|
Nothingland Something about nothing - game threads, diversions, time-wasters |
|
Thread Tools | Display Modes |
05-31-2006, 01:05 PM | #61 | |
Your Bartender
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: Philly Burbs, PA
Posts: 7,651
|
Quote:
|
|
05-31-2006, 01:08 PM | #62 | |
Operations Operative
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Moved from Manhattan to Edgewater, NJ.
Posts: 713
|
Quote:
And, there you go again... people think I am "mad" or insulted, or worried, or offended. I'm not. I am WONDERING why Margaret has to attack me in 95% of my threads. This time it is a thread where I was trying to help a friend. As I've said, I don't care if some of you interpret that as spam. And I don't mean that in a mean or angry way. I really don't care. I don't care that Margaret has to get her digs in at me everytime I post; not beyond the fact that it intrigues me why she has to be that way. So I call her on it almost everytime. I like to get a response to that everytime she does it. It's always been something that I wonder about, as to why people act that way online toward strangers. So, now we all know A) I am not mad, offended, upset, worried, nor concerned when I get insulted on a message board. It's just words on a screen. B) If you (the reader) insult me in every thread I make, or even 90% of them, I will start to ask you why, looking for a common thread. C) What you call spam here I call help for a good friend. D) I agree if I were someone that posted a similar lame internet contest request everyday/week/or even month, it would be spamming and annoying. And I'd expect you to agree. Instead of jumping in and trying to shout me down, and enjoying the band-wagon, why don't you just chill a bit? Since it's out of character for me to do so post internet polls like this, it should be obvious I am doing it to be nice. E) I posted it in Nothingland... because obviously it's just a little internet poll. Anyone here that is "against" me or part of "us with UT" because you think I am upset or offended, is fighting the wrong battle.
__________________
"It's only an internet community." |
|
05-31-2006, 01:25 PM | #63 |
The future is unwritten
Join Date: Oct 2002
Posts: 71,105
|
Steve, you didn't answer my question.
My first thought was Spam, but after checking out who posted it and what it was, I decided it was a "regular", shilling for a buddy. No harm, no foul. Maggie saw it differently, and said so in her own charming way, which is her privilege. There is really no reason to have a pissing match over suspected ulterior motives. That's like soooo 2005.
__________________
The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump. |
05-31-2006, 01:36 PM | #64 |
bent
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: under the weather
Posts: 2,656
|
MAKE IT STOP GAHHHHHHHH
this is the last place in the world I would have expected to turn into a TotalBlog drama fest.
__________________
Sìn a nall na cuaranan sin. -- Cha mhór is fheairrde thu iad, tha iad coltach ri cat air a dhathadh |
05-31-2006, 01:46 PM | #65 | |
Operations Operative
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Moved from Manhattan to Edgewater, NJ.
Posts: 713
|
Quote:
I'll get to the heart of the answer here. If you meant the "universal you" then, yes, I'd say be slightly more delicate in your criticism. If someone posts a poem, and you say "That fucking sucks, God damn, why are you always posting those crappy ass poems??" some might get offended by that. Why be that blunt when there are other ways to say it? I'd say if you know that you yourself put effort to be thoughtful while criticizing, then you can always say you tried, and didn't mean to offend. You might say, "Hey writing poems seems tough, and there are definitely parts of yours I didn't get. Did you mean to be funny, or was it me that didn't get it?" You know? Something like that? More constructive? Or, you could actually mean to offend. Then, if it were me that wrote the poem, I would ask why you wanted to offend me when all I did was post a poem? BUT... if you did not mean the "univeral you" in your question; if you're asking should you be afraid of offending me (SteveBsjb) I would say don't worry about me, nothing posted on a message board has ever offended me, or upset me.
__________________
"It's only an internet community." |
|
05-31-2006, 01:49 PM | #66 | |
Operations Operative
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Moved from Manhattan to Edgewater, NJ.
Posts: 713
|
Quote:
__________________
"It's only an internet community." |
|
05-31-2006, 01:50 PM | #67 | |
in the Hour of Scampering
Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Jeffersonville PA (15 mi NW of Philadelphia)
Posts: 4,060
|
Quote:
So...according to Steve: We're being insulting (but he's not insulted), and he's not upset (which is why he's posted about it so much), and it can't be spam because 1) he doesn't do it much, and 2) because he's only doing it to be nice to one contestant (and screw over the others). Good thing this all rolls off his back, or he'd be posting here all day until the bar opened.
__________________
"Neither can his Mind be thought to be in Tune,whose words do jarre; nor his reason In frame, whose sentence is preposterous..." |
|
05-31-2006, 01:59 PM | #68 | |
Operations Operative
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Moved from Manhattan to Edgewater, NJ.
Posts: 713
|
Quote:
1) Not everyone is being insulting. I am definitely not insulted. 2) I'm not upset. I post about it so much for other reasons. 3) It's not spam (to me) because it was me helping out a friend. I can't make you vote for my friend, and I am exposing you to the hotness of all the contestents. But since it's just a cheesy internet poll, who cares if they are getting their friends to vote through similar means? Well, I don't, anyway.
__________________
"It's only an internet community." |
|
05-31-2006, 02:01 PM | #69 |
Operations Operative
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Moved from Manhattan to Edgewater, NJ.
Posts: 713
|
Though for me, the question of why Margaret enjoys attacking me so often has never been truly answered.
__________________
"It's only an internet community." |
05-31-2006, 02:06 PM | #70 | |
lobber of scimitars
Join Date: Jul 2001
Location: Phila Burbs
Posts: 20,774
|
Quote:
The rest of us don't care that much. Really.
__________________
wolf eht htiw og "Conspiracies are the norm, not the exception." --G. Edward Griffin The Creature from Jekyll Island High Priestess of the Church of the Whale Penis |
|
05-31-2006, 02:26 PM | #71 | |
Operations Operative
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Moved from Manhattan to Edgewater, NJ.
Posts: 713
|
Quote:
__________________
"It's only an internet community." |
|
05-31-2006, 02:26 PM | #72 |
Radical Centrist
Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Cottage of Prussia
Posts: 31,423
|
I retract the "lame-ass" wording that refers to your bartender. Perhaps she is a very nice person. The only fact we have is that she is attempting to achieve the title of Hottest Bartender in Manhattan. The chance that she is not lame-ass is slim, but granted, non-zero, and so I take that part back.
The rest of it remains lame-ass and is getting lamer-ass every second. |
05-31-2006, 02:31 PM | #73 | |
Operations Operative
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Moved from Manhattan to Edgewater, NJ.
Posts: 713
|
Quote:
__________________
"It's only an internet community." |
|
05-31-2006, 02:44 PM | #74 |
Radical Centrist
Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Cottage of Prussia
Posts: 31,423
|
I agree, I feel lame-ass for even continuing. Peace out.
|
05-31-2006, 04:00 PM | #75 |
Snowflake
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Dystopia
Posts: 13,136
|
I don't think "lame-ass" is strong enough language!
Starting a thread like this...well....it sickens me. JEERS to Steve. Threads like this only prove that Steve is a fat-ass fatty.
__________________
****************** There's a level of facility that everyone needs to accomplish, and from there it's a matter of deciding for yourself how important ultra-facility is to your expression. ... I found, like Joseph Campbell said, if you just follow whatever gives you a little joy or excitement or awe, then you're on the right track. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Terry Bozzio |
Currently Active Users Viewing This Thread: 2 (0 members and 2 guests) | |
|
|