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Principia Discordia => Two vast and trunkless legs of stone => Topic started by: East Coast Hustle on March 22, 2009, 12:40:01 PM

Title: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: East Coast Hustle on March 22, 2009, 12:40:01 PM
I don't know if it's a recent development or if it just required a more removed perspective to see, but...


this place seems to be turning into a den of militant moral relativism. If I had thought for one minute that PD.com would turn into a giant circle-jerk of self-justification and rampant apologia for some of humanity's most reprehensible behavior (under the guise of "protecting the rights" of those who would seek to strip the rights of anyone different from themselves), I would have nuked it from orbit the minute I acquired it. As that is clearly no longer a reasonable or fair response, I'm gonna take my leave of this place for a while.

If for any reason it becomes necessary for me to step into a phone booth and put on my "THE MGT" costume, a few of you know how to reach me IRL.

peace out, spags.
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: Messier Undertree on March 22, 2009, 12:45:06 PM
Quote from: Dirtytime on March 22, 2009, 12:40:01 PM
militant moral relativism

Which threads are you referring to? I've also been away for a week and haven't really looked around much yet.
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: Richter on March 22, 2009, 12:55:14 PM
I'm curious too.  I've been in on a few things, but haven't had the time time for the zeitgeist.
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: Triple Zero on March 22, 2009, 04:04:03 PM
later, ECH.
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: Kai on March 22, 2009, 04:11:58 PM
Honestly, I agree.

Also, all the backbiting bullshit. Maybe its just Hunter coming back that makes us think we should all troll each other. I don't know. Its all been done before. When I see threads turn that way I keep the hell out of them, even if it is popcorn, because it's popcorn covered with bullshit garnished with untreated sewage and fail.

We all need a break from here. Everyone. So go the fuck outside for a while, or something, cause we're not communicating anymore, we're running round in circles in this downward sloping drama curve of the drama cycle.
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: Cramulus on March 22, 2009, 04:19:51 PM
really?

I think this place is at least 60% better than it was during the DK episode and the three weeks following it. I had to go away and come back in order to realize it though.


incidentally, I've been enjoying a lot of the threads outside of appletalk this week.



catch ya on the flipside ECH
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: Kai on March 22, 2009, 04:20:54 PM
Maybe I just need to leave then.
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: Thurnez Isa on March 22, 2009, 04:23:06 PM
why am I totally confused over all this?
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: fomenter on March 22, 2009, 04:29:57 PM
Quote from: Cramulus on March 22, 2009, 04:19:51 PM
really?

I think this place is at least 60% better than it was during the DK episode and the three weeks following it. I had to go away and come back in order to realize it though.


incidentally, I've been enjoying a lot of the threads outside of appletalk this week.



catch ya on the flipside ECH
i kind thought the DK episode was epic spagitry and kinda fun, i agree the few weeks after were weak but other than this being a bit of a doldrums with minor bickering i don't see any big shift from the usual ups and downs..
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: Pariah on March 22, 2009, 04:35:20 PM
Eh were angry people hanging out with other angry people. What do you expect to happen?
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: hunter s.durden on March 22, 2009, 04:36:59 PM
Quote from: Kai on March 22, 2009, 04:11:58 PM
Also, all the backbiting bullshit. Maybe its just Hunter coming back that makes us think we should all troll each other. I don't know. Its all been done before. When I see threads turn that way I keep the hell out of them, even if it is popcorn, because it's popcorn covered with bullshit garnished with untreated sewage and fail.

Are you simply implying that I inspired whatever it is you are seeing, or did I do something specific?
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: Messier Undertree on March 22, 2009, 04:37:35 PM
Let's be nice to each other.
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: Lies on March 22, 2009, 04:38:55 PM
I'm all for that idea dude.
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: Messier Undertree on March 22, 2009, 04:39:53 PM
Quote from: Lysergic on March 22, 2009, 04:38:55 PM
I'm all for that idea dude.

And that's why they'll eat you first.
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: Pariah on March 22, 2009, 04:40:39 PM
Quote from: Malachite on March 22, 2009, 04:37:35 PM
Let's be nice to each other.

Ok
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: hunter s.durden on March 22, 2009, 04:41:17 PM
Quote from: Dirtytime on March 22, 2009, 12:40:01 PM
this place seems to be turning into a den of militant moral relativism. If I had thought for one minute that PD.com would turn into a giant circle-jerk of self-justification and rampant apologia for some of humanity's most reprehensible behavior (under the guise of "protecting the rights" of those who would seek to strip the rights of anyone different from themselves)

I interpreted this as an indictment against how nice we were being.
Dissent and strife are great catalysts for new ideas and changes.
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: Thurnez Isa on March 22, 2009, 04:42:16 PM
Quote from: hunter s.durden on March 22, 2009, 04:36:59 PM
Quote from: Kai on March 22, 2009, 04:11:58 PM
Also, all the backbiting bullshit. Maybe its just Hunter coming back that makes us think we should all troll each other. I don't know. Its all been done before. When I see threads turn that way I keep the hell out of them, even if it is popcorn, because it's popcorn covered with bullshit garnished with untreated sewage and fail.

Are you simply implying that I inspired whatever it is you are seeing, or did I do something specific?

i think it's something before you arrived...nothing to do with you

but then again
Im completely clueless on what is going on here
I'm like Cram I guess in enjoying my conversation with Rat and the few debates I was involved in outside apple talk
though I will admit I've missed probably 2/3's of the threads going on here
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: Pariah on March 22, 2009, 04:42:57 PM
Quote from: hunter s.durden on March 22, 2009, 04:41:17 PM
Quote from: Dirtytime on March 22, 2009, 12:40:01 PM
this place seems to be turning into a den of militant moral relativism. If I had thought for one minute that PD.com would turn into a giant circle-jerk of self-justification and rampant apologia for some of humanity's most reprehensible behavior (under the guise of "protecting the rights" of those who would seek to strip the rights of anyone different from themselves)

I interpreted this as an indictment against how nice we were being.
Dissent and strife are great catalysts for new ideas and changes.

Yes but this has just turned into pointless bickering over non-issues
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: Messier Undertree on March 22, 2009, 04:44:07 PM
Quote from: hunter s.durden on March 22, 2009, 04:41:17 PM
Quote from: Dirtytime on March 22, 2009, 12:40:01 PM
this place seems to be turning into a den of militant moral relativism. If I had thought for one minute that PD.com would turn into a giant circle-jerk of self-justification and rampant apologia for some of humanity's most reprehensible behavior (under the guise of "protecting the rights" of those who would seek to strip the rights of anyone different from themselves)

I interpreted this as an indictment against how nice we were being.
Dissent and strife are great catalysts for new ideas and changes.

And they also make things a hell of a lot more interesting.
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: hunter s.durden on March 22, 2009, 04:45:47 PM
Quote from: The Pariah on March 22, 2009, 04:42:57 PM

Yes but this has just turned into pointless bickering over non-issues

WHAT? What has? I notice one set of bickering (mine), hardly worth a thread and people taking time off.
WTF is everyone talking about?
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: Pariah on March 22, 2009, 04:47:46 PM
I don't know we've been bickering for a while after the DK incident and stopped recently. I think everyone's afraid it will happen again.
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: fomenter on March 22, 2009, 04:51:00 PM
pointless bickering is par for the course and a non issue,
i want to know where "this place seems to be turning into a den of militant moral relativism."
this is something worth looking into and correcting if it is a problem...
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: Richter on March 22, 2009, 07:06:05 PM
If we weren't before, we are now.   :horrormirth:
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: Cain on March 22, 2009, 07:24:19 PM
Quote from: Dirtytime on March 22, 2009, 12:40:01 PM
I don't know if it's a recent development or if it just required a more removed perspective to see, but...


this place seems to be turning into a den of militant moral relativism.

That's just, like, you know, your opinion and stuff, man.
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: Messier Undertree on March 22, 2009, 07:25:04 PM
:lol:
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: Sir Squid Diddimus on March 22, 2009, 08:16:23 PM
I don't understand  :?
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: bds on March 22, 2009, 10:01:05 PM
Having just taken a coupla days off from PD, I have to say I haven't been here nearly as much as I was before. I can kinda pin that down to IRL stuff, but frankly, I just can't be arsed to read through countless pages of endless drama.
So, I'm with Kai. Maybe we should all take a break for a few days. Or, at the very least, just go take a walk in the country. Clear your head for a bit.
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on March 22, 2009, 10:06:12 PM
I decided to take a week or two off.  Then I came back and looked at the threads on the front page of Apple Talk....and I think I'll try again some other time.  Seriously.  I know this is the fluff board, but for fuck's sake.  Just look.  I think my main issue is shit like this:  http://www.principiadiscordia.com/forum/index.php?topic=20296.0

Either we have an absolute glut of mildly retarded new users, or regulars are chewing on paint chips (IP in this case is a proxy, so it's impossible to tell) and deciding to be HILARIOUS by doing the same shit that's been done every year since 2004...ie, "trolling" each other.  Now, it may just be me, but this was really only funny the FIRST 6 MILLION FUCKING TIMES IT WAS DONE.

PD has it's creative times, and it's not-so-creative times.  The only difference is, this time, I haven't got the fucking patience to deal with garbage like this:  http://www.principiadiscordia.com/forum/index.php?topic=20274.0  which I could get at fucking MYSTICWICKS, if I was so inclined.  So I'm with ECH.  If you guys need moderating, etc, I will be stopping in once a day (or two days at the latest) to check on things.  But I'm sure as fuck not going to bother putting up any new work in THIS climate.  I can piss myself off far easier, in more amusing ways - should I need my blood pressure up - than by opening a thread I put a lot of work into, just to see it filled by pinealist shit by fuckwads that think they're being "Discordian".

See you when I re-grow my sense of perspective.
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: Iason Ouabache on March 23, 2009, 02:27:28 AM
SRSLY, what the fuck is happening?  This place isn't allowed to die, dammit!   :argh!:
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: Rumckle on March 23, 2009, 03:25:34 AM
Meh, slow news week?
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: OPTIMUS PINECONE on March 23, 2009, 04:21:13 AM
Quote from: Dirtytime on March 22, 2009, 12:40:01 PM
I don't know if it's a recent development or if it just required a more removed perspective to see, but...


this place seems to be turning into a den of militant moral relativism. If I had thought for one minute that PD.com would turn into a giant circle-jerk of self-justification and rampant apologia for some of humanity's most reprehensible behavior (under the guise of "protecting the rights" of those who would seek to strip the rights of anyone different from themselves), I would have nuked it from orbit the minute I acquired it. As that is clearly no longer a reasonable or fair response, I'm gonna take my leave of this place for a while.

If for any reason it becomes necessary for me to step into a phone booth and put on my "THE MGT" costume, a few of you know how to reach me IRL.

peace out, spags.

      Not only do my sides hurt from laughing so hard, but my knee is sore, from this, the most knee slappingest funny thread of March, the greatest month ever. IRL, I'm too cool for rock n roll.
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: Dysnomia on March 23, 2009, 04:25:35 AM
I haven't noticed anything different going on, but I've mostly been staying in pm's, and a couple threads.  I haven't really looked at the rest of the board or been on IRC since honestly...I'm bored, and sick of all the drama that goes around every couple weeks.  But whatever, it's kinda nice having a social life again.
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: Fredfredly ⊂(◉‿◉)つ on March 23, 2009, 04:44:20 AM
blah blah blah fred's opinion blah blah
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: Triple Zero on March 23, 2009, 11:25:32 AM
Quote from: Fred Noodle on March 23, 2009, 04:44:20 AM
blah blah blah fred's opinion blah blah

OMG FRED HOW CAN YOU SAY THAT

(i mean, we all knew it, but ...)
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: Messier Undertree on March 23, 2009, 11:53:19 AM
Quote from: Fred Noodle on March 23, 2009, 04:44:20 AM
blah blah blah fred's opinion blah blah

I disagree.
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: AFK on March 23, 2009, 12:41:56 PM
Uhh, yeah I got nuthin. 
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: Triple Zero on March 23, 2009, 01:38:53 PM
I think I need a week off from the forum or something, in order to come to terms with what Fred just said. Damn.
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: LMNO on March 23, 2009, 01:46:52 PM
Is this referring to the threads about Mental Pedophelia, and defining rape as consent when you're not really into it?


Because, I think we already called bullshit on those two ideas.

Just saying.
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: Cramulus on March 23, 2009, 01:47:22 PM
oh my god, we're finally rid of TGRR and ECH!  :monkeydance:

We just need to get the remaining mods to flounce and we can live in a utopia of moral relativism and backbiting.



this thread reminds me of what they say of weather in New England (and many other places)
If you don't like it, wait 20 minutes... it'll change.


hah


Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: AFK on March 23, 2009, 01:49:24 PM
Hey someone make me a mod.  If people act out I'll be like Hugh and edit their posts, replacing them with horrible, horrible jokes or pictures of Andy Rooney. 
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: Triple Zero on March 23, 2009, 01:51:41 PM
Quote from: Cramulus on March 23, 2009, 01:47:22 PM
We just need to get the remaining mods to flounce

do i count as a mod :?

i hardly ever mod anything, can i play? :aww:

Quotewe can live in a utopia of moral relativism and backbiting.

cool, apparently we already have the moral relativism and the backbiting, all we need now is a utopia.

... know where to get any?
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: Dr Goofy on March 23, 2009, 02:26:47 PM
Something always happens when I am gone for a bit so I just ignore it and act like I never left.
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: Faust on March 23, 2009, 02:28:57 PM
I find myself reading more and more of or kill me now that apple talk is barely readable, which is a good thing IMHO.
Apple talk; "Find out what colour is the shit of that guy from metallica."
apple talk; "Plane crash in graveyard, spooky eristic connection?"
apple talk; "Jade Goody, were better then this shit but lets get this thread to ten pages anyway"


Seems like the place was hollowed out after the DK bullshit and in its place is weak copy and pastes from the tabloids.
What I want to know is what happened? why is everyone who was here before the dk stuff suddenly a wallflower?
Is everyone just waiting for the next moron whipping boy to come along so they will be something to talk about?
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: AFK on March 23, 2009, 02:35:06 PM
What are we supposed to be talking about in Apple Talk?  Just curious. 
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: Faust on March 23, 2009, 02:36:51 PM
Quote from: Rev. What's-His-Name? on March 23, 2009, 02:35:06 PM
What are we supposed to be talking about in Apple Talk?  Just curious. 
anything at all, including complaining about apple talk

EDIT: Especially complaining about apple talk
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: LMNO on March 23, 2009, 02:38:39 PM
FUCK YOU MY OPINIONS ARE IMPORTANT AND EVERYBODY MUST READ THEM.
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: AFK on March 23, 2009, 02:39:25 PM
Let's talk about sex baby.

Oh well...nevermind. 
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: Cain on March 23, 2009, 02:40:16 PM
Well I dont know about anyone else, but I intend to put a lot of work into the IdeologyTropes wiki.

Time to do something useful with the masses of knowledge in my head, and I can think of nothing better than an Open Source database for disrupting the memetic reality of Western postindustrial existence by turning its own tools against it.
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: Cramulus on March 23, 2009, 02:42:57 PM
WHEN I READ APPLE TALK:

I almost always skip the threads whose OP is just a link with no explanation

I often skip threads about news or current events, because they're generally just people reacting to the news, which I can get on any forum on the internet. If the thread manages to get over 5 pages, it's because there's either a real conversation going on, or a threadjack. 75% of the time it's a funny threadjack. I do enjoy hearing everyone's reaction to the news, but if it wasn't something I care about, I skip

I generally skip threads that seem to belong on livejournal.


WHEN I POST ON APPLETALK:

I'm like
(http://i209.photobucket.com/albums/bb163/wompcabal/POOLPEEAPPLETALK.jpg)
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: Elder Iptuous on March 23, 2009, 02:53:17 PM
Do we need to start a pention?
something about  Cain disrupting the memetic reality of Western postindustrial existence by turning its own tools against it?
or  :?
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: AFK on March 23, 2009, 02:55:32 PM
You know, we talk alot here at pd.com about how we talk on pd.com.  Not a criticism, just an observation. 

And now I shall hit the post button.  With GUSTO!

RWHN,
In an entirely unserious mood today. 
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: Triple Zero on March 23, 2009, 02:56:14 PM
i'm just disappointed that people hardly ever talk about Apples on this forum.

i mean, it's APPLE TALK

it should either be TALK ABOUT APPLES

or TALK BY APPLES

and since apples are speechless (generally) this board should either be EMPTY or ABOUT APPLES.
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: AFK on March 23, 2009, 02:57:44 PM
You're right, we never do get to these core issues.

I think it stems from a lack of focus

or

:?
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: AFK on March 23, 2009, 02:58:23 PM
Yeah, take THAT Apple Talk!  Who'd your daddy now????

Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: Cramulus on March 23, 2009, 02:59:42 PM
a lot of the issues with this board could be circumvented if people would just take this advice from Payne:

(http://i209.photobucket.com/albums/bb163/wompcabal/buttonpress.jpg)

Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: Elder Iptuous on March 23, 2009, 03:00:07 PM
Quote from: Rev. What's-His-Name? on March 23, 2009, 02:55:32 PM
You know, we talk alot here at pd.com about how we talk on pd.com.  Not a criticism, just an observation. 
We're totally meta....
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: AFK on March 23, 2009, 03:01:15 PM
There will be recognition or THERE WILL BE BLOOD!!!!
  /
:hashishim:
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: Triple Zero on March 23, 2009, 03:07:17 PM
Quote from: Cramulus on March 23, 2009, 02:59:42 PM
a lot of the issues with this board could be circumvented if people would just take this advice from Payne:

(http://i209.photobucket.com/albums/bb163/wompcabal/buttonpress.jpg)



huhwhat do yo
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: Triple Zero on March 23, 2009, 03:07:59 PM
wait that went wrong somehow.
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: Bruno on March 23, 2009, 03:11:17 PM
Quote from: Triple Zero on March 23, 2009, 02:56:14 PM
i'm just disappointed that people hardly ever talk about Apples on this forum.

i mean, it's APPLE TALK

it should either be TALK ABOUT APPLES

or TALK BY APPLES

and since apples are speechless (generally) this board should either be EMPTY or ABOUT APPLES.

Goddammit, That's what I was just thinking.
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: Bebek Sincap Ratatosk on March 23, 2009, 03:19:54 PM
This is a good Apple Talk thread... mostly because I'd rather go read about Down Syndrome Pimp Momma than the self-absorbed wankery that a couple mods have decided to post here.

And just for the record... I haven't read the thread about the Down Syndrome Pimp Momma. In fact, I wish I hadn't read this thread either.
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: Sir Squid Diddimus on March 23, 2009, 03:21:57 PM
I still don't understand what people are so upset about.
It's apple talk. This is where the shit threads are supposed to be right?
To keep the inane babble off the rest of the board?

I dunno. Sure there are some really stupid threads in here but I don't think it's worth getting upset over. Or having any emotion about other than "meh".
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: Dr Goofy on March 23, 2009, 03:28:00 PM
000 and Rev. what's has given me a lol for the day and that is what apple talk should be about.... Giving lols.

Dr Goofy
Prescribing putting the laughter back in slaugher
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: AFK on March 23, 2009, 03:30:24 PM
It's about damned time!   :mrgreen: 
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: Kai on March 23, 2009, 03:33:00 PM
A lol a day keeps the apple talk away?
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: Bruno on March 23, 2009, 03:37:11 PM
Quote from: Kai on March 23, 2009, 03:33:00 PM
A lol a day keeps the apple talk away?

:potd:
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: Messier Undertree on March 23, 2009, 03:52:45 PM
Fuck thinking before I post. When I read Apple Talk, I usually have a tab open for BYOB and DQN and I kind of just let the boards merge together in my mind kanye west is a good singer ( ・-・).
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: Messier Undertree on March 23, 2009, 03:53:15 PM
And when I want SERIOUS DISCUSSION, I avoid Apple Talk. Works for me.
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: Bebek Sincap Ratatosk on March 23, 2009, 03:54:40 PM
Quote from: Malachite on March 23, 2009, 03:53:15 PM
And when I want SERIOUS DISCUSSION, I avoid Apple Talk. Works for me.

:mittens:
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: Faust on March 23, 2009, 04:02:18 PM
Quote from: Ratatosk on March 23, 2009, 03:19:54 PM
This is a good Apple Talk thread... mostly because I'd rather go read about Down Syndrome Pimp Momma than the self-absorbed wankery that a couple mods have decided to post here.

And just for the record... I haven't read the thread about the Down Syndrome Pimp Momma. In fact, I wish I hadn't read this thread either.
It is me! I am teh self-absorbed wankery
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: Dr Goofy on March 23, 2009, 04:02:57 PM
Lol Kayne West!
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: Messier Undertree on March 23, 2009, 04:06:17 PM
Quote from: Dr Goofy on March 23, 2009, 04:02:57 PM
Lol Kayne West!

he's the greatest
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: Bebek Sincap Ratatosk on March 23, 2009, 04:06:55 PM
Quote from: Faust on March 23, 2009, 04:02:18 PM
Quote from: Ratatosk on March 23, 2009, 03:19:54 PM
This is a good Apple Talk thread... mostly because I'd rather go read about Down Syndrome Pimp Momma than the self-absorbed wankery that a couple mods have decided to post here.

And just for the record... I haven't read the thread about the Down Syndrome Pimp Momma. In fact, I wish I hadn't read this thread either.
It is me! I am teh self-absorbed wankery

Yeah, FAUST... Its all YOUR FAULT BITCH!!!!  :lulz:
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: Faust on March 23, 2009, 04:10:12 PM
Quote from: Ratatosk on March 23, 2009, 04:06:55 PM
Quote from: Faust on March 23, 2009, 04:02:18 PM
Quote from: Ratatosk on March 23, 2009, 03:19:54 PM
This is a good Apple Talk thread... mostly because I'd rather go read about Down Syndrome Pimp Momma than the self-absorbed wankery that a couple mods have decided to post here.

And just for the record... I haven't read the thread about the Down Syndrome Pimp Momma. In fact, I wish I hadn't read this thread either.
It is me! I am teh self-absorbed wankery

Yeah, FAUST... Its all YOUR FAULT BITCH!!!!  :lulz:
ITT i am the sacrafical lamb of god.
please do annoint all faults and blame of apple talk to me.
only then will apple talk be cleansed of demons.
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: Triple Zero on March 23, 2009, 04:31:26 PM
Quote from: Jerry_Frankster on March 23, 2009, 03:11:17 PM
Quote from: Triple Zero on March 23, 2009, 02:56:14 PM
i'm just disappointed that people hardly ever talk about Apples on this forum.

i mean, it's APPLE TALK

it should either be TALK ABOUT APPLES

or TALK BY APPLES

and since apples are speechless (generally) this board should either be EMPTY or ABOUT APPLES.

Goddammit, That's what I was just thinking.

that is because they have appeal.

Quote from: Ratatosk on March 23, 2009, 04:06:55 PM
Quote from: Faust on March 23, 2009, 04:02:18 PM
It is me! I am teh self-absorbed wankery

Yeah, FAUST... Its all YOUR FAULT BITCH!!!!  :lulz:

personally, I blame our lack of apples on the juice.
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: Dr Goofy on March 23, 2009, 04:49:21 PM
I am going to get some apple juice today, it is on sale.
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: Messier Undertree on March 23, 2009, 05:16:27 PM
Man, I could go for some apple juice right about now. The shop near my house just closed though and I'm a lazy son of a bitch.
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: AFK on March 23, 2009, 05:17:39 PM
Go wait on your stoop and the apple trees will come to you. 
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: Iason Ouabache on March 23, 2009, 05:21:01 PM
Apple Talk is teh sux!!!
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:deadhorse:

Sure beats the alternative though.
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:whack:

So let's all STFU and be the change you want to see in Apple Talk.
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:bacon:
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: Dr Goofy on March 23, 2009, 05:31:33 PM
Quote from: Iason Ouabache on March 23, 2009, 05:21:01 PM

So let's all STFU and be the change you want to see in Apple Talk.
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:bacon:

What? Logic is not allowed here!
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: Triple Zero on March 23, 2009, 05:40:46 PM
maybe we could rename the forum to iTalk.

(rofl, get it)
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: fomenter on March 23, 2009, 05:43:29 PM
since somebody is always upset with apple talk at all times,
and drama inevitably results,
we should rename it golden apple talk

and fight over its content constantly...
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: Elder Iptuous on March 23, 2009, 05:45:11 PM
Quote from: fomenter on March 23, 2009, 05:43:29 PM
since somebody is always upset with apple talk at all times,
and drama inevitably results,
we should rename it golden apple talk

and fight over its content constantly...
Not meta enough
we should fight about how we fight over its content...
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: Triple Zero on March 23, 2009, 05:46:57 PM
Quote from: Iptuous on March 23, 2009, 05:45:11 PM
Quote from: fomenter on March 23, 2009, 05:43:29 PM
since somebody is always upset with apple talk at all times,
and drama inevitably results,
we should rename it golden apple talk

and fight over its content constantly...
Not meta enough
we should fight about how we fight over its content...

NO WE SHOULD FIGHT OVER WHETHER IT MATTERS ITS META ENOUGH

IN OTHER NEWS I AM THE PRETTIEST ONE GIVE ME THE FUCKING APPLE
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: Faust on March 23, 2009, 05:50:58 PM
what a coincidence.
I too am the prettiest one.
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: Dr Goofy on March 23, 2009, 05:53:09 PM
We should fight over the apples!

I am not the prettiest, but I am the longest number that you ever seen.
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on March 23, 2009, 05:57:28 PM
Quote from: Iptuous on March 23, 2009, 05:45:11 PM
Quote from: fomenter on March 23, 2009, 05:43:29 PM
since somebody is always upset with apple talk at all times,
and drama inevitably results,
we should rename it golden apple talk

and fight over its content constantly...
Not meta enough
we should fight about how we fight over its content...

FUCK YUO FOR EVEN SUGGESTING SUCH A BLATANTLY STOOPID IDEA!  :argh!:


meta-meta-meta-fighting ftw  :thanks:
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: fomenter on March 23, 2009, 05:58:22 PM
Quote from: Iptuous on March 23, 2009, 05:45:11 PM
Quote from: fomenter on March 23, 2009, 05:43:29 PM
since somebody is always upset with apple talk at all times,
and drama inevitably results,
we should rename it golden apple talk

and fight over its content constantly...
Not meta enough
we should fight about how we fight over its content...

fighting over how we fight over content is in itself a fight over content and therefore i am both the most meta and the prettiest one
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: Elder Iptuous on March 23, 2009, 06:03:10 PM
Hmmmm you're right.
it's some kind of spooky principle.
the Conservation of Mo' Meta.
or  :?
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: AFK on March 23, 2009, 06:15:09 PM
Quote from: fomenter on March 23, 2009, 05:43:29 PM
since somebody is always upset with apple talk at all times,
and drama inevitably results,
we should rename it golden apple talk

and fight over its content constantly...

That's what I called it on the original BIP message board when it was separate from pd.com.  I think. 
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: Cain on March 23, 2009, 07:09:19 PM
Quote from: Triple Zero on March 23, 2009, 05:40:46 PM
maybe we could rename the forum to iTalk.

(rofl, get it)

I lol'd.
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: Bruno on March 23, 2009, 07:13:34 PM
Waitaminnit, this forum doesn't taste like apples...








It tastes like...








...!!!








:vom:
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on March 23, 2009, 07:54:04 PM
I'm way better than everyone else here, and smarter and more objective about everything. In fact, the lame crap you talk about and your bullshit opinions make me feel sick to my stomach, so I'm going to publicly announce that I can't take your pathetic swill anymore and am leaving the board for a while.
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: Cainad (dec.) on March 23, 2009, 08:02:33 PM
Guise, y u be fighting?
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Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: Dr Goofy on March 23, 2009, 09:33:58 PM
because they be playa hatas!

OKAY!!!!

(http://www.boycevoice.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/lil-jon-picture.jpg)


Okay some one needs to shoot me for what I just posted!
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on March 24, 2009, 12:21:39 AM
Quote from: Ratatosk on March 23, 2009, 03:19:54 PM
This is a good Apple Talk thread... mostly because I'd rather go read about Down Syndrome Pimp Momma than the self-absorbed wankery that a couple mods have decided to post here.

Your point has been given due consideration, and you are hereby invited to choke on a dick.
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: Bebek Sincap Ratatosk on March 24, 2009, 12:22:34 AM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on March 24, 2009, 12:21:39 AM
Quote from: Ratatosk on March 23, 2009, 03:19:54 PM
This is a good Apple Talk thread... mostly because I'd rather go read about Down Syndrome Pimp Momma than the self-absorbed wankery that a couple mods have decided to post here.

Your point has been given due consideration, and you are hereby invited to choke on a dick.

Same to you.

Also, I loved the new Rant.
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on March 24, 2009, 12:22:59 AM
Quote from: Nigel on March 23, 2009, 07:54:04 PM
I'm way better than everyone else here, and smarter and more objective about everything. In fact, the lame crap you talk about and your bullshit opinions make me feel sick to my stomach, so I'm going to publicly announce that I can't take your pathetic swill anymore and am leaving the board for a while.

No, no, I was wrong.  Let's talk about the page 6 dish of the week.

Anyone heard anything about Paris Hilton or Nichole Richie?  Or how about Octomom?
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on March 24, 2009, 12:23:27 AM
Quote from: Ratatosk on March 24, 2009, 12:22:34 AM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on March 24, 2009, 12:21:39 AM
Quote from: Ratatosk on March 23, 2009, 03:19:54 PM
This is a good Apple Talk thread... mostly because I'd rather go read about Down Syndrome Pimp Momma than the self-absorbed wankery that a couple mods have decided to post here.

Your point has been given due consideration, and you are hereby invited to choke on a dick.

Same to you.

Also, I loved the new Rant.

I had fun writing it, but I suspect it was a waste of time in any other fashion.
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: Bebek Sincap Ratatosk on March 24, 2009, 12:25:33 AM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on March 24, 2009, 12:23:27 AM
Quote from: Ratatosk on March 24, 2009, 12:22:34 AM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on March 24, 2009, 12:21:39 AM
Quote from: Ratatosk on March 23, 2009, 03:19:54 PM
This is a good Apple Talk thread... mostly because I'd rather go read about Down Syndrome Pimp Momma than the self-absorbed wankery that a couple mods have decided to post here.

Your point has been given due consideration, and you are hereby invited to choke on a dick.

Same to you.

Also, I loved the new Rant.
I sure hope never...
I had fun writing it, but I suspect it was a waste of time in any other fashion.

Nah, though it would be useful if you provided some hypothetical "How-To's" along with those kind of rants  :wink:
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on March 24, 2009, 01:33:34 AM
Quote from: Ratatosk on March 24, 2009, 12:25:33 AM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on March 24, 2009, 12:23:27 AM
Quote from: Ratatosk on March 24, 2009, 12:22:34 AM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on March 24, 2009, 12:21:39 AM
Quote from: Ratatosk on March 23, 2009, 03:19:54 PM
This is a good Apple Talk thread... mostly because I'd rather go read about Down Syndrome Pimp Momma than the self-absorbed wankery that a couple mods have decided to post here.

Your point has been given due consideration, and you are hereby invited to choke on a dick.

Same to you.

Also, I loved the new Rant.
I sure hope never...
I had fun writing it, but I suspect it was a waste of time in any other fashion.

Nah, though it would be useful if you provided some hypothetical "How-To's" along with those kind of rants  :wink:

Working on that.  I will be posting some helpful suggestions in the form of a pamphlet (one chapter at a time) in OMF, starting Wednesday night.
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: Fredfredly ⊂(◉‿◉)つ on March 24, 2009, 01:40:05 AM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on March 24, 2009, 12:21:39 AM
Quote from: Ratatosk on March 23, 2009, 03:19:54 PM
This is a good Apple Talk thread... mostly because I'd rather go read about Down Syndrome Pimp Momma than the self-absorbed wankery that a couple mods have decided to post here.

Your point has been given due consideration, and you are hereby invited to choke on a dick.
:lulz: :lulz:
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: Sir Squid Diddimus on March 24, 2009, 06:14:54 AM
I steels don't unustain why evehbuddy so upset up in heah.
I thank evurbudduh juss need tuh sit durn and has a good scremmich and juss relurx a bit, dass owl. ooooh baby, hans me dat hotsaws for dis chikurn wang.
             \
(http://www.stltoday.com/blogzone/debs-style-file/files/2009/02/331.jpg)
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: Triple Zero on March 24, 2009, 09:33:24 AM
wow who's that girl right behind her? damn.
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: AFK on March 24, 2009, 10:19:49 AM
Judging by her proximity to Bubba, I'd say she is an intern. 
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: That One Guy on March 24, 2009, 01:11:25 PM
I don't understand these threads. Is it some way of saying "you're doing it wrong"? Because that's sure as hell what it feels like to me, and I've spent too much time fending off other people that told me I was "doing it wrong" on this board. 

If I see a thread that doesn't interest me, or I'm not feeling a specific forum I just ignore it. Sometimes I feel like wallowing in fluff so I stay in Apple Talk. Other times I like getting heavy into something and I'll stick to OKM or TFY,S. If people want to talk about the weather, so what? Especially if they follow the "rules" and keep it in Apple Talk.

Not every single topic has to be what interests a small handful of posters. I come to this forum for the specific people that post here. When those people act like, well, people, I don't see anything wrong with it. If I'm interested in what's being said I stick around. Otherwise I move to the next thread, or forum, or just wander off to other websites.

Don't like what other people are posting? Don't read it. If that means you have to wander off from the board (and thus give YOUR opinion less voice in the overall noise), then wander. Don't post about it - if you're a mod, PM one of the other mods to let them know, then take some time off. Everyone needs a break once in a while, and that's fine.

Trying to lay a guilt trip by "flouncing" because people aren't posting what YOU want them to post? Fuck off.
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: AFK on March 24, 2009, 01:23:04 PM
Oh fuck that noise, now I'm leaving!

:lol:   j/k  I have the willpower of Danny Bonaduce.

Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on March 24, 2009, 06:23:26 PM
Quote from: Triple Zero on March 24, 2009, 09:33:24 AM
wow who's that girl right behind her? damn.

Pretty sure that's Chelsea.
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on March 25, 2009, 02:35:44 AM
Quote from: Rev. What's-His-Name? on March 24, 2009, 10:19:49 AM
Judging by her proximity to Bubba, I'd say she is an intern. 

No, her mouth is insufficiently distended for that.
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on March 25, 2009, 02:36:35 AM
Quote from: That One Guy on March 24, 2009, 01:11:25 PM
Trying to lay a guilt trip by "flouncing" because people aren't posting what YOU want them to post? Fuck off.

Fuck you.  My mother died from flouncing.
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: Darth Cupcake on March 25, 2009, 02:12:58 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on March 25, 2009, 02:36:35 AM
Quote from: That One Guy on March 24, 2009, 01:11:25 PM
Trying to lay a guilt trip by "flouncing" because people aren't posting what YOU want them to post? Fuck off.

Fuck you.  My mother died from flouncing.

My flounce died from mothers. :cry:
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: Dysfunctional Cunt on March 25, 2009, 02:33:18 PM
Flounces actually add about 10-15 pounds to your ass!
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: East Coast Hustle on March 25, 2009, 03:21:38 PM
I'd like to point out that nowhere in the OP did I mention Apple Talk. I was talking about a problem I felt was endemic to the entire board. A problem which I would NOT have mentioned had it been confined to Apple Talk. I forgot that I'm not allowed to have an opinion about my own fucking website.

I'd also like to point out that Rat and Nigel should go get a blistering case of face herpes, the sores of which will hopefully swell up enough to prevent them from using their mouths. Seriously, fuck you both, you smug self-righteous twatwaffles. Your comments wouldn't piss me off except that, well, you are the two biggest examples of what I was complaining about.

Just so everyone understands, I'm not going to throw a tantrum and start modding/banning/whatever people. I'm not in a funk, I'm not allowing IRL stresses to carry over to PD, and I'm not having one of those occasional moments of mental/emotional instability that everyone has. I'm just not impressed with what this place is turning into. I'm sick of feeling as though I have to be nice and fair and consider everybody else's stupid opinions and keep my mouth shut when shit is fucked up here. There is no "Internet Bill of Rights", but if there were, it would NOT be written that site owners and admins have to be nonconfrontational and consider all posters equal. I won't use my "admin powers" to advance a personal agenda, but I will NOT sit quietly by while a handful of jackasses try to turn this place into a bully pulpit for their own twisted and dangerous views. You can expect to not be banned or modded, but you sure as hell CAN expect to be mercilessly harassed, harangued, and verbally castigated. And I won't speak for anyone else, but I'd bet every penny I have that I'm not the only admin who feels this way. In fact, I intend to have a conversation with the other admins as soon as I can about how the growing userbase and increased activity here may require us to re-think how this place is run and what the rules are. I have no way of knowing whether or not we'll come to any consensus, or what if any changes there will be to the rules and structure of the forum. If there are any changes, some of you will undoubtedly disagree with them and leave in a huff. I'm OK with that, so while I welcome any constructive input any of you may have, whining and bitching will get you ignored like you were Sara Palin after the election.

to quote a famous Scientologist...

change is gonna come. I can feel it.
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: Bebek Sincap Ratatosk on March 25, 2009, 03:33:42 PM
Quote from: Dirtytime on March 25, 2009, 03:21:38 PM
I'd like to point out that nowhere in the OP did I mention Apple Talk. I was talking about a problem I felt was endemic to the entire board. A problem which I would NOT have mentioned had it been confined to Apple Talk. I forgot that I'm not allowed to have an opinion about my own fucking website.

I'd also like to point out that Rat and Nigel should go get a blistering case of face herpes, the sores of which will hopefully swell up enough to prevent them from using their mouths. Seriously, fuck you both, you smug self-righteous twatwaffles. Your comments wouldn't piss me off except that, well, you are the two biggest examples of what I was complaining about.

Just so everyone understands, I'm not going to throw a tantrum and start modding/banning/whatever people. I'm not in a funk, I'm not allowing IRL stresses to carry over to PD, and I'm not having one of those occasional moments of mental/emotional instability that everyone has. I'm just not impressed with what this place is turning into. I'm sick of feeling as though I have to be nice and fair and consider everybody else's stupid opinions and keep my mouth shut when shit is fucked up here. There is no "Internet Bill of Rights", but if there were, it would NOT be written that site owners and admins have to be nonconfrontational and consider all posters equal. I won't use my "admin powers" to advance a personal agenda, but I will NOT sit quietly by while a handful of jackasses try to turn this place into a bully pulpit for their own twisted and dangerous views. You can expect to not be banned or modded, but you sure as hell CAN expect to be mercilessly harassed, harangued, and verbally castigated. And I won't speak for anyone else, but I'd bet every penny I have that I'm not the only admin who feels this way. In fact, I intend to have a conversation with the other admins as soon as I can about how the growing userbase and increased activity here may require us to re-think how this place is run and what the rules are. I have no way of knowing whether or not we'll come to any consensus, or what if any changes there will be to the rules and structure of the forum. If there are any changes, some of you will undoubtedly disagree with them and leave in a huff. I'm OK with that, so while I welcome any constructive input any of you may have, whining and bitching will get you ignored like you were Sara Palin after the election.

to quote a famous Scientologist...

change is gonna come. I can feel it.

You know... I have no fucking clue why you think I am one of the "biggest examples of what I was complaining about"... moral relativism? circle-jerk of self-justification and rampant apologia for some of humanity's most reprehensible behavior?

I am at a loss to figure out what the fuck you're referencing.
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: Messier Undertree on March 25, 2009, 03:37:24 PM
Quote from: Dirtytime on March 25, 2009, 03:21:38 PM
I'm sick of feeling as though I have to be nice and fair and consider everybody else's stupid opinions and keep my mouth shut when shit is fucked up here. There is no "Internet Bill of Rights", but if there were, it would NOT be written that site owners and admins have to be nonconfrontational and consider all posters equal.

Ditto. PD.com seems to have become a lot more tolerant of vacuous bullshit as of late.

I've noticed a huge change in the atmosphere of this place over the past few months.

Quote from: Dirtytime on March 25, 2009, 03:21:38 PM
I intend to have a conversation with the other admins as soon as I can about how the growing userbase and increased activity here may require us to re-think how this place is run and what the rules are.

I'm honestly not so sure that a change of rules is needed though.

I'd rather certain people would just speak up a bit more when they see shit that bothers them.
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: LMNO on March 25, 2009, 03:55:49 PM
I'm not sure I'm looking at the same forum.  Sure, I see posts that set off my WTF alarm, but I don't see them being generally accepted, either; as far as I can tell, they've been consistently addressed and challenged.

Then again, I may be responsible for some of the stuff you're talking about - My cooking thread, for example.  If people have a problem with it, I'll just post a link to my blog and continute from there.

I wish you'd be a bit more specific, though.
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: AFK on March 25, 2009, 04:00:41 PM
I'm also a little curious as to what specific threads are contributing to this.  I would like to think my discussions about drugs are not considered to be a part of this.  I know my views are quite different from the majority here, but I in no way have the intent of trying to convince people to agree with me, or to use this place as a bully pulpit to spread those views. 

Now, I have used this place as a means to spread the joys of punnery, and for that I offer no apologies.   :D
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on March 25, 2009, 04:05:03 PM
I don't get it, I think mainly  because I have no idea what the hell "moral relativity" is and can't really be arsed finding out. Suffice to say - if I'm part of this problem - I apologise but hey, I gotta be me.
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: Bebek Sincap Ratatosk on March 25, 2009, 04:07:09 PM
Quote from: Rev. What's-His-Name? on March 25, 2009, 04:00:41 PM
I'm also a little curious as to what specific threads are contributing to this.  I would like to think my discussions about drugs are not considered to be a part of this.  I know my views are quite different from the majority here, but I in no way have the intent of trying to convince people to agree with me, or to use this place as a bully pulpit to spread those views. 

Now, I have used this place as a means to spread the joys of punnery, and for that I offer no apologies.   :D

I've never considered your stuff as anything more than your point of view, justified by your personal experiences. Hell, you even admit when you misstate something, like a few weeks ago. Seems reasonable to me.

But if I am endorsing dangerous views of reprehensible behavior... I'd like to know about it so I can correct it.
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: Thurnez Isa on March 25, 2009, 04:13:07 PM
Quote from: P3nT4gR4m on March 25, 2009, 04:05:03 PM
I don't get it, I think mainly  because I have no idea what the hell "moral relativity" is and can't really be arsed finding out. Suffice to say - if I'm part of this problem - I apologise but hey, I gotta be me.

its a philosophical idea that there is no moral absolutism... ie that right and wrong is all relative - usually due to cultural or social conditioning

Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: Messier Undertree on March 25, 2009, 04:15:47 PM
I really don't think that moral relativism is the source of PD.com's problems right now though, I have to say.
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: Iason Ouabache on March 25, 2009, 04:20:29 PM
1) Everyone stop being paranoid. This (more than likely) isn't about you.

2) ECH, just stop all of the bullshit right now and just ban Nigel and Rat.  It will save us all a lot of time and drama and that's what you want anyways, isn't it?  You've never liked them and want an excuse to drive them away from here. But you can't want to break the "moral code" that has been set up here because you know everyone here will turn on you.  So you are trying to get the other admins on your side to gang up on a few select users that you don't want around.  You can't ban them outright so you have to find a way to make them flounce. Tell me if I'm getting warm with this.
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: Cain on March 25, 2009, 04:27:48 PM
Quote from: Iason Ouabache on March 25, 2009, 04:20:29 PM
1) Everyone stop being paranoid. This (more than likely) isn't about you.

2) ECH, just stop all of the bullshit right now and just ban Nigel and Rat.  It will save us all a lot of time and drama and that's what you want anyways, isn't it?  You've never liked them and want an excuse to drive them away from here. But you can't want to break the "moral code" that has been set up here because you know everyone here will turn on you.  So you are trying to get the other admins on your side to gang up on a few select users that you don't want around.  You can't ban them outright so you have to find a way to make them flounce. Tell me if I'm getting warm with this.

Stop talking bullshit.

kthanxbai
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: bds on March 25, 2009, 04:33:07 PM
Quote from: Iason Ouabache on March 25, 2009, 04:20:29 PM
1) Everyone stop being paranoid. This (more than likely) isn't about you.

2) ECH, just stop all of the bullshit right now and just ban Nigel and Rat.  It will save us all a lot of time and drama and that's what you want anyways, isn't it?  You've never liked them and want an excuse to drive them away from here. But you can't want to break the "moral code" that has been set up here because you know everyone here will turn on you.  So you are trying to get the other admins on your side to gang up on a few select users that you don't want around.  You can't ban them outright so you have to find a way to make them flounce. Tell me if I'm getting warm with this.

Oh, fuck.
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on March 25, 2009, 04:55:20 PM
ECH, why don't you go fuck your own mediocrity in the face? Then maybe you'll feel like you're getting some attention and the respect you so desperately crave but can't seem to muster from people naturally.

I mean, god forbid people use the fucking board as a place to hang out and discuss shit. Especially people whose views you disagree with.

Just fuck off, you judgmental self-righteous prick. Ever heard of the pot calling the kettle black? That would be you to me and Rat.

How about you go screw a retard and write a threatening letter to a homophobe? You'd be making more of a contribution to society than you do here.

Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on March 25, 2009, 05:00:31 PM
I won't be too surprised if you do manage to change the rules so you can eliminate people you don't like and turn this into ECH's Assnuzzling Sychophant Club.
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: Darth Cupcake on March 25, 2009, 05:22:50 PM
And here I just wanna spoon everyone on PDCOM.

I'll even let you guys be the little spoon.
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: Cain on March 25, 2009, 05:26:58 PM
I'm more of a spork, really.
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: Iason Ouabache on March 25, 2009, 05:29:17 PM
Quote from: Cain on March 25, 2009, 04:27:48 PM

Stop talking bullshit.

kthanxbai
Meh.  I'm just tired of all the drama. Let's just put all of the cards on the table and see what happens.
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on March 25, 2009, 05:29:17 PM
Quote from: Dirtytime on March 25, 2009, 03:21:38 PM
I'd like to point out that nowhere in the OP did I mention Apple Talk. I was talking about a problem I felt was endemic to the entire board. A problem which I would NOT have mentioned had it been confined to Apple Talk. I forgot that I'm not allowed to have an opinion about my own fucking website.

I'd also like to point out that Rat and Nigel should go get a blistering case of face herpes, the sores of which will hopefully swell up enough to prevent them from using their mouths. Seriously, fuck you both, you smug self-righteous twatwaffles. Your comments wouldn't piss me off except that, well, you are the two biggest examples of what I was complaining about.

Just so everyone understands, I'm not going to throw a tantrum.

:lulz: :lulz: :lulz:
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: LMNO on March 25, 2009, 05:44:00 PM
Quote from: Darth Cupcake on March 25, 2009, 05:22:50 PM
And here I just wanna spoon everyone on PDCOM.

I'll even let you guys be the little spoon.


My pants just got tighter.


In the crotch.
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: AFK on March 25, 2009, 05:44:31 PM
I think I would be too tall (and married) to be the spoonee. 
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: OPTIMUS PINECONE on March 25, 2009, 05:46:38 PM
Quote from: Dirtytime on March 25, 2009, 03:21:38 PM
I'd like to point out that nowhere in the OP did I mention Apple Talk. I was talking about a problem I felt was endemic to the entire board. A problem which I would NOT have mentioned had it been confined to Apple Talk. I forgot that I'm not allowed to have an opinion about my own fucking website.

I'd also like to point out that Rat and Nigel should go get a blistering case of face herpes, the sores of which will hopefully swell up enough to prevent them from using their mouths. Seriously, fuck you both, you smug self-righteous twatwaffles. Your comments wouldn't piss me off except that, well, you are the two biggest examples of what I was complaining about.

Just so everyone understands, I'm not going to throw a tantrum and start modding/banning/whatever people. I'm not in a funk, I'm not allowing IRL stresses to carry over to PD, and I'm not having one of those occasional moments of mental/emotional instability that everyone has. I'm just not impressed with what this place is turning into. I'm sick of feeling as though I have to be nice and fair and consider everybody else's stupid opinions and keep my mouth shut when shit is fucked up here. There is no "Internet Bill of Rights", but if there were, it would NOT be written that site owners and admins have to be nonconfrontational and consider all posters equal. I won't use my "admin powers" to advance a personal agenda, but I will NOT sit quietly by while a handful of jackasses try to turn this place into a bully pulpit for their own twisted and dangerous views. You can expect to not be banned or modded, but you sure as hell CAN expect to be mercilessly harassed, harangued, and verbally castigated. And I won't speak for anyone else, but I'd bet every penny I have that I'm not the only admin who feels this way. In fact, I intend to have a conversation with the other admins as soon as I can about how the growing userbase and increased activity here may require us to re-think how this place is run and what the rules are. I have no way of knowing whether or not we'll come to any consensus, or what if any changes there will be to the rules and structure of the forum. If there are any changes, some of you will undoubtedly disagree with them and leave in a huff. I'm OK with that, so while I welcome any constructive input any of you may have, whining and bitching will get you ignored like you were Sara Palin after the election.

to quote a famous Scientologist...

change is gonna come. I can feel it.

    You know, I have not been visiting this board for very long at all, on and off for less than a year. The reason I signed up and began posting was because NIGEL is a close friend of mine and OBVIOUSLY this is a large part of her life, so getting on P.D. was like meeting more of her friends. Admittedly, I'm not all too schooled on the BIP/ techncals of DISCORDIA, but I've read through text which NIGEL threw my way and picked out what appealed to me. In my teens and twenties, I was interested in stuff like the Church of the Subgenius, Burroughs, 23, all that, so what I gleamed from P.D. wasn't at all unfamiliar.

    At the time I signed on, I may have been the only total noob on the board, and being a noob on this board as you know, has a militant hazing ritual. I won't go into details. Right now, there are a good number of newer people on here and many of them are young, trying out the scene and may not exactly be the next RAW -

    But also, This board is ESSENTIALLY a group of friends/ associates, and it's really tricky finding out how EVERYONE wants to be communicated with. It's REALLY easy to piss people off on here. My biggest personal obstacles for using the board was the flaming drama. It is often reminiscent of my years working with drag queens, everywhere you turn people are either stomping off or posturing. There are a lot of opinionated people on here. ESPECIALLY the 'regulars' jump people's shit without asking, "what exactly do you mean by that?" first. Some of the 'rock stars' on this board are seriously guilty of some gross double standards, but they get away with it because they have like, 50,000 posts under their panties.

    I would like to see more analytical conversation on here, more productive examination, when a topic is interesting - often times it's obvious that people respond to a thread without having a clue either what they're talking about or what the O.P. was about. But I also come here to just see what's up, catch a giggle or just be amused.

    So, ECH, although I can understand what you're getting at with the creating this thread, it's embarrassing and ridiculous. The door on P.D. is wide open and you can't have a fit about all the other kids arriving to the playspace. One of the things that never fails to make me go "WUT?" is when people announce that they're "leaving the board" because of this or that, as if everyone else is going to scream "no, please don't go!". Talk about drama!

    Instead of having expectations of the board, or the people on it, which is just asking for FAIL, use it as wisely for yourself as you see fit. Personally, I enjoy WADE's retardedness, NIGEL's axe-swinging bitchiness, CANE's sterile insistence (seriously, I want to go to CANE's house and tell him fart jokes until I see him crack a smile) and CRAM's mick-jagger-swagger. Where else are you gonna get this ECH?! Oh, yeah, and TGRR's ultimate nihlism, totally worth the tithing.

    OR KILL ME    
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: AFK on March 25, 2009, 05:51:17 PM
Quote from: OPTIMUS PINECONE on March 25, 2009, 05:46:38 PM
    I would like to see more analytical conversation on here, more productive examination, when a topic is interesting - often times it's obvious that people respond to a thread without having a clue either what they're talking about or what the O.P. was about. But I also come here to just see what's up, catch a giggle or just be amused.

Of all the problems that PD.COM may have, I have to strongly disagree that this is one of them.  I find, compare to other message boards I've been on, people here know their stuff and know how to research and back up their stuff.  Now, in Apple Talk, there invariably will be silliness that invades threads, but that is not the same thing as people now knowing what they are talking about. 
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: Cain on March 25, 2009, 05:52:42 PM
If you think my sense of humour is too carefully hidden, you may not have been paying attention:

http://www.principiadiscordia.com/forum/index.php?topic=20292.msg683927#msg683927

As the most recent example I can think of.
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: Messier Undertree on March 25, 2009, 05:53:14 PM
Who the fuck is OPTIMUS PINECONE and what's with all the indentation? And did he really just call TGRR a nihilist?
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: Bebek Sincap Ratatosk on March 25, 2009, 05:54:00 PM
Quote from: Rev. What's-His-Name? on March 25, 2009, 05:51:17 PM
Quote from: OPTIMUS PINECONE on March 25, 2009, 05:46:38 PM
    I would like to see more analytical conversation on here, more productive examination, when a topic is interesting - often times it's obvious that people respond to a thread without having a clue either what they're talking about or what the O.P. was about. But I also come here to just see what's up, catch a giggle or just be amused.

Of all the problems that PD.COM may have, I have to strongly disagree that this is one of them.  I find, compare to other message boards I've been on, people here know their stuff and know how to research and back up their stuff.  Now, in Apple Talk, there invariably will be silliness that invades threads, but that is not the same thing as people now knowing what they are talking about. 

I think he meant that the replies sometimes don't know what the OP was talking about... I myself am occasionally guilty of that.
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: OPTIMUS PINECONE on March 25, 2009, 05:54:35 PM
Quote from: Rev. What's-His-Name? on March 25, 2009, 05:51:17 PM
Quote from: OPTIMUS PINECONE on March 25, 2009, 05:46:38 PM
    I would like to see more analytical conversation on here, more productive examination, when a topic is interesting - often times it's obvious that people respond to a thread without having a clue either what they're talking about or what the O.P. was about. But I also come here to just see what's up, catch a giggle or just be amused.

Of all the problems that PD.COM may have, I have to strongly disagree that this is one of them.  I find, compare to other message boards I've been on, people here know their stuff and know how to research and back up their stuff.  Now, in Apple Talk, there invariably will be silliness that invades threads, but that is not the same thing as people now knowing what they are talking about. 

    Now girlfriend, I didn't say "at all" (see CANE example), I just said more. Or more often, that. And I'm not comparing P.D. to other boards.
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: Messier Undertree on March 25, 2009, 05:55:19 PM
Quote from: OPTIMUS PINECONE on March 25, 2009, 05:54:35 PMCANE

Who?
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: Cain on March 25, 2009, 05:55:21 PM
Quote from: Ratatosk on March 25, 2009, 05:54:00 PM
Quote from: Rev. What's-His-Name? on March 25, 2009, 05:51:17 PM
Quote from: OPTIMUS PINECONE on March 25, 2009, 05:46:38 PM
    I would like to see more analytical conversation on here, more productive examination, when a topic is interesting - often times it's obvious that people respond to a thread without having a clue either what they're talking about or what the O.P. was about. But I also come here to just see what's up, catch a giggle or just be amused.

Of all the problems that PD.COM may have, I have to strongly disagree that this is one of them.  I find, compare to other message boards I've been on, people here know their stuff and know how to research and back up their stuff.  Now, in Apple Talk, there invariably will be silliness that invades threads, but that is not the same thing as people now knowing what they are talking about. 

I think he meant that the replies sometimes don't know what the OP was talking about... I myself am occasionally guilty of that.

I'm totally guilty of that.
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: OPTIMUS PINECONE on March 25, 2009, 05:56:02 PM
     I am Optimus Pinecone. Who the fuck are you? (can you feel the flame, girl?)
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on March 25, 2009, 05:56:30 PM
Quote from: Cain on March 25, 2009, 05:55:21 PM
Quote from: Ratatosk on March 25, 2009, 05:54:00 PM
Quote from: Rev. What's-His-Name? on March 25, 2009, 05:51:17 PM
Quote from: OPTIMUS PINECONE on March 25, 2009, 05:46:38 PM
     I would like to see more analytical conversation on here, more productive examination, when a topic is interesting - often times it's obvious that people respond to a thread without having a clue either what they're talking about or what the O.P. was about. But I also come here to just see what's up, catch a giggle or just be amused.

Of all the problems that PD.COM may have, I have to strongly disagree that this is one of them.  I find, compare to other message boards I've been on, people here know their stuff and know how to research and back up their stuff.  Now, in Apple Talk, there invariably will be silliness that invades threads, but that is not the same thing as people now knowing what they are talking about. 

I think he meant that the replies sometimes don't know what the OP was talking about... I myself am occasionally guilty of that.

I'm totally guilty of that.

I'm doing it right now.
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: LMNO on March 25, 2009, 05:56:35 PM
I'd suggest that due to the massive thread drift that naturally happens here, often the OP has literally nothing to do with the current post, and doesn't need to be addressed.
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: OPTIMUS PINECONE on March 25, 2009, 05:57:06 PM
Quote from: Malachite on March 25, 2009, 05:55:19 PM
Quote from: OPTIMUS PINECONE on March 25, 2009, 05:54:35 PMCANE

Who?

     You know, CAIN
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: Messier Undertree on March 25, 2009, 05:57:31 PM
I just went through 5 cans of Irn-Bru in an hour. Who else likes Irn-Bru?
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: Thurnez Isa on March 25, 2009, 05:58:27 PM
Quote from: OPTIMUS PINECONE on March 25, 2009, 05:57:06 PM
Quote from: Malachite on March 25, 2009, 05:55:19 PM
Quote from: OPTIMUS PINECONE on March 25, 2009, 05:54:35 PMCANE

Who?

     You know, CAIN

Take that MAALCHITE
:argh!:
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: Cain on March 25, 2009, 05:59:09 PM
Quote from: OPTIMUS PINECONE on March 25, 2009, 05:57:06 PM
Quote from: Malachite on March 25, 2009, 05:55:19 PM
Quote from: OPTIMUS PINECONE on March 25, 2009, 05:54:35 PMCANE

Who?

     You know, CAIN

Who?  :p
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: OPTIMUS PINECONE on March 25, 2009, 05:59:47 PM
Quote from: LMNO on March 25, 2009, 05:56:35 PM
I'd suggest that due to the massive thread drift that naturally happens here, often the OP has literally nothing to do with the current post, and doesn't need to be addressed.

    In the instance, which one is allegedly responding to the O.P. - not when, 5 pages later a film review turns into what are you wearing right now.
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: Messier Undertree on March 25, 2009, 06:00:29 PM
Quote from: Thurnez Isa on March 25, 2009, 05:58:27 PM
Take that MAALCHITE
:argh!:

'sup, brah.
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: OPTIMUS PINECONE on March 25, 2009, 06:01:40 PM
Quote from: Maalchite on March 25, 2009, 05:57:31 PM
I just went through 5 cans of Irn-Bru in an hour. Who else likes Irn-Bru?

    I've been going totally ghetto lately. CAMO 'Black Ice' - 10.5% in 24oz cans. guaranteed blackout for $5-
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: LMNO on March 25, 2009, 06:02:13 PM
Quote from: OPTIMUS PINECONE on March 25, 2009, 05:59:47 PM
    In the instance, which one is allegedly responding to the O.P. - not when, 5 pages later a film review turns into what are you wearing right now.


SYNTAX ERROR: REPEAT.
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: OPTIMUS PINECONE on March 25, 2009, 06:04:42 PM
     What are you wearing right now?
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: bds on March 25, 2009, 06:05:02 PM
Quote from: Maalchite on March 25, 2009, 05:57:31 PM
I just went through 5 cans of Irn-Bru in an hour. Who else likes Irn-Bru?

Fuck yeah, me!
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: Messier Undertree on March 25, 2009, 06:08:43 PM
Quote from: The Borderline Simpleton on March 25, 2009, 06:05:02 PM
Quote from: Maalchite on March 25, 2009, 05:57:31 PM
I just went through 5 cans of Irn-Bru in an hour. Who else likes Irn-Bru?

Fuck yeah, me!

Based on this revelation, I might let you live longer than the rest of the English come the invasion.

I was in Derby a while back and Irn-Bru was like 30p for a 2 litre bottle in Asda. It's like £1.29 here, where people actually drink it.

Sassenachs could be bathing in the stuff at that price but instead you choose to stay at home and drink tea and eat babies and whatever it is you do. There's something wrong with you people, I swear.
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: bds on March 25, 2009, 06:16:17 PM
Oh, Irn-Bru's cheap as fuck over here, it's like 20p cheaper than coke a bottle.
Which is good for me. :)

Also, I don't really like tea. I do have a strange, and slightly disturbing, fondness for babies though.
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on March 25, 2009, 06:17:02 PM
The perfect drink would be beer that tastes exactly like Irn-Bru with a hint of breastmilk
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: Messier Undertree on March 25, 2009, 06:19:45 PM
Quote from: P3nT4gR4m on March 25, 2009, 06:17:02 PM
The perfect drink would be beer that tastes exactly like Irn-Bru with a hint of breastmilk

Wow, it's like all of my interests combined in one drink.
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on March 25, 2009, 06:22:00 PM
I've given this a lot of thought
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: Bebek Sincap Ratatosk on March 25, 2009, 06:40:33 PM
I am still confused... is ECH trolling us here, or is he serious?? If serious, could someone point me to wherever my Hitleresque posts are? I'd like to make sure that any "twisted and dangerous views" I'm promoting are ones I'm intentionally promoting... I'd hate to accidentally promote a twisted and dangerous view that I hadn't intended to.
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on March 25, 2009, 06:53:03 PM
I'm assuming he's trolling until otherwise informed.
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: Richter on March 25, 2009, 07:07:39 PM
What I'm seeing is an overload of agreement.  Personally, what I think makes things here worthwhile is the disagreement and critical attitude.  It keeps us from rambling on unchecked when no one cares, and gives us a rigorous sounding board for our wit, ideas, and works.  Personally, I'd rather get a load of snark and criticism for something I put up here than drown under a pile of mittens.  The mittens just tell me someone thought it was worth a passing acknowledge.   The criticism, harsh or level, gives me something I can work with.  If me, or ANYONE takes it to heart and get pissy, or dismisses it when it was saying something worthwhile, that's our own problem.  I'd rather get that kind of feedback.  None of us can expect to get it for free, if that's what's being sought, or if that's the climate that's falling off, anyone who wants to play that way needs to keep awake, active, thinking, and vocal in their comments.  
I'm working to step up doing this.  I hope to find folks who are also participating.

OR: Dismiss because I'm a circlejerking, toadying, cult of personality bend over.

OR: Dismiss because I'm reacting to a troll.

Dissmissal is easily returned, and costs me nothing.
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: LMNO on March 25, 2009, 07:16:12 PM
:mittens:
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: Bebek Sincap Ratatosk on March 25, 2009, 07:17:03 PM
Quote from: LMNO on March 25, 2009, 07:16:12 PM
:mittens:
:lulz:
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: Richter on March 25, 2009, 07:18:35 PM
Subtle.
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: Kai on March 25, 2009, 07:28:26 PM
Fuck this board.

Later.
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: LMNO on March 25, 2009, 07:33:47 PM
Oh, for Christ's sake.
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: AFK on March 25, 2009, 07:38:38 PM
Aww c'mon everybody.  Can't we just have fun and not think so darn hard about it? 
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: Bebek Sincap Ratatosk on March 25, 2009, 07:38:50 PM
Quote from: LMNO on March 25, 2009, 07:33:47 PM
Oh, for Christ's sake.

I don't think he drank rice wine. I'm pretty sure it was all grape in Israel...
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: AFK on March 25, 2009, 07:39:37 PM
In either case I bet it went right through him. 
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: Iason Ouabache on March 25, 2009, 07:40:00 PM
Quote from: Rev. What's-His-Name? on March 25, 2009, 07:38:38 PM
Aww c'mon everybody.  Can't we just have fun and not think so darn hard about it? 
NO!!!!    :whack:
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: Bebek Sincap Ratatosk on March 25, 2009, 08:13:11 PM
Quote from: Rev. What's-His-Name? on March 25, 2009, 07:39:37 PM
In either case I bet it went right through him. 

Well, it wouldn't have except for that gaping hole on the one side.... dude looked like the Titanic post-iceberg.
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on March 25, 2009, 08:31:34 PM
Quote from: Kai on March 25, 2009, 07:28:26 PM
Fuck this board.

Later.

:lulz:
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: AFK on March 25, 2009, 08:32:02 PM
Quote from: Ratatosk on March 25, 2009, 08:13:11 PM
Quote from: Rev. What's-His-Name? on March 25, 2009, 07:39:37 PM
In either case I bet it went right through him. 

Well, it wouldn't have except for that gaping hole on the one side.... dude looked like the Titanic post-iceberg.

Yeah, that's kinda what I was going for. 
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: Elder Iptuous on March 25, 2009, 08:34:21 PM
Aw, Rat... that was a pretty good pun you obviated, too.
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: Bebek Sincap Ratatosk on March 25, 2009, 08:34:52 PM
Quote from: Iptuous on March 25, 2009, 08:34:21 PM
Aw, Rat... that was a pretty good pun you obviated, too.

I am fail :(
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: AFK on March 25, 2009, 08:35:32 PM
That's okay.  You just need to enroll in the RWHN Puninary Institute.  Just send me $5000 cash and I will enroll you. 
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: Elder Iptuous on March 25, 2009, 08:36:06 PM
actually i totally misused the word 'obviate'.  WE are fail....  :oops:
what is the word for 'to make obvious' then?
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: AFK on March 25, 2009, 08:37:22 PM
Send me $5000 and I'll tell you. 
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: Elder Iptuous on March 25, 2009, 08:52:08 PM
Quote from: Rev. What's-His-Name? on March 25, 2009, 08:37:22 PM
Send me $5000 and I'll tell you. 
Do you accept Z$?
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: East Coast Hustle on March 25, 2009, 09:05:31 PM
Quote from: Iason Ouabache on March 25, 2009, 04:20:29 PM
1) Everyone stop being paranoid. This (more than likely) isn't about you.

2) ECH, just stop all of the bullshit right now and just ban Nigel and Rat.  It will save us all a lot of time and drama and that's what you want anyways, isn't it?  You've never liked them and want an excuse to drive them away from here. But you can't want to break the "moral code" that has been set up here because you know everyone here will turn on you.  So you are trying to get the other admins on your side to gang up on a few select users that you don't want around.  You can't ban them outright so you have to find a way to make them flounce. Tell me if I'm getting warm with this.

wow. I gotta say, I'm a little surprised that my desire to nudge this place back in the direction I had always intended it to go is being interpreted like this.

I have no interest in "making people flounce" or any other stupid shit like that. I guess I need to make it really clear that this is not part of some personal vendetta, hidden agenda, or anything else like that. I was just trying to air some of my concerns and also let people know that I wouldn't be around very much for the next little while so they could contact me through other means if my official presence here was needed at some point. It seems as though alot of you have some serious emotional investment in an internet message board and while that is understandable, at some point you need to remember that, you know, there's more to your lives than PD.com. This thread was never intended to be directed at any specific posters. Nigel and Rat made some bullshit comments that I took exception to, as I have taken exception to many of their comments recently. In fact, until very recently, Nigel was one of my favorite posters here. I certainly don't want her to leave, I just want her to pull her head out of her ass.

Anyway, you guys keep on building this mountain. I hear the moles underneath it all have some cold beer, so I'll catch y'all later.
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: BADGE OF HONOR on March 25, 2009, 09:09:34 PM
Quote from: Dirtytime on March 25, 2009, 09:05:31 PM
Anyway, you guys keep on building this mountain. I hear the moles underneath it all have some cold beer, so I'll catch y'all later.

Maybe if you quit being fucking vague these people wouldn't be squabbling over exactly what you mean?

I've been silent on the subject so far but that's because I don't have any problem with ignoring what's annoying, or leaving if it can't be ignored.  Beyond that, who gives a shit?
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: East Coast Hustle on March 25, 2009, 09:29:35 PM
Quote from: Nigel on March 25, 2009, 08:31:34 PM
Quote from: Kai on March 25, 2009, 07:28:26 PM
Fuck this board.

Later.

:lulz:

just out of idle curiosity, why have you turned into such an insufferable prick lately? you really used to be pretty fuckin' cool.
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on March 25, 2009, 09:31:23 PM
Quote from: Dirtytime on March 25, 2009, 09:05:31 PMIn fact, until very recently, Nigel was one of my favorite posters here. I certainly don't want her to leave, I just want her to pull her head out of her ass.

You mean, you want me to post the way you want me to post, instead of the way I want to post?

You want me to talk about the things you find interesting, instead of the things I find interesting?

Because obviously if I'm posting about something that's of no interest to you, my head MUST be up my ass, right?

Here, let me just change my entire MO to kowtow to your desires, Grand Master ECH. What would you like me to be posting?
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on March 25, 2009, 09:34:35 PM
Quote from: Dirtytime on March 25, 2009, 09:29:35 PM
Quote from: Nigel on March 25, 2009, 08:31:34 PM
Quote from: Kai on March 25, 2009, 07:28:26 PM
Fuck this board.

Later.

:lulz:

just out of idle curiosity, why have you turned into such an insufferable prick lately? you really used to be pretty fuckin' cool.

Mostly because I used to be happy, and now I'm angry, confused, and depressed. It happens when people you love leave you or kick you aside in favor of some manipulative possessive cunt they're too weak to get out from under the heel of, and then your life falls apart.
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: BADGE OF HONOR on March 25, 2009, 09:35:22 PM
Quote from: Nigel on March 25, 2009, 09:34:35 PM
Quote from: Dirtytime on March 25, 2009, 09:29:35 PM
Quote from: Nigel on March 25, 2009, 08:31:34 PM
Quote from: Kai on March 25, 2009, 07:28:26 PM
Fuck this board.

Later.

:lulz:

just out of idle curiosity, why have you turned into such an insufferable prick lately? you really used to be pretty fuckin' cool.

Mostly because I used to be happy, and now I'm angry, confused, and depressed. It happens when people you love leave you or kick you aside in favor of some manipulative possessive cunt they're too weak to get out from under the heel of.

Pretty sure he was talking about Kai there.
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: East Coast Hustle on March 25, 2009, 09:37:16 PM
Quote from: BADGE OF HONOR on March 25, 2009, 09:09:34 PM
Quote from: Dirtytime on March 25, 2009, 09:05:31 PM
Anyway, you guys keep on building this mountain. I hear the moles underneath it all have some cold beer, so I'll catch y'all later.

Maybe if you quit being fucking vague these people wouldn't be squabbling over exactly what you mean?

I've been silent on the subject so far but that's because I don't have any problem with ignoring what's annoying, or leaving if it can't be ignored.  Beyond that, who gives a shit?

lemme give you a hypothetical and you tell me what you think...

you have been hitchhiking to work for a few years. The same person always picks you up. They seem nice enough and for the most part the conversation doesn't make you want to stab your own ears out, but there are several things about their car that REALLY annoy you. These things are easily fixable, but it's not your car and they don't have to keep giving you rides, so you never say anything.

Then one day, they try to kick you out of the car while the car is going down the freeway at 70mph. Their plan backfires, they abandon the car and run off and you are left in possession of the vehicle and the title, making the car legally yours.

Would you drive the car around for a few more years without fixing what annoyed you about it just because the hitchhikers that YOU picked up started bitching about the changes you wanted to make?
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: East Coast Hustle on March 25, 2009, 09:44:19 PM
Quote from: BADGE OF HONOR on March 25, 2009, 09:35:22 PM
Quote from: Nigel on March 25, 2009, 09:34:35 PM
Quote from: Dirtytime on March 25, 2009, 09:29:35 PM
Quote from: Nigel on March 25, 2009, 08:31:34 PM
Quote from: Kai on March 25, 2009, 07:28:26 PM
Fuck this board.

Later.

:lulz:

just out of idle curiosity, why have you turned into such an insufferable prick lately? you really used to be pretty fuckin' cool.

Mostly because I used to be happy, and now I'm angry, confused, and depressed. It happens when people you love leave you or kick you aside in favor of some manipulative possessive cunt they're too weak to get out from under the heel of.

Pretty sure he was talking about Kai there.

no, I was talking about Nigel. Kai is, in fact, the oldest internet-friend I have which is why I let my objectivity slip a little.

Nigel, however, seems to think that it's OK to take her personal problems out on posters at PD that she's never even met in real life.

Nigel, I don't give a ratfuck what you do or don't post or whether or not I agree with it. you seem to be under the impression that no one is allowed to criticize what you have to say here and that if they do they're trying to be some sort of "board nanny", but the truth is that's nothing more than a subtle form of censorship. If you want to continue to be a prick for no reason other than to make yourself feel better about the things in your life that you can't muster the emotional fortitude to deal with constructively, that's your business. All I ask is that you stop being so goddamn unfunny about it.
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: East Coast Hustle on March 25, 2009, 09:52:20 PM
I'd also like to apologize to Rat, whose comments I definitely over-reacted to and whose occasional bouts of moral relativism are at least backed by logical arguments and not laden with appeals to emotion, which makes them easier to digest and/or ignore.
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: BADGE OF HONOR on March 25, 2009, 09:52:31 PM
Quote from: Dirtytime on March 25, 2009, 09:37:16 PM
Quote from: BADGE OF HONOR on March 25, 2009, 09:09:34 PM
Quote from: Dirtytime on March 25, 2009, 09:05:31 PM
Anyway, you guys keep on building this mountain. I hear the moles underneath it all have some cold beer, so I'll catch y'all later.

Maybe if you quit being fucking vague these people wouldn't be squabbling over exactly what you mean?

I've been silent on the subject so far but that's because I don't have any problem with ignoring what's annoying, or leaving if it can't be ignored.  Beyond that, who gives a shit?

lemme give you a hypothetical and you tell me what you think...

you have been hitchhiking to work for a few years. The same person always picks you up. They seem nice enough and for the most part the conversation doesn't make you want to stab your own ears out, but there are several things about their car that REALLY annoy you. These things are easily fixable, but it's not your car and they don't have to keep giving you rides, so you never say anything.

Then one day, they try to kick you out of the car while the car is going down the freeway at 70mph. Their plan backfires, they abandon the car and run off and you are left in possession of the vehicle and the title, making the car legally yours.

Would you drive the car around for a few more years without fixing what annoyed you about it just because the hitchhikers that YOU picked up started bitching about the changes you wanted to make?

Okay, but why are you starting now rather than when you got put in charge?  And what exactly do you want to "fix"?
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: wade on March 25, 2009, 09:55:01 PM
Quote from: BADGE OF HONOR on March 25, 2009, 09:52:31 PM
Quote from: Dirtytime on March 25, 2009, 09:37:16 PM
Quote from: BADGE OF HONOR on March 25, 2009, 09:09:34 PM
Quote from: Dirtytime on March 25, 2009, 09:05:31 PM
Anyway, you guys keep on building this mountain. I hear the moles underneath it all have some cold beer, so I'll catch y'all later.

Maybe if you quit being fucking vague these people wouldn't be squabbling over exactly what you mean?

I've been silent on the subject so far but that's because I don't have any problem with ignoring what's annoying, or leaving if it can't be ignored.  Beyond that, who gives a shit?

lemme give you a hypothetical and you tell me what you think...

you have been hitchhiking to work for a few years. The same person always picks you up. They seem nice enough and for the most part the conversation doesn't make you want to stab your own ears out, but there are several things about their car that REALLY annoy you. These things are easily fixable, but it's not your car and they don't have to keep giving you rides, so you never say anything.

Then one day, they try to kick you out of the car while the car is going down the freeway at 70mph. Their plan backfires, they abandon the car and run off and you are left in possession of the vehicle and the title, making the car legally yours.

Would you drive the car around for a few more years without fixing what annoyed you about it just because the hitchhikers that YOU picked up started bitching about the changes you wanted to make?

Okay, but why are you starting now rather than when you got put in charge?  And what exactly do you want to "fix"?

ITS IS OBVIOUSLY THE WINDSHIELD WIPER.

OPEN YOUR EYES FOR FUCK SAKE.
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on March 25, 2009, 09:56:59 PM
I can't get past driving after the bastard that tried to lob me out the car and wheelspinning on his face :|

on a more serious note, tho, I can't help thinking a bus might be a slightly better metaphor and the "things" you don't like are the other passengers - "people"

Question is banhammer or flaming?
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: East Coast Hustle on March 25, 2009, 10:01:38 PM
flaming.

always flaming.

banhammer for personal reasons is the last refuge of the inexcusably weak.
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: bds on March 25, 2009, 10:04:33 PM
Guys. I think we all need to calm the fuck down and listen to what everyone else is trying to say. I mean, for fuck's sake. As much as I like this place, and the posters on it, I'm seriously considering leaving (yeah i know no great loss and all that)

While I can see ECH's point, this board does seem to have gone downhill recently (IMO), I think that we all need to stop being so goddamn aggressive. I mean, this isn't some shitty little site we're all trolling, is it? Is it? I just don't see why you'd particularly want to be screaming insults at people you were conversing perfectly naturally with last week. It's fucking ridiculous.

And before you all start screaming at me for butting in, I'd just like to say that I post this with the best possible intentions. I like this site, and don't want to see it destroyed by stupid little personal vendettas.
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: BADGE OF HONOR on March 25, 2009, 10:05:05 PM
I mean, is it really any worse than the old stab/pie/tequila routines that used to run all over everything?  There's a much much larger percentage of constructive threads where people actually do things besides internet-murder/internet-fuck each other.  Is Nigel really worse than EVT?  And how do you, ECH, plan to "fix" anything without abusing your powers as admin?  Yes, this place has changed (thankfuckinggod), but it's remained stable and self-administering for longer than most internet communities survive.  Communities change, people come and go, and I don't know of any way of steering it in any one direction without some fucking ham-fisted MW-style moderation.
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: wade on March 25, 2009, 10:14:03 PM
BRING BACK DARUKO!!!!!
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: Iason Ouabache on March 25, 2009, 10:20:10 PM
Quote from: BADGE OF HONOR on March 25, 2009, 10:05:05 PM
And how do you, ECH, plan to "fix" anything without abusing your powers as admin?  
This is what I was trying to say earlier with my annoying little whine.  How do you plan on reshaping this place without modding/banning people you don't like? Especially if you aren't here very often.
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: Messier Undertree on March 25, 2009, 10:27:23 PM
Quote from: Dirtytime on March 25, 2009, 10:01:38 PM
flaming.

always flaming.

banhammer for personal reasons is the last refuge of the inexcusably weak.

I can respect that. To be honest, I was slightly taken aback at the mention of changing the rules and I'm relieved that you didn't mean it in that way.

What type of rule changes do you plan to make though?
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: Messier Undertree on March 25, 2009, 10:28:04 PM
Quote from: BADGE OF HONOR on March 25, 2009, 10:05:05 PM
Yes, this place has changed

For the better? I feel like it has improved since the pineal days, but that it's way past its peak now.

Quote from: BADGE OF HONOR on March 25, 2009, 10:05:05 PMbut it's remained stable and self-administering for longer than most internet communities survive. Communities change, people come and go, and I don't know of any way of steering it in any one direction without some fucking ham-fisted MW-style moderation.

As far as I can tell, ECH wasn't threatening to mod, ban or otherwise abuse his powers as admin.

He was just voicing his opinion, one that he's had for a long time and hasn't said anything before out of some sort of expectation to stay neutral as admin (or that's how I understood it, at least). And it's an opinion that I happen to agree with, somewhat.
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: wade on March 25, 2009, 10:28:46 PM
CREATE A FLAME HIT LIST.  and pay people with cake...
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: Messier Undertree on March 25, 2009, 10:29:33 PM
'sup wade.
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: wade on March 25, 2009, 10:30:10 PM
just realized how annoying my idea was...
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: BADGE OF HONOR on March 25, 2009, 10:31:38 PM
Quote from: wade on March 25, 2009, 10:30:10 PM
just realized how annoying my idea was...

You'd be top of the list anyway.
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: Faust on March 25, 2009, 10:52:04 PM
Quote from: wade on March 25, 2009, 10:14:03 PM
BRING BACK DARUKO!!!!!
Not happening.
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: Faust on March 25, 2009, 10:56:09 PM
Quote from: Kai on March 25, 2009, 07:28:26 PM
Fuck this board.

Later.
In fairness now, this is like your third flounce this year.
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: Fredfredly ⊂(◉‿◉)つ on March 25, 2009, 11:09:29 PM
Quote from: Faust on March 25, 2009, 10:56:09 PM
Quote from: Kai on March 25, 2009, 07:28:26 PM
Fuck this board.

Later.
In fairness now, this is like your third flounce this year.

:lulz:
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on March 25, 2009, 11:10:24 PM
Quote from: Dirtytime on March 25, 2009, 10:01:38 PM
flaming.

always flaming.

banhammer for personal reasons is the last refuge of the inexcusably weak.

That's a relief, you had me WTF-ing for a minute there.
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: Faust on March 25, 2009, 11:14:36 PM
One thing that has been disturbing me is how much talk of banning seems to be coming up (during the Dk thing) and a couple of times before that.
I hate to think that it is in the forefront of peoples minds, and I'd like to know why its so topical...
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: BADGE OF HONOR on March 25, 2009, 11:21:56 PM
It's a disease.
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on March 25, 2009, 11:23:49 PM
Banning freaks me out cos I like it here and if bannings start I can't help thinking I'll catch the fucker in the neck eventually.

I'm my own worst enemy tho - when a mod says "pledge" I can't help thinking it's so bullshit and contrived I can't help but goad them with the option of banning the troll du jour. With a bit of luck I'll never be able to sway them, tho. So far so good...
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: Messier Undertree on March 25, 2009, 11:26:27 PM
Quote from: P3nT4gR4m on March 25, 2009, 11:23:49 PMBanning freaks me out cos I like it here and if bannings start I can't help thinking I'll catch the fucker in the neck eventually.

This. As a troll by nature, the thought of being banned on a board that I actually like bothers me.

Although, I think people only ever bring up banning out of paranoia or when they want to insult the mods.
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: Faust on March 25, 2009, 11:32:01 PM
Quote from: Malachite on March 25, 2009, 11:26:27 PM
Quote from: P3nT4gR4m on March 25, 2009, 11:23:49 PMBanning freaks me out cos I like it here and if bannings start I can't help thinking I'll catch the fucker in the neck eventually.

This. As a troll by nature, the thought of being banned on a board that I actually like bothers me.

Although, I think people only ever bring up banning out of paranoia or when they want to insult the mods.
well if its any help the entire admin lot know the feeling and have been banned from many many forums
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: Faust on March 25, 2009, 11:34:18 PM
Quote from: P3nT4gR4m on March 25, 2009, 11:23:49 PM
Banning freaks me out cos I like it here and if bannings start I can't help thinking I'll catch the fucker in the neck eventually.

I'm my own worst enemy tho - when a mod says "pledge" I can't help thinking it's so bullshit and contrived I can't help but goad them with the option of banning the troll du jour. With a bit of luck I'll never be able to sway them, tho. So far so good...
The pledge thing annoys me. just because i don't like reading the same thing over and over. its just as bad.
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: Messier Undertree on March 25, 2009, 11:38:06 PM
Quote from: Faust on March 25, 2009, 11:34:18 PMThe pledge thing annoys me. just because i don't like reading the same thing over and over. its just as bad.

The worst thing about the "pledge" is that people create threads for it, write out huge posts about why they're doing it and then no one actually sticks to it.

It just ends up giving the troll more attention than they would otherwise have had.
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: AFK on March 25, 2009, 11:42:07 PM
I'll be honest in that I still hang around here mostly because of certain spags I've become attached to over the years and who I would hate to lose touch with.  Not to say I don't like the discussions and so on, so I guess all the peripheral noise just doesn't bother me one way or the other. 
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on March 25, 2009, 11:45:06 PM
Quote from: Dirtytime on March 25, 2009, 09:44:19 PM

Nigel, I don't give a ratfuck what you do or don't post or whether or not I agree with it. you seem to be under the impression that no one is allowed to criticize what you have to say here and that if they do they're trying to be some sort of "board nanny", but the truth is that's nothing more than a subtle form of censorship. If you want to continue to be a prick for no reason other than to make yourself feel better about the things in your life that you can't muster the emotional fortitude to deal with constructively, that's your business. All I ask is that you stop being so goddamn unfunny about it.

Fuck you, you judgmental, boring cunt. I'm not taking shit out on you fuckers, and half the shit I post is funny to me, and if you don't like it, piss up a tree with your mouth open.
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on March 25, 2009, 11:45:50 PM
Quote from: Malachite on March 25, 2009, 11:38:06 PM
Quote from: Faust on March 25, 2009, 11:34:18 PMThe pledge thing annoys me. just because i don't like reading the same thing over and over. its just as bad.

The worst thing about the "pledge" is that people create threads for it, write out huge posts about why they're doing it and then no one actually sticks to it.

It just ends up giving the troll more attention than they would otherwise have had.

With trolls I tend to just chew the thing til I get bored then that's all she wrote I write.

Announcing this to the world is way too passive aggressive for me. I don't do passive aggressive, I do aggressive aggressive then I get tired and fall asleep with bones sticking out my mouth.

The bit that always strikes me as weird is that I never considered myself a troll. Still don't - I can't be arsed, but a lot of people who pride themselves on it seem to get sucked in regardless. Meh, maybe I'm reading it wrong. Like I said - I know fuck all about trolling. All I do is spew vitriol for comedy sake.
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on March 25, 2009, 11:48:42 PM
To clarify, ECH, the reason I sound like a different person online is because I AM A DIFFERENT FUCKING PERSON. I used to be all sunshine and fucking lollipops, but now I'm not. OK? I'm not taking anything out on anyone, I'm just angrier and more hateful. So you liked me then and you don't like me now. I don't fucking care; choke on your own vomit and die.
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: Triple Zero on March 25, 2009, 11:49:44 PM
Quote from: Malachite on March 25, 2009, 05:57:31 PM
I just went through 5 cans of Irn-Bru in an hour. Who else likes Irn-Bru?

OH GOD YES :fap:
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on March 25, 2009, 11:51:38 PM
Or ban me or something. I know, it's terrible that a bitter cunt like me would waste your time by having opinions about retard rape, political harassment or that purple eris bitch, so make a rule against it, already.
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: Messier Undertree on March 25, 2009, 11:56:39 PM
Quote from: Malachite on March 25, 2009, 11:26:27 PM
Although, I think people only ever bring up banning out of paranoia or when they want to insult the mods.

Quote from: Nigel on March 25, 2009, 11:51:38 PMOr ban me or something.

For example.
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: Faust on March 26, 2009, 12:00:31 AM
Quote from: Nigel on March 25, 2009, 11:45:06 PM

Fuck you, you judgmental, boring cunt. I'm not taking shit out on you fuckers, and half the shit I post is funny to me, and if you don't like it, piss up a tree with your mouth open.
Quote from: Nigel on March 25, 2009, 11:48:42 PM
To clarify, ECH, the reason I sound like a different person online is because I AM A DIFFERENT FUCKING PERSON. I used to be all sunshine and fucking lollipops, but now I'm not. OK? I'm not taking anything out on anyone, I'm just angrier and more hateful. So you liked me then and you don't like me now. I don't fucking care; choke on your own vomit and die.
um isn't this a contradiction?
Im not taking it out on you because of whats happened....
But I am a meaner hateful person because of it.

Also its unfair to pull the ban card when someone is criticizing you, he is entitled to his opinions without it having to come back to the control panel.
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: Faust on March 26, 2009, 12:01:20 AM
Quote from: Malachite on March 25, 2009, 11:56:39 PM
Quote from: Malachite on March 25, 2009, 11:26:27 PM
Although, I think people only ever bring up banning out of paranoia or when they want to insult the mods.

Quote from: Nigel on March 25, 2009, 11:51:38 PMOr ban me or something.

For example.
mod persecution ITT
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: Faust on March 26, 2009, 12:05:21 AM
Quote from: P3nT4gR4m on March 25, 2009, 11:45:50 PM
Quote from: Malachite on March 25, 2009, 11:38:06 PM
Quote from: Faust on March 25, 2009, 11:34:18 PMThe pledge thing annoys me. just because i don't like reading the same thing over and over. its just as bad.

The worst thing about the "pledge" is that people create threads for it, write out huge posts about why they're doing it and then no one actually sticks to it.

It just ends up giving the troll more attention than they would otherwise have had.

With trolls I tend to just chew the thing til I get bored then that's all she wrote I write.

Announcing this to the world is way too passive aggressive for me. I don't do passive aggressive, I do aggressive aggressive then I get tired and fall asleep with bones sticking out my mouth.

The bit that always strikes me as weird is that I never considered myself a troll. Still don't - I can't be arsed, but a lot of people who pride themselves on it seem to get sucked in regardless. Meh, maybe I'm reading it wrong. Like I said - I know fuck all about trolling. All I do is spew vitriol for comedy sake.
A load of people who talk about trolling have it confused with creating forum drama.
I mean that can be part of it, but then you see people getting suckered in by pretty basic techniques here who claim to be trolls.
Flaming and bull is a tiny part of what a troll can be :(
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on March 26, 2009, 12:07:26 AM
Quote from: Faust on March 26, 2009, 12:00:31 AM
Quote from: Nigel on March 25, 2009, 11:45:06 PM

Fuck you, you judgmental, boring cunt. I'm not taking shit out on you fuckers, and half the shit I post is funny to me, and if you don't like it, piss up a tree with your mouth open.
Quote from: Nigel on March 25, 2009, 11:48:42 PM
To clarify, ECH, the reason I sound like a different person online is because I AM A DIFFERENT FUCKING PERSON. I used to be all sunshine and fucking lollipops, but now I'm not. OK? I'm not taking anything out on anyone, I'm just angrier and more hateful. So you liked me then and you don't like me now. I don't fucking care; choke on your own vomit and die.
um isn't this a contradiction?
Im not taking it out on you because of whats happened....
But I am a meaner hateful person because of it.

Also its unfair to pull the ban card when someone is criticizing you, he is entitled to his opinions without it having to come back to the control panel.


How is that a contradiction? People change. Sometimes assholes become nicer. Sometimes nice people become assholes. I guess you could say that I'm now taking out my increased assholiness on everyone in the whole fucking world, but it's not like I'm singling this board out to be the target of my increased hatred and bitterness toward everything that exists.

And, oh, boo hoo, ECH keeps bringing up how much he hates the way the board is going, and especially me, and how he's going to make changes to the rules to make it better, but it's really fucking unfair of me to say "so change the rules so you can ban me".

Fucking cry me a river.
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on March 26, 2009, 12:09:18 AM
ECH didn't have to single me out as the primary reason for his discontent, and I'm not going to feel sorry for him.
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: Triple Zero on March 26, 2009, 12:12:37 AM
hey, ehm, could anyone maybe explain me (and I'm pretty sure a whole horde of other confused people) just what exactly ECH is going on about?

what's the problem? something with Nigel, but not really cause he said it was in fact a sort of thing with the entire board. except for Apple Talk (which is where we talk about eggs).

honest, I've tried figuring it out, given what ECH posted ITT so far, but I have no fucking clue. and the car metaphor didnt really help either (it's a bit of history about how ECH acquired the domain name right? but I dont get it).

but the metaphor is about justifying doing something about what ECH perceives to be wrong. okay fine, if only we knew what really was wrong?

again:

Quote from: ECHI'm a little surprised that my desire to nudge this place back in the direction I had always intended it to go is being interpreted like this.

I have no interest in "making people flounce" or any other stupid shit like that. I guess I need to make it really clear that this is not part of some personal vendetta, hidden agenda, or anything else like that. I was just trying to air some of my concerns and also let people know that I wouldn't be around very much for the next little while so they could contact me through other means if my official presence here was needed at some point. It seems as though alot of you have some serious emotional investment in an internet message board and while that is understandable, at some point you need to remember that, you know, there's more to your lives than PD.com. This thread was never intended to be directed at any specific posters. Nigel and Rat made some bullshit comments that I took exception to, as I have taken exception to many of their comments recently. In fact, until very recently, Nigel was one of my favorite posters here. I certainly don't want her to leave, I just want her to pull her head out of her ass.

apparently SOMETHING is wrong, but WHAT. you pick out Rat and Nigel, only to later say that it's not just them, but PD in general

WHAT IS IT ECH

TELL US AND MAYBE WE CAN TALK ABOUT IT INSTEAD OF POINTLESSLY GETTING ANGRY AT EACHOTHER

OTHERWISE I CAN ONLY POINT AND LAUGH AT PEOPLE GETTING POINTLESSLY ANGRY AT EACHOTHER

if someone else besides ECH knows the answer I'd be happy to hear from them too.
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on March 26, 2009, 12:17:01 AM
Quote from: OPTIMUS PINECONE on March 25, 2009, 05:46:38 PMOh, yeah, and TGRR's ultimate nihlism, totally worth the tithing.

My what?  Here's a suggestion:  get to know me a bit before you make an ass out of yourself saying stupid shit like that.

Quote from: OPTIMUS PINECONE on March 25, 2009, 05:46:38 PM
    OR KILL ME    

You're doing it wrong.
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on March 26, 2009, 12:23:19 AM
Quote from: Iason Ouabache on March 25, 2009, 04:20:29 PM
1) Everyone stop being paranoid. This (more than likely) isn't about you.

2) ECH, just stop all of the bullshit right now and just ban Nigel and Rat.  It will save us all a lot of time and drama and that's what you want anyways, isn't it?  You've never liked them and want an excuse to drive them away from here. But you can't want to break the "moral code" that has been set up here because you know everyone here will turn on you.  So you are trying to get the other admins on your side to gang up on a few select users that you don't want around.  You can't ban them outright so you have to find a way to make them flounce. Tell me if I'm getting warm with this.

Hold on one fucking minute.  For your information, the only reason I haven't used the ban hammer on a few people (DK, for example) is that ECH has counseled (not demanded) otherwise.  If ECH wanted to get me to "gang up" on people, all he has to do is step back and let the fun commence...because *I* CAN ban people outright, and will do so in a New York fucking minute.  Obviously, this doesn't apply to established users here (even ones I don't particularly like), but my first inclination these days to dealing with AKKs and Cowasses and DKs, etc, is to hit the "ban this user" button the moment I realize what is going on.

Call me a fucking Nazi, call me whatever you like, because I stopped giving a fuck about our self-imposed rules some time ago.  But don't take that fucking brush and paint ECH with it, because it ain't the truth.

TGRR,
Ban Happy Bastard.
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on March 26, 2009, 12:24:59 AM
ECH could always argue with people in the threads where he actually disagrees with them, so that there would be context for his complaints, but starting a new  thread with vague complaints and no specifics is a lot easier and less challenging.

So far we have nailed down that:

A. He doesn't like moral relativism.
B. He doesn't like Nigel.
C. He's going to work with the mods to change the rules to make things better.

Well, I sure don't feel at all singled out by that.
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: Faust on March 26, 2009, 12:25:24 AM
I don't know what set off ech,
I know that the amount of horribly stupid shit i see has been increasing, and rather then say anything i just hit the back button, which is a bad move.
Another thing i have never liked is EN (http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=e%2Fn) threads.
Though I enjoy reading about peoples successes in life i cant say the same for their pains, this forum is not an emotion baggage car,try not to get offended when i start laughing at it or parodying it from now on.
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: Pariah on March 26, 2009, 12:25:51 AM
In all honesty I don't think the board has changed much (though in all fairness I haven't been here very long). I also haven't seen anything that Nigel or Rat has done recently.

All in all.
I'm pretty fucking confused.
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on March 26, 2009, 12:26:50 AM
Quote from: Triple Zero on March 26, 2009, 12:12:37 AM

what's the problem? something with Nigel

Nigel has been bitchier than hell, lately, mainly because some scumbag fucked her over (details unknown).  I personally don't have a problem with this, but that's because I am bitchier than her sometimes, so I don't get offended when my friends do it.
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: Pariah on March 26, 2009, 12:31:27 AM
I haven't really noticed. But if she has been theres a reason for it. It's not like she's doing it for the hell of it.
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: OPTIMUS PINECONE on March 26, 2009, 12:33:00 AM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on March 26, 2009, 12:17:01 AM
Quote from: OPTIMUS PINECONE on March 25, 2009, 05:46:38 PMOh, yeah, and TGRR's ultimate nihlism, totally worth the tithing.

My what?  Here's a suggestion:  get to know me a bit before you make an ass out of yourself saying stupid shit like that.

Quote from: OPTIMUS PINECONE on March 25, 2009, 05:46:38 PM
    OR KILL ME    

You're doing it wrong.

     :cry:     You can't always help how you appear to other people.

    I noticed that you carefully get to know people before you fly around the board smacking "eat a dick" and "shut the fuck up"

    ALSO, from ass to ass, I mentioned you in an admiring way ( :wink:) because you're always exploding shit in an apocalyptic finale. It's not a personal judgement. I mean, your name isn't really TGRR and you don't really look like Bob Dobbs right?

    But again, you've been here longer so, flame on girl and tell me how to do it right daddy.
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: Messier Undertree on March 26, 2009, 12:35:34 AM
Quote from: The Pariah on March 26, 2009, 12:25:51 AM
In all honesty I don't think the board has changed much

It hasn't changed much since January, no.
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: Messier Undertree on March 26, 2009, 12:37:07 AM
Quote from: OPTIMUS PINECONE on March 26, 2009, 12:33:00 AMI mean, your name isn't really TGRR

It is actually. Right there on the birth certificate.
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: Pariah on March 26, 2009, 12:38:37 AM
Quote from: Malachite on March 26, 2009, 12:35:34 AM
Quote from: The Pariah on March 26, 2009, 12:25:51 AM
In all honesty I don't think the board has changed much

It hasn't changed much since January, no.

Which is exactly why I said,
Quote from: The Pariah on March 26, 2009, 12:25:51 AM(though in all fairness I haven't been here very long).

Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: Triple Zero on March 26, 2009, 12:40:11 AM
Quote from: Malachite on March 26, 2009, 12:35:34 AM
Quote from: The Pariah on March 26, 2009, 12:25:51 AM
In all honesty I don't think the board has changed much

It hasn't changed much since January, no.

what do you mean, everybody has constantly been changing their screennames, avatars and been posting new topics and threads!

this board has been in constant flux, yet there is something MYSTERIOUSLY WRONG with this board i just cant put my finger on it ...
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: OPTIMUS PINECONE on March 26, 2009, 12:41:03 AM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on March 26, 2009, 12:17:01 AM
Quote from: OPTIMUS PINECONE on March 25, 2009, 05:46:38 PMOh, yeah, and TGRR's ultimate nihlism, totally worth the tithing.

My what?  Here's a suggestion:  get to know me a bit before you make an ass out of yourself saying stupid shit like that.

Quote from: OPTIMUS PINECONE on March 25, 2009, 05:46:38 PM
    OR KILL ME    

You're doing it wrong.

    Sometimes, I'm just being funny. If you knew me better, you'd recognize this. Is this better? http://www.principiadiscordia.com/forum/index.php?topic=18709.0
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on March 26, 2009, 12:41:31 AM
Quote from: OPTIMUS PINECONE on March 26, 2009, 12:33:00 AM
     :cry:     You can't always help how you appear to other people.

    I noticed that you carefully get to know people before you fly around the board smacking "eat a dick" and "shut the fuck up"

    ALSO, from ass to ass, I mentioned you in an admiring way ( :wink:) because you're always exploding shit in an apocalyptic finale. It's not a personal judgement. I mean, your name isn't really TGRR and you don't really look like Bob Dobbs right?

    But again, you've been here longer so, flame on girl and tell me how to do it right daddy.

No, actually, I think I'll just jam you in the same box as Dead Kennedy and Lamanite, and then stop caring about your existence.  
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on March 26, 2009, 12:42:19 AM
Quote from: Triple Zero on March 26, 2009, 12:40:11 AM
Quote from: Malachite on March 26, 2009, 12:35:34 AM
Quote from: The Pariah on March 26, 2009, 12:25:51 AM
In all honesty I don't think the board has changed much

It hasn't changed much since January, no.

what do you mean, everybody has constantly been changing their screennames, avatars and been posting new topics and threads!

this board has been in constant flux, yet there is something MYSTERIOUSLY WRONG with this board i just cant put my finger on it ...

Laziness and error, Trips,  laziness and error.
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on March 26, 2009, 12:43:25 AM
Quote from: OPTIMUS PINECONE on March 26, 2009, 12:41:03 AM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on March 26, 2009, 12:17:01 AM
Quote from: OPTIMUS PINECONE on March 25, 2009, 05:46:38 PMOh, yeah, and TGRR's ultimate nihlism, totally worth the tithing.

My what?  Here's a suggestion:  get to know me a bit before you make an ass out of yourself saying stupid shit like that.

Quote from: OPTIMUS PINECONE on March 25, 2009, 05:46:38 PM
    OR KILL ME    

You're doing it wrong.

    Sometimes, I'm just being funny. If you knew me better, you'd recognize this. Is this better? http://www.principiadiscordia.com/forum/index.php?topic=18709.0

Sorry, don't care.  Do yourself a favor and don't waste much more time typing posts to me. 

TGRR,
Courteous to the bitter end.
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: Thurnez Isa on March 26, 2009, 12:43:54 AM
Quote from: Triple Zero on March 26, 2009, 12:40:11 AM

this board has been in constant flux, yet there is something MYSTERIOUSLY WRONG with this board i just cant put my finger on it ...

a lot of people aren't having fun anymore...
:sad:


some time's it's understandable due to external problems and all

some still are though
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: Faust on March 26, 2009, 12:45:06 AM
Quote from: Thurnez Isa on March 26, 2009, 12:43:54 AM
Quote from: Triple Zero on March 26, 2009, 12:40:11 AM

this board has been in constant flux, yet there is something MYSTERIOUSLY WRONG with this board i just cant put my finger on it ...

a lot of people aren't having fun anymore...
:sad:


some time's it's understandable due to external problems and all

some still are though
its has its ups and downs. hell of a lot of depressing topics at the moment though.
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: OPTIMUS PINECONE on March 26, 2009, 12:45:51 AM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on March 26, 2009, 12:41:31 AM
Quote from: OPTIMUS PINECONE on March 26, 2009, 12:33:00 AM
     :cry:     You can't always help how you appear to other people.

    I noticed that you carefully get to know people before you fly around the board smacking "eat a dick" and "shut the fuck up"

    ALSO, from ass to ass, I mentioned you in an admiring way ( :wink:) because you're always exploding shit in an apocalyptic finale. It's not a personal judgement. I mean, your name isn't really TGRR and you don't really look like Bob Dobbs right?

    But again, you've been here longer so, flame on girl and tell me how to do it right daddy.

No, actually, I think I'll just jam you in the same box as Dead Kennedy and Lamanite, and then stop caring about your existence.  

    AWW, You cared?
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on March 26, 2009, 12:46:19 AM
Quote from: Faust on March 26, 2009, 12:45:06 AM
Quote from: Thurnez Isa on March 26, 2009, 12:43:54 AM
Quote from: Triple Zero on March 26, 2009, 12:40:11 AM

this board has been in constant flux, yet there is something MYSTERIOUSLY WRONG with this board i just cant put my finger on it ...

a lot of people aren't having fun anymore...
:sad:


some time's it's understandable due to external problems and all

some still are though
its has its ups and downs. hell of a lot of depressing topics at the moment though.

Fun is too much work.  It's easier just to tear into your friends.

Good thing we're not like the cabbages, or anything.
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: Pariah on March 26, 2009, 12:47:02 AM
Quote from: Faust on March 26, 2009, 12:45:06 AM
Quote from: Thurnez Isa on March 26, 2009, 12:43:54 AM
Quote from: Triple Zero on March 26, 2009, 12:40:11 AM

this board has been in constant flux, yet there is something MYSTERIOUSLY WRONG with this board i just cant put my finger on it ...

a lot of people aren't having fun anymore...
:sad:


some time's it's understandable due to external problems and all

some still are though
its has its ups and downs. hell of a lot of depressing topics at the moment though.

Well we live in depressing times. It's not like P.D. is some sort of sheltered place.
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: Thurnez Isa on March 26, 2009, 12:47:23 AM
I just lucked out in that i ended up avoiding all, if not most of the threads that started arguments
still haven't read the original lys' woman organism thread... probably never will due to what it sparked
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: Messier Undertree on March 26, 2009, 12:49:28 AM
Quote from: Thurnez Isa on March 26, 2009, 12:47:23 AM
I just lucked out in that i ended up avoiding all, if not most of the threads that started arguments
still haven't read the original lys' woman organism thread... probably never will due to what it sparked

This thread actually came before that IIRC.
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: Faust on March 26, 2009, 12:49:45 AM
Quote from: The Pariah on March 26, 2009, 12:47:02 AM
Quote from: Faust on March 26, 2009, 12:45:06 AM
Quote from: Thurnez Isa on March 26, 2009, 12:43:54 AM
Quote from: Triple Zero on March 26, 2009, 12:40:11 AM

this board has been in constant flux, yet there is something MYSTERIOUSLY WRONG with this board i just cant put my finger on it ...

a lot of people aren't having fun anymore...
:sad:


some time's it's understandable due to external problems and all

some still are though
its has its ups and downs. hell of a lot of depressing topics at the moment though.

Well we live in depressing times. It's not like P.D. is some sort of sheltered place.
Fuck that, depression is a safety net, its training wheels, and inflatable water wings.
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on March 26, 2009, 12:51:30 AM
Quote from: Faust on March 26, 2009, 12:49:45 AM
Quote from: The Pariah on March 26, 2009, 12:47:02 AM
Quote from: Faust on March 26, 2009, 12:45:06 AM
Quote from: Thurnez Isa on March 26, 2009, 12:43:54 AM
Quote from: Triple Zero on March 26, 2009, 12:40:11 AM

this board has been in constant flux, yet there is something MYSTERIOUSLY WRONG with this board i just cant put my finger on it ...

a lot of people aren't having fun anymore...
:sad:


some time's it's understandable due to external problems and all

some still are though
its has its ups and downs. hell of a lot of depressing topics at the moment though.

Well we live in depressing times. It's not like P.D. is some sort of sheltered place.
Fuck that, depression is a safety net, its training wheels, and inflatable water wings.

THIS.
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: Pariah on March 26, 2009, 12:52:33 AM
What I was trying to say is that we've become more news orientated (atleast on Apple Talk) and there hasn't been a lot of good news recently.
That's all
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on March 26, 2009, 12:55:36 AM
Quote from: The Pariah on March 26, 2009, 12:52:33 AM
What I was trying to say is that we've become more news orientated (atleast on Apple Talk) and there hasn't been a lot of good news recently.
That's all

I don't think that's it.  We've been laughing at doom for years and years.

No, we've gotten big enough again that cliques are forming, and the pecking has begun.  Why?  Because for all of our talk, we're all still apparently monkeys, and act like monkeys do, because being a REAL FUCKING HUMAN is TOO FUCKING HARD.

Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: Fredfredly ⊂(◉‿◉)つ on March 26, 2009, 01:07:46 AM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on March 26, 2009, 12:55:36 AM
Quote from: The Pariah on March 26, 2009, 12:52:33 AM
What I was trying to say is that we've become more news orientated (atleast on Apple Talk) and there hasn't been a lot of good news recently.
That's all

I don't think that's it.  We've been laughing at doom for years and years.

No, we've gotten big enough again that cliques are forming, and the pecking has begun.  Why?  Because for all of our talk, we're all still apparently monkeys, and act like monkeys do, because being a REAL FUCKING HUMAN is TOO FUCKING HARD.


:monkeydance: :monkeydance: :monkeydance:
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on March 26, 2009, 01:08:34 AM
Quote from: Fred Noodle on March 26, 2009, 01:07:46 AM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on March 26, 2009, 12:55:36 AM
Quote from: The Pariah on March 26, 2009, 12:52:33 AM
What I was trying to say is that we've become more news orientated (atleast on Apple Talk) and there hasn't been a lot of good news recently.
That's all

I don't think that's it.  We've been laughing at doom for years and years.

No, we've gotten big enough again that cliques are forming, and the pecking has begun.  Why?  Because for all of our talk, we're all still apparently monkeys, and act like monkeys do, because being a REAL FUCKING HUMAN is TOO FUCKING HARD.


:monkeydance: :monkeydance: :monkeydance:

FUCK YOU!  MY MOTHER WAS KILLED BY...aw, fuckkit.  :lol:
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: Pariah on March 26, 2009, 01:13:02 AM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on March 26, 2009, 12:55:36 AM
Quote from: The Pariah on March 26, 2009, 12:52:33 AM
What I was trying to say is that we've become more news orientated (atleast on Apple Talk) and there hasn't been a lot of good news recently.
That's all

I don't think that's it.  We've been laughing at doom for years and years.

No, we've gotten big enough again that cliques are forming, and the pecking has begun.  Why?  Because for all of our talk, we're all still apparently monkeys, and act like monkeys do, because being a REAL FUCKING HUMAN is TOO FUCKING HARD.



Well as horrible as it sounds maybe all of this is what we need. A cleansing. Leting Internet evolution take its course
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on March 26, 2009, 01:16:40 AM
Quote from: The Pariah on March 26, 2009, 01:13:02 AM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on March 26, 2009, 12:55:36 AM
Quote from: The Pariah on March 26, 2009, 12:52:33 AM
What I was trying to say is that we've become more news orientated (atleast on Apple Talk) and there hasn't been a lot of good news recently.
That's all

I don't think that's it.  We've been laughing at doom for years and years.

No, we've gotten big enough again that cliques are forming, and the pecking has begun.  Why?  Because for all of our talk, we're all still apparently monkeys, and act like monkeys do, because being a REAL FUCKING HUMAN is TOO FUCKING HARD.



Well as horrible as it sounds maybe all of this is what we need. A cleansing. Leting Internet evolution take its course

It's worse than you think.  We're going to lose some of the really fun, productive people, and all that will be left is the bitter people who can't give up the fight no matter what (I, for example, survived the last 2 bouts).

Just for fun, look up some of the posts from 2002/2003.  Compare to today.
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: Pariah on March 26, 2009, 01:19:27 AM
Then I think we have to make it so that the bitter people have a harder time time surviving in this internet climate.
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: Jasper on March 26, 2009, 01:20:09 AM
Damn, I've failed to align myself with a clique and doomed myself to the out-crowd.

Help?
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on March 26, 2009, 01:20:55 AM
Quote from: Felix on March 26, 2009, 01:20:09 AM
Damn, I've failed to align myself with a clique and doomed myself to the out-crowd.

Help?

TOO LATE
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on March 26, 2009, 01:21:12 AM
Quote from: The Pariah on March 26, 2009, 01:19:27 AM
Then I think we have to make it so that the bitter people have a harder time time surviving in this internet climate.

That just makes it worse.  Trust me on this one.
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: Triple Zero on March 26, 2009, 01:21:40 AM
Quote from: Felix on March 26, 2009, 01:20:09 AM
Damn, I've failed to align myself with a clique and doomed myself to the out-crowd.

Help?

no, you can't join the clique until you've figured out what is MYSTERIOUSLY WRONG with this forum.
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on March 26, 2009, 01:22:43 AM
Quote from: Triple Zero on March 26, 2009, 01:21:40 AM
Quote from: Felix on March 26, 2009, 01:20:09 AM
Damn, I've failed to align myself with a clique and doomed myself to the out-crowd.

Help?

no, you can't join the clique until you've figured out what is MYSTERIOUSLY WRONG with this forum.

Ask Hoops what's wrong. 

It's really funny, when you're not on the shit end of the stick, right?
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: Fredfredly ⊂(◉‿◉)つ on March 26, 2009, 01:24:07 AM
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Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: Pariah on March 26, 2009, 01:25:50 AM
Quote from: Fred Noodle on March 26, 2009, 01:24:07 AM
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Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: Thurnez Isa on March 26, 2009, 01:27:55 AM
Quote from: Fred Noodle on March 26, 2009, 01:24:07 AM
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Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: Fredfredly ⊂(◉‿◉)つ on March 26, 2009, 01:28:50 AM
Quote from: Thurnez Isa on March 26, 2009, 01:27:55 AM
Quote from: Fred Noodle on March 26, 2009, 01:24:07 AM
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Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: Jasper on March 26, 2009, 01:29:40 AM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on March 26, 2009, 01:22:43 AM
Quote from: Triple Zero on March 26, 2009, 01:21:40 AM
Quote from: Felix on March 26, 2009, 01:20:09 AM
Damn, I've failed to align myself with a clique and doomed myself to the out-crowd.

Help?

no, you can't join the clique until you've figured out what is MYSTERIOUSLY WRONG with this forum.

Ask Hoops what's wrong. 

It's really funny, when you're not on the shit end of the stick, right?

Is "yes" the wrong answer here?

Because I'm leaning toward yes.
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: Pariah on March 26, 2009, 01:32:25 AM
Quote from: Fred Noodle on March 26, 2009, 01:24:07 AM
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Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: Iason Ouabache on March 26, 2009, 01:38:38 AM
This thread is officially gay and retarded.  Everyone STFU!
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on March 26, 2009, 01:39:05 AM
Quote from: Felix on March 26, 2009, 01:29:40 AM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on March 26, 2009, 01:22:43 AM
Quote from: Triple Zero on March 26, 2009, 01:21:40 AM
Quote from: Felix on March 26, 2009, 01:20:09 AM
Damn, I've failed to align myself with a clique and doomed myself to the out-crowd.

Help?

no, you can't join the clique until you've figured out what is MYSTERIOUSLY WRONG with this forum.

Ask Hoops what's wrong. 

It's really funny, when you're not on the shit end of the stick, right?

Is "yes" the wrong answer here?

Because I'm leaning toward yes.

Of course.  Provided, of course, that you prefer shitting on your fellow Discordians, and enjoy tormenting people who thought you were their friends.

Again, it's a good thing we're not like the cabbages, yes?
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on March 26, 2009, 01:39:42 AM
Quote from: Iason Ouabache on March 26, 2009, 01:38:38 AM
This thread is officially gay and retarded.  Everyone STFU!

Sure.  As soon as you stop playing hacky sack using orphan children, you bastard!   :argh!:
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: Bruno on March 26, 2009, 01:44:50 AM
AAUGH! Why does it smell like self-loathing in here?

SOMEBODY CRACK A WINDOW!!!  :argh!:
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on March 26, 2009, 01:46:06 AM
Quote from: Jerry_Frankster on March 26, 2009, 01:44:50 AM
AAUGH! Why does it smell like self-loathing in here?

SOMEBODY CRACK A WINDOW!!!  :argh!:

I don't loathe myself.  I LOVE me.

It's you bastards I hate.  Well, that's a little narrow.  It's all bipeds I hate.
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: Thurnez Isa on March 26, 2009, 01:46:21 AM
Quote from: Fred Noodle on March 26, 2009, 01:28:50 AM
Quote from: Thurnez Isa on March 26, 2009, 01:27:55 AM
Quote from: Fred Noodle on March 26, 2009, 01:24:07 AM
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Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: Bruno on March 26, 2009, 01:54:06 AM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on March 26, 2009, 01:46:06 AM
Quote from: Jerry_Frankster on March 26, 2009, 01:44:50 AM
AAUGH! Why does it smell like self-loathing in here?

SOMEBODY CRACK A WINDOW!!!  :argh!:

I don't loathe myself.  I LOVE me.

It's you bastards I hate.  Well, that's a little narrow.  It's all bipeds I hate.

Still, the whole site could use some Febreze.

If that doesn't work, I'm breaking out the patchouli.
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: Triple Zero on March 26, 2009, 01:58:48 AM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on March 26, 2009, 01:22:43 AM
Ask Hoops what's wrong. 

It's really funny, when you're not on the shit end of the stick, right?

ok, ... I see "The Return of Hunter" being a dick to him (and to a lot more people), which I called him out on.
and I see P3NT laughing at the whole situation, which is what he does.

...
hmmmmm ok i think i see what you mean now. we didnt used to just pick on eachother simply for the heck of it.

i gotta agree somewhat with P3NT and Felix though, in that it is funny, in a way, for the reason you already pointed out, it's monkey politics, and monkey politics is FUNNY. even when it's your friends that do it, that makes it SAD, but FUNNY. just like you don't go around causing horrormirth, doesn't mean you don't get to laugh at it.

HOWEVER, I see your point, we should be able to expect MORE and BETTER from this board. It may be funny to laugh at friends hurling poop at eachother once in while, especially if everybody can laugh at it afterwards, but if it happens every 2-3 days, is when things start falling apart and we degenerate first into monkeys and then cabbages.

point taken.
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: fomenter on March 26, 2009, 01:59:41 AM
Quote from: Jerry_Frankster on March 26, 2009, 01:54:06 AM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on March 26, 2009, 01:46:06 AM
Quote from: Jerry_Frankster on March 26, 2009, 01:44:50 AM
AAUGH! Why does it smell like self-loathing in here?

SOMEBODY CRACK A WINDOW!!!  :argh!:

I don't loathe myself.  I LOVE me.

It's you bastards I hate.  Well, that's a little narrow.  It's all bipeds I hate.

Still, the whole site could use some Febreze.

If that doesn't work, I'm breaking out the patchouli.

please keep your hippie stink "cover juice" out of my forum
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: Bruno on March 26, 2009, 02:08:20 AM
Settle down now!



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Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: Dr Goofy on March 26, 2009, 02:38:32 AM
Holy Quantum leap Malachite, Isn't your sig from when Sam teachs Micheal Jackson the moon walk?

As for the thread it bores me. I understand shitting hate just not flinging it.
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: Messier Undertree on March 26, 2009, 02:47:01 AM
For the record, I've never felt the need to pretend to be friends with people just because they post on the same board or they claim to be a member (wut) of the same fake religion as me.

I have no real beef with any of you guys right now, but it just seems like a bullshit argument to me. If I don't like something, I'll say so. And I would expect the same from anyone else.

Quote from: Dr Goofy on March 26, 2009, 02:38:32 AM
Holy Quantum leap Malachite, Isn't your sig from when Sam teachs Micheal Jackson the moon walk?

As for the thread it bores me. I understand shitting hate just not flinging it.

I don't even know who it is. I just stole it from somewhere because I thought it was funny.
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: Dr Goofy on March 26, 2009, 03:53:06 AM
Well i am 90% sure that that is what that is being a big Quantum Leap fan that I am.
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: wade on March 26, 2009, 04:24:44 AM
when are we going to drink and play SNES together, malachite?
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: East Coast Hustle on March 26, 2009, 05:11:52 AM
Quote from: The Borderline Simpleton on March 25, 2009, 10:04:33 PM
Guys. I think we all need to calm the fuck down and listen to what everyone else is trying to say. I mean, for fuck's sake. As much as I like this place, and the posters on it, I'm seriously considering leaving (yeah i know no great loss and all that)

While I can see ECH's point, this board does seem to have gone downhill recently (IMO), I think that we all need to stop being so goddamn aggressive. I mean, this isn't some shitty little site we're all trolling, is it? Is it? I just don't see why you'd particularly want to be screaming insults at people you were conversing perfectly naturally with last week. It's fucking ridiculous.

And before you all start screaming at me for butting in, I'd just like to say that I post this with the best possible intentions. I like this site, and don't want to see it destroyed by stupid little personal vendettas.

this.
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: East Coast Hustle on March 26, 2009, 05:13:17 AM
Quote from: Malachite on March 25, 2009, 10:28:04 PM
Quote from: BADGE OF HONOR on March 25, 2009, 10:05:05 PM
Yes, this place has changed

For the better? I feel like it has improved since the pineal days, but that it's way past its peak now.

Quote from: BADGE OF HONOR on March 25, 2009, 10:05:05 PMbut it's remained stable and self-administering for longer than most internet communities survive. Communities change, people come and go, and I don't know of any way of steering it in any one direction without some fucking ham-fisted MW-style moderation.

As far as I can tell, ECH wasn't threatening to mod, ban or otherwise abuse his powers as admin.

He was just voicing his opinion, one that he's had for a long time and hasn't said anything before out of some sort of expectation to stay neutral as admin (or that's how I understood it, at least). And it's an opinion that I happen to agree with, somewhat.

this even more.
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: East Coast Hustle on March 26, 2009, 05:22:12 AM
Quote from: Nigel on March 25, 2009, 11:48:42 PM
To clarify, ECH, the reason I sound like a different person online is because I AM A DIFFERENT FUCKING PERSON. I used to be all sunshine and fucking lollipops, but now I'm not. OK? I'm not taking anything out on anyone, I'm just angrier and more hateful. So you liked me then and you don't like me now. I don't fucking care; choke on your own vomit and die.

:retard:
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: East Coast Hustle on March 26, 2009, 05:23:19 AM
Quote from: Faust on March 26, 2009, 12:49:45 AM
Quote from: The Pariah on March 26, 2009, 12:47:02 AM
Quote from: Faust on March 26, 2009, 12:45:06 AM
Quote from: Thurnez Isa on March 26, 2009, 12:43:54 AM
Quote from: Triple Zero on March 26, 2009, 12:40:11 AM

this board has been in constant flux, yet there is something MYSTERIOUSLY WRONG with this board i just cant put my finger on it ...

a lot of people aren't having fun anymore...
:sad:


some time's it's understandable due to external problems and all

some still are though
its has its ups and downs. hell of a lot of depressing topics at the moment though.

nail on the fucking head.
Well we live in depressing times. It's not like P.D. is some sort of sheltered place.
Fuck that, depression is a safety net, its training wheels, and inflatable water wings.

nail on head.
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: Jasper on March 26, 2009, 06:49:27 AM
I skimmed over this at first.  Learn from my folly.

Quote from: The Borderline Simpleton on March 25, 2009, 10:04:33 PM
Guys. I think we all need to calm the fuck down and listen to what everyone else is trying to say. I mean, for fuck's sake. As much as I like this place, and the posters on it, I'm seriously considering leaving (yeah i know no great loss and all that)

While I can see ECH's point, this board does seem to have gone downhill recently (IMO), I think that we all need to stop being so goddamn aggressive. I mean, this isn't some shitty little site we're all trolling, is it? Is it? I just don't see why you'd particularly want to be screaming insults at people you were conversing perfectly naturally with last week. It's fucking ridiculous.

And before you all start screaming at me for butting in, I'd just like to say that I post this with the best possible intentions. I like this site, and don't want to see it destroyed by stupid little personal vendettas.

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Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: BADGE OF HONOR on March 26, 2009, 08:16:37 AM
So wait, I guess ECH is saying he's sick of people fighting/flaming each other, so he's going to fix it by...flaming people?
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: bds on March 26, 2009, 09:51:24 AM
Quote from: BADGE OF HONOR on March 26, 2009, 08:16:37 AM
So wait, I guess ECH is saying he's sick of people fighting/flaming each other, so he's going to fix it by...flaming people?

Well, if you can't beat 'em...
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: Triple Zero on March 26, 2009, 11:56:12 AM
Quote from: BADGE OF HONOR on March 26, 2009, 08:16:37 AM
So wait, I guess ECH is saying he's sick of people fighting/flaming each other, so he's going to fix it by...flaming people?

no, this is what Roger was saying he's sick of.

I'm not entirely sure if ECH is sick about the same thing.
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: AFK on March 26, 2009, 12:15:36 PM
Get up, come on get down with the sickness
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: AFK on March 26, 2009, 12:33:27 PM
Also, I think I figured it out.

It's because Payne left the island.

The balance cannot be restored until he comes back.
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: Elder Iptuous on March 26, 2009, 12:33:41 PM
you fucka get up. come on get down with the sickness!
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: That One Guy on March 26, 2009, 01:48:58 PM
I will admit I, like many others have stated in this thread, missed ECH's intention in his OP, and saw it through the filter of increased negativity that's been building around here, and I apologize for that.

I think a big part of things is the "IRL friends coming to the board" thing: sometimes it works (D-Cup, Richter to name a couple), sometimes it doesn't (the NYC contingent at the first Meet-up a while back comes to mind - remember their posting attempts?). When it works it's great, and when it doesn't it opens the door WIDE for drama, since any insult to a IRL friend will generally be met with extra hostility by the person who they're IRL friends with.

While I've never been fond of the IRL vs. Internet distinction (we are, in fact, all actual human beings rather than bots or something I'd hope), there are times where that distinction needs to be made, and what is acceptable in IRL circles might not fly somewhere on the net, like here. Different social "standards" and all. There does need to be a separation between IRL and the net, if for no other reason than to not confuse one set of social standards with another, which will only lead to conflict and confusion.

While that may or may not be a big factor with this, it's something I've noticed over time around here and in other places. I keep my forum life separate from IRL for the most part, so it's something I've only seen indirectly, but it's something to consider as part of this situation.
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: Richter on March 26, 2009, 02:33:53 PM
Good point, TOG. 
The folks we know IRL, we do handle differnetly.  Anyone we've been able to talk with at length, see in different emotional states, or look in the eye we are more likeley to forgive small missteps than those we don't. 
(Fundamental attribution error.   Like when someone cuts me off in traffic, "They must be an asshole and a bad driver by nature.", I think, not caring that they may be late for something improtant, tired, hung over, or legitamely having a bad day.) 

Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: BADGE OF HONOR on March 26, 2009, 09:54:16 PM
Okay, then, ECH, say what your fucking problem is.
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on March 26, 2009, 11:10:23 PM
Quote from: Triple Zero on March 26, 2009, 01:58:48 AM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on March 26, 2009, 01:22:43 AM
Ask Hoops what's wrong. 

It's really funny, when you're not on the shit end of the stick, right?

ok, ... I see "The Return of Hunter" being a dick to him (and to a lot more people), which I called him out on.
and I see P3NT laughing at the whole situation, which is what he does.

...
hmmmmm ok i think i see what you mean now. we didnt used to just pick on eachother simply for the heck of it.

i gotta agree somewhat with P3NT and Felix though, in that it is funny, in a way, for the reason you already pointed out, it's monkey politics, and monkey politics is FUNNY. even when it's your friends that do it, that makes it SAD, but FUNNY. just like you don't go around causing horrormirth, doesn't mean you don't get to laugh at it.

HOWEVER, I see your point, we should be able to expect MORE and BETTER from this board. It may be funny to laugh at friends hurling poop at eachother once in while, especially if everybody can laugh at it afterwards, but if it happens every 2-3 days, is when things start falling apart and we degenerate first into monkeys and then cabbages.

point taken.

Yes, I did expect better.  Because, apparently, I'm a fucking slow learner.
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on March 26, 2009, 11:11:45 PM
Quote from: Malachite on March 26, 2009, 02:47:01 AM
For the record, I've never felt the need to pretend to be friends with people just because they post on the same board or they claim to be a member (wut) of the same fake religion as me.

Noted.

Quote from: Malachite on March 26, 2009, 02:47:01 AM
I have no real beef with any of you guys right now, but it just seems like a bullshit argument to me. If I don't like something, I'll say so. And I would expect the same from anyone else.

Telling someone they're wrong/full of shit is one thing.  What's going on now is quite another.
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: BADGE OF HONOR on March 26, 2009, 11:27:56 PM
Quote from: BADGE OF HONOR on March 26, 2009, 09:54:16 PM
Okay, then, ECH, say what your fucking problem is.

To clarify, I don't have a problem with you, I understand that things aren't as peachy-keen and awesome as they could be, and I've always respected your tendency to take charge.  My issue is that you made an extremely vague statement about "things" and "people" and then said that everything would be changing.  The last time everything changed was the coup d'etat that got you control of The Mgt in the first place.  All you've managed to do here is create a lot of suspicion and infighting because nobody can tell what the hell you're talking about, and lacking input, imagine worst-cases scenarios.  Since you do effectively run this whole place it's your responsibility to be more clear than that.

Or ban me.
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: East Coast Hustle on March 27, 2009, 10:46:16 PM
in fairness, I just said that I would be considering making changes, and changes that would only be made with the agreement of all of the admins. As I currently have very little time to internets, and only the barest hint of a wi-fi signal at my current crib (I literally have to open tabs with the minute or so I manage to stay connected to this signal, then I write my posts and then I connect again just long enough to send them), no serious changes to the forum will be occurring anytime in the next few weeks.

As for my problem, I am sick of people thinking this board is their own personal shitting ground. I don't expect (or want) everyone to be nice to each other all the time, but if you don't have enough respect for the other people here to not fling needless (and unfunny) insults for no other reason than you're having a bad day or someone didn't like your rant, then fuck off to somewhere more fitting for that sort of thing, like 4 chan or SA. It's not much to ask, since not being a needlessly humorless prick to someone doesn't require you to have a whole lot of respect for them, just a tiny little smidgen.

About the same amount of respect that (to me, at least) people more or less automatically earn just by sticking around here and contributing.
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: BADGE OF HONOR on March 28, 2009, 07:32:20 PM
Fair enough, a good point, and I at least will take it to heart.
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: Triple Zero on March 29, 2009, 01:34:15 PM
Quote from: Dirtytime on March 27, 2009, 10:46:16 PMAs for my problem, I am sick of people thinking this board is their own personal shitting ground. I don't expect (or want) everyone to be nice to each other all the time, but if you don't have enough respect for the other people here to not fling needless (and unfunny) insults for no other reason than you're having a bad day or someone didn't like your rant, then fuck off to somewhere more fitting for that sort of thing, like 4 chan or SA. It's not much to ask, since not being a needlessly humorless prick to someone doesn't require you to have a whole lot of respect for them, just a tiny little smidgen.

About the same amount of respect that (to me, at least) people more or less automatically earn just by sticking around here and contributing.

:mittens:

thanks for clearing that up. and what Badge said.
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: Sir Squid Diddimus on March 29, 2009, 03:51:39 PM
I think I get it now.

I just hope that everyone knows when I do that shit I'm totally kidding.
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: the dreadful hours on March 29, 2009, 03:57:30 PM
everything is peachy keen
why fix it
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: the last yatto on April 03, 2009, 12:20:17 AM
so pledge isnt a metaphor for dog pile?  :oops:
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on April 03, 2009, 06:12:48 AM
Quote from: Dirtytime on March 27, 2009, 10:46:16 PM
As for my problem, I am sick of people thinking this board is their own personal shitting ground.

Ding.

That's gonna come to an end, I think.  Again, I won't consider banning a regular contributing member unless they do something INSANELY stupid (posting kiddie porn, etc), but I DO have a problem with people who exist only to tear down the threads, etc, of regular members, just to fling shit.

Examples of people who SHOULD receive at least temp bans:

Daruko
Wade
Cowass
Lamanite


Examples of people who probably/maybe shouldn't:

AKK
Dead Kennedy

Examples of people who definitely shouldn't:

The last regular I had a fight with.
People who show up thinking we sit around quoting the PD all day (well, at first, anyway).
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: Bebek Sincap Ratatosk on April 03, 2009, 04:04:12 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on April 03, 2009, 06:12:48 AM



Examples of people who definitely shouldn't:

The last regular I had a fight with.



Hrmmm, so anytime I do something stupid, I should pick a fight with you first? ;-)
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: Adios on April 03, 2009, 08:00:16 PM
I can't help wonder if many times common decency isn't squelched in order to appear cool.
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: LMNO on April 03, 2009, 08:01:40 PM
You should know that "Common" decency isn't.
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: Adios on April 03, 2009, 08:04:22 PM
Quote from: LMNO on April 03, 2009, 08:01:40 PM
You should know that "Common" decency isn't.

The curse of being old school I guess. The same for common manners?
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: Faust on April 03, 2009, 08:25:04 PM
your common.
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: LMNO on April 03, 2009, 08:27:09 PM
Wanna live with the Common People, wanna do the things that Common People do...

:musak:
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: Adios on April 03, 2009, 09:20:14 PM
Quote from: Faust on April 03, 2009, 08:25:04 PM
your common.

I don't buy this. You are more than aware that in the context I used the word common there are some universally accepted connontations.
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: Adios on April 03, 2009, 09:21:17 PM
Quote from: NONE on April 03, 2009, 09:20:14 PM
Quote from: Faust on April 03, 2009, 08:25:04 PM
your common.

I don't buy this. You are more than aware that in the context I used the word common there are some universally accepted connontations.

I am simply a common person. Oddly I find no insult in this.
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: Messier Undertree on April 03, 2009, 09:24:28 PM
So, I've been away for a week or so.

What exactly has wade done to warrant a temp ban? Besides obvious trolling.

Also, isn't he technically a regular now?
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: Dysfunctional Cunt on April 03, 2009, 09:28:50 PM
Quote from: Malachite on April 03, 2009, 09:24:28 PM
So, I've been away for a week or so.

What exactly has wade done to warrant a temp ban? Besides obvious trolling.

Also, isn't he technically a regular now?

A regular pain in the ass. 

I was more than willing to give wade chance after chance, but after his blow me comment, he can fuck himself and die!
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: Messier Undertree on April 03, 2009, 09:30:00 PM
Quote from: Khara on April 03, 2009, 09:28:50 PM
A regular pain in the ass.

Is that bannable now? Do you think it should be?
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: Faust on April 03, 2009, 11:13:22 PM
Quote from: NONE on April 03, 2009, 09:21:17 PM
Quote from: NONE on April 03, 2009, 09:20:14 PM
Quote from: Faust on April 03, 2009, 08:25:04 PM
your common.

I don't buy this. You are more than aware that in the context I used the word common there are some universally accepted connontations.

I am simply a common person. Oddly I find no insult in this.
Its SUPPOSED to be a weak insult.
its IRONIC.
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: Faust on April 03, 2009, 11:17:04 PM
Quote from: Malachite on April 03, 2009, 09:30:00 PM
Quote from: Khara on April 03, 2009, 09:28:50 PM
A regular pain in the ass.

Is that bannable now? Do you think it should be?
he was doing his regular act of attacking someone when they are down. I don't really care for personal threads but I also dont care for people playing the dumb/innocent thing and then being a vicious little shit whenever an opportunity presents itself when someone is down.
He will be back in a day.
Its not ideal.
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: the last yatto on April 04, 2009, 06:21:42 AM
might as well use the spare time to clean the kennel
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on April 04, 2009, 05:07:14 PM
Quote from: Malachite on April 03, 2009, 09:24:28 PM
So, I've been away for a week or so.

What exactly has wade done to warrant a temp ban? Besides obvious trolling.

Also, isn't he technically a regular now?

BECAUSE WE'RE ALL SCREECHING NAZIS NOW, MALACHITE!

TGRR,
Doesn't feel the need to explain anything to someone who has made up his mind already.
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on April 04, 2009, 05:08:06 PM
Quote from: Malachite on April 03, 2009, 09:30:00 PM
Quote from: Khara on April 03, 2009, 09:28:50 PM
A regular pain in the ass.

Is that bannable now? Do you think it should be?

I DID IT BECAUSE I'M POSITIVELY DRUNK WITH POWER, MAL!  MUHAHA!
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on April 04, 2009, 05:09:04 PM
Quote from: Ratatosk on April 03, 2009, 04:04:12 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on April 03, 2009, 06:12:48 AM



Examples of people who definitely shouldn't:

The last regular I had a fight with.



Hrmmm, so anytime I do something stupid, I should pick a fight with you first? ;-)

Obviously.   :lulz:
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: Dysfunctional Cunt on April 06, 2009, 04:53:36 PM
Quote from: Malachite on April 03, 2009, 09:30:00 PM
Quote from: Khara on April 03, 2009, 09:28:50 PM
A regular pain in the ass.

Is that bannable now? Do you think it should be?

I don't think being a pain in the ass is a bannable offense.  I was joking.

However, Wade can fuck off and die for all I care!  He's a piece of shit, and his being regular here is just him being a regular pain in the ass piece of shit!
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: wade on April 06, 2009, 08:28:12 PM
Quote from: Malachite on April 03, 2009, 09:24:28 PM
So, I've been away for a week or so.

What exactly has wade done to warrant a temp ban? Besides obvious trolling.

Also, isn't he technically a regular now?

This was what got me banned.

Quote from: wade on April 03, 2009, 12:52:50 AM
Quote from: The Dark Monk on April 02, 2009, 12:10:53 PM
So as you all have probably heard my uncle died last week, and the funeral was today. That was all shitty because ofc, losing a loved one sucks. THEN after I get home I decided I wanted to walk up to the gas station to get a pack of smokes because I'm all stressed out and have been chain smoking unintentionally. I grab my smokes then start walking home when a cop follows me for 3 blocks. He makes me nervous, so I look over my shoulder to make sure everything was alright, he pulls up next to me gets out of his car and makes me put my hands up, searches my mouth, makes me take my jacket off and searches my pockets, calls his cop buddy, starts doing background checks and sobriety checks on me. Holds me up from getting home for 15 minutes and stops me for NO FUCKING REASON. I FUCKING DID NOTHING. I was walking home. I wasn't walking funny, I responded quickly, appropriately and clearly. It was 10:40 at night. I don't have so much as a fucking ticket on my record. He said I was acting "suspicious". What sort of bullshit was that. Arrrgggghhhhhhhhhhhh

TDM
This fucking week sucks.

man, you look like a concentration camp survivor....so do drug addicts.
Not that that makes it right, but yeah.  Also, you were out at night, being out at night is pretty suspicous. BECAUSE ANYONE WHO HAS A JOB WOULD BE SLEEEEEEPING.... :roll:

Regarding the depression, and wanting to kill yourself...I'd have to suggest learning some meditation, get to know yourself more internally, then you can love yourself, drop the smoking and pick  up some healthier habbits.  You'll probably end up finding the drive/thirst for knowledge too.  then pursue that.

find something that drives you.  if you can't, do whatever you can to find out more about yourself.  that should lead to something worth while...

and if none of that shit works...  join the infantry, become a man.



I don't see anything wrong with it. *shrugs*

the precedence has been set...
be honest when someone is depressed and get banned. 
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: wade on April 06, 2009, 08:31:47 PM
Quote from: Faust on April 03, 2009, 11:17:04 PM
Quote from: Malachite on April 03, 2009, 09:30:00 PM
Quote from: Khara on April 03, 2009, 09:28:50 PM
A regular pain in the ass.

Is that bannable now? Do you think it should be?
he was doing his regular act of attacking someone when they are down. I don't really care for personal threads but I also dont care for people playing the dumb/innocent thing and then being a vicious little shit whenever an opportunity presents itself when someone is down.
He will be back in a day.
Its not ideal.
attacking him with his reflection?

I wasn't attacking him, I was simply pointing towards a reason why those pigs chose him to pick on.   I wasn't justifying it, I was saying that's probably why he got singled out. 
it was not an attack in my mind.
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on April 06, 2009, 08:32:17 PM
Quote from: wade on April 06, 2009, 08:28:12 PM


I don't see anything wrong with it. *shrugs*

the precedence has been set...
be honest when someone is depressed and get banned. 

Bullshit.  It was just another dig, just like all the other bullshit you've pulled on anyone who shows even a moment of weakness.

You're a fucking tape worm, Wade.  A fucking parasite.
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on April 06, 2009, 08:33:28 PM
Quote from: wade on April 06, 2009, 08:31:47 PM
Quote from: Faust on April 03, 2009, 11:17:04 PM
Quote from: Malachite on April 03, 2009, 09:30:00 PM
Quote from: Khara on April 03, 2009, 09:28:50 PM
A regular pain in the ass.

Is that bannable now? Do you think it should be?
he was doing his regular act of attacking someone when they are down. I don't really care for personal threads but I also dont care for people playing the dumb/innocent thing and then being a vicious little shit whenever an opportunity presents itself when someone is down.
He will be back in a day.
Its not ideal.
attacking him with his reflection?

I wasn't attacking him, I was simply pointing towards a reason why those pigs chose him to pick on.   I wasn't justifying it, I was saying that's probably why he got singled out. 
it was not an attack in my mind.

Bullshit.  Quit your fucking lying.  You do this shit all the time.  You did it to Jenne, to Suu, to Squid, you TRIED to do it to me, and now to TDM.

Die.  No, seriously. 
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: wade on April 06, 2009, 08:35:40 PM
maybe it was both, what's it to you?   Is there some manual somewhere telling me how to operate within accordance to the will of TGRR?
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on April 06, 2009, 08:41:41 PM
Quote from: wade on April 06, 2009, 08:35:40 PM
maybe it was both, what's it to you?   Is there some manual somewhere telling me how to operate within accordance to the will of TGRR?

Nope.  But ECH has decided that this is no longer the personal game preserve of internet psychos such as yourself, and I agree.  In fact, I agree to the point where it is no longer a strictly philosophical issue, as far as I am concerned.  If you are here to do nothing but cut on people who are having a hard time, you will be gone.  Consider your two day vacation a warning shot across the bow.

And if you can't figure out what that means, then you're too stupid to own a computer...but in the interests of having less to explain to the other admins, I'll spell it out:  If you are not contributing in any fashion other than to do the most hurtful things you can think of to other members, you will be banned.  Permanently, if I have anything to say about it.

There.  Is that clear enough?
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on April 06, 2009, 08:44:02 PM
Quote from: Wadewhat's it to you?

I don't like cockroaches, Wade.  Even Canadian ones.

Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: Dysfunctional Cunt on April 06, 2009, 08:47:25 PM
Quote from: wade on April 06, 2009, 08:35:40 PM
maybe it was both, what's it to you?   Is there some manual somewhere telling me how to operate within accordance to the will of TGRR?

Wade;

There is this little thing called common decency which most people are born with.  Another way to look at it is if someone is hurting and you can't help, STFU!!  You chose to not STFU!  That was your mistake.  Also, you are not so stupid that we don't see where you are trying to go with this.

Just STFU and DIE!!

Khara

Also, STOP fucking PMing me asshole.
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on April 06, 2009, 08:48:37 PM
Quote from: Khara on April 06, 2009, 08:47:25 PM
Quote from: wade on April 06, 2009, 08:35:40 PM
maybe it was both, what's it to you?   Is there some manual somewhere telling me how to operate within accordance to the will of TGRR?

Wade;

There is this little thing called common decency which most people are born with.  Another way to look at it is if someone is hurting and you can't help, STFU!!  You chose to not STFU!  That was your mistake.  Also, you are not so stupid that we don't see where you are trying to go with this.

Just STFU and DIE!!

Khara

Also, STOP fucking PMing me asshole.

Block him.
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: Cain on April 06, 2009, 08:48:53 PM
There should be an option to block PMs from a particular individual in your profile somewhere.
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: wade on April 06, 2009, 08:53:04 PM
khara continued to PM me saying stop pm'ing me, each time i responded by saying OK, yet she continued to PM me back saying STOP... *shrugs*

and NOW she has brought this to the thread, which is pretty funny.

anyway.

I understand what you're saying Roger, but I disagree with your assertion that I was simply digging at The Dark Monk...
maybe it looked like a dig, but I don't think it was.  I was being honest with him, and after that, I gave him some advice that I thought was helpful.     

Then again, who am I to judge, who is anyone? obviously the cops judged him rather harshly...  I was just reminding him that the nail sticking out gets hammered down.
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on April 06, 2009, 08:56:58 PM
Quote from: wade on April 06, 2009, 08:53:04 PM
khara continued to PM me saying stop pm'ing me, each time i responded by saying OK, yet she continued to PM me back saying STOP... *shrugs*

This is exactly the sort of shit I'm talking about, dumbshit.

Quote from: wade on April 06, 2009, 08:53:04 PM
I understand what you're saying Roger, but I disagree with your assertion that I was simply digging at The Dark Monk...
maybe it looked like a dig, but I don't think it was.  I was being honest with him, and after that, I gave him some advice that I thought was helpful.     

I might actually buy that you're that stupid, if not for the previous examples of your "help" (ie, Jenne, Squid, etc).

Go peddle your bullshit to someone that might for a moment believe it.
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: wade on April 06, 2009, 08:58:26 PM
what did I do to squid?
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on April 06, 2009, 09:21:19 PM
Quote from: wade on April 06, 2009, 08:58:26 PM
what did I do to squid?

YEAH, WADE, WE'RE ALL STUPID!   :lulz:
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on April 06, 2009, 09:26:50 PM
Tell ya what, Wade...I could ask her to respond. 

Can you see a downside to this?

Now, IIRC, it wasn't as bad as what you did to Jenne (shrieking that she was "sleeping with the enemy"), or Suu (making fun of her divorce), or even the nasty comment you made about Maria when she and I broke up...but what of it?  You've done enough that I can point to plenty of fun things without dragging Squid back into it.
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: wade on April 06, 2009, 09:28:20 PM
seriously.  what did I do to squid?  I don't remember doing anything, because I doubt that I did.   

Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: wade on April 06, 2009, 09:29:21 PM
anyway.
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on April 06, 2009, 09:31:50 PM
Quote from: wade on April 06, 2009, 09:28:20 PM
seriously.  what did I do to squid?  I don't remember doing anything, because I doubt that I did.   



Seriously, now I don't feel like talking about it.   :lulz:

After all, the business with Suu, TDM, Jenne, and myself is all I really need.
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: BADGE OF HONOR on April 06, 2009, 10:08:32 PM
I'd like to point out that banning wade had almost no effect on the boards.  He's just that inconsequential, except when he's attacking someone who's down.  Nobody ran around complaining about the ban as a betrayal of posters' rights or whatever, and nobody sat up and asked, "where's wade?"  wade is the stain on the shirt you only wear twice a year, annoying when noticed but mostly just not relevant.
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on April 06, 2009, 10:14:21 PM
Quote from: BADGE OF HONOR on April 06, 2009, 10:08:32 PM
I'd like to point out that banning wade had almost no effect on the boards.  He's just that inconsequential, except when he's attacking someone who's down.  Nobody ran around complaining about the ban as a betrayal of posters' rights or whatever, and nobody sat up and asked, "where's wade?"  wade is the stain on the shirt you only wear twice a year, annoying when noticed but mostly just not relevant.

I think I can agree with that. 
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: Shibboleet The Annihilator on April 06, 2009, 10:23:38 PM
Who the fuck is wade?
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on April 06, 2009, 10:28:35 PM
Quote from: Slanket the Destroyer on April 06, 2009, 10:23:38 PM
Who the fuck is wade?

He's this guy whose head is too fucking small.

And he's a clerk-trainee in the Canadian military who thinks he's Rambo.
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: hooplala on April 06, 2009, 10:35:22 PM
And even Enrico wouldn't fuck him.
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on April 06, 2009, 10:45:26 PM
Quote from: Dr Hoopla on April 06, 2009, 10:35:22 PM
And even Enrico wouldn't fuck him.

...Not even with Diabo's dick.
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on April 11, 2009, 06:30:04 AM
WTF

How did this go from me being the prime example of the bullshit ECH is sick of to Wade getting banned?

I am confused.

Did I somehow end up in the same category as Wade?
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: wade on April 11, 2009, 06:45:43 AM
Quote from: Nigel on April 11, 2009, 06:30:04 AM
WTF

How did this go from me being the prime example of the bullshit ECH is sick of to Wade getting banned?

I am confused.

Did I somehow end up in the same category as Wade?
In dark monks fuck this week thread, i told him that he looked like a concentration camp survivor/drug addict. and apparantly that was worth a ban because in that thread he was whining about his sad life.    when someone is sad and you remind them what they look like, it is a bannable offense. fyi.

if i do it again I WILL BE BANNED FOREVA!!!!!

Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: BADGE OF HONOR on April 11, 2009, 06:56:07 AM
Or, you know, you have an impressive history of only attacking people when they're down.
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: wade on April 11, 2009, 06:58:30 AM
and uh you know this board has an impressive history of attacking me when, uh, whenever.

WOE IS ME.
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: Iason Ouabache on April 11, 2009, 07:07:42 AM
2/3 of all Wade's deserve it.
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: wade on April 11, 2009, 07:08:45 AM
lol 1/3 people didn't really deserve it.
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: BADGE OF HONOR on April 11, 2009, 07:12:08 AM
wades aren't people.
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: wade on April 11, 2009, 07:13:11 AM
good ones.
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: the last yatto on April 11, 2009, 08:46:49 AM
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Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on April 11, 2009, 04:16:20 PM
Quote from: wade on April 11, 2009, 06:58:30 AM
and uh you know this board has an impressive history of attacking me when, uh, whenever I'm being stupid and rude.

WOE IS ME.

Fixt
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: Sir Squid Diddimus on April 11, 2009, 04:23:23 PM
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Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on April 11, 2009, 04:29:50 PM
You know, TDM looks like an undernourished teenager who doesn't get outside much.

I can see how the police, in doing their duty to protect the public, might have thought to themselves "Shit, if anyone's going to be a threat to public safety, it'll be that young kid who looks like he needs some soup and an outdoor sport!"

Come on, Wade, you were solely doing something you have an established track record of, which is trying to hurt the feelings of someone who is already upset and in an emotionally vulnerable position. It's an incredibly dishonorable character trait. A decent person doesn't even kick their worst enemy when they're down, let alone random people on a board.

You think we haven't all gotten our share of hazing in this place? Every single fucking one of us has had our rash of shit, sometimes many times over. The difference is that you can't take it, you're not quick enough to return it, you can't get over it, and you retaliate at "us" (read, the whole world) by throwing dirt on the next kid you see who's fallen and skinned their knee.

You completely lack honor. You're the kind of person who shoots an unarmed woman in the back.
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on April 11, 2009, 04:33:17 PM
And by the way, fuck you ECH for categorizing me with that little crapweasel. Speaking of kicking people when they're down, you have more in common with him than I do. Everyone gave you a mile of slack when your dad was dying because they knew you were going through a rough time, but it looks like compassion is reserved only for royalty like you, in your own narrow egotistical worldview. FUCK YOU.
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: the last yatto on April 11, 2009, 10:18:06 PM
Quote from: Squid on April 11, 2009, 04:23:23 PM
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Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: wade on April 11, 2009, 10:34:36 PM
Quote from: Nigel on April 11, 2009, 04:29:50 PM
You know, TDM looks like an undernourished teenager who doesn't get outside much.

I can see how the police, in doing their duty to protect the public, might have thought to themselves "Shit, if anyone's going to be a threat to public safety, it'll be that young kid who looks like he needs some soup and an outdoor sport!"

Come on, Wade, you were solely doing something you have an established track record of, which is trying to hurt the feelings of someone who is already upset and in an emotionally vulnerable position. It's an incredibly dishonorable character trait. A decent person doesn't even kick their worst enemy when they're down, let alone random people on a board.

You think we haven't all gotten our share of hazing in this place? Every single fucking one of us has had our rash of shit, sometimes many times over. The difference is that you can't take it, you're not quick enough to return it, you can't get over it, and you retaliate at "us" (read, the whole world) by throwing dirt on the next kid you see who's fallen and skinned their knee.

You completely lack honor. You're the kind of person who shoots an unarmed woman in the back.

In my mind I was being motivational.  In everyone elses mind I was being insulting and trying to hurt him.  I wasn't.  not according to me anyway.  also, you pretty much just agreed with the point I was making.

*shrugs*  I was taught to go after someones weakness. *economy of effort* excuse me for holding grudges on a message board and hitting back when it was the easiest for me...  I'll try and cut it out...  but it is hard when people are constantly giving me diggs for no other reason then my past. meh


I haven't really seen a reason to let it go.  And.  the next kid who falls and skins their knee is a kid who in the past thought it'd be witty to throw in a digg at me at one point. which usually means, I'll be mean to them when it is the easiest.   NOW I kinda don't care anymore, whats the point when afterwards everyone apparntely gets sand in their vaginas...

LOL I'd shoot an unarmed women in the back...?   well, yeah I have before. I unloaded my "gun"....

I do not understand how you can compare message board postings to physical confrontations.   If I'm fighting a person, I will strike their weakness.  Why the fuck would I go after their strenghs? for honor?  w/e.

When Georges St. Pierre fights, his strategy in the ring is to attack his opponents weakness, in the case of his last fight he targets Penns weak shoulders.  Are you trying to tell me Georges is not an honorable fighter for dong that?
w/e lady.  My point is, you can't campare physical fights to message board bitchyness.  even though that's how I use my message board bitchyness, I use it like i'm in a physical fight..  ha.

I'll let it drop now...try to anyway.
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on April 11, 2009, 10:34:56 PM
Hey Yatto, it's cute when Squid does it.
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
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Quote from: Yάttᶿ on April 11, 2009, 10:18:06 PM
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Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: BADGE OF HONOR on April 11, 2009, 10:53:56 PM
Pangolins are awesome.
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: the other anonymous on April 12, 2009, 01:17:55 AM
Quote from: wade on April 11, 2009, 10:34:36 PM
In my mind I was being motivational.  In everyone elses mind I was being insulting and trying to hurt him.

Such is the nature of communication.

Quote from: wade on April 11, 2009, 10:34:36 PM
*shrugs*  I was taught to go after someones weakness. *economy of effort* excuse me for holding grudges on a message board and hitting back when it was the easiest for me...  I'll try and cut it out...  but it is hard when people are constantly giving me diggs for no other reason then my past. meh

Rise above what you have been taught. Only then can the student become the master. Also, grudges? On a message board? SRSLY? WAYSA? ;)

Quote from: wade on April 11, 2009, 10:34:36 PM
I haven't really seen a reason to let it go.  And.  the next kid who falls and skins their knee is a kid who in the past thought it'd be witty to throw in a digg at me at one point. which usually means, I'll be mean to them when it is the easiest.

And so the cycle of violence shall continue. They will remember that slight, and use it as justification for even harsher treatment when their knee heals.

Quote from: wade on April 11, 2009, 10:34:36 PM
NOW I kinda don't care anymore, whats the point when afterwards everyone apparntely gets sand in their vaginas...

The point is to get in there and lick them vaginas clean! :lol:

Quote from: wade on April 11, 2009, 10:34:36 PM
LOL I'd shoot an unarmed women in the back...?   well, yeah I have before. I unloaded my "gun"....

Guns aren't toys; don't play with them!
The penis is a toy; play with it!
See the difference?

Quote from: wade on April 11, 2009, 10:34:36 PM
I do not understand how you can compare message board postings to physical confrontations.   If I'm fighting a person, I will strike their weakness.  Why the fuck would I go after their strenghs? for honor?  w/e.

The point is to know when to fight and when not to. Honor is not about what is being attacked, but why you are attacking it.

Quote from: wade on April 11, 2009, 10:34:36 PM
When Georges St. Pierre fights, his strategy in the ring is to attack his opponents weakness, in the case of his last fight he targets Penns weak shoulders.  Are you trying to tell me Georges is not an honorable fighter for dong that?
w/e lady.  My point is, you can't campare physical fights to message board bitchyness.  even though that's how I use my message board bitchyness, I use it like i'm in a physical fight..  ha.

So, the disconnect is: You know message boards are not physical confrontations, yet you treat them the same anyway. Why?

Quote from: wade on April 11, 2009, 10:34:36 PM
I'll let it drop now...try to anyway.

Drop it? I'm trying to be friends, I am, but you have shown that you cannot drop this. You speak of grudges and physical fights and picking on the injured; you constantly jump back into the argument at any perceived slight, ambitiously defending yourself; you act like there's no good reason for anyone to be mad at you, as if their feelings are irrelevant to the fight! These are all signs of emotional immaturity.

Perhaps you might benefit by reminding yourself that you're not in school anymore. We're not gonna take your lunch money.

-toa,
friendly advice
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: wade on April 12, 2009, 01:25:13 AM
seen.
thanks.
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: the other anonymous on April 12, 2009, 01:41:44 AM
Quote from: wade on April 12, 2009, 01:25:13 AM
seen.
thanks.

y'welcome.
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on April 12, 2009, 05:38:38 AM
Quote from: wade on April 11, 2009, 10:34:36 PM

*shrugs*  I was taught to go after someones weakness. *

Oh, yeah.  It's someone else's fault that you're a prick.
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: Cainad (dec.) on April 12, 2009, 05:48:32 AM
"Now look what you made me do!" Syndrome.
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on April 12, 2009, 05:57:40 AM
Quote from: Cainad on April 12, 2009, 05:48:32 AM
"Now look what you made me do!" Syndrome.

Beats taking, you know, responsibility for your own actions.
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: wade on April 12, 2009, 06:17:31 AM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on April 12, 2009, 05:38:38 AM
Quote from: wade on April 11, 2009, 10:34:36 PM

*shrugs*  I was taught to go after someones weakness. *

Oh, yeah.  It's someone else's fault that you're a prick.
seen.


Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on April 12, 2009, 06:30:26 AM
Quote from: wade on April 12, 2009, 06:17:31 AM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on April 12, 2009, 05:38:38 AM
Quote from: wade on April 11, 2009, 10:34:36 PM

*shrugs*  I was taught to go after someones weakness. *

Oh, yeah.  It's someone else's fault that you're a prick.
seen.




Who gives a fuck what you've seen?  I tend to reserve that sort of concern for people who are capable of taking some form of responsibility for their own actions, you fucking coward.
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: wade on April 12, 2009, 06:37:34 AM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on April 12, 2009, 06:30:26 AM


Who gives a fuck what you've seen? 
people who have given me orders, people who have instructed me on certain things, someone criticising my self?

I see.

ok?

Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on April 12, 2009, 06:38:56 AM
Quote from: wade on April 12, 2009, 06:37:34 AM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on April 12, 2009, 06:30:26 AM


Who gives a fuck what you've seen? 
people who have given me orders, people who have instructed me on certain things, someone criticising my self?

I see.

ok?



Nope.  Not getting it.
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: wade on April 12, 2009, 06:46:48 AM
uh, ok.

"See the ridge over there?"
"No"
"Reference that big fuckoff tree, @ 2 o'clock theres a ridge..."
"Seen"
"Ok, now..."


In your case, I have seen what it is you've found fault in within myself.  I'll try not to do it again. 

Why else would you criticise me if not to make me see my folly?
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on April 12, 2009, 06:53:28 AM
Quote from: wade on April 12, 2009, 06:46:48 AM
uh, ok.

"See the ridge over there?"
"No"
"Reference that big fuckoff tree, @ 2 o'clock theres a ridge..."
"Seen"
"Ok, now..."


In your case, I have seen what it is you've found fault in within myself.  I'll try not to do it again. 

Why else would you criticise me if not to make me see my folly?

Because I hate you?

I used to criticize you for that reason, but I have since decided that you are a backstabbing little fuck who only "reforms" as a way to get the knife in one more time.

Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: wade on April 12, 2009, 06:55:46 AM
ok.
Fair enough.

Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: the other anonymous on April 12, 2009, 01:33:53 PM
QuoteWhy can't we all just get along?
Answers ITT! :horrormirth:
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: Adios on April 12, 2009, 04:03:42 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on April 12, 2009, 05:38:38 AM
Quote from: wade on April 11, 2009, 10:34:36 PM

*shrugs*  I was taught to go after someones weakness. *

Oh, yeah.  It's someone else's fault that you're a prick.

It is difficult to treat someone as other than cannon fodder when they keep crawling down the barrel of the cannon.
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: the last yatto on April 13, 2009, 07:07:41 AM
Quote from: the other anonymous on April 12, 2009, 01:33:53 PM
QuoteWhy can't we all just get along?
Answers ITT! :horrormirth:
2/3rds deserve it
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: East Coast Hustle on April 14, 2009, 12:22:33 PM
Quote from: Nigel on April 11, 2009, 04:33:17 PM
And by the way, fuck you ECH for categorizing me with that little crapweasel. Speaking of kicking people when they're down, you have more in common with him than I do. Everyone gave you a mile of slack when your dad was dying because they knew you were going through a rough time, but it looks like compassion is reserved only for royalty like you, in your own narrow egotistical worldview. FUCK YOU.

you STILL whining? damn.
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: Dysfunctional Cunt on April 14, 2009, 03:49:43 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on April 12, 2009, 06:53:28 AM
Quote from: wade on April 12, 2009, 06:46:48 AM
uh, ok.

"See the ridge over there?"
"No"
"Reference that big fuckoff tree, @ 2 o'clock theres a ridge..."
"Seen"
"Ok, now..."


In your case, I have seen what it is you've found fault in within myself.  I'll try not to do it again. 

Why else would you criticise me if not to make me see my folly?

Because I hate you?

I used to criticize you for that reason, but I have since decided that you are a backstabbing little fuck who only "reforms" as a way to get the knife in one more time.


Quote from: wade on April 12, 2009, 06:55:46 AM
ok.
Fair enough.



He agrees with you Roger.   

He might make a better sacrifice than originally thought.....
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on April 15, 2009, 05:01:29 PM
Quote from: East Coast Hustle on April 14, 2009, 12:22:33 PM
Quote from: Nigel on April 11, 2009, 04:33:17 PM
And by the way, fuck you ECH for categorizing me with that little crapweasel. Speaking of kicking people when they're down, you have more in common with him than I do. Everyone gave you a mile of slack when your dad was dying because they knew you were going through a rough time, but it looks like compassion is reserved only for royalty like you, in your own narrow egotistical worldview. FUCK YOU.

you STILL whining? damn.

I was gone for two weeks and came back to that, short attention-span boy.
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: East Coast Hustle on April 15, 2009, 10:54:29 PM
Well, hopefully that'll teach you not to flounce.
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on April 15, 2009, 10:55:54 PM
The sheer futility of it seems a good lesson.
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: BADGE OF HONOR on April 15, 2009, 10:57:31 PM
Hell, even I came back.    :horrormirth:
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on April 15, 2009, 11:17:28 PM
My policy is never come back after a flounce. I just PM my username and password to random TCC members :evil:
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: East Coast Hustle on April 16, 2009, 01:14:50 AM
yeah, but they're less abrasive than you so it kind of ends up backfiring.

:lulz:
Title: Re: So I've been gone for a little over a week and...
Post by: the last yatto on March 25, 2010, 07:14:15 PM
:podpeople: