DaveDodo007... I mean... Rationalskepticism,lol.

[LucidFlight]

Isn't that something? I just submitted my note to terminate my membership there.

RS

Because Samsa (supposedly) insulted Cito? Or because Samsa was suspended for a year?

Neither. I quit before Mr. Samsa's latest episode, and my reasons are my own.

RS

I don't know whether you are angry in real life, but you post very angry over there. Probably a good thing for your mental health to walk away.

It's probably a good thing for both myself and ratskep, but again, my reasons are my own. I do, however, delight in the armchair psychoanalysis you have displayed above. Since you have apparently read every single post I made there perhaps you point out the anger in my contributions to the "Self Taken Pictures of Wildlife" thread. I must have been in such a blind rage that I've forgotten what I posted.

RS

Woah there, theropod! No need to go flying off the handle, mate. Look, I know what it's like to be lost in a sea of hatred and aggression. Tensions are high right now, there's no doubt about that, but we have to get it together and not let all our pent-up angst and vitriol control our lives. Want me to go through those breathing exercises with you again? Come on. We can work through this together. Just give it a chance.

[pErvinalia]

Isn't that something? I just submitted my note to terminate my membership there.

RS

Because Samsa (supposedly) insulted Cito? Or because Samsa was suspended for a year?

Neither. I quit before Mr. Samsa's latest episode, and my reasons are my own.

RS

I don't know whether you are angry in real life, but you post very angry over there. Probably a good thing for your mental health to walk away.

It's probably a good thing for both myself and ratskep, but again, my reasons are my own. I do, however, delight in the armchair psychoanalysis you have displayed above. Since you have apparently read every single post I made there perhaps you point out the anger in my contributions to the "Self Taken Pictures of Wildlife" thread. I must have been in such a blind rage that I've forgotten what I posted.

RS

I've read every single one of your posts, and 72% of them are angry.

[Fallible]

That's very precise, rEv.

[pErvinalia]

I rounded down.

[theropod]

I rounded down.

Right. Glad to know you have read all 6,501 of my postings on ratskep so carefully and arrived at your concise professional opinion. Thank you ever so much for this free service you have provided. Perhaps you can reference me to a local professional so that I may get the in depth help I so desperately need. Just knowing you care this much means the world to me. So few people are this thoughtful these days, and you should feel pride in the fullness of your compassion. I now feel a breakthrough may just be around the next corner. My life might now have the meaning that has been missing these many years. Again, thank you ever so much. I remain in your debt as long as I may live.

RS

[laklak]

Glad to see you here, theropod. Welcome to the lifeboat's leaky inner tube.

[pErvinalia]

I rounded down.

Right. Glad to know you have read all 6,501 of my postings on ratskep so carefully and arrived at your concise professional opinion. Thank you ever so much for this free service you have provided. Perhaps you can reference me to a local professional so that I may get the in depth help I so desperately need. Just knowing you care this much means the world to me. So few people are this thoughtful these days, and you should feel pride in the fullness of your compassion. I now feel a breakthrough may just be around the next corner. My life might now have the meaning that has been missing these many years. Again, thank you ever so much. I remain in your debt as long as I may live.

RS

Why are you so angry?

[theropod]

I rounded down.

Right. Glad to know you have read all 6,501 of my postings on ratskep so carefully and arrived at your concise professional opinion. Thank you ever so much for this free service you have provided. Perhaps you can reference me to a local professional so that I may get the in depth help I so desperately need. Just knowing you care this much means the world to me. So few people are this thoughtful these days, and you should feel pride in the fullness of your compassion. I now feel a breakthrough may just be around the next corner. My life might now have the meaning that has been missing these many years. Again, thank you ever so much. I remain in your debt as long as I may live.

RS

Why are you so angry?

Come on. You can troll better than this. I've seen the your definitive work, and the above falls far short of the epic tomes Ive previously witnessed. At least do us the favor of putting a little effort into it. Sad, really, to see how your skills have become so dulled.

RS

[Hermit]

Come on. You can troll better than this. I've seen the your definitive work, and the above falls far short of the epic tomes Ive previously witnessed. At least do us the favor of putting a little effort into it. Sad, really, to see how your skills have become so dulled.

Oh come on, Theropod. Cut rEvolutionist some slack. Having moved to the coast he is now more interested in photographing seagulls on the beach and chewing the fat with his new mate, Syd than to stir up tempers. He's become too contented and a bit too flabby for all this excitement.

[laklak]

A salt water redneck is something to be
If you want to be a salt water redneck well just follow me.

[DaveDodo007]

The 1,000 post.

On rEv's thread.

[tattuchu]

I think I understand the requisite posting style of RS members now. It goes somewhat like this:
1) M1 (member the 1st) posts a relatively innocuous comment or remark, incapable of causing offense by any reasonable measure.
2) M2 (member the 2nd) -whether unintentionally or willfully- misinterprets, misrepresents, and overreacts to M1's comment. M2 then launches into a lengthy screed. "Lengthy screed" is not redundant here because the screed is lengthy even for a screed.
3) M1...well, it really doesn't matter what M1 says in response. He may try to clarify his original statement, he may call M2 an idiot or a retard (in polite or impolite terms), he may be compassionate in his response, or he may employ humor. Again, it doesn't matter what he says because...
4) M2 will take his response as an opportunity to launch into a diatribe, as verbose and look-how-clever-I-am sarcastic as possible, and carefully misconstruing M1's response and especially ignoring any good-natured humor that may have been in it. The important thing here is to one-up the (perceived) opponent.
5) M1 will either respond or not. If he responds, it could be in any manner of ways. It really doesn't matter how he responds, however, because...
6) M2 will take M1's response as further proof of his opponent's intellectual inferiority. M2 will then declare himself victorious in the (imagined) battle, and he may then launch into another diatribe in order to hammer this point home.
7) [optional] If M1 fails to respond again to the clearly mentally deficient or insane M2, as there's no longer any point in attempting to engage with a stupid crazy person, M2 take the silence as an admission of defeat on M1's part.

[Strontium Dog]

I think I understand the requisite posting style of RS members now. It goes somewhat like this:
1) M1 (member the 1st) posts a relatively innocuous comment or remark, incapable of causing offense by any reasonable measure.
2) M2 (member the 2nd) -whether unintentionally or willfully- misinterprets, misrepresents, and overreacts to M1's comment. M2 then launches into a lengthy screed. "Lengthy screed" is not redundant here because the screed is lengthy even for a screed.
3) M1...well, it really doesn't matter what M1 says in response. He may try to clarify his original statement, he may call M2 an idiot or a retard (in polite or impolite terms), he may be compassionate in his response, or he may employ humor. Again, it doesn't matter what he says because...
4) M2 will take his response as an opportunity to launch into a diatribe, as verbose and look-how-clever-I-am sarcastic as possible, and carefully misconstruing M1's response and especially ignoring any good-natured humor that may have been in it. The important thing here is to one-up the (perceived) opponent.
5) M1 will either respond or not. If he responds, it could be in any manner of ways. It really doesn't matter how he responds, however, because...
6) M2 will take M1's response as further proof of his opponent's intellectual inferiority. M2 will then declare himself victorious in the (imagined) battle, and he may then launch into another diatribe in order to hammer this point home.
7) [optional] If M1 fails to respond again to the clearly mentally deficient or insane M2, as there's no longer any point in attempting to engage with a stupid crazy person, M2 take the silence as an admission of defeat on M1's part.

All this time I was struggling for an identity and now I have one. I am an M1. Thank you.

[Gallstones]

I said that part of his post was incomprehensible and sounded like the kind of thing a schizophrenic would write.

When you feel you don't understand what someone is saying, or feel you don't understand the relevance of what someone is saying, you're always happy to let the world know. It's all just monolithically incomprehensible, according to you. I think you're lying when you say you don't understand, or say you don't understand the relevance. It may only be a dreary mixture of inarticulate laziness and arrogance failing to find alternatives to animated gifs and snippets from the PMG. I could forgive your sad performance only if it was evidence of a reading disability or plain stupidity on your part. You simply took your laziness and arrogance to another level in trying to blame your purported lexical difficulties on something in someone else's head.

You're among the finest examples I've ever seen on the internet of somebody who keeps pulling the same infantile shit over and over again, finding it doesn't work, and blaming the pain on anyone but himself. Do you wonder why my shit works at RatSkep and yours doesn't? Stop blaming other people for your problems and you'll become a happier camper almost immediately. Just FTR, Samsa, I find nothing wrong with a little arrogance if you back it up with something besides the arrogance itself. At the very least, I wrote stuff that passes the FUA at RatSkep, and you didn't. To go with piscator's analogy, we'd call it 'sailing close to the wind', which requires some skill, or so I've heard. No luff lost between us.

You must be very lonely.



Or else incapable uff it.

[surreptitious57]

I was just thinking that if this was a Rat Skep thread it would probably be locked by now while
mods considered multiple reports. The freedom over here is far greater than over there so that
in and of itself is a good thing. Though for myself it makes no actual difference but just saying