Introductions, part V: Don't Say We Never Warned You.

[LMNO]

Tripe's pretty good, when you clean it the right day.


...We're still talking about cannabalism, aren't we?

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Tripe's pretty good, when you clean it the right day.


...We're still talking about cannabalism, aren't we?

Mmmmm... indulgent, indulgent tripe!

[S]

Self indulgent tripe.

Well, no one else is going to indulge me. Especially around here.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Self indulgent tripe.

Well, no one else is going to indulge me. Especially around here.

True enough.

[Doktor Howl]

More seriously, I could feel something in my mind giving way, and sometime in the last six months or so it gave out. I can no longer describe it for the lack.

Self indulgent tripe.

Another zany & whacky "crazy" person, here to show us all who is the weirdest guy in the room.

I wait with bated breath for the amusing & enlightening antics which are no doubt about to unfold.

Or words to that effect.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

More seriously, I could feel something in my mind giving way, and sometime in the last six months or so it gave out. I can no longer describe it for the lack.

Self indulgent tripe.

Another zany & whacky "crazy" person, here to show us all who is the weirdest guy in the room.

I wait with bated breath for the amusing & enlightening antics which are no doubt about to unfold.

Or words to that effect.

It's gonna be great, just like it is every other time.

[Doktor Howl]

More seriously, I could feel something in my mind giving way, and sometime in the last six months or so it gave out. I can no longer describe it for the lack.

Self indulgent tripe.

Another zany & whacky "crazy" person, here to show us all who is the weirdest guy in the room.

I wait with bated breath for the amusing & enlightening antics which are no doubt about to unfold.

Or words to that effect.

It's gonna be great, just like it is every other time.

Folks like this have been kicking in the door since 2002 and it never gets old.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

More seriously, I could feel something in my mind giving way, and sometime in the last six months or so it gave out. I can no longer describe it for the lack.

Self indulgent tripe.

Another zany & whacky "crazy" person, here to show us all who is the weirdest guy in the room.

I wait with bated breath for the amusing & enlightening antics which are no doubt about to unfold.

Or words to that effect.

It's gonna be great, just like it is every other time.

Folks like this have been kicking in the door since 2002 and it never gets old.

I'm a wild and crazy guy! I just like, lost my mind so what's reality? Who knows! I'm deep and unique!

[Demolition Squid]

I hesitate to post this (because... yeah, dude isn't making a great impression...)

But didn't we used to have the 50 post suggestion? The guy isn't obnoxiously spamming, he's just taking the humor from the PD and assuming that's what PD.com is still about.

I mean, its not, and that should be fairly obvious - but that's what the 50 post thing was about, giving people time to realize that themselves. Because it tends to be better to come to that realization yourself than have it rammed down your throat. There is a reason people come in all 'zany' and so on, and they haven't all turned out to be useless after they've had some time to realize they ain't getting laughs.

[Doktor Howl]

I'm a wild and crazy guy! I just like, lost my mind so what's reality? Who knows! I'm deep and unique!

Given the events of my own life over the last 4+ years, and also what's going on now, I value sanity more than almost anything else.

I value logic, controlled emotion, and the ability to see the world without the filter of paranoia...Although recently, the world hasn't looked much different between states, mostly due to the building clash between mindless authoritarianism and equally mindless "rugged individualism", while everyone in the middle gets ground into hamburger for the crime of being Black or poor or just being in the wrong place at the wrong time.

So I have very little patience for someone who comes rolling onto the board, singing paeans to his own "madness".

[Doktor Howl]

I hesitate to post this (because... yeah, dude isn't making a great impression...)

But didn't we used to have the 50 post suggestion? The guy isn't obnoxiously spamming, he's just taking the humor from the PD and assuming that's what PD.com is still about.

I mean, its not, and that should be fairly obvious - but that's what the 50 post thing was about, giving people time to realize that themselves. Because it tends to be better to come to that realization yourself than have it rammed down your throat. There is a reason people come in all 'zany' and so on, and they haven't all turned out to be useless after they've had some time to realize they ain't getting laughs.

It was only ever a suggestion.  And if the guy can be talked out of mindlessly jacking off to his own angst, he might have something to say.

50 posts will merely give him the time to entrench himself, to dig his heels in and screech at everyone for failing to find his "zaniness" amusing or informative.

[P3nT4gR4m]

I hesitate to post this (because... yeah, dude isn't making a great impression...)

But didn't we used to have the 50 post suggestion? The guy isn't obnoxiously spamming, he's just taking the humor from the PD and assuming that's what PD.com is still about.

I mean, its not, and that should be fairly obvious - but that's what the 50 post thing was about, giving people time to realize that themselves. Because it tends to be better to come to that realization yourself than have it rammed down your throat. There is a reason people come in all 'zany' and so on, and they haven't all turned out to be useless after they've had some time to realize they ain't getting laughs.

It was only ever a suggestion.  And if the guy can be talked out of mindlessly jacking off to his own angst, he might have something to say.

50 posts will merely give him the time to entrench himself, to dig his heels in and screech at everyone for failing to find his "zaniness" amusing or informative.

the real reasoning behind fiddy comes to light 

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

I hesitate to post this (because... yeah, dude isn't making a great impression...)

But didn't we used to have the 50 post suggestion? The guy isn't obnoxiously spamming, he's just taking the humor from the PD and assuming that's what PD.com is still about.

I mean, its not, and that should be fairly obvious - but that's what the 50 post thing was about, giving people time to realize that themselves. Because it tends to be better to come to that realization yourself than have it rammed down your throat. There is a reason people come in all 'zany' and so on, and they haven't all turned out to be useless after they've had some time to realize they ain't getting laughs.

As far as I recall, the 50 post suggestion is about refraining from heaping abuse on newbs. Not about refraining from pointing out where they are behaving offensively/alienatingly, or from cracking mild jokes at their expense.

The 50 post suggestion also comes from a time when PD was far from the kind, gentle, inoffensive PD you see before you. There was a time when ECH would have already described to this guy in excruciating detail just what he wished would happen to his intestines before hyenas ate them. "Hey dude, the "I'm so crazy" schtick is old and pretty offensive to those who have actually been working hard to live with mental illness problems for years" is really not anything that even remotely calls for a reminder that we have a general board suggestion to be gentle with newbs. Especially if they respond to that by stepping it up.

If this guy really is dealing with a psychotic break and wants to talk about it in a way that doesn't make light of or demean or special-snowflake mental illness, then I am pretty sure - in fact, I know - that there are a lot of people here who are more than willing to engage in that dialogue with him.

[Meunster]

I hesitate to post this (because... yeah, dude isn't making a great impression...)

But didn't we used to have the 50 post suggestion? The guy isn't obnoxiously spamming, he's just taking the humor from the PD and assuming that's what PD.com is still about.

I mean, its not, and that should be fairly obvious - but that's what the 50 post thing was about, giving people time to realize that themselves. Because it tends to be better to come to that realization yourself than have it rammed down your throat. There is a reason people come in all 'zany' and so on, and they haven't all turned out to be useless after they've had some time to realize they ain't getting laughs.

Wait, the PD was supposed to be funny?

I always felt it was a tongue in check Americanizing of alot of zen/buddhism with some jokes thrown in.

Also very scary cause it shows how serious people take life, by showing how serious life can be taken, but people are taking it seriously?

[Doktor Howl]

I hesitate to post this (because... yeah, dude isn't making a great impression...)

But didn't we used to have the 50 post suggestion? The guy isn't obnoxiously spamming, he's just taking the humor from the PD and assuming that's what PD.com is still about.

I mean, its not, and that should be fairly obvious - but that's what the 50 post thing was about, giving people time to realize that themselves. Because it tends to be better to come to that realization yourself than have it rammed down your throat. There is a reason people come in all 'zany' and so on, and they haven't all turned out to be useless after they've had some time to realize they ain't getting laughs.

Wait, the PD was supposed to be funny?

I always felt it was a tongue in check Americanizing of alot of zen/buddhism with some jokes thrown in.

Also very scary cause it shows how serious people take life, by showing how serious life can be taken, but people are taking it seriously?

Ladies and Gentlemen, we have an asshole WINNAR!!1