Ah, don’t feel too bad. I’ve been here almost three years and I STILL have never been Pitted. 
there there… get it ALL out.
yes. it’s a blessing. in my humble opinion it’s a blessing. i choose to learn from everything in life, instead of bitching about it on a forum board.
even the “bad” things in life, I can appreciate because I enjoy being challenged. “bad things” are humbling and grounding and help one put their life in perspective.
It’s just my belief. You going to bitch at me for that too? I wouldn’t put it past y’all.
So let’s have at 'er… can I get an ‘amen’? how about an ‘invitation to die bitch’? maybe a ‘bite me’?
Can I request in the future you not be rude and nasty outside the pit?
I would have to say I agree, and I really can’t see the problem here. Is she not entitled to state her opinion? Are we adults here?
Does a stranger’s opinion mean that much to you?
It didn’t really seem to me like she went out of her way to offend anyone, and I really don’t see her as being the negative creep you all are making her out to be. It seems to me as though she was saying " Hey, it could be worse, so don’t let this minor shit interfere with your happiness."
Sure, what happened to Sakura sucks, but it’s done and over with…Now move on to the things that make you happy.
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http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/newreply.php?s=&action=newreply&postid=3119358
Miss Bungle posted about how she loved ice hockey.
I replied
She responded
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[hijack] do I make you feel important Aslan2? You feel the need to follow my posts by nitpicking. I’m glad I’m helping you feel useful. [hijack]
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No, you don’t make me feel important. However I felt I needed to explain the fucking rules of that forum to you, because it’s been evidenced before that you are rude and mean outside the pit, which is not acceptable behaviour and stated in the rules as not allowed. I suggest you review the rules. You’re breaking the main rule: Don’t be a jerk. And that’s pretty much what you have been in the past. This kind of behaviour will get you kicked off this message board. Fair warning, because I think people should be able to enjoy the SDMB not abuse the privilege of it.
You are wondering how you are doing here.
You are concerned you are not fitting in.
You see I have been bashed repeatedly so you jump on the bandwagon.
Surely siding yourself with everyone else will make everyone else like you.
If this is what you want… then I am happy for you. I am more than happy to be the means in which you fit in better here. But, let me suggest you get a hobby or find something more important to make your life feel meaningful, other than following my posts around and nitpicking.
If you have not noticed, there are adequate moderators here. Let them do their job, and you just take 'er easy, relax and have a good time, punkin.
I make my own judgements, and I did not jump on the fucking band wagon. I can judge for myself. Plenty of others have said theres nothing wrong with you, have I jumped onto a banwagon?
If I agreed either way it would still be no. I’m intelligent and I can base my own opinions on what I read.
So fuck you.
Aw, poop. I guess I was wrong. IT’s just not everyday ya see someone start a thread like this. So yes. Yes, you’re right. Fuck me then. Fuck me indeed.
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=168472
Alsan2, your turn!
You got yourself that one, sugar.
What the fuck are you talking about?
I’ll bet you’re healthy, then.
I hate it when people who have no idea what they’re talking about play the “sick child” card. Why? Because THAT WAS ME, and I don’t think people who haven’t lived through it have any right to use other people’s suffering as a tool to make other people feel bad.
I didn’t pop up in DAVEW0071’s thread to say, “You think your kid’s got it bad? When I was her age, I found out I had a brain tumor! Bet her problems seem silly now, don’t they?” I didn’t do it because I am capable of feeling sympathy for other human beings (even if their problems aren’t the worst possible problems in the whole wide world), and I have no desire to make people feel bad about their own legitimate concerns by reminding them that I’ve had it bad too. Such behavior would be shallow and selfish. It’s even more repellant when it’s coming from someone with no claim on the pain that they’re reminding others of. I am quite certain that MissBungle has no such claim, because no one who ever was or who ever cared about a real chronically ill child would trivialize the experience by using it to hurt other people in such a petty way.
oh lordy lady. give 'er up.
I didn’t say it to make ANYONE feel bad. I said it only to put things in perspective. I assumed it worked, made people pause for a moment and realize that high school drama is not the end all to be all, since some people had some serious temper tantrums.
You know nothing of my life. Don’t be so certain about anything. I won’t share details of my life here, trying to infere that my feelings on the subject, matter or count anymore than anyone else’s.
Go, Bruins! Go!
;;;; shakes her pompoms and twirls her baton;;;;
Is MissBungle rude or just blunt?
At this point, I think she could go either way. I have seen a couple threads where she did appear to give good advice and seemed sympathetic, but I’ve seen a lot more where she’s rude and abrasive.
I predict, she’ll either take the advice people are trying to give her, and will cool it a bit; or she’ll react badly to the pit threads, and become even more obnoxious, which will eventually lead to a banning.
The choice is hers, really.
You know, it’s fine for anyone to come here and be mean and snarky, or even just sarcastic. You can say whatever you want (within the rules) and tell people what you think of them. That’s fine. But then don’t be surprised when people do the same to you, that’s all. If you dish it out, take it. What is irritating to me is not so much that she’s insulting, it’s that she throws an insult out, then acts all surprised that anyone would take it that way.
I guess I’m saying, why bother to defend her actions? She is obviously capable of telling people what she thinks, so she should be capable of hearing it from other people too. If it is ok for her to tell DAVEWOO71 she is scared that he is a parent, then it is ok for him to tell her she is a bitch. If you come here and give kind and helpful advice, expect the same. If you make sarcastic and potentially offensive comments, expect the same.
I’m expecting to be banned or just get bored and leave.
If a mod was to give me a warning, then of course I would respect it. However, I’m not planning on changing to appease some hyper sensitive, irrational, immature posters on a message board.
There is NO way in which some posters could honestly be as bothered with me as they act. I’m quite certain it’s their offline troubles that they drag in with them. At least I hope so. Seriously, who in hell would seriously get so miffed by poster on a website to invite their death. Certainly not someone with a healthy… oh never yee mind.
Velma, I AM taking IT. IT being negative remarks. Not that IT means anything to me, of course.
Ah, I dunno. I kinda like MissBungle, (cool screen name, by the way). Sure, her posts are Howard Sternish at times, but wouldn’t call her a troll. To me she adds a little hot pepper to the great big goulash that is the Straight Dope. When I’m lurking here and there, if I see a thread that pisses me off I close it and open another. Just me though, what do I know.
Well, there you have it then.
I don’t see people asking you to change your whole personality. I don’t see people here as hyper-sensitive or immature, I think they expect to be treated with respect, and so they should.
If you’re doing things that you expect to get banned for, then I can’t help you there. 
A perspective you do not have. I do, and from that perspective I can see that DAVEWOO71 was right to be concerned about the way his daughter was being treated and you were wrong to suggest that he is a bad father because of it.
I know all I need to know from the fact that you get your jollies playing the pest on Internet message boards.
I will say here that I overreacted in my other thread, when I invited MissBungle to bite me and die, and then call her a bitch. Those who know me know that I am not like that.
I regret that this instance occurred, but I really have no desire to apologize for it. If a comment like “monkey see, monkey do” can be misconstrued into an insult toward my daughter, then “bite me and die” can be misconstrued into an actual wish that someone achieve room temperature. If you apply such a rule to what you say, I claim the same right. Sauce for the goose, don’t you know.
So, that being said, I resolve to ignore MissBungle completely, since I am convinced she is an attention whore who would rather stir things up and get sniped at rather than “make friends.” I don’t understand that kind of mentality, myself, but if that’s how she operates, fine. But I refuse to participate any longer.
If she cares to see this as a victory for herself, fine. If she cares to flame me, or (more likely) feign wide-eyed innocence, or post a condescending “what’s eatin’ you, sugar-pie?” response, fine. I will not rise to her bait.
Because I just don’t care about her anymore.
RTFirefly, you’re a good man, my friend.
Venoma, I’d like to meet you sometime.
Hamadryad, I thought she was out of line, you didn’t. We can agree to disagree. At least I can be confident that you won’t hold it against me, and I’m sure there will be many times in the future that you’ll say something that resonates deep within me, and I offer up a “hell, yeah!” for you.
MissBungle, [sub]::silence::[/sub]
Well, no. But when people make jokes about “popping a happy pill” or tell someone who’s being shitty to “take their Prozac” or refer to really depressing movies as “wrist-slitters,” I don’t jump all up in their shit for it because I understand the meaning of the word “hyperbole.”
:rolleyes: