I’ve read the posts in MPSIMS and I agree that the post you had in there is something that should have been put in the BBQ Pit, not in MPSIMS. There’s no reason you can’t be a bitch if you want to (within certain limits), you just have to do it in the right forum.
I don’t think we’re talking about the same place, so don’t mind me.
Too bad **guin ** already apologized for the Op and accepted that she needs to take her drubbing. I was planning to pile-on. Now I would just be an ass.
I think LobsterMobster was a too harsh towards a specific poster, but otherwise, right on the money in over diagnosing. I am so suspect of the pill of the month clubs and diagnosing any quirk as a disorder, that I did my son a disservice by not taking him to see a shrink. He came near to being left back a grade for emotional immaturity and problems in school. Not surprisingly, he has ADHD and with medication is doing much better. He is getting some extra help at school and still has a way to go, but he recently got a let home from the school councilor & psychiatrist applauding him for the huge turn around this year from last year.
My resistance to pills and psych was doing my son no good and only harm. So, while I still think in many cases, these disorders are being over diagnosed and pills given out to easily, it does no good on an individual basis to make a judgment call.
All of this has already been said better by **eleanorigby ** & **QtM ** as usual.
Geek alert: Actually, I do, in fact, eleanorigby & Qadgop the Mercotan are on it among many others. I don’t use it too often, but I do use it.
TokyoPlayer I never realized until the last few days that you can really be oversensitive to jokes. Get over yourself.
Jim
Close enough. I don’t know about elves, but it’s a paradise for trolls.
It warmed the cockles of my heart when one of my threads was mentioned there.
On the whole, though, it’s pretty pathetic.
What the fuck is a “sister board”?
It’s LIKE a mother board, but much more quarrelsome and it steals your cool rock band Tshirts. Plus, it makes fun of your friends and your girlfriend and eats the last cookie, every time.
does that help?
I think it’s a Catholic school detention that was discontinued after Vatican II.
I think this thread’s Kinky:OtherWords ratio is going to go up.
That is the best definition I have ever seen of it. Thanks for the laugh.
That’s not funny at all, some of us have had traumatic t-shirt loss episodes… 
Oh, dear god–what to do with your righteous ass? Do I stay after school and clean the erasers? Write “I shall not poke fun at absurd situations in the Pit” 100 times?
Making fun of someone’s weight is not cool–nope, not even in third grade. Highlighting the occasional dips into heavy drama that some folks with OCD/depression/other mental issues indulge in is not the same thing.
Not one person here thinks that** DocCathode’s** OCD is hilarious–and we’ve said as much, repeatedly.
But I’ll pit the whiney, self-indulgent, “but I can’t do X! I’m sick!” attitude all day long. I wish I could disappear into a bottle or container of pills or a closet and suck my thumb, but life doesn’t work that way. If DocCathode started a MPSIMS thread about his struggles with OCD and the dishes, most here would be supportive, but some would still feel the need to post a reality check–most likely without the snark, but still a check. Will that hit a raw nerve for some?
You bet–but that is the risk of putting your vulnerabilities onto a public board. You need to ask yourself: is the poster over the top in snark or is this a hot button issue for me? I’ll wager it’s somewhere in between.
Stripes is 25 years old? Ok, but it’s still a culturally significant reference for me. YMMV.
Oh, please. You can sit and blather about how people with problem X need to just suck it up, but let someone point out that you’re being a bit of a jerk about it and that someone is “righteous?” (I’m guessing you meant self-righteous there, but hey, who has time for precision in language when there are crazy people to mock?).
Well, if someone IS having issues with an ailment, they definetly need to have them treated. Just not mocked and dismissed.
(And the main reason I asked for Qadgop is that he’s a doctor, and he’d be able to explain it. That was wrong of me.)
Forgive me for asking, but isn’t “diagnosed mental ailment” a criterion of the c-word?
I don’t think I violated the intent of the rule. I was not using it to irritate or hurt the feelings of anyone. I have a fairly large list, I mentioned two posters that I happened to agree with their posts in this very thread to illustrate that I do use it. I checked to see if **eleanorigby ** was on line right before I PM’d something to her.
If you think I broke a rule please just come out and say and then report me. I think it would only be breaking the rule if I listed everyone on my list or specifically mentioned that a specific poster was not on my list.
Jim
You missed the part about how I have my own mental health issues. Nowhere did I say “suck it up”.
I meant righteous–look it up. If I had meant self-righteous, I would have posted that. Unless you truly are just being smug and feeling superior–then yes, you are being self-righteous. 'Ware-if so, I will roundly mock you.
The only one blathering here is you.
Umm… good one?
WTH? 
I didn’t even know I was on WhatExit’s buddy list. I don’t care; in fact, I am mildly flattered. He’s not giving away state secrets.
I thought you just couldn’t say that you put X on ignore.
Clarity, please.