I was looking through all of my old stuff on the Dope tonight, and I came to the conclusion that for the first five months of my existence here I was a total tool.
What in the world was I thinking? And why would I say such things?
I can say with refreshing honesty that I was an uneducated and totally ignorant jerk back then, and I wish I could take it all back and hide my head in total and utter shame.
I’m glad to have been here as long as I have, and I’ve interacted with some truly wonderful people. I’m just sorry that things got off to such a rough start. And that they’re documented for posterity.
sigh
So I’d like to wipe the slate clean with anyone whom I have made angry in the past. Chalk it up to lunacy and some crazy suicidal instinct that made me do everything I could to get banned. Luckily, I didn’t, and some incredible things have happened since then, as you all know.
So to everyone who reads this, you all have a nice day, week, year, etc., and thanks for being so good to me.
I’ve actually thought about starting a thread just like this but I was always afraid that it might prompt people to look up some of the completely idiotic things I said in my first few months here. Kudos on having the balls to bring it up. And I too would like to apologize if I ever pissed any of you off and wish you all a good health and prosperity
As Osiris put it, everyone posts something or starts a thread they later wish they hadn’t. That’s life.
But Dave, thanks for your honesty. You’re a better person for it, and you ackowledge your growth. That’s more than a lot of people do in a whole lifetime.
So, good for you. And you have a great day, week, month, etc. yourself.
By the way, everything I’ve read that you’ve posted (which would be apres Robin) gives absolutely no indication of jerkness, jerkocity, or jerkularity. I guess she’s a good influence on you, man.
You registered in February 2001, so that would be February through June or July of last year.
I remember being glad to meet you at Jonathan Chance’s last June. Whatever you posted that you’re embarrassed about in retrospect, either I missed it, or it wasn’t really all that bad, or the good that you were already adding to this place more than made up for it.
Whichever way, I was glad you were here then, and I’m glad you’ve stayed.
Bwa hahahaha… that’s some good damn stuff there Punha. Hehe… wtg AD.
Anyway, I wouldn’t worry about it Dave, I think most of us wish we could take back about half the crap we posted. Even tho’ other’s never really had a problem with it to begin with.
I don’t remember what you wrote to me in those first six months (if anything at all), so I don’t know whether I was offended and should take apology, and I’m too lazy to go look. So in the interest of friendship and fun, I’ll toss out a joke instead:
When I first saw this topic title and the originator, my immediate response was, “Ah, you realize that voting Republican is a bad thing!”
In the Dale Carnegie Course, the student is encouraged to keep a “Fool Things I Have Done,” or FTD diary. If you do something especially regrettable, you put it in your FTD book and put it on the shelf. It serves to take it out of the category of “Things I’m Beating Myself Up Over.” Several months later, if you go back and read your old FTD’s, you may wonder why you were so upset over such a thing.
Yep. I’m outta here on Monday at 7 am. And yes, I will be flying. I’m just not a pilot. I’m enlisted, and the Air Force doesn’t allow enlisted pilots anymore. I’ll be gone for 13 weeks, then I get to come back and train for another 6 months up here. Then I get to go to Survival School. So I gots me a long year ahead of me.
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OK, let me take a deep breath and say it so even the people in the cheap seats can understand…
I AM NOT HOMOPHOBIC.
However, while I can have homosexual friends, I cannot BY LAW be homosexual and maintain my status in the Air Force.
Thus these little snippy “Gaydar” comments made by TAC a while back literally had the potential to end my career, and I have worked too hard for that to have some anonymous person ruin it by making an uninformed and unenlightened comment.
However, as far as you are concerned, I do have an observation to make. You just registered this month. All posts from December 7th on were deleted. So either you produce a statement made by me prior to then showing my homophobia, or say goodbye,TAC.
And yes, I AM calling out a sockpuppet in this case. Because I have now been pursued to Fathom over this, and am getting attacked once again. It’s time to end this little game right now.
I haven’t read all your posts but I don’t remember anything that obnoxious.