Here is one suggestion, again:
It is comments like this that make it difficult to not consider you a waste of bandwidth. This is a message board, not a chat room, and less than an hour have passed since ratty posted his message. Yet you do not seem to grasp this concept. Practice patience. Live it. Think before posting. Then think again. And again.
Mmmm Mmmm, Pate de Faux pas.
That’s good eating ! 
He certainly was quick to the draw when I challenged him.
That’s probably because ratty was reading this thread at that time and perhaps decided to, or needed to, go do something else for a while.
People don’t sit here and refresh the thread over and over to see if someone has answered them. They go on to read other threads, or read another webpage, or eat lunch, or pick up their SO from work, or any of a million other things, and then come back to the thread a couple of hours or day later. Many people have other things they want or need to do besides read the board.
For example, after I post this message, I will not be watching for an immediate reply. I may be reading other BBQ threads, or I may jump over to MPSIMS or CS to read some threads there. Or I may finish up reading the storyline I’m in the middle of at CRFH.com. Or I may be trying to read the many emails I neglected over the past week while I was sick. Get the picture?
Time to thin the herd.
You said it.
“this is a pattern with you” Very Condescending. And also wrong. I actually more often appologise to people and say something along the lines of “you’re right”. But occasionaly I just get too pissed off with the shitty attitide of people.
I am starting to learn that nothing anyone can say [in the pit] can avoid some smartass self-righeous dickhead picking up on it and replying to it with crap.
I am so disgusted with the attitudes of [too many] people in the SDMB (or maybe it’s just the pit) that it amazes me I’m still here after all this time.
It also disgusts me that spelling mistakes, bad english, etc are frowned upon and not tolerated while at the same time pompousness and the inability to say anything nice ever are completely ignored.
Judgemental posts disgust me. The fact that they are tolerated completely in the SDMB disgusts me. The fact that the people who get the most SHIT are the people who are trying their best to be liked, and the people who never judge or condescend or swear.
I hate this place.
I hate that I am adicted to it.
Okay, Lobley, that’s just sad. Perhaps you should take a break (and I mean that in the nicest way possible)?
ratty Having read your whole post. I can honestly say I’ve never read a more [color=blue]disgustingly judgemental, wrong, arrogant, shitty, hurtful post.
The behaviour you claim I am exhibiting (if it were true) is IMO FAR FAR less horrible than your type of post.
I do not laugh at/encourage shitting all over the board (I simply say that a little incoherence can be funny to read)
A lot of dopers would disagree with you saiying that I am immature incoherent and have nothing useful to say. How dare you!! If you were here with me in person I would have put you through the wall, I am shaking with rage just typing this. You patronizing little worm!
The Wrong Girl. Perhaps I should. If only I could.
Lobsang: switch off the computer, have a cup of tea, switch on the telly and let your brain relax. No good can come from saying any more tonight, and trust me, I know how strong the temptation to verbally lash out can be. Enjoy the New Year, see if you can stay off the boards for one week, then come back feeling better for resisting the temptation.
Crusoe - If I switched the computer off I’d get into trouble (I am at work). I have a tea, The TV is on. And what’s more, I can cope with my rage. I am civilized to people who are civilized to me. Like you. Don’t worry. I will not explode.
Make the bad man go away…
Sometimes, one realizes that one is beating one’s head against a wall.
Sometimes, one then stops the beating. Sometimes, one continues. It all depends on what one thinks is harder: the head or the wall.
Myself, I vote the wall every time.
Lobsang, you could ask the admins here to ban you temporarily. It has been done before, and has helped restore sanity to a few posters.
It might also help you get some perspective. This message board is a simulation of real life, and there is a real danger to health and well-being if one is not able to detach from this place regularly and easily.
Remember one classic definition of insanity: Doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result. I see you doing things in that manner at the present time. Not meant to be a dig, but just an observation.
QtM, MD
Smiley, I echo what others have said - you cannot expect instant replies. I remember being a reg on an Age of Kings board which I checked daily - and perhaps 4 threads would have any new posts at all. The number of rapid posts is the reason I came here. This is one of the most rapidly changing (i.e. many people reply at any given time. Yet this is still a message board, and you must learn that expecting a reply in under an hour is often unrealistic.
Bwahahahahahaaaaaa!
Some of our most respected, patient and coherant posters have tried to explain to you and several others what we’re all thinking. If you don’t understand it yet, there may be no hope for you.
You’re addicted to the SDMB? Oh, OK. Masochism is a sad, sad state. Sucks to be you, I guess, especially if you’re addicted to posting on the SDMB from work. Don’t most employers frown on that sort of thing? Unless of course, you are paid to post here!
Gah. Holidays and school vacations are the worst. Wake me when it’s over.
how original - finding a statement from a person, and then finding something that contradicts it.
Well it doesn’t - By judgemental, I mean the post where people go into great detail about what is wrong with a person, in a condescending way. My “You patronizing little worm!” was not a judgement, it was an insult. An insult fueled by rage.
My job is a maintenance job, meaning I have long periods where I do not have to do anything job-related. All my supervisors and my boss know that I post here. They all do their own things on the internet.
And - what is everyone thinking?
If insults aren’t judgments, then I hope you shan’t think I’m judging you when I tell you that I’m starting to think you’re an insufferable ass. You also seem rather pigheaded, but as that’s a trait I suffer from myself I can’t say too much bad about it.
You seem to hold yourself rather above the rest of us and constantly give yourself excuses and redefinitions when you are called on being self-contradictory. I could note yet another self-contradiction here with your supposed dislike of condescension, but I tried that once and was informed that you only dislike condescension towards certain people - towards others, like myself, it’s apparently perfectly justified.
You also have an odd idea of how others want everyone to be the same. Wishing that everyone could express themselves in a coherent matter is NOT the same as wishing that everyone would be expressing the exact same thoughts.
If you truly believe you are addicted to the SDMB, then you need to seek help. The first step to solving a problem is admitting you have it.
“If established dopers had their way - everyone would be the same” was an exxageration of the conclusion of what seemed like an awful lot of little rules to follow. It IS true that the more rules there are, the more similar people will be to each other if they follow them, because any individual behaviour might be banned by a rule. I really did not mean it as litterally as people are assuming.
I apologise for what I said to you earlier about you being condescending before me. I ‘shot from the hyp’ I did not think before I spoke, I usually do. but sometimes a thoughtless thing slips out. My beef is against people who constantly say thoughtless things.
And I actually think of myself as below the rest of you. that is the honest truth - I still feel like the inexperienced beginner.
My beef is (was in my other post) with the predictable ‘judgement of a newbie’ style of post. not necesarily with condescention in general. But people picked up on things and I ended up digressing from my original point.
I have admitted an adiction - the second step will be finding something else to do. I can keep well away from the SDMB at home, because I have other things to do. but at work - try as I might- I can never find anything that holds my attention like the SDMB.
Nobody is perfect. I do contradict myself. (don’t we all sometimes) but at least I am trying [to be nice]. I am trying not to piss people off. I am definately not one of these people who ENJOYS doing it! which makes me wonder why I am the one who is picked on. (don’t misunderstand that, It is not self-pitty, I just have no other way of describing what happens)
If I am trying to be liked/follow rules/sort things out, and NOT deliberately annoying people, and still get berrated then can you blame me for thinking it is not entirely my fault?