Now, that’s Big Red Flaming Cunt to you. What can I say? Must be my time of the month or something.
What the hell are you getting at, Red ? You seem to be upset, the salient point being looking at transexuals, covertly brought up, even though you are “not one”. So why bring it up in context of Eve’s post…it has absolutely no bearing on the annoyance of a gum smacking person on public space, as she’s posted it. You brought that to the fore, otherwise, it was not at all germain to Eve’s post. Parse it out, thanks.
(Ignoring the bit that’s too jaw-droppingly stupid to respond to, even in the pit.)
Well… yeah.
Don’t get me wrong. I’m not above occasionally chewing a stick of gum, especially if there has been a potentially stinky vice such as tobacco or nicotine consumed at some point previously.
However, people who chew gum in an obtrusive way should be caned. Further, people who chew gum in an obtrusive way in an enclosed space which other people are obliged to share with them ought to be flayed alive. Beyond that, people who chew nauseatingly-scented gum in an obtrusive way in an enclosed space which other people are obliged to share with them ought to be flayed alive, pureed, fixed in a graminaceous emulsion of gum arabic, and fed to feral cows.
Or possibly made the object of scorn on a public message board. Whatever works for you.
This is too easy, but okay.
Okay, Pup (and let’s lengthen it to the more appropriate Poop): You have nothing to say about the ettiquette of chewing gum, and you have no knowledge (though, amazingly, much to say) about the ettiquette of Eve, our Opening Poster. All you have is cluelessness and an admirable though pathetically immature determination to see your ignorance plunge flaming though the atmosphere to its charred conclusion.
You seem to think, Poop, that your bias against transsexuals (hey, you dragged in the fact that you find them unattractive, when there’s nothing in this bias that any part of this thread would trigger) is somehow normal. It’s not, and despite what your buddies tell you when you yell slurs from a safe distance, neither are you.
“Big Red Flaming Cunt?” God, your birth trauma must have been something horrific. Thank the Lord your brain’s too small to remember any of it.
Go You Big Red Fire Engine, do not hijack a thread to drag someone’s personal issues (race, religion, sexual, whatever) into it, in hopes of getting a trainwreck. And if you think that a thread is too mundane or pointless, then report it or ignore it, as you prefer.
Lynn
For the Straight Dope
That’s alright, Lyn, I eat little boys like him for breakfast. And the other posters here are far too well-mannered to let his opinions–common and sad as they may be–derail this into an actual wreck.
Understood.
OK, still not getting what that has to do with you deciding that I am “getting all PC on your ass”. Really, all that I was getting at is that your post seemed random and as if there was some context or history that you were bringing to the thread that I was not privy to. Not sure how me asking what the hell you are on about make me some sort of PC beast, but I am starting to think that you don’t have a whole lot of rational thought going on right now.
And since, sadly, my original apostrophe to the gum-cracking fishwife (and Bricker’s charming invitation to a night out in 1908) have been sunk into the morass, woud you please close–or, if you can, eliminate–this thread?
Larry Mudd, wow. I liked your suggestions better than mine for the ice-chewers. May I borrow them?
Sigh Too bad you didn’t see a drag queen named Scarlett Jomahnson chewing tobacco on the train.
I don’t have a problem with Eve being a transsexual.
I do, however, have a problem with her being a snob, a racist, mean to children, and generally narrow-minded and intolerant, while having a very thin skin for slights against herself. (NOT slights having to do with her gender status; just people who don’t get or care for her shtick.)
Racist? Did I miss something? That’s a pretty serious charge there, my friend.
Well, she’s made some remarks about African-Americans that I don’t particularly care for, to the effect of, “Why do they DO that? That’s so ODD!” Then, when cultural differences are explained, she continues on with, “Well, I don’t care; I just think it’s odd.”
In fact, that’s the main thrust of my dislike for Eve. She doesn’t seem anywhere near as eager to learn from others as she is willing to share her not inconsiderable, I admit knowledge.
Gum’s not one of my hot button topics but I’m glad I read this thread anyway. Because I’m going to be bowing to lieges all day tomorrow.
Closing, as requested.
Lynn
For the Straight Dope
And re-opened per OP’s emailed request.
Lynn
If there were such a thing as The Eve Brigade I’d be a charter member, but I suppose you folks know that. Whether this thread is in MPSIMS or The Pit, Big Red is acting like a dork and Rilchiam, well, she’s just expressing her opinion. Sometimes there’s not a lot of difference but there is some.
Damn.
I was reading this thread and getting my finger all ready to click the “Report Post” button so I could alert our increasingly on-the-ball mods to a fairly lame rant that, like many of its ilk, belongs in MPSIMS.
And then Go just had to ruin the chance of this thread getting moved by unleashing some apparently long-withheld resentment towards Eve – more specifically, by doing so with an utterly gratuitous dig at Eve’s personal life.
No one knows me from Adam (or Eve, heh) and I’m certainly not a brigade member, if such brigade exists. But Go took a dainty (dare I say “twee”) thread that was just begging to float its way over into rainbow-and-puppy-land … and strapped it to an anchor. Now it’s stuck in the Pit.
Thanks, Go. Thanks a fucking bunch.
Well, as long as we’re here, I’d be curious for a cite or two on Rilchiam’s comments. Personally I’m ambivalent here – I’ve found the lady Eve* alternately informative and dull, funny and affected, charming and annoying. But racist? Not that I’ve ever seen. Since that’s an extraordinarily harsh label to plaster on anyone – one of the worst, AFAIC-- I think Rilchiam oughtta come up with more evidence than the mere vague recollections she’s offered so far.
If it’s true? Hell, string her up; I’ve got no truck with bigots. But if not, Rilchiam, you owe an apology for being so careless with your words.
(Make no mistake, I think Go owes an apology too. Just doesn’t look like it’s forthcoming.)
- No, not the Barbara Stanwyck version!
Got a cite?