Seconded.
Liberal, I retract my sympathies and offer you my happiness that you are at peace with this. And shutting up about it…now.
Thank you, Featherlou. Peace is a wonderful thing to have.
And Guin, just a reminder, as Priceguy already mentioned, I said in that same post that I don’t mind if you pit me. You paid. It is your privilege.
So you’re not that upset when people attack the Capitalist System, after all?
Hijacking a thread complaining about a comment about hijacking a hijack.
Truly fucking impressive.
While I’m sure drama queens get sick, too, I can’t see the logic in taking one’s claims at face value.
-Joe
The emotion is trivial. Upset or pleased, it is right to defend capitalism. God, after all, is a capitalist.
Ah, what is God but an illusion.
But judging by the cruel, dog eat dog world He created, you are probably right
I like your way of thinking. Next time our house becomes a mess, I’ll blame the contractor.
…and awaaaaaay we go.
So you’ll stop blaming big government? They’ll be relieved.
Your Neanderthal comprehension of my political philosophy notwithstanding, I do not oppose big government. You’re like the kid who stumbles upon his mommy’s Tampons and thinks her earwax must be awful.
Liberal, I am truly sorry you are in a poor state of health. However, the context and manner in which you brought it up was highly inappropriate. Real-life misfortune should not be used as ammunition against one’s opponents in an unrelated Pit thread. The fact that you felt it necessary to announce your health in this way is troubling, to say the least.
Mine mine, my first pitting in over four years here – at least that I am aware of – and it comes from someone whom I hear is one of the ‘greatest minds in the SDMB.’ My only regret is having to share it with Xploder.
Talk about climbing the highest and steepest mountain, whatever could a lowly and worthless serf such as myself do by way of response to such brilliant and poignant accusations? No doubt I am overmatched and this is a winless endeavor, but no matter, I think I’ll tell a little tale in hopes of putting things in proper context. Ya know, the context that’s lacking in all of the self-serving bullshit that begat this pitting.
Warning: rather long, best grab a drink and a comfy chair.
Although I had never had the pleasure of exchanging posts with the éminence grise who so inspires Lib, we evidently hit it off right from the start as the evidence shows. When Spiritus came into the referenced thread, I happen to read the following post-modernist pearl of wisdom and being the turd* that I am, I couldn’t help but reply to the great man himself:
Imagine that! Me having the audacity of pointing out the fucking obvious! Naturally, said post didn’t sit well with Mr Egghead, and he came back with a post of his own, calling me “dishonest”:
Well, as some of you might imagine, even turds don’t take well to being called dishonest. In fact, I can’t imagine anything more honest that a turd. At any rate, I again responded to Greatness, albeit with just a tad more vile built into my poo:
There, thought I, go the chances of building a great friendship with nobility. OTOH, I comforted myself with the fact that the odds of nobibity befriending shit, where about as good as turds and Peptobismol getting married.
Anyway, that was pretty much the extent of my interaction with The Great One – although he did fire one more edict my way, I chose to ignore it. Had enough of the Bulbous One Part Deux.
Which leads us right back to The Original One, Liberal himself, a poster I can certainly prior knowledge of. Not that said fact should surprise anyone, for it’s rather hard to miss his encyclopedic number of self-promoting droppings. You might get the feeling from the former sentence that I don’t much like the guy, and you’d be right of course. But by the same token, there are many others here that I won’t be breaking bread with anytime soon. Thing is, for as much as Lib is convinced that there’s some secret cabal that’s out to “get him” (whatever the fuck that means) I’m hardly interested in what he has to say. Yeah sure, running into him in as many threads as I do, I often throw a disparaging remark or two his way – AFAIK, this behavior is normally rescinded to The Pit.
And here we are, in this, the latest episode of his never-ending drive for attention. Christ, the fucker makes Bette Midler look like an amateur Drama Queen. Gets pitted more than an olive and yet it’s always someone else’s fault. Along the way, we hear endless promises of ‘change, regret, getting off Jesus’message,’and endless other drivel. Wash, lather, rinse, repeat. Which was exactly the extent of my participation in that thread up to the message that landed me here. Call me Captain Obvious.
With me so far? Good, there’s more.
I am being pitted for being “petty, vicious, and utterly devoid of compassion,” ironically, the very characteristics that I find define many of Lib’s posts when anyone ‘dare’point out to him that he’s behaving like an asshole. See the referenced thread for example. Pot, motherfuckin’kettle.
Specifically, the charge has to do with Lib’s startling confession. Namely that he is a gone…which we’ve since come to learn means that a man my age, has a myriad of physical problems.
:::faints:::
Hell, with my family legacy of cancer and heart disease and my cholesterol count being what it is (despite medication), I’m rather fortunate to be up this morning.
So called “bullshit!” and “irrelevant” on his gambit. Guess what? I still do. Far be it for me to wish anyone here ill, but by the same token, I don’t much get attached to bytes on a screen. I only need look at my cancer-riddled mother to get a dose of hard-core suffering in living color – and if that is not enough, living as I do, in a Third World country, a quick ride through the streets, filled with some of the most gruesome images of pain and injustice you can ever imagine, more than fills my quota for suffering.
Doesn’t mean I wish Lib any harm, never said so either. Quite the contrary, may he live an extended lifetime (or two in his case), but again, both the circumstances of his announcement and his well-known propensity to climb on the cross every time he is taken to task, more than justifies, in my view, the reponse given.
Given all the above, you’re respectfully invited to eat my shorts. You’ll be happy to know that I feel a turd coming.
Cheers,
~Red
1-Pious Lib, had this to say about him and myself:
So you are a well read 50 year old guy who’s looking death in the eye and that’s the zinger you come back with. You suppose you are getting your special garden with that attitude? You should try switching to your down cycle.
Hey dickless. When did I become one of “the usual suspects”? And since when is a pitting that mentions ME personally, a pitting about YOU? Does EVERYTHING have to be about poor, misunderstood Liberal? Do you even try to think before posting some of this shit?
To say that you didn’t post all that drivel about your medical problems in an attempt to grab sympathy and stave off yet another pitting is absurd. You posted it, you deal with the consequences bunky.
Well, some conditions are treatable. :rolleyes:
With all the other ailments the poor guy is saddled with, I’m so very sorry to hear that he also suffers from this affliction.
But hey, I’ve got lumps on my arms, legs and torso (they’re called lipomas, and are entirely benign - I’ve even had one removed and checked out), and I have high cholesterol, and I’m getting soft in the middle, and my father died from cancer, and my hairline is receding, and I don’t exercise enough! Attend to me! Attend to me!
I want multiple threads about me!
Oh, see here you went off the tracks. These swirling particles are meaningless despite humanity’s pitiful attempt to quantify and qualify by calling them “biology”. Throw off your chains! Paradise awaits on the comet!
So if I now understand the situation, we’ve got in Liberal a middle aged crank who won’t take his heart meds? Hard to muster sympathy, not liking the guy in the first place.
[Ghostbusters]Yes your Honor, it’s true, this man has no dick.[/Ghostbusters]
I smell romance.
:eek: :eek: :eek: :eek:
Not with YOU buddy boy…you…you smell like a MODERATOR!
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