There is some sort of group pathology going on here. Good call Rev . I have only been here a short time but the scene goes like this: New guy joins MB. New guy post opinion. Mod and / or old hat disagrees. New guy gets pitted, antagonized. New guy either breaks rule and gets banned or shit cans his GD opinions and resigns himself to the cafe to talk about lesbians.
There are some worth while opinions here but the attitudes and egos are out of control. I can’t believe that moderators are even allowed to post the kind of shit that I have heard from some of them. It’s like the referee being allowed to make the game saving tackle.
Preach it while you can Rev . I can see the BANNED tag under your name coming from a mile.
That’s the spirit. Think Jon Voight. Think Runaway Train:
Oh, of course. If people want to police a forum so that the only people that are left are the bullies and those they abuse, who am I to question a moving symbiotic relationship like that?
If you are out there lurking, don’t take it to heart. I mean sure, the bullying is annoying, but who are they bullying? Me, that’s who. And I find that sort of thing amusing. It’s like being pecked to death by ducks.
I may be new here, but I am not stranger to forums, the net, IRC or usenet and frankly, I’ve seen better bullying, more erudite patronization and better trolling.
Because when it’s all said and done, I’m still smarter than they are, I’m better looking, my dick is bigger and my personal hygiene, while appallingly bad, is still better than someone who has so many posts under his belt that what he is sitting on is no longer even squishy.
I wrote about 5 different responses to this post, all of which boil down to this being yet another drama-queen self-cruxification. Then I realized, I don’t much give a fuck about you grendel so I deleted them.
Odd that you should mention that. I wrote quite a moving post in response to you that would have made people laugh, make them cry, make them experience the full range of human emotions from upper case “A” to lower case “a”, that would ensure that everyone would be happy, only this time no one need be nailed to a tree and finally tied together disparate branches of art, science and literature and ended up with a poetic choreographed dance revealing the Unified Field Theory as a sort of love child between Albert Einstein and Martha Graham with a bonus slow motion money shot.
But since you wouldn’t show us yours, I deleted it.
And there was much wailing and gnashing of teeth. Clothes were torn asunder and sackcloth and ashes were worn. For their loss was mighty indeed.
“Why? Why-oh-why has Mykeru hidden his mighty intellect and stunning humor from us poor, desolate souls? We, who so hang on his every word, and need his superior intellect to show us the way and the light. We curse thee, Hamlet! Damned be thy name for depriving us of the Word from on high!”
And so Hamlet’s name became accursed, and soon, not to be spoken at all.
I wanna see december, Reverend Mykeru, and maybe linertarian, in a cage match thread. I don’t care what the topic, it could be “White bread, bland or hotchacha?”. Wow, it would be a fun thread to watch. A swirling dervish.
Not snowing me, well, not any more than I choose to be snowed. He makes for an interesting read, the way Holden Caufield kept my attention. He is stirring things up, and I find it entertaining. I’m not offering friendship, money, or sex. I just think he’s grown on me, and I do see him as a decent addition to the boards.
Guys? Plea for sanity here. How about none of the principals here post to this thread for a full day? Kay? Or even better, close the thread. C’mon. Take a deep breath and step the hell back. I’ll clean up the broken bottles and cheap knives you’re throwing around, and we can try again with a fresh start.
Rev, try making a positive contribution for one day. That’s all. Just one day. I’d like to see you in Great Debates.
Yeah, I’d like to chime in on White Lightening’s “snowing you all” remark.
No dumbass, I find his antics amusing. I find your reaction to them pathetically amusing. No snowjob going on, just a few chuckles for someone giving out better than he gets from a few self-righteous wankers.
E-Sabbath, I am of the opinion that the good Rev is indeed making a positive contribution. He gets flamed in the Pit, and responds to the flames with wit and aplomb. What is negative about that?
Well, I don’t know, I happen to think that flaming is inherently negative. Possibly art, but still, negative.
Sanity? Why start now?
Why not start now? I’ve just opened the thread after watching it grow for a few days and I was rather surprised by the depth of bile inside it. I’ve seen worse, lord knows, over at Snark, but I rather like to think we’re a higher class of people here.
So you didn’t start the thread. Well, you don’t have to end it, either. Just walk away.
Smegma ? A friend of mine once told me years ago that a painful itch he had developed was due to smegma. At leat that is what I remember.
Close this thread? Are you kidding? E-Sabbath, this is the war against ignorance, like the final conflict. Newbies, mods, pissed off tenure posters, suicide martyrs, all in a bid for, um…ahh, I dunno, but it is probably something small and shiny.
Well, obviously what you like to think and what there is are two very different things: You’ve really got some prime USDA choice rectum cruising this board.
What and turn my back on them? Quite frankly what would walking away teach pitters and flamers except that flaming someone is a good way to have someone slink off? Maybe, just maybe if more people approached being flamed as I do, wherein I do my very best impersonation of Pandora’s Box, they might not do it so casually.
Because I can do this forever until they pry the mouse out of my cold dead fingers and as far as I’m concerned it just gets funnier and funnier. It’s a fringe benefit: Being flamed is generally more fun for me than for the actual people flaming me. Well, at least it ends up that way.
Especially when one is dealing with amateurs.
You want flaming? Try alt.religion.scientology circa 1995.
Reverend Mykeru (as if there could be doubt as to who this is addressed to), briefly: This isn’t a moving target here, and it’s not rocket science.
One more time: this thread (the one we’re in) was started because you hijacked mhendo’s thread. That thread is linked to in the OP, and in my last post in this thread (the one we’re in). That’s the hijack I’m talking about, the one I’ve been talking about, and the reason this thread got started. Still.
I explained in detail how you hijacked that thread in my last post in this thread (the one we’re in).
“shifting the whining and crying away from Robertson and his family to the victims of Robertson and their families” is completely disingenuous (unsurprisingly). Again. Here is the fucking OP in the thread that you hijacked: http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=163126
Not substantively about Pat Robertson at all. The thread was not about that. You hijacked it. People wanted to argue with you. That is what this thread (the one we are in) is for. You were not ‘simply asking’ anything. You were very simply stating your opinion, to wit:
Gosh, that sounds familiar. This is a hijack. This is dragging his thread onto the specific topic of whether or not Pat Robertson is an asshole again
Related to my previous raving and drooling post, please show me exactly how the following constitutes a strawman:
And don’t forget (as I’m sure you won’t) to be as dishonest as possible.
I really have to give you credit. Most people with some obsessive-compulsive disorder engage in completely pointless and repetative behavior: Hand washing, checking the stove, counting pavement stones.
I once had a dog that gave himself licking lesions. It wasn’t a pretty sight.
Yours is just as pointless and repetative, however, you have managed to sublimated your obsession into something slightly more benign:
Endless fucking posts about how I highjacked a fucking thread, despite the fact that what I posted was within the bounds of the OP.
Oh, ok, maybe you have this tendency to quote a sentence from that post as if it was the entire post, making it seem more jarring and out of place, but it beats the hell out of washing your hands red and bloody or having to back up half a block because you missed a fucking crack on the sidewalk.
You have turned what may have been a disability for some people into a minor annoyance, and I salute you.
Maybe you would feel better if you can jab a harpoon into your computer and scream “from hell’s heart I stab at thee, for hates sake I spit my last breath at thee”, but perhaps we should save that for when your obsession really gets interesting.
… Rev. Rev, rev. I was giving you advice, because frankly, I like to think the best of people.
But apparently, you don’t care about dignity. You just like to vomit forth words of random semi-coherency, violently masterbating in your own juices with great gobs of blubber-shaking glee at your conquest. Good lord, man, see yourself! Coprophagic grin and all, with your head stuff so far up your rectum that you see through the oozing wound in your navel caused when your mother, disgusted by the thought of the dog that raped her while she was in a crack-induced stupor, reached inside her own belly, tore you out, and chucked you into the alley to die.
