Damn you, you Spaniard, you! Hot coffee expelled from the nostrils HURTS!
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Great. The more the merrier.
Fair warning: BYOV
Thus the wisdom of my office beverage policy: Only Scotch on the rocks allowed.
Sidenote to sensei Spiritus:
Thank you much for breaking my Pit cherry. Never knew being pitted could be so much fun.
Sort of explains why your bestest pal was addicted to them.
With my undying affection,
~The Turd.
hey, I have misspellings/typos all the time, generally due to:
- I don’t spell worth a damn.
- my hands can get arthritic
- Vision issues (which, due to some recent surgery, have mostly improved)
- various issues w/computers (had a cranky laptop, one 'puter has cranky keyboard etc.).
My general stance wrt to misspellings (other than Tori), and typos is to ignore them.
unless they make a funny.
like they did here.
remember, we’re pals. right?
Right???
Well…maybe you should talk to Cranky about that hmmmm?
I just* knew* there had to be some good in you.
I forgot to ask…
WHERE THE HELL IS MY MUSTARD!!!
That is all.
Well thanks and yep, right about now I’ve got three fingers of good in me: J&B to be precise and, hopefully to preempt the obvious followups.
Not that there’s anything wrong with that. I mean the followups. Erm…or the finger/s thingie either.
Know what? Fuck it. This is hopeless. I’m a deadman.
:::toasts Justerini & Brooks:::
mustard season= fall -
soon.
In the Library with the Lead Pipe.
Hey! Who are you calling Princhester? And why?
You. Because it was my fuckin’ dream to begin with, wiseguy!
apologies, Priceguy
But … but … I was looking for MEAN MISTER Mustard.
My apologies. I had not intended to PIT and run. I shall try to catch up.
Xploder
You are welcome.
This is utterly irrelevant. I did not PIT you because we might disagree on whether liberal had a terminal illness.
No, the point is that the action you chose to take in the face of uncertainty was juvenile, mean-spirited, and repulsive.
Your interpretation of who “won” that argument is also irrelevant. I did not PIT you because we might disagree on whether liberal had his ass handed to him.
Hmmmm, what was that phrase again? Oh yeah, ”lame bullshit that has nothing to do with the point of the op.”. I did not PIT you because we might disagree upon whether liberal received unsolicited, supportive emails.
Once again,”lame bullshit that has nothing to do with the point of the op.”. I did not PIT you because we might disagree upon whether liberal was attempting to get the thread closed. Frankly, I was surprised to see that anyone objected to the closing of that thread.
Since you appear to have a difficulty reading with comprehension, perhaps a bulleted list will help:
[ul][li]A human being posted a statement that he might not live more than a year or two longer.[/li][li]Neither you nor I know whether that prognosis is correct.[/li][li]You chose to express your skepticism through cruelty and profanity.[/li][li]I opened this thread to make one simple point.[/li][li]You should be ashamed of your behavior[/ul][/li]
You might notice some things missing from that list. Things like:
[ul][li]who was “winning” the other thread[/li][li]whether liberal hijacks threads.[/li][li]whether liberal has in fact been diagnosed with a specific fatal disease[/li][li]how you, I, or anyone else feels about liberal as a poster[/li][li]whether liberal was trying to get the previous thread closed.[/ul][/li]This is because none of those issues have any relevance to the OP. And, since you have posted at some length about your abhorrence for anyone who would dare to lead a thread away from the OP, I can only wonder at whether your proclivity for doing so indicates hypocrisy, stupidity, or a pathological inability to confront fault in your own behavior.
Once again, your inability to read with comprehension borders upon the amazing. Here are some hints:
[ul][li]I issued the charge of “petty”[/li][li]I specifically quoted the exchange to which I objected.[/li][li]That exchange preceded the thread being closed[/li][li]Therefore, the pettiness in question does not refer to either the thread closing or your reaction to same.[/ul][/li]There’s a rather subtly concept in rational thought that requires a cause to actually happen before the effect. I understand that asking for rational thought from you is probably too much of a stretch, but maybe we can get a few of the simple things down first. Cause, then effect. Cause, then effect. Cause, then effect.
And, since you deficiencies in comprehension are apparently pervasive, here is another study guide: it is petty to allow a trivial dispute over posting style on an Internet message board to inspire cruelty on a matter of personal well-being. A man told you he expected to die soon. You don’t like the words that man has chosen to type. You lack sufficient ethical or emotional maturity to overcome the second in reacting to the first. That is petty.
I suppose we should add self-awareness to the list of your inadequacies. Your posts on this matter have been neither reasonable nor apathetic with regard to liberal.
RedFury
You are welcome, too.
Self-serving? That’s an interesting charge. Exactly what service do you imagine that this PIT thread provides to me? Or shall we just chalk this up to the first (of many) empty rhetorical devices you will use to deflect attention from, ya know, the subject of the OP.
Better still, grab a bucket of salt and some hip-waders.
No, I pointed out that your post was either a charge that liberal was a troll, in which case it should have been made privately to the mods or an attempt to draw a parallel that was intellectually dishonest. The sentence structure in question is called ”conditional”. Here’s a clue for you (since you seem woefully short of your own): when the first word of a sentence if ”If” and a little later on you see the word ”then” it often indicates that the words after the ”then” indicate something that is only as true as the thing indicated after the ”If”.
The really amazing thing, though, is that you go on to post my actual quote. ” If you think that liberal’s posts are trollish, then report them privately to the mods as is appropriate. If you do not, then the parallel you draw is intentionally dishonest.” Either a careless reading or a fundamental lack of grammatical education might account for misunderstanding the words initially. It takes a true dedication to ignorance to seek out the words, highlight them, and then post a factually incorrect “response” and imagine that you are being clever.
Apparently your stunted sense of ethics and empathy are only the beginning of your shameful qualities.
Right – unfortunately what RedFurys really don’t take well to is reading with comprehension. I do note, though, that you were offended by the conclusions to which your ignorance led you. It is a rather common condition among the ignorant. I also note that you somehow imagine that whatever ire you felt toward me somehow provides ”context” for your statements to liberal. You really should look up that word. Better yet, find someone who can understand the written word and ask them to explain the dictionary entry to you.
Finally, I note that you seem determined to milk an emotional appeal out of the “genius – turd” descriptions. I suppose it is an understandable tactic, since you seem to lack the ability to formulate a compelling argument on the facts. So, I will simply note here that I was not the one to call you a turd and that this is simply another example of your inability to process information accurately and make an appropriate response.
You then go on to post all manner of drivel about the other thread, none of which has any relevance to the OP, but all of which you apparently imagine provides a ”context” to justify your juvenile cruelty. Since I did not PIT you for any part exchange between the two of us, I wonder why you choose to defend your behavior by focusing upon that aspect of the other thread. Do we have another shameful quality to add to your list? Here’s a clue. Be careful, it’s another one of those “conditional” things, and I know you have a hard time comprehending such complex sentences. If I clearly state in the OP that you should be ashamed of a post directed at liberal, then the “context” for that exchange should focus upon your exchanges with liberal.
Unless, of course, you imagine that I was dishonest in posting the OP and that I really wanted to PIT you because of some deep personal animosity between us. In which case I say, with complete sincerity, you would have one of the most pathetically misguided senses of personal import that I have come across in some time. (Watch out, it’s another opportunity for your poor reading skills to lead you astray.)
Awww. You almost made it. You almost actually managed to address something relevant to the OP. Instead, you simply found another occasion to attack liberal. Rather pathetic, really. In character, but pathetic. (hmmmm, I may have committed a redundancy.)
liberal
Spiritus Mundi
A man not blinded by his own preconceptions might be able to look at those two names and discover a startling truth: They indicate two DIFFERENT posters. Wow. If only RedFury were capable of such insightful detection. Then again, why intrude upon a fantasy world in which my starting a PIT thread about RedFury gets transformed into an attention-seeking action by liberal :rolleyes:
Yes. Now if only you could understand those words as well as you cut & paste them.
sigh Perhaps repetition will do the trick.
liberal
Spiritus Mundi
A man not blinded by his own preconceptions might be able to look at those two names and discover a startling truth: They indicate two DIFFERENT posters. Wow. If only RedFury were capable of such insightful detection.
Don’t worry. I won’t even try to explain the concept of “irony” to you. Let’s see if you can’t make progress on understanding the obvious meanings first.
No. Specifically the charge has to do with your response to a statement that another human being felt a sense of impending mortality. Despite the myriad irrelevant and emotionally charged smokescreens you feel compelled to use to disguise that fact.
Thanks for another fine example.
[ul][li]Emotionally charged[/li][li] poignant[/li][li]calculated to inspire both sympathy for yourself and derision for liberal[/li][li]utterly irrelevant to the OP[/ul][/li]Or perhaps I am being too hasty. Are you trying to argue that you have been exposed to so much suffering in your personal life that it grants you license to act cruelly to strangers on a message board? If so, then the quote above is irrelevant. Pathetic. Unconvincing. But relevant.
Ah – so this is the crux of your defense. Because you were skeptical you chose to metaphorically ::: puke::: on the poster in question. As I said:
[ul][li]petty[/li][li]vicious[/li][li]utterly devoid of compassion[/ul][/li]I suspect that you knew that all along, though, since you added the postscript
So how shall we interpret this:
[ul][li]You are one of those atheists folks love to demonize who finds all behavior acceptable since you believe in no Hell awaits to punish you? [/li][li]This is just your acknowledgment that you personally lack the ethical maturity to curb your behavior without a threat of eternal punishment?[/li][li]Or is it just an example of a cheap attack upon Lib’s faith since you were already there to take a cheap shot at his mortality.[/ul][/li]
Were you not paying attention in the last thread? (Wait – you have already demonstrated that fact in abundant detail.) Here’s a hint: I was the one arguing that it is possible to simply ignore posts that are irrelevant to a topic of interest.
You have been here for over four years, and you have managed to conclude that liberal and I are “best pals”? Your powers for inaccurate observation are truly amazing. You might consider doing consulting for the Bush administration the next time they need to discover evidence for WMD’s someplace.
Wait . . . can it be that your ethics are so highly developed that you cannot imagine a circumstance in which one person might defend or compliment another unless they were close friends? Can your personal morality really be so blighted and immature?
Oh . . . right. Never mind.
liberal (if you are still reading)
Since I do not share your faith, I wish for you a long stretch of years to still dance among the atoms.
Right . . . because the point of my OP was that there should be no insults in the PIT. :eek:
Have you been taken reading lessons from RedFury?
Your own point, I recall, was that being petty, vicious, and utterly devoid of compassion is not a fault worthy of shame. Is this a general statement of your ethics? Or do you have special rules for the Internet?
So Spiritus, no comment on the Mods suspending Liberal for the same thing RedFury&Xploder were meanies about?
Giraffe notes it on page2. Only ask because I have no idea how many “catch up posts” you plan on doing.
No. I have no knowledge of why liberal was suspended. Since I have been away from the board for a while I do not even know whether “suspended” is now the word for “banned” or if they are 2 different things. Giraffe’s post does find liberal’s announcement “troubling”. And he calls it “highly inappropriate” to use “real-life misfortune” as “ammunition against one’s opponents in an unrelated Pit thread.” It is not at all obvious to me, though, that Giraffe’s post was an announcement that liberal was being banned (or suspended, if that is the current usage). I do know that in the past some posters have voluntarily requested that there posting privileges be suspended/revoked and that the administration has complied with such requests. Again, I have no idea if such options are still available or if they apply to this case.
I do disagree with Giraffe’s interpretation that liberal was using his statement as ammunition in the PIT thread, but matters of interpretation are, of course, subjective.
Oops – sorry for the coding error. I should know better than to rely on the “quick reply” button.