Someone mind PMing me with the reason for the twisted knickers? i don’t keep up with board drama but i’d hate to miss some good ol timey internet indignation!
::Staggers in, clothes and shotgun barrel still smoking::
<Best Scottish Willie Voice>
“Ya Stooooopid wattwaffles! Icnorant Gunts! There’s a war goin on ooot thare! Won’t ya halp us?”
“Oooh! Tea und crumpets! How nice!”
::Peeks out door-automatic weapons fire splinters the door jam::
“I’ll kiiIIIlll ya”
::Staggers out; slamming door::
::More shots (muffled by Chamber Music inside)::
Carry on
Back in the dark ages when I first started posting I felt that it was my duty to jump on every comment that I considered ignorant and beat the opinion holder into submission, and to bounce every obnoxious newbie around until they got it together and stopped being a jerk. I could whip out scathing one-liners with the best of them and couldn’t care less how much I was insulted back. Now I’m old, mellow, nothing gets me all that excited and I can ignore damn near anything. I can’t be bothered arguing about everything with maximum passion anymore. There will always be someone else that’s more articulate and funny to jump on people and I can just sit back and have a snarky laugh. I can’t justify being any ruder online than I would be in real life anymore.
Little late for tea, IMHO(shameless plug), so I brought scotch eggs and Arrogant Bastard ale.
Drinking tea in a lawn chair is a little declasse, but it’s not inappropriate or proscribed. So if a davenport is not available, lawn chair away!
Forgot to add: my knickers aren’t twisted, but I sprained my boxers.
It’s okay, really.
At least now there’s “another side” to the story. Before, I didn’t know who felt how about what, and now I do - kinda.
What I “see” from reading this thread, is that I shouldn’t worry: The Dope will always be here, and what I also see is “If they wanna leave, let 'em!”
Is that pretty much the “picture”?
But (if I am correct in what I read), why should anyone have to leave?
There is dissent, yes. And it has to do with rules, I understand that.
But what is trickling out of the “New Pit Rules” thread, is leaking over into every other part of the Dope, and it is causing some very good people to re-think why they’re here.
And y’all don’t think that needs fixing?
Because what I get from reading this thread is a “Let 'em eat cake” mentality, and that surprises me a bit, coming from people who are there for their SDMB friends who are hurting, and may need a hand.
Okay, I have my “knickers in a twist”, but it’s just because I give a damn, and I found some folks who care about me.
And I don’t want to lose a single one of them if this can be worked out.
I brought some Girl Scout cookies. Thin Mint, or Samoa? Pass the plate around so everyone gets one first before you take seconds, dearie. (and if you THINK you are getting one of my Do-Si-Do’s, you have another think coming).
The sprog and I went out for dinner, and I brought some pecan pralines.
Robin
Quasimodem, speaking just for myself, with no intention at all to interpret other people’s motivations for appearing in this thread, I just posted here mainly because I’m oblivious to the uproar elsewhere on SDMB. I’m not taking any sides in whatever it is. I’m not invested in it. I avoid the Pit because I don’t see the point of the bitching, moaning, gnashing of teeth, cussing others out and all of that. I spent more time there today playing around with the Ignore List extravaganza, which has been a total scream, than I have since I joined up in 2003.
If things mellow out some more, I may sneak in for other threads where the tone is less blood-pressure-raising.
But I’m into fun and games and crazy stuff and an occasional semi-serious topic as long as people treat the issue with some mutual respect.
Otherwise, I’m just over here watching the tea party and whittling on a Bowie knife.
Absolutely no offense taken, Zeldar, and if I am out of line or overreacting, I’m sure I’ll find out about it.
I’m just trying to hold on to the friends I have met here and willing to do whatever it takes to support my “family”.
I just got home from a very long day at work, and I’m too damn tired to read through all the drama. I’d rather hang with youse guys.
I’m guessing the tea is all gone - anyone have anything stronger?
Hey, MsRobyn, pass the pralines!
Did I hear a mouse in the cupboard go squeak squeak squeak? Let the cats have the mice and eat them too. Quotes by Alice In The Looking Glass that should have been made.
What did the first of the three blind mice say to guests at their party? Nice to bump into you.
I think you’re a little like me, Quasimodem, in that you’d like everybody to get along - but it just isn’t possible. You can’t make it happen and it wouldn’t be a good thing if you could and did. People have the right to object to the rules and they don’t have to wait and see how things play out even if you and I think that’s the more rational option, by far. Nobody has to leave, but they can choose to.
How can it? If the rules don’t work they could be reviewed, but if a poster decides the board’s no fun anymore - whether it’s because you can’t tell someone else to fuck off, can’t call a mod a cunt, or generally the way things are done - how would you change his mind?
Some jam please. Resolved: pigs have wings, and cabbages taste better than monarchs do.
Well, I like to see people get along. I see enough of people being totally psycho and horrible every day.
On the other hand, the closet sadist in me is gonna so miss watching people tear each other a new one in the Pit.
Does that make me bad??
No. But the rules don’t say people have to be nice, and I suspect they won’t be.
Heh, heh. 
You’re pushing the envelope with that one. That remark has just been outlawed in the Pit [bolding mine]:
Carry on with the tea party, apologies for the interruption.
Seeing as how we’re in MPSIMS, no envelope is being pushed.
[And you’re probably kidding, but it’s hard to tell who is and who isn’t at this point.]
Thank you for giving me the benefit of the doubt, Marley23.