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The Trenchcoat Brigade.

 
  

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bio k9
17:53 / 21.12.02
Im quickly losing my interest in the Barbelith music and comic forums. They used to be unlike anything else out there and now...

I like it here because its different but, you're right, this place is changing. And no, change does not = death. But that doesn't mean that change is always for the better. This isn't Hero Realm or the fucking Spawn boards. Nor should it be.

Is the place changing? Yeah - now keep up.

How about you get with the fucking program? Its one thing to make an insensitive comment its quite another to act petulant when someone calls you on it.
 
 
The Falcon
02:36 / 22.12.02
Get a grip, boys. I love this idea I've been called on anything - I think toksik had an entirely reasonable reply for his initial whine.

If you dinna like it, you can just 'iggy' me.

As for programs, I'm fine with this place on the whole. I just hate when any conversation degrades into this 'calling'. Does it never get tiresome telling people how to do their posts 'properly'? What - you want me to apologise? Fuck you.

I'll tell you what's insensitive, then - I don't like being accused of 'nudge-nudge homophobia', because I'm quite certain about what homophobia is, and fairly sure I'm not guilty of it. Beyond that, you know nothing about me, bar my name, and yet still leap to your idiotic conclusions. I'm not petulant, I'm genuinely irritated.

It's a fairly serious question - is 'gay' the new 'bastard'? A formerly applied pejorative that no longer is utilised in the applied sense. Kids use it all the time. Language changes. Boo-hoo.

And I know this place isn't HeroRealm. I also know your perspective on me is somewhat warped by the fact I find it a worthwhile exercise to post there - but you could learn decorum from them, you really could. And I don't post here as I do there.

But there's supposition, to go along with yer main course of imputation. I love that.
 
 
The Falcon
02:49 / 22.12.02
Actually, you know what - I'd be willing to take advice on my posts, formed as advice, or in a pm, but it's the phraseology (as imperative/aside to group) that pisses me right off. From the pair of you.

I don't have the time or desire to make enemies on an messageboard, either. And I'm sure you're both perfectly reasonable and likeable, albeit a mite tetchy, 'in real life'. And you like a lot of the same things as me, so ultimately - forget it.

Just don't tell me, or anyone else, how to act and we'll get along fine.
 
 
iconoplast
05:10 / 22.12.02
My (homosexual) father, to me: "You can wear those shoes, you know. They're not gay or anything."
Me: "Dad, those shoes are completely gay. Just not in a homosexual way."
 
 
Murray Hamhandler
14:50 / 22.12.02
Round and round we go again...

Fucksake. Steer the thread back on something resembling its former course or let's take it elsewhere. This is not the place for it.

That said:

Calling people "knodgers" is just as bad as/worse than calling people "PC fascists" and far too facile. I'm pretty sure that we can do a bit better than that, thanks.
 
 
yawn - thing's buddy
21:02 / 23.12.02
Duncan Falconer:

you rock big chap.

poof.
 
 
yawn - thing's buddy
21:02 / 23.12.02
Duncan Falconer:

you rock big chap.

poof.
 
 
yawn - thing's buddy
21:03 / 23.12.02
thats twice for ya.

oh....and don't let the trenchcoat brigade get to you man.

poof.
 
 
The Falcon
01:33 / 24.12.02
Thanks, yawn (I think?)

You rock too.

If I let the trenchcoat types get me, I might end up being speccy mage Tim Hunter - eh, no thanks.

All that magic at your disposal, Tim - or is it Harry these days?, and you're still shortsighted...
 
 
Badbh Catha
02:09 / 24.12.02
Calling people "knodgers" is just as bad as/worse than calling people "PC fascists" and far too facile. I'm pretty sure that we can do a bit better than that, thanks. Deric's Don't Run!

Flux is correct that there's been an upsurge of arrogant, testosterone-fuled wankers talking a lot of shit and being needlessly offensive on the board lately, and he's right to stand up and call them on it. It's not "facile", it's an apt description of their behavior.

Barbelith can do a lot better than some of the homophobic swill I've seen bandied about, both in this thread and in the Music Forum.
 
 
The Falcon
03:20 / 24.12.02
How do you know what a Knodger is?

Why do you only appear during personal arguments?

I am still rather in awe of the apparent fact that I, toksik and slim are now homophobes. I don't pretend to speak for the other two 'wankers', who seem perfectly reasonable to me, but please do quote one instance of 'homophobia' from myself. If you are successful, I will apologise immediately. But you won't be.

Testosterone-fuelled is perhaps somewhat apt, arrogant likewise - again I speak only for myself. However, this is simply the flipside of (oestrogen-fuelled? Oh, do you hate men? See, I've 'called' you on it! Well done, me) ineffectual dribbling, which attempts to fulfil some vague middle-class ideal of liberalism. All it ends up being, as far as I've seen, is laughably specious labelling and complaint - telling people what they are and what they ought to do. Which are things the middle-class are excellent at (just not awfully liberal.) I should know, I'm one of 'em.

Barbelith will 'do' what its' constituents do. I am one. As are you.

There are far, far more important things to get worked up about than the words 'poof' and 'gay' used descriptively. Which I've done once - see above, captain sensitive.

And this is ludicrous.
 
 
ONLY NICE THINGS
03:56 / 24.12.02
I agree. Could you whiny little middle classers all for God's sake stop being so black?
 
 
Char Aina
17:11 / 28.12.02
i have been away.

and now i find that the clearing up didnt.
mental.




i would love to get into this with you, in person would be great, but you are closed.
closed in your stupid little stupid-head.

if i call you a wanker, do you accdept that yes, you do masturbate?
and could it be that it is still an insult, despite only the very religious finding it wrong?
my, thats interesting.
 
 
The Falcon
17:20 / 28.12.02
What, like bastard?

I love you, toksik. You am de best.
 
 
The Falcon
17:28 / 28.12.02
I thought this thread had been deleted for a moment there.

Disappeared.

Oooo.

Shift to Conversation, if y'must. Deletion makes me think of the INVISIBLE PC-FASCIST POLIS!!!
 
  

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