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by Magicziggy » Sat Sep 24, 2011 2:51 am
Seth wrote:charlou wrote:Seth, for someone who's been in schneibster's shoes elsewhere, you display a complete, yet unsurprising, lack of empathy.
Is "go fuck yourself" playing nice?
When someone says, "You need to wake up if you want to be
fit to be a human companion", I feel justified in saying "go fuck yourself." It's just banter, doncha know...
Banter it is not.
It is aggressive ratcheting of a conversation that had already crossed the playing nice event horizon several eons ago.
IMO
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by Schneibster » Mon Oct 24, 2011 5:38 am
http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/0 ... n-twitter/
With assholes like that out there I have to listen to the shit from the "in crowd."
Bigotry sucks.
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by Robert_S » Mon Oct 24, 2011 5:43 am
Welcome back Schneibster!
What I've found with a few discussions I've had lately is this self-satisfaction that people express with their proffessed open mindedness. In realty it ammounts to wilful ignorance and intellectual cowardice as they are choosing to not form any sort of opinion on a particular topic. Basically "I don't know and I'm not going to look at any evidence because I'm quite happy on this fence."
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by Magicziggy » Mon Oct 24, 2011 5:44 am
Welcome Schneibster. You're late again!
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by Gallstones » Mon Oct 24, 2011 5:54 am
I'm glad you're back Schneibster.
You will never be more accepted than you are here---probably.
But then, I've been wrong before and I'm drunk right now.
Still, I am glad you're back.
That much is true.
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by Robert_S » Mon Oct 24, 2011 6:01 am
I may get pissed off, but I never write anyone off.
What I've found with a few discussions I've had lately is this self-satisfaction that people express with their proffessed open mindedness. In realty it ammounts to wilful ignorance and intellectual cowardice as they are choosing to not form any sort of opinion on a particular topic. Basically "I don't know and I'm not going to look at any evidence because I'm quite happy on this fence."
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by Hermit » Mon Oct 24, 2011 7:13 am
Schneibster wrote:I have to listen to the shit from the "in crowd."
Actually, you don't.
Schneibster wrote:Bigotry sucks.
I'm with you on that one, but you're not telling anyone anything they don't already know.
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by Ronja » Mon Oct 24, 2011 7:44 am
Welcome back, Schneibster!
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by Robert_S » Mon Oct 24, 2011 8:15 am
Could you clarify what you mean by that post Schneibster? What does the Mabus case have to do with the "in crowd"?
AFAIK, nobody here comes close to his kind of crazy.
What I've found with a few discussions I've had lately is this self-satisfaction that people express with their proffessed open mindedness. In realty it ammounts to wilful ignorance and intellectual cowardice as they are choosing to not form any sort of opinion on a particular topic. Basically "I don't know and I'm not going to look at any evidence because I'm quite happy on this fence."
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by Gawdzilla Sama » Mon Oct 24, 2011 10:54 am
Robert_S wrote:Could you clarify what you mean by that post Schneibster? What does the Mabus case have to do with the "in crowd"?
AFAIK, nobody here comes close to his kind of crazy.
Got my own, don't need his.
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by Schneibster » Mon Oct 24, 2011 7:27 pm
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by Ronja » Mon Oct 24, 2011 7:35 pm
Relevance? (not that there needs to be any, of course)
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by Don't Panic » Mon Oct 24, 2011 7:47 pm
Welcome back schneib, how fared the expedition to the wilder reaches of the web?
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by Schneibster » Mon Oct 24, 2011 7:51 pm
Pappa wrote:devogue wrote:And as it also happens I pointed out that in this instance he had clear grounds for his grievance, grounds which I laid out quite clearly in my
first post in this thread. There was
clear, indisputable evidence of inconsistent moderation within the thread in which Seth and Schneibster were arguing - Seth got a bye, while Schneibster was moderated.
Except nether were reminded for personal attacks. Schneibster was reminded
for quite a few posts that taken together were felt to be in breach of the play nice rule not being as popular as Seth.
FIFY.
ETA: God fucking damn I wish you'd fix the quotes. I could do it but the last time I offered to fix some idiot bug on someone's site they had a paranoid fit about how I was gonna take over.
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by Schneibster » Mon Oct 24, 2011 7:55 pm
Pappa wrote:I'm not happy at all about the way people reacted to him in this thread. I suspect he's probably one of those people that would have acted the way he did anyway, but I think the response from us was terrible, far too emotive and very hostile.
Thanks for making up a pretty demeaning lie about me. I hope you weren't counting on getting any of my money anytime soon.
Meanwhile, gee, you know, I don't suppose my reaction had anything to do with the response I'd gotten before we even started in on the gang rape scene.
Nawww.
Then you'd look bad for not doing anything about it, right? And Gawd forbid you actually have to do anything.
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