Aw, Jake…
Airman Doors -who’s posts I used to like when he was still in the airforce - has turned into our own Joe the Plumber. This I guess is more of a tragedy, although I know he doesn’t need my pity.
Q.E.D. I have never seen this guy post anything but short snarky replies. They should remove his member title like they did his SDSAB and just title him ‘snarkbot’.
Dangerosa. Usually a normal poster unless it’s a relationship advice thread, in which case she let’s her hang-ups come out and turns into a bitter, frigid bitch.
Granted, or at least among those who post frequently. But then one can hardly come onto a board populated by the very type of people responsible for what has become of life in this country, and who either don’t see any value in what they’ve ruined or who want to delude themselves that it was necessary (to end racism :rolleyes:) and expect applause and approbation.
I think you’d be surprised. I can’t speak for the ‘free world’ (and neither can you for that matter; you only get what the press decides to show you). I recently got to know a guy from France who you would expect to be a liberal. He currently operates a business putting on mud-wrestling shows and providing strippers for music act afterparties, has four strippers living with him (one each from four different clubs), has shoulder length-hair and dresses in the sexy but earthy way of people such as Olivier Martinez. He has traveled much throughout Europe, South America and southeast Asia, (usually having to do with sex-related activity…or possibly drugs) and he said to me…apropos of nothing since I hadn’t said anything regarding politics up to that point…that a great many more people around the world like us and cheer what we do than one would ever know from either the European press or our own. He said a great many people in Europe hate Arabs, but that in his travels among Arab lands the overwhelming sentiment toward us isn’t hate but envy. He also was hoping that Obama would not be elected because he didn’t want to see us wimp out in Iraq, let Iran become an even greater threat to the region, and move closer to the socialistic policies of those that prevail in Europe.
Quite an eye-opener, this guy was.
Now, I’m not saying that his POV is definitive, but it resonates with me as very likely true. I know from talking with servicemen who’ve come back from Iraq that our press doesn’t give us any kind of realistic view of what’s going on there, how positively many Iraqis do indeed view our presence, and the many instances of the good that has been achieved there. I do know for a fact that our press focuses almost totally on what is wrong (especially regarding war, and most especially regarding war under Republican presidents) and that we do not get an accurate picture of anything, political or otherwise, from it.
But I digress.
With regard to how many people in this country (as opposed to the ‘free world’) agree with me, I would suggest that much of the Republican Revolution of 1994 and the number of Republicans elected president since the late sixties was due in very large part to the citizens of this country becoming fed up with what liberalism has wrought here.
As I do you.
Well, all I can say is it sucks to be you. You don’t get to come in here, all of your own volition, insult me, and then plead for no response. It doesn’t work that way. Still, I’ll honor your request for now…despite the fact I could make several points I’d very much like to make by not doing so…but if you decide to challenge or assail me in the future you can most certainly expect a response.
Become a conservative. 
Jesus Marimba, man, she begged you not to! * Begged!* Pleaded, implored, beseeched, and to no avail!
Mercy is for the weak…
-XT
I still am, and if I may ask, how am I like Joe the Plumber?
No, it availed about 90%. What I addressed above was the fresh hooey that she included in her pleading, imploring and beseeching post. What I held back on was the hooey from her previous post that she was pleading, imploring and beseeching me not to answer.
And on preview, XT is right…I DON’T NEED TO SHOW NO STEENKIN’ MERCY!!!
FUCK OFF, ELEANOR!
:: walks off, puffed up and intimidating with manly-man strength::
Doors the Airman.
Doesn’t really have the same ring to it. I recommend a career change.
I can post for free now? Sweet! That gets this deadbeat off a long cold hiatus.
On topic: As a born-again Christian, I love all posters. It’s central to our mission statement and enforced through corporate mandate.
God bless,
Billy Baroo
Is that the best you can do? <steps and trips SA with her high heels>
I never mentioned hooey. I don’t “do” hooey. Gomer Pyle does hooey.
It wasn’t so much insulting as outright pleading–Luci had it right. It’s like asking my FIL to just not go there re hanging chads or how the first Mayor Daley delivered IL for Kennedy. It’s got to be a circle of hell. I can’t listen again. I skimmed over the body of your post. Luci–help me! Get me outta here!
My mistake then. To answer you:
All your posts nowadays have this “Oh, woe is me. This working class hero’s world is moving on” feel to them.
::channels Judge Smails::
Oh, Billy…Billy, Billy, Billy, Billy, Billy!
And did you perhaps tell your FIL that he was wrong, that 99.99999999999999999999999999999999999999999999% of the world thought he was wrong, and, by implication, that he was crazy while you were simultaneously asking him not to go there?
See, the way it works is if you want to plead with people not to address your previous insults (and erroneous ways of thinking), you shouldn’t interject more insults and erroneous ways of thinking into the pleading itself.
ETA: But at least you wear high heels, so you’ve got that going for you. 
Fair enough.
No prob. Click high heels together twice, say: “There’s no place like hooey” and presto! Course, it’ll be black and white…
<clicks madly, turns ankle, twists tendon and ends up on crutches>
Thanks, I think.
SA: why yes, I have told him that 99.99999999% of the world thinks he’s wrong. And guess what? He’s as convinced he’s right as you are! Perhaps you were separated at birth. But enough of this fun loving rib tickling good time. I have to go clean a toilet.
Entirely true. When faced with an opponent who is weak, it is appropriate to offer him or her mercy.
I said black and white. Blank and blue, that’s a hardware problem. Contact your Vendor.
And perhaps if you could be arsed to read what I took the time to post for you rather than just skimming it, you’d discover that this simply isn’t so.
Or perhaps he actually experienced life during the fifties and sixties and knows like I do what things were really like back then vs. the history revisionist version, and he’s disgusted like I am at what has become of life in this country since then.
Well, not to belabor the point, but if you don’t want people to argue with you, it might be a good idea not to be argumentative and insulting at the same time you’re asking them not to.
(Maybe you could 'splain it to her, luci, you seem to have good rapport with the logic-challenged.)
Anyway, I hope your ankle gets better. 
That’s because you clearly don’t read GQ. All those big words scare you away?
For a site that’s supposed to be full of smart people there are sure a lot of dipshits here, but QED definitely isn’t one of them. I even enjoy his short snarky replies-they’re always clever.
Oh wait, this is supposed to be a thread about posters I can’t stand…but I’m no good with names. I loathe that bastard who’s always trying to impress everyone with his big words, which he clearly just looked up in the dictionary and often uses inappropriately. Don’t know his name tho. And that whiny know-it-all who is always lecturing everyone on every goddamn thing. God does that bitch need to get laid. Get the fuck over yourself, whateveryournameis.