I have to agree. I was reading the thread where Kel’s last post was, and I just thought to myself “wow, I hope this finally gets him banned” and “I hope a lot of people don’t jump on his post and give him the attention he so desperately craves.” I know it will never happen, but if people would just ignore drive-bys like this, eventually they drive-byer will get bored and leave. Responding to these attention-whores is just fueling the fire.
There’s a word for these people:
“Pussy.”
All kinds of things scare them, and they feel that they have some sort of right not to be scared. Therefore, it’s the responsibility of the rest of us to wrap everything up in cotton batting, file off the sharp edges, and generally coddle them.
It’s these people who not only give us inane gun control laws, but zero-tolerance policies that lead to children being suspended from school for playing cops-and-robbers or having plastic knives in their lunch boxes, and campaigns to abolish Pee-Wee Football, and a host of other candy-assed crap.
If you’re that cowardly, just stay in your house and let the functional people get on with life.
And now Doors thread where everybody’s posting their dream gun has been closed. Apparently the mods either took it as a poll, thought that it’d encourage some kind of illegal behavior, or they just don’t want to allow the pro-gun folks a nice, happy, debate free thread in MPSIMS.
What’s so wrong with us discussing our favorites? Would a thread like that be acceptable as a poll in IMHO?
What I don’t get is why the thread was closed instead of simply moved to the pit, I mean that’s what I, a lowly non-mod woulda done…
Depends on how stressed the hamsters are. Moving threads are more taxing that closing them.
The mod was pretty clear why he closed it. He said he viewed it as a direct side-swipe of According To Pliny. I dunno if I totally agree, but I can see how he might believe that, since in this very thread **Airman Doors ** says:
An Ode to According to Pliny.
O, Pigeon of Hijack o’er my thread.
Flapping
Flapping
Must you come into my thread?
Crapping
Crapping
Oh and the thread title mentions According To Pliny.
When I looked and saw that it was closed, there were no posts by a mod. The last post in the thread was Deadly Accurate’s.
Exgineer, I think you’re wrong on many different levels, but I will address just one of your points.
Zero tolerance doesn’t stem from “pussies” being afraid of their own shadows. It stems from three words. Fear. Of. Lawsuits. Avaricious fucks, plaintiffs and lawyers alike, with zero understanding and/or contempt for the concept of personal responsibility.
What get’s me is that it was such and unspecific rant.
Where are the gun threads that have been shoved in front of people’s faces?
Brought to you by the Pussy Culture.
That’s what I mean by the “cotton batting” and “file off the sharp edges” bit.
Ex, babes, it’s obvious that you pride yourself on your rough-hewn, take no prisoners outlook on life and online communication, and I’m surprised and pleased to be held forth as an example of any culture, pussy or otherwise, but your post is, unfortunately, devoid of meaning. Would you be so kind, O avatar of manly manhood, as to roll up your sleeves over your brawny, bristling forearms and explain just why you feel my point is incorrect?
You can use little words, no one will think the worse of you for it. Promise.
I think that the fact that According to Pliny goes out of his way to post a drive by snipe in a thread that he knows he won’t like and will not post in a thread with his name on it say all I need to know - :wally.
My question is for Cajun Man: Why was the first thread closed without a peep to the anti-gun freak who pissed all over a thread that was VERY clear it was for a certain segment of the boards, and asked “anti’s” to stay away? That is being a jerk, too, you know.
Airman’s second thread was a direct goading, so I agree with that closing.
But geez, let’s not let personal politics sway your performance so much, OK?