Greetings from Hate-town (or 'Expect to be underwhelmed')

[Lord Trout]

Given my rather abrupt reacquaintence with this forum, it seems that I neglected to properly introduce myself, let alone make my general opinions known. Having no recent collection of my past thoughts to read, I suppose I should restate the generalities here, for your reference.

Hi, I'm Shecky, and I'm a complete prick. I'm 36, I live where medical marijuana is 'legal' but gay marriage is banned in our State Constitution, and I work for one of the largest health-care providers in the country. In Security. Master access to damn near everything.

In general, I pay my taxes, go to work every day, and my mortgage payment is always early. I'm mostly considered to be the Nice Guy Next Door, the kind of guy who would never think of doing anything out of sorts.

Heh.

Politically, I'd say I'm a Socialist Libertarian. In other words, I believe the Government should be here to provide a basic level of existence to all of its citizens (Food, Healthcare, Education, Housing, and Protection from Violent Lawlessness, Corruption and Foreign Invaders), and otherwise leave us the fuck alone. If you want more than basic living, go get yourself a job and raise your standard of living. If not, that's cool too.

... and that's all I'll say on Politics, since that isn't the focus of this thread.

What pisses me off? Apathy, Stupidity and Intolerance (as funny as that might seem). Is that hypocritical? Yep. Next question...

When I first started frequenting these forums, I was admittedly a knuckle-dragging, FOX News watching, Pro-War dumbass. But I read, I learned, and I changed. Perhaps other such dumbasses will wander by these forums and be similarily affected? Probably not, but it's worth hoping for. Thus my annoyance at extreme fluff, even though I understand where it is coming from.

Religiously, I'm one of those poor, deluded Wiccans. Gardnarian by training, Eclectic (to the point of being called Discordian, if that's even possible) by practice. I routinely piss off my High Priestess by questioning our basic tenets, so much so that I'm usually not welcome in circle anymore. As far as I'm concerned, if you take your religious beliefs as the "be all, end all" of your existence, then you've smoked too much Crack, my friend.

Eat a Hotdog and re-examine your damn life.

Now then, I'm not here to challenge you, as far as I'm concerned. I do realize that I have set the 'bar' for my posts rather high (as was pointed out elsewhere). I doubt I'll live up to those expectations. But I will continue to speak my mind, and tweak those who I feel need tweaking as necessary.

Does that mean I think I'm superior to any of you? No. I fully expect all of you to do the same, as you see fit. Hell, I welcome it.

Fire away.

[Horab Fibslager]

i don;t udnerstand this whoel uh fluff thing

fluff where?

[Hoshiko]

Again, welcome Shecky.

This is a post more suited to your emergence as a valuable member of the board, or a complete asshole (not mutually exclusive). Or not, but at least it gives you the option. As a plus, your bio is pretty darn cool. My life's aspiration is to be considered either a complete eccentric nutjob or an average citizen, neither of which will be true. Props to you for having  the whole misguided "Nice Guy Next Door" thing.

And props for re-examining your previous thought system. I like your basic political philosophy and tend to agree with it, and I wish more Fox watchers (or commentators!) took your route.

I look forward to your upcoming posts. Hell, I might even read them now that you've introduced yourself.

My expectations will still remain rather high, I'm afraid. If you post one poop joke I'll stalk you with posts crying "Fluff!"

Also, security access is a tricky thing. I know it's probably tricky to post something like this, but do you ever use it for other-than-work purposes? Would that even be possible?

Just asking because I had access to a Bloomberg for a couple of months and I was giddy from all of the government/corporate info something like that gets you, which I'm sure is peanuts compared to what you're able to get.

[Lord Trout]

Also, security access is a tricky thing. I know it's probably tricky to post something like this, but do you ever use it for other-than-work purposes? Would that even be possible?

Well there is that whole "Don't get caught" thing that generally impedes doing truly obscene things, but then again, 'Have Keys, Will Travel'.

Mostly, I do the Dispatching, not the actual grunt work. This gives me access to all kinds of fun toys, like high-quality video equipment, card-access systems, and alarm monitoring software. If you can't imagine the possibilities, then you just don't know how to have fun.

[DJRubberducky]

"Hi.  I'm Mike.  Sometimes, I'm an asshole."

"That's fine by me.  The interesting ones usually are."

[Wishfarple]

Well, shoot.  If I'd seen something like this before the other stuff I doubt I would've gotten out the cannons.  Of course, I was also running on a hangover and three hours sleep, but that ain't YOUR fault.

Anyone that can admit to being a hypocrite and not be apologetic about it is fine by me.

Hate-town?  Where do you live, Oakland?

[Lord Trout]

Salem, Oregon.

[Irreverend Hugh, KSC]

Damn. I haven't seen you posting around here in what? A year?

[Zurtok Khan]

*wonders if it's still in style to rip the fairie's wings off*

Hi Shecky.  Because I like you, I'm bestowing you with the title Honorary Doctor of Asshattery.

And you need to inform your priestess that she is a Discordian too, she probably feels left out.

And I think you have one issue.  The basic tenets of the belief system is what give it it's magic.  If you attempt to change the system, thats okay (I couldn't give a flying fuck), but you'll change the aim of the system.  Believe what you want, but if you want to still be able to use the system, why not leave it alone?  Perhaps you have another aim that I'm missing.  Ohh well, I'm a shit head.

[Lord Trout]

Damn. I haven't seen you posting around here in what? A year?

Perhaps not that long, but a while, yes.

[Hoshiko]

*wonders if it's still in style to rip the fairie's wings off*

Who you callin' a fairie, fairie?

[Irreverend Hugh, KSC]

*wonders if it's still in style to rip the fairie's wings off*

Who you callin' a fairie, fairie?

I don't think he was talking about you. We know you're not a fairy. You're just fricken nuts.

[Demonica, Oracle of Doom]

*wonders if it's still in style to rip the fairie's wings off*

Who you callin' a fairie, fairie?

I don't think he was talking about you. We know you're not a fairy. You're just fricken nuts.

.............as a demon seed and also the daughter of Demonic Demonica
She would be a very scary fairie!


Hey............ where did she go?  I hope she wasn't using those wings to type

Shecky, Is Salem a good place to live? Why do you call it hate-town?
I almost moved to oregon once.

[Ben]

So long as you're not a witch I'd gander.

[Felix]

Salem?  Ironic place for a wiccan to live, I'm sure you noticed.