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Sylvander
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What? ![[Eek!]](eek.gif)
Are you telling me this is not my personal MHIDPB (Mental Health Issues Diagnosis Practice Board)? A thread where I am the only human among a horde of folk who think they are penguins, maniac bunnies, skulls, cats, flags, windows, blops, logos, multi-headed ogres, sculptures, fairies, guys who don't know whether they are frank, franker or furter and even one who thinks he is an inane grin? What is this then? An expressionist zoo?
I must have taken the wrong turn a full nineteen pages ago and none of you told me. Referee! Please note: "Sylvander registers offence."
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Smudgie
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So you get to register your fence, do you? What about the rest of us? Are our fences invalid simply because we haven't completed the necessary paperwork in triplicate three months in advance? Do you want to tie everything up in red tape? Typical German! ![[Biased]](wink.gif)
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Welease Woderwick
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I'm offended you should keep up the pretence that there's a difference - French, German, British: you're all ex-Imperialists!
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What part of Matt. 7:1 don't you understand?
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EtymologicalEvangelical
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Only "ex"-Imperialists?
Perhaps some of us haven't yet retired!
[ 28. June 2012, 16:20: Message edited by: EtymologicalEvangelical ]
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You can argue with a man who says, 'Rice is unwholesome': but you neither can nor need argue with a man who says, 'Rice is unwholesome, but I'm not saying this is true'. CS Lewis
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lilBuddha
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Oh right! Another should be pensioner staying in a job far past your usefulness when it should be available to younger people. How can I get my turn at Imperialism if you won't move on? ![[Disappointed]](graemlins/disappointed.gif)
[ 28. June 2012, 16:54: Message edited by: lilBuddha ]
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Ariston
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Haven't you read your post-colonial theory? I'm offended by your provincialism! Really now, the fact that anyone would be thinking of empire in this neo-post-Marxist day and age is just shocking! Horrifying, even! I ought to forcibly annex wherever you live just for saying such things!
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Bean Sidhe
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According to my researches, this is John Wesley's birthday and Queen Victoria's coronation day, not to mention Soviet Occupation Day in Moldova - but neo-post-Marxist day? That's pre-post-erous.
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Sylvander
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![[Waterworks]](graemlins/bawling.gif) ![[Frown]](frown.gif)
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lilBuddha
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Sylvander,
While your last post is no less coherent than is typical, no words leave little to be offended by. Which is very offensive in itself.
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Hallellou, hallellou
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Kelly Alves
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You aren't trying hard enough, you slacker.
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Originally posted by Sylvander:
What's with the odd sad face in the middle of the waterworks? Are you faking it? If you really were as heartbroken as you claim to be, wouldn't you be waterworks across the board? I have a feeling I am being took. Hoodwinked. Bamboozled. Led astray. Run amok.
There you go, Buddhette, see what you can do when you apply yourself?
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Ariston
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Dear Kelly,
I find it offensive that you single out the lone blue face among the slightly more purple ones for special notice. After all, I can't imagine you can't sympathize with being the one person not crying while everyone else is sobbing at nothing. I'm offended that you think everyone should sob at once, rather than at their own discretion.
Insincerely,
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Welease Woderwick
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I'm shocked you should use a word like discretion when we have no debate on whether or not free will exists - if it does some of our shipmates may be in real trouble in the next life!
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What part of Matt. 7:1 don't you understand?
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Sylvander
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So Will exists. Oh, really! That's a bit thin!
We want more information. Where does he exist? With whom? How long for so far? Does he work? What's he look like? Is he an upstanding member of the community or an Italian? Is he happy? Does he cut his toe nails regularly? Is he a shipmate? Who cares? That kind of stuff. More effort, please.
PS: If anyone ever again suggests that my sobs where for NOTHING he may yet come to experience the extent to which the unpredictability of my free will extends! I may not know Alesia but I bitterly resent someone else saying it doesn't.
PPS: I forgot to include one inhabitant in my personal expressionist zoo inventory (seeing where we are, should I say Ark?). That's because the Frog 'n Flower had been hiding in her den for over a page. Doesn't affect the human-weirdo ratio, of ccourse.
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Dafyd
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All these efforts to undermine Will's privacy. I'll remind you that the Ship has a policy of not outing shipmates. You'll be trying to hack his phone next. Will's privacy is his own business and he may release details of his private life or not as he so wishes.
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Lucia
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Reminding people of Ship policies eh? Made a close study of them have you and think the rest of us don't have the decency to adhere to them? Who made you a junior host?
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Banner Lady
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Well, that's rich, coming from a newbie like you.
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Smudgie
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There you go, offensively jumping to the wrong conclusion again. Just because Lucia doesn't babble on, with something to say on every subject, you assume she's a newbie. She's been around a long time (much as she tries to hide the wrinkles, I think someone ought to have a word with her about the brand of rejuvenating creme she uses!). Yes, she neglects her duty to post on this thread, but she's not likely to do so if you act so utterly offensively towards her, is she?
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Welease Woderwick
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"Offensively jumping"? Can one jump to conclusions inoffensively? I must ask an ex-teacher friend that one but I don't think so.
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What part of Matt. 7:1 don't you understand?
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Sylvander
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With all due disrespect, when YOU jump do you take the Zimmer frame with you? Your words betray pure envy at those of us who can make impressive jumps of half a yard on a good day. No wonder you only have ex-friends left to ask.
And what's the point of me making a fine list if there are constantly new creatures appearing? The flag hasn't said boo for yonks of years and now there is a stowaway eye nobody knew anything about. Before posting can't you report to the Registration Office and get form G76b (Ammended form 26/8/1964) "Bureaucrat Employment Initiative for the Complication of Simple Processes", fill in three copies in pink, green and gray and file it in the big drawer marked "bin"? You guys are about as well organised as the German Mighty Headless Chicken Defence against Italy. Frankly, if you don't pull yourselves together I shall never marry you.
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justlooking
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You certainly have a way of making newcomers feel welcome ![[Roll Eyes]](rolleyes.gif) Someone gathers the courage to open the door and edge in hoping for a word of welcome, an encouraging smile, just some little spark of acceptance. And what do they get? I'll tell you what they get. They get scorn and derision, they get to be the butt of some feeble 'joke', they get to feel they've committed some kind of crime just for wanting to join in. You may have jumping skills, you may wear a big hat, but you've got no heart.
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Curiosity killed ...
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It's the way everyone who takes part has to be accounted for, on the right list and ticked off. It all just smacks of Germanic pseudo-efficiency, but really that officiousness that needs to put everything in tidy boxes.
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Sylvander
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When I try to put every thing in a tidy box it ain't right.
When I try to put every body in a tidy bed it ain't right.
Some things are really hard to please ...
Isn't it time for an "I am offended" smiley? Because I am yet again.
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lilBuddha
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So it's untidy boxes for you then, is it? Some of us may not wish to be put in messy, disorganized boxes. Indeed, some do not like being put in boxes at all! No light, gets a bit stuffy and one tends to get excluded from conversation when stuck in a box. Not to mention the practical jokes. Knock knock Who is it? Hello? Is no one out there? All very distressing.
ETA: And Sylvander! a gentleman waits before cross posting.
[ 29. June 2012, 12:51: Message edited by: lilBuddha ]
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Smudgie
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So, 29 smilies not enough for you, eh? As if our hosts and admins didn't have enough to do keeping the rabble in line without responding to your every whim smilie-wise. You didn't even offer to send them chocolate as a bribe/incentive. (If you want to practise this practice, feel free to practise on me, by the way).
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Smudgie
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quote:
Originally posted by lilBuddha:
ETA: And Sylvander! a gentleman waits before cross posting.
Clearly no gentleman, then, are you lil? Nor a lady-in-waiting. Your cross-posting has resulted in this very cross post! ![[Mad]](angryfire.gif)
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Welease Woderwick
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I am offended, dear Smudgiekins, that you consider yourself capable of discerning who is, or is not, a gentleman!
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What part of Matt. 7:1 don't you understand?
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Lucia
Looking for light
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Diminutives can express smallness, youth or unimportance. And the suffix -kins forms intentionally childish or twee diminutives of nouns. So I can only suppose your putting down of Smudgie by using the diminutive "Smudgiekins" just serves to bolster your flagging ego by making you feel superior. And calling her "dear" just further enhances the passive-aggressive way in which you are doing it!
[ 29. June 2012, 13:32: Message edited by: Lucia ]
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Smudgie
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Well, I am small and I am young, so I don't know who died and made you my personal umbrage-taker. If there is any umbrage to be taken, I am perfectly capable of taking it myself (despite my smallness of stature and youthfulness). If Weasel wishes to pander to me with endearments, then that is only to be expected, adorable as I am. So keep your offendedness to your own issues and stop muscling in on mine.
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lilBuddha
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No, no, Smudgie, this is not the alter ego thread.
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Hallellou, hallellou
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kingsfold
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Why should I wish to alter my ego? Can you not accept me as I am?
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lilBuddha
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If you were but a bit closer to acceptable, perhaps....
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Kelly Alves
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You know, Mousethief is gonna come down here with guns blazing if you try to take his one-liner crown away, Buddhette. Just sayin'
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Jesus loves me, this I know” of they don’t believe “Kelly loves me, this I know.”
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Lucia
Looking for light
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Why do some people always want to resort to firearms as their first option at the slightest provocation? What's wrong with having a calm discussion about the issue?
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Sylvander
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I agree, using a silencer makes life so much easier for everybody. Think of the neighbours when you are having the discussion by night for instance.
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EtymologicalEvangelical
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A silencer? How disgusting. You may like to stick a dummy in your neighbour's mouth when having a discussion with the poor soul, but really, do you have to lower the tone of this sublime thread with such an image?!
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Stejjie
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There's little that's more offensive than confusing "Your" and You're"
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justlooking
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Life must be very sweet in Urmston if there's little more to offend you than someone writing 'your' when they mean 'you're'. You need to get out more. Go to Halifax, Leeds, Rotherham, or even, if you have the nerve for it, Barnsley. You'll find grocers' apostrophes everywhere, people saying 'of' when they mean 'have' and supposedly educated people writing about the need to be 'focussed'.
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EtymologicalEvangelical
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I'm really quite incensed. For someone born on the correct side of the Pennines, it is really quite appalling that we should have to endure this Yorkshire self-promotion. I mean, if you really must indulge in white rose narcissism, then at least put in a word for Donny (yes, that's Donny, for you heathen you haven't yet heard). Eeh, I remember them days...
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You can argue with a man who says, 'Rice is unwholesome': but you neither can nor need argue with a man who says, 'Rice is unwholesome, but I'm not saying this is true'. CS Lewis
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justlooking
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Eeeh EE you do carry on. Look again, carefully this time. You will see the point I am making is hardly in favour of the white rose. I am contrasting the grimness of this county with the merely mild offensiveness of Urmston.
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EtymologicalEvangelical
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Be that as it may... I am still incensed.
It's sly Yorkshire promotion by irony.
Yep. That's it.
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You can argue with a man who says, 'Rice is unwholesome': but you neither can nor need argue with a man who says, 'Rice is unwholesome, but I'm not saying this is true'. CS Lewis
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Smudgie
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Stop flaunting your piety at us, will you? Can't you remember what Jesus had to say about people making a big song and dance about letting people know they'd been praying? I suppose you still being incensed does have the benefit of making you smell a bit sweeter, but there's no need to advertised the fact that you've only just come from praying. You think that'll gain you promotion? You are sadly mistaken. It's us sinners who will make it in the end.
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Welease Woderwick
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I'm offended that in your own case you didn't put mega- in front of sinners but then you may be living in a world of make-believe.
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What part of Matt. 7:1 don't you understand?
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lilBuddha
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Oh, now what is wrong with the world of make-believe? What is so special about reality in any case? In make believe , the world is so much more pleasant. One can, withinin limits, imagine great improvement on others. For example, in make believe, KA is very nearly sane, you are just shy of tolerable, Sylvander is only slightly repulsive, Smudgie reeks only a little of halibut, uffda has at least three brain cells to rub together, etc. I interestingly, I do not change at all.
ETA: even imagination does not improve my typos.
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Welease Woderwick
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quote:
Originally posted by lilBuddha:
...withinin...
ETA: even imagination does not improve my typos.
I'm offended that even editing time doesn't correct them either!
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What part of Matt. 7:1 don't you understand?
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Curiosity killed ...
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And I'm offended by the level of nit-picking on this thread, nay, even inaccurate pedantry. Both Chambers and Fowler cite "focussed" and "focused" as valid in English, although Fowler comments on the irregularity of the formation.
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Bean Sidhe
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Nit-picking? I'm all for it. Nasty, itchy little buggers. I still have an electric comb that used to fry the kids' (please note the terminal apostrophe).
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His lips are moving.
Danny DeVito
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uffda
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Really, Bean, I've heard children referred to as "rugrats" or "curtain climbers", but "Nasty, itchy little buggers?" And frying them is no answer. Perhaps a nice family could be found to take them off your hands.
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Invincibly ignorant and planning to stay that way!
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Smudgie
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Gratuitous ignoring of terminal apostrophes is a crime to punctuation second only to inappropriate application of same. Beanie specifically asked you to take due consideration of her application of said punctuation and you deliberately chose to ignore her sage instruction. Fie, sir. Fie.
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