The Vent and Rant Thread

[yvanleterrible]

Originally Posted by dsvick

Guidelines? There are guidelines!? crap. I don't even read the instructions on the "some assembly required" gifts the kids get.

To be honest though, I thought I was being civil in that last thread, but Patricia was right in shutting it down - it wasn't really progressing anywhere but down hill.

With that being said - lets all have a drink together tonight - I think poohbear said we could all come by.

Is it true that you've been a naughty boy?

[dsvick]

Originally Posted by LazyScot

Please re-arrange the following letters into a nightmare of your choosing: k, o, r, w.(*)

my nightmare ... I was attacked and carried off by a ginormous wrok and fed to it's young. Or was it a krow? Now I can't remember.

[ShortNCuddlyAm]

Originally Posted by dsvick

With that being said - lets all have a drink together tonight - I think poohbear said we could all come by.

That sounds good!

[dsvick]

Originally Posted by yvanleterrible

Is it true that you've been a naughty boy?

Nope, not true at all. Well at least not here anyway. After KK's even tempered beginnings. In the aforementioned threads I was the voice of calm and reason, the lone candle in a sea of discord and unharmonized discontent, the sole participant of understanding and even temperedness. I was, I tell you, I was making everything up in the last sentence

[kindlekitten]

Originally Posted by pilotbob

Probably not the right place for this... but here's my vent..

If our forums members could participate in those types of threads without the name calling, personal insults, offensive language and racial slurs it wouldn't be an issue.

But, no worries, there are plenty of other places on the internet where you can discuss those topics all you want.

BOb

I very politely tried to open up a bar/poolhall/tearoom, and was immediately slammed. even when I'm polite I get shut down.

Originally Posted by dsvick

Guidelines? There are guidelines!? crap. I don't even read the instructions on the "some assembly required" gifts the kids get.

To be honest though, I thought I was being civil in that last thread, but Patricia was right in shutting it down - it wasn't really progressing anywhere but down hill.

With that being said - lets all have a drink together tonight - I think poohbear said we could all come by.

for once I'd like to be able to answer some insults instead of being locked out.

Originally Posted by dsvick

Nope, not true at all. Well at least not here anyway. After KK's even tempered beginnings. In the aforementioned threads I was the voice of calm and reason, the lone candle in a sea of discord and unharmonized discontent, the sole participant of understanding and even temperedness. I was, I tell you, I was making everything up in the last sentence

can't win for losing

[pilotbob]

Originally Posted by kindlekitten

for once I'd like to be able to answer some insults instead of being locked out.

can't win for losing

My mom always told me two wrongs don't make a right.

What exactly are you losing if you can't return an insult? (This is rhetorical)

Its like John Madden always says when a fight happens in a foot ball game. It is usually the second person retaliating that gets penalized.

folks... if people are insulting you... or just everything they say, gets under your skin... be the more adult and bigger person, report the post and IGNORE them. Maybe if that happened more of these "interesting" threads would not get closed.

You are all aware of the IGNORE feature of the forum system, right?

BOb

[yvanleterrible]

Originally Posted by pilotbob

My mom always told me two wrongs don't make a right.

What exactly are you losing if you can't return an insult? (This is rhetorical)

Its like John Madden always says when a fight happens in a foot ball game. It is usually the second person retaliating that gets penalized.

folks... if people are insulting you... or just everything they say, gets under your skin... be the more adult and bigger person, report the post and IGNORE them. Maybe if that happened more of these "interesting" threads would not get closed.

You are all aware of the IGNORE feature of the forum system, right?

BOb

Yes dad!

[Patricia]

We had a power cut this morning, so I decided to go to work instead of working from home. When i got back this evening, the electricity was still off. It's only just come back, after eleven hours.

And my broadband doesn't work when the power is down. I slightly regret not keeping a pay-as-you-go dial-up for such occasions. We don't have very good 3g coverage otherwise I too would have bought a mobile internet dongle.

And I've got to get congealed candle-wax off a table that I spent months restoring.

[kindlekitten]

Originally Posted by pilotbob

My mom always told me two wrongs don't make a right.

What exactly are you losing if you can't return an insult? (This is rhetorical)

Its like John Madden always says when a fight happens in a foot ball game. It is usually the second person retaliating that gets penalized.

folks... if people are insulting you... or just everything they say, gets under your skin... be the more adult and bigger person, report the post and IGNORE them. Maybe if that happened more of these "interesting" threads would not get closed.

You are all aware of the IGNORE feature of the forum system, right?

BOb

I've graduated to big girl panties and don't need to go crying to the mods every time someone says something that may ruffle my feathers. after all, that is what I stand for, my kids stand for. we're the ones putting on the uniforms so that folks can piss and moan about life.

Originally Posted by Patricia

We had a power cut this morning, so I decided to go to work instead of working from home. When i got back this evening, the electricity was still off. It's only just come back, after eleven hours.

And my broadband doesn't work when the power is down. I slightly regret not keeping a pay-as-you-go dial-up for such occasions. We don't have very good 3g coverage otherwise I too would have bought a mobile internet dongle.

And I've got to get congealed candle-wax off a table that I spent months restoring.

feel fortunate. a gnat farts around here and we lose power

[yvanleterrible]

Originally Posted by Patricia

And I've got to get congealed candle-wax off a table that I spent months restoring.

Varsol works but toluene is the best at wax removal. What is the underlying finish or polish?

[Laz116]

Originally Posted by kindlekitten

I've graduated to big girl panties and don't need to go crying to the mods every time someone says something that may ruffle my feathers. after all, that is what I stand for, my kids stand for. we're the ones putting on the uniforms so that folks can piss and moan about life.

I honestly don't think anyone went crying to the moderators in the thread you're referring to.

And I really don't think your uniforms are the way to keep everyone else safe to piss and moan about life. Actually I think it's the other way around. If all the money spent on uniforms were spent on decreasing poverty, help programs for democracy, increasing freedom, I'd personally feel a lot safer. Either way, it's a vocation you're getting paid to do. Stop making it a martyrdom.

[Dylrob]

Originally Posted by Dylrob

Just eight more weeks... until I'm out of this hell hole.

The longest eight weeks of my life.

Make that six weeks. Which is both a good thing and a bad one. (Can I be anymore vague?)

[yvanleterrible]

Originally Posted by Dylrob

Make that six weeks. Which is both a good thing and a bad one. (Can I be anymore vague?)

Man, you seem exhausted! Just keep depression at bay. I could keep you company since I've got 6 more weeks with my cast...

[kindlekitten]

Originally Posted by Laz116

I honestly don't think anyone went crying to the moderators in the thread you're referring to.

And I really don't think your uniforms are the way to keep everyone else safe to piss and moan about life. Actually I think it's the other way around. If all the money spent on uniforms were spent on decreasing poverty, help programs for democracy, increasing freedom, I'd personally feel a lot safer. Either way, it's a vocation you're getting paid to do. Stop making it a martyrdom.

I'm referring to several instances thank you very much, especially when a mod says; "there has been a complaint"...

I'm not making it a martyrdom, I'm pointing out that many people are willing to stand up for your right to diss me and those like me. and those same people are just as engaged in nation building as they are other activities... providing clean water, rebuilding schools, bringing in health care fixing roads and many many other actions that help and heal, not just sit around and moan and complain

[Verencat]

Originally Posted by kindlekitten

(...) not just sit around and moan and complain

Well this happens to be the Vent and Rant thread, so I say we need to come back on topic...


And Dylrob, I really want to know what's going on!