Hey, it was only one time. I was drunk, and your uncle begged for it. As to the rest, trust me – there were times in the army when I was grateful for some nice tasty equine excretions. But jello? You dare to compare me to a Cosby-peddled abomniation of cow’s bones and connective tissue? Hey – you wanna take this to the PIT, baby???
What?
Oh.
Well, in that case, what kind of a grammatically-challenged newbie ends a sentence with a preposition. That sort of disrespect for the language of my forefathers is a thing up with which I will not put!
The best lack all conviction
The worst are full of passionate intensity.
*
Oh My God.
I just spent the evening at the Chatway MB. It was so slow here, and I thought I’d kill a few hours.
I swear to god that I must have been the only person over the age of twelve in the entire place.
I will never complain about the SDMB again. . . I will never complain about the SDMB again. . . I will never complain about the SDMB again. . . I will never complain about the SDMB again. . .
Cess, if you were on the SDMB on AOL for only one month, then yes, you missed a lot. A LOT. Just ask any long term R.E.G. about a poster by the name of Alan. Some of the conflicts he started nearly over-ran the whole board. One of his most favorite things to do was stick up for every newbie who ever got flamed. If someone came along and posted something like, “Hey YoUsE GUYS, MC bAdASS in da HOuSE!!” to Alan, this poster was merely expressing his creativity and the rest of us were big bad meanies for jumping on him about it. It didn’t matter HOW obnoxious the newbie was, Alan would stick up for him (or her). I think that most of these newbies really did annoy the crap out of him, but he would never admit it, because that would mean siding with the evil R.E.G.S. Now, I am not saying that you come across exactly like Alan, but the tone of your OP had a definite “Alan-esque” quality.
I will be the first to admit that some people are too quick to jump on others for the littlest things. Still, there are a lot of complete morons who post here too. it isn’t as bad as it was on the old SDMB though, and I think the flame wars here are much more tame than some of the ones I saw on the old board.
Ah, it’s not big deal Cessandra, I like going in here to have a good name-calling bout with the usual gang of idiots before I can muster up the patience to do a long post on Soviet military strategy.
It’s like the way some people watch a little TV during breaks from studying.
I dunno, Michelle, Cessandra is much less whiny than Alan, and she doesn’t seem to be too worried about conspiracies against her. If she starts mentioning “Marxian theory,” it’ll be time to start wondering…
~Kyla
“You couldn’t fool your mother on the foolingest day of your life if you had an electrified fooling machine.”
This says it all, for me. In general, the folks who find themselves fitting into the “Reg” category (and I count myself among those), are smart, insightful, thinking, feeling human beings. Those who come here hoping to egg on the locals are sure to receive a crappy welcome. This is as it should be. It’s called “Weeding out the gene/poster pool” and is a necessary and positive thing. Else, this place would turn into just another “a/s/l?” crappola fest - and I REALLY don’t want to see that happen.
StoryTyler
“Not everybody does it, but everybody should.” I Spy Ty.
Kyla–if Cess starts sanitizing doorknobs then we will know we REALLY have a problem!
Anyway, I think Cess kinda got the point when she visited another board. Sometimes we act the way we do to keep the idiots out. I think most of the time we are pretty fair about who we flame and for what reasons. Remember the old speech every R.E.G. used to repeat almost every day, the one about the playground or the town bar, a certain atmosphere, common sense rules we all had to play by, disruptive newcomers, the need to lurk and read the FAQ, why spelling and punctuation was so important, yadda, yadda, yadda…And I still think that some of the jerks we encountered on AOL were a lot worse than the ones we see here. Maybe I just don’t notice the jerks around here that much because I don’t read as much of the board as I used to.
I can’t say I’ve never done it, but I truly try to never tease someone about their grammar and/or spelling. I think it is the last line of argument for a lot of people. “Hmmm, I can’t think of a witty retort… Oooh! He misspelled antidisestablishmentarianism! Cool, now I can jump on his ass!”
Yes, I do remember that I posted a topic in this here Pit called “Learn to Proofread, FUCKOS!” But that was directed at all lame-asses who seem to just type away, letting their emotions rule them, who hit the “Submit Reply” button way too early and end up sounding like a jackass because every other word is misspelled.
There’s a difference between laughing at someone’s unintended pun accomplished by a typo or a brain fart (In the Organ Donation thread, I mistakenly called a closed casket funeral a closed caption funeral - Had to reread my post 3 times to catch it AFTER Evil Ghandi pointed it out & then laughed for a good long time) and trashing a long, well-thought out post because 2 letters got transposed.
Some of the funniest insider jokes on the old AOL board were the results of people’s spelling & grammar errors:
manny (many)
inslut (insult)
are examples I can think of off-hand.
Eventually, it comes down to signal-to-noise ratio. If someone posts something worth reading, we should overlook minor typos. If someone has nothing worthwhile to say, but says it poorly, flame him for the content, not the style. If someone twists something into something humorous, point it out so we all can laugh.
Sue from El Paso
Experience is what you get when you didn’t get what you wanted.
Oh, you mean like I got stomped all over shortly after I came to the board? I believe I mentioned a clique here and was harassed, ridiculed and accused of being generally obnoxious because I also mentioned finding them on other boards. It was said that I must be a real shit if I did not get along on those other boards.
I guess I’ve been vindicated by CESS, unless she also can be accused of being obnoxious because she observed the same thing on other boards.
Um, Mark? That’s not what I saw on the other board. Actually, what I saw was a bunch of 13-year-old brats whose posts all looked like they were hitting the keyboard with their foreheads.
Hmmm, I’ll never take KelliBellis advise again, I knocked my self so silly I just found my way back here today.
Konrad, you are an ass, I told you that before the other thread, and I’m telling you again. IF you ever grow up and start acting human I might, just might not see you as an ass,but I doubt it.
Mark, you and your many alter egos on the other hand are ass’s multiplied by 3.
Ayesha - Lioness
There are two solutions to every problem : the wrong one, and mine
(Thomas A. Edison)
Cess…were you trying to vindicate mark in any way???
I a glad you also disapprove of the way Konrad was treated (You really should apologize Kon), but I disagree with the idea we should go easy on newbies…in fact, the opposite is true. Remember GuanYu?
And has everyone met the new troll? He goes by pitbulldog or somthing, and he lists as interests, dogs and women.In the order.MmmmmKay.
Oh, and he thinks that women have no business raising boys if they are single.
Now, he must be really new, because we all agreed a few weeks ago that single mothers of boys should turn them over to Mark Serlin to raise into proper upstanding enlightened manly-men. In fact, i am working on the papers for my boys right now, I just know they will learn so much man-stuff from their new dad.
And just a side note to the crotch-sniffing serlin: In my workplace, perfumes are forbidden, see it seems they make some folks sick. Funny thing is, none of my office mates smells like funky-crotch. Strange indeed.
Gee, Kelli, you must not have very many women at your office - you can smell funky crotch for a full block away from mine
Back to the OP. Cess, I guess I am just now moving from newbie to reg, but I’ve got to say that I, personally, have never had a problem with anyone here, over anything. And, that includes my spelling and grammar. I’m the worlds worst speller; but I know grammar (English major, and all that) but grammar and punctuation be damned, I’m on a message board for Christ’s sake, I’m not writing a thesis. And, no one has bothered me (and, please don’t start :)). IMHO, it seems that the people that get beaten up here are the people that are really asking for it. If they are really trolls, they keep at it until we ignore them or they get bored. If they are not, they hang in there, act like a human being, and all is forgotten (or at least they get reasonable, civil responses from people). It also doesn’t seem that people jump right in on the spelling or grammar, either. Oh, sure they do if it’s a post from a known troll and they don’t feel like rehashing the same tired argument for the hundreth time, but, usually they make their logical arguments for why the troll is wrong THEN start in with the “and by the way, dumbass, you spelled such and such wrong”. It’s just part of the take-down, not the whole thing.
And, as usual, this is just my opinion. Agree, Disagree, or ignore - your choice.
Oh, yea, the Pit – You’re all a bunch of rotten shitheads and I hope you get a very sensitive private part caught in a waffle iron! Stuff that in your Funk and Wagnalls
kelli, I am not in anyway trying to vindicate Mark. I couldn’t care less about him.
I noticed this new guy, though. Is it just me or did he go back and dredge up every dead pit topic from the last month?
Minxmom: Your words above totally nullify the purpose of Cassandra’s thread. No one is going to pick on you if you don’t take a stand on anything. Besides what harm is done to anyone. I have been told to stick inflated donuts up my ass; to dismember my self (from this web site that is) etc. If certain members wish to flex their cerebral muscles, so be it. Its all in fun, keeps boring people from being bored but the author of this thread is 100% correct in my opinion.
