Whinging.
Halo13 Go read my posts on the actual topic and get back with me on how much of a “hawk” I am. Not to mention everyone else you just painted with the same broad brush. Many of us have nuanced positions on this issue. Dig deeper, see what you find.
Oh, and when did Sparc and Fenris become bigots? I know that is a standard leftist response, but here it seems as out of context as is humanly possible.
Damn, this is good shit. Noone could have come up with the response our gentle dove has. Precious, pure joy. But enough of this high jack. Let Fenris alone. He and Sparc are huddled, face to face, planning our doom. Smiling.
Ooops. Was that a “whinge”?
Halo learned one lesson well. When you’re losing the argument, call your opponents bigots.
Do it often enough and loudly enough, and you can avoid deep discussions altogether. If your beliefs are unbalanced, I suppose this is necessary.
Way to go, genius!
Don’t be such a bigot, Moto.
Ya know, given the impressionablility of this fellow, I’m guessing comments like the above are why Halo had this to say in the other thread:
You guys are going to give the kid a complex.
Damn dirty apes?
I sort of posted my last message here instead of another thread, so it didn’t make a lot of sense. I am flattered you would bother to dedicate a whole thread to me! Well, I will leave you few to it shall I? You have some exciting matters to discuss.
Just a couple of points:
We don’t eat any of your bloody imperialistic nasty old cupcakes over here. We prefer Timtams or little fairy-cakes or little cakey things.
Whinging (as has been covered previously on the boards) is a perfectly good antipodean word. We whinge as opposed to whine when we are feeling particularly irritated with life.
Wait, wait, wait… how could a person hijack his own thread dedicated to the subject that’s the focus of the alleged hijack?
Anyway… Halo, chuckles, pal, nice screen name, it’s a great game but a lousy debator (ha!). Congratulations on your “successful” Hiroshima Day. I put “successful” in quotes because I have a question to ask you… ever hear the expression “preaching to the choir”?
So far none of your posts make much sense, why should this one sent any new precedents.
That’s what you wanted, little timmy wasn’t it? Attention, even if you had to make a fool of yourself (which comes quite easily I imagine).
Oh the Irony of you calling someone else a bigot.
Keep going Halo we are enjoying your continued meltdown. Alas, I fear that your return to high school or middle school will interupt that process. So hurry up already. :mad:
The Interview with the HALO-esqe Person continues:
Me: So, were you satisfied with your interview?
H-eP(Halo-esqe Person): No. I’m very upset. I need an herbal tea to calm down my shattered nerves. It’s silly, isn’t it, that I can almost single-handedly stop nukuler war, but some racists on a message board can upset me this much? My nerves are all a-twitter.
Me: What specifically upset you.
H-eP (almost in a Job-like cry of rage and dispair…plus a little whining): THEY’RE LAUGHING AT ME! Those bigotheads aren’t taking me seriously.
Me: How so?
H-eP: Abe mocked our encounter session. Ultra and The Wrong Girl dismissed us because we were college students. Sparc (a RACIST!) mocked us for singing Kumbya. Well the JOKE’S ON HIM! WE SANG “MICHAEL ROW THE BOAT ASHORE”! NOT KUMBYA! So there.
And we only sang “Michael Row the Boat Ashore” for the first verse, because one person thought it was culturally insensitive (It’s about a nukuler family. What about NON-TRADITIONAL families? Wind-powered ones, for instance? Or Geo-thermal families? HM?) and another thought the boat was a SLAVE boat those that AMERKIA still runs! And another thought that the message was too Khristian. So we stopped.
THEN someone suggested we sing “Give Peace a Chance”, but it mentions Ministers, Rabbis and Bishops so it’s religious and some of the words were too hard. So we stopped again.
THEN we decided to sing a song about empowering womyn to stop all Nukular War. But the only song that we all knew was “Girls Just Wanna Have Fun”. But that’s a non-dialectical song. So I changed the lyrics and we sang “Womyn Demand the Right TO CHOOSE, To not have a GLASS CEILING and to Be Empowered To Stop all War. And have Fun!”
It went like this:
*
Come home when I chose to do so
My mother made insenstive remarks about my lifestyle
I said something about how womyn were chattel
But that Womyn Demand the Right TO CHOOSE, To not have a GLASS CEILING and to Be Empowered To Stop all War. And have Fun!
I recieved a call from a lyfe-mate at a non-traditionalist hour
My father demanded that I limit my choices of phonecalls to a traditional hours. I rejected his imperialist demands.
“Oh father, you’re the last of a dying generation: a dinosaur!
And Womyn Demand the Right TO CHOOSE, To not have a GLASS CEILING and to Be Empowered To Stop all War. And have Fun!”*
< sniff > (H-eP wipes a tear from his eye)
H-eP: It’s so beautiful 'cause it’s true. Did you know that no womyn ever committed violence or had wars? Not even once? If womyn were in charge, we wouldn’t have ANY wars. Ever. Or fighting. Or people being mean to me ‘n’ stuff.
Me: Um…I know I’m not supposed to debate you, being a reporter and all. but…Margaret Thatcher? Queen Victoria? Lucrezia Borgia?
H-eP: Fact-ist. Don’t burden me with your fact-based theology. I’m liberated from the burden of fact-based dogma. There’s more to life than just FACTS! I won’t have you opressing me with your Fact-ism.
Anyway, after we sang “Womyn Demand the Right TO CHOOSE, To not have a GLASS CEILING and to Be Empowered To Stop all War. And have Fun!”, we all decided to hum along with some whalesongs.
But someone thought that it would usurp the whale’s cultural identity.
So we had a granola and herbal tea break.
So THERE Mr Sparcy Pants!
Me: Is there anything else you’d like to say?
H-eP: Yes. For all you MOCKERS and twisted people. It worked. Our rally stopped war. Since our party, there hasn’t been a single Amerikan Kapitalist Imperialist War of Agression OR a nukular war has there? Well see? I hope all you load-mouths have learned your lesson.
If I think of anything else to say, I’ll contact you.
Me: Thank you Halo-esqe Person.
Fenris, the SDMB’s roving reporter
sigh
This really is getting boring…
And yet, here you are…
I guess it’s only boring after too much herbal tea, because with vodka on the rocks (that’s what hawks drink) it’s still rip roaring.
“getting”?
Fenris, I love you.
In a completely heterosexual, platonic, manly, Mel Gibson / Danny Glover kind of way, of course.
[sub]OMG! Am I a bigot too?[/sub]
It has several meaning. Perhaps one will help you.
and it goes on from there.
Glad to be of assistance.
Fenris
I do too. Although not necessarily in the same way as Kamandi. More like in a way that, if anyone ever asks us about it, we both laugh nervously and change the subject.
Anyway, in honor of Hiroshima Day, I think I will go outside and work on my tan, or circulate that petition to change the inscription on the Hiroshima Peace Monument to read, “May the souls of those who died here rest in peace, or else Halo13 is going to get all pissy.”
Regards,
Shodan
I was thinking about having a Troy Day.
For thousands of years, since the first use of the Gigantic Hollow Horse[sub]TM[/sub] our civilisation has never been the same. I mean, how many Gigantic Hollow Horses[sub]TM[/sub] does one planet need? In 1985, before the collapse of the USSR, there were enough Gigantic Hollow Horses[sub]TM[/sub] to sneak a regiment of Greek soldiers into every city town and village in the world 37 times over.
And that Donahue guy. What’s up with that?
:Holding hands:
We shall overcoooooooome. . .