[stands up and applauds The King of Soup for his masterly summation]
seriously.
that rocked.
You, you…bastard!… you lied to me! Damn you! Damn you to HELL!
Seriously,
I worked the Southern California Renaissance Pleasure Faire for a couple of years. Spent alot of money and time researching my costumes. Went to Ireland and interviewed the textile curator for the national museum. It was fun, and I have some damn authentic 1500’s Irish clothing recreations. I was a member of Clan MacColin, St. Andrews guild. 1988-1991.
Never knew much about the SCA in all that time except that they were abunch of losers in plastic armour who were too scared to carry a real sword. I was wrong.
Then I met some really cool guys who introduced me to the SCA and I got involved. Now I have some plastic/leather armour of my own and have fought heavy off and on for almost 10 years. When I joined I thought that my Renn-Faire experience would allow me to get right into the SCA way of doing things. Ha! wrong again. I met some folks whose costume knowledge made my stuff look like I bought it at a Halloween store. It took me awhile to figure out how they do things. Quite different than Faires. SCA’s Estrella War and Renaissance Faires are as different as Baseball and Football.
So you see Zoe, you are mistaken to think that Philosopher gave out “inconsistent information”. His story is simular to mine. I would say you should apologize and quietly let this die out.
Innisfree indeed! So, is it trout, or salmon?
I agree with Zoe inasmuch as I’ve also had the feeling that something’s “not quite right” with Phlosphr’s backstory. But it’s not something I’d work myself up into a banninating fury over, or even a Pit thread.
That would be Trogdor the Banninator?
Water? Wet? Nice try. I’m gonna have to see a cite for that…
Damn, I missed the whole Kaitlyn fiasco… Guess that’s what happens when I only occassionally visit the Pit.
As any fool knows, water can exist in more than 14 phases, only one of which is wet. To say that water is wet is a gross and inexcusable oversimplification. I would never agree to that statement.
That having been said, Zoe, I agree that even if you’re not dead, dead wrong about Phlospher, you went about this in the wrong way.
Thank you. A cursory look at your posts (I always have one, from sheer vanity, when an established and respected poster says something nice about me) indicates that we have much the same attitude with respect to…well, things like this. If you did the same cursory search on me, I’d hope you’d get the idea that I’d rather be funny about nothing than right about anything, especially a pit thread involving another poster.
Oh my God, there really is an ice-nine!
Well then, I guess it’s time to pit Bricker for his Lapses in Integrity.
I’m going to bet that Podkayne isn’t actually a Martian either.
I’ll take that bet!
Daniel
Pfft. Of course I’m not a Martian. The preferred term is Marsman.
The Martians are an ancient and dying race. Humans who live on Mars are called Marsmen.
Now, in some of my early posts, you may find that I claim to have three hands. I admit, I did briefly pretend that I was, in fact, the eponymous Martian saint because I thought that other Dopers would find me more interesting, and they would pity me because of the fact that my people are going extinct due to climate change: the atmosphere thinning, the canals drying up, and so forth.
However, I quickly repented of lying to gain your sympathy, and have since been a fine, upstanding member of the Doper community. Now, if you don’t mind, it appears that my brother has fallen through the ice on the Grand Canal again, and it’s always me who has to fish him out. I’ll leave you groundhogs to amuse yourselves.
Colibri, when I said, “I’ll take that bet!” I was lying. I hope you understand.
Daniel
That’s it? You’re not going to tell me how I’m sending a mixed message? How sweet of you to say this, especially since I took the time to nicely answer your questionairre. A questionairre, I should say, that really didn’t convince me why I should get fired up about this. I also thought I was being a “voice in the wilderness”. Guess you didn’t see it like that.
My message isn’t mixed at all, though. I don’t like lying in general, but some lies are definitely worse than others. I still do not think this is one of them, unless you know something else about Phlosphr that you’re still sitting on. And if you do, get thee to a moderator fast.
Nope. You owe me ten flatcats and one Martian bouncer.
“Now on the gripping hand”
monstro, I’m sorry if we misunderstood each other. I very much reply on our mutual respect. In my own opinion, Phlosphr, has violated all of the levels I described on the scale. Since I am not an authority on his motives, I can’t really know for what purposes he lied – whether it was for the fun of it or for self-esteem, etc. But the range goes all the way from absolutely trivial things that he wasn’t asked about to medical opinions and medical misinformation.
I’m also sorry if I did not make it clear that at Tomndebb’s suggestion, I submitted some of the contradictions and misinformation to a staff member the day after I posted the pitting (rather than posting them here).
The King of Soup does make strong points in favor of my posting some of the things I shared here. I have noticed that no moderator or administrator has spoken as a member of the staff in this thread yet. I do NOT think that I am owed any explanation on how my email to them is handled.
I’m going to wait one more day and unless the staff doesn’t want me to post what I shared with them – both the nitpicky stuff and the false medical info – then I will post it here. It is not at all comprehensive.
I’m old, but I ain’t dead yet. :dubious:
You are going to look like a real ass and make this even more of a trainwreck if you post a bunch of nitpicky stuff. Though I guess if that stuff really bothered you, you wouldn’t have started this thread in the first place.