Yeah, well, I'm feeling touchy today :p

Oww, touch me, touch me! :blush:

*rises up from the dead*

:rotflol:

@Dana - Everyone understands that you didn't have some skewed agenda for starting this thread. The problem is that you started it about someone who many people have had issues with - to put it mildly. You are an extremely tolerant and forgiving person and in that regard you're a far better woman than I. Don't beat yourself up because the rest of us are a bunch of grudge carrying trolls.

I was thinking the exact same thing. I bet Merc would be proud if he read this.

*returns to zombie land*

In the last six months or so I deliberately tuned out of the more squabbly threads. And I think I am a bit aspergerish, which I'm glad of at the moment, because it works a s a social insulator and I had no idea at all about half of this stuff. I did think merc was often a dick, though.

Now, if 0.9r = 1, then the square and cube of 0.9r must also = 1, and the infiniteth power of 0.9r = 1 ...

So is the 0.9r'th power of 0.9r.

/eot

That's exactly the sort of thing HITLER would have said.

There, I lose, we're done.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but why is this thread about whether Ib thinks Merc should come back or not?

Personally I think they both behaved like shitheads to each other, so they both deserved whatever stains they have left over from that, but really, this is nothing to do with anything except that some of us would be glad to see Merc return, and believe me, he and I have had some doozies of arguments at times and yes there was name calling, but jeez, it's just words on a message board, and not a slap in the face.

I'm pretty sure I'd be right when I said that Merc mostly just came here for entertainment and although he believed in his politics, it was the opposite responses he got from others that amused him the most. He respected those who stood up to him without getting all nancy pants about it.

Cry me a river if you got offended.

I think Merc was valuable to this place and we're all losers because he's gone. I've said it many times. I miss my interactions with him here, and it seems I'm not the only one.

He is a true friend to me. Probably one of the best people I've ever met here, and believe me, that is a big compliment because there are a large number of people here who I hold in very high regard because of their guts or their brains or just plain old determination.

We can't all get along, but we don't have to dog pile when one member gets offended or upset with another. Surely we don't have to take sides. Surely we can either just watch them sort it out or just keep out of it all together.

Maybe we'd still have the diversity that was once part of what made this place interesting if that were allowed to occur.

Oh and also, if we're to be judged on things that were said five years ago, then I guess Jim and I should still be at each other's throats and I should be fighting with Trilby and and and...

for christs sake, get over it.

eta: I read the Upset thread after this one. I guess things are not as 'ok' as I thought they were. :(

Also, I didn't read most of the second page of this thread till just now.

Anyway, rightly or wrongly, I still miss Merc and consider him a friend. I wish he were still here.

I also wish others were still here, like Tonchi (who I only realised was a friend of sexo's thanks to this thread) and even Maggie and Radar. Maybe even some of those weirdo's from that PD site. Some of them were almost as weird as some of the weirdo's here. Actually, I always thought they were kind of like the alternate but parallel world of the cellar. There were characters there who reminded me of characters from here...but were just slightly different. Am I the only one who thought that, and if so, I guess I'm the main weirdo. If not, would you care to discuss?

I'm not fighting with you. It doesn't pay. There is No make up sex with people from the future.

Dammit you two, I clearly Goodwinned this thread.

No, you godwinned yourself. We just rifle you pockets and step over the body. :p:

I guess you could just keep on dreaming about it.

That's what keeps me going. ;)

Or cum-ming.

Bruce!!! That's filthy! lol