I realize that this isn’t exactly a “We love G. Nome” thread but since she is obviously checking this thread periodically, I just wanted to pay her a geniune compliment.
In the thread where she commented to manhattan that she didn’t consider him worthy of a name referencing a place so cosmopolitan (or something) she said she would henceforth be referring to him as Humphrey. I don’t know why, but that was one of the absolute funniest things I have ever read on this board. I laughed myself to tears! You just have to read that sentence with a very stuffy, arrogant, dismissive tone! I have actually started using a revised version of the same comment in my everyday life when people act stupid!
Just thought I’d add that here rather than start a new thread! Good one, G. Nome.
For what it’s worth, I read the bread/jar comment by G. Nome and while it didn’t highly offend me, I did interpret it to mean what manhattan thought it did. And while G. Nome could have cleared maters up immediately instead of being deliberately obtuse, manhattan was a little over the top as he can be quite often. I think the whole thing was just stupid. Not that anyone asked me!
I dunno, there’s a certain test tube fascination about G.Nome’s attempts at outraged victimhood. Considering her long history of unfocused hostility, random attacks and concealing blather, this is just sorta cute, y’know?
Too bad her flashes of genuine wit and insight are swamped by irrational bile. It’s a damned pathetic waste of resources, IMO, but she chose the role. Actually to all appearances she’s gloried in it; specialized in unprovoked, unexplained blind attacks.
I’m gonna sit back and observe, with a naturalist’s interest, this predator’s response to resistence. Her claim to victimhood is pathetically inept, though she’s brought her trademark incoherence and misdirection into play.
Hard to muster pity. Even harder to muster respect or regret.
Shouldn’t we all get that nametag? I mean - just in case we’re ever in a Tony Curtis “I’m Spartacus - No - I’m Spartacus!” situation?
(Oh - BTW “Muster” to us Navy vet dopers has sadly lost its cachet: there it lives as a term for “stand here like stumps while we both bore and insult you all we want.” Um, is “cachet” cool enough a supplicate?)
There’s probably some truth in Duck Duck Goose Goose’s* suggestion that I’m just jealous. In fact, the picture where the guy being kissed is looking at the camera could probably serve as a dictionary definition of unadulterated fun. He looks so joyful. The picture was in andygirl’s post in her Cecil Adams link.
*Every time I have to use that name I feel stupid.
[cleaning splorted tuna fish from keyboard]
[reflecting on the Biblical principle that “a soft answer turneth away wrath”]
[digging away at Chicken of the Sea embedded in FGHJ]
[deciding “ah, fuck it”]
Um–a number of possible replies springs to mind.
Don’t use it?
When have you ever had to use it?
Just use DDG like everybody else does?
Why take a cheap shot at me? I never done nothin’ to you.
That’s gratitude for ya–after I trudged through that whole damn 4-page thread, genuinely curious as to the source of your pique, and came up with the best guess I could.
Maybe “G.Nome” as a handle is no world-beater, either?
Maybe I don’t give a flying fuck what you think, sweetie?
Geez.
Piss off.
You owe me a new keyboard, babe. This shit ain’t cleanin’ up.
G.Nome (I still think your name is witty) you should take note of this. You stayed out of trouble for a while, now whether or not you think this is down to you you inflame it. I thought the line that started this silliness was a nice elegy for the pseudo-innocence of the 70s, but your posts since make me think I’m giving you too much credit.
Hey! That’s me licking Lux! I’m so grateful that you once again brought some attention to the embarrassing evidence of my drunkenness. Thanks so much, G.Nome.
In defense of THespos’s comment (I don’t even know why I’m doing this, but I’ll give it a shot) - you really had to be there to get the joke. The bar was nearly empty before we got there. Green Bean had made awesome nametags for everyone, and Cecil Adams and JDT both had tags.
Our group quickly brought the bar to pandemonium level, and some of us were dancing. That black dude starting hanging around our group, dancing with us and everything, so someone gave him the leftover Cecil Adams nametag.
If you had actually seen the guy in person, you would understand THespos’s comment. He was one month away from meltdown, desperately in need of a liver transplant. I at no point assumed he was gay (merely alcoholic). As soon as he got the tag, he started dry-humping, licking and groping everyone there. And it wasn’t exactly like we wanted him to do that. He seemed to be drawn to jb_farley (understandable; the guy’s a stud) and tried to sexually assuaulted him many times over.
The comment that offends you so was not at all in reference to AIDS or HIV; just to the fact that he looked old and sick and seriously drunk, and he was clearly trying to score with some of us.
(Sorry, couldn’t resist…)