[reply]gunnar …wake up you stupid bitch…you’ll never out smart me.
You can’t be real…[/reply]
I know that Afra, or whoever moderates this board, has better things to do, but…
…would it be too much to ask him to just drop the “ban hammer” on people whose posts always have the jerk-ass feel of a bratty 5-year old frying ants in the sun with a magnifying glass?
All of the sock puppet accounts and blatant trolling here are occasionally funny, when some thought has gone into that process. But spitting on the dead just to get a rise out of the genuine contributors to the forum is ghoulish, vile bullshit.
Particularly when the ghoul in question once mentioned a death in his own family, and all the other forum members showed a level of respect and condolence that they didn’t need to show to someone who routinely calls them bitches and cunts.
I wouldn’t want Afra to open such a Pandora’s Box myself. Sure, if people are legit dangerous and stalking people or doing weird hacker stuff to them or whatever, or being legitimately malicious for the sake of evil, yeah, they need to go.
But I’ve never had my emotions raised or affected by this clown myself. The laughs I get from his disjointed pigeon-English attempts at wisecracking or ball busting far outweigh any aggravation or annoyance I may have ever experienced as a side effect.
People see him for what he is, and that’s nature working its course, as far as I’m concerned.
^HAHA!!! Well, my comments were partially self-preservationist as well. I’ve probably been booted from more groups than I’ve joined. And for pretty stupid stuff too. I like the anarchic self-governance of this place. Act like a douche, get shit on . . . keep it up, and even the people that felt bad for you getting shit on will want to shit on you. Welcome to the jungle, Baby!
^HAHA!!! Well, my comments were partially self-preservationist as well. I’ve probably been booted from more groups than I’ve joined. And for pretty stupid stuff too. I like the anarchic self-governance of this place. Act like a douche, get shit on . . . keep it up, and even the people that felt bad for you getting shit on will want to shit on you. Welcome to the jungle, Baby!
I actually do agree for the most part. But I also like the finality of just being rid of someone who never says anything coherent or useful to anyone. If you’re having a party at which someone is being a raging douchebag, and everyone agrees to a man to kick him out into the street, you don’t have to keep re-admitting the same douchebag over and over again.
And while I do get a perverse kick out of people who keep jumping back into the fire no matter how many times they’re burned, our whipping boy of the moment isn’t anywhere near the entertainment factor of the Olsen Wars.
I hear ya’ tomasz. Prongs has been a free for all for as long as i can remember, and I’ve been here for at least 15 years. (back when it was on a different server) While the ban hammer is a satisfying end to some dumbshit, it doesn’t resolve anything.
I absolutely adore prongs for the unspoken no ban rule. It forces the members to resolve shit or move the fuck on. Sometimes resolutions take years (see the aforementioned olsen wars) but either way i like that the members are forced to deal with the situations that come up instead of getting some authoritarian moderator to cast a member into banned hell. I think it keeps the conversations on here genuine instead of people pussyfooting around trying not to piss off the person in charge or the person in charge’s friends.
I despise prologues politics. I think they’re selfish at worst and misguided at best. And I’m sure he thinks my politics are stupid at worst and they don’t exist as a best. But while his politics suck, I’ve learned to separate his politics from his person. Usually when we do interact it’s us pecking at each other, usually its after Ive said something he thinks is politically stupid, but that’s where the beef lies and only where it lies. I don’t see his posts on other topics and automatically think “oh, fuck that guy!” I’m cool with him and I have no ill will towards him.
I’d like to think if we were neighbors we would probably scream at each other over politics on our porches and stomp off angry only to start the next day off all brand new, which would probably end with us screaming at each other over politics until we stomp off and start over again the next day. But even after all of that, if at some point he needed a jump start to his car or I needed a jump start to mine, our political differences would take a back seat for a minute or two to jump one of our cars.
To even further beat this horse, I was pissed off when some dick head came here bashing him as a bad trader. Instead of getting all happy that my political nemesis is getting the piss taken out of him, I took that shit to heart cause I knew it was bullshit and he didn’t deserve that. I don’t think the ban hammer fosters those types of attitudes.
Now, will years of decay ever learn? Probably not. But he has the opportunity to try again every day. And if you notice, when he does put together a decent topic (ill admit not often) or puts together a decent response people are more than willing to engage him, but when he puts stupidity out there, more than a few are quite satisfied to remind him he claimed nazi pride, he likes things that jam, and hes only seen the white coofin guitar. Will I jump start years of decay’s car? Fuck no! But he has everyday to try to redeem himself and earn that jump start. Unfortunately, he hasn’t learned yet that when he does take a step forward it’s counter productive to take 10 steps back. So, consequently, hes the butt of the jokes until he figures himself out. The ban hammer wont help him at all… Or us.
I’d like to think if we were neighbors we would probably scream at each other over politics on our porches and stomp off angry only to start the next day off all brand new, which would probably end with us screaming at each other over politics until we stomp off and start over again the next day. But even after all of that, if at some point he needed a jump start to his car or I needed a jump start to mine, our political differences would take a back seat for a minute or two to jump one of our cars.
You know it’s this exact attitude which is one of the things I enjoy not just about Prongs, but (get ready…) life in the U.S. full stop.
I’m sure others have different experiences, but in other countries I’ve resided in, you get on somebody’s bad side in a political argument and suddenly that means you’re a bad person in all other areas of life. My father worked for a housewares company in Germany for a while, and I believe was let go from his position even after winning some ‘productivity’ award or another, because I don’t think he was a good ideological fit for the company.
For all the many many flaws with this country, it seems like the best place to be if you want to call your neighbor or co-worker a “flaming libtard,” “pie-in-the-sky loser-tarian,” “cunt-servative” etc. etc…and STILL be able to invite the person you insulted out for a beer as if nothing happened.
gunnar , my apolegies for my wicked words the other nite.was drunk and pissed off at the world and should of not posted here.your hero died and i ditched on it.sorry.
We’re cool, Brother. No worries. I think others were getting a bit fired up either on my behalf or on principle but I never took offense at anything personally. One of the reasons Lemmy was (and always will be) my hero is because he gave zero fucks what anyone else said or thought of him. I don’t really have role models per se, but I certainly find inspiration from Lemmy not only through his music but from his entire life and attitude as a statement unto itself.
Man, he is a cool dude. He does fucking live it. I’m going to Amazon prime some motorhead records after i watch this. if all goes as planned i’m gonna get drunk and be asleep by the afternoon. in honor of lemmy, cuz he would have wanted it that way.
Man, he is a cool dude. He does fucking live it. I’m going to Amazon prime some motorhead records after i watch this. if all goes as planned i’m gonna get drunk and be asleep by the afternoon. in honor of lemmy, cuz he would have wanted it that way.
I love that doc…watched it a few time…
“Lemmy may like a drink or ten but his true vice is women”
Man, he is a cool dude. He does fucking live it. I’m going to Amazon prime some motorhead records after i watch this. if all goes as planned i’m gonna get drunk and be asleep by the afternoon. in honor of lemmy, cuz he would have wanted it that way.
Hahaha! Rock on, man. You may have just inspired my day. I love that doc but haven’t seen it in a couple of years. Didn’t know it was on YouTube, thanks for the link.
Love Scott Ian’s story about Lemmy in daisy-dukes.