Huh. No wonder no one listens to me! 
Did someone say something? 
I appreciate the mod posting color. A strong visual indicator of something to perk up and pay attention to.
Banana slugs aren’t green. At least, not the ones that landed on me while I was hiking through a British Columbia rainforest. Those were yellow.
Usually yellow, but can be green or brown. Often have dark spots. I saw one recently that was remarkably camouflaged as a dog turd.
I grew up with them, they’re typically the color of an overripe banana just starting to go bad. (A yellowish-brownish color with dark brown to black spots.)
What’s really fun is when you walk outside in socks when it’s dark and step on one.
Here’s a good pic of one.
Ah. I thought I had Dark Theme, but I have Vincent.
Re: banana slugs:
All the ones I’ve seen in the flesh (as it were) have been bright yellow. That’s in the Eureka/Arcata area. A good friend of mine stepped on one when she was a kid … in her bare feet. Shudder
In the ever-popular department of “Is it a troll or just a fucking moron?”, we have new-ish poster thescrr, who joined up in 2020 to seek romantic advice, went silent for two years, and is now regaling us with his wisdom – so much wisdom in such a short time that he’s already had one thread closure and two mod notes. Actually perhaps our ever-popular department should be renamed “Is it a troll, a fucking moron, or just another 12-year-old?”.
The contributions so far:
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Russia is fully justified in invading Ukraine.
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Why is the US wasting money on military aid to Ukraine?
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Couples either should (or maybe should not) require a license to have children – it’s not clear from the rambling incoherence which one he supports.
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A completely useless post in the GD thread about extraterrestrial intelligence, which he seems to feel is somehow informative.
I note that this poster’s intro on his statistics page contains an admonition against “verbal assaults” and “character assassination plots” against his person. Sounds to me like he’s quite accustomed to getting dumped on; for some reason it apparently happens to him a lot. Just unlucky, I guess.
Maybe I’m being mean here, but the pro-Russia bullshit set me off.
Bare feet can be rinsed off. I speak from experience, it’s when it gets into your socks that it gets really nasty.
Ew. Etc for discourse.
The babies are because they’re not ripe yet.
I was looking at thescrr myself, so I dropped in here to see if anyone knew more. So glad to see I’m not the only one @wolfpup. But yeah, I’d agree they seem to be aggressive and jerkish, but not clear if it was an a sock coming back to be a jerk, or just a natural jerk blowing back in after they’d been potentially isolated somewhere else, online or IRL.
But yeah, their inability to actual argue points in good faith or assume others can argue in good faith is a big old troll signature.
Okay, so, I know HeyHomie is a long time poster, but OMFG, the last few threads have been super combative, not to mention willfully blind.
First there was how various ‘travelling people’ are by default scammers (with a half-assed ‘not all of them’ which still assumes the majority) along with offensive terminology. Then their aforementioned willful blindness in their ‘defense’ of said thread in ATMB which, was somehow, worse, and most recently they came to my attention in the recent police went to employer thread (wherein the employer ended up paying out a multi-million settlement due to said behavior) and finding it overstep.
Once? Sure, bad taste. Defending the bad taste? Okay, not so good. Ignoring the material in your own damn cite to try to stir up outrage or something?
I just don’t get it, and I’m not long enough duration to parse it, other than as suggested in ATMB as some form of suicide by mod.
HeyHomie has always been an less-than-ideal poster in my mind. Most of his OPs are terrible as are most of his responses. I don’t think this is new behavior.
On the subject of that closed thread, I’ve only ever heard the term Irish Traveler on this board. I guess they just aren’t that common in the US northeast?
He sure was having a bad day WRT poorly phrasing things. See his “dangerous game” thread in MPSIMS.
The kindest possible interpretation. You are a saint.
I don’t think they’re all that common outside Ireland or maybe the UK.
I didn’t realize there were enough in the US for slurs to be commonly known or used. Maybe a group(s) of them came over as part of the Irish famine driven diaspora of the mid 19th century?
Uhhh. Yeah. Hmmm. Apparently they do not come across my notice much compared to their posting frequency, probably because a LOT of their thread titles look like bait.
I’m with Roderick_Femm. You’re very generous. A quick hit on a couple of other posts do not leave me feeling that kindly. Feels more like someone who is constantly JAQ about controversial issues and then backing off with ‘people are saying’ is not my cup of tea.
I should’ve added a sarcasm tag.
Never heard the term, western Pennsylvania.
I was wondering if I was being whooshed. I mean, I don’t believe in angels, but I have, very occasionally, run into very kind people. I didn’t want to assume.