I’m sorry, but I can’t agree with you, Rectangle.
What exactly is the point of people coming into this thread, marshalling arguments, providing cites and expressing a convincing well-rounded case, only to have you say
Not exactly to the point or even well-expressed, is it?
Another case in point. The OP distinctly says
. Yet only a few posts later galt posts a question about testchucks. Testchucks!! Nobody has even mentioned bloody testchucks up till this point.
Can I say slowly in words of one syllable: ALWAYS PERUSE THE RELEVANT OP INITIALLY BEFORE YOU COMPOSE AN ANSWER, GALT!!
Or run the risk of being seen for the insensitive, swell-headed, word-twisting jerk that you are! Oh sure, it’s material like this, obviously placed to earn you a mention in one of those “most-sexy” threads, that you think is so clever. But not all of us are fooled. I will stop comment on this before Tuba sends this thread to the Pit!
Finally can I point out how Vroomfondle is able to make a very simple but pwerful statement on all this?
Somtimes it takes a newbie to say it.
I invite thoughts from other Dopers. Not STUPID ones though!
Redboss
I disagree
May I just say that this is a test quote?
Woohooo! I did it!!
Just climbin’ up that learning curve.
Okay kabbes, I’ve been tired of your attitude for some time now. I think I said NO STUPID REPLIES!!!
What is it that you can’t understand about that?
Is your english so deficient that the word stupid has registered as your name, rather than as an adjective meaning unintelligent???
Or is it that the steady diet of Ritalin you have been on all through your junior high years has finally addled your brain, now that you’ve graduated to the remedial classes in Big High School???
Let us analyse your answer.
Well of course. It’s all about you isn’t it? YOU YOU YOU.
God, people like you make me SICK.
You could’t find the ability to suggest that perhaps someone else could be offered prominence in your posting. Notice that fifty per cent of the words in it are about the great KABBES!!
Other people might have said “you suck” but you couldn’t even offer me that courtesy. No, it all has to be about Kabbes.
And what does kabbes have to offer? “DISAGREE”!!
Great, just what we need. When our globe is being torn apart with conflict in every corner of the map, what we get from you is so far from supportiveness, from offers of help or even from collusion, that it makes me go dizzy and nauseous just thinking about it. Disagree.
Perfect. You really are the snotty little toad I took you for, aren’t you?
I know some people will probably flame me for being so honest about you, but your constant provocation and Redboss-attacking has gone ion long enough. I am over it, and will be taking very definite action VERY SOON!! Make of that what you will.
As for the newbie, Kamandi, I would love to say “Welcome to one of the more foolish and less attractive features of a very fine set of Boards” but I can’t. Not until I have COMPLETELY DEMOLISHED YOUR DEVIOUS AND FRANKLY DANGEROUS ARGUMENT!!
Which I will do tomorrow about the same time.
Other NON-STUPID responses welcome.
Redboss
[sub] I love youse all[/sub]
Is there something you can do with test postings that you can’t do simply using the nifty ‘post preview’ function?
Well this is one thing - I need the syntax for referring to a specific post, so when I post this, it will be right there!
Just hijacking the thread to do a couple of tests
Got a question? Why not get The Straight Dope on it.
;j
:wally
Ok, all done now. bye bye.
[sub]I know you can do subscripsts,[/sub][sup]but can you do superscripts?[/sup]
Argue with THAT, Reddie!
Okay funny boy. Let’s talk
So Subscript isnt enough for you? You - the wonderful Weirddave have to be better than every single other person who posts to these boards and you have to have your own special “superscript”
How mature! I suppose you’re one of these Neo-seinfeldian dim-witted hangers-on who just can’t shut their yaps when the subject of the Caped Crusader comes up.
Ooh the Caped Crusader rescued Lois! Ooh the Caped Crusader prevented that school bus from falling into the ditch!
BIG DEAL!!
Face it - you’always only ever be Clark Kent! Jimmy Olsen gets paid better then you do, Lana Lang just broke a date with you to meet up with Lex, and Lois just laughs in your face when you hold the door open for her at work.
There’s nothing SUPER about your so-called superscript. It may come out higher on the page, and I have a feeling that coming out higher is something you know a lot about.
But basically it’s still just little teeny writing. You can call it what you like, but it’s just another line of eyestrain for over a million post-readers.
Your sort just make me sick. Always better than everybody else. I’ll get you in the long run, mate. And your little dog too…
And as for you VoiceofReason - did anyone invite you in here to post cute little faces and disrupt an intelligent conversation? I’m putting a curse on you, my boy:
From the ancient crone, a woman’s private parts will disturb you.
From the Hand that feeds, the blow that sends you to the ground.
From the sunset, the bull claims back his hide.
This curse will strike, oh about the 23rd of March - that’s a week away from today.
Now all the rest of you shut up and piss off and leave me alone!
Redboss
T’were aught of a loss
One’s paths to cross
Exposed to this dross
In the name of Redboss
pan
Hi kabbes, great to catch up. This is just a quick note 'cos I’m still at work, and I’ll write properly later. But I did want to say
GOD, PEOPLE LIKE YOU MAKE ME SICK!!!
'K, catch you later…
Redboss
Ah yes - but
SICK PEOPLE LIKE YOU MAKE ME GOD
ahem
All right you fuckin’ moron - I’ve got the chainsaw started up and -
**[entire 2,500 word text deleted at request of Redboss’ lawyer, psychiatrist, dental technician and cleaning lady]
[edited by a stunned and strangely silent group of Very Important Moderators and Administrators at 3.30 pm Friday 30 March] **
- and that’s my final word on it…
Redboss
again! again!
I find it very hard to keep up the right level of hysteria to be as rude as I feel obligated to be to the people who have wandered into this thread by chance to learn what they can without the expectation of being attacked and clawed and have despite this, fallen into the delicious experience of care-free flaming and toothless savagery, because of my willingness to make a fool of myself, albeit with the cooperation and support of others, in the hitherto unstated hope of one day having behaved so badly as to force an About This Message Board thread to be sent to the Pit, and since this is seeming unlikely, and since, as Cyd Charisse said to Fred Astaire in Bandwagon (MGM,1956), it is an effort to behave this badly, I feel I should retrench, and dwindle into the ordinary well-behaved poster I used to be.
Okay?
hijack testing
I only posted here 'cause I thought you’d be nice enough to flame me. C’mon baby, give me some sugar! What do you say?