Nasty

[dr_mabeuse]

Why has it become so unremittingly nasty over here?

It's like No Exit or that experiment where they crowded all the rats together in one cage until they started eating each other. The board's always had some argument and disagreement, but I've never seen such vituperation and pure spite as I see now. It's like a bunch of cats tied in a sack.

 

[pop_54]

Hmmmmm

I think most of it's jokey Dr_M just a wind up like. Funny time of year I think.

 

[MlledeLaPlumeBleu]

The "cleeks" thread was posted so we could hit eachother with wifflebats instead of a makeshift blackjack in a tube sock.

Don't you wanna play??

 

[Guest]

What the world needs now...

dr_m-

for you.

b

 

[MathGirl]

Dr M has favored us by handing down his judgement. Now we know how things are from a God's eye view.
MG

 

[dr_mabeuse]

QED, eh, MG?

 

[dr_mabeuse]

No, I'll tell you what it is.

This has become a board where the main topic of conversation seems to be ourselves: how cool we are, how erudite, how deadly with the sarcastic barb, where the most popular passtime involves flailing away at each other with foam baseball bats the way they used to do in group therapy as a way of venting anger.

 

[MathGirl]

Dear Dr M,
Don't let the door.............
MG

 

[Guest]

Mab. keeps repeating himself (at least the several months I've been on Lit.)with regularity as if his opinions come from on high (ref. MG above). Deigns to come in and accuse and point those deft fingers, only it's always the same rant. Obviously "the" AH is becoming what its occupants want it to become.

However, several "members" are wondering why two "others" seem not to dare venture into the foam baseball bat arena. And to them: puhleeze don't give a condescending excuse. We know why.

Like the smartass baby says, "Don't let the door... "

Perdita

 

[MathGirl]

Deigns to come in and accuse and point those deft fingers, only it's always the same rant.

Dear Perdita,
Don't forget part II of the act: He makes his pronouncement then disappears for a week or so.
MG

 

[Guest]

mean, mean, mean!

 

[destinie21]

No, I'll tell you what it is.

This has become a board where the main topic of conversation seems to be ourselves: how cool we are, how erudite, how deadly with the sarcastic barb, where the most popular passtime involves flailing away at each other with foam baseball bats the way they used to do in group therapy as a way of venting anger.

We were supposed to be using FOAM baseball bats

 

[MathGirl]

Re: mean, mean, mean!

well...'cept a poke at Swiss people who's names are "boygeorgegirl"..or sumthin'.

Dear Nosey,
You shouldn't pick on Svenska's countrymen like that.
MG
Ps. What the hell is going on in your new AV? It looks like a guy getting his oil changed.

 

[Guest]

Re: Re: mean, mean, mean!

 

[The_Fool]

The "cleeks" thread was posted so we could hit eachother with wifflebats instead of a makeshift blackjack in a tube sock.

Don't you wanna play??

Damn, I thought we were being serious.....

Nice Dimples....

 

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[destinie21]

I'm not going to be nasty for at least an hour
My GF proposed and I am so happy. So until the bliss wears off I'm going to be nice.

 

[destinie21]

I'm not going to be nasty for at least an hour
My GF proposed and I am so happy. So until the bliss wears off I'm going to be nice.

 

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[dr_mabeuse]

I don't disappear. I'm here. I just try not to say anything when I have nothing to say.

My pronouncements are my own opinions. They're not inspired or sponsored by any deity or any special point of view.

I maintain that we spend too much time here talking about ourselves and dissing anyone who tries to talk about anything else.

If you've got anything to say to me, I'm here. If you just want to go ad hominem, I'm not interested.


---dr.M.

 

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[dr_mabeuse]

I don't disappear. I'm here. I just try not to say anything when I have nothing to say.

My pronouncements are my own opinions. They're not inspired or sponsored by any deity or any special point of view.

I maintain that we spend too much time here talking about ourselves and dissing anyone who tries to talk about anything else. I maintain that too much sarcasm becomes toxic, and I think it's reached the point again where people are afraid to post because they don't want to be targets.

Those are my opoinions. If you've got anything to say to me, I'm here. If you just want to go ad hominem, I'm not interested.


---dr.M.

P.S. If everyone is happy with the way things are here, then just ignore my complaint.

 

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[MlledeLaPlumeBleu]

Are you bemoaning a lack of serious discussion, or an overtone of meanness?

Because I've recently been involved in some "discussions" on serious topics that were fairly vicious.

I think that Gauche is brilliant in setting up a little rubber room where we can go all 70's therapeutic Free-to-be, You-and-mean on each other, with the understanding of no permanent trauma.

It's worked well for the most part, as long as people understand the boundaries of human decency, which, admittedly, some will never get. As long as we can separate teasing and nerf-sword venting from outright attack under the pretext of "just being funny", the thread is a harmless and beneficial way to communicate, purge and diffuse unsavory karma.

I think it has decreased tensions markedly on other threads.

Of course, coming from the Seven-headed Hydra of Lit, you may want to disregard this [smile].

Or, wait- is that Pure?

Pure, are you the Hydra? Am I the basilisk? Or the harpy?

I think I'm the Walrus.....

 

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