I hate to crash my own party, but I guess London_Calling is right, this is moving a little too fast.
You might all want have a look here.
And here.
Personally I agree with all you guys so far, while I take deep offense at the linked posters opinion, which was the target of my scornful satire that obviously is wooshing so bad that the sirocco is a tame wind in comparison.
Sparc
Yea, I figured it was satire because you never struck me as the type to paint people with a huge brush like that…eeehehe…
I still don’t get the Costa Rica thing.
I hear that they have pretty good pot in Costa Rica.
See, this is what I get for not hanging out in GD.
Sparc, I withdraw my criticism. Well played.
Sparc, a few years ago I had this email relationship with someone who lived in in Serbia when my country was busy trying to bomb the place flat… Some info: More often than not, the actions of one’s government do not have a whole hell of a lot in common with the feelings of their citizens.
He was lucky, and the power and phone lines were in pretty good shape where he was at. When he sent me mail, I’m fairly sure it was a crime there. When I sent him mail, I KNEW it was legal. For me, that is. I haven’t heard from him in a couple of years, I hope he’s okay.
Having said that, I think the great thing about America (the ideal America) is that I can say whatever the fuck I want to about it, and maybe people will get mad. but they will prolly not try to kill my family just because.
I’ve been wooshed, right?
argh.
Hee Hee. Brilliant!! At least I hope this is satire. But then again We Americans don’t understand sarcasm, at least thats what I hear. I will now return to cleaning my gun and writing sonnets about Pinochet. As for Costa Rica its not a state dumbass, its a city near San Jose, CA. It has a great fucking beach.
Scene: deep in the heart of wildest Euroland. Sparc, a disgruntled Europhile is hunched over the flickering light of his computer.
“Damn”, he says. “If my monitor was built to European standards and refreshed at 50Hz instead of US and refreshed at 60, it wouldn’t flicker.”
He hears the doorbell ring. A parcel, sent through UPS. “Fuck, why did the sender use UPS, couldn’t he use a European carrier, like TNT?”
He checks the sender’s name Fenris. “At last, something non-American. A good European name.” Then he notices the sender’s address. “Bugger, another bloody American. Why couldn’t a nice European send me presents? Americans are always sending us nice presents. If I had my way, we’d give Marshall Aid back to them.”
He opens the parcel. A gun. “Bugger, why is it a Browning automatic? Why couldn’t it be a European gun, like a Heckler & Koch?”
His state of disgruntlement is now so high, he decides to write to the SDMB and complain. As he logs on, he realises, it’s American!
“Fuck, fuck, fuckity fuck, why couldn’t I subscribe to a European message board? I know, I’ll write a long diatribe about why Americans suck and Europeans don’t.”
He types away madly and as the responses comes in, Sparc slowly raises his foot. He takes the gun generously donated by Fenris. Aiming carefully, he pulls the trigger…
Bravo, sir. Good parody. You had me on edge there for a minute. 
It’s satire. Have you read ElJeffe’s masterpiece in this thread?
And right now I have the most bizarre feeling of deja vu (seriously: I’m convinced I’ve seen half of the posts in this thread word-for-word before).
Go alien,
It would seem you’re not the most thorough reader on the boards, or are you disgruntled for having had all your arguments found wanting in the recent Euro debate?
That still doesn’t explain the Costa Rica thing. AFAIK, the UK is a part of Europe, although, sometimes they don’t like to admit it. It would have been better if Sparc had used something similar…like Texas.
OK I give up… I’ll now knowingly make the mistake of explaining a joke that obviously didn’t fly with parts of the membership.
Here’s the key that was supposed to give it away as satire:
The ICJ has nothing to with the ICC and is not really regulated by the Rome Treaty - read recent threads in Great Debates on the ICC, and you’ll get it
The UN (in my spoof the EU all by it wily self) does not have the support of named states on the Balkans, since those are among the ones we are trying to keep from warring in re the situation in the Balkans.
Costa Rica was so obviously wrong that should the first two idiocies woosh, I thought at least that one wouldn’t. Tom hesitantly caught it and ArlanzaCharles almost did.
I guess I overestimated people’s faith as re my command of fact.
Wow… don’t you people ever browse posts by a poster with a higher post count than 3 when you see them posting something offensive that is so obviously and patently absurd and idiotic as this OP?
Any keyboard fractures from all those knees jerking?
At least it seems I made my point as re ElJeffe.
Sparc
Like, say…FreakFreely? Or any of a number of other high post count types who either melted down or committed suicide by mod? Hell, I think Sweetwilly got up to what…400 or so posts and every single word he wrote was “patently absurd and idiotic”. I tend to take Doper’s words at face-value. A link to the original thread would have prevented the confusion.
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Sparc, care to join a further discussion of “knees jerking” over here?
Fenris
Or even over here?
I am not the most thorough reader of the boards, I admit. I also didn’t see the joke. Mind you, I’m crap at detecting inner meanings, allegory and subtle hints anyway so that probably explains it.
As for the Euro debate, I feel that we both have entrenched positions that won’t be shifted by each other’s arguments. But that won’t stop the debated, will it?
This is the stupidest thing I’ve ever heard. Your joke consisted of you posting stupid things to make a point about stupid things someone else posted in a thread in GD. I’m not going to do a search on every poster who says something stupid in a Pit rant to see if they’re trying to make subtle barbs at some random thread somewhere.
Of course, if I’d gotten the joke, it was probably very funny. But I didn’t, nor do I feel I should have. Crazed OPs are frequent in the Pit, as are morons who have only been here a few months and really want attention.
In my opinion, your joke was a flop. That was your fault, not ours. Not a big deal, but don’t try to spin it like you played it masterfully and we just weren’t clever enough to see it.
Giraffe,
Fenris thread ‘Parody or Trolling?’ as previously linked to adresses your sentiments, I think you’ll find that I have expounded on mine in there as well.
I knew it was satire, really.
Well at first I didn’t, then I did, then I didn’t again, and with sailor’s help I finally realized it was satire.
And sorry for calling you an idiot.
Maybe this is my ugly American side speaking, but I assumed most Europeans on this board would know that Costa Rica is an independent country, and that Sparc with almost 700 posts wasn’t an idiotic troll.