Your threads all start out coherently. You spout a bunch of shite with no cites, real facts or even common sense to back it up. It’s really interesting how your posts quickly turn to “irony” after people start calling you on your bullshit.
That is not the way it works here. The point of this board is to fight ignorance, not add to it. There are people here with genuine questions, and we try to work together to answer them.
If you are attemping to be funny, I’m all for it. We have these stupid little smilies here to help you get that across. If you use them, maybe you’ll find that people are appreciative of your sense of humor.
The only alternative is that you are a troll. If that’s the case, I will take my own advice from now on and DNFTFT.
Just stop drinking Cecil Adams’ bathwater, Lunesea, for God’s sake. And stop disillusioning non-Americans who may read this stuff. You are making them cry. The image a lot of people have of America and Americans through the media is vastly different to the one they get from you. It’s just too cruel and I can’t let it go on. I think I’ll volunteer to log off. Sure, people have a right to know why puppy dogs splash about in the rain and where clapping comes from. They need good, clear answers they can rely on. I mean, if the Straight Dope had existed in the 19th Century your ancestors may have found a way through the Appalacians. Goodbye.
Just FYI, I’m not American. My ancestors stayed at home in England. They wouldn’t have known an Appalachian if it bit them on the arse.
Good bye G.nome and thank you for participating.
stuffinb, yes from time to time i am able to guess which song is coming on the radio, just seconds before it comes on, now whether this is just pure luck and random chance i do not know.
i am usually quite cynical when it comes to stuff like this so i am thinking of having myself committed to the local insane asylum, but the purple voice tells me to bide my time and wait for the sign
dewaholic, lmao at your mad-libs reference, that was perfect
well got to run, my new stainless steel helmet is ready
p.s. dont ever say anthrax, c-4, osama bin laden, lebanon, synagogue, assassination, cuba, atom, plate of shrimp, nuclear, jessie helms, texaco, shell, chevron, or dual overhead cam on emails or message boards, trust me.
Well, if you’re really leaving, seeya. Don’t let the door hit you in the ass on your way out.
Bu ti’ve found that anyone who tells people he’s leaving very rarely actually does leave. If you really wanted to leave, you’d just do it, ne c’est pas?
Man, you are soooooo screwed!!! You couldn’t even begin to comprehend how screwed you are!!!
Please don’t run G. nome off. i1055, open your mouth and bounce some filling rays off the moon and tell G. nome to come back. btw, I make street lamps go out with a mere glance, so…beware!
must buy Catcher in the Rye
must buy Catcher in the Rye
must buy Catcher in the Rye
You know, I almost started this exact thread a few weeks ago but then I stumbled across some of G. Nome’s posts that weren’t disturbing at all. That was frightening!
Actually, I was trying to uncover a formeragent connection because the posting styles seemed similar to me. However, after coming across some normal posts, I decided that maybe I was just reading too much into the whole thing and I let it drop.
Well, that and the fact that if it is formeragent, I don’t want him to call in any favors with his scary military contacts and have me “erased”!
I’m just glad to see that I’m not the only one who pegged this poster as a looney!
Dude !! You saw that ?? NO ! I . . . uh wasn’t there ! You can’t prove anything ! I was . . . DEAD at the time ! No wait, I . . . I was on the moon . . . with STEVE. Its true !!
damn! my name is mentioned so many times that i dont know the english word for the numbers any more.
please refrain from using names as examples. it isnt good policy for your view of the person might differ from reader to reader.
ill go as far as to say its ignorant to do so, although exceptions exist.
granted that it was a question, that makes it “ok”, but still a very BAD question because it was a leading one.
[not me]
sarcasm and irony are the best way to get a message across on an open international forum because irony is an international language everybody understands, please everybody…be sarcastic!
[/not me]
i belive people here know my stand on irony/sarcasm, if not you can always look it up in the old threads here in the pit.
here goes some of it again:
sarcasm/irony are often used as an escape route from failed statements, like people saying; “i was only joking”…or; “couldnt you see it was irony?”.
for that reason only, should we read everything we see as if it were posted as irony? or should we accept it for what it says.
granted of course that there is a gray area there, were some people who KNOW how to use sarcasm and irony post, and have the intention of using irony before posting. of course might some people misunderstand it, but thats irony…not sarcasm.
ugh…this is getting silly and messy.
ill summarize:
sarcasm is often used as an escape route to safe face and make the other party look silly for not realizing it was a joke.
sarcasm can be misunderstood…this is a tricky one because if you misunderstand sarcasm you are only reading the words, not between the lines.
even though this is an american(english speaking) messageboard, and people proficient in the english language can decipher the meaning of a sentance containing sarcasm, there are people reading this message board, who can read and understand english, but lack the ability they have in their native tounge to read between the lines in the english language.
my advice, use language tools like sarcasm wisely, not casually like everybody should take it for granted you are using it.
BjOrn, I think you should take it as a compliment that you are such a board Icon. People say your name–“BjOrn”–and instantly what is intended is comprehended. Would you rather be just another lost-in-the-shuffle poster?
Let us have our little jokes, okay? Madonna would kill to have such a high recognition factor.
duck duck goose: its the possibility of differance in opinions one shouldnt use statements like that…
some say all publicity is good publicity…then they pause and think…
why the pause? because people think about what they wouldnt like published about themselves.
i prefer to speak for myself, rather than let someone who doesnt know me do that.
Sofa “sit on me” King right? I knew it. It’s the masculine frame of reference - guns here testicles there everywhere a testicle. I put two and two together. Also the intelligence required to understand Irish free-form poetry - a King-like trait no doubt.
Sofa “sit on me” King right? I knew it. It’s the masculine frame of reference - guns here testicles there everywhere a testicle. I put two and two together. Also the intelligence required to understand Irish free-form poetry - a King-like trait no doubt.
It’s a sign for me to quit I posted this somewhere else inadvertently. That I don’t care makes it’s even worse doesn’t it? It’s time for a 12 step programme. Sorry for the confusion.
