# Reverend Mykeru's Ban Countdown Clock **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [February 24, 2003, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reverend-mykerus-ban-countdown-clock/157261 "2003-02-24T22:24:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2003, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reverend-mykerus-ban-countdown-clock/157261/121 "2003-02-26T14:50:02Z")
So - anyone read any good books lately? ---
**Author:** ![Gary\_Kumquat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/4491bb/32.png) [@Gary\_Kumquat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gary_Kumquat)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2003, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reverend-mykerus-ban-countdown-clock/157261/122 "2003-02-26T15:02:51Z")
Yep. Altered Carbon by Richard Morgan - body swapping, overpowered weaponry, drugs and an artificially intelligent hotel who identifies with Jimi Hendrix. I recommend it to anyone who likes dark sci-fi. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2003, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reverend-mykerus-ban-countdown-clock/157261/123 "2003-02-26T15:06:16Z")
I just finished _Funnymen_ by Ted Heller (Joseph’s son) – the story of a comedy duo (Dean Martin-Jerry Lewis sort of thing) told in the form of interviews with friends and acquaintances. Surprisingly good. ---
**Author:** ![robertliguori](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/46a35a/32.png) [@robertliguori](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robertliguori)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2003, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reverend-mykerus-ban-countdown-clock/157261/124 "2003-02-26T15:12:37Z")
I must recommend the Night’s Dawn trilogy by Peter F. Hamilton to people who like schlock sci-fi. The story has been done before, the science is thinner than the intergalactic void, but damn can that man come up with ideas. In fact, most of the book is him coming up with incredibly cool ideas and letting them fight it out. ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2003, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reverend-mykerus-ban-countdown-clock/157261/125 "2003-02-26T15:13:12Z")
I finally got Neil Peart’s _Ghost Rider_ for my birthday. Had to be special-ordered, even. Thanks mom! I plan on reading it during my upcoming flight to LA. ---
**Author:** ![vanilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f19dbf/32.png) [@vanilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vanilla)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2003, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reverend-mykerus-ban-countdown-clock/157261/126 "2003-02-26T15:14:21Z")
Wasn’t he in that band(I forget the name)? ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2003, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reverend-mykerus-ban-countdown-clock/157261/127 "2003-02-26T15:15:03Z")
I re-read Greg Egan’s _Permutation City_ recently; quite apart from it being an interesting story, it is a wonderful study on the nature of sentience. ---
**Author:** ![vanilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f19dbf/32.png) [@vanilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vanilla)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2003, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reverend-mykerus-ban-countdown-clock/157261/128 "2003-02-26T15:15:26Z")
Rush. ---
**Author:** ![Gary\_Kumquat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/4491bb/32.png) [@Gary\_Kumquat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gary_Kumquat)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2003, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reverend-mykerus-ban-countdown-clock/157261/129 "2003-02-26T15:16:22Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by robertliguori \* > \*\*I must recommend the Night’s Dawn trilogy by Peter F. Hamilton to people who like schlock sci-fi. The story has been done before, the science is thinner than the intergalactic void, but damn can that man come up with ideas. In fact, most of the book is him coming up with incredibly cool ideas and letting them fight it out. \*\* It’s a nice bit of old school, EE Doc Smith style space opera, isn’t it. Suitably cheesy happy ending too. Try Fallen Dragon - it’s lots of fun too. ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2003, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reverend-mykerus-ban-countdown-clock/157261/130 "2003-02-26T15:16:34Z")
Yup, the drummer. ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2003, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reverend-mykerus-ban-countdown-clock/157261/131 "2003-02-26T15:20:57Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Reverend Mykeru \* > \*\*Munch > > Please explain to me the logical distinction between “forums” and “message boards” then got to the Internet Infidels and straighten them out because they refer to their whole thing as the [Internet Infidels Discussion Forum](http://www.iidb.org/vbb/index.php) or the [JREF Forum](http://www.randi.org/vbulletin/) and any other number of forums. This seems to be some sort of “I need to get off the Straight Dope” things. Just because the SDMB refers to the entire thing as a “message board” and refers to subtopics as “forums” doesn’t mean that everyone does, or even that it is common to do so. Just because that’s the way you do it here doesn’t mean that’s how they do it out there on the big bus. \*\* Relevance? I understand that things are different out there in the big bad world. Your wisdom and knowledge of worldly ways are both awe-inspiring and humbling. However, I still keep wondering how they do it in Rome… > [@](#): > > Right, and all Munch was doing was 1. Correcting me on some silly forum/message board distinction \*\*2. Erroneously claimed I only posted in the BBQ Pit and \*\*3. Lauded my qualities as a troll. I did absolutely no such thing. Your constant misrepresentation of facts around here completely undermines your excellent writing and ability to be taken seriously. Your continual refusal to agree on common jargon on this message board compromises the message you intend to communicate, and locks the discussion in a battle of semantics, as the crux of any cogent argument at hand slowly sinks to the bottom with the rest of the whale shit. Blow. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2003, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reverend-mykerus-ban-countdown-clock/157261/132 "2003-02-26T15:23:37Z")
Hey **Munch** – stop hijacking our hijack! We be taking this thread to Cuba! [Yarr!](http://www.weebl.jolt.co.uk/yarr.htm) I recommend Neil Gaiman’s _American Gods_, especially if you liked his _Sandman_ work. ---
**Author:** ![nogginhead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5e9695/32.png) [@nogginhead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nogginhead)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2003, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reverend-mykerus-ban-countdown-clock/157261/133 "2003-02-26T15:41:20Z")
I’m in the middle of a really readable story of Hannibal-- not the cannibal, the Cathaginian-- by Ernle Bradford. ---
**Author:** ![vanilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f19dbf/32.png) [@vanilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vanilla)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2003, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reverend-mykerus-ban-countdown-clock/157261/134 "2003-02-26T15:42:47Z")
you guys are all “members”.😛 ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2003, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reverend-mykerus-ban-countdown-clock/157261/135 "2003-02-26T15:50:32Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by vanilla \* > \*\*you guys are all “members”.😛 \*\* No, I actually \*\*do \*\* have something in my pocket this time. ---
**Author:** ![wring](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/838e76/32.png) [@wring](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wring)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2003, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reverend-mykerus-ban-countdown-clock/157261/136 "2003-02-26T15:53:43Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Mangetout \* > \*\*No, I actually \*\*do \*\* have something in my pocket this time. \*\* is it a _tool_?? D & R ---
**Author:** ![elf6c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c57346/32.png) [@elf6c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elf6c)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2003, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reverend-mykerus-ban-countdown-clock/157261/137 "2003-02-26T16:12:20Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Mangetout \* > \*\*No, I actually \*\*do \*\* have something in my pocket this time. \*\* Sadly, its probably just a wallet. Neal Stephenson - _Cryptonomicon_ ---
**Author:** ![kabbes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e99b99/32.png) [@kabbes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kabbes)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2003, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reverend-mykerus-ban-countdown-clock/157261/138 "2003-02-26T16:29:16Z")
Oooh - _Cryptonomicon_ is truly excellent. One of the best reads you can get, IMO. ---
**Author:** ![Hamlet](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hamlet/32/2818_2.png) [@Hamlet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hamlet)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2003, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reverend-mykerus-ban-countdown-clock/157261/139 "2003-02-26T16:32:59Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by elf6c \* > \*\*Neal Stephenson - _Cryptonomicon_ \*\* Seconded!! Fantastic Book. I’d also recommend his other books, especially The Diamond Age. I loved it even better than Cryptonomicon. ---
**Author:** ![Reverend\_Mykeru](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bc79bd/32.png) [@Reverend\_Mykeru](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reverend_Mykeru)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2003, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reverend-mykerus-ban-countdown-clock/157261/140 "2003-02-26T16:59:27Z")
**Jeff Olsen** My goodness but you love revisionist history. Are you trolling? Are you serious? Are you red and green all over at the same time? If one checks the [“Reverend Mykeru, you are such a fucking tool”](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=163185) thread, and why wouldn’t anyone, being that it is pretty much the best bang for your entertainment buck on the SDMB, you will note… No, actually, come to think of it, you will not note. You will just restate the wrong stuff, like [Ernst Zündel](http://www.nizkor.org/hweb/people/z/zundel-ernst/) crank calling Simon Wiesenthal at 3 am. But no matter. What happened is that someone accused me of being a sock puppet. I responded that if I was some SDMB regular that was creating a sock, why did I post to this forum and that forum under this nick and even register a domain and have a website under it going back a number of years. You responded that you doubted I actually owned that site because. I had no email address in my profile on this forum. I replied that you could send an email via my site. If I didn’t own that site I wouldn’t be able to reply. You grinned and shucked and still doubted I owned the site. So I put the [Public Notice](http://www.mykeru.com/pages/public_notice.htm) on the site as a way of saying “Hey, dipshit, if I don’t own the site explain this”. Then you backpedal, claim you were pulling my chain, until you bring it up the next time. You realize that we have covered this ground three times already? You can put any sort of spin on it you like, but that’s the long and short of it. Yet, you are not trolling. Nope. **whatami** > [@](#): > > Oh…wait a min. You were talking annually. Yeah. A year. Although it is still sort of high. Problem is the DSL provider has a virtual monopoly. There is also a provider offering cable modem service, but based on their cable TV service I would fear that it would be like running a Commodore 64 with a 2400 baud modem. **Tee** > [@](#): > > Politely? Nah. He has no reason to. The Tool thread looks progressively more stupid the more you look through it, I’m sorry my name is in there. Yeah, but it still can be useful for forum education, used as one of those old Driver’s Ed films like “Blood on the Highway”. **coosa** > [@](#): > > For those who didn’t understand my objection to RM’s insulting (well, attempting to be ) website: Insulting? Well, I don’t know. Michael Jackson hasn’t complained. No nasty letters from NASA, the National Zoo or Jesus Christ. But that’s based on the theory previously floated in this thread by Jeff that silence gives consent. > [@](#): > > Perhaps this is just my personal opinion of what constitutes mature and ethical behavior, Maybe it is just me, but it seems that anyone talking about "mature and ethical behavior’ on the SDMB is going to go over like Shere Hite lecturing the Catholic Archdiocese on sex techniques without, of course, mentioning altarboys. > [@](#): > > but if you have a problem with a particular poster on any message board you should either address the situation there, or ignore it. Which I have both addressed problems and ignored posters. I have also commented on a number of things, including the SDMB on my website. Why? Because I can. > [@](#): > > Bringing the problem up publicly elsewhere is simply a way of saying “I couldn’t deal with this person face-to-face (or keyboard-to-keyboard, as it were), so I’m going to bolster my ego by insulting him in a venue that prevents him from making a rebuttal that makes me look like an even bigger idiot.” Speaking of looking like an idiot, but if printing something on my website precludes rebuttal, than how is it that you, in the very same post, are rebutting something on my web site. Besides, there seems to be a double standard here: Apparently posters can comment on my web site, post comments about it here, and even, in the case of UncleBeer, dig up an old post on yet another forum and comment on that, yet I can’t return the favor and comment on my web site? If people’s comments are somehow secret or proprietary, then perhaps a _public forum_ isn’t the best way to keep a low profile. > [@](#): > > While RM may think it makes him look cool, I suspect that most of the visitors are thinking “What an inadequate, immature, insecure ass.” What, did you take a poll? Are you tapped into the collective consciousness? Or do you, out of inadequacy, immaturity and insecurity, perhaps, always attribute whatever fleeting thoughts go through your head to the great silent majority? > [@](#): > > I could perhaps see some justification for that approach if RM had been banned and could no longer post here, Actually, my only justification is that if people care to comment about my website (even to the point of denying my ownership because they are trolling without trolling), then I get to comment about them on my website. Your mileage may vary, obviously. > [@](#): > > although I would still have the same opinion of his action. I’m struggling with various applicable cliches here - “making a mountain out of molehill” and “blowing things up out of all proportion” come to mind most readily. Sort of like a whole post about the ethical ramifications and all sorts of strained conclusions following because I made a couple comments about a couple issues on my site. Hey, kids, if people don’t want to be commented on, don’t want a link made to sheer entertainment like["Reverend Mykeru, you are such a fucking tool"](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=163185) then perhaps the creation of a thread like that and postings to the like isn’t necessarily the best idea. > [@](#): > > _shrug_ Doesn’t really matter to me what other people think of the Reverend - that’s his problem, and his decision. I just thought I’d let him know what sort of impression he was making. Doesn’t really matter to me either. My friends like me, my mother loves me, my wife more than puts up with me, my gerbil seems to like me, but that’s only because I give her peanuts and I have generally have had favorable comments on my website. Considering the assholish way I was immediately attacked and pitted inthe SDMB you will excuse me if I’m not exactly dropping salty tears into my coffee at this moment because some people don’t love me. **jjimm** > [@](#): > > ## quote: > > ## Oh, by the way. My site is not a blog. A blog would be something done through [Blogger.com](http://Blogger.com) or the like. It’s pure vanilla HTML. > > No, old boy, it’s a blog. Doesn’t matter how you constructed it, it’s still a ‘Web Log’. You don’t seem to object to it being called a blog elsewhere. Nope. Sorry. Although a web log is often defined as > [@](#): > > A frequent, chronological publication of personal thoughts and Web links. > [@](#): > > The original weblogs were link-driven sites. Each was a mixture in unique proportions of links, commentary, and personal thoughts and essays. Weblogs could only be created by people who already knew how to make a website. A weblog editor had either taught herself to code HTML for fun, or, after working all day creating commercial websites, spent several off-work hours every day surfing the web and posting to her site. These were web enthusiasts. > > Many current weblogs follow this original style. Their editors present links both to little-known corners of the web and to current news articles they feel are worthy of note. Such links are nearly always accompanied by the editor’s commentary. An editor with some expertise in a field might demonstrate the accuracy or inaccuracy of a highlighted article or certain facts therein; provide additional facts he feels are pertinent to the issue at hand; or simply add an opinion or differing viewpoint from the one in the piece he has linked. Typically this commentary is characterized by an irreverent, sometimes sarcastic tone. More skillful editors manage to convey all of these things in the sentence or two with which they introduce the link (making them, as Halcyon pointed out to me, pioneers in the art and craft of microcontent). Indeed, the format of the typical weblog, providing only a very short space in which to write an entry, encourages pithiness on the part of the writer; longer commentary is often given its own space as a separate essay. > > These weblogs provide a valuable filtering function for their readers. The web has been, in effect, pre-surfed for them. Out of the myriad web pages slung through cyberspace, weblog editors pick out the most mind-boggling, the most stupid, the most compelling. [Weblogs: A History and Perspective.](http://www.rebeccablood.net/essays/weblog_history.html) Blogs tend to be shorter, link driven items, sort of an eposidic online diary. My site lacks the quality of being an online journal. It it mostly a collection of essays. Obviously due to the definitions determining what is and isn’t a blog is like determining what is art, or pornography, for that matter, but if you expand the definition of a blog to include my site, which lacks the online journal quality, then everything is a blog. Then “blog” just becomes a generic term for “webpage”. Items are chronological on my site. Yeah, but they don’t need to be. You could shift them around. The dating simply serves the purpose of indicating when a new item is up. > [@](#): > > ## quote: > > ## And I thought the “political situation” was the usual English behavior right out of a Brian Friel play: Land, subjugate the natives, change the Gaelic place names to a more or less accurate anglicized equivalent and shoot them if they complain. Potato blight is just icing. > > You’re largely right about the practicalities, but out by a few centuries, and neglecting the matter of the largely victorious Irish War of Independence. Yeah well, as someone of Scottish descent I still haven’t gotten over the Battle of Culloden Moor. I dwell on the past. > [@](#): > > By the way, “not a happy bunny” is a British colloquialism meaning you’re an angry sort of chap, not a depressed one. You fucking British almost speak English, but then you use the wrong word here and there. It’s confusing. > [@](#): > > ## But since quote: > > ## my sister went to school in England, which she still describes as “a Third World country in disguise”. > > you might not care what I meant. No, but maybe she just had her shoes pissed on outside the King’s Cross tube station. > [@](#): > > ## quote: > > ## Yes, but if you read what I wrote I think I did explain that I wasn’t taking it for depression. Happiness or the lack thereof has nothing to do for what I take it for, which is situationally specific panic attacks, which is a physiological condition unrelated to depression. > > I’m guessing the panic attacks didn’t make you happy. Trotting out knee-jerk insults might instead be your panacaea. Actually, they don’t make me happy, nor do they make me unhappy, they just are in much the same way that having an ulcer doesn’t make someone happy or unhappy, especially if it is an intermittent condition. The only reason I bothered to comment about it is that I have e-mail correspondence with people that “suffer” from this condition, which is far more common than you think. The essay is an easy way for people to get up to speed. Some people are very thrown by this. I’m not. It’s just a brief physiological response, sort of like suddenly having 20 cups of coffee. It never interferes with anything and I have an unusual Zen-like control over it anyway. Nope. Knee jerk insults are not a panacea. I’m not all that fond of unpleasantness, but by now, here on the SDMB, I have been on the receiving end of enough crap to make me bristle. As far as the site goes, well, it’s a fucking web site amd because of the nature of the web some topics are more fun, or entertaining, to go into than others. I’ll give you an example: Yesterday I went to the gym. I discovered that one of my gym socks was missing from my locker. I checked the floor, lost and found, but no sock. So I wore an old mis-matched sock I happened to have in the locker. But I had a pretty good work out. I had a discussion with an older guy who was thinking he’s too old for this and told him that the gym, like Woody Allen said about life, is 90% just showing up. We also talked about whether we wanted to live long enough to get into the drooling adult diapers stage. I increased the plates on all the Cybex machines. Now, when I go to write about something, should I write about what a good work out I had, or some rant about the alternate universe where socks go? I mean, who gives a fuck about my time in the gym? Lost socks is something everyone can relate to. What’s more, rather than boring blather about reps to failure, or 2 count up and four count down, I can work in my theory that when you die you can get back all the little things you ever lost: The socks, the Bic pens, the spare change in the couch. > [@](#): > > Anyway, as sugaree said, there has already been way too much time and attention dedicated to you. You write skilfully, and you drop literary references as well as the next undergrad, but style alone doesn’t create substance. You also appear to be “sick of self-love”. I’m quite sick of it too. As opposed to what? Self loathing? Although you think there has been too much time and attention dedicated to me, oddly enough, people posting tend to be paying time and attention to themselves, not me. Just an observation. **kabbes** > [@](#): > > Mykaru (hey, if you can replace an “e” with an “a” in my name, I can do so correspondingly), Doesn’t make a difference in katakana, knock yourself out. > [@](#): > > has it not crossed your mind that you started out a few days ago with lots of people in your corner - myself included\* - and you’ve haemorrhaged them ever since. When you even piss off someone as pleasant and urbane as Hamlet, No. Didn’t occur to me. I did notice that Hamlet’s first reply to me in the other thread started with an unnecessary cheap shot. > [@](#): > > you know that you’re in trouble. Even Diane, the staunchest defender of the idea that you have been harshly treated - has recognised just how unpleasant and obnoxious you have been in recent threads. That must be why she wrote: > [@](#): > > Diane: > Kabbes - I agree with you totally. He lashed out unfairly at you. However, it was after a couple of days worth of being put on the defensive by people hell bend on making him appear to be a sock or troll. They kept stirring the shit pot. > > I am not saying that his attitude is excusable, I am just saying that he isn’t alone in the blame for things getting to this point. It is JMHO that he was antagonized to this point and now some posters have their panties in a twist that he got angry. Must be nice to have a worldview based on reading the stuff you like and ignoring the rest. > [@](#): > > You know, when everybody tells you you’re wrong, it is possible that every single one of them is incorrect. But the chance is greater that - intentional or not - you’re writing is simply horrible to read. I don’t think that you’ve even considered that possibility for a second. When commenting on my writing and how horrible it is, it might be a good idea to recognize the distinction between the possessive “your” and the contraction “you’re”. Just a thought. > [@](#): > > As I said, I don’t hate you. Why should I? You are as dust to me and I have nothing invested. But I do pity you as I pity anyone whose own malevolence builds walls between themselves and others. It must be bloody lonely in there. Do you often spend time commenting on dust? **Gary Kumquat** > [@](#): > > Other than suggesting that your sister is a similar asshole to yourself, what does this have to do with anything? How dare you speak about my sister like that. You don’t know her. You have no right to call her an asshole. Especially since she is actually a bitch. Consider yourself corrected. **Hamlet** > [@](#): > > Mykeru, thanks for the response. A response completely lacking in substance, without one shred of critical thinking about my points, and once again, a complete revision of history. Zzzz…_snort_ Oh, where were we? > [@](#): > > But substance isn’t your strong suit, you just prefer these little flame wars. Rather than continue to fulfill your wish to be martyred, I think I’ll bow out at this point, and devote some time to something that has abilities far beyond yours. > [@](#): > > Like that lobotomized squirrel monkey with the drooling problem down the street. Who told you about him? That bastard was probably bragging about beating me at checkers again. Hamlet. please save this post of yours. It’s not really pertinent, but I bet you can recycle it more than one, just change the name it’s addressed to. Unless, of course, that’s what you have already done. 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