist on September 17, 2012, 10:33:46 AM
Not your neck of the woods, clearly.

True. All the people I've met in my state who are into things like homeopathy are hippie types who have the saving grace of not being racists.

Nigel: If you can't bump, please link.  :lol:

This is where the fun begins:

http://www.principiadiscordia.com/forum/index.php/topic,31353.75.html

Some stuff from another thread is dragged in; for a good time, go to Holist's profile and click "read posts".

Quote from: A Very Hairy Monkey In An Ill-Fitting Tunic on September 17, 2012, 05:42:24 PM
Having re-read that thread, it's fascinating... simply FASCINATING... that he retains hostility towards me but is positively conciliatory towards you, despite the fact that you were much more, ah, Roger hyperbolically confrontational in that thread than I was. What could make the difference? Hmmmm... I feel like I've seen this effect before. Somewhere.

I am glad you clarified that. Fidel Castro/Roger, somehow I ended up thinking that Doktor Howl was a different person. But if you are indeed The Good Reverend Roger of Welsh Prankster Cavepainters fame, it's fuck off to you, too.

Apart from that, ha bloody ha.

Away, me hearties!

Quote from: holist on September 17, 2012, 06:11:32 PM

Quote from: A Very Hairy Monkey In An Ill-Fitting Tunic on September 17, 2012, 05:42:24 PM
Having re-read that thread, it's fascinating... simply FASCINATING... that he retains hostility towards me but is positively conciliatory towards you, despite the fact that you were much more, ah, Roger hyperbolically confrontational in that thread than I was. What could make the difference? Hmmmm... I feel like I've seen this effect before. Somewhere.

I am glad you clarified that. Fidel Castro/Roger, somehow I ended up thinking that Doktor Howl was a different person. But if you are indeed The Good Reverend Roger of Welsh Prankster Cavepainters fame, it's fuck off to you, too.

Apart from that, ha bloody ha.

Away, me hearties!

Since it sounds like you still hate us for pointing out that you said stupid things, why are you here, anyway?

Quote from: holist on September 17, 2012, 06:11:32 PM

Quote from: A Very Hairy Monkey In An Ill-Fitting Tunic on September 17, 2012, 05:42:24 PM
Having re-read that thread, it's fascinating... simply FASCINATING... that he retains hostility towards me but is positively conciliatory towards you, despite the fact that you were much more, ah, Roger hyperbolically confrontational in that thread than I was. What could make the difference? Hmmmm... I feel like I've seen this effect before. Somewhere.

I am glad you clarified that. Fidel Castro/Roger, somehow I ended up thinking that Doktor Howl was a different person. But if you are indeed The Good Reverend Roger of Welsh Prankster Cavepainters fame, it's fuck off to you, too.

Apart from that, ha bloody ha.

Away, me hearties!

Also, he specifically clarified that he is TGRR/Dok Howl when you asked him, after which you proceeded to get conciliatory. Why are you backpedaling now?

(http://www.jocys.com/Images/HomeopathicVodka.jpg)

Quote from: A Very Hairy Monkey In An Ill-Fitting Tunic on September 17, 2012, 06:16:19 PM
Also, he specifically clarified that he is TGRR/Dok Howl when you asked him, after which you proceeded to get conciliatory. Why are you backpedaling now?

You need to try to imagine that I haven't been here in six months. With daily use, I guess remembering all the acronyms and tracking all the name changes becomes second nature. I made a mistake. I still seem to recall that back then, The Good Reverend Roger and Doktor Howl were two different nicks, perhaps used by the same person? Or I could just be wrong. A great deal has happened to me since then.

Also, I don't get the distinction between "backpedaling" and "admitting you were wrong", as those terms are used here. The first seems reprehensible, the latter is commendable... is there any other difference, or are they just assigned at will?

Quote from: holist on September 17, 2012, 06:11:32 PM

Quote from: A Very Hairy Monkey In An Ill-Fitting Tunic on September 17, 2012, 05:42:24 PM
Having re-read that thread, it's fascinating... simply FASCINATING... that he retains hostility towards me but is positively conciliatory towards you, despite the fact that you were much more, ah, Roger hyperbolically confrontational in that thread than I was. What could make the difference? Hmmmm... I feel like I've seen this effect before. Somewhere.

I am glad you clarified that. Fidel Castro/Roger, somehow I ended up thinking that Doktor Howl was a different person. But if you are indeed The Good Reverend Roger of Welsh Prankster Cavepainters fame, it's fuck off to you, too.

Apart from that, ha bloody ha.

Away, me hearties!

No, but now I wish I was.

Quote from: holist on September 17, 2012, 06:22:22 PM

Quote from: A Very Hairy Monkey In An Ill-Fitting Tunic on September 17, 2012, 06:16:19 PM
Also, he specifically clarified that he is TGRR/Dok Howl when you asked him, after which you proceeded to get conciliatory. Why are you backpedaling now?

You need to try to imagine that I haven't been here in six months. With daily use, I guess remembering all the acronyms and tracking all the name changes becomes second nature. I made a mistake. I still seem to recall that back then, The Good Reverend Roger and Doktor Howl were two different nicks, perhaps used by the same person? Or I could just be wrong. A great deal has happened to me since then.

Also, I don't get the distinction between "backpedaling" and "admitting you were wrong", as those terms are used here. The first seems reprehensible, the latter is commendable... is there any other difference, or are they just assigned at will?

Sure there's a difference.  Admitting you were wrong means you admit you were wrong.  Backpedaling is modifying the argument to avoid admitting you were wrong.

Now tell me, Holist...Why is it that you bear no ill will to the MALES on this board that gave you a harder time than Nigel did?  You know, ECH or me, for example?

Quote from: A Very Hairy Monkey In An Ill-Fitting Tunic on September 17, 2012, 06:09:06 PM
This is where the fun begins:

http://www.principiadiscordia.com/forum/index.php/topic,31353.75.html

Some stuff from another thread is dragged in; for a good time, go to Holist's profile and click "read posts".

WHAT. THE. FUCK.

Quote from: assholisti do think that the ability to write stories (i'm not sure about oral tradition) requires a robust, individual sense of self

i don't think living in a monocultural, tribal environment does, to anywhere near the same level

Here comes the ape analogy:

Quote from: some dickhead
i am saying that chimps are less individual, and so there must have been a point at which people became more individual

And hence the polar bear avvie:

Quote from: Some angry white fuckplease, don't start on that one, it's just not on

most bears are brown, us whities are in a shrinking, melting minority

Racist but new age. Libertard?

Quote from: Fidel Castro on September 17, 2012, 06:25:40 PM

Quote from: holist on September 17, 2012, 06:22:22 PM

Quote from: A Very Hairy Monkey In An Ill-Fitting Tunic on September 17, 2012, 06:16:19 PM
Also, he specifically clarified that he is TGRR/Dok Howl when you asked him, after which you proceeded to get conciliatory. Why are you backpedaling now?

You need to try to imagine that I haven't been here in six months. With daily use, I guess remembering all the acronyms and tracking all the name changes becomes second nature. I made a mistake. I still seem to recall that back then, The Good Reverend Roger and Doktor Howl were two different nicks, perhaps used by the same person? Or I could just be wrong. A great deal has happened to me since then.

Also, I don't get the distinction between "backpedaling" and "admitting you were wrong", as those terms are used here. The first seems reprehensible, the latter is commendable... is there any other difference, or are they just assigned at will?

Sure there's a difference.  Admitting you were wrong means you admit you were wrong.  Backpedaling is modifying the argument to avoid admitting you were wrong.

Now tell me, Holist...Why is it that you bear no ill will to the MALES on this board that gave you a harder time than Nigel did?  You know, ECH or me, for example?

He knows he can't beat you guys but he figures we're "inferior". You know, like Those People.
The Snakeman strategy.

Quote from: TEXAS FAIRIES FOR ALL YOU SPAGS on September 17, 2012, 06:40:33 PM

Quote from: Fidel Castro on September 17, 2012, 06:25:40 PM

Quote from: holist on September 17, 2012, 06:22:22 PM

Quote from: A Very Hairy Monkey In An Ill-Fitting Tunic on September 17, 2012, 06:16:19 PM
Also, he specifically clarified that he is TGRR/Dok Howl when you asked him, after which you proceeded to get conciliatory. Why are you backpedaling now?

You need to try to imagine that I haven't been here in six months. With daily use, I guess remembering all the acronyms and tracking all the name changes becomes second nature. I made a mistake. I still seem to recall that back then, The Good Reverend Roger and Doktor Howl were two different nicks, perhaps used by the same person? Or I could just be wrong. A great deal has happened to me since then.

Also, I don't get the distinction between "backpedaling" and "admitting you were wrong", as those terms are used here. The first seems reprehensible, the latter is commendable... is there any other difference, or are they just assigned at will?

Sure there's a difference.  Admitting you were wrong means you admit you were wrong.  Backpedaling is modifying the argument to avoid admitting you were wrong.

Now tell me, Holist...Why is it that you bear no ill will to the MALES on this board that gave you a harder time than Nigel did?  You know, ECH or me, for example?

He knows he can't beat you guys but he figures we're "inferior". You know, like Those People.
The Snakeman strategy.

Then perhaps it's time that Holist met the fearsome ARIZONA COCKROACH!

Quote from: Fidel Castro on September 17, 2012, 06:25:40 PM
Sure there's a difference.  Admitting you were wrong means you admit you were wrong.  Backpedaling is modifying the argument to avoid admitting you were wrong.

I admitted I was wrong: I thought (mistakenly) you were Doktor Howl, who, I thought (perhaps mistakenly? this is still not clear) was someone different from The Good Reverend Roger. I now realise that you, currently Fidel Castro, were The Good Reverend Roger at that time.

Quote from: Fidel Castro on September 17, 2012, 06:25:40 PM
Now tell me, Holist...Why is it that you bear no ill will to the MALES on this board that gave you a harder time than Nigel did?  You know, ECH or me, for example?

I bear no ill will to anyone here presently. But, as I said, I have been re-reading that thread, too, and I couldn't help but notice that Nigel called me an undereducated idiot, a first-rate piece of shit, special needs, and a number of other, similarly insulting things (my gravest insult was calling her a bit daft and pointing out that she is easily led by people she defers to). As a result, as I said, I don't like her and I don't trust her. Neither do I like or trust you, though I actually think you did not "give me a harder time" than Nigel did (if "giving a harder time" is roughly being pointlessly hostile in an apparently entirely sincere manner and failing to actually consider what I say once the appropriate buttons are pressed). You gave me about as hard a time as she did. But, on the plus side, you were frequently funny and also, insult and ranting seemed to be a matter of idiom with you. And ECH did not give me a  hard time at all. He got in a bit of a tiff with my mate Subsymbolic.

Quote from: TEXAS FAIRIES FOR ALL YOU SPAGS on September 17, 2012, 06:40:33 PM
He knows he can't beat you guys but he figures we're "inferior". You know, like Those People.
The Snakeman strategy.

I am not familiar with the Snakeman strategy. But I don't think any of you are inferior. I do think you have some strange passtimes, but, more importantly, I also think there is a communication problem here, and I want to see if I can deal with it.

Quote from: holist on September 17, 2012, 06:56:22 PM
I admitted I was wrong: I thought (mistakenly) you were Doktor Howl, who, I thought (perhaps mistakenly? this is still not clear) was someone different from The Good Reverend Roger. I now realise that you, currently Fidel Castro, were The Good Reverend Roger at that time.

AND Doktor Howl.

Quote from: holist on September 17, 2012, 06:56:22 PM
I bear no ill will to anyone here presently. But, as I said, I have been re-reading that thread, too, and I couldn't help but notice that Nigel called me an undereducated idiot, a first-rate piece of shit, special needs, and a number of other, similarly insulting things (my gravest insult was calling her a bit daft and pointing out that she is easily led by people she defers to).

:lulz: :lulz: :lulz:

Quote from: holist on September 17, 2012, 06:56:22 PM
As a result, as I said, I don't like her and I don't trust her.

Which, in MY book, equals "ill will".

Quote from: holist on September 17, 2012, 06:56:22 PM
Neither do I like or trust you, though I actually think you did not "give me a harder time" than Nigel did (if "giving a harder time" is roughly being pointlessly hostile in an apparently entirely sincere manner and failing to actually consider what I say once the appropriate buttons are pressed). You gave me about as hard a time as she did. But, on the plus side, you were frequently funny and also, insult and ranting seemed to be a matter of idiom with you. And ECH did not give me a  hard time at all. He got in a bit of a tiff with my mate Subsymbolic.

Just because I'm laughing doesn't mean I'm not serious.

Quote from: holist on September 17, 2012, 07:00:20 PM

Quote from: TEXAS FAIRIES FOR ALL YOU SPAGS on September 17, 2012, 06:40:33 PM
He knows he can't beat you guys but he figures we're "inferior". You know, like Those People.
The Snakeman strategy.

I am not familiar with the Snakeman strategy. But I don't think any of you are inferior. I do think you have some strange passtimes, but, more importantly, I also think there is a communication problem here, and I want to see if I can deal with it.

The problem is that we communicated.

You are a homeopath freak, and we are mostly rationalists.  There's no happy ending to that.

Quote from: Fidel Castro on September 17, 2012, 07:04:31 PM

Quote from: holist on September 17, 2012, 06:56:22 PM
As a result, as I said, I don't like her and I don't trust her.

Which, in MY book, equals "ill will".

Oh does it? I though ill will meant wishing to harm, or to attack, hating, etc.

In that case, ill will it is.

Quote from: Fidel Castro on September 17, 2012, 07:05:25 PM
You are a homeopath freak, and we are mostly rationalists.  There's no happy ending to that.

That's not rational. And very pessimistic.

Quote from: holist on September 17, 2012, 07:23:26 PM

Quote from: Fidel Castro on September 17, 2012, 07:05:25 PM
You are a homeopath freak, and we are mostly rationalists.  There's no happy ending to that.

That's not rational. And very pessimistic.

Homeopathy is bogus and nothing you think you know about it will change the fact that it is bogus.

Furthermore, your failure to recognize that it is bogus means you are likely to espouse other bullshit which we have no intention of considering. The likelihood of you saying something valuable in any discussion is fatally diminished by the fact that you think homeopathy is something other than outright nonsense. Therefore it is the judgment of this board that you are not a fully functioning human person for the purposes of discussion.

Also, if you backpedal away from your belief in homeopathy (or try to say "well I don't BELIEVE it exactly, I just think there might be blah blah blah"), we will immediately assume it means you are trying to please us. So please give up before somebody has to resort to drawing pictures of you.

Quote from: v3x on September 17, 2012, 07:31:07 PM

Quote from: holist on September 17, 2012, 07:23:26 PM

Quote from: Fidel Castro on September 17, 2012, 07:05:25 PM
You are a homeopath freak, and we are mostly rationalists.  There's no happy ending to that.

That's not rational. And very pessimistic.

Homeopathy is bogus and nothing you think you know about it will change the fact that it is bogus.

Furthermore, your failure to recognize that it is bogus means you are likely to espouse other bullshit which we have no intention of considering. The likelihood of you saying something valuable in any discussion is fatally diminished by the fact that you think homeopathy is something other than outright nonsense. Therefore it is the judgment of this board that you are not a fully functioning human person for the purposes of discussion.

Also, if you backpedal away from your belief in homeopathy (or try to say "well I don't BELIEVE it exactly, I just think there might be blah blah blah"), we will immediately assume it means you are trying to please us. So please give up before somebody has to resort to drawing pictures of you.

TOO LATE.

:notnice:

Quote from: Fidel Castro on September 17, 2012, 06:25:40 PM

Quote from: holist on September 17, 2012, 06:22:22 PM

Quote from: A Very Hairy Monkey In An Ill-Fitting Tunic on September 17, 2012, 06:16:19 PM
Also, he specifically clarified that he is TGRR/Dok Howl when you asked him, after which you proceeded to get conciliatory. Why are you backpedaling now?

You need to try to imagine that I haven't been here in six months. With daily use, I guess remembering all the acronyms and tracking all the name changes becomes second nature. I made a mistake. I still seem to recall that back then, The Good Reverend Roger and Doktor Howl were two different nicks, perhaps used by the same person? Or I could just be wrong. A great deal has happened to me since then.

Also, I don't get the distinction between "backpedaling" and "admitting you were wrong", as those terms are used here. The first seems reprehensible, the latter is commendable... is there any other difference, or are they just assigned at will?

Sure there's a difference.  Admitting you were wrong means you admit you were wrong.  Backpedaling is modifying the argument to avoid admitting you were wrong.

Now tell me, Holist...Why is it that you bear no ill will to the MALES on this board that gave you a harder time than Nigel did?  You know, ECH or me, for example?

This.

Quote from: TEXAS FAIRIES FOR ALL YOU SPAGS on September 17, 2012, 06:40:33 PM

Quote from: Fidel Castro on September 17, 2012, 06:25:40 PM

Quote from: holist on September 17, 2012, 06:22:22 PM

Quote from: A Very Hairy Monkey In An Ill-Fitting Tunic on September 17, 2012, 06:16:19 PM
Also, he specifically clarified that he is TGRR/Dok Howl when you asked him, after which you proceeded to get conciliatory. Why are you backpedaling now?

You need to try to imagine that I haven't been here in six months. With daily use, I guess remembering all the acronyms and tracking all the name changes becomes second nature. I made a mistake. I still seem to recall that back then, The Good Reverend Roger and Doktor Howl were two different nicks, perhaps used by the same person? Or I could just be wrong. A great deal has happened to me since then.

Also, I don't get the distinction between "backpedaling" and "admitting you were wrong", as those terms are used here. The first seems reprehensible, the latter is commendable... is there any other difference, or are they just assigned at will?

Sure there's a difference.  Admitting you were wrong means you admit you were wrong.  Backpedaling is modifying the argument to avoid admitting you were wrong.

Now tell me, Holist...Why is it that you bear no ill will to the MALES on this board that gave you a harder time than Nigel did?  You know, ECH or me, for example?

He knows he can't beat you guys but he figures we're "inferior". You know, like Those People.
The Snakeman strategy.

He doesn't have to answer our questions or reply to our arguments because we're Not Being Nice. Not LADYLIKE.

Quote from: holist on September 17, 2012, 07:23:26 PM

Quote from: Fidel Castro on September 17, 2012, 07:05:25 PM
You are a homeopath freak, and we are mostly rationalists.  There's no happy ending to that.

That's not rational. And very pessimistic.

That's rational as hell.  You are a superstituous freak, and there's really nothing to be gained from you except bad signal.  So it's more "realism".

Quote from: holist on September 17, 2012, 06:56:22 PM

Quote from: Fidel Castro on September 17, 2012, 06:25:40 PM
Sure there's a difference.  Admitting you were wrong means you admit you were wrong.  Backpedaling is modifying the argument to avoid admitting you were wrong.

I admitted I was wrong: I thought (mistakenly) you were Doktor Howl, who, I thought (perhaps mistakenly? this is still not clear) was someone different from The Good Reverend Roger. I now realise that you, currently Fidel Castro, were The Good Reverend Roger at that time.

Quote from: Fidel Castro on September 17, 2012, 06:25:40 PM
Now tell me, Holist...Why is it that you bear no ill will to the MALES on this board that gave you a harder time than Nigel did?  You know, ECH or me, for example?

I bear no ill will to anyone here presently. But, as I said, I have been re-reading that thread, too, and I couldn't help but notice that Nigel called me an undereducated idiot, a first-rate piece of shit, special needs, and a number of other, similarly insulting things (my gravest insult was calling her a bit daft and pointing out that she is easily led by people she defers to). As a result, as I said, I don't like her and I don't trust her. Neither do I like or trust you, though I actually think you did not "give me a harder time" than Nigel did (if "giving a harder time" is roughly being pointlessly hostile in an apparently entirely sincere manner and failing to actually consider what I say once the appropriate buttons are pressed). You gave me about as hard a time as she did. But, on the plus side, you were frequently funny and also, insult and ranting seemed to be a matter of idiom with you. And ECH did not give me a  hard time at all. He got in a bit of a tiff with my mate Subsymbolic.

Your mistake, ASSFUCK, is the completely mistaken assumption that I defer to anyone.

But of course you assumed that I must defer... after all, I'm a woman.  :lulz:

Quote from: A Very Hairy Monkey In An Ill-Fitting Tunic on September 17, 2012, 07:40:45 PM

Quote from: holist on September 17, 2012, 06:56:22 PM

Quote from: Fidel Castro on September 17, 2012, 06:25:40 PM
Sure there's a difference.  Admitting you were wrong means you admit you were wrong.  Backpedaling is modifying the argument to avoid admitting you were wrong.

I admitted I was wrong: I thought (mistakenly) you were Doktor Howl, who, I thought (perhaps mistakenly? this is still not clear) was someone different from The Good Reverend Roger. I now realise that you, currently Fidel Castro, were The Good Reverend Roger at that time.

Quote from: Fidel Castro on September 17, 2012, 06:25:40 PM
Now tell me, Holist...Why is it that you bear no ill will to the MALES on this board that gave you a harder time than Nigel did?  You know, ECH or me, for example?

I bear no ill will to anyone here presently. But, as I said, I have been re-reading that thread, too, and I couldn't help but notice that Nigel called me an undereducated idiot, a first-rate piece of shit, special needs, and a number of other, similarly insulting things (my gravest insult was calling her a bit daft and pointing out that she is easily led by people she defers to). As a result, as I said, I don't like her and I don't trust her. Neither do I like or trust you, though I actually think you did not "give me a harder time" than Nigel did (if "giving a harder time" is roughly being pointlessly hostile in an apparently entirely sincere manner and failing to actually consider what I say once the appropriate buttons are pressed). You gave me about as hard a time as she did. But, on the plus side, you were frequently funny and also, insult and ranting seemed to be a matter of idiom with you. And ECH did not give me a  hard time at all. He got in a bit of a tiff with my mate Subsymbolic.

Your mistake, ASSFUCK, is the completely mistaken assumption that I defer to anyone.

But of course you assumed that I must defer... after all, I'm a woman.  :lulz:

Nigel wins the interbutts.

Also, whenever anyone works their beliefs into their screen name, you know it's going to be hilarious.

Quote from: Fidel Castro on September 17, 2012, 07:41:41 PM

Quote from: A Very Hairy Monkey In An Ill-Fitting Tunic on September 17, 2012, 07:40:45 PM

Quote from: holist on September 17, 2012, 06:56:22 PM

Quote from: Fidel Castro on September 17, 2012, 06:25:40 PM
Sure there's a difference.  Admitting you were wrong means you admit you were wrong.  Backpedaling is modifying the argument to avoid admitting you were wrong.

I admitted I was wrong: I thought (mistakenly) you were Doktor Howl, who, I thought (perhaps mistakenly? this is still not clear) was someone different from The Good Reverend Roger. I now realise that you, currently Fidel Castro, were The Good Reverend Roger at that time.

Quote from: Fidel Castro on September 17, 2012, 06:25:40 PM
Now tell me, Holist...Why is it that you bear no ill will to the MALES on this board that gave you a harder time than Nigel did?  You know, ECH or me, for example?

I bear no ill will to anyone here presently. But, as I said, I have been re-reading that thread, too, and I couldn't help but notice that Nigel called me an undereducated idiot, a first-rate piece of shit, special needs, and a number of other, similarly insulting things (my gravest insult was calling her a bit daft and pointing out that she is easily led by people she defers to). As a result, as I said, I don't like her and I don't trust her. Neither do I like or trust you, though I actually think you did not "give me a harder time" than Nigel did (if "giving a harder time" is roughly being pointlessly hostile in an apparently entirely sincere manner and failing to actually consider what I say once the appropriate buttons are pressed). You gave me about as hard a time as she did. But, on the plus side, you were frequently funny and also, insult and ranting seemed to be a matter of idiom with you. And ECH did not give me a  hard time at all. He got in a bit of a tiff with my mate Subsymbolic.

Your mistake, ASSFUCK, is the completely mistaken assumption that I defer to anyone.

But of course you assumed that I must defer... after all, I'm a woman.  :lulz:

Nigel wins the interbutts.

Also, whenever anyone works their beliefs into their screen name, you know it's going to be hilarious.

The only thing missing is "wolf".  :lulz:

Quote from: Fidel Castro on September 17, 2012, 07:41:41 PM

Quote from: A Very Hairy Monkey In An Ill-Fitting Tunic on September 17, 2012, 07:40:45 PM

Quote from: holist on September 17, 2012, 06:56:22 PM

Quote from: Fidel Castro on September 17, 2012, 06:25:40 PM
Sure there's a difference.  Admitting you were wrong means you admit you were wrong.  Backpedaling is modifying the argument to avoid admitting you were wrong.

I admitted I was wrong: I thought (mistakenly) you were Doktor Howl, who, I thought (perhaps mistakenly? this is still not clear) was someone different from The Good Reverend Roger. I now realise that you, currently Fidel Castro, were The Good Reverend Roger at that time.

Quote from: Fidel Castro on September 17, 2012, 06:25:40 PM
Now tell me, Holist...Why is it that you bear no ill will to the MALES on this board that gave you a harder time than Nigel did?  You know, ECH or me, for example?

I bear no ill will to anyone here presently. But, as I said, I have been re-reading that thread, too, and I couldn't help but notice that Nigel called me an undereducated idiot, a first-rate piece of shit, special needs, and a number of other, similarly insulting things (my gravest insult was calling her a bit daft and pointing out that she is easily led by people she defers to). As a result, as I said, I don't like her and I don't trust her. Neither do I like or trust you, though I actually think you did not "give me a harder time" than Nigel did (if "giving a harder time" is roughly being pointlessly hostile in an apparently entirely sincere manner and failing to actually consider what I say once the appropriate buttons are pressed). You gave me about as hard a time as she did. But, on the plus side, you were frequently funny and also, insult and ranting seemed to be a matter of idiom with you. And ECH did not give me a  hard time at all. He got in a bit of a tiff with my mate Subsymbolic.

Your mistake, ASSFUCK, is the completely mistaken assumption that I defer to anyone.

But of course you assumed that I must defer... after all, I'm a woman.  :lulz:

Nigel wins the interbutts.

Also, whenever anyone works their beliefs into their screen name, you know it's going to be hilarious.

True story. It's right up there with "wolf" as a predictor.

Quote from: TEXAS FAIRIES FOR ALL YOU SPAGS on September 17, 2012, 07:43:04 PM

Quote from: Fidel Castro on September 17, 2012, 07:41:41 PM

Quote from: A Very Hairy Monkey In An Ill-Fitting Tunic on September 17, 2012, 07:40:45 PM

Quote from: holist on September 17, 2012, 06:56:22 PM

Quote from: Fidel Castro on September 17, 2012, 06:25:40 PM
Sure there's a difference.  Admitting you were wrong means you admit you were wrong.  Backpedaling is modifying the argument to avoid admitting you were wrong.

I admitted I was wrong: I thought (mistakenly) you were Doktor Howl, who, I thought (perhaps mistakenly? this is still not clear) was someone different from The Good Reverend Roger. I now realise that you, currently Fidel Castro, were The Good Reverend Roger at that time.

Quote from: Fidel Castro on September 17, 2012, 06:25:40 PM
Now tell me, Holist...Why is it that you bear no ill will to the MALES on this board that gave you a harder time than Nigel did?  You know, ECH or me, for example?

I bear no ill will to anyone here presently. But, as I said, I have been re-reading that thread, too, and I couldn't help but notice that Nigel called me an undereducated idiot, a first-rate piece of shit, special needs, and a number of other, similarly insulting things (my gravest insult was calling her a bit daft and pointing out that she is easily led by people she defers to). As a result, as I said, I don't like her and I don't trust her. Neither do I like or trust you, though I actually think you did not "give me a harder time" than Nigel did (if "giving a harder time" is roughly being pointlessly hostile in an apparently entirely sincere manner and failing to actually consider what I say once the appropriate buttons are pressed). You gave me about as hard a time as she did. But, on the plus side, you were frequently funny and also, insult and ranting seemed to be a matter of idiom with you. And ECH did not give me a  hard time at all. He got in a bit of a tiff with my mate Subsymbolic.

Your mistake, ASSFUCK, is the completely mistaken assumption that I defer to anyone.

But of course you assumed that I must defer... after all, I'm a woman.  :lulz:

Nigel wins the interbutts.

Also, whenever anyone works their beliefs into their screen name, you know it's going to be hilarious.

The only thing missing is "wolf".  :lulz:

GREAT MINDS

:awesome:

:lulz:

Great minds.

:lulz:

AGAIN!   :lulz:

 :lulz: :lulz: :lulz:

Quote from: v3x on September 17, 2012, 07:31:07 PM
Homeopathy is bogus and nothing you think you know about it will change the fact that it is bogus.

That, I guess, is a very firm opinion.

Quote from: v3x on September 17, 2012, 07:31:07 PM
Furthermore, your failure to recognize that it is bogus means you are likely to espouse other bullshit which we have no intention of considering. The likelihood of you saying something valuable in any discussion is fatally diminished by the fact that you think homeopathy is something other than outright nonsense. Therefore it is the judgment of this board that you are not a fully functioning human person for the purposes of discussion.

A spokesperson for the board. Fair enough. Previously, I was led to believe that none such existed. Pity I could not consult you before.

Quote from: v3x on September 17, 2012, 07:31:07 PM
Also, if you backpedal away from your belief in homeopathy (or try to say "well I don't BELIEVE it exactly, I just think there might be blah blah blah"), we will immediately assume it means you are trying to please us. So please give up before somebody has to resort to drawing pictures of you.

Misrepresentation, I cry, though only because I like to hear my own voice.

Alty drew pictures of me about eight months ago...

Quote from: Fidel Castro on September 17, 2012, 07:45:00 PM
AGAIN!   :lulz:

THIS SHIT IS GETTING META!

Quote

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:awesome:

:awesome:

:awesome:

Quote from: holist on September 17, 2012, 08:08:33 PM

Quote from: v3x on September 17, 2012, 07:31:07 PM
Homeopathy is bogus and nothing you think you know about it will change the fact that it is bogus.

That, I guess, is a very firm opinion.

No. That's fact.

WHY THE FUCK ARE YOU BITCHES NOT IN THE KITCHEN MAKING ME FOOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I propose that Holist check out some of the patriarchy threads... I think he would really enjoy them, and have some substantial insights to share.

Quote from: A Very Hairy Monkey In An Ill-Fitting Tunic on September 17, 2012, 07:44:17 PM
But of course you assumed that I must defer... after all, I'm a woman.  :lulz:

Well, no... I assumed you deferred because... you deferred.

Quote from: Guru Qu1x073 on September 17, 2012, 08:09:58 PM
WHY THE FUCK ARE YOU BITCHES NOT IN THE KITCHEN MAKING ME FOOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

HOLD UP

I'M TOO BUSY WATCHING MY SOAPS AND EATING BON-BONS

WHAT THE FUCK IS A BON-BON, ANYWAY?

Quote from: holist on September 17, 2012, 08:12:31 PM

Quote from: A Very Hairy Monkey In An Ill-Fitting Tunic on September 17, 2012, 07:44:17 PM
But of course you assumed that I must defer... after all, I'm a woman.  :lulz:

Well, no... I assumed you deferred because... you deferred.

Link please.

Quote from: holist on September 17, 2012, 08:08:33 PM

Quote from: v3x on September 17, 2012, 07:31:07 PM
Homeopathy is bogus and nothing you think you know about it will change the fact that it is bogus.

That, I guess, is a very firm opinion.

It's a statement of fact, which anyone who has ever taken a chemistry class can tell you.

I do defer, when someone else is right and I am wrong. But that's what any bipedal human being does when they are wrong and someone else is right. It's how we learn. But I don't have any particular masters to whom I defer, as you so repulsively implied.

Quote from: A Very Hairy Monkey In An Ill-Fitting Tunic on September 17, 2012, 08:12:38 PM

Quote from: Guru Qu1x073 on September 17, 2012, 08:09:58 PM
WHY THE FUCK ARE YOU BITCHES NOT IN THE KITCHEN MAKING ME FOOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

HOLD UP

I'M TOO BUSY WATCHING MY SOAPS AND EATING BON-BONS

WHAT THE FUCK IS A BON-BON, ANYWAY?

IT'S CANDY THAT LAZY BITCHES EAT WHEN THEY SHOULD MAKING ME FUCKING DINNER INSTEAD OF GETTING FAT AND WASTING ELECTRICITY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Quote from: A Very Hairy Monkey In An Ill-Fitting Tunic on September 17, 2012, 08:12:58 PM

Quote from: holist on September 17, 2012, 08:12:31 PM

Quote from: A Very Hairy Monkey In An Ill-Fitting Tunic on September 17, 2012, 07:44:17 PM
But of course you assumed that I must defer... after all, I'm a woman.  :lulz:

Well, no... I assumed you deferred because... you deferred.

Link please.

I think you remember it... when you said you would never again go against Roger's judgment of character and you wished you hadn't stood up for me? It is in that thread on music. It's 32 pages long and sadly I have not figured out how to search an entire topic.

Quote from: holist on September 17, 2012, 08:16:41 PM

Quote from: A Very Hairy Monkey In An Ill-Fitting Tunic on September 17, 2012, 08:12:58 PM

Quote from: holist on September 17, 2012, 08:12:31 PM

Quote from: A Very Hairy Monkey In An Ill-Fitting Tunic on September 17, 2012, 07:44:17 PM
But of course you assumed that I must defer... after all, I'm a woman.  :lulz:

Well, no... I assumed you deferred because... you deferred.

Link please.

I think you remember it... when you said you would never again go against Roger's judgment of character and you wished you hadn't stood up for me? It is in that thread on music. It's 32 pages long and sadly I have not figured out how to search an entire topic.

Hyperbole...It's what's for dinner.

Well, some water that had some hyperbole in it at one time, anyway.

Nigel: "Your mistake, ASSFUCK, is the completely mistaken assumption that I defer to anyone."

Nigel, a few minutes later: "I do defer, when someone else is right and I am wrong."

That's NOT backpedalling then, is it...

There was also a slur about how funny I was to try to argue words with a linguist (Phox) or biology with a biologist (Kai).

Quote from: holist on September 17, 2012, 08:21:27 PM
Nigel: "Your mistake, ASSFUCK, is the completely mistaken assumption that I defer to anyone."

Nigel, a few minutes later: "I do defer, when someone else is right and I am wrong."

That's NOT backpedalling then, is it...

There was also a slur about how funny I was to try to argue words with a linguist (Phox) or biology with a biologist (Kai).

You're using the term in two different ways.

You implied that she took orders from someone.

She stated that she admits when she's wrong.

But you knew that.  So in addition to being a big bag of woo, you're also dishonest.

Quote from: Fidel Castro on September 17, 2012, 08:19:43 PM
Hyperbole...It's what's for dinner.

Well, some water that had some hyperbole in it at one time, anyway.

Alway the charitable interpretation for yer own, right?

Quote from: Fidel Castro on September 17, 2012, 08:22:57 PM
You implied that she took orders from someone.

I did not. In the least.

Quote from: holist on September 17, 2012, 08:24:10 PM

Quote from: Fidel Castro on September 17, 2012, 08:19:43 PM
Hyperbole...It's what's for dinner.

Well, some water that had some hyperbole in it at one time, anyway.

Alway the charitable interpretation for yer own, right?

Obviously.  I know her well, and in fact she and I just had one of our horrible blow-out arguments that lasted a week or so.  You don't know her from shit, but you talk like you have a complete understanding of the way she thinks.

And what do we know about you?  You're full of bad signal, and when you get pissed off, you take it out on female posters.

There's a bunch of squick in there, Holist.

Quote from: holist on September 17, 2012, 08:25:23 PM

Quote from: Fidel Castro on September 17, 2012, 08:22:57 PM
You implied that she took orders from someone.

I did not. In the least.

You sure as fuck did.

Quote from: holist on September 17, 2012, 08:12:31 PM

Quote from: A Very Hairy Monkey In An Ill-Fitting Tunic on September 17, 2012, 07:44:17 PM
But of course you assumed that I must defer... after all, I'm a woman.  :lulz:

Well, no... I assumed you deferred because... you deferred.

Not because she was wrong, but because...She deferred.  IE, taking orders.

Nicely done, asshole.

This thread makes me feel like the Terrorists are winning.

Quote from: Fidel Castro on September 17, 2012, 08:29:33 PM
Not because she was wrong, but because...She deferred.  IE, taking orders.
Nicely done, asshole.

I was trying a joke there. She said my mistake was that I assumed that she deferred to anyone. I said I assumed it because she did defer.

I don't claim to know how Nigel's thinking works. However, the ten days between January 5th and 15th was an intense period for me, I wrote about 270 posts, much of it in conversation with Nigel (and others). I've yet to re-read the homeopathy thread. I was certainly not articulate enough in the music/individuality/sense-of-self thread, but I think I was being uncharitably interpreted and attacked at every opportunity. Particularly by you.

Quote from: holist on September 17, 2012, 08:41:15 PM

Quote from: Fidel Castro on September 17, 2012, 08:29:33 PM
Not because she was wrong, but because...She deferred.  IE, taking orders.
Nicely done, asshole.

I was trying a joke there. She said my mistake was that I assumed that she deferred to anyone. I said I assumed it because she did defer.

I don't claim to know how Nigel's thinking works. However, the ten days between January 5th and 15th was an intense period for me, I wrote about 270 posts, much of it in conversation with Nigel (and others). I've yet to re-read the homeopathy thread. I was certainly not articulate enough in the music/individuality/sense-of-self thread, but I think I was being uncharitably interpreted and attacked at every opportunity. Particularly by you.

Yeah, I'm a bit of a horrible fucking bastard.  I was pretty certain I'd made that plain from the beginning.

And why I did these things to YOU, is because you have a head full of bullshit.  Sometimes that can be knocked out with vigorous pounding, perhaps with a mallet.

Quote from: Fidel Castro on September 17, 2012, 08:44:24 PM

Quote from: holist on September 17, 2012, 08:41:15 PM

Quote from: Fidel Castro on September 17, 2012, 08:29:33 PM
Not because she was wrong, but because...She deferred.  IE, taking orders.
Nicely done, asshole.

I was trying a joke there. She said my mistake was that I assumed that she deferred to anyone. I said I assumed it because she did defer.

I don't claim to know how Nigel's thinking works. However, the ten days between January 5th and 15th was an intense period for me, I wrote about 270 posts, much of it in conversation with Nigel (and others). I've yet to re-read the homeopathy thread. I was certainly not articulate enough in the music/individuality/sense-of-self thread, but I think I was being uncharitably interpreted and attacked at every opportunity. Particularly by you.

Yeah, I'm a bit of a horrible fucking bastard.  I was pretty certain I'd made that plain from the beginning.

And why I did these things to YOU, is because you have a head full of bullshit.  Sometimes that can be knocked out with vigorous pounding, perhaps with a mallet.

The Good Reverend Gallagher?

Quote from: Fidel Castro on September 17, 2012, 08:13:55 PM

Quote from: holist on September 17, 2012, 08:08:33 PM

Quote from: v3x on September 17, 2012, 07:31:07 PM
Homeopathy is bogus and nothing you think you know about it will change the fact that it is bogus.

That, I guess, is a very firm opinion.

It's a statement of fact, which anyone who has ever taken a chemistry class can tell you.

I think chemistry can only say that if homeopathy were to be demonstrated to work (i.e. do better than the placebo effect in a suitable trial), then chemistry, or indeed science, as the (more or less) connected body of fact, knowledge and theorizing, does not have an explanation to offer.

Now I realise that you are firmly convinced that it has been conclusively demonstrated already that homeopathy does not work (i.e. do better than the placebo effect in a suitable trial). This is a view I disagreed with in detail in that old homeopathy thread. My argument was that most of the trials that have been conducted to test (in most cases, actually, to disprove or even discredit being the actual objectives of the researchers) homeopathy were not suitable trials because they misrepresented the homeopathic claim. I also pointed out the difficulties of applying double-blind randomised placebo-controlled tests (that holy grail of medical science) to homeopathy.

Quote from: Fidel Castro on September 17, 2012, 08:44:24 PM
Yeah, I'm a bit of a horrible fucking bastard.  I was pretty certain I'd made that plain from the beginning.

Yes, indeed you did make that plain from the beginning. Which is, I think, the reason I dislike you less than Nigel.

I've had a fairly deep think about the sexism thing. I think it's accidental. I wouldn't have acted differently and would feel the same way if Nigel and Phox were men.

Quote from: holist on September 17, 2012, 08:50:43 PM

Quote from: Fidel Castro on September 17, 2012, 08:13:55 PM

Quote from: holist on September 17, 2012, 08:08:33 PM

Quote from: v3x on September 17, 2012, 07:31:07 PM
Homeopathy is bogus and nothing you think you know about it will change the fact that it is bogus.

That, I guess, is a very firm opinion.

It's a statement of fact, which anyone who has ever taken a chemistry class can tell you.

I think chemistry can only say that if homeopathy were to be demonstrated to work (i.e. do better than the placebo effect in a suitable trial), then chemistry, or indeed science, as the (more or less) connected body of fact, knowledge and theorizing, does not have an explanation to offer.

Chemistry understands just fine how water molecules work.  They are not fucking magic, and they do not retain a "memory".  Your statement is just as nonsensical as me saying "Physics can't say I can't defy gravity under my own power, it can only admit it was wrong if I can."

Quote from: holist on September 17, 2012, 08:50:43 PM
Now I realise that you are firmly convinced that it has been conclusively demonstrated already that homeopathy does not work (i.e. do better than the placebo effect in a suitable trial). This is a view I disagreed with in detail in that old homeopathy thread. My argument was that most of the trials that have been conducted to test (in most cases, actually, to disprove or even discredit being the actual objectives of the researchers) homeopathy were not suitable trials because they misrepresented the homeopathic claim. I also pointed out the difficulties of applying double-blind randomised placebo-controlled tests (that holy grail of medical science) to homeopathy.

So it's not that homeopathy doesn't work, it's that the tests were unfair.   :lulz:

And if you can't do a double blind test, then your idea is absolute crap.  End of story.

Quote from: holist on September 17, 2012, 08:54:18 PM

Quote from: Fidel Castro on September 17, 2012, 08:44:24 PM
Yeah, I'm a bit of a horrible fucking bastard.  I was pretty certain I'd made that plain from the beginning.

Yes, indeed you did make that plain from the beginning. Which is, I think, the reason I dislike you less than Nigel.

I'll fix that.

Quote from: Fidel Castro on September 17, 2012, 08:19:43 PM

Quote from: holist on September 17, 2012, 08:16:41 PM

Quote from: A Very Hairy Monkey In An Ill-Fitting Tunic on September 17, 2012, 08:12:58 PM

Quote from: holist on September 17, 2012, 08:12:31 PM

Quote from: A Very Hairy Monkey In An Ill-Fitting Tunic on September 17, 2012, 07:44:17 PM
But of course you assumed that I must defer... after all, I'm a woman.  :lulz:

Well, no... I assumed you deferred because... you deferred.

Link please.

I think you remember it... when you said you would never again go against Roger's judgment of character and you wished you hadn't stood up for me? It is in that thread on music. It's 32 pages long and sadly I have not figured out how to search an entire topic.

Hyperbole...It's what's for dinner.

Well, some water that had some hyperbole in it at one time, anyway.

:lulz:

Idk why there's so much hate for Homeopathy, really. The world would be SO MUCH BETTER if people would just accept that it works! The concept is simple: where an excess of something causes a problem, a TEENY TINY BIT of it will fix that problem. This is why, if you have lung cancer, smoking an eCigarette will cure you. It also explains how fat people are made skinny by following the "one mini M&M per day and nothing else" diet.

Quote from: holist on September 17, 2012, 08:16:41 PM

Quote from: A Very Hairy Monkey In An Ill-Fitting Tunic on September 17, 2012, 08:12:58 PM

Quote from: holist on September 17, 2012, 08:12:31 PM

Quote from: A Very Hairy Monkey In An Ill-Fitting Tunic on September 17, 2012, 07:44:17 PM
But of course you assumed that I must defer... after all, I'm a woman.  :lulz:

Well, no... I assumed you deferred because... you deferred.

Link please.

I think you remember it... when you said you would never again go against Roger's judgment of character and you wished you hadn't stood up for me? It is in that thread on music. It's 32 pages long and sadly I have not figured out how to search an entire topic.

Why the hell would I remember it? I didn't remember that thread until you referenced it... for that matter, I barely remembered you.  :lol:

For the record, Roger and I have a running joke about his ability to judge character compared to mine. Not that you should be expected to know that, but that doesn't absolve you from being a complete and utter ass when you say that I'm "easily led" by the people that I "defer to", as if I have masters I look to for leadership.

You've said things here in the past that make you look bad, ranging from ridiculous to loathesome. I've pointed out those things and challenged them, and obviously you're packing a grudge for that. Join the club; maybe they'll give you a nametag.

Quote from: v3x on September 17, 2012, 08:46:52 PM

Quote from: Fidel Castro on September 17, 2012, 08:44:24 PM

Quote from: holist on September 17, 2012, 08:41:15 PM

Quote from: Fidel Castro on September 17, 2012, 08:29:33 PM
Not because she was wrong, but because...She deferred.  IE, taking orders.
Nicely done, asshole.

I was trying a joke there. She said my mistake was that I assumed that she deferred to anyone. I said I assumed it because she did defer.

I don't claim to know how Nigel's thinking works. However, the ten days between January 5th and 15th was an intense period for me, I wrote about 270 posts, much of it in conversation with Nigel (and others). I've yet to re-read the homeopathy thread. I was certainly not articulate enough in the music/individuality/sense-of-self thread, but I think I was being uncharitably interpreted and attacked at every opportunity. Particularly by you.

Yeah, I'm a bit of a horrible fucking bastard.  I was pretty certain I'd made that plain from the beginning.

And why I did these things to YOU, is because you have a head full of bullshit.  Sometimes that can be knocked out with vigorous pounding, perhaps with a mallet.

The Good Reverend Gallagher?

(http://i1141.photobucket.com/albums/n595/Luna0219/PeeDee/TGRG.jpg)

Quote from: Fidel Castro on September 17, 2012, 08:28:11 PM

Quote from: holist on September 17, 2012, 08:24:10 PM

Quote from: Fidel Castro on September 17, 2012, 08:19:43 PM
Hyperbole...It's what's for dinner.

Well, some water that had some hyperbole in it at one time, anyway.

Alway the charitable interpretation for yer own, right?

Obviously.  I know her well, and in fact she and I just had one of our horrible blow-out arguments that lasted a week or so.  You don't know her from shit, but you talk like you have a complete understanding of the way she thinks.

And what do we know about you?  You're full of bad signal, and when you get pissed off, you take it out on female posters.

There's a bunch of squick in there, Holist.

He does have that in common with BH.

Oh, and:

(http://imageshack.us/a/img853/3915/28257224108719592499128.jpg)

Quote from: holist on September 17, 2012, 08:25:23 PM

Quote from: Fidel Castro on September 17, 2012, 08:22:57 PM
You implied that she took orders from someone.

I did not. In the least.

Liar.

Quote from: holist on September 17, 2012, 06:56:22 PM
my gravest insult was calling her a bit daft and pointing out that she is easily led by people she defers to

Do you simply not understand what those words mean?

Quote from: A Very Hairy Monkey In An Ill-Fitting Tunic on September 17, 2012, 09:40:58 PM

Quote from: holist on September 17, 2012, 08:25:23 PM

Quote from: Fidel Castro on September 17, 2012, 08:22:57 PM
You implied that she took orders from someone.

I did not. In the least.

Liar.

Quote from: holist on September 17, 2012, 06:56:22 PM
my gravest insult was calling her a bit daft and pointing out that she is easily led by people she defers to

Do you simply not understand what those words mean?

Prediction:  Holist loses interest in this thread at this point.   :lulz:

Quote from: Fidel Castro on September 17, 2012, 09:43:46 PM

Quote from: A Very Hairy Monkey In An Ill-Fitting Tunic on September 17, 2012, 09:40:58 PM

Quote from: holist on September 17, 2012, 08:25:23 PM

Quote from: Fidel Castro on September 17, 2012, 08:22:57 PM
You implied that she took orders from someone.

I did not. In the least.

Liar.

Quote from: holist on September 17, 2012, 06:56:22 PM
my gravest insult was calling her a bit daft and pointing out that she is easily led by people she defers to

Do you simply not understand what those words mean?

Prediction:  Holist loses interest in this thread at this point.   :lulz:

Holist apparently also subscribes to "Holistic Education" and "Homeopathic Intelligence."

Quote from: v3x on September 17, 2012, 09:47:06 PM

Quote from: Fidel Castro on September 17, 2012, 09:43:46 PM

Quote from: A Very Hairy Monkey In An Ill-Fitting Tunic on September 17, 2012, 09:40:58 PM

Quote from: holist on September 17, 2012, 08:25:23 PM

Quote from: Fidel Castro on September 17, 2012, 08:22:57 PM
You implied that she took orders from someone.

I did not. In the least.

Liar.

Quote from: holist on September 17, 2012, 06:56:22 PM
my gravest insult was calling her a bit daft and pointing out that she is easily led by people she defers to

Do you simply not understand what those words mean?

Prediction:  Holist loses interest in this thread at this point.   :lulz:

Holist apparently also subscribes to "Holistic Education" and "Homeopathic Intelligence."

The original meaning of "holistic" (which lasted about 3 seconds) was to treat an illness by both attacking the illness itself, while ensuring the best possible conditions for the patient to recover in...Ie, proper diet, proper rest, proper exercise (if possible), proper and attentive medical care.

Then the hippies got ahold of it, and now it means "drown the fucking thing in patchouli oil and mumble something about Native Americans".

Holistic education? 

SHOULD MEAN:  Education that is well-rounded, and geared for the world the student is preparing for.

DOES MEAN:  Drown the fucking kid in patchouli oil and mumble something about Native Americans.

Quote from: TEXAS FAIRIES FOR ALL YOU SPAGS on September 16, 2012, 09:43:42 AM
Your grandmother knows people fuck.

As previously mentioned, I was in high school at the time. My worry was not that I would sully my grandmother's naive innocence, but rather that I would get into trouble.

Quote from: TEXAS FAIRIES FOR ALL YOU SPAGS on September 16, 2012, 09:43:42 AM
Better for her to jump YOUR shit about fucking in her house than to shock some kid.

It was never my intention to shock a kid, or to shock anyone for that matter. I did NOT go out of my way to ensure that anyone would find our trash, nor did I ever confirm that anyone found it after all. In my post, I mentioned that we thought the egg would remain undiscovered in the ditch where we discarded it. Neither of us had any way of knowing that somebody would set up an egg hunt there, as ditches are not typically ideal for that sort of thing. We had driven by that trailer park many times and never seen any children playing there.

Quote from: TEXAS FAIRIES FOR ALL YOU SPAGS on September 16, 2012, 09:43:42 AM
If my kids were little and they found an egg with a fucking used condom in it, I'd assume since it was in a plastic easter egg, some pervert put it there for them to find and I'd make a police report. Cops LOVE catching pedos, it's a pretty substantial felony catch and I'm sure they'd check for prints as well as running the DNA.

How intimidating. I would love to see someone try to report me to the cops as a "pedophile." (Btw, check your semantics. You seem to be confusing "pedophile" with "predator." Being a pedophile is actually not illegal.) Neither my DNA nor my prints would be in their system, as I have no criminal record whatsoever (despite the seemingly pervasive belief on this forum that I'm a sociopathic child molester). Not to mention the undeniable fact that I don't even remotely fit the profile of a sex offender. Throwing a condom into a ditch where two weeks later it happens to be accidentally found by someone is not a felony. My only "crime" would be littering, which is a misdemeanor charge at worst. The cops would be pissed off at you for wasting their time.

As for people's reaction to my Erister Egg Hunt story, I don't even know where to begin. I think in order to demonstrate the absurdity of the ire directed my way, I will respond to a forum member in the same harsh, insulting tone with which he responded to me -- using his own quotes in my reply.

Fidel Castro:

What the fuck is wrong with you? Seriously, why would you choose a username like that? Fidel Castro was a corrupt communist dictator who routinely deprived innocent Cuban citizens of their most basic human rights. Is that a fucking joke to you? It is extremely tactless and disrespectful to all the people who suffered under Castro's repressive regime for you to post on this forum using his name, making light of their struggles. But then again, Cuba is an impoverished country compared to the United States, and their standard of living is pretty low. After all, poor people don't really count as people. It's okay for their governments to do horribly inappropriate things to their them, because they're just animals and shit.

You describe yourself as a "GRAMMAR NAZI."

Wow, I guess it's cool now to make light of Nazism and the Holocaust, too. You clearly have no empathy for the widespread suffering of others, to joke around about serious issues like that. I'd say that makes you a sociopath at best.

"Platonic Dildo Sharpener?" "One-Armed Jizz Moppers?"

That's actually kinda squicky. Does thinking about somebody mopping up ejaculate provide you with some kind of cheap thrill? How utterly disgusting. You're fucked up in the head. And having a missing limb is not something to fucking joke about either.

Seriously, people. Get the sticks out of your asses, and dismount your high horses. You are outraged over something I giggled at when I was a fucking teenager. Do you realize that when you google "Erister EGGgasm," one of the suggestions (http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Erister%20Egg%20Hunt (http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Erister%20Egg%20Hunt)) is to fill a plastic egg with a condom? (Clearly, the Discordians who wrote that must have been very different indeed.) I found it incredibly ironic that I'd accidentally done that very thing as a sixteen-year-old in high school, which is why I posted the story in the first place. But I NEVER intended for anyone to find the condom, especially not a child. I did NOT place it there specifically for a kid to stumble upon; I was attempting to dispose of it. I do NOT know if it was ever found. I did NOT sit there in my car watching them conduct the egg hunt, touching myself like some pervert and becoming sexually aroused at the thought of a child finding it. My boyfriend and I simply giggled nervously to ourselves, thinking, "Oh my goodness, how awkward! I can't believe they're egg hunting there. Who would've thought they'd arrange an egg hunt by the ditch?! What if they found our...?" I was NOT in any way thrilled or elated at the thought of shocking a child.

IF anyone did find our egg...honestly, so what? What harm could come of it? NONE. What suffering did it cause? NONE. Would a mere tube of rubber terrify a child to the point that he'd be plagued by nightmares for months after the event? NO. Is finding a two-week-old, shriveled up piece of trash inside an Easter egg going to traumatize a child so much that he would be scarred for life? ABSOLUTELY NOT.

Try to think realistically about this incident for a change. If the egg was found by a kid, what probably happened as a result? The kid was most likely confused, perhaps a bit grossed out. He might have taken the egg to an adult to ask what it was, and I'm sure the adult would've disposed of it for him, possibly explaining what was inside. If not, the kid probably just tossed the thing back to the ground, or disposed of it himself. What it boils down to is a total NON-EVENT -- nothing to cause me horror or shame.

My boyfriend and I didn't sit there in my car cackling at the hilarity of a child handling a condom. (Besides, I highly doubt the prophylactic was "handled" anyway, even if it did happen to be found.) We laughed uncomfortably and sort of in disbelief, because the situation was awkward and ridiculous. I'm at a complete loss as to how reaction makes me a classist, a sociopath, a pedophile, a "playground masturbator," or a sexual predator.

 :butthurt:

This forum reeks to high heaven of hypocrisy.

For example, the phrase "think for yourself" is overused to the point of redundancy, yet members will boorishly attack anyone whose views seem to differ from their own. In my first post (which was pretty concise, to avoid tl;dr), I mentioned following the Law of Fives. Instead of asking me to expand on what I meant by that, someone instead felt the need to inform my poor, unenlightened self that it was a parody demonstrating confirmation bias -- which I, of course, already knew. (One could hardly read the Principia Discordia and not realize how much of it is satirical.) The same individual also told me that meditating on symbols has the same effect as "praying to a stop sign" -- once again, without requesting or awaiting clarification of my statement, as if I might actually believe that symbols are magical and can answer my prayers. The person who jumped to such conclusions was obviously wrong, but what if he hadn't been? What if I did believe in the Law of Fives and magical symbols? Is it his, or anyone else's, prerogative to deem me a false Discordian on that basis?

The people here strike me as a bunch of spags who are pissed off at the world, who misunderstand simple statements, who jump to preposterous conclusions, who fly off the handle at the most inconsequential things, and who scream "THINK FOR YOURSELF!" at the top of their lungs while harshly denigrating those who disagree with them. If your aim is to generate growth within the Discordian community, this is a counterproductive strategy. However, if this is the impression you wish to convey, then by all means carry on.

Quote from: SecretlyHalal on September 18, 2012, 12:28:52 AM

Fidel Castro:

What the fuck is wrong with you? Seriously, why would you choose a username like that? Fidel Castro was a corrupt communist dictator who routinely deprived innocent Cuban citizens of their most basic human rights. Is that a fucking joke to you? It is extremely tactless and disrespectful to all the people who suffered under Castro's repressive regime for you to post on this forum using his name, making light of their struggles. But then again, Cuba is an impoverished country compared to the United States, and their standard of living is pretty low. After all, poor people don't really count as people. It's okay for their governments to do horribly inappropriate things to their them, because they're just animals and shit.

You describe yourself as a "GRAMMAR NAZI."

Wow, I guess it's cool now to make light of Nazism and the Holocaust, too. You clearly have no empathy for the widespread suffering of others, to joke around about serious issues like that. I'd say that makes you a sociopath at best.

"Platonic Dildo Sharpener?" "One-Armed Jizz Moppers?"

That's actually kinda squicky. Does thinking about somebody mopping up ejaculate provide you with some kind of cheap thrill? How utterly disgusting. You're fucked up in the head. And having a missing limb is not something to fucking joke about either.

I'm comfortable with all of that.  Before I was a GRAMMAR NAZI, it read HORRIBLE BASTARD, which I personally think was more accurate.  But it's not like I had a choice, right?

Quote from: SecretlyHalal on September 18, 2012, 01:02:39 AM
This forum reeks to high heaven of hypocrisy.

It's worse than that, actually. 

But it's too late anyway.  You've breathed the air...The change is irreversible.

Quote from: Fidel Castro on September 17, 2012, 09:50:28 PM

Quote from: v3x on September 17, 2012, 09:47:06 PM

Quote from: Fidel Castro on September 17, 2012, 09:43:46 PM

Quote from: A Very Hairy Monkey In An Ill-Fitting Tunic on September 17, 2012, 09:40:58 PM

Quote from: holist on September 17, 2012, 08:25:23 PM

Quote from: Fidel Castro on September 17, 2012, 08:22:57 PM
You implied that she took orders from someone.

I did not. In the least.

Liar.

Quote from: holist on September 17, 2012, 06:56:22 PM
my gravest insult was calling her a bit daft and pointing out that she is easily led by people she defers to

Do you simply not understand what those words mean?

Prediction:  Holist loses interest in this thread at this point.   :lulz:

Holist apparently also subscribes to "Holistic Education" and "Homeopathic Intelligence."

The original meaning of "holistic" (which lasted about 3 seconds) was to treat an illness by both attacking the illness itself, while ensuring the best possible conditions for the patient to recover in...Ie, proper diet, proper rest, proper exercise (if possible), proper and attentive medical care.

Then the hippies got ahold of it, and now it means "drown the fucking thing in patchouli oil and mumble something about Native Americans".

Holistic education? 

SHOULD MEAN:  Education that is well-rounded, and geared for the world the student is preparing for.

DOES MEAN:  Drown the fucking kid in patchouli oil and mumble something about Native Americans.

:lulz:

Quote from: Waffles, The Iron on September 18, 2012, 12:33:38 AM
:butthurt:

:lulz:

FYI, this:

Quote from: SecretlyHalal on September 14, 2012, 06:09:20 AM
I've always gotten a kick out of putting awkward, shocking, or confusing items in Easter eggs and including them in family or church egg hunts, then giggling as the unsuspecting participants reacted with surprise, amusement, or even outrage when they opened their eggs.

Combined with this:

Quote from: SecretlyHalal on September 14, 2012, 06:12:07 AM
There were a bunch of trailer park kids with baskets playing in the ditch and the nearby field, ostensibly conducting an egg hunt. We snickered to ourselves, wondering if they'd found our "offering."

Makes you sound like a complete shitneck. How can you not recognize that?

Nigel, I fear that I have alienated our new user, Falafel or whatever her name is.

I was on my best behavior, even.   :sad:

Quote from: A Very Hairy Monkey In An Ill-Fitting Tunic on September 18, 2012, 01:55:46 AM
FYI, this:

Quote from: SecretlyHalal on September 14, 2012, 06:09:20 AM
I've always gotten a kick out of putting awkward, shocking, or confusing items in Easter eggs and including them in family or church egg hunts, then giggling as the unsuspecting participants reacted with surprise, amusement, or even outrage when they opened their eggs.

Combined with this:

Quote from: SecretlyHalal on September 14, 2012, 06:12:07 AM
There were a bunch of trailer park kids with baskets playing in the ditch and the nearby field, ostensibly conducting an egg hunt. We snickered to ourselves, wondering if they'd found our "offering."

Makes you sound like a complete shitneck. How can you not recognize that?

I like the egg idea.  Only without the used condom + kids bit.

It has potential.

Quote from: SecretlyHalal on September 18, 2012, 12:28:29 AM

Quote from: TEXAS FAIRIES FOR ALL YOU SPAGS on September 16, 2012, 09:43:42 AM
Your grandmother knows people fuck.

As previously mentioned, I was in high school at the time. My worry was not that I would sully my grandmother's naive innocence, but rather that I would get into trouble.

And you haven't evolved since, I see. "OH LOLZ WE THREW OUT A CONDOM IN AN EASTER EGG AND THEN SOME KIDS WERE HUNTING EASTER EGGS IN THAT SAME PLACE!!!!! ZOMG HURRRRR I HAS DONE EGGAZM!!!!!"

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Quote from: TEXAS FAIRIES FOR ALL YOU SPAGS on September 16, 2012, 09:43:42 AM
Better for her to jump YOUR shit about fucking in her house than to shock some kid.

It was never my intention to shock a kid, or to shock anyone for that matter. I did NOT go out of my way to ensure that anyone would find our trash, nor did I ever confirm that anyone found it after all. In my post, I mentioned that we thought the egg would remain undiscovered in the ditch where we discarded it. Neither of us had any way of knowing that somebody would set up an egg hunt there, as ditches are not typically ideal for that sort of thing. We had driven by that trailer park many times and never seen any children playing there.

The issue wasn't intent. The issue was that you think it's TEH FUNNAY.

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Quote from: TEXAS FAIRIES FOR ALL YOU SPAGS on September 16, 2012, 09:43:42 AM
If my kids were little and they found an egg with a fucking used condom in it, I'd assume since it was in a plastic easter egg, some pervert put it there for them to find and I'd make a police report. Cops LOVE catching pedos, it's a pretty substantial felony catch and I'm sure they'd check for prints as well as running the DNA.

How intimidating. I would love to see someone try to report me to the cops as a "pedophile." (Btw, check your semantics. You seem to be confusing "pedophile" with "predator." Being a pedophile is actually not illegal.) Neither my DNA nor my prints would be in their system, as I have no criminal record whatsoever (despite the seemingly pervasive belief on this forum that I'm a sociopathic child molester). Not to mention the undeniable fact that I don't even remotely fit the profile of a sex offender. Throwing a condom into a ditch where two weeks later it happens to be accidentally found by someone is not a felony. My only "crime" would be littering, which is a misdemeanor charge at worst. The cops would be pissed off at you for wasting their time.

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If you drive, they've got your prints. If they got a clear print off of it, you'd be charged, whether you "fit the profile of a sex offender" or not.

Quote from: Waffles, The Iron on September 18, 2012, 12:33:38 AM
:butthurt:

Indeed. I think we got a live one.  :lulz: :lulz: :lulz:

Quote from: SecretlyHalal on September 18, 2012, 12:29:59 AM
Seriously, people. Get the sticks out of your asses, and dismount your high horses. You are outraged over something I giggled at when I was a fucking teenager. Do you realize that when you google "Erister EGGgasm," one of the suggestions (http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Erister%20Egg%20Hunt (http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Erister%20Egg%20Hunt)) is to fill a plastic egg with a condom? (Clearly, the Discordians who wrote that must have been very different indeed.)...

Condom in a wrapper, not your spooge-filled toxic waste. And it's generally assumed that adult items should be left for adults to find.

Interesting that Cram is "very different indeed", though.

Quote from: Fidel Castro on September 18, 2012, 01:56:07 AM
Nigel, I fear that I have alienated our new user, Falafel or whatever her name is.

I was on my best behavior, even.   :sad:

:lulz:

Kinda pathetic, how much heel-digging, shit-flinging, and screeching is going on when a simple, "yeah, in retrospect, it wasn't really funny, it was kind of the laughing at the funeral kind of laughing, not "hee-hee, some kid got a shock' kind of funny" right off the bat would have saved a shitload of stern damage.

Quote from: Luna on September 18, 2012, 02:23:10 AM
Kinda pathetic, how much heel-digging, shit-flinging, and screeching is going on when a simple, "yeah, in retrospect, it wasn't really funny, it was kind of the laughing at the funeral kind of laughing, not "hee-hee, some kid got a shock' kind of funny" right off the bat would have saved a shitload of stern damage.

She just got here.  We can't expect her to stand upright in her first week.  Hell, I'm still kinda stooped over.

FC,
Knuckles dragging.

Quote from: SecretlyHalal on September 18, 2012, 12:28:29 AM

Quote from: TEXAS FAIRIES FOR ALL YOU SPAGS on September 16, 2012, 09:43:42 AM
Your grandmother knows people fuck.

As previously mentioned, I was in high school at the time. My worry was not that I would sully my grandmother's naive innocence, but rather that I would get into trouble.

Quote from: TEXAS FAIRIES FOR ALL YOU SPAGS on September 16, 2012, 09:43:42 AM
Better for her to jump YOUR shit about fucking in her house than to shock some kid.

It was never my intention to shock a kid, or to shock anyone for that matter. I did NOT go out of my way to ensure that anyone would find our trash, nor did I ever confirm that anyone found it after all. In my post, I mentioned that we thought the egg would remain undiscovered in the ditch where we discarded it. Neither of us had any way of knowing that somebody would set up an egg hunt there, as ditches are not typically ideal for that sort of thing. We had driven by that trailer park many times and never seen any children playing there.

Quote from: TEXAS FAIRIES FOR ALL YOU SPAGS on September 16, 2012, 09:43:42 AM
If my kids were little and they found an egg with a fucking used condom in it, I'd assume since it was in a plastic easter egg, some pervert put it there for them to find and I'd make a police report. Cops LOVE catching pedos, it's a pretty substantial felony catch and I'm sure they'd check for prints as well as running the DNA.

How intimidating. I would love to see someone try to report me to the cops as a "pedophile." (Btw, check your semantics. You seem to be confusing "pedophile" with "predator." Being a pedophile is actually not illegal.) Neither my DNA nor my prints would be in their system, as I have no criminal record whatsoever (despite the seemingly pervasive belief on this forum that I'm a sociopathic child molester). Not to mention the undeniable fact that I don't even remotely fit the profile of a sex offender. Throwing a condom into a ditch where two weeks later it happens to be accidentally found by someone is not a felony. My only "crime" would be littering, which is a misdemeanor charge at worst. The cops would be pissed off at you for wasting their time.

Quote from: SecretlyHalal on September 18, 2012, 12:28:52 AM
As for people's reaction to my Erister Egg Hunt story, I don't even know where to begin. I think in order to demonstrate the absurdity of the ire directed my way, I will respond to a forum member in the same harsh, insulting tone with which he responded to me -- using his own quotes in my reply.

Fidel Castro:

What the fuck is wrong with you? Seriously, why would you choose a username like that? Fidel Castro was a corrupt communist dictator who routinely deprived innocent Cuban citizens of their most basic human rights. Is that a fucking joke to you? It is extremely tactless and disrespectful to all the people who suffered under Castro's repressive regime for you to post on this forum using his name, making light of their struggles. But then again, Cuba is an impoverished country compared to the United States, and their standard of living is pretty low. After all, poor people don't really count as people. It's okay for their governments to do horribly inappropriate things to their them, because they're just animals and shit.

You describe yourself as a "GRAMMAR NAZI."

Wow, I guess it's cool now to make light of Nazism and the Holocaust, too. You clearly have no empathy for the widespread suffering of others, to joke around about serious issues like that. I'd say that makes you a sociopath at best.

"Platonic Dildo Sharpener?" "One-Armed Jizz Moppers?"

That's actually kinda squicky. Does thinking about somebody mopping up ejaculate provide you with some kind of cheap thrill? How utterly disgusting. You're fucked up in the head. And having a missing limb is not something to fucking joke about either.

Quote from: SecretlyHalal on September 18, 2012, 01:02:39 AM
This forum reeks to high heaven of hypocrisy.

For example, the phrase "think for yourself" is overused to the point of redundancy, yet members will boorishly attack anyone whose views seem to differ from their own. In my first post (which was pretty concise, to avoid tl;dr), I mentioned following the Law of Fives. Instead of asking me to expand on what I meant by that, someone instead felt the need to inform my poor, unenlightened self that it was a parody demonstrating confirmation bias -- which I, of course, already knew. (One could hardly read the Principia Discordia and not realize how much of it is satirical.) The same individual also told me that meditating on symbols has the same effect as "praying to a stop sign" -- once again, without requesting or awaiting clarification of my statement, as if I might actually believe that symbols are magical and can answer my prayers. The person who jumped to such conclusions was obviously wrong, but what if he hadn't been? What if I did believe in the Law of Fives and magical symbols? Is it his, or anyone else's, prerogative to deem me a false Discordian on that basis?

The people here strike me as a bunch of spags who are pissed off at the world, who misunderstand simple statements, who jump to preposterous conclusions, who fly off the handle at the most inconsequential things, and who scream "THINK FOR YOURSELF!" at the top of their lungs while harshly denigrating those who disagree with them. If your aim is to generate growth within the Discordian community, this is a counterproductive strategy. However, if this is the impression you wish to convey, then by all means carry on.

I don't think you're ready for the roughneck bass. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_t2TzJOyops)

And now my head is infected.

Quote from: Fidel Castro on September 17, 2012, 08:57:20 PM
Chemistry understands just fine how water molecules work.  They are not fucking magic, and they do not retain a "memory".  Your statement is just as nonsensical as me saying "Physics can't say I can't defy gravity under my own power, it can only admit it was wrong if I can."

But that's not nonsensical at all. That's the price we pay for the wonders of science: replacing world-views (religions, received wisdom) whose fundamental attitude is "if we don't have an explanation for it, it doesn't exist" with one that says "if it exists, and we don't have an explanation for it, we need to try harder" results in there being no fixed canon. Who would have thought that Newtonian mechanics would be falsified? And yet it was downgraded from the status of laws of nature to an approximation that works rather well at non-relativistic speeds.

Quote from: Fidel Castro on September 17, 2012, 08:57:20 PM
So it's not that homeopathy doesn't work, it's that the tests were unfair.   :lulz:

Why do you insist on being this obstinate? It's this: tests were unscientific (the hypothesis they tested, in very many cases, was not the one they claimed to disprove), so right now it is unclear whether homeopathy works or not.

Quote from: Fidel Castro on September 17, 2012, 08:57:20 PM
And if you can't do a double blind test, then your idea is absolute crap.  End of story.

That's fetishism. I refer you to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randomized_controlled_trial#Disadvantages (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randomized_controlled_trial#Disadvantages).

Quote from: Fidel Castro on September 17, 2012, 08:57:20 PM
I'll fix that.

Job almost done, actually. Though it does appear to be a race.

Quote from: Fidel Castro on September 17, 2012, 08:57:20 PM
Prediction:  Holist loses interest in this thread at this point.

Not yet. But I do have some work to do for the next six hours or so.

Quote from: Fidel Castro on September 17, 2012, 08:57:20 PM
The original meaning of "holistic" (which lasted about 3 seconds) was to treat an illness by both attacking the illness itself, while ensuring the best possible conditions for the patient to recover in...Ie, proper diet, proper rest, proper exercise (if possible), proper and attentive medical care.

No, while I think what you are describing is good practice, I think, in terms of medicine, 'holistic' is primarily to do with the realisation that isolated treatment of illnesses (the departmentalisation of medicine and hospitals) is in a great proportion of cases counter-productive (assuming achievement of health is the only main objective, which, of course, it rarely is), because the functional parts of the human organism (living organisms in general) are so intricately and deeply interconnected, that concentrating on one part, organ, subsystem thereof may well miss the underlying cause and also, while curing a superficially defined symptom, may cause others (which may appear, again, superficially, to be entirely unrelated).

Quote from: Guru Qu1x073 on September 18, 2012, 03:42:01 AM
And now my head is infected.

That was the wrong link, I was sending it to a scam artist, see. Is fixed now.

Sorry to cause collateral damage.

Quote from: A Very Hairy Monkey In An Ill-Fitting Tunic on September 17, 2012, 09:35:45 PM
Why the hell would I remember it? I didn't remember that thread until you referenced it... for that matter, I barely remembered you.  :lol:

Because you said, before you asked for a link,that you re-read that thread?

Quote from: A Very Hairy Monkey In An Ill-Fitting Tunic on September 17, 2012, 09:35:45 PM
For the record, Roger and I have a running joke about his ability to judge character compared to mine. Not that you should be expected to know that, but that doesn't absolve you from being a complete and utter ass when you say that I'm "easily led" by the people that I "defer to", as if I have masters I look to for leadership.

Not masters, simply people whose opinions you value beyond their worth.

Quote from: A Very Hairy Monkey In An Ill-Fitting Tunic on September 17, 2012, 09:35:45 PM
You've said things here in the past that make you look bad, ranging from ridiculous to loathesome. I've pointed out those things and challenged them, and obviously you're packing a grudge for that. Join the club; maybe they'll give you a nametag.

"For the record" (lol), I think that's an entirely inaccurate, though clearly sufficiently self-serving appraisal of the story so far...

Okay, I'm writing Holist off as a hopeless woo case now.  And a bit of a shitbag at that.

Quote from: Fidel Castro on September 18, 2012, 02:59:26 PM
Okay, I'm writing Holist off as a hopeless woo case now.  And a bit of a shitbag at that.

Lost for words?

I know how that feels.

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Quote from: A Very Hairy Monkey In An Ill-Fitting Tunic on September 17, 2012, 09:35:45 PM
Why the hell would I remember it? I didn't remember that thread until you referenced it... for that matter, I barely remembered you.  :lol:

Because you said, before you asked for a link,that you re-read that thread?

You mentioned it by name. All I had to do was go to your posting history to find it. Derp.

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Quote from: A Very Hairy Monkey In An Ill-Fitting Tunic on September 17, 2012, 09:35:45 PM
Why the hell would I remember it? I didn't remember that thread until you referenced it... for that matter, I barely remembered you.  :lol:

Because you said, before you asked for a link,that you re-read that thread?

You mentioned it by name. All I had to do was go to your posting history to find it. Derp.

Fair enough, but then you went and read it, you said.

Quote from: Fidel Castro on September 18, 2012, 02:59:26 PM
Okay, I'm writing Holist off as a hopeless woo case now.  And a bit of a shitbag at that.

A bit of a shitbag must be the understatement of the year.

I nominate assholist biggest douche of the universe 2012.

Sorry, Paul Ryan's got that one covered.

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Quote from: A Very Hairy Monkey In An Ill-Fitting Tunic on September 17, 2012, 09:35:45 PM
Why the hell would I remember it? I didn't remember that thread until you referenced it... for that matter, I barely remembered you.  :lol:

Because you said, before you asked for a link,that you re-read that thread?

You mentioned it by name. All I had to do was go to your posting history to find it. Derp.

Fair enough, but then you went and read it, you said.

Yes. I did. You mentioned it by name, so rather than waiting for you to provide a link, I realized that I could just go to your profile and look for the last time you posted in a thread by that name. Then I clicked on the thread and read it. Later, Texas Fairies asked for a link, so I gave her one but also mentioned that there are other amusing posts and she could go to your profile to track them down.

I am not sure why this has you so stymied.

In case that was too complicated for you, note the date & time stamps (posts edited to minimal content for brevity):

Quote from: A Very Hairy Monkey In An Ill-Fitting Tunic on September 16, 2012, 03:25:48 PM
Welcome back, Holist.

Quote from: holist on September 16, 2012, 06:18:20 PM
I would probably have taken your welcome at face value - but I spent an hour earlier today re-reading the "music - what it is" thread.

Quote from: A Very Hairy Monkey In An Ill-Fitting Tunic on September 17, 2012, 04:58:48 PM
I think this is a good morning to spend mining that thread and bumping your idiocy... thanks for reminding me about it, I would never have remembered that!

I can't seem to find anywhere anyone but Texas Fairies asked for a link, although I was going to, before I remembered there was a faster and easier way to find the thread, since you were so kind as to name it.

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Quote from: A Very Hairy Monkey In An Ill-Fitting Tunic on September 17, 2012, 09:35:45 PM
Why the hell would I remember it? I didn't remember that thread until you referenced it... for that matter, I barely remembered you.  :lol:

Because you said, before you asked for a link,that you re-read that thread?

You mentioned it by name. All I had to do was go to your posting history to find it. Derp.

Fair enough, but then you went and read it, you said.

Yes. I did. You mentioned it by name, so rather than waiting for you to provide a link, I realized that I could just go to your profile and look for the last time you posted in a thread by that name. Then I clicked on the thread and read it. Later, Texas Fairies asked for a link, so I gave her one but also mentioned that there are other amusing posts and she could go to your profile to track them down.

I am not sure why this has you so stymied.

It was because, as far as I recall, you dug out the thread and mentioned rereading it before you asked why you should remember it. But it doesn't matter, anyway, because it now seems Roger's education with a hammer  has worked to some extent. I would like to say that overall I am deeply ashamed of my conduct on this board so far, and I would like to extend my apologies to you personally for being unnecessarily rude and dismissive despite the several chances you gave me. This will be followed by a more formal apology to a number of people shortly, after I've done some more thinking.

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Quote from: A Very Hairy Monkey In An Ill-Fitting Tunic on September 17, 2012, 09:35:45 PM
Why the hell would I remember it? I didn't remember that thread until you referenced it... for that matter, I barely remembered you.  :lol:

Because you said, before you asked for a link,that you re-read that thread?

You mentioned it by name. All I had to do was go to your posting history to find it. Derp.

Fair enough, but then you went and read it, you said.

Yes. I did. You mentioned it by name, so rather than waiting for you to provide a link, I realized that I could just go to your profile and look for the last time you posted in a thread by that name. Then I clicked on the thread and read it. Later, Texas Fairies asked for a link, so I gave her one but also mentioned that there are other amusing posts and she could go to your profile to track them down.

I am not sure why this has you so stymied.

It was because, as far as I recall, you dug out the thread and mentioned rereading it before you asked why you should remember it. But it doesn't matter, anyway, because it now seems Roger's education with a hammer  has worked to some extent. I would like to say that overall I am deeply ashamed of my conduct on this board so far, and I would like to extend my apologies to you personally for being unnecessarily rude and dismissive despite the several chances you gave me. This will be followed by a more formal apology to a number of people shortly, after I've done some more thinking.

All right. Apology accepted. I'm startled, but interested.

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Quote from: A Very Hairy Monkey In An Ill-Fitting Tunic on September 17, 2012, 09:35:45 PM
Why the hell would I remember it? I didn't remember that thread until you referenced it... for that matter, I barely remembered you.  :lol:

Because you said, before you asked for a link,that you re-read that thread?

You mentioned it by name. All I had to do was go to your posting history to find it. Derp.

Fair enough, but then you went and read it, you said.

Yes. I did. You mentioned it by name, so rather than waiting for you to provide a link, I realized that I could just go to your profile and look for the last time you posted in a thread by that name. Then I clicked on the thread and read it. Later, Texas Fairies asked for a link, so I gave her one but also mentioned that there are other amusing posts and she could go to your profile to track them down.

I am not sure why this has you so stymied.

It was because, as far as I recall, you dug out the thread and mentioned rereading it before you asked why you should remember it. But it doesn't matter, anyway, because it now seems Roger's education with a hammer  has worked to some extent. I would like to say that overall I am deeply ashamed of my conduct on this board so far, and I would like to extend my apologies to you personally for being unnecessarily rude and dismissive despite the several chances you gave me. This will be followed by a more formal apology to a number of people shortly, after I've done some more thinking.

All right. Apology accepted. I'm startled, but interested.

Thanks. Bear with me.  :)