Classicman has requested voluntary ban
 

...until the end of the holidays.

that is all.

Are you going to color code his user title blue, as you've done with someone before, to denote a voluntary ban? The Blue Ban Group is quite popular you know. :cool:

I just saw them last month, they are great!

I got ripped off. I THOUGHT I was going to see the Blue Man Group, but it was a cheap imitation: The Blue Boy Group. It was just a bunch of kids wearing shiny blue suits and sporting bad haircuts traipsing around. It was worse than Cirque du Soleil.

Happy Holidays, Classic! :santa:




Peace on earth and all that.

lol

someone just emailed me classics email address.

Why would they do that?

I said, " who is this?" and "I am not contacting anyone."

sheesh creepy business

Frankly, I don't understand his request. I'll miss him. I've met classic IRL and he's a good guy.

I feel the same wolf. I wanted to say, What? no to the board suicide/goodbye note?
but it might have gotten unwanted comments.

We just have to respect his wishes to be left alone, which makes an unsolicited email offer out of line.

I took a screen capture of the unsolicited email offer, btw.

Someone just told me they guessed I had sent you classic's email. Put that thought out of your mind, those who had it. I really don't care that much, and that's not my style. I tend to do things to people's faces, and I don't fuck with people's personal lives. Try to have it tracked, if you wish, or start an accusation list so that we can methodically figure out who your culprit is.

A new Cellar Field of 64, perhaps?

'Course, maybe he sent it himself?

doubt it

Even if it wasn't finals week, I wouldn't spend my time obsessing over it, neither should you.

Back up a minute...

You don't like the Cirque?!!?!? :eek:

Yeah really, I would love to see the Cirque live. I love that stuff, thats why I endure Americas Got Talent.

(Fighting Gravity, btw, were awesome!!)

Oh, you know fresh, I only saw it once: Delirium. My mom had seen other Cirque shows and loved them, but she hated Delirium too. I'm pretty shamelessly artsy (no talents myself but adore the arts) and all it was to me was people walking around the stage really slowly and pensively (including one dude on stilts while another dude gazed up at him meaningfully) and a lot of flashing light.

Just being ONE of the Cirque shows doesn't necessarily make it good.

As I said, mom said other shows were wonderful. I probably would have loved them. :blush:

sidenote for humor: a friend told another friend I was going to see Surf Du Souffle. This friend isn't very bright. :lol:

By the way, was the Blue Boy reference too obscure? I named my cat Gaines after Thomas Gainsborough because he (the cat, not the artist) is a Russian Blue derivative. (In other words, there was no Blue Boy Group. Is it possible I'm not as funny as I think I am?) :lol:

Gainesborough (took liberty with spelling) Thomas ______ <----insert my last name.

Someone else says, classic wants me to email him?

I say, bullshit.


I am not emailing anyone. The only one I email, and that for spam purposes only, is bruce.

I thought we weren't spending time obsessing over it?!?

Unsolicited requests are not MY obsession.

They are the facts. I will NOT be emailing classic.

This thread, "Classicman has requested voluntary ban" ought to be a part, a function, of this thread, "Complain about something no one else gives a rat's ass about", or, maybe a new thread, "Comment on some-thing or -one no one else gives a rat's ass about".

'nuff said.

You spam bruce? And admit it? Pretty ballsy. :D

I just sent classicman an email asking him to email sky.

just for balance and harmony.

next I will spam Pete's taco.

He's got some shit going on IRL.

:bacon::spam2: :cheese: :donut:

I'm hungry for pizza. I couldn't find a pizza slice smilie so I grabbed a couple meats and a cheese and some dough.

you don't want a spam taco?

Not if there isn't a representative smilie, I don't.

http://doublewidekitchen.blogspot.co...pam-tacos.html

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_wd8AllEFLY...9_edited-1.jpg

:eek:



I hope to have a fish taco later tonight, maybe tomorrow...given the chance, I will spam all over the place.

You stay the hell away from my taco!

You think flower and baby animal pics are ballsy? I call them spam.

Back to the OP, I've missed much of what has been going on.
I saw some sniping, it made me uncomfortable, I withdrew.
I've never had a prblem with Classic - he wasn't of my political flavour, but he seemed a decent chap. But recently it seems he was embroiled in issues that should never have ended up in threads. And it takes two to tango. And more, in a strange online way.

I think it's sad that politics can prevent people from getting along.
Also that personal agendas can be pursued across threads.
And I have always hated the Treehouse Club assertation - I've seen it again recently from Dwellars I like and admire. And I don't really get it. Many so-called alliances are formed because people feel the same way. So if one Dwellar speaks out about a specific post and another follows, is that being up someone's arse, or sharing the same reasons for disapproval? Is it an organised attack or just a number of people who want to protest?

This whole "Of course you'd say that, you like so-and-so" is what I expect from children.
Which is not to say I have adult views - I've reconsidered many posts before sending recently, and some of them have been very childish.
One of the reasons I've loved the Cellar these last five years is that it brings me into contact with people with varying viewpoints. And none seem to dominate. What I grimace at now is that separate camps seem to believe they are being penalised and the others given free rein.

We're still a collection of individuals. There is no active conspiracy. You like some people, you don't like others. You agree with some people, you disagree with others. Some girls believe they have only prostitution to look forward to, most don't.

Meh. If anyone reads this I'm probably preaching to the converted. Or people who believe they are above all this. As do I. Mea culpa.

It's wet and French and gay and on fire:

SG and FT3, when I joined there was a thread about the storms then running in the Politics forum.
It seemed to me it was a lot of name-calling, but for the most part I think that has fallen off -- almost completely.
I can still name two Dwellars who can't stop spitting at one another,
but they sometimes do manage to deal with non-personal issues and "facts" in between.

For myself, I joined for the Politics / Current Events discussions, because there did not seem
to be enough liberal counterpoint showing up among those forums.

Others here have their own ideas about what is going on, regarding Classic or others, and who all they find "irritating".
I admit to feeling that Emma was too much for me, and I'm glad there is no evidence of her presence left around anymore.
It bothered me to put her on my first Ignore List, but there was no other way for me to express my disgust.

I'm of a mind that if some number (> 2 ?) of Private Messages or emails were sent to a person,
they should moderate their postings or leave.
Certainly I will, and my email address will always be available to all registered Dwellars.

Lamp - I am a liberal. A European liberal. A bleeding heart European liberal. And a Brit at that.

I hold my hands up that some people's comments/ posts/ opinions have made me retch (okay, not literally) I can deal with that. But the bottom line is I CAN deal with that.

I can take UG's advice in recipes in recipe threads.
I can appreciate Wolf's frankly hilarious set pieces on insects without getting into a row about guns.
I can read Ib's issues about our gender bias and accept RichLevy's Judaism and Sheldon's cockism and Clod's struggle to be a bloody good mother and all that and all and everything.

I don't think any thread can fail because of a lack of political bias.
But I admit I find it difficult to argue politics without a personal bias. As you can see above.

What's better? People like me with more emotion than intellect just shut up? Or get offended and cause rows which move into personal insults?

Ah, I dunno.
Will give up for a while.

SG, this is the problem with emails. Too easy to misunderstand.
Nothing I said above was meant as criticism of you.
Certainly I want eveyone's participation... enthusiastically

I guess that I was/am feeling guilty of what you and FT3 were talking about.
I have gotten into it with Merc and others, and more recently Classic and I had
some exchanges with differences of opinion.
But I hope it was only by coincidence the Classic left at that time he did.

Beyond that, I had no hidden message for anyone.
Instead I tried to explicitly say, if I'm part of the problem I'll do something to fix it.

Peace ...

Yeah, I'm somewhat on the left of politics too.

I must admit I find some of the bitter stuff annoying. Though, I then find myself participating from time to time. Usually when someone has offended my sensibilities in some way. Unfortunately, because I am unable to keep up with the flow of things in the way I used to, I sometimes find that having found something somebody has said to be reprehensible and said so... I have unwittingly stepped in between two warring parties.

I thought I was just criticizing Cirque du Soleil?

I will admit to being at times all WTF about the stuff between Classic and Shawnee, I like both of them, I agree with each of them from time to time and disagree with each of them as well. Emma was just a loud mouthed trouble maker. It was very clear that was her only agenda.

Others, who are still here maybe have their agenda more at "I will shout at you and call you names because I feel you don't respect me..." or some variation of that. Yes, it gets tedious, but that's particular to a certain relationship, not an MO.

I also hate to put people on ignore, for one it doesn't really work and for two it smacks of censorship, I'm not really into censorship. In the case of Emma if she had anything of value to say or even once tried to be a team player I would feel differently.

There are times I have considered asking to be banned for my own good and due to my time abuse policies, but that would only stop me posting, not reading.

I think you've gone out of your way to be polite and civil when other people were less than to you, and I think you "get it" that tone rarely comes across over the net and you err on the side of thinking the best of people, rather than being ever ready to get into it.

But whatever you do, don't let Dana know I used gay as a pejorative term.

*chuckles*

I think UG and I share the same taste in tea - and nothing else.;)

Seriously, I popped in to the "I Miss Bush" thread for the first time today and .. wow.:eek: Of course, by the title of the thread you can imagine the flame bait staked out in a clearing waiting for the approach of the predators while the hunters quietly wait in their blind.

Or maybe a better analogy is throwing raw meat into the ocean and waiting for sharks.

It's ironic, ridiculous to tears that the five biggest jerks of the cellar of [libs,emma,monster, shawnee and myself] are allowed to roam free and classicman, is banned.

Excuse me while I laugh at the irony.:lol2:

*Hey if you can see this classic. I am a little miffed you decided to take the moral high road, and we are all here. Not taking the moral high road yet, somehow no one has been bloodied or shot*

No bloodshed, no warfare. nada.

Now, I am going to go have a spiced chi. :mad:

spiced chai rather, although I am working on my chi :(

I think I caught s/girls cold and I have finals. This is going to be a great weekend. [sarcasm]

You need to stop stalking me and/or dragging me into everything. And never, ever put me in any category with you. That could only happen in your dreams *shudder*

Sorry allbody else, I mostly ignore it but it seems unable to pack it the fuck in.

Thats OK Monster, I take umbrage with that post too. Im mean wtf is the deal with listing "libs" ?? (is she emma in disguise?)

yes, she was, as far as I can tell. But it's OK not to get that, if you're an intermitant dwellar/don't read everything/non-photographic memory/newb/non-nerd it's totally understandable to think that either/or might be OK and give them a chance.