Well, not exactly. They just want to wait a week or a month to be sure.
But what if she’s not responding because … dut dut dommmmm … she’s dead???
Thats not her! That’s Stephan Hawking in a dress!
Gullible bastards.
{{The SDMB}} <— totally a vagina.
Cut to shower scene with Stephen Hawking bludgeoning umkay with a knife.
Well, she won’t be responding at all now, as she’s been banned.
The problem is that your description of excellent behavior ('Saying “hey, something isn’t adding up here, and I think there may be an issue” ') is exactly what I did in my first post here, post #6:
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My money’s on Umkay and NotOkay being one and the same, and a masterful player. How they’re going to tell if this is so, of course, is a whole nother question. Don’t touch that dial!
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and in my very next post, # 310, I set off your ire by merely offering my personal opinion that
Does “far less likely” = “pointing the finger and shouting from the rooftops” in your world?
You are moving the goalposts here in a most amusing way. “OK, OK, I was totally wrong and you were totally right, but I’m pleased with my foul-natured lambasting of your personal opinions and I’m offended that you dared to be correct in your mild speculations that have made me appear to be, as you noted, gullible and foolish and irrational, goddamn you.”
I DO have a finger pointed at you now–guess which one it is.
I don’t know how recent it is since I’m still reading through the weekends threads but Umkay is now showing as banned.
Seems the Mod’s have come to a decision.
Please mods. Please tell us the Straight Dope on umkay.
Oh my god! They banned Umkay. This is worse than the Holocaust. Clearly cyber-bullying and she’s probably sitting in a chair, somewhere, in her fabulous mansion, crying her eyes out. (Luckily she has servants to blow her nose for her!)
You people are all worse than Hitler for your rampant skepticalness. :mad:
Well, this particular situation looks moot. And my idea of her being back tonight looks very unlikely at this point, what with the banning and all…
So: kudos to those who figured it out early. I surely didn’t.
Pseudotriton, my original beef was not with you, so I don’t know what you’re getting at here. I was explaining my actions… my beef with you today was your baiting and such. You were the one who lumped yourself in with those who WERE shouting from the rooftops. When you responded in your manner this morning, yes, I assumed you were one of the people who were basically yelling out “she’s a fucking troll” based on your post this morning…I did not go back and re-read the whole thread to verify.
My original posts were basically addressing Sarahbellum and choie, who at the time were basically piling on despite very little evidence. I responded to you shortly after that because your ‘evidence’ was rather thin. And it was rather thin. And yes, then I responded harshly to you because you responded to my counterpoints to your evidence with total asshattery, talking down to me like I was a fucking child.
Jesus, you’d think I’d slaughtered a baby for suggesting that we not make accusations based on thin evidence. I think being wrongly accused of something is a very serious thing, and I prefer not to do it. In this case, she ended up not being wrongly accused, but that doesn’t mean I won’t take care in the future as well.
So that guy was trolling too?
I always thought that whole “british wanker in a wheelchair discovers the secret of the universe and also gets a part on Star Trek TNG” was bit fishy and too good to be true. I mean who believes shit like that? I knew from the beginning but I didn’t wanna say anything. But my BS meter was pegged from day one!
This may have been addressed but just thought I’d mention, “banker” has a wide definition. If you know a lot of bankers who work in actual honest to god retail banks, yeah they make decent money but not crazy rich. But “banker” also is a term used for guys who work for investment banks at various levels. I knew guys who weren’t even VP level in the 1980s, who were pulling in $80,000/week in Wall Street firms. Goldman Sachs has tons of mid-level employees (at least on their org chart) who are over $500k/year earners.
Serious question, are you drunk right now?
Unlike you and I, all she has to fall back on in this time of sorrow is humdrum distractions like skydiving and scuba diving. She doesn’t even have a message board to have a little bit of fun on anymore.
But she looks totally hot while doing so.
Umkay, wherever you are, even if you’re not real, stay strong! Don’t let the bastards keep you down.
Ok. Well, that’s over. You guys wanna, umm… Go bowling or something?
I mean, if not, that’s totally cool. Just throwin’ that out there. If you rather see a movie or just grab a cup of coffee?
Yeh? Coffee? Okay. I mean only if you guys feel up for it.
Okay, lets go. Which one? Anyone know a good coffe place near by? Or just the first one up the-- oh he’s looking up Starbucks on his iPhone.
Ok. A mile and a half that way? You sure? Which corner? North-east corner, I thought there was only a Century 21 there? Okay, we’ll everyone in their cars. I’ll follow you. Try not to lose me!
When people make incredible claims, I want proof of them.
I would think everyone would be in their right to ask me for proof if I claimed here to be 7 feet tall or that I had just given birth to sextuplets, especially if I started an “Ask The” thread about it. When learning about an unusual topic, it seems sensible to want to be sure one isn’t being given false information.
I have to applaud (or at least golf-clap) the execution of the hoax. I didn’t contribute to either thread, as the whole thing was setting my radar off, but it was pretty flawlessly done. Unfortunate that so many had their good natures abused, though.