As you know, Sampiro, we’ll do anything we can to help. Just let us know.
There’s a lot of ugly out there, and it’s truly a shame that (apparently) quite a few cowardly, mean-spirited Dopers are taking part in it.
Sampiro, if you’re still reading these boards, may I suggest that you never, EVER go to that site again? Delete it from your favourites/bookmarks/what-have-you’s.
Also, see if your ISP has tools letting you set up a white list of e-mail addresses you’re willing to get mail from and have the rest bounced into oblivion. Take a few deep breathes and remember that there are a lot of people on these boards who have come to care about you and your family. Don’t leave us.
Meantime, do we have any Dopers at all who are in the Montgomery, AL area, who might be willing to look after Sampiro’s home (water his plants, take in his mail, that sort of thing) while he’s out of town? Can anyone think of anything else concrete that we can do to help him out?
Skip, thanks from all of us for that.
Sampiro, man hang in there. My dad went suddenly and I always felt that was a blessing to us more than to him. Others have said it before me, and better than I could, but you’re family and when family hurts, I hurt.
I read the flaming earlier today and just said :eek:
I see your name on a thread and I read. You’re a fabulous, complex, talented guy.
Fuck. Everything I wanna say seems so inadaquate…
And, lou thanks for starting something here that I suspect more than one of us wishes we would have had the fortitude to start.
Keeping a good thought for you, Funny Man.
Sampiro, hang in there. Take pride in knowing that you’re a really great son and that your mother is very lucky to have you.
Sampiro, you’ve made me laugh and gasp in horror simultaneously (which is hell on the larynx, I’ll have you know) with your stories of your family. You’re one of the small cadre of Dopers whose posts are always worth reading. Having lost my father (sudden death) and now watching my mother on the slow slide to oblivion, I can understand something of the horrific burden you’re facing now – a burden that should never have been befouled by subhuman morons whose core is mere malice.
Let the heartfelt good will here buoy you, let it obliterate the natterings of the small-minded.
When I think of your stories, yes, I laugh at the humor you weave from the grotesqueries, but the story that’s stayed with me, that touches me still, is of the two little ghost children, twirling together in the sun. May your mother’s spirit find her own sunlight to twirl in forever.
I apologize for the outburst earlier (“Brokeback Mountain Breakdown” as it were, or “Springer Melt-Down Bitchrant [SMDB]”) to those who had to witness it and weren’t involved. I’ve cooled down considerably. (This does not go for the people it was addressed to, just for those who weren’t involved and had to witness the worst of all abominations in Southern culture, the public scene.)
Thank you to everybody who emailed me, posted here, etc., I seriously appreciate it, and to the Admins for my continued posting privileges. I apologize to anybody I haven’t responded to personally by e-mail but I’ll get there.
I’m going to take a hiatus from the boards for a while for obvious reasons (stressed? just a tad).
PS- CarnalK- I have cooled down a LOT but I would still like to speak with you in a private format where there can be no allegation of posturing or the like. Suffice it to say that it’s not to apologize, but neither is it to give a “shame shame shame” lecture. I tried sending you an e-mail but couldn’t get your address. Mine is under my username. If you’re half the man this faggot is, e-mail me.
(I can hear her now bitching about how much she overpaid for the sunscreen.)
Sampiro, I feel for you more than you know…six years ago last week I lost both my parents on the same day, seven hours apart.
The only advice I have to offer is to take care of your mother and be with her every minute you can…in the grand scheme of things, right now, everything else is unimportant.
Oh, and a special public apology to Diogenes for entertaining even for a second that he even might be the same as the one on the other board. I honestly never really thought he was as if he were a Death Eater he’d be a Malfoy and not a Crabbe or Goyle (and he wouldn’t wear a mask), but in a moment of limited lucidity totally unfounded suspicions were a bit more indulged than they might usually be. (As I mentioned in an e-mail, the gods definitely knew what they were doing when I wasn’t born to an imperial family; ultimately the population of the empire would be a lot smaller due to me though that would be offset by the statues of myself I’d build.)
But see, assuming you had a wise grand vizier to steer you in the right direction, the empire might well thrive with judicious pruning. Culling the losers and all that. 
Sampiro, hang in there. Take care of yourself, keep your strength up and don’t give the inhabitants of that other site another thought. (For now at least.) I’ll be thinking of you and your famiily and sending good thoughts.
Popping out of lurkerdom to add my best wishes and sympathy, Sampiro. So sorry you had that you’ve had to contend with this on top of evrything else you’ve got going on - glad you’re going to stay. Glad too to see that we have such understanding Mods.
Take care,
Promethea
Sampiro, glad you’re still with us.
The sunset is the same colors as the sunrise. (Sorry, I am worse than a Hallmark card, I know)
Hey Sampiro! Glad to see your still posting!
You’re in my thoughts.
Sampiro - not even going to go look in that other thread, this tells me everything I want to know about the trainwreck.
But I want to let you know that I, too, will be thinking of you. I hope you continue to write about your mother during this time and in the time to come - you are fortunate to have that gift and when she is gone, your words about her will remain for you to remember her by and share her spirit with others - selfishly, I hope that is us.
All the best.
Hang on, Sampiro, and know that there are many of us whose respect you’ve amply earned. We’ll be here, when it feels right to come back.
Glad you’re back, Sampiro, and no apology was necessary. I know only too well how paranoid and suspicious that other place can make you get. Kudos to the mods for giving you a break.
Was a bit concerned yesterday afternoon and was hoping we’d come back today to find the situation improved. Now, I’d say “improved” is an understatement.
Hang tough, guy, and your mom’s in our thoughts.
I was really close to starting a pit thread about this yesterday, but since the comments in question weren’t made here, I didn’t think it was appropriate. Seemed like it might be picking fights with another board and such. That being said; Sampiro, you’re one of my favorite posters to read and I’m really glad that you’re not gone forever. This place would never be the same without you.
And if you ever need someone to stand with you against some simpering cowards that like to take cheap shots at a guy when he’s in one of life’s darkest hours, I’ve got your back.