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Meet Obama
Topic Started: Oct 2 2008, 10:01 AM (2,063 Views)
Frank_W
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Aqua Letifer
Oct 2 2008, 02:39 PM
musicasacra
Oct 2 2008, 11:36 AM
I ignore socks who engage in serious debate.  If a real person won't say it, to me it's not worth reading.

How would you define a "real person" here?

Right. That old question. We all function under screen names and avatars. Still and all, under those screen names and avatars, we've come to know each other over the past few years, and people have met each other in real life. That's pretty much as real as it gets.

Most of the humorous socks are also a known quantity. Either the user behind them is known, and anyway, if not, they contribute in a humorous way, and are fun.

Then there are the more malicious and deceitful socks who either use that anonymity to troll the forum, pretend to participate, or flat-out attack other posters. These are the behaviors that I find reprehensible, and these are the socks that people have objections to.
Anatomy Prof: "The human body has about 20 sq. meters of skin."
Me: "Man, that's a lot of lampshades!"
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JBryan
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You mean that wasn't really Barack Obama?
"Any man who would make an X rated movie should be forced to take his daughter to see it". - John Wayne


There is a line we cross when we go from "I will believe it when I see it" to "I will see it when I believe it".


Henry II: I marvel at you after all these years. Still like a democratic drawbridge: going down for everybody.

Eleanor: At my age there's not much traffic anymore.

From The Lion in Winter.
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Aqua Letifer
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ZOOOOOM!
Frank_W
Oct 2 2008, 11:44 AM
Aqua Letifer
Oct 2 2008, 02:39 PM
musicasacra
Oct 2 2008, 11:36 AM
I ignore socks who engage in serious debate.  If a real person won't say it, to me it's not worth reading.

How would you define a "real person" here?

Right. That old question. We all function under screen names and avatars. Still and all, under those screen names and avatars, we've come to know each other over the past few years, and people have met each other in real life. That's pretty much as real as it gets.

Most of the humorous socks are also a known quantity. Either the user behind them is known, and anyway, if not, they contribute in a humorous way, and are fun.

Then there are the more malicious and deceitful socks who either use that anonymity to troll the forum, pretend to participate, or flat-out attack other posters. These are the behaviors that I find reprehensible, and these are the socks that people have objections to.

Yeap.

I didn't disagree with what y'all were saying, just wondered how you'd define it since it's a very fine line with me. Like so many other things it's all about intent.
I cite irreconcilable differences.
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Larry
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OperaTenor
Oct 2 2008, 03:32 PM
Kathy, you got it all wrong. Your Obama posts should have included death threats - that makes them acceptable here.

Oh, for pete's sake would you get off that line of bull sh!t. No one made any death threats against anyone.

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John D'Oh
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So is Michelle actually Jack, or is there some kind of weird perverse game going on?

Not that there's anything wrong with that, of course, particularly in light of my semi-erotic run-in with (s)he who must not be named.
What do you mean "we", have you got a mouse in your pocket?
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Frank_W
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:lol2: :lol2:

OMG.... I soooo don't want to know... :eek:




:leaving:
Anatomy Prof: "The human body has about 20 sq. meters of skin."
Me: "Man, that's a lot of lampshades!"
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M&M's
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AlbertaCrude
Oct 2 2008, 10:59 AM
M&M's
Oct 2 2008, 12:20 PM
apple
Oct 2 2008, 10:19 AM
quit tryin to run people off..  this is not your forum.

What she said! :thumb:

To hell with both of you.

What Larry said! :thumb:

Why?
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OperaTenor
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Larry
Oct 2 2008, 11:49 AM
OperaTenor
Oct 2 2008, 03:32 PM
Kathy, you got it all wrong. Your Obama posts should have included death threats - that makes them acceptable here.

Oh, for pete's sake would you get off that line of bull sh!t. No one made any death threats against anyone.

Don't worry, I will. Especially since the three times I've brought it up - with quotes - most everyone heads for the banks of the Nile....


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Michelle O
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Obama was a sock!!! ZOMG! WTF!

Obama was a girl sock!!! Double ZOMG!!!

I was doin' that whole girl/girl thing* and I didn't even know it? Wow!







[size=1]*not that there's anything wrong with that[/size]
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Frank_W
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OT, no one wants to hurt you. I hope you stick around. Your absence has been noticed...

(With apologies to The Eagles) TNCR: You can log out but you can never leave...

:wave:
Anatomy Prof: "The human body has about 20 sq. meters of skin."
Me: "Man, that's a lot of lampshades!"
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OperaTenor
Oct 2 2008, 12:08 PM
Larry
Oct 2 2008, 11:49 AM
OperaTenor
Oct 2 2008, 03:32 PM
Kathy, you got it all wrong. Your Obama posts should have included death threats - that makes them acceptable here.

Oh, for pete's sake would you get off that line of bull sh!t. No one made any death threats against anyone.

Don't worry, I will. Especially since the three times I've brought it up most everyone heads for the banks of the Nile....

No, I would guess that everybody thinks it wasn't an actual threat. Now, if it was said in person, it would be a different story.
My child shows GOOD CHARACTERIZATION in an ongoing game of D&D
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ivorythumper
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I am so adjective that I verb nouns!
apple
Oct 2 2008, 12:42 PM

i see my job as moderator to be  a smutorator and spamorator - i don't check the numbers .. i tried once.. it's very time consuming unless someone happens to be posting under two names at once.

it's kind of sad that someone so so ostracized that they must appear incognito to speak their mind. 

(how does one say tolerance in Latin?)

I really don't think KK is ostracized here. She and Larry have bad blood. Everyone else pretty much takes her as she is, a poster with a leftist political position. I don't see a whole lot of victimization going on here, but then again I'm not a leftist so I don't buy into the whole poor-me-no-one-likes-me-so-I have-to-get-a-sock-to-make-my-point victimization routine.

She chose to take on an Obama sock -- maybe for fun -- I don't care. I think it was a bad idea since she so poorly represented him and wound up attacking people and incurring a whole lot of bad will as a sock that if she were just speaking as herself she would have gotten the whole "I disagree with you vehemently", and undoubtedly in the rough and tumble nature of things here, but would not have had the added dynamic of being an obvious shill who hid behind a sock to make points.

Keep up the good work as the smutorator and spamorator. I guess mods don't have the godlike omniscience and omnipotence I thought they did.

PS: tolerantia
The dogma lives loudly within me.
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ivorythumper
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I am so adjective that I verb nouns!
Aqua Letifer
Oct 2 2008, 12:47 PM
Frank_W
Oct 2 2008, 11:44 AM
Aqua Letifer
Oct 2 2008, 02:39 PM
musicasacra
Oct 2 2008, 11:36 AM
I ignore socks who engage in serious debate.  If a real person won't say it, to me it's not worth reading.

How would you define a "real person" here?

Right. That old question. We all function under screen names and avatars. Still and all, under those screen names and avatars, we've come to know each other over the past few years, and people have met each other in real life. That's pretty much as real as it gets.

Most of the humorous socks are also a known quantity. Either the user behind them is known, and anyway, if not, they contribute in a humorous way, and are fun.

Then there are the more malicious and deceitful socks who either use that anonymity to troll the forum, pretend to participate, or flat-out attack other posters. These are the behaviors that I find reprehensible, and these are the socks that people have objections to.

Yeap.

I didn't disagree with what y'all were saying, just wondered how you'd define it since it's a very fine line with me. Like so many other things it's all about intent.

I don't see real person vs sock as a particularly fine line.
The dogma lives loudly within me.
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Frank_W
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ivorythumper
Oct 2 2008, 03:10 PM
PS: tolerantia

Yeah!! Tortillas!! :sombrero:

Or.. Is that, tarantulas? :unsure:




:hair: ZOMG!!! TARANTULAS IN TORTILLAS??!! :hair:


[size=1]*cough* pass the picante and guacamole, please.[/size]
Anatomy Prof: "The human body has about 20 sq. meters of skin."
Me: "Man, that's a lot of lampshades!"
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ivorythumper
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Frank_W
Oct 2 2008, 01:12 PM
ivorythumper
Oct 2 2008, 03:10 PM
PS: tolerantia

Yeah!! Tortillas!! :sombrero:

Or.. Is that, tarantulas? :unsure:




:hair: ZOMG!!! TARANTULAS IN TORTILLAS??!! :hair:

that's intolerable!!!
The dogma lives loudly within me.
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QuirtEvans
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OperaTenor
Oct 2 2008, 03:08 PM
Larry
Oct 2 2008, 11:49 AM
OperaTenor
Oct 2 2008, 03:32 PM
Kathy, you got it all wrong. Your Obama posts should have included death threats - that makes them acceptable here.

Oh, for pete's sake would you get off that line of bull sh!t. No one made any death threats against anyone.

Don't worry, I will. Especially since the three times I've brought it up - with quotes - most everyone heads for the banks of the Nile....

There have certainly been threats of physical violence.

More than one person has made them.
It would be unwise to underestimate what large groups of ill-informed people acting together can achieve. -- John D'Oh, January 14, 2010.
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Frank_W
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Actually.... *munch munch* It's not bad!! ^_^
Anatomy Prof: "The human body has about 20 sq. meters of skin."
Me: "Man, that's a lot of lampshades!"
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Larry
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Mmmmmmm, pie!
Michelle O
Oct 2 2008, 04:08 PM
Obama was a sock!!! ZOMG! WTF!

Obama was a girl sock!!! Double ZOMG!!!

I was doin' that whole girl/girl thing* and I didn't even know it? Wow!







[size=1]*not that there's anything wrong with that[/size]

By sheer coincidence I happened to be looking at the user list at the very time you posted. I noticed an interesting thing.....

I noticed Jack log off, you log on, post, log off, and then Jack logged on again.

All in a sequence..


So it looks like *both* of you are guilty of abusing us with your socks.

Of the Pokatwat Tribe

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OperaTenor
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M&M's
Oct 2 2008, 12:10 PM
OperaTenor
Oct 2 2008, 12:08 PM
Larry
Oct 2 2008, 11:49 AM
OperaTenor
Oct 2 2008, 03:32 PM
Kathy, you got it all wrong. Your Obama posts should have included death threats - that makes them acceptable here.

Oh, for pete's sake would you get off that line of bull sh!t. No one made any death threats against anyone.

Don't worry, I will. Especially since the three times I've brought it up most everyone heads for the banks of the Nile....

No, I would guess that everybody thinks it wasn't an actual threat. Now, if it was said in person, it would be a different story.

I *always* go by the thumbrule that what I say on line is exactly what I'd say to someone face-to-face. People here who have met me can attest to that. I expect the same courtesy of others. If that ain't the way it is here, this ain't the place for me. I've got better things to do than be phony....

If someone says they want to see me shot as a traitor because of my political views, and I have absolutely nothing else to go on, then I assume they are serious.



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Nunatax
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Larry
Oct 2 2008, 12:16 PM
By sheer coincidence I happened to be looking at the user list at the very time you posted. I noticed an interesting thing.....

I noticed Jack log off, you log on, post, log off, and then Jack logged on again.

All in a sequence..


So it looks like *both* of you are guilty of abusing us with your socks.

Makes one wonder what exactly it is that you have to hide, Sherlock. You're never on the active user list, not even when you're posting.
You seem somewhat familiar. Have I threatened you before?
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LadyElton
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So the 2 Obama socks are up there with The Grim Reaper?
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Mikhailoh
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OperaTenor
Oct 2 2008, 03:32 PM
Kathy, you got it all wrong. Your Obama posts should have included death threats - that makes them acceptable here.

OT, buddy old pal, I hope your doo wop act is fresher than this one. Not much mileage left in it. :lol:
Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead - Lucille Ball
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Frank_W
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LadyElton
Oct 2 2008, 03:21 PM
So the 2 Obama socks are up there with The Grim Reaper?

No. But they certainly fall into the same trash heap.
Anatomy Prof: "The human body has about 20 sq. meters of skin."
Me: "Man, that's a lot of lampshades!"
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Larry
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I *always* go by the thumbrule that what I say on line is exactly what I'd say to someone face-to-face. People here who have met me can attest to that. I expect the same courtesy of others. If that ain't the way it is here, this ain't the place for me. I've got better things to do than be phony....


Anyone who has met me will attest to the fact that I will do the same - and if I wanted you shot, I'd just shoot you.

You chose to see what you wanted to see. No one threatened to shoot you.

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OperaTenor
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Oct 2 2008, 12:21 PM
OperaTenor
Oct 2 2008, 03:32 PM
Kathy, you got it all wrong. Your Obama posts should have included death threats - that makes them acceptable here.

OT, buddy old pal, I hope your doo wop act is fresher than this one. Not much mileage left in it. :lol:

That's all right. I knew it was a waste of time and effort before I logged on.



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