Dude, you watch American Idol. You have no right to talk 
So you’re for murder and animal abuse? :eek:
Avoidence, I love it.
doesn’t work for me at my home comptuer. I can’t see the very small print of the mouse over. (at home I use Mozilla, have the browser window sized up 3 times, ) but thanks anyhow.
Arnold Winkelried
The particular thread you referenced, which I would have let die in half a day had people not bitched about the title, is one of those rare stories that hits me very hard. All the correct buttons are pushed with the correct life experiences to make it something that I instantly got a flush and the shakes over. I do not have this as a normal reaction, that story gave me an extreme physical reaction when I read it. Remember that a person that I was close to was kicked to death, left to rot for 3 days, while the drunk sobered up, and he then got off on a technicality for taking his statement, when he was on a painkiller in the hosipital. The baby in the thread was brutaly killed and the guy may get off on a technicality according to the article of the time. I have a neice four months old and I thought of a guy like this getting hold of her. I don’t think the anger I had at that point, was unjustified, and the only violence was a post to the pit. This thread isn’t about the specific item back then, this is about people thinking they know what others should be allowed to talk about. I get one of those strong emotional reactions about once a year. It’s not abnormal to have the anger andreniline reaction. I don’t hurt people in a rage, and it seldom ever happens. Never reacting in that way to extreme violence and sadistic crulity is not normal. Emotional passiveness is either drug induced, signs of a deep depression, or other abnormal mental processes.
You know what, this now has me all shakey, since writting again on the same problem that had me post the first time. I really am not going to discuss this again in a thread, so anybody else that wishes to bring it up again, do so now. I’m not going to respond in a couple more days, if somebody decides to talk about it again. Now’s your only chance.
I think you got my post mixed up with someone else’s post.
Feel free to try to start a debate then, in one of those BBQ PIT threads that you don’t like, and see if you can interest our members in such a debate.
I disagree with you (and/or other posters) who say that Great Debates style threads are OK in The Pit, but MPSIMS threads are not. I think that both types of threads can fit in here, and I am not bothered with either of those types of threads appearing in this forum.
Your absolutely correct. I pasted in the wrong name, so you have my apology.
The post is for Carnick and his statement. “Harmonious, if you really get that worked up over Horrible Item of the Day, you have some serious anger issues. If you’re that addicted to the feelings of rage, you need to seek help.”
Not true, but you’re welcome to send money if you like, but I won’t go away like another person for money. Well, a couple million, but I don’t see that price ever being met, so I won’t be going away for money.
I don’t want to get involved in your fight with Carnick, but it does occur to me that if you are literally shaking after reading a post on an internet message board, that you probably do have some sort of issue.
Please go back and read the post, because I think I explained it enough. Shakes from adreniline when your upset, is not the same as the veins popping out at your forhead, while you screem at the top of your voice. I’ll just accept that some people haven’t experienced anything similar, and can’t understand the response being normal. Anybody that has experienced something similar I expect understands. Talk to me after somebody on 25 year family friend status is murdered and the guy gets off without punishment. He killed himself within two years. I will never have any sympathy for his sorry ass or fellows like him. I will also do what is possible if I can to make sure they spend their lives out of circulation. For the couple that need clarification, because there are always a couple, I mean legal activities. This is a part of my life experience now amd it is a compeling force for me to step up against people like this. It’s not a bad thing, it’s a bad event strengthening my resolve on matter’s like this. It’s the difference between. ignoring the child beater in the store, and turning them in. In the mid 80’s during a vacation we stopped at a town flee market. Some guy was yanking on a kid a threatening him. Two days later back home I read of a kid beat to death the night of the day we were in that town. I always wondered if it was the same kid and father. Today I’d turn his fucking ass in under the same circumstances. About ten years ago I and many neighbors turned in a guy and wife for knock out brawls. Arrest got made so we did our part. They had a baby, and at age six months and more fight arrests, the baby is taken away for child abuse at the hospital for fractured ribs and the like. I was glad I’d gotten to the point where I reported the abuse, and hadn’t left the baby in the place during fights, not calling in. The cops didn’t catch the baby abuse the hospital did, but the neighbors called in help. I do read about this because it’s very important to me. I don’t read it for the morbid tidbits. The facts in some of these cases are morbid, but relevent to the cases. I will make fun of the persons that go to the hospital with a light bulb up the butt for the sake of making fun of them, because it’s hilarious. I can’t control what other posters add, and I do ignore some of it without comment. Now I’m well into a child abuse thread, instead of what was intended, but I amm serious as to this being the last time I discuss the other thread and why I posted it. You still have a couple days.
And what exactly do we do [ ::: wrings hands ::: ] about those who are morally superior (not the ones who simply want more descriptive titles and depth involved in the opening salvo) to the morally superior outraged group? Huh? Huh, huh, huh??
I’m thinking there could be so much banning going on that we’d have nothing left but a party in ATMB. Whose with me?
Well I did read it, thanks. I’m not unsympathetic to what happened to you, but if, by posting a long diatribe, you are trying to convince me you don’t have an issue, you have failed.
Battle of the slogans:
- My RO threads, my choice!
- If you outlaw RO threads only outlaws will have RO threads!
That’s fine. I can live with that.
I only explain it to death to be sure that certain people know the background they seem to need to allow for the post to be valid in their judgement and not otherwise to be allowed.
I call to attention 2 things about bobkitty’s post:
- We do have recreational glee threads, lots of 'em.
- Not reading every state’s local news each morning doesn’t make one an idiot.
But forgive me if that was too far back.
Now for myself, I don’t like groundless-political-accusations pit threads, pitting-whole-groups-based-on-one-isolated-example threads, and thinly-veiled-fishing-for-compliments-about-my-awesomeness/compassion/patience/
sexiness-tourneys-disguised-with-digs-at-whoever-slightly-annoyed-me-this-week pit threads. Can we ban those? 
Or move them to a free-for-all-I-need-attention forum?
To be serious, I do hate it when threads of any kind have just a link with either nothing or a unenlightening blurb (especially links to video/sound clips, which I can’t click), and I do think those are easily fixable and should be banned.
Edit: don’t wanna mess up anyone’s window…
Maybe we could have one sticky thread at the top called, “Resolved: some people do fucked-up things”. Then we could have everyone stipulate that they agree that doing especially cruel or violent things without a good reason is wrong, and that we all agree that we are against doing such things. Then, instead of starting a new thread, anyone who feels the burning desire to share your outrage story du jour that you gleaned from whatever outrage website you visit every morning can simply post it in the sticky thread. And the rest of us can get on with our lives.
Reminds me of the joke where the redneck goes to his preacher and says he wants a divorce.
Redneck: I just can’t be with that woman no more.
Preacher: Why? Doesn’t she cook?
Redneck: No, she cooks fine.
Preacher: Doesn’t she clean house?
Redneck: No, house is clean.
Preacher: Is she a nagger?
Redneck: No, but that last kid was!
Sigh… I gotta quit watching South Park.
Are you taking it as an insult that people are encouraging you to get help about this? Because I don’t think they’re trying to insult you and I know my intent is not to try to insult you in this post.
IANAD, but shakes from adrenaline where your life is not in imminent physical danger sounds more like a panic attack or PTSD than a normal response for looking at a news item. If you could avoid the adrenaline response and still be concerned about the issue and still do the activities you talk about in the other part of your post in a positive and law-abiding way, why would you choose to have the adrenaline response? And if you don’t like the adrenaline response, perhaps you can do something to avoid that part. There are a lot of treatments available for panic attacks and PTSD and you seem to be re-injuring yourself to continue looking at news items and having the same response.
As for the RO posts that you’re posting, they seem to having the opposite effect of what you’re intending. They seem to be trivializing the issue instead of bringing more awareness. The outrage in them is so over the top, it doesn’t motivate anyone to action. It just makes someone wonder why anyone would post such a thing; hence, this thread.
Your motive is hidden in the linked RO thread that you posted recently. If your motive is to get some validation for your own experience, then you might want to include your experience so others know why you’re so mad. And then post it in MPSIMS where people can try to be helpful to YOUR frustration. If your motive is to get other people to take more action in preventing crime, you need to fashion another kind of OP altogether because the RO posts are doing nothing to help that cause.
Heffalump and Roo it comes down too I don’t want to have to post a life history, everytime I want to post something, because last person can see why I posted what I did, and judge it just. Most people don’t expect it. I’ve been blasted about only a sickoo would be reading an article like was posted about. I went into great detail to furnish reasons why people that read such do it for reasons other than thought. I hope the long history adds some insight as to why I posted. I think it has. I don’t plan on going to this effort again for a long time. The baby story didn’t make me shake. The memory of the killer of the friend didn’t make me shake. Reading the baby story and the recollection of the killer of the friend getting off for a horrible crime, with the thoughts of the baby killer getting off, did produce an adrenaline shake. I don’t see the circumstance occuring to often, and or in a way that could be predicted. It happened and it has passed. I only bring it up here again because it was brought up here again.
Heffalump and Roo I take no offense in the manor you present yourself. The original posts were presented in the manor as if I had a mental abhoration, which I don’t. I do have problems putting what I want into words, and that will always be a problem. I can’t always choose correct words and get them into print, leaving me frustrated, when I get multiple people that don’t like the word I choose to use, because of a neunce in the way it’s used. I have times when I can’t even come up with a letter to match the sound in a word. Luckly I’m not that bad too often. This problem doen’t affect my thoughts, just the ability to say what I want without a dozen rereads of every sentence and lot’s of errors anyway. I have problems constructing sentences to mean what I want exactly, and I get overwhelmed by the volume of posts sometimes. I get overloaded and my posts get more muddled. It’s not why I post on this stuff. It is the reason for some misunderstandings, because everybody assumes the others can post their thoughts as well as themselves. Some posters can’t tollerate a seamingly conflicting post, and take it as a correction to your badly choosen words, which you failed to apply in terms that the world took to mean what you thought it would. Ack. Tommorow people.
I originaly did try to respond but I got the worst flu I can remember having, just a few hours after starting it. There wasn’t much interest after I got back on why I posted, so I dropped it, and it was dredged up here.