ORDEAL? Oh please.
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*Originally posted by magdalene *
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They don’t call me the Footservant to Magdalene for nothing 
. A man must earn his title.
Subserviently yours,
Cartooniverse
I gotta hand it to you, 'Toon - that’s pretty damn funny - especially the last line!
MSK, do the yourself a favor and get yourself sterilized. I hear the sun shines very nicely on Chernobyl this time of year, and as an added bonus, the Russian kids aren’t allowed anywhere near the place! Why don’t you go there for your rays?
Know something? they can bitch and moan about the most trivial things because they have a valid point.
I just hate those fucking wide eyed puppies who burn crosses on my lawn.
don’t it make ya wanna kick 'em in the teeth?
MSK I like you but please explain to me exactly why couldn’t you just sit in the sun and watch the kids play ball? Personally I love that shit. And you what, when the ball comes near me I pick the darned thing up and toss it to the pitcher. Weird huh?
You live within an hour of the beach and you have huge trees and city parks near you. Man it sucks to be you.
Except for the local fishing lakes, the nearest beach to me is about 15 hours away–uphill–both ways.
Now if you’ll excuse me, I gotta go burn some puppies or something.
[sub]disclaimer: Just FTR that last comment was made purely for literary effect. I never burn puppies, except maybe hot dogs. [/sub]
Okay… I’m going to 'fess up about some stuff…
[li]I ridiculously over reacted to a situation that did not warrant even a tenth of my original reaction. (if any reaction) I have a nitroglycerin temperment. Yes, I know have a fucking problem.[/li][li]I approached ranting about the situation in entirely the wrong manner. I could have just explained: I want to get a suntan. I have no place to tan at home. The park is no good. I don’t want and can’t afford any “fake” tanning methods. What should I do?[/li][li]Yes, I am fucking selfish. Often, my degree of selfishness astounds even me, and sickens me. It does bother me.[/li][li]I don’t hate kids, period. I am simply not interested in them. One can hardly like or dislike something they have no express interest in. I have had some very good personal experiences with some great children over this past 9 months, and maybe the problem is not that I dislike them, but rather dislike the possibility that I am able to like them.[/li][li]When the kids showed up to play ball, I got up and moved to an area that was totally fenced off and exempt from any playfield area. My temper got the best of me, and I stormed off. Again, I have a fucking problem![/li][li]Maybe I need to take some fucking anger management courses![/li][li]What is wrong with my front yard? Well, it’s very small and it is on the north side of the house, which is shaded by the house. Not to mention that my neighborhood is full of elderly senior citizens, who I am sure would not appreciate my sun worshipping, even if the front yard received adequate sunlight for tanning.[/li][li]The kids and everyone else have just as much right to use the park as I do. Point taken. I have a bad attitude. Point taken. I fucked up. Point taken.[/li]here is something I would appreciate clarification on, concerning the responses here.
(a)The kids want to play ball. They enjoy it and makes them happy. Good for them! They SHOULD play ball and be happy.
(b)MSK wants to get a tan. MSK enjoys it and it makes him happy. Fuck whatever MSK enjoys, MSK has no right to enjoy anything, and oh yeah, fuck you MSK!
Would (b) still be appplicable, even I had not went into my tirade? I get the overwhelming impression the majority answer may be “yes”
To take from George Carlin: “UN-FUCK ME!” As my saying “FUCK ME” would only resound in a “no thank you I wouldn’t fuck you with a 100 foot dildo” So, essentially I am the goat-squicking felchwad, not the kids. Seems I have surpassed even Serlin status in this thread. Maybe I should go take fucking Mc Veigh’s place in the needle chair. Oh wait, that would be too fucking good for me. It’s a good fucking thing I don’t own a gun, cause I would likely snuff myself out with it!!! Lastly, this is MSK, saying to MSK: Fuck you you goddamn self indulgent self centered self loathing pathetic excuse for a human fucking being waste of dna fuckface, burn in hell!!!
Beach Lady: Could you move away from me, foul piece of vermin that masquerades as a man?
Magical: What’d I say? Did I piss you off somehow. [stands up] Does anyone here like me?
[dead silence]
Magical: Hello? Can anyone hear me? I asked if anyone likes me.
[muffled shout from forty yards away]: We’d sure like you to shut the fuck up!
Magical: Well, I guess I know where I’m not wanted!
Beach Lady: It took you long enough to figure that one out, didn’t it?
Magical: Whatever. I’ll just find a place to go where I am wanted.
Beach Lady: Might I suggest Greenland? I hear that Tierra del Fuego is lovely this time of year.
Magical: Bite me.
[MSK storms off]
Beach Lady: By the way, I do have nice tits. They’re real, and they’re FABULOUS.
Very well done. I applaud you. However, you would have been better served to end the post here.
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You were laying on or near a baseball diamond. The kids wanted to play baseball. If they were playing baseball in a tanning bed where you wanted to tan, I’d support you fully.
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Hysterical overstatements will not advance a discussion. Take a deep breath and drop the drama level about 85%. I read Serlin. I knew Serlin. You, sir, are no Serlin.
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First, let me be clear that I’m not joking when I say the following:
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I reject the implied guilt-trip. I said none of those things and the hysteria level is approaching 100%. Your actions are your own, and your words are your own.
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IF this was an attempt to gain sympathy, it didn’t work on me. However…
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If this was an attempt at humor, it failed miserably. People will be forced to react as though it weren’t. If you meant it as self-depricating humor, I strongly advise you to say so now, before this spirals further out of control.
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If this was serious, I sincerely, and without any hostility, mocking or contempt or anger, strongly suggest that if this isn’t just a hyper-dramatic overreaction, (I don’t know if it is or not and I’m not going to try to judge based on one post) that you call a suicide hotline, a psychiatric clinic, a counceller or a friend/relative?
Frankly, whatever the nature of this outburst, I’d still advise that you call someone. Seriously.
Fenris
So, there was an area to which you could retire to escape baseball, but you chose to go to the ball diamonds first?
hmmm. . .
As was noted in the fourth response to your OP, back on 06-08-2001 03:57 PM
I think I second the notion of some professional help.
Fenris…
1)The implied guilt trip is directed mainly at myself.
2)I don’t desire any sympathy in this situation
3)2% self depreciating humor, 98% self-loathing
4)There have been rare occasions, where I would literally become so enraged with myself that I literally violently stike myself. I fucking hate myself. I am seriously trying to restrain myself, at the moment. No bullshit. I’m 100% fucking serious. FWIW, last week I joined a support group. I can’t get any help anywhere else at the moment. The group is meeting tomorrow. I will be there.
Congratulations. The first step is the hardest and it takes a lot of guts to do.
Regaring what you’re feeling currently, all I can do is give you an outside perspective regarding this thread, since I don’t know much of what else is going on in your life). As someone who’s fairly uninvolved with you, my take is that you posted an irritating pit-thread. People reacted to the irritating pit-thread. You waaaay over-reacted back. It happens.
To give you an idea of the level of irritation that I put the OP, if we imagine a scale from 1 to 100, with 100 being someone with B.O. chatting with a business partner on cell-phone, ignoring his screaming child, during the climax of movie, and he farts!, and a 1 is a friend who occasionally cracks his knuckles, I put your OP somewhere around a 12. In other words, no big deal.
I’d suggest that it’s probably not worth feeling self-rage over. (Yeah, yeah, I know…easier said than done, but…)
Good luck! 
Fenris
You could maybe do your suntanning on the roof. Unless you live in a part of the country where roofs are pitched way too steeply for that to be safe.
(checks MSK’s profile)
Hmm. Indiana, huh? Well, I leave the roof suggestion up to your own sense of daring/confidence.
OK, I don’t think it would serve any constructive purpose to leave this thread open.