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Imaginary Friend
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I mean, really! It's been awfully quiet around here recently. What have you got to say for yourselves? Hmmm?
[ 21. November 2012, 00:46: Message edited by: Kelly Alves ]
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Kelly Alves
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Since when do we have to report our innermost thoughts to you, Big Brother? Your parental tone offends me.
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Jesus loves me, this I know” of they don’t believe “Kelly loves me, this I know.”
Kelly Alves, somewhere around 2003.
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Meg the Red
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Kelly, as someone who has no biological children, I am offended by your use of the term "parental". I can be just as annoyingly overbearing and directive as anyone who's actually given birth.
[ 04. April 2012, 15:01: Message edited by: Meg the Red ]
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jedijudy
Organist of the Jedi Temple
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Oh dear, oh dear. Meg, as a non-annoyingly overbearing and directive parent, I take great exception to your broad statement. My children will tell you that I am never offensive. Hmmph.
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Imaginary Friend
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And who says that your children are the final arbiters of all that is Right And True™? Do you think the rest of us don't have a brain? Or that we're blind to what is going on around us? Disgraceful!
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kingsfold
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Are you suggesting I'm visually impaired?
I'll have you know I'm not in the least bit blind to what is going on around me. I simply choose not to pay it any attention.
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mousethief
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I see how you mock people with attention disorders. Do you kiss your mother with that mouth?
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fletcher christian
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When did you kiss my mother?! You home wrecker!
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Stetson
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Vie En Rouge, can you begin to imagine what it's like for the visually impaired to go through life having to endure repeated usages of "seeing" as a metaphor for "knowing"?
Thank God this site isn't translated into braille.
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QLib
Bad Example
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You numpty - How dare you be so patronising to people with VI? They are perfectly capable of understanding that seeing is knowing.
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Ariston
Insane Unicorn
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Whereas you, Sir, may be capible of seeing, but it is plain that knowing escapes you.
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Offeiriad
Ship's Arboriculturalist
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I am offended that one who accuses others of not knowing things seems not even to know how to use a spell-checker. I thought this was an English website?
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Stejjie
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English? So you would deliberately exclude American, Aussie and whatever-else from the ship?! Offended? I'll say! ![[Disappointed]](graemlins/disappointed.gif)
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mousethief
Ship's Thieving Rodent
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How could you possible use "whatever" when speaking of persons? Treating them like mere objects instead of saying "whoever"?
(Aside to Stetson: when I first started hanging out with blind people in number, I felt very uncomfortable when they used "I see" to mean "I understand." Wisely I didn't mention it.)
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jedijudy
Organist of the Jedi Temple
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In crowd? There's an In Crowd? Gwai, I thought you were my friend! Why haven't you told me about this before?
I am shocked, shocked, I tell you. I think I'll just go have a little bit of a lie down. And a cool rag on my poor aching head.
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Stejjie
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Oh that's right - you just take the cool rag! Don't worry about us, we'll be fine, you just go right on ahead.
A little word called "please" wouldn't hurt, you know.
[ 04. April 2012, 19:52: Message edited by: Stejjie ]
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Banner Lady
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I find it offensive that you are attempting to impersonate my mother. Particularly with that moustache, Stejjie.
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Schroedinger's cat
Ship's cool cat
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Oh, so you have a problem with facial hair now? That is sexist and beardist. I am sick to death of those who don't appreciate the care and attention we have to lavish on our faces each month.
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Meg the Red
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Sexist? SEXIST? Do you have to scrape or burn off or rip your hair out by the roots on a regular basis to satisfy unrealistic expectations promoted by fashion media? Please - when do I get to lavish attention on my leg hair?
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The Weeder
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How dare you boast about your wealth of facial hair! Some of us wept when we were children, and discovered how difficult it would be for us to grow decent facial hair, simply because we were female.
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mousethief
Ship's Thieving Rodent
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I can't believe you'd follow a cross-post like that, and then not either go back and delete, or change your post to respond to the cross-poster. What were you thinking?
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Piglet
Islander
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[tangent ON]
Was this thread started to give Mousethief a leg-up in his quest to reach 100,000 posts?
[/tangent OFF]
I'll go now, because I'm just not all that easily offended.
Goodbye. **waves**
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Kelly Alves
Bunny with an axe
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Well, lah-di-freaking-dah, Ms Superior Aboveitall. I guess the collective whines of the less evolved bruises your tender ears. I'm sorry we mere mortals don't measure up.
[ 05. April 2012, 02:46: Message edited by: Kelly Alves ]
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I cannot expect people to believe “
Jesus loves me, this I know” of they don’t believe “Kelly loves me, this I know.”
Kelly Alves, somewhere around 2003.
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Ariston
Insane Unicorn
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Mere mortal? Look hon, I think you have to evolve beyond the primordial ooze—you know, show some signs of life—before you can claim that title.
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Kelly Alves
Bunny with an axe
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OK, Mr. "Wander onto a Game Thread and do as I damn well please", where is your offense? Where? If you have been quivering with the pent-up desire to randomly smack me with a wholly undeserved and wildly inaccurate put-down, you know where Hell is.
Sorry, my Circus friends, I know that I shall be sniffed at for "junior hosting" but my offense at this blatant rulebreaker knows no bounds.
Also-
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Primordial ooze
Your mama.
Pfft. At the very least I'm a simple vertebrate.
[Outrage makes me fuck up my code. All your fault, jackass.]
[ 05. April 2012, 06:36: Message edited by: Kelly Alves ]
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I cannot expect people to believe “
Jesus loves me, this I know” of they don’t believe “Kelly loves me, this I know.”
Kelly Alves, somewhere around 2003.
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Welease Woderwick
Sister Incubus Nightmare
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My Dear Ms Alves, please don't use such language, some of us have tender ears and even more tender constitutions, you know - at least you admit you are, and I quote, simple, which is, I suppose, partial reparation.
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What part of Matt. 7:1 don't you understand?
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QLib
Bad Example
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Hey, man, don't you go dissin' my sister - and don't be tellin' her what language she can and can't use, neither. Tender ears? You got too damn many tender ears by the look of you.
Freak.
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Sylvander
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Offended by the sheer lack of attention to detail. You're not here for the fun of it, mate.
a) He's not a man but a three-swollen-headed god or something
b) he has no ears asfaIcs. This oversight and the quality of your avatar painting suggest you should kindly join the queue for the blind and stop barging in on this gathering of sensitive verte brats, whatever that may be, a kind of Easter bunny presumably.
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Stejjie
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quote:
Originally posted by Sylvander:
You're not here for the fun of it, mate.
Fun? Fun? None of us are here for fun! How dare you suggest that anyone could consider something as serious, worthwhile, important and meaningful as the Ship in general and this thread in particular could be considered as mere fun. We're pouring our souls out into these posts, you know.
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justlooking
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Well, this side of the Pennines we know what fun is and I was having fun reading it till you popped up from t'other side.
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Stejjie
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quote:
Originally posted by justlooking:
Well, this side of the Pennines we know what fun is and I was having fun reading it till you popped up from t'other side.
[Tangent]The irony of which is, I was born in Grimsby and lived in Sheffield, so I am actually from the right side of the Pennines...[/tangent]
... which makes it all the more offensive that you would assume that just because I live here, I am from the wrong side of the Pennines.
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justlooking
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I have assumed only that in responding with a serious nowt-to-laugh-at approach you are either a native or have successfully assimilated.
(At least you acknowledge that it is the wrong side)
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Welease Woderwick
Sister Incubus Nightmare
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I am offended that you should post so rapidly that my carefully thought out and erudite post, as you'd expect from me, should have to be deleted and replaced with this tosh!
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What part of Matt. 7:1 don't you understand?
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justlooking
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I will post as wapidly as I wish Woderwick. I am offended that you should assume precedence.
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Welease Woderwick
Sister Incubus Nightmare
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I am offended that you should assume I seek precedence - all I seek is a fair crack of the whip!
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Fancy a break in South India?
Accessible Homestay Guesthouse in Central Kerala, contact me for details
What part of Matt. 7:1 don't you understand?
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justlooking
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I am offended you should assume that I am the assumer. My point is about your assumptions. I have not assumed. I have pointed to your assuming precedence, not seeking it.
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Sioni Sais
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I am offended by your pointing out assumptions. It is rude to point.
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Rowen
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I am offended by your judgmental attitude in pointing out othrs' faults.... Surely we should just go about forgiving folk for their stupidity and rudeness but tactfully not point it out....
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Imaginary Friend
Real to you
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Look here, pal. The Assumption of Mary is a most wonderful and blessed feast in which we celebrate the passing of our Dear Lord's mother bodily into heaven. It is a very sombre and reverential day. So for you to casually call out 'assumptions' and suggest that any one of us takes them less than seriously is really quite horribly offensive.
[Cross-posted with Rowen. Oops. ![[Hot and Hormonal]](icon_redface.gif) ]
[ 05. April 2012, 12:24: Message edited by: Imaginary Friend ]
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Welease Woderwick
Sister Incubus Nightmare
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I'm offended that when you crossposted with our Reverend Sister you didn't delete your post and write a new one - lazy or what?
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What part of Matt. 7:1 don't you understand?
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Ariston
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Can it, Frenchie. You can talk when you move somewhere you have to actually work eight hours a day and can't spend August lazing about.
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Kelly Alves
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OK, first off, French-baiting is so Bush-era.
Second, the bitter spite and envy saturating your last post condensed on my monitor, dripped down the screen, and corroded my computer desk. I think $347.95 ought to cover it-- note I have thoughtfully calculated tax and shipping for you.
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I cannot expect people to believe “
Jesus loves me, this I know” of they don’t believe “Kelly loves me, this I know.”
Kelly Alves, somewhere around 2003.
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Imaginary Friend
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You patronizing so-and-so! Who made you god to decide which courier service and taxation jurisdiction to use for the replacement of your desk? Huh? Perhaps FedEx is a better choice than UPS. Maybe USPS beats them both! How do you know? Not only would inquiring minds like to be enlightened about how you got to your conclusion, they demand to see justification for your assumed ability to make such a judgement in the first place.
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justlooking
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I have an enquiring mind and I don't give a monkey's about Fedex or whoever. I want to know about the desk. Where's the proof it was damaged? Is it really worth what's being claimed or is it actually a cheapo self-assembly job from Argos? What about contributory negligence in failing to cover the desk with a bile-protector? These are the things that exercise an enquiring mind.
I am offended that you make assumptions about the direction of my enquiries.
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What's this about proof it was damaged? Don't try to deny that your reference to proof is a sly secularist dig at supposedly benighted religious believers. We can tell.
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justlooking
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Well! Talk about paranoid!
For your information Daffy religious believers don't have to accept whatever they're told. Being gormless and gullible does not make you a better person.
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QLib
Bad Example
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Excuse me - I have to tell you that followers of the great Daffy do, in fact, have to accept exactly what we're told and I take great exception to your use of words such as gormless and gullible in this context. Daffy is a duck - in fact He is The Duck - and the mention of any kind of gull in the same sentence is... oh damn
- now look what you made me do.
[ 05. April 2012, 22:32: Message edited by: QLib ]
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