What you’re saying certainly is. He said nothing about you picking on a sick man and being oh so mean. He said he wasn’t going to change and mentioned his condition in passing as part of the reason why he won’t. He didn’t tell you to stop picking on him. In fact, he defended your right to do so.
So show a smidgeon of class and shut the fuck up, would you?
You have a good point.
What I MEANT to post was the following:
You were getting ragged on unmercifully for 10 pages and THEN admitted that you had no intention of changing the way you post, THEN dropped into the conversation that, “oh, by the way, I’m dying”, and ya know picking on a sick man is so, so mean.
I saw it as his way of getting out of being pitted. I really should have previewed but oh well. My statement - and ya know picking on a sick man is so, so mean - was meant to refer to whoever had started this thread, which seems to be you.
Thank you for acting as expected. I could give ten farts in a bag if nobody on this board gave a shit about me BUT, if a shitload of people told me that my posting style was REALLY, REALLY pissing them off, I’d do my best to change my posting style rather than say that I’m gonna keep posting however I want to.
Hell, if I make it another five years then I’m SERIOUSLY beating the odds and I’m only 44 years old. If I wanted to, I could also post a list of all the shitty things wrong with my body but why bother? There are very few people on this board who have ever met me and I know for a fact that at least one can’t stand me.
Meh…life go’s on until I croak then it’s over with. Until that happens, if I see someone being idiotic and doing their damndest to bend the rules to fit, I will, as he points out is my right, bitch at them for doing so.
Nope. Sorry you misinterpreted the qualifyer, duffer. I put that in specifically because I did not want the phrase “people like you” to be interpreted as an anti-religious comment; it was meant to reference “people who get all righteously indignant that there would be insults on the internet!!! in the Pit!!!” No jab at Christians intended.
Damnit! I even previewed that and didn’t see that you did NOT start this thread. My apologies. No sleep for 60 hours or so will do that to me.
Also, if you all see what I said as being petty, vicious and devoid of compassion then more power to you. I don’t believe that I’m being petty when I post that he seems to, once again, manage to get a pit thread about HIM closed. Yes I know that the original thread was about a mod closing a thread but that part was over before the first page.
I wasn’t being vicious at all! I never said that I was glad that he’s ill and now that he has been so kind :rolleyes: to let us know some of the things wrong with him, I’ll drop it as all it seems to do is give you guys a ginormous wedgy.
As for compassion, why should I have any for anyone that I’ve never even met before? I reserve my compassion for those I know, love, and/or respect and Lib doesn’t fir in any of those categories.
I already said that I did my best to change my so-called posting style. Repeatedly. But that each time was an apparent failure. What are you doing, just looking for things to bitch about? Why don’t you just leave me alone?
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I already said that I did my best to change my so-called posting style. Repeatedly. But that each time was an apparent failure. What are you doing, just looking for things to bitch about?
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Again, you’re right, you did say that and I apologize for overlooking it. I’m not looking for things to bitch about at all. In your case, one doesn’t have to look very far.
Show me where I came looking for you. Anywhere. Go ahead and try. Can’t find any instances? Surprise, surprise. You know why? I’ll tell you why, because I’m not trying to go after you, I was responding to ME being pitted. Oh yeah, and lumped in with RedFury, which I think is just wrong on so many levels that I don’t know where to begin.
I’m a pretty reasonable guy and I really don’t care about you one way or the other, which I’m sure is how you feel about me, but again, when I see someone talking out of their ass and posting long drawn out bullshit replies to a post that requires, at best a couple of sentences, my bullshit detector starts clanging.
Maybe you need to take another hiatus or something.
Sorry for the fucked up coding there.
Xploder, you’re upset with Liberal for posting a long drawn out and confusing reply when a few words would’ve sufficed? Betcha get mad at water for being wet too. 
:smack:
Good point. Like I said, I’ve been awake for around 60 hours. Like that’s a real good excuse… :rolleyes:
[sub]short enough for ya?[/sub]
No
ok
I’m, surprisingly, with Spiritus on this one. Lib’s illness is his own concern, and he clearly doesn’t want my sympathy, and I’ll respect that wish. I don’t believe it has bearing on his behavior on these boards, and so it’d be better, when offering him criticism, to ignore it.
Daniel
It’s frankly too hard to keep straight: who are the people who think I’m too pithy, and who are they who think I’m too verbose? Would you kindly form lines to the left and right?
Here’s where we have to disagree. It *was * his own concern before he decided to throw it into a thread (especially one where he was being pitted). After that, you would have to be very naive to think that this ‘in passing’ declaration would have no effect on the discussion.
Whatever else he might be, **Lib ** is certainly not naive. Like everything else he posts, his off the cuff tidings of woe was constructed to provoke a reaction.
Like Guin, I figured it was more of the sort of philosophical double talk that I have come to expect; upon hearing that his condition is quite literal, I have nothing but sympathy. However, that doesn’t make him any more right for injecting it into the discussion. Given that specific nature of the thread in question, it does come across as a pathetic deflection (though, ultimately effective).
At the risk of hijack: no, it has not. However, a lot of people find the preponderance of evidence pointing that way.
It’s something that I don’t feel is appropriate to discuss in that context; when I say it’s his own concern, that’s a tactful way of saying that, in the context of that discussion, it’s not something with which I’ll concern myself (that sounds really harsh, but other than saying it’s his own concern, I can’t think of a different phrasing; I mean no harshness by it). In the context of a different discussion, I would.
Daniel
Why?
Is the doc’s opinion that you’ll die no matter what is done, or is it an effort to jolt you into getting readily treatable conditions taken care of?
Effective? What effect? Can you point to people who were vicious before but are now contrite? RedFury? Xploder? Uvula? Yourself? Maybe if I had thought it would make a difference, I would have screamed it from the rooftops, rather than remark about it offhand to Wring. I mentioned it to someone whom I thought might give a shit, who was genuinely inquiring about why I had resolved to stop caring about what you people think. I told him. The usual suspects grabbed it, blew it up into mountainous proportions that I don’t believe it deserves, and are even pitting me for it. The only possible benefit to me is that your continued sniping appears even more third-gradish than before. The undecideds can see you for what you are.
I knew it before the doctor did. I don’t know how or why, but I just did. Same same with my brother. He told us well before his own diagnosis. It’s just not that big of a deal. This eye-blink of a lifetime is nothing. Biological life is trivial. It isn’t even real. The universe is an illusion. Why anyone who has read anything by me should be surprised at my reaction to the doctor’s concern is a mystery.
Thank you. Exactly what I was trying to say.
Lib, if what you say is true, then I’m sorry. I do truly feel bad for you.
BUT…surely you realize that tossing such a remark into that thread HAD to be a bad idea. It looks as if you realized that you were getting your ass handed to you and decided to try for the ultimate-“poor me, pity me, don’t pick on me, blah blah blah”. Now, I’m not saying that was your intent, or that I’m accusing you of doing that. I’m saying that it LOOKS that way, and had that very effect.
Other than that, I don’t know what to tell you. You don’t like being Pitted, and feel you’re ganged up upon, yet you refuse to change the behavior that causes this. Your choice-but don’t act surprised when it happens, and please don’t start the “everyone hates me” shit.
Good luck to you.