There’s a bif difference there. I pitted RatInDaKitchen because he personally insulted me in threads I was active in. SimonX’s actions have nothing whatsoever to do with you personally.
Might be time to ItShut Up, appletreats.
So you’re posting to a message board dedicated to fighting ignorance. And you’re upset that a member of said board is going out of his way to fight ignorance. Is that about it?
If I could pick any one member here who epitomizes willful and habitual ignorance, it’d be lekatt.
And which he didn’t bring up or even imply. He could have ten posts or ten thousand posts and the point would be the same.
Oh, by the way, you don’t have a say in what goes on around here. Not substantially, anyway. Wanna know who does? The Chicago Reader … and to a lesser extent, the administration and the moderators. Very few other people have anything other than a very soft voice in a very loud storm here.
BTW, this is not the first time someone has asserted some role in the US military in the past or present, nor is it the first time they were called on it and shown for their bullshit. Diane did the same … how long ago was it? It was during that whole RosieWolf IDnew potatosomething minidebacle.
Oh dear God. If you’re posting that in good faith you’re stupider than shrimpshit.
You are pitting someone for going the extra mile to expose an idjit, a jackass, a liar and a jerk. December is pitted for being … well, much of what lekatt has been exposed as. If you fail to see the difference between those two you need to … hell, I can’t think of anything. The notion of thinking this pitting is as deserved as a december pitting is fucking preposterous from the get-go.
If I may, iampunha: Simon went the extra mile to expose an obvious fraud because that particular fraud made an issue out of his supposed service on a particular ship to give credence to his so-called argument in one of the pledge threads. What’s really amusing is that he started touting that after his comments about others who had actually served were irrelevant to the issue at hand. It’s almost like a spiral search pattern with him and the point, isn’t it? Once he’s been shown that there’s no record of his service aboard that vessel, he’s now saying that he was in the Reserves when aboard it. I know for a fact–having actually served in the Regular Navy aboard ship, and as a Personnelman at that, it doesn’t matter what one’s component is. Your name will be on the muster rolls (oddly enough, aka “Absent on Sailing Report”). Even embarked units are required to inform the Ship’s Clerk who’s embarked.
Btw, how about a link to the thread in which Diane outed another fake?
Three cheers for the extra mile Simon walked to expose fraud.
Three jeers to appletreats, who apparently doesn’t understand the value of eradicating fraud and ignorance, and thus may be happier on another message board with a different mission.
Can’t we all just get along?
No. Bite me, you goat-feltcher!
Here you go, Monty. Diane’s first post on that page of the thread. I was going to try to summarize, but there’s 9 pages of … thread there (you have to read the associated material to understand what Diane caught), just as you have to read the GD thread to fully understand lekatt’s interesting definition of “truth”), and I have neither the desire nor the insomnia to read through it all.
iampunha: That Rosie character’s one whacked out fool. For one thing, it’s not an automatic conversion of the VEAP to MGIB. There were certain actions the person had to take provided the person met certain qualifications. Another is the bit about being able to type 80 something wpm with arthritis in both hands. Right! I swear…it was almost like reading lekatt.