Thank you techie.
[sub]Geesuz Kreeerist will be my new user name, if I ever decide to change it.[/sub]
Well, thank you, Ms. Wet Blanket. Nice of you to stop by just to tell off a whole thread full of people how lame and unfunny they are. Y’know, if the hamster joke bugs you so much, you could have just, I dunno, NOT READ THE FUCKING THREAD.
Jesus. Some fucking people.
I agree with Miller. Sorry techchick68 and Klaatu, but most of us here in this thread think this is a source of humour and wit. It’s like some mad Get Smart catch-phrase – do you guys have the same problem when someone’s watching that programme, enough to cry out:
We’re having a bit of humour relief here. As Miller says, if you don’t like it, don’t bother comin’ in.
No hamsters were harmed in th’ typing of this post. Promise.
I thought I was the only one that couldn’t stand that. And I agree with Techchick. Everytime I see a reference to the hamster I just grind my teeth and get past it as fast as I can.
Of course, if the longevity of the “Hi Opal” thing is any indicator, this hamster bit has legs for another three or four years.
Long live the hamster!
I also have the right to stop by and say how tired I am of hearing about it.
You people wanna talk about the “hamster” fine, I have the same wanna talk about how damned tiring it is to run across threads that pound the hamster into the ground, over and over and over and over and over and over and…you get the idea.
And I have the right to tell you what a shrill and mannerless bitch you are. And you have the right to call me a disgusting shitheel. And round and round we go. Opinions are like assholes. Just 'cause you have one doesn’t mean you have to go around showing it to everyone.
Instead, you could show a modicum of good manners, and not open up other peoples threads just to dump all over them for not meeting your highly dubious standards of humor. How’d you like it if you posted what you hoped was a clever little thread, and someone stopped by just to say how stupid and unoriginal you were? Kinda make you feel like shit, wouldn’t it? So why do you think it’s dandy for you to do that to other people?
Maybe it’s because this is the internet, and you don’t actually have to look people in the face when you ridicule stuff that they’ve put some effort into. What if SHAKES had come up to you in person and given you a short story she’d written that was on a subject you felt was equally trite and over done. Would you ball it up, throw it over your shoulder, and light into her like you did here, telling her “it’s fucking old” and to “get over it”? Would you scream at her about it, the way you were in your post? Do you really think this is an acceptable way to behave towards other people? Please tell me, because if you do, there’s a number of thoughts I’ve had about you for a while now that I’m sick of “saying behind my breath,” but have kept to myself because I don’t like being mean to strangers who haven’t ever done me any wrong. But if you don’t feel the same way, I’m more than happy to play by your rules.
Miller
By all means tell me what you think of me…please do so.
It’s no different than the “Hi Opal” thing, it’s old and tiring and fuck it would be fucking nice if people would stop grinding the gears over and over and…
Regarding the OP, I didn’t attack her personally, I yelled at all the people that think it still cute to talk about the hamster over and over and…
IT’S A SERVER PEOPLE. Yes, a computer. The hamster reference has pasted it’s prime.
If that’s an attack at the OP, then I have then also attacked a lot of other people on this board, he/she is not the only one that references the fucking hamster. Let the mob attack me then. But other people have said they are tired of the reference, not only here but in their personal journals and such. So my opinion isn’t the only one.
This hamster’s been done BBQd to a crisp.
Alright, but I’ll save that for later. Just remember that you asked for it. Couple of other things, first:
Funny, that you get so defensive over what you have the right to say, and with the next breath start dictating what other people should say. Apparently, some people still think the hamster thing is funny. Why the fuck is it any concern of yours? It’s not your bandwidth they’re using on it, it’s the Chicago Reader’s. It may be a waste of your time, but only because you decided to open this thread and act like a condescending bitch to everyone in it.
Make a note of the date, techchick, 'cause you’re actually, finally, right about something. You didn’t just attack the OP. You attacked everyone who had participated in the thread in the spirit the OP intended. You weren’t just an ass to SHAKES, you were an ass to Tars Tarkas, Daowajan, particlewill, Osiris, LeeJam, Ice Wolf, elucidator, december, lurkernomore, World Eater, hampster, Enderw24, and jjtm. I am genuinely disturbed by the worldview that thinks an adequate defence to the charge of being rude to one person is to point out that you were, in fact, rude to fourteen people.
A) You are not the final authority on what jokes have or have not passed their prime. B) New people join this board every day. To some of them, these jokes are still new. Just because you’ve been here since the dawn of time and seen this stuff over and over, not everyone else has. Not everyone is as sick of it as you are. You can be a child about this and whine and throw a tantrum because a particular thread or post has not sufficently entertained you. Or you can be an adult, not read threads that are clearly on a subject you dislike, and ignore the occasional reference to it in other threads.
Yes. Yes you have. Congratulations on being minimally aware that there are other people on this planet besides yourself.
I know I have a problem with my weight, but I hardly constitute a mob. In fact, only one other person has mentioned your remarks in this thread in a less than complimentary light, and he treated you far more civilly than you deserve. Sorry to put a crimp in your martyr complex. If the subject bothers you so much, keep it in your fucking journal, where only people who care about your opinion are going to see it.
And now it’s your turn:
techchick, you are a pompous, self-important bore. I noticed this pretty quickly when I first started posting here, and since then I can say with some certainty that I have never seen a single post of yours that displayed the slightest hint of wit, culture, interest, or grammar. As bad as your mangled syntax is, it is still a blessing in that it disguises your incredibly trite opinions. Your overblown sense of self-worth is nowhere more manifest than in this thread, where you arrive solely to shit in everyone’s breakfast like you’re handing out chocolate Easter eggs. You are a rude, prattling dullard, whose only saving grace is that you don’t appear to intentionally insult people, but only do so accidentally through your almost total lack of social graces. You are easily one of the most disagreeable people on this board, and I shudder everytime I see your name on the forum list.
Now, I’m about to violate one of my personal rules on posting, which is that if I’m wondering wether or not to hit Submit, then I shouldn’t hit Submit. After all, you haven’t actually insulted me personally, yet I’ve been about as rude to you here as I have been to anyone else I’ve ever met. And I don’t really like the way it makes me feel. On the other hand, I am being honest about my opinions, and under your own rules of comportment, having an opinion is all the excuse you need to be cruel, dismissive, and rude to people.
Why is the concern of yours as to why I have a problem with it? I didn’t “dictate” I bitched, complained and whined with fervour. Just like you bitched, whined and complained about me in your posts. What gives you the right to complain about me complaining if I can’t bitch about the thread? Double standard?
Yeah, I guess I was rude to most all in this thread. None of which (unless I am am focusing too much on you) have come back to defend themselves. I was also rude to more than fourteen people here, there are people I am board friends with that have brought up the hamster thing elsewhere, outside the SDMB. The thing is most people know the difference between personal attack and someone complaining about a “trend” that’s gotten out of hand. Most of those people have blown my complaint off but apparently this disturbs you because I speak my mind. I’m so sawry. I also find that tatoos and belly rings and other piercings are over done. Guess I should get slapped for my views on that. Or maybe my political views. Possibly…whatever. I had an opinion, I voiced, you didn’t like it, fine. but then I read your low opinion of me (read below.)
I never said I was the final authority. Yes new people come to the boards but there is a time when old jokes should find a nice soft grave, this is one of them.
Huh? Sure. I have no explanation other than you don’t know me so therefore your comment has no weight with me…and speaking of:
What the fuck does your weight have to do with this?
Whooooooooosh. No comprende. WTF are you talking about? I was stating, hey all, disagree with me, mob on me, I am cool with it.
Thank you for stating that. Your opinion of me doesn’t make me think twice about the kind of person I am because I know who I am. You see 5% of the person I really am. You can’t possibly know who I really am by my posts here.
If I set off those kinds of thoughts and breaking one of your own rules in your being, you may want to consider what you’ve said here. If I have done that with this stupid thread, I hate to see what will really set you off.
As for your opinion of me, I care not. I’ve seen you post and you don’t set off any kind of interest for me…say what you want and if you have more, by all means, go for it.
For as little as I post these days, you’d think you know me very well based on your assumptions. I for one don’t think that’s the case…try again.
Really? What do you call this: “Would people SHUT THE FUCK UP ABOUT THE GOD-DAMNED HAMSTER ALREADY???” Is that not telling people what to do? On the other hand, I haven’t told you what to do, I just pointed out how your behavior, in this thread and in general, makes you look like a miserable, bullying bitch.
Defend themselves? Defend themselves? They don’t need to defend themselves because they haven’t done anything wrong! YOU are the one who hasn’t got the manners of a gangrenous badger.
Appealing to the Invisible Majority, eh? I don’t give a fuck what people outside the SDMB think about this. In fact, I don’t care what people on the SDMB think about the hamster. I’m talking about your behavior in this thread, which (if you missed the fifteen thousand other times I’ve pointed this out) was inexcusably rude. And, for the love of fuck, if you know what you’re doing is rude, why in the nine bloody hells do you keep doing it? Is your defense actually, “Yes, I was rude. So what?” I am boggled, truly boggled.
Yes, they do. You are not one of them. Meditate on this.
Try and get this through that enourmously thick skull of yours and into your pin-sized brain: it’s not about your opinion, it’s about where and how you decide to share it. You don’t like the hamster jokes? Fine, start your own damn pit thread and bitch about it. I’d probably have joined in, because I’m a bit sick of them myself. But you didn’t do that, did you? No, you came into a thread by and for people who, apparently, still get a kick out of it, and insulted them because they enjoy something you don’t. This is incredibly rude. Get it? I’m willing to go over it again if you’re still having comprehension problems.
Really? Surely, even you could have seen that no one else in the thread agreed with you, at least until you posted. Aside from your mammoth self-involvement, what made you think anyone here would be interested in your confrontational and insulting opinion?
Yeah, somehow I’m not surprised that you never consider how your actions make you appear to other people. I am equally unsurprised by your abbysmal reading comprehension skills. In the interest of fighting ignorance, I will butcher my joke by explaining it to your poor, benighted self: See, you started in with your “I know you’re all against me” routine, when basically it’s only me here giving you a hard time. So I made a joking reference to my own weight with the implication that you are so stupid you confused being attacked by one over-weight guy with being attacked by a whole bunch of people. Understand now, or should I try again with shorter words?
I kinda think I do. It’s pretty easy to understand what sort of person you are just by looking at what you think and how you express it. In fact, knowing you only through these boards, I suspect I have a better grasp of what sort of a person you are because I doubt you have the gumption to behave in real-life the way you do here on the boards.
And, again, an unnecessary potshot at the OP, who hasn’t done anything to you personally except disagree with you on what is and is not funny.
Yeah, I have noticed your blessed abscence from these parts, and now I’m starting to regret ever starting this, as all I’ve done is get you to post more, which is entirely the opposite of what I’d like you to do.
This is an ironic debate. Ironic since this board actively promotes one of the longest running mythical creatures on the net, our beloved Cecil. Now granted the hamsters pale in comparison to his Cecilness but it still is a cute and amusing image. And since I am a happy go lucky person I shall continue to find it a cute and amusing image and manage not to work myself into a cursing frenzy over it. I save those for real life crises.
Now granted to a few people playing Cecil as a real person puts a bee in their bonnet as well. But still, if you’ve got a bee in your bonnet then you take the bonnet off. Problem solved. Do I have to draw you a picture?
P.S. If Cecil objects to my treatment of him I will apologize.