Hmm . . .
While I find you can be annoying to the extreme, I also pity you for a variety of reasons. So I’ll be charitable and say you’re an ignorable annoyance, and recommend you not start threads like this in the future, which give sme people (though not me, in this case) an invitation to tell you what they truly think about you.
The Amazing Fenris Predicts:
I see the following in the future of this thread: after a while, the inevitable second wave of posters will join. They’ll be the pro-MSK types who chastise the anti-MSK types for not knowing intimate details of MSK’s life that would’ve changed our opinion. The phrase “piling on” will be used. So will the word “insensitive”. Someone will ask a mod to close the thread, using either the term “meltdown” or “train-wreck” (or both)
The third wave will involve the persons from the first wave fighting back, saying that A) He asked for our answers and B) we don’t care enough to know the intimate details. At latest, it’ll be at this point that the thread will be closed or moved to the Pit.
Move over Jonathon Edwards.
Fenris
MSK:
I’m sitting on your side of the stadium, man, but sometimes it feels like I’m rooting for the Bad News Bears. Overall, you seem like a nice guy. But sometimes…let’s just say I tend to wince a little when I see a new Pit thread from you.
Your condition makes me give you the benefit of the doubt to an almost ridiculous degree. It makes me very uncomfortable when some people dogpile on you for stuff you post, but given some of the stuff you post, I can’t blame the individuals for doing so. It’s just that I know from socialization problems and I sympathize with your attempts to lick that problem, and I know that your actions in here are part of that attempt.
But you try too hard. If, at any point in writing an OP, you think to yourself “maybe this is over the top”, stop. Copy and paste into Word or Notepad. Save it. Come back in an hour or two. Re-read it. If it still sets off over-the-top alarm bells, don’t post it. Normally I’d encourage anyone to post anything they want (in the proper forum and subject to SDMB rules, of course) but MSK, you have no filter. You can’t tell the difference between “those goddamn dog-mutilators” and “those goat-felching children”. Attacking children in general will always get you flamed.
If you need want to discuss ways you might use to tone down some of the more annoying stuff, please e-mail me. Like I said before, I know how hard it is to forcibly socialize yourself. I’ve done it…I’m in the process of doing it,actually.
Either way, take care of yourself, MSK. And don’t give up.
jayjay
Despite my contribution to the MSK-Bashing in the Pit (I shant link it - it isn’t that important) I don’t dis-like you. In fact I think I was pretty gentle with you. It may be safe to say that Manservant isn’t too enamored with you.
Seriously, take a break or something. If you’ve got to start a thread like this, you’re relying on being cyber-popular too much.
You’ve had some hilarious shit posted here before - stick to what you’re good at and take Joyfulgirl’s advice - stay out of the Pit.
It may also be safe to say that Manservant took it extremely easy on him.
Uh oh… sounds like MSK needs some warm fuzzies.
I’ve chatted with ya a few times, and you’re a good guy MSK. Funny and nice. Don’t be down… do good stuff!
You forgot the following key ingredients:
Some, in a copycat “The poster who did this first is stupid and I’m going to be a poopyhead and copy him” fashion, will start similar “who likes me?” threads, each one more obvious (and losing artistic merit).
Someone(s) will start a pit thread entitled “I don’t care if you don’t like me”, with various references to sexual activities possibly including one of the following:
goats
a drill and/or straw
half a baloney sandwich with a side of coleslaw
the 1976 Pittsburgh Steelers
Someone(s) will suggest we lay off various posters who seem to carry “kick me” signs they put on themselves. And in a month, half of us will remember and laugh, and the other half will sort of half-groan and remind us of the stupid threads/posts we’ve started/made.
Ok, I may be Jonahton Edwards, but you, 'punha m’friend are Mother Fucking Shipton!
Fenris
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*Originally posted by Fenris *
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Um…that isn’t at all what I intended to imply.
Oh well…
What the? Whoooosh!
I may beat you to that, by doing it myself, in light of the mess I made in the pit.
I was either feeling brave, semi-suicidal, or both.
I did a search, and I couldn’t seem to locate the exact post topic you’re referring to. I will look again, however, a further hint may be useful. I apologize for neglecting you.
As for the other posts:
jayjay very nice reply. Feel free to im me sometime, as I think we could relate well.
callieAs a matter of fact, I have done something about it. I just haven’t told the board. I joined a combination support/bible study group at church. There are a lot of people in the group. I’m scared to death, but I am participating in it, even when it feels like it’s too much for me to handle. I didn’t die, so I must be making some progress. Nothing happens overnight.
hardygrrl Yes, I AM insecure.
This is a privelege I have not had, until recently. I have ZERO friends, acquaintances, and peers IRL. I do NOT exaggerate. However, I JUST joined the support group last week. The group has just formed and not had time to personally “connect” with anyone yet, and I’m not talking about “connect” in the dating or sexual sense. Tomorrow is the next group meeting. It should be interesting to see what happens.
Thankee, Fenris . . . just paint me the anti-Hume:D
But hell, this sort of thing tends to cycle. You just multiply a possible meltdown by a barrage of the same type of thread and . . . well, you’ve seen it too:)
Now, MSK, to address your question:
Sally Field: “You like me . . . you really like me!” upon receiving an award back in (I think) 1982 for her work in a movie. The IMDB will doubtless have more to offer.
Thanks for enlightening me about the Sally Field thing, punha.
iampunha pretty much summed it up for me, too. I’d condense my reaction even further into a ::shrug::. My impression is, probably means well, is either youngish adolescent, or is in the firm grip of an extended adolescence, has the habit of wearing a big Kick Me sign, then complaining when it results in kicks. Melodrama queenish, basically. But being harsher seems the equivalent of kicking a puppy that whines all the time–the animal is probably pretty annoying at times, but kicking it won’t help matters.
Furthermore, this thread’s existence is indirectly responsible for about a half-dozen parody titles, which did the interesting thing of even annoying eutychus55. That’s an accomplishment of some degree, I suppose.
TVeblen said:
You do realize I will never again see your name now without thinking “loose undies,” right?
MagicalSilverKey said:
Yeah, I saw that. But look at it this way: there are close to 15,000 registered members on this board now, and I doubt there’s a single person here who whould rate more than a “who cares?” from 14,000 of 'em. So don’t let what you think is your board popularity or lack thereof keep you awake at night–the Silent Majority won’t notice, and most of those who do notice won’t remember for more than an hour.
#1: I have children.
#2: Our children are our responsibilty. Where they are not welcome, then it is someplace we should not be.
#3: I assume from your Pit thread that our children would not be welcome around you.
#4: I cannot say I like you very much. There are a lot of people on this board I would love to meet. You are at the very bottom of the list.
#5: Then again, Mississippi is the last state I wanted to visit, and now I live there. So I suppose there is always hope.
Honestly, I have no idea who you are. I also wasn’t that bothered by your pit thread. However, to fufill prophecy, I just need to say:
All of you insensitive people piling on MSK don’t know the deeper reasons he acts the way he does. Mods, could you please close this thread before the train carrying plutonium that are these posts wrecks, causing a nuclear meltdown?
On the other hand, MSK, you did ask for our opinions, and nobody really cares enough to know about the intimate details of your life.
As a brief hijack, I don’t care if any of you don’t like me, just because I have sex with a straw goat while the 1976 Pittsburgh Steelers watch and share half of a baloney sandwich with a side of coleslaw!
I can’t say I know you very well MSK but from the posts of yours that I’ve read, I think you’re pretty cool. I neither worship nor curse the ground you walk on, but I think you’re the kind of guy I could hang out with now and then.
I never visit the Pit, so I don’t know if that would change anything or not. shrug
It was the MPSIMS thing about the IRC Bots, and having been out of IRC for a while, I had no idea why you would be happy about the bots being banned on some servers. I have only heard one side of the story (everyone else’s), but have not heard yours.
But at the time I asked the question, I didn’t know any side of any story. Unless you feel compelled to get your story side out, don’t bother answerng. Since you apologized for not answering, I will move you to the right on the sliding scale to pure “Neutral”, which means I really don’t know you enough to have any opinion.
Drastic wrote :
Yep, it does take a lot to get me truly annoyed these days.
Captain Amazing wrote :
Nope … MSK asked for personal opinions; he can’t very well complain now if he gets them.
However, I would strongly recommend that if MSK feels he cannot restrain himself from posting threads that he knows he’s going to have to apologize for later, then he might want to e-mail the admins and ask for a temporary hold on his posting priviledges until he gets whatever personal problems he has straightend out.
Err, Euty, I don’t really want the thread to be closed. That was just in response to Fenris and Punha’s posts above…you see…<realizes the humor went over everyone’s head, and goes to write some new material>