Icy!!!
Hey, Baby-Girl!
God, I love you and my other (I forgot what I’m supposed to call y’all: some kinda bear - I think?) New Zealanders!
Take it from me, Hunnybunny, this AD sucks, big time. I have friends in Australia as well wehom I cannot remember to write!
I am SO SORRY!
I miss you so bad.
Thanks so much for wrtitnng, Honey!
Love you!
Don’t forget about me, okay?
Bill
Rock On Quasi!
For the lot of you that finds his posts so odious, put him on your Ignore List and go back to kicking puppies.
Thanks, dude-as Neil Young would say, “keep on rockin’ in the free world.” 
But I will admit, I AM ready to start kicking puppies-or at least my dog-(she’s five), if she doesn’t stop barking at every single leaf that blows by!
(No, I wouldn’t really. Although sometimes I feel like it.)
The MMP is a new thread started every Monday in MPSIMS where everyone talks about whatever is going on in their lives, what they’re thinking, throw around hugs, and share recipes. The current MMP is this one. They generally have pretty long titles, but the acronym will always be in there somewhere.
Firstly, let me note again that you haven’t done anything ‘wrong’ per se, more just that you’ve started a significant number of threads recently that seem to indicate a particular dependence on the board and socializing with its people.
03-16-2009 Quasi In The Quack
03-11-2009 Do Y’all Know
02-24-2009 Y’all PLEASE Find A Way To Make This Work!
02-11-2009 I’m Tired Y’all
02-11-2009 Just Sayin’ Thanks
02-10-2009 Self-Pit: My Emotionality And Whiny Ass
02-09-2009 Hey, I Need To Ask Something
Over the last ~month you’ve created a new thread about you and your life and worries and dependency on the people of the board approximately once every five days. Now I don’t want you to have to forgo a personal connection with the people of the board, but at the same time, Alzheimers isn’t exactly a 2 month death sentence. A new thread about your state of mind every five days for the next decade or two is going to be rather excessive.
Overall you’d have a stronger relationship with the people of the board and would be posting fewer Live Journal sort of posts if you were to start posting regularly to the MMP.
Sage Rat, I’m genuinely disappointed in hearing these thoughts.
This pitting does not reflect well on you as it comes off as you going “Why can’t he act the way I THINK he should act, because it seems like a better idea for everyone or at least to me therefore it MUST be a good idea”. That may not be your intentions at all, but if you were to read this from an outsider’s point of view- that’s what’s coming across.
Quasi has a system that works for him. It may not be the BEST system or the most optimal one, but the community around him (including myself- Love ya Quasi!) enjoys his contributions and his methods. Why should he change? If it bothers you, perhaps you should take steps to rectify it on your end, but to simply suggest that HE needs to be the one to change, especially even if it may not be an easy task for him to do is quite… unflattering of you. I know you have stated you have no qualms with the man, but then why bring this up in the first place?
What’s your agenda then- Do you just like telling people how to better their lives according to you?
I say just live and let live. If he wants to try the MMP that’s fine, but I enjoy getting to see a new topic every few days by Quasi, as there always tends to be comments each time by the others, and sometimes I just like reading Quasi’s main points and skipping the other comments. By him creating his own page each time, it allows me to easily access his main ideas without trying to cut through the fluff. So I think his current method is actually quite helpful to others, but obviously you disagree. But I do think you might want to rethink exactly what your goals are out of this pitting- why do you want him to change? Is it really that much of a problem that you need to worry about it? Let Ed and the other Admins deal with those sorts of problems in the future.
Take Care, SR, as I believe you are better than this one thread. This one was a fluke (i hope).
~R
‘Indicating a particular dependence on the board and socializing with its people.’ If this isn’t wrong ‘per se’, what’s your problem with it? I have, I am ashamed to admit, socialized with people on this board, and I am certainly, to a some degree, dependent on the board. Why not leave Quasi alone and pit me instead?
If it’s just a fluke, it’s certainly one he is persisting with.
Me, forget about you? Not a chance, dear friend (and if you’re tryin’ to recall the term “dropbears”, that’s the Aussies.)
Just take care and keep on bein’ you, okay? I do get busy and go all quiet – but I make every attempt to keep an eye on you from over here, mate. Keep on doin’ what you do so well – being you.
For what it’s worth, this thread is absolutely heartbreaking. I’ve never really noticed Quasi before, but just from what I’ve seen in this thread he’s a far better man than I am. I won’t be reading any of his threads, only because I’ve been watching my grandmother go from an Olympic caliber athlete who spoke eight languages fluently to a woman who can no longer remember any words at all and who needs caregivers to wipe her when she uses the bathroom. Alzheimers is just about the worst fate I could imagine for myself, and, to be honest, it scares the hell out of me as just about nothing else I’ve ever encountered. Being around my own grandmother now terrifies me.
But Quasi, even in this thread you’ve shown remarkable poise, dignity and nobility of spirit. Start as many threads as you feel you need to, you’ve got my unused MPSIMS OP’s too.
Strength and courage to you.
P.S. Sage Rat, just apologize already.
The horror, the horror…
Sage Rat – I get it that you don’t think your OP was a big deal.
As you may be able to tell by now, we almost unanimously think you’re wrong. You may want to consider acknowledging that; you’re in a hole. Stop digging.
**Quasi **-- while I admit I don’t read your threads, a thread every few days doesn’t exactly clutter MPSIMS up more than it’s cluttered already (often with far less important stuff.)
As a “mumper”, I’d love to see you post to the MMP as well as starting your own threads!
And… Hang in there. I am sure everybody else here will join me in hoping – possibly beyond hope 
– that a breakthrough in research into Alzheimer’s may occur in time to help you.
Sage Rat-
I’m going to be blunt:
The reason most people have no problem with what you seem to think Quasi is doing is because we know that, so sadly, his posting time here is limited. There very well will be a point at which Quasi will no longer be able to post. Do you really begrudge him this time with the people he cares about and those who care for him?
I’m so sorry, Quasi, if my words are painful- I tried to avoid saying it bluntly until now, but Sage Rat seems to be missing a fundamental point here. This isn’t someone just having a series of bad days who wants to vent.
Quas, I don’t read all of your threads. I pick the ones that catch my eye. In other words just like I do with everyone else. You are doing nothing wrong. If someone doesn’t like your threads all they have to do is skip on to something they’ll like more. Just like with every other poster. Just keep doing what you are doing.
Wow, until I read this thread I had no idea who Quasimodem even was. After browsing through this shitstorm and reading a bunch of Quasimodem’s past postings I have to say to the OP a hearty, “What the fuck, man?!”
I like to drunkenly bitch about the idea that the internet, which once seemed like a dynamic tool to bring people together, seems to isolate people and prevent any sort of valid emotional or intellectual contact. Quasimodem seems to be a living, breathing denial of that concept; several valid connections have been made and a chain of emotional support, love and friendship has developed among a group that hasn’t ever ‘met’ in the conventional sense.
How on earth could anyone consider this a bad thing?
I lack any authority to say so, but for what it’s worth, you’re welcome anywhere I post, mi amigo.
Sage Rat, I am making bad decisions and the times when I can make good ones are getting fewer and further between. I do beg your pardon. I’ll trey to do better. Wouyld you have any objection to asking that this thread be closed? I have no animosity towrad you, and I sense you have none tyoward me, so could we please just shake hands or hug or something?
Thanks
Bill
How the fuck can any human being say something like this? This is truly reprehensible.
There was a bad decision made here, but it certainly wasn’t yours. Please keep on keeping on, as they say. You’re an inspiration to us all (more or less).
There’s nothing you need to do better because you aren’t doing anything wrong. It’s true you’ve started some threads with similar subjects (and lots of people do). You could try bumping one thread instead of starting new ones, but I don’t think anybody else cares either way.
Sage Rat, if you feel that strongly about this non-issue, it would have been much, much smarter to explain it to Quasimodem in a private message. That would’ve been way more friendly and tactful. Pittings, even when stated politely, read like invitations to attack another poster.
Or, in some cases, the Pitting’s OP. Caveat pittor…
My closest friends and family are in Germany and here. “I’m not going anywhere”.
I love y’all very much, and there isn’t anything I wouldn’t do for any of you. Even those of you I disagree with.
Kiwis, Icy.
Bill
Quasi: you haven’t done anything wrong, at all. At all. Please don’t let the OP get you down in the slightest.
Safe: as a certified and proud bastard myself, I’d just like to ask if you’ve realized yet that you’ve crossed the line and should be feeling two inches tall, and that now is the perfect time for an honest and heartfelt apology from you.