Serves me right

[Nikoli Volkoff]

Welcome to America (tm)!

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[EraPassing]

What I want to know is, why can't people "stir things up" by actually posting something worth reading, instead of the "You're not acting in a way I approve of, so you're not doing good enough/not Discordian enough/not smart enough/not angry enough" blah blah blah?  As a theme, it's... well, rather dull.  Eyes-glazed-like-a-Krispy-Kreme sort of dull.
I mean, Hugh and Rog post something worth reading rather often.  And even when their rants are aimed at fellow Discordians, what they have to say is thought-provoking and attitude-challenging.  So it can be done - obviously it can, they're doing it.  
I dunno, I guess I thought that Discordianism was about more than just the next ego-masturbation project at the expense of people the masturbater doesn't even know well enough to make such judgements about.  But maybe that really is all there is, for some people.

[Hoshiko]

Shecky walked into the room and sat at the table. He looked at all of the pretty shiny things floating around in the air. Fluff! Shecky said to himself. It's all so fluffy! Where's the anger? The rats? The knives swinging through the darkness? WHERE ARE MY PANTS?

Suddenly, a fluffy thing stopped in fornt of Shecky's face. "Stop complaining and being so grumpy. Swing the knives yourself if you want some excitement."

Shecky took a swing at the fluff. "I'm just trying to stir things up! Now come'ere!"

"Stop being such a meanie!" The fluff yelled.

Suddenly, the room combusted into 2000 degree flames. The table was melted, and all of the pretty fluffy things were incinerated instantly. Shecky had time to think "Damn, what the hell?" before he was turned into grey ash.

The moral of the story: Gas leaks are serious business.

Welcome back, Shecky. And congratulations on setting expectations impossibly high for every future post you will ever make. There are many creative and knowledgable people to bounce things off of here, and the best way to use this resource isn't by insulting it. Like LMNO so succinctly said, post it yerself and they shall come.  

- Hoshiko

[fluffy]

::sits in a pail of water to put out the fire in her tail::


damn
why am i always the one?

[Bella]

I guess it serves me right.


What dismays me is that I don't recognize anyone actively posting herein any longer. Reverend Roger appears to still haunt these forums from time to time, as does Bella and Z3, but other than that, I really don't see anyone I know from the "Good Old Days".

You people are making me feel old, damnit! I feel like I should be swinging my cane at you damn kids, as you speed away on your Razor scooters (or whatever the fuck it is you damn kids ride anymore)!

e no mistake, kids. Shecky's back, and he's just a tad miffed.

Yay! Shecky's back!
So glad not to be the only old geezer around here anymore.

::Bella waves her cane in greeting and enjoys the stir Shecky created::

[Lord Trout]

Glad to see you too, Bella.

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i have not read this thread because it looks boring

If ye havn red the thred laddy the how do ya know its boring? and why bother posting?

I read about it on the internet

[LMNO]

So, you don't like the style of posts we make, you think we've become complacent, and want to get us back to our "old selves," whatever you think that means.  So you lob a couple of grenades in a forum, and wait for everyone to get pissed off, and think, "ah, that's better".

But what have you really done?  All you have created is infighting and bickering on a board where everyone agrees on about probably more than 60% of stuff.  Maybe even as high as 80%.  Not to mention, since most of us consider ourselves "erisian" or "discordian" in some way, we are not the people who you should be lobbing things at.

Go to the moveon.org boards, or a Mormon board, or a Scientologist board, or the DNC board, or somewhere where a rant like that may actually be effective.  Or if all you want is people yelling at each other, go to the Comedy Central Tough Crowd board.  99% pure troll.  Have fun.

Better yet, why don't you start offering ideas how we can go and troll those boards?  Get a gameplan together, solicit ideas, and put them into action.  All you're doing over here is splashing around and whining.

That much said, I'll agree that these forums are not exactly a hotbed of activism at the moment.  But no-one ever said it has to be.  And if you want to change that, I'll get on board.




(heh.  get it?  "get on board"  It's-- oh, never mind.)

[East Coast Hustle]

ya know, I'd take Sucky...er, Schecky more seriously if he could at least properly spell his location...FASA's got a shitload of source material for that, dude...there's no excuse...

and besides, who ever said that Discordianism/Erisianism was supposed to be some form of political activism? Just because I do whatever I can to subjugate/destroy/generally fuck-up the current socio-political paradigm doesn't mean that I expect others to follow suit. Besides, hanging out on a board populated exclusively by angry anti-whoever's in charge people would get tired and irritating rather quickly...

to paraphrase: STFU, fool!



edit: just occured to me...if he's playing a game of Troll: the provoking, he just scored an assload of points off of us...

[Sepia]

If I jump, will I fall off the bandwagon or hit it?

Now let's anticipate instead.

[LMNO]

Y'know, I was just thinking the same thing...

Oh well, happy to oblige!


Is there some rule about what happens when people recognize the Troll, but keep posting anyway?

[Lord Trout]

ya know, I'd take Sucky...er, Schecky more seriously if he could at least properly spell his location...FASA's got a shitload of source material for that, dude...there's no excuse...

Gee, thanks for pointing that out. I guess I wasn't paying that much attention to it when I put that info in.

... By the way, you mis-spelled my name. There's only one "c", kiddo. Isn't it nice that we can all get along and be so very helpful to one another?

*Changes location from the incorrectly spelled "Tir Tangiere" to something else*