Hey! JHC is my cousin.

You've got a few mistakes in there...I corrected them for you.

Later that night, poster #2's husband tells her he didn't get the reference either, but that LJ's picture of the dog's balls made him laugh to the point of tears. He also chides poster #2 for bringing conflict wherever she goes...Poster #2 told him to shove it.

That was a meltdown? Um, er, eh, who isn't letting it go?

I don't expect you, or your husband, to get any of my jokes. Despite your 38000 on the ACT, I've not been impressed with your stellar intelligence.

Just keep doing your one trick, pony. When you stray from that you get lost, confused, and paranoid.

Laughable. Again, I say you have NEVER been interested in any thing I've said before (even a few lame attempts to be nice to you) until you think it has something remotely to do with you.

I think I should be the center of everyone's thoughts? When someone else gets the tiniest bit of attention you start bumping your ass shots, or posting your pasty-looking pasties. As far as lazy, that's even funnier...I have no problem typing this; I must have felt more like you're not worth the effort. So, Lazy for Labrat.

Now, go lay down.

Yeah, you should have let it go.

Well, You are right about one thing. I should have let it go.

My apologies to the rest of the Cellar.

Oh, no! Now even the cool kids are getting hot.

[That's intended as a compliment to both of you.]

why is it that every thread lately seems to devolve into a personal battle where people have to pick sides? It feels like the cellar has been replaced with an online version of Big Brother.

In this deeply fractured society, it is now an option to believe that the other side is not just incorrect, not just wrong, not even just stupid, but actually broken.

"We're not not having a conversation, we're lecturing each other."
-- Dennis Miller the other day

Jimbo...thanks for the PM big fella. ;)

It's nice that you feel that way about me, but honestly, remember that you're a married man!

jinx doesn't mind if i send pictures of myself in nothing but hipwaders and a sombrero to people as long as i swear them to secrecy. so....it's cool, baby.

But what about the one with the rooster in it?

that's a cock.

Yeah...the big black one.

Im all about getting PM's
(although I never get them)

i got a long pm last night. it contained a message that i think should have been put right in a thread. should i treat it as confidential? the person made no mention of secrecy or confidence. just demands that I change what I do. I think it's worse to try to influence behind the scenes than it is to spill a pm like this.

someone referred to 'the word on the street' today.....made me think they'd been chatting back and forth in pm about someone else.

lame

Ask 'em whether they mind if you bring it to the light of day--I'm all curious now.

As Vince Lombardi said "Praise in public; criticize in private."

I said "word on the street" and rest assured, I have had no PMs concerning you. I have a couple friendly PM interchanges with a couple nice people here. Really, you think too much of yourself. I have better things to talk about with friends than you.

Leave me out of your complicitious Jr Hi games...

The Piss Gang gets off on stirring shit...stop accusing me of your own imaginations? K, Cocks and Cunts?

i didn't think you were talking about me.

Triple Filter Test
 

In ancient Greece (469 - 399 BC) Socrates was widely lauded for his wisdom.

One day the great philosopher came upon an acquaintance who ran up to him excitedly and said, Socrates, do you know what I just heard about one of your students?"

"Wait a moment," Socrates replied. "Before you tell me I'd like you to pass a little test. It's called the Triple Filter Test."

"Triple filter?"

"That's right," Socrates continued. "Before you talk to me about my student let's take a moment to filter what you're going to say. The first filter is truth. Have you made absolutely sure that what you are about to tell me is true?"

"No," the man said, "actually I just heard about it and..."

"All right," said Socrates. "So you don't really know if it's true or not.

Now let's try the second filter, the filter of Goodness. Is what you are about to tell me about my student something good?"

"No, on the contrary..."

"So," Socrates continued, "you want to tell me something bad about him, even though you're not certain it's true?"

The man shrugged, a little embarrassed.

Socrates continued. "You may still pass the test though, because there is a third filter - the filter of Usefulness. Is what you want to tell me about my student going to be useful to me?"

"No, not really"

Well," concluded Socrates, "if what you want to tell me is neither True nor Good nor even Useful, why tell it to me at all?"

The man was defeated and ashamed.

This is the reason Socrates was a great philosopher and held in such high esteem.

It also explains why he never found out that Plato was banging his wife.

lj...I'm not in a good state o' mind right now, and I have nothing against you...but you said someone referred to 'the word on the street' today.....made me think they'd been chatting back and forth in pm about someone else." and I am contending that whoever you are talking about it has nothing to do with me, and it's no secret I used the phrase word on the street. How any of it relates to you I haven't a clue. So your PM was not related to me.

Wish I could feel more like the Elephant Man "I am NOT an animal."

Good God DAMN you're a wise man, Flint. For a drummer.

Ok, folks. The internet has no reason to exist. Please walk calmly to the exit.

LOL

i was thinking that you were referring to saying what you said about labrat and things of that nature via pm with whoever comprises 'the word on the street'. I think that talking about someone behind their back is one thing....and i wont say that i never do it....but to then refer to it publicly as a common opinion held by ...?who? ....the people in the street? is kinda dirty pool.

i dont have anything against you either. i was trying to say that pm's that attempt to steer or influence behind the scene are not ok with me.

"attempt to steer or influence behind the scene are not ok..."

Yabbut Jimmylegs, how'd ya think I got She Who Must Not Be Named banned?



I KID! I KID!!! I'm really just kidding! :D

No, I said I am not the only one who feels that way. So your twist is to either 1) call me out as lying or 2) make me rat (get it?) on those I know who feel the same.



I reiterate that I don't do things from behind the scenes. I have conversations about...omg...them, and me and MY life and THEIR life.

Though I will concede that it shouldn't have been brought up, still, from the king of dirty pool that's quite a compliment.

Didja get my original screen shotted, jinx?

you have a lot of hatred in your nose

LOL! @ Flint!!
Looks like everyone knew but him! AaaaH!

I had a shower and decided the deletion was more misleading.


What I was wanting to say was....


If Shawnee had said *word behind closed doors*, you may of been correct in assuming that there had been conversations behind the scenes.

As she said, *on the street*, I took that to read on the board, in the open. :)

I think everyone is talking about me.

Keep it up.

I can't resist dissecting semantics...
 

If it was on the board, in the open, then wouldn't we all have read it, and wouldn't need to be told about it? [/:2cents:]

When did the board have streets put in? I think that is just a waste of my taxes.

Without entering the debate on either side, I know I have seen comments posted by users other than Shawnee voicing (to an extent) the opinion she has.

If anyone wanted to find them they could - I'd like to think no-one would be interested in compiling a dossier of negative comments about any other poster.

In answer to the original question: no I wouldn't post a private message. I may however refer obliquely to something someone has said in a private message.

Dana PMed me last night, and she said something about you. She said.... just kidding :D

:P

Yeah, thats what I meant.

Just bumping this up to be a pain in the ass. :D

How can sheldon be a pain in the ass? Let me count the ways.

Bend over and I'll help you count. :D

I hope to post the contents of every pm i receive in this thread.

Is your name pronounced Ogre?
Enquiring minds need to know.

I would have PM'd, but was wary of being exposed as a pronunciation geek if you posted it.

I've been pronouncing it somewhere between Ogre and Ochre.

Yes. It is just like ogre.

I am glad i have satisfied your sick curiosity

What was sick about it?

Let me guess... like Skinny Puppy much??? Ohgr as in Nivek... I'm assuming.

I had never heard of Skinny Puppy or Nivek before looking at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nivek_Ogre I also get people thinking i think i named my guy after the band Ohgr which isnt the case either.

Ohgr Bushi was a troll/ogre samurai from japanese lore. I started using that tag back in 96 for gaming and have used it ever since.

If you send me an unwarranted abusive PM I'm'ma post it. Here's whip's little treasure that was waiting for me tonight. He took something on the board not the way I intended, I can even see why, but this is not an appropriate use of a PM (the quote is from a thread, not a PM). IMO.

oh and if you send me one that's called "For the Record" when we've been "debating" in a thread, you can bet your ass I ain't gonna read it. If it's for the record, it should be posted in public ;)

at least there isn't any apostrophe abuse -that would've really hurt my feelings:

.

rofling

Nice Mon. Good thread use.

Has anyone stopped to think that whip has recently been posting some pretty weird thoughts?

I'm concerned about him and hope he's going to be ok...whatever it is that's bothering him right now.

He hasn't been sleeping and does sound pretty stretched...

then maybe thsi is the wake-up he needs.

take deep breaths monster

geez I think no ones ever gotten in your face before

you're so upset you keep making typos

I'd make you a cup of herb tea if I could :kettle:

I had Whip on ignore before, because I thought he was a fruitloop.
I said so and got into one with Cic about it, because she thought I was being unreasonable.

Shrug.
I took him off ignore because he stayed in threads I didn't frequent.
So I use manual ignore for him now.

I always make typos. I can't type. and I hate herb tea. go away.

How about some :bong: then Monnie?

Nope, but thanks. I got me chinese and beer...

What is this manual ignore you speak of woman? You must share this information as it is NOT common knowledge. ;)

Read the manual manual. :rtfm: