Shodan also isn’t really a dick in non-political threads. I’ve never seen Carol Stream NOT act like a cunt muffin.
I just have to say that I would pronounce Racheal as “Ray/cheel” and not “Ray/chell”.
It looks wrong and sounds more wrong. Ugh.
Carole is a variation of Carol or vice versa, btw.
Look for Clothahump’s posts in the forums like Cafe, MPSIMS and IMHO, not only is he not a near troll like Carol, he is even (IMHO) a nice guy who happens to be pretty far to the right of me. I have seen no signs that Carol is not nasty 90% or the time or better. I don’t recall **Clothahump ** ever derailing a thread like Carol has done plenty of times (thus my trolling accusation). I do recall him make a few posts, especially in the pit that I 100% disagreed with, but I could actually say the same thing about our socialist friend BrainGlutton who I first replied to.
Ah, thank you. My search-fu was weak that day.
And anybody looking for more evidence that Carol Stream is just a nasty nasty person should take a look at that thread. Sheesh!
p.s. In that thread, she also elicited some uncharacteristic snark from Polycarp:
Hee!
Clothahump does have normal moments - he’s interesting whenever martial arts come up, for instance (I think that’s him?). But put him in a thread with politics or religion and it’ll be a one sentence “This is stupid, anyone who disagrees with me is stupid”. Even** Carol ** has points to make, though they may be done assholishly.
I have noted that his opinions on movies are usually sound. Not dumbed down and not too intellectual. His comments on books have been useful and as you mentioned he is indeed good at providing facts about martial arts.
His politics are not mine and I sit somewhat to the right on the dope, though I think I have drifted to the left for the US. On religion, I tend to agree with him, but I am not adamant about or as vociferous, so those don’t bother me much. In fact I always find it humorous that his fairly right wing political beliefs puts him in more often than not with the Theocrats that he despises so much.
It’s all a matter of luck. Mostly, I’ve encountered Clothahump being funny and smart and generous with his time and knowledge, and mostly I’ve encountered – let us just say, another poster – as a self-centered moron who dispenses old, tired insults before disappearing through the same trap door he first used seven years ago. The latter always runs and hides, so let him.
Carol Stream is a different story altogether. I still don’t believe the username belongs to a woman, because I’ve never met a female under the age of a hundred and fifty-nine that harbors the vile attitudes s/he espouses, but that’s the problem with this kind of judgment – the only way to be normal is to go along with all kinds of foolishness, and who’s to say that the pressures on Carol Stream are any worse than those on any high-school freshman? It’s enough to know that there’s no hint of strength of character there: that there will never be an opinion divergent from the bigoted substream that thinks school integration is still a controversial issue.
Yes, I knew that Jaime is a Hispanic name. A fellow student I worked with at Uni was a Venezuelan named Jaime.
I’ve already been in those threads, with a point of view of “who gives a shit”. Here’s three posts, from a couple of ‘names’ threads in the last six months:
I don’t think I have a problem with your judging the name to be spelled in a stupid manner; you’re entitled to your opinion. I do get irritated at folks spreading unpleasantness unnecessarily. I’m still not sure whether you were making fun of the woman or not. I guess it doesn’t matter anyway.
Even more surprising is Carol Stream’s notion that a spell checker can somehow tell you how a person’s proper name should be spelled.
Do they sell those at Starbucks? They sound rather uncommon and expensive.
Blll
Things can be rare, yet common and cheap, billfish678.
That’s my problem with so-called unusual spellings of names - don’t expect the rest of the world to change the English language for your “creative” naming. Not to mention that it would also be valid to pronounce Racheal as Ray-Keel (with the CH making a K, as in trachea). Or even Ray-Kee-All. Or Rah-kee-all. No, I’m no fan of names that try to force a pronunciation.
They taste like risotto.
My daughter’s name is a Celtic spelling (I’m so, so sorry!) and it’s all her father’s fault - he was teaching a course in Irish history and enamored of all things Celtic at the time.
Still, it doesn’t actually break the laws of English like Racheal does. It just has to be pointed out to people: “Caileigh. C-A-I-L-E-I-G-H…Look, how do you spell “Gail”? And how do you spell “Leigh”? Knock off the G, stick a C on the front and you’re good to go.”
But I really don’t blame people who get it wrong. It is unusual, and I knew that when I filled out the birth certificate form. I suppose Kaylee would be easier for the nurses at the pediatrician’s office, but I just think it looks…cheap.
In comedy, this is what we refer to as a “callback”!
Kaylee does look cheap–perhaps too phonetical. Or maybe it reminds me of Kaybee toys. My first thought is that Caileigh is pronounced “Calley” (Cal/lee), but other than that, there’s no big issue there, IMO.
I could more easily read Racheal as Rak-ee-al than Rachel. Poor kid.
One of my sister’s names was Leigh. She not only got called “lay” a lot, she also got a notice that she had to register for the draft! :eek:
And just for the record, my name is Eleanor. No one spells it right. Few pronounce it correctly (3 syllables, there’s an OR at the end, not and ER), so I know something of the pain of uncommon names. At least my parents didn’t get jiggy with it and do Ellynore or Aelinor etc. Elenore is the French version, IMS.
They do?
The whole thing?
Or just the tops or the stumps?
If its just the stumps we may need to reconsider the plan to give the homeless the stumps…of course I am not a big fan of pasta, so skin off my back either way 
Blll
When it’s printed, “Calley” is the most common pronunciation I hear. I think the “i” looks too much like an “l” in most fonts, so people think it’s Calleigh.
Left to my own devices, I’d have pronounced it “Kylee”. Pretty name, either way.
I can live with “Racheal”.
There should however be some form of punishment for naming your kid “Chasity”. Maybe the stocks.
I would feel bad for the paragraph and spelling-challenged person who started the other thread, but my sympathy drained out when she used the phrase “ya no”.
Ya no?