Piggy was the orc who had really thick glasses and had “assmar”
Thanks. I’m not sure that helps with the translation though.
(You see, I knew it must be one of Saruman’s Orcs!)
I’ve come into this whole tussle rather late, but I’d be delighted to try to translate Libertarian’s wonderfully weird little analogy.
As I understand it:
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You’ve participated in threads with Libertarian in the past.
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In doing so, you are now Libertarian’s good friend. Heck, maybe his best friend! I’m just guessing about that last part, though.
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If you read a thread in which people are doing mean, horrible things to Libertarian, like not talking about what he wants them to, it’s your job as his good friend to put a stop to it. How else can you call yourself his good friend? [sub]oh wait, you didn’t…hmmm…anyway, nevermind[/sub]
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Pointing out that TVeblen is also a moderator of MPSIMS does not make it less than 100% your fault that awful, unspeakable things happened to Libertarian in that thread, because TVeblen is not Libertarian’s good friend. Had TVeblen tried to show a supportive MPSIMS presence, Libertarian would have had no way to recognize him [sub]except for his screen name[/sub], because they do not enjoy “good friend” status.
I hope that clears everything up.
It should be noted that I accidentally mis-spelled “IMHO” as “MPSIMS”.
Giraffe:
What about the orcs?
I must admit, I haven’t fully figured out the orc connection yet. He said he felt like a lesser-known orc (all of whose lines were apparently cut in later revisions of the books) from Lord of the Rings, which I assumed was merely a metaphor for how insignificant he feels when people talk about things he doesn’t want them to.
Or maybe he looks like an orc. It really wasn’t clear.
Well in my book, that sounds very like “Sorry I was wrong”. Closest a person gets down here in the pit anyway. I’m impressed Lib and thanks - as you know most people just know they were wrong but argue on endlessly about trivial details.
To err is human, to admit to erring unheard of.
Now I just wish I hadn’t put such a crappy title on the thread.
Antipodean love,
Rudeboss
Lib, I gotta hand it to you. I opened this thread up again expecting to see a lot of bullshit and excuses. And, while I did, I also saw a pretty legitimate apology. Stuff like that doesn’t happen all that often in the pit. Consider yourself off my shit list, if not quite on my good list.
Uhm, that “Jesus” thread is still open.
Yes, but it’s an open kind of closed.
Orcs are all skew-wise.