“Get a sense of humor” is generally what unfunny people say when someone realizes they’re unfunny.
The premise of the thread is a title that is pretty literally descriptive of the content of the movie. “Snakes on a Plane” is a movie about snakes on a plane. “My Dinner With Andre” is a movie about a guy having dinner with a guy named Andre. And so on. “Prick Up Your Ears” is not in any way literally descriptive of the content of the film. No pricks went up anyone’s ears, and in point of fact no pricks were shown going up anyone’s arse either so it’s not anagrammitically descriptive either.
It certainly is an apt title for a biopic of Joe Orton. The thread is not, however, about “movies whose titles state aptly the subject’s life views.”
Don’t flatter yourself. I’ve mentioned in a number of threads when people contribute entries which don’t meet the criteria set forth in the OP. In your zeal to paint yourself as a persecuted stalkee, you conveniently overlook that in the very same thread I pointed out another entry that doesn’t fit, Debbie Does Dallas. I suppose if it gives you some sort of satisfaction to think that I have the big knife out for you, far be it from me to deprive you of your chubby. It’s not true, but then it’s not the first time you’ve displayed paranoid behaviour on these boards and sad to say it probably won’t be the last. Someone offered a title, I disagreed that it met the thread criteria, the person who offered it (weakly) defended it and I expressed my disagreement. The same sequence of posts would have occurred regardless of whether you were the one who kicked it off or it had been someone else. RealityChuck, the actual OP, also pointed out that your contribution didn’t fit. Yet you didn’t feel the need to piss on the thread in response to him; you only did so in response to me. Seems to me like it’s you who has the problem with seeing my tag, not the other way around.
You say that you mostly ignore me. That’s certainly your perogative. I on the other hand have no intention of not reading and responding to anyone I choose. If that happens to be you, then so be it. I have no particular beef with you. Believe that or don’t, it makes very little difference to me. But do me the favor, if you’re going to ignore me, of actually ignoring me. Your pontificating about how you’re ignoring me is ridiculous.
I would have preferred to go into this off-board, but you don’t list an email address in your profile so I’m left with no choice but to call you on your nonsense in public. Should you feel any desire to discuss this further but don’t want to do it on the boards, feel free to email me, and I’ll ask for the thread to be locked. Of course, if you prefer to try to pull off the poor put-upon victim routine and need the audience, well, here’s your chance.
Honestly, Otto, I don’t know why you’re wasting your time. (Not that I’m not picking on you for it. I understand why you’re irked. Lord knows this behavior irritates me.) lissener has a history of pissiness, both when it comes to peeing on parades and in the sense of having a hairtrigger temper. It appears to me that in his mind, nobody but lissener will ever be right, no matter what. A word that encapsulates that history is “Verhoeven,” I think. I find this lack of intellectual growth kind of bewildering, since part of critical thinking is welcoming and respecting other viewpoints. How are you supposed to grow if you aren’t willing to rethink your position? You don’t have to change that position, but opinions that counter yours aren’t exactly attacks on your personal credibility nor do they display stalker-ish characteristics.
The next time you see him going off the deep-end, consider reporting his post and then letting it slide off your back. Pissiness isn’t welcome in CS.
No offense, and I have no dog in this fight, but upon reading the thread I feel that your behavior towards him was a bit obnoxious and the fact that he was obnoxiously pedantic in response to your obnoxious pedantry hardly seems to warrant a pitting.
I don’t think that it is appropriate to pit someone like lissener.
lissener is basically a special needs member of this board. Of course the behavior isn’t appropriate for a normal person but we should make allowances for people that just aren’t quite there. I had a special-ed girl in high school that had an extreme crush on me. She would just walk up to me and randomly punch me and one time she even chased me to my truck and jumped in the bed of the truck before I could drive off.
If that were a normal person, I would have had to file charges but she couldn’t help it and I knew she needed a wider berth than most people. All kinds of afflictions can strike a person and I have learned to be tolerant when it is warranted by true disability.
Although PC tolerance isn’t a stated goal of this board, some types of tolerance for the afflicted and untreatable are implied.
Well, Otto did say that he’d rather discuss it over email or something. So IMO this is more justified than the normal pit fare (it’s more like a “Lissener, what’s your problem?” thread than a “Let’s pile up on Lissener thread”).
I’ve never understood the whole “this isn’t worth a pitting” concept, as if there is some magical “pitworthy” threshold that every pit thread must meet.
This is the forum to have it out with another poster. A pit OP targeted directly at another member is merely tossing down the gauntlet. I’ve been called out for starting a pit thread that was deemed “unworthy” before, and it was annoying because I was looking to hash something out without completely hijacking another thread in another forum. Not to even mention the stricter rules of decorum outside the pit which hamstring quality arguments.
I have no opinion on this particular pitting, other to say that it seems to be a perfectly reasonable use of the pit.
Xploder, are you trying to promote a Sampiro/ Ellis Dee fight or an Otto/ lissener one (in the face of Otto’s request)? Or do you have a point you wish to make?
I believe the point was Ellis Dee just got owned. You can’t make a statement like that in the Pit and not expect to have your hypocrascy thrown back in your face.