[QUOTE=Argent Towers]
That whole thread reminded me of a fucking Monty Python sketch or something. I think it was ridiculous and arrogant. Sure, it’s just an opinion, but it’s an opinion that makes me think he’s a jerk.
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Made me think of the Family Guy episode where Brian was going to write for the New Yorker, and that one guy’s face was all jaw and you couldn’t understand a word he said. Oops, Family Guy is lowbrow, isn’t it.
[QUOTE=Zoe]
Small British Shop Owner, if you really want to participate here, may I suggest that you stay out of the Pit for a while and maybe even out of Great Debates. Get to know us before tearing us a new one. Post in other people’s threads more. This really is a good Message Board and an unusual one.
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Yeah, it can take a while to get your legs under you.
I stay away from GD and even GQ, limiting myself to the last four forums on the list. And even then, the Pit can take some learning before you get the hang of it.
[QUOTE=Chimera]
And even then, the Pit can take some learning before you get the hang of it.
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And just go ahead an assume the jackals will most likely jump the OPer…so may want to hold off on having pity parties here just yet.
[QUOTE=Yeticus Rex]
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!
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I’ll be happy to send you one of my 3rd graders. He can’t sit still, pay attention, or be silent for more than thirty seconds at a time, but he is a small Bulgarian.
This is just another one of those cases of “I have freedom of speech! - Why then, do people disagree with me when I say things? I have freedom of speech!”, except, coming from a Brit, there’s not the usual explicit declaration of rights, just a sort of complaint that not everybody agrees with me, and I didn’t quite expect it.
[QUOTE=Giles]
The other possibility is that he comes from Small Britain rather than Great Britain.
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They call that Northern Ireland.
I just read “My proposal for improved society” in Great Debates and hereby “apologize unreservedly.” Please let the flaming continue.
[QUOTE=Frank]
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.
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And yet you can get a small Danish almost anywhere.
[QUOTE=denquixote]
I just read “My proposal for improved society” in Great Debates and hereby “apologize unreservedly.” Please let the flaming continue.
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Isn’t that one amazing? :dubious: :eek:
The problem is that Shop appeared to believe he could enter as a guest in a message board that has thousands of members and has been going on for years and immediately establish himself as a major presense among us. What he discovered was that we are not as impressed by him as he is by himself. So he pounted and whined and tried to make a lot of noise and, as a final resort, is now insisting that he be banned rather than just leave on his own accord. Others have blazed down this same path before and these thirty day wonders are soon gone and forgotten.
[QUOTE=denquixote]
I just read “My proposal for improved society” in Great Debates and hereby “apologize unreservedly.” Please let the flaming continue.
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That air of overripe carrion can turn the best of us into jackals!
[QUOTE=Little Nemo]
The problem is that Shop appeared to believe he could enter as a guest in a message board that has thousands of members and has been going on for years and immediately establish himself as a major presense among us. What he discovered was that we are not as impressed by him as he is by himself.
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And yet, paradoxically, we’re all talking about him, for now at least.
[QUOTE=Mangetout]
And yet, paradoxically, we’re all talking about him, for now at least.
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Well, to paraphrase Andy Warhol, we all get our one Pit thread of fame.
[QUOTE=Swampwolf]
[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.
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Son of a bitch. You know this is the Pit, not a free-for-all. There are rules.
[QUOTE=Sitnam]
Arrogant or troll? Arrogant or troll?
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Why can’t he be both, like the late Earl Warren?
[QUOTE=OneCentStamp]
Well, to paraphrase Andy Warhol, we all get our one Pit thread of fame.
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Well, all of those that want one enough do. (I haven’t, and, no, this is not a subtle hint that someone should start one).
But when I was writing my post about the past people who have come here, trolled around for a week or two, and then left in a huff after telling us we were not worthy of their attention, I wanted to give a few examples. But then I realized I couldn’t remember any of their names.
[QUOTE=Giles]
Well, all of those that want one enough do. (I haven’t, and, no, this is not a subtle hint that someone should start one).
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I got mine awhile back. It’s a lot of fun and I heartily recommend it, if you have the means.
[QUOTE=Kozmik]
Now, is Monty Python highbrow or lowbrow…
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Definitely highbrow. Exhibit A:*Neville Shunt’s latest West End Success, “It all Happened on the 11.20 from Hainault to Redhill via Horsham and Reigate, calling at Carshalton Beeches, Malmesbury, Tooting Bec and Croydon West,” is currently appearing at the Limp Theatre, Piccadilly. What Shunt is doing in this, as in his earlier nine plays, is to express the human condition in terms of British Rail.
Some people have made the mistake of seeing Shunt’s work as a load of rubbish about railway timetables, but clever people like me who talk loudly in restaurants see this as a deliberate ambiguity, a plea for understanding in a mechanised mansion. The points are frozen, the beast is dead. What is the difference? What indeed is the point? The point is frozen, the beast is late out of Paddington. The point is taken. If La Fontaine’s elk would spurn Tom Jones the engine must be our head, the dining car our aesophagus, the guards van our left lung, the cattle truck our shins, the first class compartment the piece of skin at the nape of the neck and the level crossing an electric elk called Simon. The clarity is devastating. But where is the ambiguity? Over there in a box. Shunt is saying the 8.15 from Gillingham when in reality he means the 8.13 from Gillingham. The train is the same, only the time is altered. Ecce homo, ergo elk. La Fontaine knew its sister and knew her bloody well. The point is taken, the beast is moulting, the fluff gets up your nose. The illusion is complete; it is reality, the reality is illusion and the ambiguity is the only truth. But is the truth, as Hitchcock observes, in the box? No, there isn’t room, the ambiguity has put on weight. The point is taken, the elk is dead, the beast stops at Swindon, Chabrol stops at nothing, I’m having treatment and La Fontaine can get knotted.*
[QUOTE=chorpler]
Hey, was that all just completely fictional, or is there really such a place as “Wee Britain” somewhere where a Mary Poppins doll slides down a wire like Tinkerbell does at Disneyland?
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Yes, there’s a Wee Britain in the OC[sup]1[/sup]. It’s located between Laguna Beach[sup]2[/sup] and San Clemente[sup]3[/sup], and there’s a roundabout where you have to switch between left hand drive and right hand drive which is the root cause of all traffic backups in Southern California.[sup]4[/sup]
Stranger
[sup]1[/sup]Don’t call it that.
[sup]2[/sup]There’s money in the banana stand.
[sup]3[/sup]This is where McGyver used to practice infilitrating Eastern European nations because it looks exactly like a generic East Bloc country.
[sup]4[/sup]Not really.
To give him his due, he hasn’t called us a ‘hive mind’, yet, unless I missed it.