*In the desert you can remember your name
’cause there ain’t no one for to give you no pain
*
Sysiphus’ Stone
I have an idea. Next year, instead of paying the SDMB the annual fee, I suggest you donate it to Oxfam. True, this would end your posting privileges, but that’s a sacrifice I think we’re all willing to make.
:wally
Odds are that horse was a better person than you are.
I was going to say something along those lines but instead I’ll just quote you since I can’t improve upon it.
The “Stone” in Sisyphus’ Stone must refer to his heart.
nonpolar, on the other hand, has a heart made of concrete.
You’re spot on-is all about perspective.
As other posters have pointed out, loving and caring for an animal does not preclude compassion or charity for other human beings.
And whatever you make think of the attachment that some of us form with our animal companions, you have absolutely no right to dismiss the pain that we feel when we lose one as selfish or automatically assume that it makes us some how makes us deficient in caring for our species.
As for ** nonpolar -really what can we say about him that’s any worse than what he’s chosen to reveal about himself?
In his limited time on the board, he’s elected to inform us that he’s a looser who can’t get laid, spends an inordinate amount of time viewing internet porn because no living breathing woman will have anything to do with him,has something wrong with his penis, and can barely type or spell.
Given his choice of topics, I have to speculate that he once saw a stallion, immediately pulled down his pants and compared the dimensions and found himself woefully lacking.
Of course, only a pea-brained idiot would even attempt to measure his wanker against that of a horse but then again, I’m sure that no one’s ever accused ** nonpolar of being a man of intellect.
Ya know, the Pit has become too polite lately.
Hey, SS!
Fuck you!
:wally
Heh heh. I get that. Hasn’t this clown been banned yet? wasn’t even funny in the first place, stupid Borat motherfucker.
I didn’t get a chance to post in the other nonpolar thread so I’m doing it now. Incidentally, I think this is the first time I’ve pitted another member.
nonpolar, if I didn’t know any better I would swear you were one of my “friends” (I use that word very loosely) from high school. Let me count the ways you two are similar
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[li]You both seem to live in Toronto[/li][li]You both have an irrational liking of Hitler[/li][li]You both have obsessions with your penis[/li][li]You both can’t understand why you can’t get a woman, when all you want to use her for is sex[/li][li]I’ve never seen you say a single nice or even non-insulting thing in a thread, much like him in real life[/li][li]You say you are a Polish Jew; he frequently uses a Polish Jew alias online[/li][/ul]
I don’t know if you’re the same guy from high school, but let me just tell you what I told him after 9 years of public and high school together. Fuck off and get a life.
Why do you have to fill yourself with such hate and bile to the point that you make anyone who spends 5 minutes with you want to run away ASAP?
What is so wrong with learning how to small-talk someone, to make polite conversation? I mean people are trying to console someone over a dying horse, (My condolences, EddyFreddyTeddy) and you jump in like a jackass and make a very inappropriate and simply rude comment.
The first rule of the SDMB is don’t be a jerk. I suggest you start following it before you find yourself banned. Not that I or many others would be too upset with that fact.
:wally (I really wish he wasn’t winking.)
He shoots! He scores!
Hey, SS, i think that just about every one of us who lives a reasonably comfortable existence with all the modern conveniences feels, from time to time, a certain guilt about our situation. And most of us (on these Boards, at least) are also cognizant of and sympathetic to the plight of so many of the world’s less privileged people.
But, as others have pointed out, this whole compassion thing is not some zero-sum game where our sympathy for a friend’s loss of her horse somehow detracts from or reduces our sympathy for the world’s poor and hungry. Could we each do more to help them? In most cases, the answer is probably “yes.” But it’s rather simplistic unproductive to conclude the ownership of an animal or sympathy for the owner of that animal constitutes some sort of lack of perspective. As tomndebb’s post suggests, perhaps you should look to your own situation and ask yourself if you’ve given up every non-essential item in order to help the poor, before demanding that others do the same.
“a looser” what? A looser knecktie? A looser moralist? A looser grip of reality?
[pedant]The word is “loser”.[/pedant] 
[pedant]The word is “necktie”.[/pedant]
Seriously, is this how the word is spelled in the UK? I’ve never seen it spelled this way before.
Originally Posted by Pisyphus’ Stone
What’s wrong with you, mate? Had a lobotomy recently?
I’m so sorry; EddyTeddyFreddy
Whoops-gasp-I made a spelling error.
Oh the shame, the shame.
Hangs head in horror.
Luckily I did get laid last night and the pleasant memory which help me survive the mortification.
(And I’ve never seen it spelt knecktie-either here or in England either but I’m far too nice a person to harp on a simple spelling error. 
)
Loose = not tight
Looser = less tight (more loose)
Lose = fail to win.
Loser = hopeless person (one who habitually loses)
Somehow I don’t think Sisyphus’ Stone will return to address the valid criticisms of his comments. He was admonished by Great Debates moderators for his derogatory use of “Seppo” last month and again this week, and admitted at the time that after he makes his inflammatory and offensive remarks in a thread, he does not open the thread again.
scratch that; I didn’t notice the ‘knecktie’ thing. sorry.
No ‘knecktie’ is not a valid spelling in the UK or any other sane kingdom. Gaudere’s Law at work there, I suspect.
Ya know, I really don’t know how anyone can say that responding to “Gosh, I’m worried about my horse” with "*OH MY GOD! YOUR HORSE? BUT THERE ARE CHILDREN STARVING IN AFRICA!! WON’T SOMEONE PLEASE THINK OF THE CHILDREN!!!?!?!?!"[I/] is anything other than totally moronic.
Perspective indeed.
Sisyphus’ Stone,
I was just wondering…
Are you living in a box and giving every penny of your money to people in 3rd world countries?
From your self-righteous posts I have to assume that you have never owned nor cared about anything other than feeding the less fortunate. It would certainly be hypocritical to post such things if that weren’t true. I mean, if its wrong to care about a horse when people are hungry, surely its wrong to have a computer to post on these forums, or a car, or a decent home, or to do anything that isn’t directly related to easing their conditions.
Unless you are actively living in a hut in Nigeria I am not sure how its your place to judge anybody.