I’ve got a small British 
checks, yep no bigger than yesterday
You mean Dubya isn’t?
By Og I’ve been conned again 
Threaten to sue the owners. AFAIK that gets you banned pretty much instantly.
If we gave out awards here at the Dope, I think you would be nominated for Most Improved Poster of 2007.
I wasn’t fishing for compliments, rather I was trying to dish a backhanded insult, but thanks anyway.
My guess: he’s done his best to give us the fascinating and outrageous content we’ve all come here to the Small British Shop Owner Show for.
Wait a minute, you mean this isn’t the Small British Shop Owner show? It’s the Straight Dope Message Board, and he isn’t the star? I don’t think he’s gotten that yet.
My impression: he’s not the kind of attention whore who screams “Hey everybody, look at me!” He’s the type who just assumes everybody wants to look at him.
Drama, Queen of Trolls. He’s about as British as I am, cheerio, what what.
Look, I have to admit, in the beginning I was kind of wondering why everyone jumped on you. Your posts were…weird, and not to my interest (rape vs child porn? Why does anyone care?) but I could ignore them.
Then you started the Cafe society is low-brow crap. So, you join up to a new board, and start criticizing the way they do things without trying to change things. shrug It’s annoying and stupid but I still didn’t care.
Then you did your latest thread, An interesting series of threads - Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share - Straight Dope Message Board. (I’m not going to code it properly.) I’m not sure if that’s you linking to some of your already-created threads, or you creating threads and then linking to them, but don’t you see how obnoxious that is?
Do you really think anyone cares if you pitch a tantrum and leave? Best to walk away silently, observe for a while, and then come back and see if you can behave.
An even better way is to threaten to hack the board.
Please ignore this post…I want to share SBSO’s pain…and maybe, just maybe, I’ll get a free small British out of this. Always wanted one of those! That, and a small French and small Bulgarian will complete my small European collection!
You know I would agree that his posts are not the most interesting or on subjects that interest me a great deal, but you guys are absolute assholes and for the most part not funny. You really ought to be doing a little bit of analysis to figure out what makes you all behave like a pack of jackals just because you can do it anonymously.
You already have the small Vatican Citian? Wow. Those are the hardest. I can’t tell you how many packs of gum I’ve bought trying to find that one.
We’re not so anonymous. A lot of us have met IRL. If SBSO stopped making noises like a dying water buffalo, he wouldn’t attract jackals.
BTW, this jackal lifts his hind leg on you.
[singing]It’s a small world after all,
It’s a small world after all,
It’s a small world after all,
It’s a small, small world.[/singing]
Sorry. I know that one gets stuck in peoples’ heads. What can I say? I’m a sadist.
(bolding mine) Um…cite and cite?
For one thing, he took the offensive almost immediately upon starting to post here. When you’re starting threads insulting entire forums within your first twenty posts, how do you think people will react?
And as far as the anonymous bit goes, one of the things I like about the SDMB is that, as message boards go, it isn’t very anonymous. People are generally held responsible for their statements here, and the moderators go to great lengths to prevent people posting under multiple identities. Hell, you can find my hometown, real first and last name, and recent photos of me within two clicks of my profile here. How anonymous is that?
He was a putz, and now he’s being a whiner, and he’s been called on it both times. Period.
Assholes? Assholes are people who want to set up apartheid states free of “the chattering classes” and thereby improve society. Assholes are people who, without being asked, declare your conversations “low brow” and give you a piece of their mind. Assholes are people who start a vanity thread to showcase their musings in other forums(because crossposting is forbidden). I’ve seen non-asshole behavior from Small British Shop Owner, and I’ve also seen the above. I’d prefer he reformed, but I think he’s going to need to work on his kegel muscle tone a fair bit to make that happen. And toning down the posts per day wouldn’t hurt either.
Enjoy,
Steven
I present the Mini-Europe park in Brussels. Miniature Houses of Parliament.
Assuming you’re still there, and you’re still listening…
Look, I’ve not participated in any of your threads, but I’ve been reading them, and what I’m seeing is someone who, as Chowder points out, comes across as intelligent and articulate, but who is having a bit of trouble figuring out where he fits in on the Dope. You’re not the first one to have a bumpy ride here at first; this can sometimes be a very difficult place for newbies to find their “voice”. I too have had the experience of stumbling around on my first appearance on an Internet message board, giving folks an entirely wrong impression.
Shame if you were to give up on it–and on us–so soon. Stick around.
And I’d strongly recommend you go ahead and pony up, because I think if you do, a year from now you’ll be glad you did. And no, I do not own stock in the Reader.
You sound like “one of us” at heart, and I think you’ll eventually fit right in–once you figure out who you are, and what it is you have to say.
And I too would like to know what exactly you feel you’ve “done your best”, and have failed, at. Sparking interesting discussions? You’ve done that. Tried to upgrade the “kulture” level of the boards? You’ve done that, too.
So I don’t see where all this defeatist petulance is coming from, because it looks like you succeeded at what you set out to do. And I don’t mean that in a snarky way → [smilie] 
P.S. We don’t ban people for being “differently abled”, just for being obnoxious trolls. And frankly I haven’t seen anything from you that counts as obnoxious trollery, and believe me, I’ve seen some doozies. Stick around, lurk more, think about what ya wanna say.
I had to trade my whole small African collection back in 1996 to get that one. A good trade considering that a small Vatican Citian (mint condition, mind you) is now worth a small Asian collection PLUS a small South American collection! I’m still woefully short on my small Oceanian collection…does anyone have a spare small Tongan, small Fijian or the ever elusive small Pitcairnian (the key smallie) that they can part with? I have a lot of small Aussie’s I can trade with including many extra small Tasmanians that are hard to come by.
Anyone?
Going by the limited sample group of the ones I’ve known, I don’t think there’s any such thing as a small Tongan. :eek:
This thread is boring, does anyone want to join me in chanting “Flame Out!” repeatedly?
