Some Dwellars know more than the Senate Intel Cmte

[Happy Monkey]

Originally Posted by lumberjim

you misspelled dillusion

No, you did...

[lumberjim]

d'oh!

[Elspode]

Originally Posted by Undertoad

I have a certain amount of empathy for that

Right, now let's see. I'm unemployed, and face an increasingly threatening financial situation. But I'm healthy, generally optimistic, and have an education, so I will likely recover and bounce back well. If I lose the house I will still be able to afford an apartment with Jacquelita, although I may have to give up my dog.

I rate a mere 3 on the victimization scale. You can, therefore, be mean to me. If I want you to be nicer to me, I should emphasize the negatives and major concerns in my life.

Spode, what I have said to you here is downright mean. But that's OK; you rate a 3 also.

If you feel that I'm somehow minimizing your situation, I apologize. I'm afraid I wasn't aware of it. This is probably because you do not go on about it. I have empathy for *you*, too. However, I'm not sure where I was being mean...or were you referring to Mari?

I know that some of us question whether or not Mari even *was* the victim of CO poisoning.

She knew a lot of intricate details about what that might entail. For example, she complained about not getting expensive hyperbaric treatment. In-between puffs on a cigarette.

I did say that I sometimes doubted either the fact or extent of her poisoning, based on what appeared, on screen, to be a fairly unimpaired writing style. As to bad judgement in her choice to smoke given her condition, I'm eating Taco Bell right now, and I've had a bypass. So Mari and I are equally culpable, or so it would seem by extension.

Again, I agree that Mari's ban became the only reasonable solution, but I don't think the situation was as simple as "Mari's a twit". I'm not sure why you are taking my (what I see as rather mild) expressions of opinion so very personally, but I apologize profusely for any slight, actual or perceived. I think you're a pretty special guy, UT, and definitely not someone who I would offend intentionally or unintentionally.

And with that, I bow out of any further Mari discussions, discretion being the better part of valor.

Owner/mod of this privately owned/run board deemed it necessary to ban her... why is this not the end of this story?

[skysidhe]

Originally Posted by Elspode

~snip I think you're a pretty special guy, UT, and definitely not someone who I would offend intentionally or unintentionally.

ditto

Originally Posted by Elspode

And with that, I bow out of any further Mari discussions, discretion being the better part of valor.

ditto here as well

[limey]

Originally Posted by Undertoad

(quoting limey)FWIW Mari and I were both participants on Another Board a few years ago, and our time there overlapped by a year at least, and this sort of kerfuffle did not happen there.

Perhaps she was more brain-muddled during that period.

Or was it a forum of all women? Women don't complain about each other to their face; that's rude. Women wait until they get to the bathroom with their mates to complain, and then they let loose a way biggger shitstream than I might.

In any case, now she can return there, where they appreciate her so well. Nice to know there's another place for her to participate. This is the Internet, you know, and forums are quite rare.

She may have been more muddled-headed - it was just after the ("alleged")period of CO2 poisoning. It was a board made up largely of women, though I do not agree with your assumptions about that. I am sorry that running this forum has led to this amount of irritation for you.

[LabRat]

Originally Posted by Elspode

...I've mentioned it before, and I'll say it again: no one has ever called Bullshit on any of my tales, yet I have often been complimented on my writing. Would it not follow, then, that I might also possess the skills to mislead convincingly?

How do you know that *I* am not just another Mari, more subtle, more devious...more dishonest?

You don't always have to meet a person face to face to get a bad feeling in your gut...

[Spexxvet]

I don't have a strong feeling about Mari's banning. I would kinda gloss over her posts, and not really read them. If UT and Bruce felt it was best to ban, I accept and support that decision.

[footfootfoot]

Originally Posted by lookout123

Everyone else - Here's your challenge - find something worth discussing and start a thread that will draw everyone there. the person who starts the most interesting thread will get one 8 x 10 autographed photo of LabRat's Ass.

I believe I already started that thread. You may send the photo at your convenience.

[lookout123]

i think you misunderstand. I intend to autograph the photo of labrat's ass because I intend to be in said photo. Now that's a thread no one else has started!

does announcing my devious plan in advance diminish my chances of getting the opportunity for a photo op?

[footfootfoot]

Oh. My minds eye is picturing said signature in a pale viscous ink. Better you keep that one.

[Beestie]

Hey Flint! Lookout's gettin' in your game! You gonna sit back and take that???

Originally Posted by Spexxvet

I don't have a strong feeling about Mari's banning. I would kinda gloss over her posts, and not really read them. If UT and Bruce felt it was best to ban, I accept and support that decision.

Wow... that sounds so familiar...

[Aliantha]

Gee, this thread seems to have progressed pretty well without any futher input from me and yet many have expressed the same opinions as me. I guess my previous few posts weren't for MY benefit after all.

See ya.

[Urbane Guerrilla]

Originally Posted by tw

Let's see how quick I can get banned. "Yes, Virginia, there really is a Santa Clause" . Clearly that is also a li[n]e worthy of . . .

...being quoted more accurately than this. Not that tw can change his spots.

No logical fact posted justified so much hate of marichiko. I can grasp one fact that might justify the censorship. But I have yet to see anyone post that justification. Posted instead are vindictive or juvenile emotions that justify hate. Yes this is a discussion of and contains examples of adults who are still children.

Facts in themselves are not "logical." That is a property of the mind perceiving them. One more sign, tw, that you are not and are never going to be qualified as a great sage -- you're not writing the thing you mean, and you are oblivious to that.

I'm not exactly one of the marichiko haters: my view of the woman is that she's old enough to know better, yet never does. Perhaps this is the childishness of which you speak.