If someone writes constantly about someone as if knowing where that someone lives and does this for 17 months, it creates just the same effect to readers of such posts as if the poster makes a claim to know where someone lives.
It has caused very often people claiming that “I can not know what I talk about” because… “I do not live where I say I live” because “it is known” that I am “Belgian”. The only one who spread this is Mehitabel.
It is should come across as weird though that this part of her lies sticks more to the memory then the posts whre she invents that I am Saudi.
Yet in fact it is not weird because that is so handy when it comes to dismiss posts I make with knowledge about my region that needs to be dismissed by people who go through life with precondioned prejudice and don’t want someone to open their eyes.eirdoes not sound
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You yourself, in this very thread, have stated that the Mods do not consider Mehitabel’s speculations to have violated the rules, so you are unlikley to convince anyone here that a rules violation has indeed taken place, no matter how many repetitive posts you choose to make.
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There came also no reply to my mails after Lynn Bodoni popped up in a thread to help poor Mehitabel with her obsessive search for my location by posting what she perceived as the location the IP I used at that moment.
That was then obviously also not a violation of the rules.
It seems however that on afterthought is indeed was a violation of the rules.
Salaam. A
Then why even mention that you’re married in the OP? At least stand by your insinuations.
This thread is a perfect indicator of debbie’s hypocricy- he complains that others don’t use the “ignore” function but doesn’t use it himself. He constantly harps on the US but never mentions his country of origin as it would undercut his arguments. If you make a post that discredits his argument, chances are he’ll ignore it. Or try to weasel out of it as in the example above.
Just my opinion, but I enjoy Aldebaran’s posts here, and it seems to me that the ‘Don’t be a jerk’ rule is not applied fairly when it comes to those who stalk or insult him on this MB. Why is the question of his location brought up over and over again anyway by Mehitabel … does it really matter where in the ME he is located? I appreciate that we have members in the ME who can provide a different POV about what happens there.
I think that the mods. could easily put an end to this interminable speculation about Aldebaran if they really wanted to.
Give me a frikken break. If this were the case there was no reason to use the “married” qualifier in your thread title. I don’t really know either you or the target of your rant, but reading many of the threads you have referred us to it appears to me that any fantasy regarding you and Mehitabel has been conjured up in your head.
Curiosity about other posters in inevitable. How else would it be fun to sit and write to people you may never meet? Most of us share some bits of information about ourselves and find it even more curious when someone does not. Why you have focused, what appears to be anger toward this curiosity from scores of posters, on Mehitabel ? You will have to figure that out. The answer does not appear to be in the many threads you cite. I think it may be in your head.
Aldebaran is a pompous ass with delusion of organized thought and a persecution complex large enough to house Bush’s imagined WMD.
Mehitabel is unable to resist skewering the dim wit.
I’m calling a draw but giving Mehitabel bonus points since I understand the chronic condition she struggles with.
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Guess I’d basically agree except I’d take points off Mehitabel for being a shithead just for the kicks. YMMV.
Well I can understand the enjoyment from skewering our black sheep eminence so I’m a bit more lenient.
Still I’d rather she not make any agreement with Aldebaran, he’s simply not worth it. There are plenty of other people on this board able to wail on his arguments like candy crazed kids in a piñata factory when he drags out his normal inductive fallacies.
I am not inventing your repeated claims that she wants to marry you, or that she is fantasizing about you. You wrote that. It’s pretty obnoxious. If you really want someone to stop talking to you, just tell them to stop talking to you, then IGNORE them. Don’t taunt them and mock them, because that’s just continuing the fight. Is she supposed to just sit there and let you accuse her of fantasizing about you? I don’t think you would if the shoe were on the other foot.
You didn’t just intend to imply that Mehitabel has a romantic obsession with you-- you flat-out said it. I know you didn’t mean it seriously, but it is a taunt and that is NOT the way to get someone to leave you alone. If you want to get rid of her, ignore her, don’t hurt insults at her in the Pit. That’s just simple logic.
I can’t help but call a spade a spade. Why, do you think you’re behaving in a rational, adult way and are trying to constructively remedy the situation with Mehitabel? It’s pretty clear that you’re not.
Hyperbolic much? When I want someone to get out of my life, I avoid them like the plague and refuse to engage them even when they bait me. You are not doing this-- you are continuing the brawl by opening threads like this when the solution is NOT TO TALK TO HER. Got it?
You didn’t open a thread asking her to knock it off. You opened a thread telling her to stop stalking you because you are married. Not the same thing. This thread is not an attempt to get Mehitabel to cease and desist-- it’s a thread where you take potshots at her but get angry when she shoots back, and get angry when other posters enter the thread to tell you that you’re going about this the entirely wrong way.
News flash: when you start a thread with the person’s name in the thread title, YOU ARE POSTING TO THAT PERSON, which is exactly what you’re asking her NOT TO DO to you. Why not take your own advice? Stop addressing her and acknowledging her, rather than opening a new thread in which to fight?
IGNORE HER and she’ll go away. Or if she doesn’t, you won’t know about it anyway. Resist the temptation to reply to her. Be the bigger man.
There already was a comic strip mehitabel. She was a cat who was obsessed with a mouse, (or was he a rat?) and as soon as I saw the OP I thought of that strip. So perhaps that is the influence on aldebaran’s style. I don’t have any problems with anybody knowing where I post from, but it seems to me that nobody on these boards should ever, for any reason, be “outed” concerning anything. I don’t get into the politcal threads, (I already know that nobody’s listening to me), so I’m not following the individual stories. It would seem to me that if aldebaran is saying things you don’t want to hear, you could ignore him. With or without a button. It’s not possible to “know” the truth about anyone on this board anyway, we could all be lying our asses off every minute of every day. I’m not saying anybody is, just that it is the nature of the beast, so why on earth would you get all worked up about a posters supposed place of origin. Besides, he could have grown up in Lakewood, OH and had a very anti-western upbringing, or in the Mid-East with a pro-western upbringing. Or anywhere in between, geographically, and philosophically. Global village and all, y’know. If he’s claiming to be in the know about something due to his origin and ethnicity, well you’ll just have to weigh what he says just like every other yahoo on this board. You know there are people who manage to fool others IRL about complicated professions, so why would you think you could take as gospel anything anyone says here? Why have a hard on for any one poster. We are all hiding details, because it’s the smart thing to do. Some of us may be hiding more than others. Get over it. You have a cite to disprove a specific claim that doesn’t involve “outing” a poster, use it. Otherwise, leave it alone.
I am named after Mehitabel, a character created by poet/reporter Don Marquis for the NEW YORK SUN ca. 1916. She’s a free-spirited alley cat who’s a pal to Archy, the formerly-human cockroach poet who used a manual typewriter but was unable to capitalize or use punctuation (to his great chagrin). Here’ssomeMehitabelpoems.
Now, Krazy Kat was the cat of indeterminate gender who was hopelessly in love with Ignatz the Mouse, who responded by throwing bricks at his head. Your confusion might arise from the fact that both the column and the cartoon were illustrated by George Herriman, and frankly Mehitabel looked just like Krazy except with longer eyelashes.
Both the Archy and Krazy Kat oeuvre are great examples of early 20th-century surrealism and, with a few updates, Archy’s observations would be perfectly valid today:
That said, I don’t think our friend of indeterminate nationality was influenced by either of these critters.
Sorry, my only reference to either of these strips was a book I had years ago about cats, in the chapter on “cats in literature”. I clearly did get them mixed up. oh, well, another perfectly good theory trounced just because it’s wrong. Why on earth do I keep coming here, LOL? :smack:
And what with syndication and all, I wouldn’t be so sure of that, except of course, for the fact that I got it wrong! Again. :smack: :smack:
I hasten to add that my Alde and Mehitabel™ comic strip idea, while inspired in part by various of the cartoon characters previously described, is not intended to portray any real people, living or dead, including any non-Belgians who may or may not actually be a counterman at a doughnut shop in Paterson, New Jersey.
Liar. You have clearly violated board rules with your lunatical (my favorite Alde-ism) insistence that he is not a Belgian, when everyone knows he is actually a non-Saudi who may or may not perform oil changes at a Pep Boys outlet in Norristown, Pennsylvania.
I think we’re all just very curious to know where this place that you live is, as the culture and political system there is apparently so very much better that you can continually harp on ours from a position of vast superiority. Obviously it must be a veritable paradise on Earth.
Or to phrase it less obliquely – if someone continually posts about the myriad deficiencies of Western Culture, but refuses to say where he is from, that person appears to be protecting himself from any effectual counter-criticism.
And if it’s simply fear of his own government or his own people that keeps Aldebaran from revealing his country of origin, then what right does he have to critique our system for its failings?
I don’t think the answer to my question can be found in Mojo’s post - Mojo changes Aldebaran’s posting name, [something that other posters have complained about with success] and makes a few snide comments - but that’s hardly an answer.
There also doesn’t seem to be an answer on my other point - why do people that attack Aldebaran for not revealing his location seem to get a free pass on the ‘don’t be a jerk’ rule? I thought that this was supposed to be the primary rule on SDMB.
Aside from my calling him “debbie” (and it’s a lot easier to type than Aldebaran, just as “USer” is easier to type than “American”) I don’t think any part of my post was snide. I thought that by this point that it’s common knowledge that he doesn’t post his current location as it would completely undercut his points. He simultaneously wants to claim that Mehitabel has a crush on him and then deny that he claimed such a thing (clue: read the title of the thread and try to tell me otherwise). I understand that English isn’t his primary language but that only goes so far- “Bad-faith debater” pretty much sums it up. And IMHO, being a bad-faith debater is being a jerk.
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