I don’t know what it is that compels people to do stuff like that. Our recent fraud did that, and see what happened? It’s so much easier to ignore it, or to open it, shake your head, and then go on about your business instead of being a first-class jackass…
Yes, it’s true FinnAgain has ESP (or is it STP?) and regularly forces folks to read threads that he jnow will wind them up. FinnAgain you should be ashamed of yourself, it’s 40 lashes with a wet noodle for you.
When Pliny was a small child, a gun-thread wielding criminal killed his parents in a back alley while he stood by and watched helplessly. He has since vowed vengeance on all gun threads, and fights them whenever and wherever he can.
Meh. It was your own fault for over-reacting. Better to give him a one-sentence dismissal (and best to ignore him completely) and keep talking about guns instead of about him. But noooooooooo, you and Finn and Tomcat had to indulge him.
He’s an idiot, but you’re bigger idiots for getting riled up at him. I suggest you start a new thread with a similar theme and if an anti-gun person shows up, ignore him.
Nah, screw that. If you’re so easily distracted, you don’t deserve to talk about guns. Guns are better off without you. Go play with slingshots until you grow up.
I remember, years ago on another message board, someone wrote a perfectly nice and harmless article, which included a sentence describing their love for dogs: “Dogs can do no wrong,” they said in the article.
Some other hysterical little baby read the article, and expressed her extreme displeasure at the comment about the dogs. Because she had been attacked by a dog as a child, therefore anything praising dogs was offensive (OFFENSIVE, I tell you!) to her.
She was blown off by everyone else on the board for being a hysterical bitch, thankfully, but not after crapping on a perfectly nice thread.
Some people just do this—they can’t seem to help it. It’s all about them, no matter what it is, it’s all about them. Ugh.
Responding to people like that in any way just feeds the fire. Guaranteed, if nobody had bothered to comment on Pliny’s stupid post, the thread would have continued as is. The next 4 posters after Pliny: adamyax, FinnAgain, unclviny, and Tomcat just escalated the situation from a simple inquisitive, to a bit of sarcasm, to insults, to closing.
The correct action is to ignore the shitter and just continue on as if nothing happened. If you MUST comment, open a Pit thread and link it to the original, asking to keep all insults/comments here rather than in the main thread.
You all have been around long enough to know better.