How? I mean, theoretically, I suppose, but theoretically the red asshole could go to Iraq and join the insurgents. It isn’t impossible.
I hear you. I just don’t see anything as a threat that has no chance of being carried out, or how anyone can be intimidated by such.
Ya callin’ me stoopid??
:: punches screen::
See, my problem is not that I find threats of violence vicious and irrational, it’s that I find threats of violence delivered via the anonymous internet to be ridiculous. “Fly down to Central America and I’ll kick your ass because my balls are big as all outdoors!” “Yeah? Fly up to the States and say that, asshole!”
Jesus. Bunch of pathetic posers. I’m not advocating actual violence against anyone, but the chest-beating when it’s obvious no one has the ability or intention to actually do anything just makes all the involved posters look like wankers.
Woo-hoo! I’m off the hook! 
Well, you know what they say: “If it wanks like a duck…”
Anyway, I can’t get over how much I’m feeling the love from our big family in this thread. Warm and fuzzies, and all that.
Awwww…another tough hombre that doesn’t like me.
Go on, throw a few internet punches my way. Or in lieu of that why don’t you also invite me to whatever redneck hole you happen to hang from. How about UFC rules and you send me the ticket.
I swear, what a bunch of fucking morons. About as impressive and intimidating as cow-pies…not to mention a lot dumber.
Giraffe, done and my apologies. I was – and am – aware of both the out-of-bounds engagement I got involved in but bullies – internet or not – always seem to bring out the worst in me.
Just irks me to no end that these assholes go around issuing all sorts of physical threats to anyone who refuses to agree with them.
OTOH, I took a deliberate sarcastic approach – which obviously blew right by their simian skulls – in order to show them how zany and futile their threats are.
Must admit though, that jsgodess, Gary Kumquat, tagos and El_Kabong are doing a much better job of showing these monkeys off. Would that I had their patience dealing with animals…
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I asked you, didn’t I, to look at the signatories of that screed – in particular their Statement of Principles.
Now tell me, how many of the names you see there have either now or in the past held some of the most important positions in Bush’s Government? Beyond that, if you’re really interested in the matter, Wikepedia has extensive coverage of their wishes, plans and actual implementation of same vis-a-vis Iraq. A hard-on they’ve had since the end of Bush’s senior term.
Monty, just for the heck of it I went to a link I remembered about a PBS documentary way back in the early days of the Neocon “power-surge” in Bush’s White House. To my grateful surprise it’s still up on their site. If and when you have some time, mayhaps you want to give it a watch. Might put things in a different perspective for you – or at least understand where many of us are coming from:
You have a point. But as someone who had one of these sorts of bozos start calling me on the telephone saying that he was going to rape and kill me, I view internet threats as both a sign of mental insufficiency and a warning that the threatener probably has zero grasp on reality.
Okay, I’ve been on this board for a year (approx.) and I admit that I don’t really know you guys all that well. But, Der Trihs just pisses me off. I honestly didn’t think that there were people as callous as him on this board.
Kind of reminds me of that guy that created a very controversial website about the iraq war where he wrote things like “the soldiers in iraq are uneducated, inbred fuckups” and when a marine got killed in combat he’d write things like “Another one bites the dust… that fucker deserved it”.
Grrr!!!
For all the shit that you and I have slung at each other, there’s always been something about you that I like, but I couldn’t figure out what it was. And now I know what it is. It’s your intellectual sincerity. You hit hard, but your blows are meant to inform. Of all the people who can’t stand me, you would have the greatest power, through your writings, to effect change in me. I know that all sounds crazy and out of left field, but fuck… I felt it so I wrote it.
Great. Now they’re going to start threatening to meet up somewhere so they can hug.
Well, let’s just start by having a beer. If he’s as big as I am, a hug could set off area seismometers.
Thank you, Lib, I’m flattered…but I’d like to correct something you wrote.
Yes, no doubt it’s true we’ve bumped heads – and hard – on more than one occasion. Odds are it’ll happen again too. But having said that, know that I have no “most hated list” of posters or anything that resembles such – thus you couldn’t possibly be on it.
Being a rather simple fellow (though I know many a member of my family and/or friends that might disagree with said self-assessment) I read something that I disagree with and let it rip. Don’t much care who’s on the other side of the post, even if it is The Great Man Himself. Yes I have a rather easy predisposition to anger when arguing with fools who can’t, or refuse to see what’s right in front of their nose – especially on the many occasions when I’ve been the one drawing the picture for them. Just plain run out of patience. And believe it or not, I’ve mellowed-out tremendously throughout the years.
Now, as you’re likely to know, I am a fact-driven fellow and while I allow that there’s room for interpretation of same, not everything’s up for extensive exegesis. That’s likely the biggest hurdle between you and I, for stubburn as we both can be – and are – you just totally lose me when you go into your metaphysical hieroglyphics and try to pass them for an argument. I mean, there’s a time and a place for everything and I am certainly not as well-versed as you on many a topic, but for og’s sake man! sometimes black is black and there’s not much else to it. That you want to call it anthracite instead does little but obscure the issue (pun unintended, but not bad if I may say so myself).
Anyhooo…glad you went ahead and expressed your feelings “just because.” I particularly feel we, most times, chew the cud too much before letting them out…and because of that end-up missing out on many an opportunity. Be it friendship, love, business or what have you.
Thanks again. All the best to you and yours.
And yes Turnip, I’ll take a hug over a punch anyday of the week and twice on Sunday. Even if comes from a decrepit old-fart such as Lib
Aw hell, who do I think I’m kidding? Getting there in a rush my own self.
I’ll have that brew, but best stop at one. For the longest time I’d managed to keep at about my college weight of 195-200 lbs, which in a six three frame wasn’t half-bad. Fast forward to this past June and I am playing racquetball, my son is watching me play for the first time, I’m playing a twentysomething kid ranked in the top ten here, I forget I was nearly fifty at the time myself and I am giving this kid a hell of a match: end result, crashed into a sidewall, broken humerus which still needs surgery.
Lack of exercise since and extended trips to food-heavens such as Madrid and Miami have me at a balloonish 225 :mad:
So yeah, we might as well shake hands instead. Safety first.
It’s the classic conflict between the practical man and the theoretical man, I suppose. Add to the pot that we’re both passionate expositers, and sparks are sure to fly. I have lots of friends and admirers on this site. I have lots of enemies and detractors as well. That’s what happens to controversial figures. But I tend to trust men of passion more than men of diplomacy. Even when issues separate us. A fighter is a man who speaks with his convictions. Here’s a toast to you, a towel to dry your sweat, and a wish for many years of health and happiness.
And God willing, I’ll see you at the next fight. 
Come on, you two! This is the Pit, fer crying out loud! You’re not supposed to state your admiration for each other. You’re supposed to wallow in the mud, make rambling, obscenity-laced tirades and threaten to kick the other guy in the teeth so hard that his dentist would feel it!
I’m disappointed in you both. If you two don’t at least call each other assholes, I will lose all respect for you.
What if they call each other a silly goose instead?
Yeah, cut out the lovefest you two…you’re making me sick!!!
Not allowed in the pit. That’s too cutesy. Only obscenities are allowed, preferably strung together in the appropriate tempo and scheme: