Esprix,
I like you just fine, but I have taken a liking to your new arch-enemy as well. I consider myself a middle-of-the-road spectator here, and as being such, it’s my opinion that you have done your fair share of antagonizing in this situation as well. Which does not make the as-for-now anonymous poster competely at without fault either, but I don’t think it has been entirely on one-sided thus far.
JMO, YMMV, and AC/DC rokks.
Here I am wasting an “at” in that post when there are children in Greenland who have never had an “at”, and may never.
I feel just awful.
Geez, esprix, if I opened Pit threads against everyone who took potshots at me, I’d be opening ‘em 24/7. I can’t remember the last time I got through a whole thread without someone saying something amazingly nasty to me. And you’re all het up over this? Blow it off, man, aint’ worth your energy.
“Link, come to the Dark Side, Link”
Takes a linkin’ and keeps on thinkin’
You’ve made yourself something of a public figure, Esprix. I mean really, do you see me setting up a “Ask the Stunningly Handsome, Witty, and Erudite Guy” thread? No, because I am modest.
Now, in all honesty, I haven’t read any of your “Gay Guy” stuff because I utterly lack any curiousity. But if you can’t stand the heat, stay away from habanero peppers.
Perhaps as my love-monkey Stoid suggests, you should make some reference to these offensive posts, otherwise they will remain…{drum roll}…
The Missing Link!
Anyone ever play The Adventures of Link? 
<shoves Esprix> Oh, yeah? Whaddaya gonna do about it, huh? <shoves him again>
I’m not all het up anything, my dear. 
But, seriously, it’s not that one particular thing has set me off, it just seems like, of late, there have been quite a few whiny little brats who have decided, for various reasons (some unknown), to start sniping at me. I’ve been through this, and I don’t care for it, and don’t have the time right now to compose a whole new slew of scorchingly devastating flames (and since I some seem to think I have suddenly gained the ability to get someone banned, what with me being a Mean Cliqueish Old Regular Poster[sup]TM[/sup], I must use my power for good :rolleyes: ). Salix got one. mouthbreather got another one (and hardly my “new arch enemy,” thank you very much). But there have been several others within the past few weeks. Links? No. I’m not of a mind to give them any more satisfaction or attention. Suffice it to say they know who they are and I’m asking them to just knock it the fuck off. Yes, elucidator, I know what I’ve gotten myself into, and, 99% of the time, it’s a Good Thing[sup]TM[/sup], but that doesn’t mean I can’t be occassionally miffed at the annoying 1% (which now seems to include a new one right here in this very thread).
As one Mr. Banner was known to say, “Don’t make me angry. You wouldn’t like me when I’m angry.” So, in all politeness, I’m asking a few certain individuals to step off. Is that so much to ask?
Oh, and Lib? You rock.
Esprix
Um, so would a gay Hulk be pink?
And evidently some people need to be asked in several different languages and at several different decibel levels.
Esprix
Why? Looking for people to pin your pink triangles on? Wanna take me on, big boy?
The suckiest of the entire Zelda franchise. (Actually, I haven’t played the Mask one or any of the new Game Boy games. But AFAIK it is.)
–John
What a great quote in a thread asking people to lay off!
Man to psychiatrist: “Doc, I’m having trouble making friends you fucking prickfuck. Any idea what the problem is you stupid, ignorant, piece of shit?”
Stranger and stranger.
eris, go read the link in Salix’s post before you start in on me as well. There was a reason I posted that.
Esprix
So I had this buddy, Dennis was his name, 7 foot tall and built to just under Greek god proportions. And queer as a blue horse. Nothing remotely effeminate, mind you, I guess what is sometimes known as a “bull fruit”. (if any of this terminology is offensive, apologies and back to my story…) Oh, yeah, this is about 1969.
So we’re hanging at this bar that has some biker and biker wannabe’s, pounding some suds and talking about nothing in particular, when this biker-looking guy sort of pointedly bumps into Dennis and gives him a glare instead of an apolgy. Dennis ignored this, and returned to his beer. Anyways, the guy comes back a couple of times, same kind of crap,…
Dennis sighs, buts down his beer, and swivels on his bar stool to face the guy and says:
“OK, I get the picture, you’re trying to pick a fight. Don’t much like fighting, but if you insist, we’ll go outside and we’ll fight. Just one thing I oughta tell you: I’m queer, and if I win, I’m gonna fuck you.”
The biker guy went dead pale, I mean Casper, staggered back babbling something that might well have been an apology.
Dennis swivels back, like nothing has happened.
“Now, where were we…Oh, yes, the thing about the Steelers is…”
Secondly, I wish I lived in Mass. so I could vote for Barney Frank. The man’s got stones, by God! If I believed for one minute that that was a direct result of being gay, I would check into having the surgery. Or whatever. I’m kinda uninformed about this stuff. So, Exprix, you’re already in it, so what the hell! If you got it, flaunt it!
What’s the deal with all the Esprix bashing lately? Do you people seriously believe that something Esprix did or said got somebody banned? If so, that’s one hell of an insult all around — to him, to TubaDiva, and to yourselves. Back off, dammit. Stop and think.
Well, Esprix, it isn’t that I doubted there was a reason for you posting that, I just found it amusing. Old Andrew Dice Clay skit.
Now I am reminded of a conversation I had with an ex-girlfriend of mine. I once told her, “You know, you are so damn defensive.” Her reply? (I will try to use formatting to get the mood across here) “So??!!?!”
Interestingly enough, I also hung out with her little sister. I once levelled the claim: “Sheesh, [so-and-so], you’re pretty paranoid.” Her reply? “Isn’t everybody?” LOL Runs in the family, I guess.
Keeping those in mind…
I think that, often, you are more easily offended than others and, when you “vocalize” (respond in the thread) in that state of annoyance/defensiveness, you are—shall we say—somewhat sharp. This, of course, only serves to make other people, who are in themselves defensive, reply even more sharply, etc, and then we’re in the Pit (either by your hand or theirs; I think, in the end, it is irrelevant of who brought it here)
I have no problem with you, your posting method, or the spirit of the OP. Just sayin’, man! 
eris, dear, are you suggesting I should suffer fools gladly? Because it’s not in my nature… (And please, someone point out to me where I’ve somehow warranted these pot-shots of late, because I seem to have missed any reasoning behind them.)
Esprix
You don’t want to suffer fools gladly, but we have to suffer you gladly? I don’t think that’s how it works, Sparky.
You know, I never had a Pit thread directed at me…except that one, that Crafter_Man made asking why the hell I post so much, which turned into a "We Love Guin thread.
It’s not fair! Nobody hates me enough to start a Pit thread about me!
[sub]and seriously, people, don’t start a We Hate Guin Parody thread-seriously. It’s been overdone lately[/sub]
And I provoked that from you, how, exactly, grirnpixie?
Anybody got a lighter? I gotta prime up this flamethrower…
Esprix