I don’t claim to know all the rules, was just staking out my position in the religion,cult,business…whatever it is. 
Well I’m here for the snacky treats. Maybe play some darts or some pool, hit on the bartender and smoke out back.
I suspect some people are here to watch the game, have a few pints and then go jerk off in the bathroom?
Nah, I think he’s the giant robot formed together by lions: one red, one black, one yellow, one blue and one stupid. I think I know which one’s the primary lion.
Oh, and money is not anywhere near the worst way to pay for it.
I’ve paid not to have sex with John Corrado. It cost a lot more than $14, too.
The only problem would be what to call it.
The Cult of the Beaten Dead Horse…nah, doesn’t ring.
Brethren of the Broken Record? Better, I think.
Hmmm…after 24,000+ posts, it appears you must have done a hell of a lot of “talking and opining.”
IMO, anyway.
In my case, no. I support the SDMB because I value the effort to (gasp) fight ignorance. Moreover, I value proper spelling, correct grammar, and proper punctuation, as well.
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Some of us post even less… but, perhaps, that’s because we wait until we might have a contribution to make.
YMMV, of course.
Hey, some of us are just the internet equivalent of chatter-boxes.
Opinionated and very talkative. Crap, I am just as bad ‘In Real Life’.
Jim
“There is no God, and Der Trihs is not his Prophet” ?
"And the people came unto Der Trihs, and said unto him, ‘Give us your wisdom, Ascended One !’
And Der Trihs did speak unto the multitudes, and said unto them ‘Goest thou away, a new Honor Harrington book is out and I am busy’.
The assembled multitudes did heed these words of wisdom, and went unto the nearest bookseller. There they did find that the Ascended One had spoken truly, and there was much rejoicing."
I had sex with John Corrado’s money.
Yes, I am ashamed.
What?
Oh, the OP:
Dear shit-for-brains, kindly buy your beer elsewhere.
As long as it fits in the Scantron, that’s all we need.
And I’ve had sex with John Corrado’s left hand.
That’s nothing. John Corrado paid me not to have sex with Der Trihs.
Would the conclusions have much value when not tempered with emotional intelligence? Not everything at SDMB is about objective analysis.
Thirty years ago I used to save money specifically an organization that supported Israel even though I am a pacifist. Today I take a more evenly balanced, pro-Israeli, pro-Arab stand. * Something* happened along the way to change my mind. Maybe it was a few words here and a comment there. We have to wait until we have a little persective for the patterns of our thinking to begin to make sense.
Just because your name is fictitious doesn’t mean that you aren’t real. Same here. I’ve been married for twenty years to one of the real people with a fictitious name that I met on my computer in BBS days. (Let this be a warning to you! :))
BTW, I was suicidal for a long, long time. Years. And hostile. I had rages. (Interesting contradiction for a pacifist.) I thought I would never get it out of my system. No one took me seriously. My doctor did. He saw to it that I saw someone who gave me the meds to correct my body chemistry. It was the difference in night and day and has been for 17 years now.
“Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.” – R. W. Emerson
Pax
Might want to consider getting a shot or something…
-XT
Second time in as many days I`ve had to clean Coke off my keyboard because of the SDMB. This is why I pay.
Valteron, you start thread about suicide which I as one who has lost a loved one to suicide find utterly ignorable. And now you’ve started an anti-bullshit campaign.
However Valteron, if you read this post, obscure though it be in a thread that has attracted many others, you will see that I acknowledge the merits of the existential issue you’ve limned:
If we can’t find something redeeming in bullshit, and by bullshit thereby redeem ourselves, then yes, we may as well kill ourselves. We might wish there were something worth living for besides bullshit, but that wish itself is bullshit. So there is but bullshit or death.
Well one good thing about Valteron, he makes Der Trihs look reasonable.
Hmm… Find the smell. (3 megs)
Are you left handed, or were you just playing hard-to-get?
… And now I feel glad in the knowledge that my $15 this year hasn’t gone to waste.
And now I just need to clean the coke off of my work keyboard as well…