You Zen Master, you! Can I snatch the pebble from your hand?
{Barbie}Learning’s haaa-ard.{/Barbie}
My thoughts; kudos to Elen for spelling “independent” right. Credit where credit is due and all that. I don’t think I feed off of hatred. If this was a board of haters, I don’t think I would have anything to do with it. Is there acrimony and arguing? Yup. Is it filled with hate? No, I don’t think so. Is it full of people who don’t suffer fools gladly? Hell yeah, and good on 'em. Maybe I’m just so used to the “fuck you!” “No, fuck YOU!” that sometimes goes on that I don’t even notice it any more. 
I think there are some subjects where Dopers can be dogmatic and closed-minded. There aren’t many, though, and if you feel like going nine rounds with rigourous debaters, you can certainly still discuss them. Don’t come in with both guns blazing on your opinions and expect them to automatically be treated with respect without some kind of basis for them.
It kinda makes sense that there would be some degree of like-thinking here; we are a community after all, and the people who are completely different from us probably don’t feel at home here and don’t stay.
Sage Rat, do you really have a list of thread-shitters?
See, its just that attitude keeps you on an endless cycle of incarnations.
Hey! c’mon, where’s the vitriol and sarcasm? Remember,
this is The Pit – if you don’t talk shit,
you’ll end of imploding in it.
Seriously, welcome to the Dope, Cattitude.
What’s a whooooooosh?
This is not about intolerance. This is about Ellen.
I’d much rather talk about intolerance.
Let’s see. Of all the people participating in this thread, who is the only one to show so much intolerance that she can’t stand to be part of us anymore?
Come on, Monstro Let’s us friends go sit on the front porch and drink white zinfandel and make fun of the cat. We can be independent and openminded and then we can watch movies.
The sound that an object makes when passing rapidly over one’s head. Here, it’s generally used to indicate a joke or reference that is not readily apparent when read.
I’ve never left anyplace in a Huff. I don’t even know what kind of car a Huff is. I have, however been dragged out of town behind a horse, ridden out on a rail, been chased by villagers with torches, you name it.
Thank you, you’ve been a lovely audience and please try the salmon. 
The cat washes her ass at you.
Hey, Cattitude, welcome a-Board!
As a Guest, you already have scored
A good first impression.
This here’s my expression
Of WELCOME! Here’s pie. Oh, and fnord.
You are all a bunch of meanies and poopyheads and you won’t let anyone else come in and play and you suck and I want my ball back.
Hey, at least this time I reincarnated as something with language! You know how hard it is to snark when you’re some prion sitting in a jar of peanut butter waiting to evolve into a sentient life form? You have to wait until you *are *a life form before you can die and reincarnate again. Evolution can take weeks or months, sometimes. It’s such a bitch. 
I looked back over Elen’s posts, and I think it was the thread on cathouses that got to her. I know how that feels. People who believe prostitution is just fine aren’t even able to fathom the self-loathing most of these women endure. I have suspicions about why, but oh, well.
Bye, kiddo. Too bad you didn’t stick around long enough to really get to know us.
Anybody got pie?
Well shit, then she should have opened a proper Pit thread castigating whoever pissed her off from the cathouse thread. Then she would have fit right in.
And I believe the pie is right upthread.
I have. Though usually I finish my drink first so it takes a minute and a huff.
Aw man, that was the worst one so far this year…groan…dammit, Frank, that was huff-assed.
I imploding of your dog!
Frank
I believe that very remark has almost certainly negated Catitude’s decision to join the SDMB.
A pretty sad, predictable thread.
I wish she’d expanded her point/s a little.
I think that she’s not entirely understood what this place is like.
To me it is like a pub with a wide collection of regulars chewing the fat
- some of the conversation is ‘factual’ - some is debate
- fights are mutually discouraged
- and there are bouncers for those that lose their rag
It is easy to mistake a bit of courtesy for consensus
I’m surprised nobody got it…
Who wears short-shorts?
WE wear short-shorts!
If you dare wear short-shorts,
Nair for short-shorts