Ugh. I hate that trend in movies too. My husband always seems to want to watch a movie while we’re eating dinner and it’s gotten to the point that I have to ask, “Is there going to be puking within the first half-hour of this movie?” Even sometimes when we think it’s going to be safe it’s not. But I’ll stop my “I hate puke” hijack now. I’ve seen a pukey smiley like the one you’re talking about and I have no objections to it.
You’re right…and I think that’s why I like the Pit. I believe in being (relatively) well-behaved in the other forums, so it’s handy to have a place like the Pit, where you can come out and say what you want, without having to resort to that kind of communication…where you KNOW you are getting your point across, but if someone calls you out on it, you can easily still say that’s not what you meant.
I imagine you know this already, but you can accomplish pretty much the same thing by either clicking the posters’ names and scrolling down to “Find all posts by…” or by using the search function to locate posts written by certain posters.
I think the dynamic that might be happening here is more about the smart people here having been ostracized and bullied in the past, and having a lot of pent-up anger about it. They lash out instead of realizing that they are doing to someone else what was done to them. Intelligent doesn’t necessarily mean more self-aware. 
Bryan, that was excellent. I never remember any of my incredibly wonderful, brilliant, insightful posts. Maybe I should start a catalogue or something. 
I am curious about the “blind hatred of the US” thing. I don’t know that I have ever seen that here on the Board. I have seen people highly critical of the USA. I have seen people highly critical of the way that our nation has recently seemed to be moving away from many of the freedoms guaranteed in our Constitution. I have not seen any “blind hatred” of the USA. Perhaps I am not reading the right threads. I would be interested in someone linking to any of this “blind hatred” if they can find it.
On preview I must consider that Plan B’s post contained a typo and he/she actually meant to type “blind hatred of the US by the POTUS.” However, I think this is a somewhat unlikely consideration. Still-- “benefit of the doubt” and that sort of thing.
Fortunately, I’ve been divorced for so long that I hardly remember that particular bush – there are other’s that remain quite vivid in my mind but something tells me that won’t make for good conversation between you, me and a thousand others. As for landscaping, no Edward Scissorhands, I’m afraid. Better at trimming/shaving the other bushes 
Domon, right you are. Just a topic I’m way too thin-skinned about. Apologies. And to Jodi as well…though I could do without the lectures because I still don’t think I am the sole culprit in this matter. Still, no way to talk to a lady. But dammit, you sure know how to push my buttons. And ironically enough, I like a woman who’s able to do that. Fuck me, six of one, half a dozen of the other.
Priceguy,
Is your name really Kreskin instead? If not, I suggest you quit trying to predict what I do and don’t understand.
Point your finger at someone, three are pointing right back atcha, pal.
Well, when someone has done something enough times, you can kinda make an educated guess that they’re going to do it again. But, of course, you can prove me wrong by changing your behaviour, which I would find very pleasant. Win all round.
Oh, and related to what I Love Me, wrote, I honestly can’t recall how many times I’ve made clear that, by and large, I LOVE the US and its culture. It’s really no accident I married two Americans and my only child is a born and bred one whom I often visit.
Hardly what one would expect from someone that “hated” a nation. Though I must say going through customs now a days, harks back to what I had in mind going into the iron curtain.
Of course, surgical gloves when they fondle your balls are a great improvement.
You got gloves? Posh!
And whatever you do, don’t let the guard with a hook for a hand anywhere near you.
If you’d be kind enough to point me towards a sect/indoctrination center that specializes in behavior modification, I won’t even consider it. Just the same as I wouldn’t suggest you do likewise – I take what I like/enjoy from you, ignore the rest. We are what we are.
As long as the target is a conclusion, you can jump amazing distances.
Ha! I actually had an eye on a 5’8" brunette that could have made Playboy easy as cake. Fat chance (literally), got a three hundred pound bear. But If I’m going to be totally honest, a very professional and gentle one at that. He even forewarned me: “Sir, I going to have to feel your scrotum.” Kind of threw me he even knew the word.
Hell, what’s next? A lap-dance? Do wonders for the sagging US tourist industry.
I am irked by opportunism — Poster_A taking a cheap shot at Poster_B because Poster_B is such an easy target. It’s made all the worse when Poster_A’s cleaver wit is acknowledged by attention-deprived Poster_C. And then it hits the pinnacle of shittiness when Poster_B responds to Poster_C with an aw-shucks, toe-tapping thanks. (Not a typo on the “cleaver”.)
A very nice poster pulled my coat about this very issue. He very nicely told me that when I do it, it makes it hard to follow my posts. Then he showed me how to quote properly! (I really didn’t know.)
He did it all without making me feel stupid in front of all the other posters on the board. Posters like him are what I like about this board.
But this thread is about what we hate about this board, so I will add that I hate when I am all absorbed in a debate in Great Debates, and then all of a sudden it goes way over my head. I will be happily reading along about something that seems I can keep up with from a philosophical standpoint and then…BOOM! The thread is knee deep in math and science. But then again…that is something I love about this board too.
Don’t change a hair on your head . You still have to look in the mirror.
You might have noticed I am quite fond of Spanish sayings/proverbs. Grew up listening to them and to this day find them insightful as hell:
Razonar para reñir, es cosa de reír. (Reasoning to argue, 'tis to laugh)
So how’s about we disagree and leave it at that?
I wish the Dope had more collective self-control: when a poster attempts to derail an interesting thread, either to 1) express an unrelated obsession (i.e. Bush Sux), 2) chastise other posters en masse for perceived bad manners or 3) to gain desperately needed attention (#3 is often behind #s 1 and 2) - it’d be nice to see the discussion roll on without acknowledging them.
For instance: on another board recently there was an energetic and occasionally vituperative (mild by Pit standards) debate that went for several hundred posts. In the midst of this pranced some woman who had not contributed an iota to the discussion, but now posted to wag her finger at everyone for being so mean and nasty, and how she devoutly hoped that none of us lived near her. She was roundly and completely ignored, which must have irked her no end.
It was beautiful. 
Lib, you’re losing it, my man. I mean everyone knows that you have to use “X” “Y” and “Z” for these kinds of formulaic demonstrations.
Why, shame on you, ex-Master of the indecipherable! You’re becoming dangerously lucid!
Damn straight! Even if there’s hardly a hair to be found on mine.
I hate it when a pile on starts while I’m offline and by the time I get to read and post it would look like I was only piling on when it was safe to do so.
So, I just sit and watch for others to come in and pile on after others have made the water safe. Which seems to be rather pathetic. Unless you really have been offline all day and just now saw it.