This is fucking AWESOME. Here we are, on the brink of the weirdest time in American history, possibly the weirdest time in the world's history, and everyone's getting butthurt and bailing out on Discordia, PD, etc.
Well, FUCK YOU IF YOU CAN'T TAKE A JOKE.
Discordia is for rock n rollers, not delicate hothouse flowers. If you can't take the horrormirth and the cheap laughs, then to hell with you...The Coming Weird Times will sort you out soon enough, anyway...and if a little name-calling or "negativity" puts you off, then this is DEFINITELY NOT YOUR CENTURY. Go hang out with the last century, the last half of it was nice and polite.
I hear Gaia Online is looking for nice people. Get thee hence.
Me, I'm going to hang around and laugh at the fucking monkeys while they pull planks off the bottom of the lifeboat to make a sun deck.
OR JUST FUCKING KILL ME. BASTARDS.
This moment of senseless rage brought to you by my PM box. :lulz:
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on March 07, 2011, 08:09:54 PM
I hear Gaia Online is looking for nice people. Get thee hence.
Burn :lulz:
I don't recall a flounceannounce from anyone since Friday's wildfire.
Sure, the board has been dead as hell, but I think people are trying to make up for lost time IRL now that February is over.
Is there any region between the either/or of "rock n roller" and "delicate hothouse flowers", where we can not be shitheads to one another and still stay afloat?
Quote from: LMNO, PhD on March 07, 2011, 08:15:33 PM
I don't recall a flounceannounce from anyone since Friday's wildfire.
Sure, the board has been dead as hell, but I think people are trying to make up for lost time IRL now that February is over.
Charley, Coyote, a few others have told me that they're "leaving PD and Discordia". Going gets a little rocky and they bail. I've fucking had it being sympathetic. Either you IS or you ISN'T. I have time for Discordians. I don't have time for primates.
PD won't protect you from the 21st Century, but it gives you people to swap jokes with on the way to the gallows. If people can't handle that sort of thing, then there's MW and the Toadfish Monastery, where they can all tell each other pleasing lies and pretend that everything is okay...It HAS to be okay, because see how NICE everyone is? They all have
rictuses big smiles on their faces, and everything's all fucking happy.
All you have to do is drop on all fours. Congratulations to everyone involved.
Quote from: Captain Utopia on March 07, 2011, 08:19:40 PM
Is there any region between the either/or of "rock n roller" and "delicate hothouse flowers", where we can not be shitheads to one another and still stay afloat?
The evidence suggests not. There are - to my mind - 3 basic mindsets:
1. Rock N Roller.
2. Monkey.
3. Self-Appointed Protectors of Monkeys.
Five bucks say they post here again by the end of the month.
They couldn't take the heat, so they're out of the kitchen. In a few months we may not even remember their names. Then someone will be bored and dredging the olden posts, only to wonder "Where did that fucker go?"
Can't be helped. The wagon's too fast and the asphalt too rough. This isn't "for or against us.", it's "You're here or you're hopefully only metaphorical hamburger". Fall off RIGHT, because the Donners are gaining on us.
Quote from: LMNO, PhD on March 07, 2011, 08:23:05 PM
Five bucks say they post here again by the end of the month.
Not touching that money.
I'm just a little tired of hearing what AWFUL PEOPLE we all are.
OF COURSE WE'RE AWFUL PEOPLE! IF WE WEREN'T, WE'D BE IN THE FUCKING AMEN-PEW AT THE LOCAL BAPTIST CHURCH, GLADHANDING OUR NEIGHBORS AND PRETENDING WE AREN'T FUCKING PERVERTS.
They WANT to go back to Monkeytown? Fucking let them.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on March 07, 2011, 08:27:04 PM
OF COURSE WE'RE AWFUL PEOPLE! IF WE WEREN'T, WE'D BE IN THE FUCKING AMEN-PEW AT THE LOCAL BAPTIST CHURCH, GLADHANDING OUR NEIGHBORS AND PRETENDING WE AREN'T FUCKING PERVERTS.
Newsfeed?
Quote from: LMNO, PhD on March 07, 2011, 08:27:58 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on March 07, 2011, 08:27:04 PM
OF COURSE WE'RE AWFUL PEOPLE! IF WE WEREN'T, WE'D BE IN THE FUCKING AMEN-PEW AT THE LOCAL BAPTIST CHURCH, GLADHANDING OUR NEIGHBORS AND PRETENDING WE AREN'T FUCKING PERVERTS.
Newsfeed?
I second this motion!
I didnt flounce, i got bored :P
i still check in to see if theres anything fabulous happening
FRED. HELLO.
Quote from: Richter on March 07, 2011, 08:26:07 PM
They couldn't take the heat, so they're out of the kitchen. In a few months we may not even remember their names. Then someone will be bored and dredging the olden posts, only to wonder "Where did that fucker go?"
Can't be helped. The wagon's too fast and the asphalt too rough. This isn't "for or against us.", it's "You're here or you're hopefully only metaphorical hamburger". Fall off RIGHT, because the Donners are gaining on us.
Thow 'em anvils, and wish them good luck. There's nothing but Goddamn Teabaggers and Calvinists out there. If they want to go back to THAT because someone was being a jerk, then to hell with them.
Quote from: The Fred ⊂(◉‿◉)つ on March 07, 2011, 08:31:51 PM
I didnt flounce, i got bored :P
i still check in to see if theres anything fabulous happening
EEET EEES FREEEED!!!!
Quote from: The Fred ⊂(◉‿◉)つ on March 07, 2011, 08:31:51 PM
I didnt flounce, i got bored :P
i still check in to see if theres anything fabulous happening
I know. You wandered off.
There was no "I'M FUCKING LEAVING FOREVER AND FUCK DISCORDIA!"
Nobody will listen, of course, just like I didn't listen 5-6 years ago.
I like gladhanding the perverts at this place despite how horrible you all are.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on March 07, 2011, 08:36:41 PM
Quote from: The Fred ⊂(◉‿◉)つ on March 07, 2011, 08:31:51 PM
I didnt flounce, i got bored :P
i still check in to see if theres anything fabulous happening
I know. You wandered off.
There was no "I'M FUCKING LEAVING FOREVER AND FUCK DISCORDIA!"
Nobody will listen, of course, just like I didn't listen 5-6 years ago.
I know you know i'm just clarifying for everyone else :D
ive wandered back this week cause im sick and not leaving my room
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on March 07, 2011, 08:21:59 PM
Quote from: Captain Utopia on March 07, 2011, 08:19:40 PM
Is there any region between the either/or of "rock n roller" and "delicate hothouse flowers", where we can not be shitheads to one another and still stay afloat?
The evidence suggests not. There are - to my mind - 3 basic mindsets:
1. Rock N Roller.
2. Monkey.
3. Self-Appointed Protectors of Monkeys.
Where #3 is also a monkey?
Until they learn to stand on two feet, I see myself at war with the monkeys - I'm not trying to protect them.
A real council of war has the advantage of hierarchy, and while none of us has solved the problem of how to coordinate a jailbreak without alphas, I'm positive that in-fighting/flinging shit at each other does not make us that much different from the monkeys who happen to be on the other side of our cage.
It's the internet. People come, people go. Sometimes they leave quietly, others they feel the need to make an exit of some sort or another.
Life goes on.
Quote from: Captain Utopia on March 07, 2011, 08:42:46 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on March 07, 2011, 08:21:59 PM
Quote from: Captain Utopia on March 07, 2011, 08:19:40 PM
Is there any region between the either/or of "rock n roller" and "delicate hothouse flowers", where we can not be shitheads to one another and still stay afloat?
The evidence suggests not. There are - to my mind - 3 basic mindsets:
1. Rock N Roller.
2. Monkey.
3. Self-Appointed Protectors of Monkeys.
Where #3 is also a monkey?
Until they learn to stand on two feet, I see myself at war with the monkeys - I'm not trying to protect them.
A real council of war has the advantage of hierarchy, and while none of us has solved the problem of how to coordinate a jailbreak without alphas, I'm positive that in-fighting/flinging shit at each other does not make us that much different from the monkeys who happen to be on the other side of our cage.
Who gives a fuck if they're monkeys or not? I don't have time for anyone but the rock n rollers...The rest can all chew on my gigantic syphilis spirochetes until their arses spout the pure pennicillin which I have to take in horse's doses, just to keep the fucking things somewhat dormant.
The rest can stay or go, live or die. Makes no difference to me.
This ain't gonna be their century, is all I'm saying.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on March 07, 2011, 08:27:04 PM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD on March 07, 2011, 08:23:05 PM
Five bucks say they post here again by the end of the month.
Not touching that money.
I'm just a little tired of hearing what AWFUL PEOPLE we all are.
OF COURSE WE'RE AWFUL PEOPLE! IF WE WEREN'T, WE'D BE IN THE FUCKING AMEN-PEW AT THE LOCAL BAPTIST CHURCH, GLADHANDING OUR NEIGHBORS AND PRETENDING WE AREN'T FUCKING PERVERTS.
They WANT to go back to Monkeytown? Fucking let them.
You know what Roger?
Fuck you.
Does that make you feel special having someone get pissed at you? Is that what you want? Well fuck you, fuck you some more. Why don't you go suck on an entire bag of assholes while you are at it.
I didn't decide to leave PD because you are awful people. Because guess what. I am a pretty much a horrible fucking biped. If it makes y'all feel better to think that you drove some weakass hanger on away by being horrible, go right the fuck ahead.
I personally don't fucking need PDdotcom or discordia to go, oh fuck shit is getting fucked up and the world economy is going in the shtter, America is full of radical-fundies that hate everybody that isn't the right kind of Christian etc etc etc et fucking cetera.
See, I don't watch the news, I read the news, and I don't need other people to swap fucking jokes with to lighten the bitterness as shit decays slowly around me. I can do that without PDdotcomers.
My mistake was saying I was leaving and responding to TGRR's PM. I should have just not logged the fuck in and ignored the PM, instead I had to be fucking polite to TGRR. WHOOPS now I know where that gets me.
You for some reason had to make a big deal of it. SO fuck it. I'm staying. Make you feel fucking better? Does it?
So go Die in a Fire. I'll bring the fucking gas.
Quote from: aedh on March 07, 2011, 08:47:18 PM
You know what Roger?
Fuck you.
Does that make you feel special having someone get pissed at you? Is that what you want? Well fuck you, fuck you some more. Why don't you go suck on an entire bag of assholes while you are at it.
I didn't decide to leave PD because you are awful people. Because guess what. I am a pretty much a horrible fucking biped. If it makes y'all feel better to think that you drove some weakass hanger on away by being horrible, go right the fuck ahead.
I personally don't fucking need PDdotcom or discordia to go, oh fuck shit is getting fucked up and the world economy is going in the shtter, America is full of radical-fundies that hate everybody that isn't the right kind of Christian etc etc etc et fucking cetera.
See, I don't watch the news, I read the news, and I don't need other people to swap fucking jokes with to lighten the bitterness as shit decays slowly around me. I can do that without PDdotcomers.
My mistake was saying I was leaving and responding to TGRR's PM. I should have just not logged the fuck in and ignored the PM, instead I had to be fucking polite to TGRR. WHOOPS now I know where that gets me.
You for some reason had to make a big deal of it. SO fuck it. I'm staying. Make you feel fucking better? Does it?
So go Die in a Fire. I'll bring the fucking gas.
IT SPEAKS! :lulz:
See, this is what I had hoped to see. Coyote had balls. Not sure about this Aedh character. Time will tell.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on March 07, 2011, 08:50:46 PM
Quote from: aedh on March 07, 2011, 08:47:18 PM
You know what Roger?
Fuck you.
Does that make you feel special having someone get pissed at you? Is that what you want? Well fuck you, fuck you some more. Why don't you go suck on an entire bag of assholes while you are at it.
I didn't decide to leave PD because you are awful people. Because guess what. I am a pretty much a horrible fucking biped. If it makes y'all feel better to think that you drove some weakass hanger on away by being horrible, go right the fuck ahead.
I personally don't fucking need PDdotcom or discordia to go, oh fuck shit is getting fucked up and the world economy is going in the shtter, America is full of radical-fundies that hate everybody that isn't the right kind of Christian etc etc etc et fucking cetera.
See, I don't watch the news, I read the news, and I don't need other people to swap fucking jokes with to lighten the bitterness as shit decays slowly around me. I can do that without PDdotcomers.
My mistake was saying I was leaving and responding to TGRR's PM. I should have just not logged the fuck in and ignored the PM, instead I had to be fucking polite to TGRR. WHOOPS now I know where that gets me.
You for some reason had to make a big deal of it. SO fuck it. I'm staying. Make you feel fucking better? Does it?
So go Die in a Fire. I'll bring the fucking gas.
IT SPEAKS! :lulz:
See, this is what I had hoped to see. Coyote had balls. Not sure about this Aedh character. Time will tell.
Aedh is a bigger douche than Coyote ever could be. I tried to stop being angry because it's not good for my health, but fuck the world is going to burn so I might as well shit all over people who don't agree with me.
Quote from: aedh on March 07, 2011, 08:56:02 PM
Aedh is a bigger douche than Coyote ever could be. I tried to stop being angry because it's not good for my health,
Who the FUCK told you THAT shit?
Quote from: aedh on March 07, 2011, 08:56:02 PM
but fuck the world is going to burn so I might as well shit all over people who don't agree with me.
Fixed.
who's aedh again?
never mind, it's coyote.
Quote from: Triple Zero on March 07, 2011, 09:21:18 PM
who's aedh again?
never mind, it's coyote.
A biped, apparently. :lulz:
Okay, are we all done now? Has everyone up in principia discussion and AT made their feelings clear?
Because I have a little factoid I just pulled out of my horribly deformed rectum, and that is this:
The reason the tards are running the planet is that they can all pull in the same direction. They can't GET ALONG, but they can at least agree on a few things, and one of those things is YOU. They've talked about it, and you simply won't do. You fuck up the Feng Shui of the place, and you'll either drop back on all fours and graze, or they'll hammer you right into the fucking planks.
So, yeah, let's all keep fighting about which viewpoint is right, and who is feeling terribly, terribly hurt, and running off in different directions, until such time as they get around to us with the fucking mallet.
Way to go.
I'm just busy doing shit I'm not supposed to be doing because I'm surrounded by idiots.
Quote from: Luna on March 07, 2011, 08:45:48 PM
It's the internet. People come, people go. Sometimes they leave quietly, others they feel the need to make an exit of some sort or another.
Life goes on.
The circle of trolling.
FUCK YOU ALL I AM NOT LEAVING AND YOU CAN'T FUCKING MAKE ME :argh!:
ECH won't let you ban me just because I'm the biggest cuntbitch in the midwest. :evil:
NEENER NEENER NEENER
SO YOU ARE FUCKING STUCK WITH ME!!!!!
Circle of in-joke.
Pay no attention to what I wrote earlier. I must have been smoking crack or something.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on March 07, 2011, 10:02:50 PM
Circle of in-joke.
Pay no attention to what I wrote earlier. I must have been smoking crack or something.
HUH?
Quote from: Khara on March 07, 2011, 10:04:51 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on March 07, 2011, 10:02:50 PM
Circle of in-joke.
Pay no attention to what I wrote earlier. I must have been smoking crack or something.
HUH?
Top of the page.
I'd made a point, and it was buried under in-jokes.
It's just the way things go.
RE OP: Fuck yeah. :mittens:
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on March 07, 2011, 09:29:05 PM
Okay, are we all done now? Has everyone up in principia discussion and AT made their feelings clear?
Because I have a little factoid I just pulled out of my horribly deformed rectum, and that is this:
The reason the tards are running the planet is that they can all pull in the same direction. They can't GET ALONG, but they can at least agree on a few things, and one of those things is YOU. They've talked about it, and you simply won't do. You fuck up the Feng Shui of the place, and you'll either drop back on all fours and graze, or they'll hammer you right into the fucking planks.
So, yeah, let's all keep fighting about which viewpoint is right, and who is feeling terribly, terribly hurt, and running off in different directions, until such time as they get around to us with the fucking mallet.
Way to go.
Who's flouncing?
The shit?
I'm just busy because it's finals.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on March 07, 2011, 09:29:05 PM
Okay, are we all done now? Has everyone up in principia discussion and AT made their feelings clear?
Because I have a little factoid I just pulled out of my horribly deformed rectum, and that is this:
The reason the tards are running the planet is that they can all pull in the same direction. They can't GET ALONG, but they can at least agree on a few things, and one of those things is YOU. They've talked about it, and you simply won't do. You fuck up the Feng Shui of the place, and you'll either drop back on all fours and graze, or they'll hammer you right into the fucking planks.
So, yeah, let's all keep fighting about which viewpoint is right, and who is feeling terribly, terribly hurt, and running off in different directions, until such time as they get around to us with the fucking mallet.
Way to go.
I think I'm just going to ignore the drama and keep on talking about The Weird.
Quote from: ϗ, M.S. on March 08, 2011, 12:57:27 AM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on March 07, 2011, 09:29:05 PM
Okay, are we all done now? Has everyone up in principia discussion and AT made their feelings clear?
Because I have a little factoid I just pulled out of my horribly deformed rectum, and that is this:
The reason the tards are running the planet is that they can all pull in the same direction. They can't GET ALONG, but they can at least agree on a few things, and one of those things is YOU. They've talked about it, and you simply won't do. You fuck up the Feng Shui of the place, and you'll either drop back on all fours and graze, or they'll hammer you right into the fucking planks.
So, yeah, let's all keep fighting about which viewpoint is right, and who is feeling terribly, terribly hurt, and running off in different directions, until such time as they get around to us with the fucking mallet.
Way to go.
I think I'm just going to ignore the drama and keep on talking about The Weird.
This is in fact the preferred method.
There is something to be said for Discordia. Originally, I thought Discordia was all about having fun and getting weird. Then I met Discordians. Wow, how mistaken I was.
But you know what. Fuck that shit. Phox has more fun, gets weirder, and rocks harder than the bastard child of Elvis Presley and Bruce Dickinson, with Annie Lennox and David Bowie as gamete donors. You know why? Because I want to. So, y'all can keep up doing what you're doing. Me? I'm going to have fun. Ain't nothing anyone can say on the Internet that is going to ruin my fun. Suck it, fuckers. Phox is here to stay. :lulz:
I just can't stay away from this place, it's like trying to go without sex.
I feel like herpes, no matter what you do to try and make me leave, I just keep coming back to annoy you and everyone you love.
Quote from: Lies on March 08, 2011, 03:32:58 AM
I just can't stay away from this place, it's like trying to go without sex.
I feel like herpes, no matter what you do to try and make me leave, I just keep coming back to annoy you and everyone you love.
This explains the horrible welts on my dick.
Quote from: Lies on March 08, 2011, 03:32:58 AM
I just can't stay away from this place, it's like trying to go without sex.
I feel like herpes, no matter what you do to try and make me leave, I just keep coming back to annoy you and everyone you love.
They make a cream for that.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on March 08, 2011, 03:33:42 AM
This explains the horrible welts on my dick.
No, stop gripping so hard. That leather belt you use probably doesn't help.
There is no escape from Discordia. She takes me for goddamn walks. I'm on her leash and her payroll. There isn't enough time in the world for shit to make sense.
Quote from: Princess Suu the Apostate on March 08, 2011, 03:43:02 AM
There is no escape from Discordia. She takes me for goddamn walks. I'm on her leash and her payroll. There isn't enough time in the world for shit to make sense.
:mittens:
:mittens:
I've only been back for about 2 days and I've noticed that a lot of the usual people aren't on. Did a lot of people really flounce? I think I missed the drama if there was any.
But maybe it's just a busy time of year, and as the spring comes full swing people will have more time to be silly on the internets.
Quote from: Nast on March 08, 2011, 08:18:18 AM
I've only been back for about 2 days and I've noticed that a lot of the usual people aren't on. Did a lot of people really flounce? I think I missed the drama if there was any.
But maybe it's just a busy time of year, and as the spring comes full swing people will have more time to be silly on the internets.
Fuck knows M8, I've been around, (Although not so much the past 3 days) and either
A/ I'm such a numb cunt that I noticed nothing, or
B/ I have evolved into a purer state of being, that does not register "flounce" on it's radar, or
C/ All of the above.
Where did Coyote go?
Who's this "Aedh" knob?
Why am I naked?
Quote from: BadBeast on March 08, 2011, 08:27:04 AM
Quote from: Nast on March 08, 2011, 08:18:18 AM
I've only been back for about 2 days and I've noticed that a lot of the usual people aren't on. Did a lot of people really flounce? I think I missed the drama if there was any.
But maybe it's just a busy time of year, and as the spring comes full swing people will have more time to be silly on the internets.
Why am I naked?
Because you're buried in a tub of ice somewhere in Mexico, short one kidney.
Or maybe we'll all wake up tomorrow, and realize we are nothing more than walk on characters in Charlie Sheen's awesomeness, and that everything else was just a distraction, designed to stop us from being blinded by his full glory.
I just took the weekend to cool off after SOMEHOW THAT DAMNED TGRR showed off my fail-ability again... :lulz:
I should have taken my own advice on that thread and "just stopped"... but I didn't. So mea culpa, my bad, I was wrong to tell Roger he was being a hypocrite.
But, hell I ain't leaving or flouncing, tried it too many times and failed.
While it disappoints me to think that some creative and energetic people might (might) have stopped posting here because of our communication style, that disappointment is more than slightly directed back at them. It seems to me that the health of these forums are somewhat related to the confrontational nature shown here, and any effort to actively restrain the tenor expressed would be counter-productive.* While unintended escalations have a higher rate of propogation, also increased are the number of insights, breakthroughs, and admitted mistakes (the last of which are vitally necessary for progress). And it has been shown (recently, in fact) that with an adequate preamble, even "trigger" subjects like drugs, magick, and libertarianism can be discussed relatively objectively without dogpiling and shitstorming. In an Internet full of echochambers, it becomes almost an imperative to establish a space where polemical disagreement, and even violent agreement can be given equal time for consideration. It has been said that innovation and creativity arise when two competing ideas clash, splinter, and reform; in which case, these forums are the plate techtonics that build mountains.
LMNO
-the "enter" key is for pussies.
*However, I still think that ideas such as the 50-Post Suggestion are valid, simply as a way to help new posters acclimate to the environment.
This.
PD.com: The plate tectonics of innovation volcanoes.
Quote from: ϗ, M.S. on March 08, 2011, 04:15:49 PM
PD.com: The plate tectonics of innovation volcanoes.
NEWSFEED!!!
Seconded.
I don't flounce, but I do hang back. If I think saying something is 1) going to cause more destruction than con- or instruction, then I skip it for now or later or 2) not crucial or vital and better left unsaid, then I STFU and let it roll. But neither do I judge or let that judgement follow me around the board, either.
I feel like one of those that people mean when they talk about "signal-to-noise ratio," mostly because as I state ad nauseum that I have too much going on to commit to anything more than I have. People don't bitch here at me for it, they kindly keep such like thoughts to themselves, so I still hang out.
I like that the meta-meta-fuckingdamnedmeta posting about this place eventually winds down after it speeds up and crashes. The period of rest is necessary so we can all get back to bitching about Obama, the economy and Discordian shinanigans.
I'll say it again: I like this place. EVERY facet, though a lot of it makes me cringe. It's still PD, and it won't ever change, thank gawd. But if people need to take a time out and chill, I think that's fine. You all know the saying, this place is a total Hotel California...
You know - if PD were to ever go a week without some amazing piece of writing, or other form of creative genius - that would be a good time to talk about changing it. Honestly - I am looking for different formula at EB&G, but that's because it does have such barren weeks, and there is no point trying to replicate PD when it's already here. Think you know how it should be done? Come over and show us your chops. But try it here and I'll have little sympathy for you at the bottom of the dogpile.
Fuck flouncers.
I'm serious about those who take this shit too damn serious.
I don't post here hardly ever now, mostly cause I'm working and my mind has never really been good at handling one thing at a time, let alone more than that... But I'm still a member of this community dammit. And whether or not people want to get into the whole discussion of how 'valid' our 'culture' is here, I'm sure that most posters on PD would agree that this is indeed a culture, a community, of some kind.
I'm ALL for people tearing shit down and building shit up if they are so inclined, and if their urge is to do that with the very fabric of the community of which they are a part then fair enough. I only have five words for them though: Don't Shit Where You Eat.
The contradictions and paradoxes of PD are enough to make ones philosophical head twirl. There are far too many individual and entirely valid view points on what we are and what we should be doing, and the same is true for what we aren't and what we shouldn't do. The very fact that we have so few Set In Stone rules here is not enough to explain the full breadth and beauty of what PD at its best can do - no, for that we have to explore our complex social hierarchy and traditions.
I don't know what exactly this means in applicable terms. I only wish that people would hold this idea in front of their faces every time an argument starts, particularly those tiffs that start over personal style and individual influence over the community as a whole.
Preach to the fuckin' heathens jerkfaces! The purgings of The Party only come after the revolution.
~~~Payne: Not flounced, merely stuck in an endless cycle of resurrections.
I'm pretty sure most, if not all, of this board have yelled "fuck this place" out loud once or twice over the years. Some people say it but don't really mean it, maybe not even at the time but definitely once they've cooled off and prolly had a good laugh at themselves and the situation. Other's proudly proclaim "I'm off" and off they go, like they had to make some kind of closing statement to the effect and then delete their account to make it all official and stuff and then prolly come back either anon or under an alt to make sure we noticed and miss them terribly and feel wretchedly remorseful about behaving like we did.
These latter fucks I really don't care about, other than it makes me laugh sometimes. Sure they might have been cool as hell but I met hundreds of cool as hell people over the years and I'm pretty sure there'll be hundreds more. Fact is they turned into little bitches and disappeared off my radar. No loss then.
Meanwhile I come and go as I please. I don't think I've ever left because of an argument but maybe it was so traumatic to my delicate little bitch ego that my mind has hidden it from me as a coping mechanism. I just go through periods where I don't got much to say or I'm busy and shit with something else. Whenever I come back there's the same old faces and some new ones and some of the new ones will stick around and become old faces in time and the rest are just a fucking statistic. Call it casualties or failures or whatever. Fuck 'em, life on PD goes on.
I agree with payne and p3nt.
I agree with pixie and payne but not with myself
Quote from: P3nT4gR4m on March 08, 2011, 06:12:57 PM
I agree with pixie and payne but not with myself
I agree to agree or disagree with everyone depending on the time, temperature and if I'm PMSing......
Quote from: LMNO, PhD on March 08, 2011, 03:30:40 PMAnd it has been shown (recently, in fact) that with an adequate preamble, even "trigger" subjects like drugs, magick, and libertarianism can be discussed relatively objectively without dogpiling and shitstorming.
And seeing as we can clearly identify these trigger topics we should now be able to watch out for them in the future.
All magic, liberaterian, anarchist and drug threads should now be marked with a
(http://www.mysafetysign.com/img/lg/S/Hard-Hat-Required-Sign-S-7156.gif)
For health and safety reasons.
To from dicks or to protect your dick?
Quote from: Faust on March 08, 2011, 11:26:26 PM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD on March 08, 2011, 03:30:40 PMAnd it has been shown (recently, in fact) that with an adequate preamble, even "trigger" subjects like drugs, magick, and libertarianism can be discussed relatively objectively without dogpiling and shitstorming.
And seeing as we can clearly identify these trigger topics we should now be able to watch out for them in the future.
All magic, liberaterian, anarchist and drug threads should now be marked with a
(http://www.mysafetysign.com/img/lg/S/Hard-Hat-Required-Sign-S-7156.gif)
For health and safety reasons.
Quote from: Faust on March 08, 2011, 11:26:26 PM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD on March 08, 2011, 03:30:40 PMAnd it has been shown (recently, in fact) that with an adequate preamble, even "trigger" subjects like drugs, magick, and libertarianism can be discussed relatively objectively without dogpiling and shitstorming.
And seeing as we can clearly identify these trigger topics we should now be able to watch out for them in the future.
All magic, liberaterian, anarchist and drug threads should now be marked with a
(http://www.mysafetysign.com/img/lg/S/Hard-Hat-Required-Sign-S-7156.gif)
For health and safety reasons.
:mittens:
Wow.... what the hell did I miss?
Quote from: Doktor Blight on March 08, 2011, 11:45:22 PM
Wow.... what the hell did I miss?
Yeah, me too! :aaa:
Can't leave 'em unsupervised for 5 minutes! :lulz:
Quote from: Doktor Blight on March 08, 2011, 11:45:22 PM
Wow.... what the hell did I miss?
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v711/Marburger/tombstonethingsfellapart.jpg)
I think that's going to be a running theme for the rest of this decade.
Quote from: Rev. What's-His-Name? on March 09, 2011, 01:35:57 AM
I think that's going to be a running theme for the rest of this decade.
Yup. I'm going to enjoy the apathy. :lulz:
Oh, there will be screaming and hollering, but the screaming and hollering will be about stupid shit that doesn't matter.
Quote from: Rev. What's-His-Name? on March 09, 2011, 01:38:13 AM
Oh, there will be screaming and hollering, but the screaming and hollering will be about stupid shit that doesn't matter.
Oh, I meant
my apathy. :lulz:
Quote from: Doktor Phox on March 09, 2011, 01:39:07 AM
Quote from: Rev. What's-His-Name? on March 09, 2011, 01:38:13 AM
Oh, there will be screaming and hollering, but the screaming and hollering will be about stupid shit that doesn't matter.
Oh, I meant my apathy. :lulz:
It's the
cool thing to do.
Quote from: Doktor Phox on March 09, 2011, 01:36:49 AM
Quote from: Rev. What's-His-Name? on March 09, 2011, 01:35:57 AM
I think that's going to be a running theme for the rest of this decade.
Yup. I'm going to enjoy the apathy. :lulz:
OK, but remember not to complain when you don't get the sunny spot on the wall.
Quote from: Rip City Hustle on March 09, 2011, 01:55:11 AM
Quote from: Doktor Phox on March 09, 2011, 01:36:49 AM
Quote from: Rev. What's-His-Name? on March 09, 2011, 01:35:57 AM
I think that's going to be a running theme for the rest of this decade.
Yup. I'm going to enjoy the apathy. :lulz:
OK, but remember not to complain when you don't get the sunny spot on the wall.
Meh.
Fuck apathy - it's too much like hard work
Fuck. I hate not being able to sustain rage.
WHY CAN'T I STAY ANGRY AND WRATHFUL ALL THE TIME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Quote from: Donald Coyote on April 06, 2011, 08:15:20 AM
Fuck. I hate not being able to sustain rage.
WHY CAN'T I STAY ANGRY AND WRATHFUL ALL THE TIME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I do, so YOU don't have to.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on April 06, 2011, 03:06:12 PM
Quote from: Donald Coyote on April 06, 2011, 08:15:20 AM
Fuck. I hate not being able to sustain rage.
WHY CAN'T I STAY ANGRY AND WRATHFUL ALL THE TIME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I do, so YOU don't have to.
But I WANT to be wrathful all the time.
Quote from: Donald Coyote on April 06, 2011, 08:15:20 AM
Fuck. I hate not being able to sustain rage.
WHY CAN'T I STAY ANGRY AND WRATHFUL ALL THE TIME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hell, I can't even stay pissed off at my husband properly some days.
I don't think I have any other emotions left except rage. All the time, every day. :|
Quote from: Khara on April 06, 2011, 04:12:35 PM
I don't think I have any other emotions left except rage. All the time, every day. :|
I'm too goddamn tired to be emotional.
Quote from: Luna on April 06, 2011, 04:21:42 PM
Quote from: Khara on April 06, 2011, 04:12:35 PM
I don't think I have any other emotions left except rage. All the time, every day. :|
I'm too goddamn tired to be emotional.
More coffee.
You know what'll put you in a proper state of rage?
Being self-employed, doing taxes.
Quote from: Nigel on April 06, 2011, 04:33:11 PM
You know what'll put you in a proper state of rage?
Being self-employed, doing taxes.
Oof, yeah.
<-- waiting eagerly for her beadz...
I am far too busy enjoying life to be filled with Rage... which is weird since my 10 year relationship just ended.
Calculating the amount I can deduct for my in-home workspace is turning into a HUGE PAIN IN THE ASS thanks to a refinance.
Quote from: Ratatosk on April 06, 2011, 04:36:22 PM
I am far too busy enjoying life to be filled with Rage... which is weird since my 10 year relationship just ended.
Not really, Rat... I'm mid-divorce, and learning to love life all over again.
Quote from: Luna on April 06, 2011, 04:45:31 PM
Quote from: Ratatosk on April 06, 2011, 04:36:22 PM
I am far too busy enjoying life to be filled with Rage... which is weird since my 10 year relationship just ended.
Not really, Rat... I'm mid-divorce, and learning to love life all over again.
Can I play? I'm recently broken up, and more or less not a total basket case!
Quote from: Nigel on April 06, 2011, 04:54:16 PM
Quote from: Luna on April 06, 2011, 04:45:31 PM
Quote from: Ratatosk on April 06, 2011, 04:36:22 PM
I am far too busy enjoying life to be filled with Rage... which is weird since my 10 year relationship just ended.
Not really, Rat... I'm mid-divorce, and learning to love life all over again.
Can I play? I'm recently broken up, and more or less not a total basket case!
I've just turned into a bitter old bitch. If I were a horse I'd be out to pasture or shot by now!
Quote from: Nigel on April 06, 2011, 04:54:16 PM
Quote from: Luna on April 06, 2011, 04:45:31 PM
Quote from: Ratatosk on April 06, 2011, 04:36:22 PM
I am far too busy enjoying life to be filled with Rage... which is weird since my 10 year relationship just ended.
Not really, Rat... I'm mid-divorce, and learning to love life all over again.
Can I play? I'm recently broken up, and more or less not a total basket case!
:lulz:
Thanks Nigel and Luna... :)
I'm single.
I like it.
Fuck you all.
Quote from: Ratatosk on April 06, 2011, 05:43:34 PM
Quote from: Nigel on April 06, 2011, 04:54:16 PM
Quote from: Luna on April 06, 2011, 04:45:31 PM
Quote from: Ratatosk on April 06, 2011, 04:36:22 PM
I am far too busy enjoying life to be filled with Rage... which is weird since my 10 year relationship just ended.
Not really, Rat... I'm mid-divorce, and learning to love life all over again.
Can I play? I'm recently broken up, and more or less not a total basket case!
:lulz:
Thanks Nigel and Luna... :)
You know, due to your avatar, I now think you look like Kramer. :lulz:
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on April 06, 2011, 05:46:13 PM
Quote from: Ratatosk on April 06, 2011, 05:43:34 PM
Quote from: Nigel on April 06, 2011, 04:54:16 PM
Quote from: Luna on April 06, 2011, 04:45:31 PM
Quote from: Ratatosk on April 06, 2011, 04:36:22 PM
I am far too busy enjoying life to be filled with Rage... which is weird since my 10 year relationship just ended.
Not really, Rat... I'm mid-divorce, and learning to love life all over again.
Can I play? I'm recently broken up, and more or less not a total basket case!
:lulz:
Thanks Nigel and Luna... :)
You know, due to your avatar, I now think you look like Kramer. :lulz:
:lulz: :lulz: :lulz: :lulz: :lulz:
Around here they call me "Security Jesus"
I've seen him in real life.
I can't count for my sobriety at the time, but I can assure that he doesn't look anything like Kramer, and he's really tall.
...or was I laying on the ground at Vlad's that night? :?
Quote from: Nigel on April 06, 2011, 04:54:16 PM
Quote from: Luna on April 06, 2011, 04:45:31 PM
Quote from: Ratatosk on April 06, 2011, 04:36:22 PM
I am far too busy enjoying life to be filled with Rage... which is weird since my 10 year relationship just ended.
Not really, Rat... I'm mid-divorce, and learning to love life all over again.
Can I play? I'm recently broken up, and more or less not a total basket case!
Sure, Nigel. Single is a Good Thing
TM for awhile. At least for some.
I do not like being single at all.
I'm sure I'll come around to liking it again at some point, but I am coming to realize that the reason I have spent most of my adult life married is because I like it. I like being partnered up. I like having a cuddle buddy and a partner in crime. I like being the smiling face someone comes home to, and I like making someone dinner. I like being brought tea in bed in the morning.
Quote from: Nigel on April 06, 2011, 06:11:52 PM
I do not like being single at all.
I'm sure I'll come around to liking it again at some point, but I am coming to realize that the reason I have spent most of my adult life married is because I like it. I like being partnered up. I like having a cuddle buddy and a partner in crime. I like being the smiling face someone comes home to, and I like making someone dinner. I like being brought tea in bed in the morning.
See? I was never brought tea in the morning. :cry:
Quote from: Nigel on April 06, 2011, 06:11:52 PM
I do not like being single at all.
I'm sure I'll come around to liking it again at some point, but I am coming to realize that the reason I have spent most of my adult life married is because I like it. I like being partnered up. I like having a cuddle buddy and a partner in crime. I like being the smiling face someone comes home to, and I like making someone dinner. I like being brought tea in bed in the morning.
Yeah, I miss having a cuddle buddy, too. But until I can get by without one, I figure I don't deserve one. It's nobody else's job to make me happy.
Quote from: Suu the Infallible on April 06, 2011, 06:14:06 PM
Quote from: Nigel on April 06, 2011, 06:11:52 PM
I do not like being single at all.
I'm sure I'll come around to liking it again at some point, but I am coming to realize that the reason I have spent most of my adult life married is because I like it. I like being partnered up. I like having a cuddle buddy and a partner in crime. I like being the smiling face someone comes home to, and I like making someone dinner. I like being brought tea in bed in the morning.
See? I was never brought tea in the morning. :cry:
Mr. Language brought me tea. I miss it.
Oh no, I *like* having the bed to myself. Cuddling is nice and all, but nothing beats stretching out on your own bed after a long day instead of having to crinkle into a ball to share space with someone who may or may not play nice with the covers.
all your covers are belong to ME.
Pixie- one of THOSE women.
Quote from: Suu the Infallible on April 06, 2011, 06:22:03 PM
Oh no, I *like* having the bed to myself. Cuddling is nice and all, but nothing beats stretching out on your own bed after a long day instead of having to crinkle into a ball to share space with someone who may or may not play nice with the covers.
If you can't defend your covers, you don't deserve them. But I was thinking more along the lines of curling up on the couch and watching a movie.
Quote from: Pixie on April 06, 2011, 06:23:15 PM
all your covers are belong to ME.
Pixie- one of THOSE women.
OH NO YOU DINNIT!
Quote from: Luna on April 06, 2011, 06:24:44 PM
Quote from: Suu the Infallible on April 06, 2011, 06:22:03 PM
Oh no, I *like* having the bed to myself. Cuddling is nice and all, but nothing beats stretching out on your own bed after a long day instead of having to crinkle into a ball to share space with someone who may or may not play nice with the covers.
If you can't defend your covers, you don't deserve them. But I was thinking more along the lines of curling up on the couch and watching a movie.
GS wasn't much of an issue, Herbert, however...well you've seen him. He takes more space.
Couch cuddling is also nice to a point. It's nice when you have the couch to do it on. Couch at the Monastery? Fuck yes...just you're going to fall asleep. But if you have a guy that has this issue with not wanting to keep his hands out of your pants, then...THEN cuddling becomes an issue. If I want sex, we'll have sex. If I want to watch a movie, we're watching a movie. Knock it the fuck off or I'll scream rape.
I miss sex on a regular basis. I miss someone else answering the "Can I....." questions from the kids. I miss adult conversation. I miss monthly date night. I miss eating in a restaurant with an adult. I miss someone else stomping the spiders, taking out the trash and replacing the alternator/or whatever part has died on my car. :cry:
This reminds me of the good old days, when Chef's cousin Talufa would get his heart broked, and would make Chef drive him around in the van, looking for Koreans to beat up. Talufa insisted on playing his Captain & Teneil CD on infinite repeat, and would frequently throw up Cheetoh mush on pedestrians. Poor guy's stomach always acted up when he was feeling low, and sometimes he could barely muster up the gumption to stomp hell out of any trustafarian that was unfortunate enough to cross their path.
Talufa was the greatest romantic of this or any other age.
Quote from: Suu the Infallible on April 06, 2011, 06:24:56 PM
Quote from: Pixie on April 06, 2011, 06:23:15 PM
all your covers are belong to ME.
Pixie- one of THOSE women.
OH NO YOU DINNIT!
It's true. She even steals blankets and duvents and every other conceivable covering device that is packed away.
I wake up in the morning next to a cover-cocoon with only her eyes poking out. Usually kinda cold, and often a little afraid that she'll break out as some kind of Pixie-Monarch hybrid and try to Arch-Enemy me.
Well, I think that until I get my first coffee anyway.
Quote from: Payne on April 06, 2011, 06:38:07 PM
Quote from: Suu the Infallible on April 06, 2011, 06:24:56 PM
Quote from: Pixie on April 06, 2011, 06:23:15 PM
all your covers are belong to ME.
Pixie- one of THOSE women.
OH NO YOU DINNIT!
It's true. She even steals blankets and duvents and every other conceivable covering device that is packed away.
I wake up in the morning next to a cover-cocoon with only her eyes poking out. Usually kinda cold, and often a little afraid that she'll break out as some kind of Pixie-Monarch hybrid and try to Arch-Enemy me.
Well, I think that until I get my first coffee anyway.
Keep some extra blankets on the floor on your side of the bed. When she wraps up, grab 'em, you'll stay warmer.
Haz experience.
Quote from: Luna on April 06, 2011, 06:39:36 PM
Quote from: Payne on April 06, 2011, 06:38:07 PM
Quote from: Suu the Infallible on April 06, 2011, 06:24:56 PM
Quote from: Pixie on April 06, 2011, 06:23:15 PM
all your covers are belong to ME.
Pixie- one of THOSE women.
OH NO YOU DINNIT!
It's true. She even steals blankets and duvents and every other conceivable covering device that is packed away.
I wake up in the morning next to a cover-cocoon with only her eyes poking out. Usually kinda cold, and often a little afraid that she'll break out as some kind of Pixie-Monarch hybrid and try to Arch-Enemy me.
Well, I think that until I get my first coffee anyway.
Keep some extra blankets on the floor on your side of the bed. When she wraps up, grab 'em, you'll stay warmer.
Haz experience.
No, she gets those too.
q.v.
Quote
She even steals blankets and duvents and every other conceivable covering device that is packed away.
Quote from: Suu the Infallible on April 06, 2011, 06:28:46 PM
Quote from: Luna on April 06, 2011, 06:24:44 PM
Quote from: Suu the Infallible on April 06, 2011, 06:22:03 PM
Oh no, I *like* having the bed to myself. Cuddling is nice and all, but nothing beats stretching out on your own bed after a long day instead of having to crinkle into a ball to share space with someone who may or may not play nice with the covers.
If you can't defend your covers, you don't deserve them. But I was thinking more along the lines of curling up on the couch and watching a movie.
GS wasn't much of an issue, Herbert, however...well you've seen him. He takes more space.
Couch cuddling is also nice to a point. It's nice when you have the couch to do it on. Couch at the Monastery? Fuck yes...just you're going to fall asleep. But if you have a guy that has this issue with not wanting to keep his hands out of your pants, then...THEN cuddling becomes an issue. If I want sex, we'll have sex. If I want to watch a movie, we're watching a movie. Knock it the fuck off or I'll scream rape.
The couch at the Monastery, I'm fairly sure, has the dessicated corpses of people who dozed off in its hypnotic embrace lodged between the cushions. Even with my sleep problems these days, I've dozed off on it during game night (and Richter runs an awesome game, that it can lull me to doze is fairly amazing).
I generally don't have many issues explaining to somebody where the line is and when they're about to cross it.
That couch has taken the lives of many people.
Quote from: Suu the Infallible on April 06, 2011, 07:05:36 PM
That couch has taken the lives of many people.
This, I believe.
Quote from: Suu the Infallible on April 06, 2011, 07:05:36 PM
That couch has taken the lives of many people.
Damn near got me.
I like sleeping alone in my bed.
But I also like cuddling up next to someone when it's cold with my head on their shoulder. And waking up next to someone in the morning.
Quote from: Nigel on April 06, 2011, 07:33:32 PM
I like sleeping alone in my bed.
But I also like cuddling up next to someone when it's cold with my head on their shoulder. And waking up next to someone in the morning.
Yeah, I'm naturally a very touchy-cuddly person. That's the brutal bit about living alone.
Quote from: Luna on April 06, 2011, 07:08:29 PM
Quote from: Suu the Infallible on April 06, 2011, 07:05:36 PM
That couch has taken the lives of many people.
This, I believe.
You don't understand. When people go through divorces, they fight over the bed.
We fought over who was sleeping on the couch.
Quote from: Suu the Infallible on April 06, 2011, 07:05:36 PM
That couch has taken the lives of many people.
That couch has helped more travellers, pilgrims, and waywards than the current pope.