Huh? I never said a word about his banning. That’s a fact.
Man this is too easy.
You have been called on your prediction of the demise of the Straight Dope. Put up or shut up.
Hey, Aeschines: you going to take the bet you’ve been offered? You talk pretty big, are you going to cowboy up and put your money where your mouth is?
mswas and drmark2000 are two different people. I did not defend the former.
What kind of response are you looking for?
You never defended mswas? Are you sticking with that?
As for the response, Miller has it in real simple terms just above.
I didn’t defend him at the time he was banned.
OK, I will pay you two ice cream cones if the SDMB melts in a year, but you will pay me 10 Pop Tarts if it is still cookin’. Fair?
I think the context shows the mystics are getting shorter. 
Ok, I thought you were kidding on the other thread about not knowing why I mentioned you liked to jerk to the posts of your opponents, but since you like to play the ignorant:
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=7008297&postcount=90
And that was part of your idiotic attempt to defend **mswas ** on that thread.
Don’t you mean “disabled”
Funny thing, on my pitting to you, you said you were disappointed about the Dope early on, somehow I think in the end, deep down you know that your knowledge of the universe has been adulterated by quacks, you are hungry for challenges that mystics are no longer offering you. See you around the SDMB.
You’re all right, this board will not collapse. But you will lose diversity. Perhaps drmark is a bad example for defended but the points still remain the same. The majority of the mouthy fucks here are so far left Howard Dean looks like Rush Limbaugh. And when they heckle the moderate or conservatives not many take the heat for long. Hell Manny couldn’t even take it. Bricket et al are holding on. But soon they will resign to never having anyone agree with them and leave themselves.
The board will survive sure, as a complete circle jerk where a conservative, or intolerant person, or non cat lover does something you all jump on the person that said/did something and pat yourselves on the back planting that zinger of an insult in the thread.
Notice I said the majority of the mouthy fucks, it may not be the “true” majority but it’s the majority that people are seeing. If you do not conform you are a jerk, you may stay in bounds as to not get banned but you have a good chance of saying fuck it and going out by mod suicide because your discussions will always be a virtual pile on.
This board is a nice past time, I love GQ, where for the most part the political leanings do not come into play (Though many of the mouthy fucks find a way to inject a zinger in that as well on occassion) It is truely the part of this board that fights ignorance. The rest of the board you can still find on newsgroups, a place where people go to find someone to fight with. And fuck that’s free.
I find a mental image of many posters here as the kid who got picked last for dodgeball, the snot nosed little twerp who in my day we would say “Your mouth is getting to big for your muzzle”
I do not mean that as an insult, you found your way in this world, I think most of you are successful and hell most of you are very intelligent. I am just thankful your kind will not anytime soon decide how my life will be governed.
I also get this odd little thought everytime I see some of your arguments, that you’re trolling. Yes trolling for who can get the most liberal comment in. And that IRL you do not behave the way you type. And that is not a sneaking suspicion, I have found evidence of this. But that’s neither here nor there, it’s just one of those things.
I love how the insults come on, “your dumb” “You cannot comprehend” you know the interesting things people say to try to invalidate someone elses opinion. Interesting that you all know so much more than established scientists, you know what, my opinion even if expressed poorly is no worse than your opinion even if you use big words. It doesn’t change the facts.
And that goes the whole spectrum of this board and pretty much is the way things are run. A top tier of shitheels, make sure to keep the rest of the herd fenced in. Yeah the board will survive, but it will be a piss poor board with a one track mind. Enjoy it.
The most recently banned “genius’s” style was to take a shit on the sidewalk and watch while other people clean it up. He shat on the sidewalk for the pure pleasure of watching other people clean it up all the while claiming his shit doesn’t stink.
Sorry, I’m lactose intolerant. It’ll have to be cash. Good terms, too. If the SDMB is still around in a year, you pay for my subscription. If it’s not, I pay you $75. You can get my email adress from my profile. I don’t intend to change it any time soon, so it should still be good when the board dies off. C’mon, man. Seventy five bucks, easy-peasy. $225 if you take the other two bets that have been offered you, on the same terms. C’mon, what are you afraid of? That you’ll be proved wrong? Everyone already knows you’re full of shit, so I don’t see that you have anything to lose on that front.
mswas was banned? Damn, I miss all the fun parties.
I guess. Now how about responding to the real challenges?
Abbie, calm down. Your perception is a little off. In this thread, bashing **DrMark ** and **Aeschines ** you had a moderate (me) and a righty (Duffer). We are both tolerated quite well. **Bricker ** as you pointed out is respected on the board.
You are right though, the board could use some more intelligent Righties and moderates just for Balance but drmark was just a jerk and Aeschines, I have no idea what his politics are, he is also arrogant quite often.
Jim
But we need the wood!
How can I bet with a man who insults me? I’m insulted.
I thought he was only suspended and just hasn’t come back on his own.
I did a search on his name: Not Banned.
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/member.php?userid=10549
Jim
Yo Abbie. For God’s sake indent. Or double space. I would love to respond to your post but my eyes they burn and well you know the rest.
Like I said. No crack to small to crawl into.
Here, I’ll summarize: this board is a liberal circle-jerk and any non-comformists are forced to leave.
I’m just wondering to whom this tirade is addressed. Giraffe, maybe?
Hah! You KNOW it’s a cross of gold, and just want to deceive us poor schlubs into thinking it’s wood, so you can keep it for yourself and buy chocolate with the profits. :dubious:
Of course Abbie Normal, “your dumb” and “You cannot comprehend”.
I was officially warned early in 2001 when I inserted a left leaning zinger in GQ, I claim ignorance then, but I got better. And the warning was not from **manny ** AFAICR.
I learned my lesson, you have only learned to selectively ignore evidence contrary to your bias, part of the TAS* I have observed on some conservatives.
Oh, and are you so ignorant that you don’t know that **Aeschines ** hates Bush and many Conservative causes?
- Time-line Avoidance System.
Actually it’s a gold foil wrapped chocolate cross . . . Easter basket!
TubaDiva