I am reminded of the time I was being orally pleasured by an elderly crack whore because I had five buck on me and did not want cross to the street to go to an ATM. I enjoyed the experience until I looked down.
On the other hand, you mom says, “Hi!”
Lib is a valuable member of the board and can contribute positivly. That is, when he’s not drama mongering or attempting to make a thread all about himself. Luckily, he does indeed do that much less frequently now (although it’d be nice to see a complete stop to the off topic posts about his team of psychiatrists and all the details of his medication.) But I can accept that he’s high strung and apt to see people being out to get him instead of analyzing his own behavior. He is doing better than he used to, at least. Though I still am curious about his “I’m dying in two years, and you should ban me” meltdown (or am I conflating two different meltdowns?)
I do think, though, that the MPSIMS thread was, at best, rather silly.
The way you go about introducing yourself to people in a folder is to post there. Why introduce yourself if you don’t post there? And why would you need to if you do? It did seem like a comparatively silly cry for attention and the OP seemed more like a vehicle for “I’d like to tell everybody here about me” rather than an honest request for other people to talk about themselves.
/$.02
Gee Frank, have a little patience. By my reckoning its only been 5 years since you last started a Liberal pit thread questioning his name change.
If someone is annoying you for being an “attention whore,” it seems like the best course of action is to ignore them and not, you know, open a Pit thread about them. Because that only leads to attention paying paid, once again.
Basically, a pretty dumb OP.
Welcome to the dark side…BWAHAHAHA!
But hey, as long as you’re here, have a glass of Macallan 12 on me.
Cheers! 
Isn’t that the reason for having said forum? To post “silly” stuff?
Is there some way we can ignore every one who has an ignore list?
What fun! Whee!!
Hi, everyone. My name is…
Anyhow, there’s no such thing as posting on a message board without wanting at least a little bit of attention. I’ve often thought about posting a few dozen words with each one linked to a previous post that I thought was particularly funny or poignant or for some reason likely to draw favorable attention from strangers. Of course, there aren’t enough of those yet to form a grammatical sentence, but just you wait. Patiently, of course, there’s no reason to delay dinner or laundry or your plans for Christmas, but passive anticipation is definitely in order.
I’ve fought bitterly with, and exchanged compliments with, Liberal often enough to know that we’re both cursed with pig-headedness and both blessed with either forgiveness or forgetfulness, (and I don’t much care which, as long as it works). I’ve made fun of Liberal before when I thought he was too much smitten with his own board persona, and he had the good grace to let it pass. I don’t fight with him much anymore: his world-view is complete and idiosyncratically invulnerable, and there’s no point, when you run into a brick wall, to start hitting it back. Which is not to say that his point of view mightn’t sometimes provide the clearest picture, mind you – but mostly, I find, it isn’t for me.
If Frank thinks that Liberal, after tens of thousands of posts, is misbehaving a little in order to get his daily dose of attention, then that’s his opinion and there’s no arguing it (though I suspect that a lot more than the linked thread is prompting this, for good or ill). Everyone knows where the line is in his/her own mind, and therefore everyone knows who’s right and who’s wrong: we just all disagree.
I was once fairly popular and sometimes complimented on this board, and once in a while I miss that and think about re-introducing myself to the current membership. In fact, that’s the only reason I’m here now – to link to two old posts I don’t think got nearly enough attention at the time.
Sorry Frank: you’re probably right. But sometimes everybody wants more attention than they’re getting, sometimes (hypothetically) more than the celestial ref might think they deserve. Wanting attention is one of the reasons we’re all here – and I’m no longer sure there’s a wrong reason for it, any more than there’s such a thing as immoral hunger.
Well, no, not of that sort. And as I pointed out, if someone wants to become well known to MSPISMers then they can post in that forum. And if they aren’t posting in that forum, then why do they want to be well known by them?
Of course YMMV and I think it’s a comparatively minor point that didn’t really merit a Pit thread, but ah well.
Fillet of toddler.
Tonight it’s Evan Williams Single Barrel, but I appreciate the thought.
Sláinte!
Hey, fellow guest, how ya doin’?
I didn’t say no such thing as immoral appetite, mind you. But there’s a point at which hunger or loneliness or ignorance or libido or apathy or any other lack just wants to fill the empty space, especially if it’s a space recently vacated, and the morality of it will be determined by the closest object that fits the contours of that same intolerable void(s). I can’t get enough positive attention: trying for it, I might even risk the negative kind on pseudonymous message boards. Poor me. But I haven’t necessarily hurt anyone in the pursuit, and neither has the subject of this thread.
People on a message board can behave well or badly, and I think that posting merely to advertise a poster’s name or point of view without inviting discussion is definitely on the “behaving badly” side of the spectrum. But the label “attention whore” pierces me, deeply, because if I’m honest, it fits me too.
Well enough, thanks for asking.
And for the record, I remember you and think you’re pretty nifty all things considered.
This is good, because I hunger for some toddler flank steaks. 
This is true. Then again, virtually nothing you can do short of libel on the Dope can really hurt someone. I’m not really seeing this thread as something that’s about harm so much as it’s about a behavior that some would see as obnoxious.
I’m just glad that I’m not the only person who thinks Frank is way too wound up over Liberal. I think it’s hilarious that he lets a single person on a message board have so much control over his life. Okay, no I don’t. It’s rather sad, really.
I have lately been pimping the ignore feature. It lets you not waste so much of your time getting mad at people. in real life, you would just ignore those people who make you feel angry, so i don’t see it as any different here. But the whole point of ignoring someone is to not tell them about it.
As for what he got mad about, well, I can understand getting annoyed by a particular person if you are constantly assuming the most negative possible motivations for what they do. The thing is, most people aren’t evil. They aren’t trying to hurt anybody. From Liberal’s post, it seems he wants to try to make the Dope a friendlier place by having people introduce themselves. What the heck is wrong with that.
nevermind
I just wanted to drop into the thread to say hi, Lib! Hope you are continuing to feel better. I was kinda worried about you for a while. But, it seems that hill has been climbed, and the corner turned. (Or perhaps the metaphor stretched, I don’t know.) One foot in front of the other, my old friend.
However, I really think there is a difference in simply saying Jesus Christ as an expletive, out of passion, and honest investment in your feelings, and typing it out, and publishing it on the web. He knows what is in your heart, but that doesn’t mean he enjoys having it plastered on the wall. If for no other reason, consider cutting our dear Lord some slack. We do love Him, after all.
Of course I have now shit in the pit Lib thread thread with my pleasantries, and witnessing. Dear me.
Well, fuck someone or other. Assholes.
Tris
No one said “Lighten up, Francis.” I’m a little disappointed.
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I am indeed continuing to feel better. My blood test came back this morning: the nurse called it “perfect”.
You’re right, of course. Thanks, Tris.
Congratulations - but the plain fact is, just as there is no crying in baseball, there is no “perfect” as an outcome for a blood test. There are outputs such as “positive”, “negative”, “low”, “normal”. “abbie-normal”, “critical” and “tilt”. But no “perfect”. 
Yeah. It was a blood sugar test. I took it to mean that I’m not diabetic anymore. ETA: Taking Glucophage.