No, because it’s not the mods’ job to make people act like decent human beings. You know as well as anyone else that no one actually wants to be treated like every other person when they have a disorder. It’s something people say because they get tired of people feeling sorry for them.
The fact is that you angered a normally docile old man with a mental disorder to the point that he wanted to inflict seriously bodily harm on you. The fact remains that he was appologizing for being in the pit and admitting that he shouldn’t be here. The fact remains that there was no reason to say what you said save to try to hurt him. And you definitely know that he can’t fight back.
Other people in this thread have shown the ability to actually argue with him, without using his fucking disability as a fucking insult.
May someone say to your loved ones or you in your old age what you’ve said to Quasi. Believe, me, I’d say more, but you aren’t worth the Warning.
Sigh, this reminds me of the letters the Washington prints every week complaining that they had the temerity to print a picture of kids enjoying ice cream on a nice spring day on their front page rather than whatever pet issue the reader thought was more important.
Veterans sacrificed themselves for our country so they must be given our attention at all times to the exclusion of all else
No, it’s fire fighters who sacrificed themselves on 911 who must be given our full attention to the exclusion of all else.
No, it’s police officers who put themselves in the line of fire who must be given our full attention to the exclusion of all else.
No, it’s vicitims of domestic violence are truly suffering and not being heard who must be given our full attention to the exclusion of all else.
No, it’s autism suffers, breast cancer survivors, recovering alcoholics, abused children, refugees…
The great sacrifices of the men and women in uniform mean nothing, if in the end we can’t sometimes revel in seeing children enjoying ice cream on a nice spring day.
So, in other words, you DO want special treatment.
Here is your definition of “cordial”:
When you accuse me (and others) of being on drugs, and of not knowing and not giving a shit about war veterans, just because we disagree with you over an internet doodle, then you’re not being “cordial,” and you’ll get what anyone else gets in the Pit.
And the fact that you STILL continue with the same argument, asserting that we “can’t be bothered to recognize the sacrifices” of the troops just because we don’t care what Google did with its homepage on D Day, suggests that you’re just as ignorant on this subject today as you were yesterday.
I think you should re-read this, because while I agree that is the type of response you would have typically made to what you considered a stupid post, it doesn’t have to be. I’m of the opinion that we should try to generate more light, not more heat. Not everyone wipes the slate clear of their impressions of someone from thread to thread and the more heat you give off the less likely you are to have anyone be willing to stand near enough to bask in your light.
You and other people keep saying that he was apologizing for being here, and yet he kept on with the same arguments and the same insults.
Yes, they were insults.
When you say that i must be smoking drugs, and that i must not know about the world wars, and that i must not care about veterans, just because i disagree with you about a stupid Google Doodle, then you’re calling me stupid and immoral, even if you’re not cursing or using epithets. I don’t care if what he said wasn’t an “insult” by some formal SDMB interpretation of the term; it was clearly meant to impy that those who disagreed with him were ignorant and uncaring, and i get sick of that sort of bullshit, especially when it comes to accusations of not caring about the troops. There’s been too much of that crap since 9/11.
And i love how his threat of bodily harm towards me is somehow my fault, in your puny mind. I’ve been called all sorts of things on this board, and i’ve never once made a threat of physical violence. I’ve insulted plenty of other people around here, too, and none of them have ever threatened me.
And what do you mean “he can’t fight back”? He clearly can, because he did. He called me a “corksoaker” (very droll), threatened me, called me a “sick pile of shit,” and then came back again to say that he has no further use for me. In the world of message boards, that qualifies quite easily as “fighting back.”
Show me where i used his disability as an insult, you driveling piece of snot.
My God, but you must be one of the most egregiously self-righteous twats ever to lurk in your mother’s basement. You are the living, breathing definition of simpering, whining sanctimony. I swear that you must get up every morning and ask yourself, “How can i be a bigger, wetter pussy today than i was yesterday?”
This is awesome!
First, i’m a bad guy because i insult Quasi in the Pit. Now i’m supposed to take this incident as a more general lesson, and not insult anybody, ever. When people stop accusing me of being stupid and ignorant and uncaring because i don’t want a D-Day widget on Google, then i’ll stop insulting them in return. Is that simple enough for you?
If Quasi’s post had been merely stupid, i would have responded much more temperately. But, as i suggested above, i get sick of these semi-veiled accusations, especially in areas of politics and war, where anything less than 100% Americanism is considered stupidity or treason. I didn’t like it back when i was being called a “friend to Saddam” for opposing the Iraq war, and i don’t like it now that i’m being called indifferent to veterans for failing to see the big deal about the absence of a D-Day widget on Google.
I personally think a life where I don’t insult people, even if they’ve insulted me, is a worthwhile goal. We show who we are by our reactions as much as by our actions.
Let me suggest, then, that you hang out in the Pit and give your charming little lecture to everyone who throws an insult. I’m sure they’ll all “Enjoy” it.
Clearly you’re a Communist for not caring that an annoying “google-doodle” cartoon doesn’t honor veterans. Sheesh. Go back to swilling your borsht and vodka, you Trotsky-ite.
In the future all of your energies should be spent (ALL of your energy–how much time did you spend eating and sleeping???1!!?) on getting Google to do a stupid cartoon that deals with D-Day.
Flearly you’re a Sociassischt because your making some silly joke instead of honouring every single item on thislist.
ETA: ON the other hand, I think it’s perfectly acceptable to kick the History Channel in the shins if it didn’t run some sort of DDay program instead of the usual claptrap they’ve been playing for years now. There just isn’t enough WWII on that channel anymore.
No, for completeness sake, we must honour the brave people who fought thoughout history. For example, had the battle of Hastings gone differently, or that bloke didn’t get an arrow in his eye, would the impetus and result of the American Revolution have been the same?
It sounds like you’ve got lots of honouring to catch up on, get cracking!