Why do people not respect the rules?
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At top of the lounge is a sticky post that states some rules for posting in the lounge. In the last little while it seems that the rules have gone out the window. There have been discussions about sex and religion and blatant personal attacks. The worse is that this comes from long time members who should know better. The powers that be have provided a forum for discussing sex and religion and the personal attacks are not suppose to be here at all.
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I haven't been around here lately, except to drop in briefly, but I haven't seen anything a bit offensive in the Lounge, Pete. I know you're not an alarmist, so I'm wondering what I missed. The Lounge has always welcomed humor and especially satire, if such is presented in a tasteful manner, without personal rancor. I haven't spotted anything that exceeds the bounds of propriety lately. But if it's happening, then I agree completely that such posts belong in the Soapbox.
Will Rogers never met me.
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You mean it got your hackles up and now you are pissed off that it turned out to be a false alarm. :-D
Und wenn du lange in einen abgrund blickst, blickt der Abgrund auch in dich hinein - Friedrich Nietzsche
hah ! - 'you wish' and 'not at all' - all Im suggesting is if people didnt see that your post was intended as humorous, there would be all out war, and thus there's a need for 'care'
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I have got to apologise for the Flying Spaghetti Monster posting, I thought I was posting an amusing bit of news and did not consider the religious angle relevant. Actually I did not consider the religious angle at all! And you are correct it should have been posted in the SB.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity RAH
Mycroft Holmes wrote:
it should have been posted in the SB
I'd disagree - it was a good and innocuous post. Funny as well. It became SB material only when it was hijacked by Our Resident Troll. You aren't responsible for what anyone else does with your thread - and if the troll hadn't been fed, it wouldn't have been a problem at all.
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Stop behaving like a troll, and we'll stop treating you like a troll. Seriously. I could name two currently-contributing members who were dreadful trolls, in past lives. Now they just enjoy the Lounge (despite still pulling the googling in an effort to *win!* thing, now and then). Stop the sht1, and people will stop disliking you.
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Mark_Wallace wrote:
Stop the sht1, and people will stop disliking you
Good advice Mark, you should listen to it.
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He gets special allowance because he is a fellow countryman of Maunders and possibly a personal friend. Maunder does on occasion have to remind him to control his language, but as in all things, the rules are not applied evenly.
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I have got to apologise for the Flying Spaghetti Monster posting, I thought I was posting an amusing bit of news and did not consider the religious angle relevant. Actually I did not consider the religious angle at all! And you are correct it should have been posted in the SB.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity RAH
I think it's a fine post. In fact it gave me some ideas too. Solemnizing weddings is something we never thought of. I personally know some of the guys who created the Dinkoism spoof. I shall pass on this idea of petitioning a court to authorize our clergy to solemnize weddings. I would love to see the judge's face when the petition comes up for hearing. Thank you :)
Und wenn du lange in einen abgrund blickst, blickt der Abgrund auch in dich hinein - Friedrich Nietzsche
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I have got to apologise for the Flying Spaghetti Monster posting, I thought I was posting an amusing bit of news and did not consider the religious angle relevant. Actually I did not consider the religious angle at all! And you are correct it should have been posted in the SB.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity RAH
Hi Mycroft, I think the day we lot cannot discuss the divinity of the cookie-monster is the day we have lost some of our own divinity, and, possibly, some of our cookies. cheers, Bill
«The truth is a snare: you cannot have it, without being caught. You cannot have the truth in such a way that you catch it, but only in such a way that it catches you.» Soren Kierkegaard
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Why do some people here remind me characters from from "Harold & Kumar Go To White Castle" :laugh:
Und wenn du lange in einen abgrund blickst, blickt der Abgrund auch in dich hinein - Friedrich Nietzsche
Sahir Shah wrote:
Why do some people here remind me characters from from "Harold & Kumar Go To White Castle"
Because you also have poor taste in movies ?
«The truth is a snare: you cannot have it, without being caught. You cannot have the truth in such a way that you catch it, but only in such a way that it catches you.» Soren Kierkegaard
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He gets special allowance because he is a fellow countryman of Maunders and possibly a personal friend. Maunder does on occasion have to remind him to control his language, but as in all things, the rules are not applied evenly.
Munchies_Matt wrote:
He gets special allowance because he is a fellow countryman of Maunders and possibly a personal friend.
We've had a beer twice and a coffee once. Not quite personal friends.
Munchies_Matt wrote:
Maunder does on occasion have to remind him to control his language, but as in all things, the rules are not applied evenly.
Spot on the money. Life's not always fair, people don't have to like it but that is what happens everywhere.
Michael Martin Australia "I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible." - Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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Mycroft Holmes wrote:
I have got to apologise for the Flying Spaghetti Monster posting, I thought I was posting an amusing bit of news and did not consider the religious angle relevant. Actually I did not consider the religious angle at all! And you are correct it should have been posted in the SB.
Bullshit. It was and still is a fine post. Some people taking the piss and enjoying life. I didn't even click through as I basically knew what it was about. I did click through the responses as there is generally some good and funny responses to read. Unfortunately the god botherers turned up, spoilt it for all and as always I couldn't walk away from stupid. Not sorry and it was Sunday morning so sober as I took the daughter to soccer.
Michael Martin Australia "I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible." - Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
Michael Martin wrote:
Some people taking the piss and enjoying life
My thoughts exactly.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity RAH
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At top of the lounge is a sticky post that states some rules for posting in the lounge. In the last little while it seems that the rules have gone out the window. There have been discussions about sex and religion and blatant personal attacks. The worse is that this comes from long time members who should know better. The powers that be have provided a forum for discussing sex and religion and the personal attacks are not suppose to be here at all.
Within you lies the power for good - Use it!
The same reason that on a quiet Sunday morning while I was driving at 20mph through a 20mph area some clot decides that they have to overtake me because they need to travel at 40mph. It used to be known as antisocial behaviour - I think its called entrepreneurialism nowadays.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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Sahir Shah wrote:
Why do some people here remind me characters from from "Harold & Kumar Go To White Castle"
Because you also have poor taste in movies ?
«The truth is a snare: you cannot have it, without being caught. You cannot have the truth in such a way that you catch it, but only in such a way that it catches you.» Soren Kierkegaard
I did not say it's a great movie. But I found the scene where the lady gets the two of them thrown off the plane for looking brown really hilarious. You probably don't like it because it's too close to home for comfort :-D
Und wenn du lange in einen abgrund blickst, blickt der Abgrund auch in dich hinein - Friedrich Nietzsche
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I did not say it's a great movie. But I found the scene where the lady gets the two of them thrown off the plane for looking brown really hilarious. You probably don't like it because it's too close to home for comfort :-D
Und wenn du lange in einen abgrund blickst, blickt der Abgrund auch in dich hinein - Friedrich Nietzsche
Bill's a lady?
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Sahir Shah wrote:
Why do some people here remind me characters from from "Harold & Kumar Go To White Castle"
Because you also have poor taste in movies ?
«The truth is a snare: you cannot have it, without being caught. You cannot have the truth in such a way that you catch it, but only in such a way that it catches you.» Soren Kierkegaard
OK. Chill. I deleted both the messages. I think I overreacted just as you did. Let's not start a profiling war. :)
Und wenn du lange in einen abgrund blickst, blickt der Abgrund auch in dich hinein - Friedrich Nietzsche
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Mark_Wallace wrote:
Stop the sht1, and people will stop disliking you
Good advice Mark, you should listen to it.
You only get sht1 from me when you try to turn a discussion into a google "I Gotta Win!" fight. That ain't what people go to a Lounge for. Especially when you google up totally inaccurate cr@p like Greek Frappe being French, and Italian (Gelato) Frappe being American; and talk about "stab mixers", which we ain't got in England (and which is probably a single word in German, but I ain't gonna google to check, because this is a discussion, not a google "I Gotta Win!" fight). Don't expect people to be waste time on pleasantries with you when you pull that kind of google bullfactory. Reasonable behaviour receives reasonable responses.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I have got to apologise for the Flying Spaghetti Monster posting, I thought I was posting an amusing bit of news and did not consider the religious angle relevant. Actually I did not consider the religious angle at all! And you are correct it should have been posted in the SB.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity RAH
I don't think that post needed to go into the SB. I don't think it was in any manner offensive, there again as an atheist I would say that wouldn't I.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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Because they've got evil wives? OK, if you say so,
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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The same reason that on a quiet Sunday morning while I was driving at 20mph through a 20mph area some clot decides that they have to overtake me because they need to travel at 40mph. It used to be known as antisocial behaviour - I think its called entrepreneurialism nowadays.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
I wonder how many people here personally knew someone who was killed in a car accident in a residential area. (Puts up hand) The reasons for speed limits in residential areas aren't rocket surgery, but some idiots are even too stupid for that.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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M Sukhdeep wrote:
But if you would stop being a Mike Hunt, I wouldn't need to piss in your cornflakes. Plus, you being able to gargle such a viscous liquid is quite impressive.
Michael Martin Australia "I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible." - Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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PJ Arends wrote:
There have been discussions about sex and religion and blatant personal attacks
I haven't noticed any about sex, but, given that sex is what most people think about for a large proportion of their time, you can expect it to be discussed -- and knee-jerk adherence to rules that go against human nature always ends up in an argument, which is far worse for the group than the occasional mention of sex. The only discussion I've seen here about religion is about a spoof religion -- i.e. not a religion, so discussing it is not discussing religion. Two trolls did try to turn it into an argument about religion, but they were handled. Again, your posting is likely to cause arguments over this, so the only thing likely to do any damage to the group is your posting. Apart from the troll issues, which were dealt with (by both personal attacks, which are well merited, and by "shunning"), I haven't seen any personal attacks -- and when I say that, I mean that statements like "I think you're an idiot" are not personal attacks, as such; they're contextual opinions, and it's how people talk. A personal attack has malice behind it, and any malicious talk needs to be nipped in the but. But discussing opinions, including opinions about the people you are talking to, is not attacking anyone; it is discussing opinions. BTW: Getting on a high horse about rules is more likely to increase malicious behaviour, rather than curb it.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
Mark_Wallace wrote:
given that sex is what most people think about for a large proportion of their time
Mark, I have some news for you: some male Homo Saps, changing physically, hormonally, mentally, in the move into older age (the process, the outcome, of course, modulated by genetic endowment, experience, health, social/cultural reality) ... ... in some cases achieve almost full migration of the fifty-percent or more of his mind that was, in adolescence, located in the crotch area, from down there upo into that crinkled jelly-jar held in the skull. The change in patterns of perception and interior mentation will vary from individual to individual, but, in general, there is some adjustment of the bandwidth devoted to more corporeal forms of sexuality. Whether or not you can look forward to this, or will look forward to it, or how you may react to this change if it occurs ... I cannot say without asking you for a small donation to cover my expenses in summoning Cthulhu. cheers, Bill
«The truth is a snare: you cannot have it, without being caught. You cannot have the truth in such a way that you catch it, but only in such a way that it catches you.» Soren Kierkegaard
