Well that’s kind of silly. He doesn’t have to “bow out”, it takes about 2 minutes to register.
IMHO, he’s being a bit of a baby, but to each their own I guess. I enjoyed his posts.
I am glad you enjoyed his posts, but I hardly see the necessity to call him a baby. There is absolutely nothing he did that was infantile. He discussed the situation with an Administrator last night and all parties were happy with the results.
He did not want to get a separate email address from the start and to get his own screen name would require that. It is really pretty simple.
As I said, he saw it as a blessing in disguise to log off. He thought this place was intriguing and interesting, but not something he was going to permanently participate in. Maybe I was not clear, but I used the term “bow out” in this context to say, with respect, “it has been a pleasure and he is departing”. Please try to extend him that same courtesy. There is no need to insult someone you do not even know.
BWAHAHAHA!
I especially love the ones in the grocery store.
"YEAH, I’M RIGHT NEXT TO THE JOCK ITCH MEDICINE, WHAT KIND DO YOU NEED?
I THOUGHT YOU SAID THE SPRAY BURNED YOUR HEMORRHOIDS?
DO YOU NEED THE WIPES FOR THAT TOO THEN OR WOULD YOU RATHER HAVE THE SUPPOSITORIES?"
shrug
Sorry you’re offended. It appeared to me that he got all huffy when people asked him to get his own screenname and decided to never post to this message board again. That’s how it came across to me. Sorry if I took it the wrong way. I assumed he had his own email account and you had yours, as most people do, for personal use, work use, whatever. That’s why I didn’t understand his reluctance to register his own screenname as it’s quite easy to do. Thinking he had his own email account, I thought he was making a big deal out of nothing.
If you’re going to hang out in the Pit, I suggest developing thicker skin. I puposely put in my post that I enjoyed his posts so it wouldn’t appear as if I were insulting him for the sake of insulting him.
Just realized “huffy” isn’t the right word, more like “wounded”
Anyways, it doesn’t really matter as it was a misunderstanding. Sorry if I hurt anyone’s feelers.
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It tends to happen that people get a bit miffed when you make sweeping judgements about other people, when you clearly did not read everything I said. Case in point:
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Scroll up the screen. I clearly said:
Perhaps you should read what is written. It would help cut down on the confusion.
If you’re going to hang out at the SDMB, I suggest developing better reading comprehension skills. Then you won’t need to worry about people getting miffed when you call them unwarranted names.
The fact that you attempted to qualify your statement by saying you enjoyed his posts does not negate the insult. I could write to Stephen King, “I loved * The Shining. * I think you’re ugly.” Should I get upset if he took it the “wrong way?” After all, I told him I liked his book.
Lastly, it’s my opinion that skimming a post, and then replying in an insulting fashion without basis is poor behavior at best. Dare I say it? Baby-ish, even.
Geez, why don’t you get over yourself Lissa? I was assuming he meant get another email account just for the SDMB. He is actually the first person I’ve known of to not have his own, individual email account.
Fuckin’ let it go, already. :rolleyes:
To use a playground phrase: You started it. What was that you were saying about thick skin?
Another phrase comes to mind . . . something about staying out of the kitchen if you can’t take the heat, meaning that you shouldn’t insult people unless you’re willing to deal with the backlash. You should know by now that groundless assumptions around here often come back to bite you in the ass.
Oh, for goodness sake, will you two start your own thread and leave this one alone?
Eve, thanks for that info about Hedy Lamarr. That is one very cool piece of trivia to know (and not all that trivial, either).
I use trains a fair bit, almost always off-peak, when the carriages are almost or completely empty. I’ll spend an hour or more on this quiet train twice a day. And I tend to make myself at home.
I talk on the phone (quietly), I read my books, write, occasionally do my make-up, edit stories on a laptop, I have even varnished my nails on the train and a couple of days ago I iced a cake on the train! (I’d planned on doing it at my destination, since the icing sometimes rubs off when being carried around, but the trains were delayed and I wouldn’t have had time). I’m currently learning a language and will repeat the phrases quietly, which gets me some very odd looks from people, as they can see that I’m saying something, apparently into thin air, but they can’t hear what it is. Then I put my book up so that they can see the title and their expression clears. Those are all just examples. Train time really is very productive time for me.
Sometimes I have my young daughter with me too, and she also makes herself at home. Take today: we finished off our picnic dinner on the train (taking the rubbish with us, of course) and then did a jigsaw. My daughter’s not allowed to run around, though, and she’s not allowed to be noisy, and she’s very good at following these rules. I guess though, that it might be difficult for me to asses what ‘noisy’ really is. A childless person who’s just finished work might find her quietly singing a nursery rhyme too noisy. But I can’t force her to be completely silent (and there’s no alternative form of transport).
It’s different when I’m travelling at peak times, of course. Then it’s just too crowded to even attempt most of these activities. I would still talk on the phone sometimes though - sometimes I have to travel at the same time that I need to make a phone-call. For example, now and then my daughter stays at her Grandparents’ for two days, and on the second day I will call her at bedtime, which happens to be the same time that I travel to go out. Again, my voice is quiet, but still naturally not inaudible. You can imagine how bizarre a conversation with a four-year-old would sound if you didn’t know who was on the other end of the phone.
My question is: I had thought I was doing enough not to inconvenience my fellow travellers, but from some comments in this thread, maybe I’m not. Such as with the child-noise factor - it’s hard for me to judge other people’s irritation levels. Am I being less considerate than I though?
Sorry, Eve
I have this horrible habit of needing to respond when I’m addressed, to matter how silly or trivial the issue is. I’ll stop. Please forgive the hijack.
Love it. Absolutely love it.
And I’m happy to hear I’m not the only one inclined to appropriate acts of violence 
BTW, a bunch of my coworkers got new cell phones last week. They just discovered the ‘whisper’ function, and are testing it out by talking so quietly I can’t hear them from the next desk over…
The only thing that compares with loud-inane-train-talkers is when you call someone’s cell and they say, loudly, to you
“Oh, hi! Yah, I’m on the train …”
and when you say “Okay, call me back when you get home”
they say “No, that’s alright, I can talk now …”
and you can envision all the people around them, glaring and thinking ill thoughts like those listed in this thread.
Is it okay to say to them “I feel, as a friend, it’s my place to say: Don’t be that asshole who talks loudly on their cell in public places …”
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porkypine, I don’t think that word means what you think it means. “Dearth” actually means “scarcity.” {/grammar Nazi hijack}
Just for the record, SciFiSam, varnishing your nails in public isn’t very cool - for one thing, it really stinks. For another, some people like my husband have worked with solvents for too long and are extremely sensitive to things like nail polish - it makes him quite sick.
SciFiSam, I’ve got to agree with featherlou on this one. Anything you do that involves strong smells (picnic dinners, nail polish, icing a cake) in an enclosed space is generally considered rude. You’re not even allowed to eat on any of the trains here but one time I was on a packed train and forced to sit next to someone with a burger. I’m a vegan, and while meat smells don’t normally bother me, being in such a closed space for a long period of time make me feel like I was about to get sick. You never know what someone might be sensitive to, so it’s a good rule of thumb not to force someone to be exposed to strong smells when it can be avoided.
I’ll second the nail polish line, and add that manicures and pedicures are also best done off of public transportation, even sparsely populated public transportation.
Was the joke that you’d really prefer a 9mm automatic, because I know sometimes I would?
It drives me slightly mad to see women put on makeup on the train . . . How are we expected to be taken seriously in the workplace if we tart ourselves up in public like that? I feel like asking, “would you like me to move over so you can shave your legs?”
Get up five minutes earlier and do that in the privacy of your bathroom.
Whisper function? 
Esprix
I wouldn’t think that icing a cake would be among the “stinky” violations - what do you ice cakes with that reeks badly?
On the commuter trains here, food and drinks (even alcoholic) are allowed. One train line even has a “beverage car” where someone sells canned or bottled drinks from a little cart.
No, not as stinky as the rest, I was replying in general to the things Scifisam has asked about doing on a train. I’m sorry, but I just can’t get behind anyone converting a mode of public transportation into their personal kitchen, JMHO.
If they serve alcholic beverages on your trains, I think we may be talking about different types of trains. I’m talking about a subway type train.