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          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 ( ) 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?

Oh, 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.

    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

Oh, 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.

    OR KILL ME    

You're doing it wrong.

          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 ( ) 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.

     What are you wearing right now?

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-

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.

CANE

Who?

     You know, CAIN

     I am Optimus Pinecone. Who the fuck are you? (can you feel the flame, girl?)

    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.

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    

     Activities in operation at my camp -

     - expansion of gardening beds

     - raising chickens. maybe a goat.

     - moving ahead on the "Archie's Bunker" album recording  http://www.myspace.com/romulusremusoutpostvinlandia

     - taking copious notes while watching  "Peewee's Playhouse"

     - RUNE alphabet stickers for the kids to have in hand everywhere we go - they enjoy tagging cars, people, items (fruit, candle holders, etc) walls, doorways, etc.

     - making sure a copy of the BIP is next to the toilet at all times

Excellent rant

even though I still find talking politics to be 99.9% super-wankery.

Nobody is asking you to talk politics.  What we SHOULD be doing is FUCKING politics.  Right in it's puckered up little bunghole.  With a 30" strap-on with weird attachments.  And a chainsaw.

Notice the subtle yet crucial distinction.

I can get on board with that.

I'm still sad that I couldn't get any steam behind getting people to mail shoes to the White house before GB vacated.

     That's genius, NIGEL!

     it's only the worst if it's not edible. this stuff sounds like corned beef hash to me. YUM! I'm going over to NIGEL's right now and finding that can!!!

     What about the

     1) Screaming

     2) Wailing
 
     3) Gnashing of teeth

     ?

Confirmation Bias.




I know, someone's already said it, but I was just reading something about it and it struck me as so right.

I'm a bigger fan of optimism bias.  Every week, I watch my planner decide to spend huge amounts of money based on the fact that nobody will call in sick, waste time, make mistakes, do something the slow way, and on the fact that God will come down with unicorns and pink monkeys and make everything go well.

Then I make him redo the schedule, based on reality.  And I STILL wind up over budget.

That's the problem with having philosophers doing the plumbing.

     'Cuz they're all carpenters.