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aumbry
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And you are very welcome to go through all of my past posts to find anything remotely anti-gay. It is only dimbo American liberals that I have a problem with.
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See, I thought aumbry was using irony to poke fun at leo, and admired her subtle touch.
Oh, I suppose she could simply be a strange and insane idiot, there are some of those around, but I thought she was employing irony.
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Tortuf
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aumbry, I think you are doing one hell of a job distracting attention away from leo.
You may want to consider your potential for coming across as someone who has no facility for debate and flings invective to avoid looking a bit dim.
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quote:
Originally posted by Tortuf:
aumbry, I think you are doing one hell of a job distracting attention away from leo.
You may want to consider your potential for coming across as someone who has no facility for debate and flings invective to avoid looking a bit dim.
You're probably crediting aumbry with more self awareness than s/he possesses.
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Yerevan
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I've had Ulysses on the go since circa 2001*. Does that make me an intellectual?
*in fairness I made it to p.330, which 329 pages further than most people.
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quote:
Originally posted by Yerevan:
I've had Ulysses on the go since circa 2001*. Does that make me an intellectual?
*in fairness I made it to p.330, which 329 pages further than most people.
(my italics)
Is it the book you keep in the loo then? There could be any number of reasons for doing so.
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quote:
Originally posted by ExclamationMark:
quote:
Originally posted by sebby:
Neither do books which FR Leavis would have described as 'pulp' count.
That would, unfortunately for him, cover much of his and Queenie's output.
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Anselmina
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quote:
Originally posted by aumbry:
And you are very welcome to go through all of my past posts to find anything remotely anti-gay. It is only dimbo American liberals that I have a problem with.
![[Frown]](frown.gif) You really do have a problem with Americans, don't you. Who'd've thunk it.
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From Purg (but not an appropriate response for purg):
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Originally posted by leo:
2) every member of the teaching staff would have to teach PE - I would never have become a teacher if this had been one of the requirements, nor would most of my colleagues.
Praise the lord.
Assholes like you in the teaching profession are why I can't get the school day extended or the right subjects taught.
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Leo 158 Ken 160.
getting close...
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mousethief
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quote:
Originally posted by Tortuf:
aumbry, I think you are doing one hell of a job distracting attention away from leo.
You may want to consider your potential for coming across as someone who has no facility for debate and flings invective to avoid looking a bit dim.
"Invective"? Is that what they call shit these days?
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It seems to me this is all very far from the original hell call I made, on which I'm not going to get any engagement from leo. (Always was little more than a snow ball's chance).
I guess I'll lapse into the obscurity of yet another notch in the record of leo's hell calls and leave it at that.
Hosts, speaking for myself, I'm done here.
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Tortuf
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Maybe I should be British if I want to practice the art of understatement.
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quote:
Originally posted by aumbry:
Ruth seems ghastly and graceless to me. I am amazed by Leo's patience with such a shrew.
I have never seen Ruth be ghastly, graceless or shrewish. Have I stumbled into some strange Bizzaro-universe? (A bit like the episode of Buffy where we saw what Xander and Willow would be like if they were vampires?)
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I'm no hankie-wringing liberal nor any kind of of Aumbryphobe, but I just can't see the Ruth-the-Shrewth thing either.
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Aumbry's brainless anti-Americanism discredits everything s/he says. If her brain can't work well enough to get out of the anti-American gutter, how can we trust its workings in any other department? And calling RuthW a shrew just confirms this assessment.
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That sort of implies that without the anti-Americanism s/he would be worth reading. I'm sure you can't mean that.
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quote:
Originally posted by mousethief:
Aumbry's brainless anti-Americanism discredits everything s/he says. If her brain can't work well enough to get out of the anti-American gutter, how can we trust its workings in any other department? And calling RuthW a shrew just confirms this assessment.
That's true!
Just like everytime you utter shite, everything else you utter is totally wrong.
Or like the bible. Ya HUH?
Stand TALL aumbry! Don't let the bastards get you down.
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quote:
Originally posted by Evensong:
Stand TALL aumbry! Don't let the bastards get you down.
Apparently alternate universes really do exist. Now I need to find the one where I was born a trust fund baby.
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quote:
Originally posted by Sine Nomine:
Apparently alternate universes really do exist.
Welcome to the real world.
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quote:
Originally posted by Pre-cambrian:
That sort of implies that without the anti-Americanism s/he would be worth reading. I'm sure you can't mean that.
Oooh good point. I take it back.
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Sine Nomine
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quote:
Originally posted by Evensong:
Welcome to the real world.
The world where aumbry is a victimized martyr and you are a brave heroine battling for right?
In that case, please pass the Kool-Aid. There are fates worse than death.
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Tortuf
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I had a look at aumbry's recent oeuvre.
What it reveals to me is a highly intelligent, opinionated, person.
When she is trying to engage, she seems to have interesting facts at hand.
When she is trotting out her anti-American prejudice, she looks to be a goof.
That being said, many of us here, myself included, trot out our prejudices from time to time. And when we do, we look like a goof.
Funny how that works.
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aumbry
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If you want to know the reason that I consider this creature a shrew you only have to look at the reply she made to my post which she so kindly highlighted on this thread. Admittedly at the time I thought I was still in Purgatory and had not realised I had strayed into Hell but the response was hysterical and came freighted with the Mark of the Shrew to say the very least.
To then discover that she in league with her clones, also decided to attack the Saintly Leo my natural instinct for pure justice and to stand up for the victim and against the bullys took hold. The rest is history.
When the only things you have to go on in Hell is that someone is American then anti-Americanism is the only possible form of vituperation left to one although to be fair my ire was directed at Stupid American Liberals and not Americans in general.
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quote:
Originally posted by aumbry:
...the Saintly Leo...
Now I know you're just trolling.
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quote:
Originally posted by aumbry:
If you want to know the reason that I consider this creature a shrew you only have to look at the reply she made to my post which she so kindly highlighted on this thread. Admittedly at the time I thought I was still in Purgatory and had not realised I had strayed into Hell but the response was hysterical and came freighted with the Mark of the Shrew to say the very least.
To then discover that she in league with her clones, also decided to attack the Saintly Leo my natural instinct for pure justice and to stand up for the victim and against the bullys took hold. The rest is history.
When the only things you have to go on in Hell is that someone is American then anti-Americanism is the only possible form of vituperation left to one although to be fair my ire was directed at Stupid American Liberals and not Americans in general.
From reading many of your postings in purgatory I used to think you were intelligent, even when I disagreed with you. This post just showed your ugly, ignorant side. Especially the anti-American tripe. Bigotry is ugly.
I do have to think about Marvin's post, you just might be trolling.
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Tortuf
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quote:
Originally posted by aumbry:
Various forms of outright bullshit.
Thank you for making my point for me aumbry.
My father once told me that when you are mad and want to respond, write a letter. Let all your feelings out. Call the asshole an asshole.
Then, put the letter in a drawer for a few days. After that, take it out and gently place it in the trash.
Some of the best advice he ever gave me. It might apply to others as well.
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For a day or two?
I get mad, I start typing a response. By the time I've finished typing and proofreading. I've stopped being as mad. Ten minutes is enough to calm down.
Nine years on the ship and I've only written one published Hell OP, though I've started to type many.
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Sine Nomine
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quote:
Originally posted by aumbry:
When the only things you have to go on in Hell is that someone is American then anti-Americanism is the only possible form of vituperation left to one
That's so stupid it really deserves to be highlighted.
Although actually you did manage to come up with anti-Americanism and shrewishness. (which suggests to me you are male since surely a woman wouldn't be so self-hating as to call another woman a shrew.)
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quote:
Originally posted by aumbry:
If you want to know the reason that I consider this creature a shrew you only have to look at the reply she made to my post which she so kindly highlighted on this thread. Admittedly at the time I thought I was still in Purgatory and had not realised I had strayed into Hell but the response was hysterical and came freighted with the Mark of the Shrew to say the very least.
If pointing out the fallacy in what passes for argument in that post and standing up for "old Episcopalian queens in America" makes me a shrew, then I'm proud to be a shrew, thanks.
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To then discover that she in league with her clones, also decided to attack the Saintly Leo my natural instinct for pure justice and to stand up for the victim and against the bullys took hold. The rest is history.
leo is a bore and a buffoon. It would be amusing to call him "the Saintly Leo" from here on out, but I'm afraid he'd think I was serious.
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When the only things you have to go on in Hell is that someone is American then anti-Americanism is the only possible form of vituperation left to one although to be fair my ire was directed at Stupid American Liberals and not Americans in general.
How very unimaginative of you. Here, let me give you more to work with: I'm 49, I work as the office manager of an extremely liberal congregation in the United Church of Christ, I live 3 1/2 blocks from the beach in southern California, and I spent yesterday evening at the winebar around the corner drinking red wine, knitting and playing Scrabble -- I lost by 20 points to someone 20 years my junior.
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Tortuf
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You would have won if you weren't a shrew.
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aumbry
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quote:
Originally posted by RuthW:
[QUOTE] Here, let me give you more to work with: I'm 49, I work as the office manager of an extremely liberal congregation in the United Church of Christ, I live 3 1/2 blocks from the beach in southern California, and I spent yesterday evening at the winebar around the corner drinking red wine, knitting and playing Scrabble -- I lost by 20 points to someone 20 years my junior.
I might be interested - are you a non-smoker?
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mousethief
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Really? If all you have to go on is that someone you dislike is an American, that drives you to chauvenism? Oh my God you are a shallow pool.
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RuthW
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aumbry: ![[Killing me]](graemlins/killingme.gif)
[ 15. August 2012, 16:24: Message edited by: RuthW ]
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aumbry
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quote:
Originally posted by mousethief:
Really? If all you have to go on is that someone you dislike is an American, that drives you to chauvenism? Oh my God you are a shallow pool.
I think someone who has made over 50,000 posts of which barely any are longer than one line is in a position to define the shallows.
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mousethief
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quote:
Originally posted by aumbry:
quote:
Originally posted by mousethief:
Really? If all you have to go on is that someone you dislike is an American, that drives you to chauvenism? Oh my God you are a shallow pool.
I think someone who has made over 50,000 posts of which barely any are longer than one line is in a position to define the shallows.
Really? Why would that be? And how does that excuse you?
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Originally posted by RuthW:
aumbry:
Oh no, now you've made Ruth laugh. I suppose it won't be long before ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif) ![[Angel]](graemlins/angel.gif) and ![[Axe murder]](graemlins/lovedrops.gif) come out to play and the whole thread will be shot to pieces. ![[Roll Eyes]](rolleyes.gif)
(Pushes aumbry back into the hidey hole. There, phew, just in time.)
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mousethief
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Originally posted by mousethief:
quote:
Originally posted by aumbry:
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Originally posted by mousethief:
Really? If all you have to go on is that someone you dislike is an American, that drives you to chauvenism? Oh my God you are a shallow pool.
I think someone who has made over 50,000 posts of which barely any are longer than one line is in a position to define the shallows.
Really? Why would that be? And how does that excuse you?
*crickets*
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I've defended leo several times on the Ship, just because I have seen a different side of him IRL. I know that some of his online comments come across as dismissive, patronising or just downright rude.
I too often just want to curl up and die when surrounded by hundreds of people, but I wouldn't be deliberately rude to them. Leo might be, but I don't see how you can get that from the post you've linked to.
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quote:
Originally posted by Angloid:
I've defended leo several times on the Ship, just because I have seen a different side of him IRL. I know that some of his online comments come across as dismissive, patronising or just downright rude.
Some of his comments?
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I too often just want to curl up and die when surrounded by hundreds of people
As have most of us, I'm sure, but there's a world of difference between occasionally (or even frequently) feeling uncomfortable in social events and grandly declaring that most people aren't worthy of your attention, particularly if they are not willing to discuss religion or politics with a stranger (and one who, let's be honest, isn't the easiest person in the world with whom to have conversations about religion or politics). I think what causes leo's post to be so offensive is the absurd self-importance of it all: 'other people may make idle chatter, but I am far to important to waste my precious time with unimportant conversation and unimportant people'.
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True, and yet, coming from you - when I have read the pompous self-important tone of your posts in Ecclesiantics - it seems like a dispute over the shade of cookware.
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quote:
Originally posted by (S)pike couchant:
...there's a world of difference between occasionally (or even frequently) feeling uncomfortable in social events and grandly declaring that most people aren't worthy of your attention, particularly if they are not willing to discuss religion or politics with a stranger (and one who, let's be honest, isn't the easiest person in the world with whom to have conversations about religion or politics). I think what causes leo's post to be so offensive is the absurd self-importance of it all: 'other people may make idle chatter, but I am far to important to waste my precious time with unimportant conversation and unimportant people'.
I don't really know how old you are, but this is the first post where I've suspected you are under 30.
It's a bit odd to find myself in the position of defending leo, whose posting style usually makes me want to poke him with a sharp stick, but I have found on my way to geezerhood that there comes a time when you realize your "free time" and your energy are limited. You won't have time to make friends with the whole world, and there is nothing wrong in treasuring and cultivating those few friendships you chose to work on. It's one reason why old people on facebook don't have friend lists numbering in the thousands--because they understand that one can have thousands of acquaintances, but not thousands of friends.
I may have mis-interpreted leo's posts on that thread, but it seemed to me that was very much the rut his thoughts were traveling in.
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Originally posted by Organ Builder:
It's a bit odd to find myself in the position of defending leo, whose posting style usually makes me want to poke him with a sharp stick, but I have found on my way to geezerhood that there comes a time when you realize your "free time" and your energy are limited. You won't have time to make friends with the whole world, and there is nothing wrong in treasuring and cultivating those few friendships you chose to work on. It's one reason why old people on facebook don't have friend lists numbering in the thousands--because they understand that one can have thousands of acquaintances, but not thousands of friends.
I may have mis-interpreted leo's posts on that thread, but it seemed to me that was very much the rut his thoughts were traveling in.
Could be. So why is he posting on that thread in the first place? It's as if he posted six times on the baseball thread in The Circus about how much he is bored to death by baseball and would rather be home reading.
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Originally posted by Organ Builder:
You won't have time to make friends with the whole world, and there is nothing wrong in treasuring and cultivating those few friendships you chose to work on.
True. But to write off meeting anybody new socially because you won't have any interests in common is a hell of a statement. How do you know you won't have anything in common with them if you never meet them? What are you going to do when, with the passage of time, your existing small circle of close friends diminishes - look forward to an isolated old age?
I've seen this firsthand in other people and I really don't recommend it. The existing relationships tend to become either intense, often one-sidedly, with things blown up out of proportion, or else the person seems to detach from it all and is less and less easy to reach.
I do find it hard to believe that Leo's only interests are "religion, sex and politics". I can understand not being interested in sport, but no interest at all in the arts or music? At a dinner party, no interest in the food or wine? Silence unless one of three topic-buttons is pressed?
I can understand being an introvert and needing peace and quiet to recuperate. But it is nice to meet new people now and again - not necessarily regularly but not to write off completely the possibility of it ever happening, which seems to be what Leo is saying in his Heaven posts.
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No. The working day for 30 years of my life is about lots of small talk. Why would i want to go out and do it all again in the evening?
It would seem that I haven't explained my reasons sufficiently for extroverts so I will use the words of someone else who explains how I and most introverts feel quote:
To begin with, it is exactly the same every time. Anywhere. If you are engaging me in small talk, it means you are treating me in the precise same manner when you approach me as you did the last stranger you approached. And depending on the venue, I may have just seen you approach the person right before me and heard you ask the same asinine questions of them……..-It is irrelevant. If an introvert has decided to leave home and bring himself to a place full of people he doesn't know, chances are there was a very good reason for it. …….He'd like to get on with the specific reason he attended this function. …..Small talk is inauthentic. if they are honest even extroverts will admit that it is just a tool. That even they are not the least bit interested in how difficult it was for me to drive to this building, or if I ran into any traffic on the way. They know that they don't really care, and I certainly know they don't care. It is a rouse to start talking to someone new. But I would rather be approached cold with an authentic question, then be warmed up by the small talk. It's a waste of resources. Mindless small talk requires little brain power. Introverts spend most of their time thinking. Processing ideas. Finding themselves engaged in small talk slams on the brakes of their active brain. The subjects are so empty, there is no need to form an opinion and/or argument that they can then share with those around them. Like renting the biggest self-storage unit in the city and storing nothing in it but a roll of paper towels. It is space and money wasted. Small talk is like that roll sitting in the vast expanse of the mind to an introvert. It's a waste of resources…..It lacks creativity. Many introverts are creative types, and few things are as bereft of creativity as small talk.
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Dude, it's not that people don't understand your reasons. It's that you're being such an ass about them.
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True, and yet, coming from you - when I have read the pompous self-important tone of your posts in Ecclesiantics - it seems like a dispute over the shade of cookware.
It's interesting that the person who starts a thread about trying to restore the fun to worship gets marked as the 'pompous' one. Most pompous people I know take a certain pride in their puritanical joylessness. A bit like leo, really.
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Could be. So why is he posting on that thread in the first place? It's as if he posted six times on the baseball thread in The Circus about how much he is bored to death by baseball and would rather be home reading.
Point taken. If I were totally uninterested in small talk, nothing would make me read a thread about it.
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