Jarbaby, please do not put me on the list of Dopers who don’t like you.
I think I hold the championship title for most ill-concieved, ill-recieved Pit thread ever. It was called “MEN!!!” That’s probably all I need to say for you to get the idea of how badly it turned out. A poster who hated me from a previous thread actually started posting again (after a very long break) to share with the group what a bitch I was. (Like the sig isn’t a clue?) It was humiliating. It was terrible. It was horrifying. It went on for four pages, and I got tore up and down. I held my own on some points, but I also learned a painful lesson about making generalizations.
I hope it’s been deleted, but if not, check it out. You’ll feel much better about dissing Oprah, I promise.
Aw, hon, you don’t want to start over - just think of all the memories we’d lose. Classics such as the Magical Silver Key Drinking Game[sup]tm[/sup] and playlets!
I’ve been a pit-posting hosebeast hag all week without a pleasant word for anyone. I blame Anthrax. And my parents. And Starbucks. And global warming, El Nino, and most of all, PMS.
Oh, and Nacho, I remember the “Men!” thread. :shudder: It’s great to see you posting again - I need to email you and ask you about a poet whose name I’ve forgotten. You are a strong, smart chickie and I look forward to arm wrestling you for rights to make out with Lux Fiat in NYC in January.
jarbaby, you can’t start over. I’m still using the swearwords you invented, and if you get all mild ‘n’ stuff, I’ll run out of material. Besides, your thread title Eat Hot Death You Old Bat is how I’m signing certain Xmas cards.
You’re just fine. You can have a do-over, but it was no big deal.
I can’t even find the cojones to be a bitch in the first place, and truly remarkable bitches (good remarkable, like, I have shrines to you both) like jarbabyj and Cranky end up feeling a need to apologize.
That’s just wrong! Wrong, I say!
So stop it! Own your anger! Bitch and be proud! Yeah! And stuff!
jar, speaking as (apparently) the First Person To Yell At You On The SDMB, take it from me: your “good” posts are remembered far better here than your “bad” posts are.
Jarbaby, what you need to do is take a step back from the situation and distract yourself with other, more successful, activities to get back into your groove. Might I suggest either masturbation or sweater knitting?
Shoot, my ill-conceived Pit Rants are legendary. One involved a poster named Sneevil that I got truly ugly. I believe it reached 5 pages in the course of a single night. Some of it did hurt, but I got over it. There are a few others I don’t like to think about. As a matter of fact, I had two MPSIMS threads that were uglier than most Pit threads every become. (I’m pretty sure Persephone knows which ones I’m referring to.)
And while I’m not well a loved or particularly popular poster, nor do I pretend to be, I’d like to think that most things have been forgiven and forgotten. As a matter of fact, I’ve gotten into it with a certain poster who is on this very thread, and I’d like to think that even though we may not be buddy-buddy, we respect each other. Well, I respect her.
There’s another poster who tore into me. A few months ago I had a very civil email exchange with him, and now he’s one of my favorite posters.
Dopers in general don’t have very long memories, and I’ve found that the vast majority are willing to forgive, even if they can’t quite forget.
Huhh? Since when? plg was one of the first Dopers I fell in love with…
[sub]…after all, how can you not love someone who incorporates the Beatles into their user name?[/sub]
I’d like to meet jarbaby and the other ChiDopers sometime. Angie and I plan to vist my sister over in DeKalb next summer. We should be in the city sometime during our stay because I want to introduce Angie to the MSI, one of my favorite places when I was a kid.
