It's too funny. I was at a party tonight & there was a pompous know-it-all dude (Yes, I know jseal & PalaceGuard don't like dude but I'll have to deal with that somehow) there & he didn't even know he was pompous.

Agree or not . . . pompousity is something that has to be looked at . . . spade a spade, etc.

Humor, slang, holidays....or the fact that you drive on the wrong side of the road. :D But it's the differences that make this place fun!

I do know it must be hard...especially since we're all on a WAY different time zone than you. (((((Alasse))))

Steph,

Your post above emphasizes my concern about how few registered users here post. Please take a moment to review this thread. Think of how it may appear to a registered user who has not yet mustered up the courage to start a thread. After removing the personalities, this is what she or he can look forward to:

1. The very first response is one challenging a base assumption of the thread.

2. After our thread starter defends the assumption, the next post advocates an alternative definition, which if accepted, denies the validity of the thread.

3. She accepts the debate, and challenges her challenger, but the response she gets takes the form that the advocated alternative is an opinion formed beforehand and which does not need back up.

4. Now Challenger #2 posts, also without substantiation, that “it's so obviously the case.”

5. The thread starter replies to this new post that there are an awful lot of opinions that were once obvious but are no longer, and identifies a few.

6. The first challenger mistakes this response and irately begins a reply with “WTF”, the common acronym for “What The Fuck”.

7. So now our thread starter replies that her reply to challenger #2 had to do with challenger #1, and opines that there seems to be different ideas about conversation afoot here.

8. Challenger #1, who initiated the debate, then criticizes the thread starter for engaging in a debate.

9. Now another – new poster to the thread, mind you – after the obfuscation is removed, advises the thread starter to eat shit.

… and it goes on and on and on with other personal attacks and insults towards the thread starter.


I think that an environment like this is very uninviting to anyone thinking about starting a thread for the first time.

I will say what I believe to be true. You are either part of the solution or part of the problem. Jseal you repeatedly in this forum refuse to see your responsibility as part of the problem and therefore the situation has little chance of being remedied.

Consistently the same few personalities clash. I think if it's a problem a wise solution would be to just not post or respond to people or threads begun by those who you know will invariably turn things ugly. It is what I intend to do.

Jsael you seemed to miss two steps


2.5. A 3rd party enters into the argument (this being an open forum I assume this is excepted). The third party using part of the first parties argument points out a big hole in the first party arugmaent. But is ignored becuase if the first party excepted this he would be wrong.

10. Once again the trird party state his case to be ignored beccause the first party find it easier to respond to the party who told him to eat shit

Don't forget #61, where Lizzardbits offered to go down on me! That's an important one!


Well, to me. :p

WildIrish,

Wasn't that going to be #69?

I don't know that I offered to simultaneously reciprocate.



But I would! :D

WildIrish,

Hey, I had the camera all set up and everything!

We better get clearance from Mayhem on this one. Lizz is spoken for. ;)

I like to call a spade a fucking shovel...then again that might be inverted pomposity....AARGH I'm pretentious! :D