I get that I don't get why you don't go with the internet.

Frankly, that’s a stupid attitude. The pit is for ranting, but not incoherent ranting. Incoherency defeats the entire purpose of any forum for discussion.

No, that would be my RIGHT hand. I’ve tried it with my left, but that feels like I’m cheating on my right.

Bullshit. Make some fucking sense next time.

Dropzone was dropzoned on his head as a child.

I mean, come on, has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?

I’m wondering if this thread would profit from a link to the teddy bear liberation front arc on the webcomic, Something Positive. Of course, I’m not letting one electron of that link touch my work computer and there’s a good chance that I’ll have forgotten this by the time I get home. So odds are, no matter what I do or don’t decide, you probably won’t see a link from me.

Won’t somebody think of the teddy bears!

So you understand me! Thank you!

I’ve never agreed with this, nor do I think is that a universal view. The pit is certainly for ranting, less-than GD level discussions, name calling, direction of invective at persons both known personally and through the media. However, I don’t think any forum on a public, communal forum is supposed to be used as a stream of consciousness type LiveJournal that only makes marginal sense to the addled fool that starts threads in it. I think if it’s in a public message board used by thousands of people there is some obligation that, since you are communicating with others, you do so in a coherent way.

Society reacts accordingly to the incoherent.

But my REAL NAME is on my LiveJournal! This is anonymous!

But really, Martin, you seem to have an odd view regarding The Pit, colored by how fucking erudite we are in GD and GQ. Incoherent ventage belongs here. It is why it exists.

No, this forum exists to allow flaming and insults. It’s still a place for communicating something to other people. If no one can understand what you’re talking about, yours not communicating.

I disagree with you, but you have a valid opinion. I don’t come to this forum much because most of what I see is insults and useless drivel, coherent or otherwise. I don’t see anything wrong with ranting incoherently. If you don’t like it, don’t read it. I don’t even have a problem with nonsense in most of the forums if it’s recognized as such.

Maybe you could provide a little more detail on the idea that this forum, even though public and communal *obligates *a person to coherency. Sure GQ and GD need some stricter rules of the road. But this one seems to be the place where you can ignore all but a few rules, something that seems useful to me. Seems to me to be useful for others actually, I could live without it.

Thanks, Tri. It is nice to have a place where I can yell and not have to make sense.

Well you’ve posted in the Game Room, so there’s still that :slight_smile:

Dr. Hawking…?
eta: (No, Hawking would communicate better. Even selecting a word at a time from a wheelchair, he’d put together a coherent sentence)…

eta2: …which is the point of EVERY messageboard ever invented. Every web page, in fact. Even TuffTrixie’s 1996 GeoCities site with lens flared elves taming unicorns.

Dammit, we understood that there were shiny elves and formerly-wild unicorns. We did NOT have to guess what was in TuffTrixie’s mind.

I have a 30-yr-old talking laptop that I bought so my daughter could do Halloween as Hawking, but it has a female voice.

But fuck the “point” of message boards. The point is that we can talk without needing to make sense. We can yell at the top of our lungs because nobody knows who we are. We can rant.

Oh, but not fuck that point?

If you yell incoherently, then people will stop paying attention. And why bother to post in a public forum if no one’s going to pay attention?

And, by the way, notice how writing complete thoughts actually advances a discussion instead of just frustrating everyone?

It was not intended to be a discussion. It was a rant.

Why post a rant to a message board that no one understands? Might as well keep it to yourself.

Oh, for God’s sake! I have been defending that post LONGER THAN I WORKED AT THE JOB! Let it go.

No one made you do it.

Alternatively … CONCEDE!!

Do you also suffer from poor impulse control?