Ditto. Loks like we have a lot of premenstrual dopers right here. (And I’m including some of the men in that.)
Oddly, I came into this thread thinking the OP was going to be some weird rant about how she’s sick of being insulted by lesbians. I’ve never noticed the doper lezlers, and thought it was some slang term for lesbian I’d never heard.
Then I read the OP, which was boring, but had the phrase “commune with elephants in Cameroon”, which is fun to say outloud. Try it. So I skimmed the rest of the thread.
Then the thread, totally out of left field, defying any sort of logic, became about lesbians insulting people! The only conclusion I can come to is that my expectations about reality, in fact create the reality I was expecting. I’m like a God.
Since the door was opened, I’ll step through. Even sven often mentions China or Cameroon in her posts. I did 2 quick searches and those words were in a significant portion of her posts. Recently, the number of times mentioned per posts has increased to about 1 time a day.
Most of those times China or Cameroon are mentioned are in perfectly legitimate ways for instance in a thread about what languages you speak or what weird foods you have eaten. But sometimes there’s a forced-feeling about the interjections. Oftentimes she uses her experiences to make points that may or may not be correct, but who can dispute them-she lived there. There’s not many dopers from China and Cameroon so she must be the authority. China is a big country, and Africa is a big continent, but she’s been known to include her opinions based on experiences to extend to the whole of China and Africa. She’s entitled to do so, but her experiences should be given less weight in those situations.
Dopers lived and live in many countries. One of the coolest things on this board to me is when a doper that I recognize and I assume (in my US centric way) is from the US or maybe England or Australia, mentions that they live in a completely different country or lived in a different country for years. That experience is relevant, but doesn’t define that person. As a backward example who the hell knew Siam Sam has extensive west Texas knowledge and lived there. For another instance I lived in Venezuela for about a year. I am not an authority on dictators or South America and don’t think I have ever mentioned it here. I lived in Uruguay for 3 months, but have never mentioned it. With even sven I know when I see her involved in a thread odds are that Cameroon or China will be mentioned at some point. It would be safe to stop saying “when I lived in Cameroon/China” as a preface. To me, it feels like a broken record.
It’s my problem that the continued authoritative mentions of Cameroon and China irritate me. But thank you for the opportunity to vent. However, if even sven mentioned Cameroon and China in actual conversations as often as she does here and you had to see her on a daily basis, you would either be venting about it here, silently irritated about it, or would have politely addressed it with even sven.
Lezlers didn’t bring up Cameroon or China in that thread-others did. So let’s discuss it since even sven has given us this opportunity.
WHOA! I didn’t take offense at “lezzie.” Are you serious? I was talking about the rest of his post and the insults it contained. I actually dated another woman for 2 years, before I started dating my current boyfriend. And my closest relatives besides my mother are my aunt and her wife of 20 years. You completely misread my post
Damn, project much?
Is this the thread were people have strange overreactions? Ah, good, I see it is.
You’re right. I misunderstood and over-reacted when I was exhausted, stressed-out by an entirely different matter that was happening IRL, but my reaction was sparked by a recent act of family bigotry that has severe negative ramifications in my life. I apologize for perceiving what wasn’t there, and I apologize to bucketybuck and lezlers for my unwarranted snottiness.
My reply to AClockworkMelon, however, stands entirely as written.
It could be worse. She could’ve lived in Spain.
Seriously. It’s either random people who just didn’t like my thread topic and are having fun personally insulting me based on it (considering there’s dozens of threads going on at any given moment on the SDMB, it’s pretty easy to just not read it and move on. It’s a rather lame thing to insult someone for, especially when I’m not starting these types of threads every other day or anything.) or people who want to go all “rah rah” over sven or people that want to take great offense at some imaginary homophobic slight.
I’m not going to apologize about my feelings for even sven. She has a lot of supporters on this board, which is great. Good for her. I, however, am not one of them. She irritates me. I told her so, albiet not in the best place and not at the best time. That is all I’m guilty of here. My comments in that thread hardly warrant some of the reactions I’m getting here. Fortunately, I’m not crying myself to sleep over some assholes on a message board that would not very likely act so jerkishly in real life. It’s the whole “internet bully” mentality thing. So have it. Just know I’ll be going out today, doing my thing, enjoying my life. I will not be crying in the corner because torie think’s im manipulative or bucketybuck is reminding me of one of my mentally unstable clients with anger management issues.
peace out.
Stuffy little muppet! I love it! I have no idea who lezlers is, but this line cracks me up.
“You’ve become more like us. Very good.”
So do they play Monopoly in Cameroon?
If so, do they use dice made of ivory? Do they have Yaoundé Place and Douala Avenue? Do they have machete tokens?
I think Dietrich wasn’t trying to cajole anybody when he would bring up his “studies show…” topics. But it’d happen anyway. Everybody would stare blankly back at him, and he felt the need to cut the tension with a joke, often in poor taste.
Nichols is just slightly obnoxious in general.
I’m very glad I read this thread. Now, if I’m ever in South America, and I reeeaaallly need to pick up a bottle of peroxide, I’ll know whom to PM. 
What?
P.S. lezlers, I see you’ve shown up in this thread today, but not in the original one. How did the game night go?
It was really fun! We ended up getting there a bit late, since we were re-doing the floors in our house to get ready for our party next weekend, but I had already cleared that with the hostess.
Sorry to dissapoint those who are apparently convinced that I’d be sulking in the corner throughout the whole thing in some passive aggressive attempt to attention whore. I was honestly just trying to come up with a polite way clear the air with the hostess so that there wouldn’t be resentment on my part (which I would never show at the party. I wouldn’t go if I didn’t think I could put my “game face” on and be pleasant and social.) If they’d read the thread before throwing around insults here, they’d realize I ended up just talking to her directly and everything was cool long before this thread had even started. I guess if people are determined to be jerks, they’re gonna just find a way.
Anyhoo, we’re exhausted today but are gonna rally for a day of Costco and Target to stock up for our shin-dig!
Well, I’m really glad for you that you had a good time. You must tell us all about it in the anti Mini-Rant thread, here. 
I’m glad you had fun. I’m sorry if anything I said hurt your feelings. I just really don’t like etiquette threads because they raise my ‘‘class/culture bias’’ hackles 99.9% of the time. But the way I expressed myself made it come off as a potential attack on you and that wasn’t my intention.
Your OP did set me off, I think, right around the ‘‘COSTCO lasagna’’ bit, because I can’t imagine caring whether someone cooks food or buys it, regardless of what I’m contributing. I just don’t think about that stuff. But in being attackatory I violated my own rule - ‘‘always assume the best of people.’’ Come to think about it, I violate that rule a lot on the Dope.
Sigh. Whenever I get bitchy, it feels good at the time, but I always regret it later.
I like both lezlers and even sven. I am contemplating having a game night in Cameroon and the rest of you bitches aren’t invited.
Neither are the elephants. We’re ignoring them.
Ever since those fuckers crushed my Pop-O-Matic bubble, damn straight I’m ignoring them.
Actually getting upset with what people say to each other on the internet is kind of funny. I can’t believe some people take it that seriously.
My advice is don’t take it that seriously, you’ll live a much longer stress free life.
But if conflict is you’re thing, knock yourself out.
Jesus, you fucking prick. :rolleyes: First, it’s spelled Y-O-U-R! Christ on a goddamned cracker, quit using up all the apostophes like the last keyboard on Earth just died. We’ll make more.
And I don’t know where you get off, being all holier-than-thou, thinking you’re the hip youngster who has a better perspective than everyone else. It’s just this sort of retarded wanking that created Hitler, cruise ships, and Canada. Your a goddamned hypocrite, and you should shut the fuck up and go away until you’ve been here for longer than a couple months. Like you understand shit about this board. You’re just some middle school asshole, living in his parent’s basement, and I’m sorry, but your meager life experience does not even come close to matching mine or anyone else’s on this board. Life isn’t like MTV or The OC or whatever stupid show you watch in between jacking off to 4chan, and I hope you realize that soon, because life is gonna go real hard for you if you don’t.