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Tryphena Absent

09:13 / 31.10.03

This thread is horrible.

09:55 / 31.10.03

You say this because you believe it to be true, or because you think it will mark you out as an unusual and interesting person?

10:07 / 31.10.03

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This thread is doing my head in. If Anna is referring to this thread then she is right, it is horrible because you can't help reading things as answers to previous posts. That and the fact that you're never entirely sure that the comments don't refer to you.

If she isn't, then I think this thread is horrible.

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Regrettable Juvenilia

10:12 / 31.10.03

[Yeah, I've been thinking myself that this thread has become a bit of a monster, and that maybe its time is up... What was the most recent consensus as to whether people who start threads have the right to ask that they be locked?]

12:00 / 31.10.03

[Hang on. I thought that, like the Instead Thread, posts here were explicitly non-sequiturs. The fact that certain portions can be read as a (literally) pointless slanging match is just a happy/unhappy coincidence, no? Some of the comments might seem to be unreasonably harsh, but isn't that the point? People are posting them here because they accept that they are not justified in normal thread.]

12:11 / 31.10.03

Quite honestly, I have thought some of these posts are refering to me, and I have even had to ask a couple of times. Now, I just don't care. I mean...if someone can't say it to me directly then: A)I am probably such a hostile and/or unapproachable asshole that no one can PM me politely and talk to me, or B) they are an unapproachable, passive-aggressive idiot and don't have the balls to be honest and PM me about their greivences, or C)the entire matter is truly insignificant.

The thing I really like about this thread, is the simple fact that it is honest, when no one really seems to want to be. Personally, the whole fashionable, passive-aggressive thing makes me rather ill. At least I can come here and look under this rock and see a hint of straightforward honesty.

Maybe making a complimentary "praise & adulation" thread to counter the effects of this one are in order?

12:26 / 31.10.03

Consider this the bile pile, where spleen is vented harmlessly into the void. As long as you don't read it it's fine, and it probably makes the rest of the board a nicer place to be.

12:41 / 31.10.03

As long as we're on the subject, I really hate this thread. I don't see what's so refreshingly honest about trashing people in such a way that they can't fight back without looking like jerks. I don't think people are posting here with the assumption that they are being unreasonably harsh; they're just being harsh where no one can call them on it. In other words, no, Smoothly Weaving, there's nothing coincidental about the slapfights in here. This is a slapfight-amplification chamber.

Trix, adulation threads are no fun for the people whose names don't appear in them. Maybe this thread would be less multiodius if we attached some kind of paypal account, where you have to pay a dollar to insult someone. Proceeds to go to MoveOn.org or Jerry's Kids or something.

13:12 / 31.10.03

We no name, names, Qalyn

Like I said though, I have noticed here on Barbelith that people are consistently pleasant to your proverbial face and then snicker to their own special clique about you when you can't respond. What is the difference? At least here I can see the mean, sordid shit people can think up about each other. I just don't take it personally too much because well, I have been told over and over on this board that I damn well shouldn't.

So, I am fed up. One minute I am crybaby and I should just "..stop whining and adapt...", now I am insensitive hate-monger...Okay, I am in a little pissy mood, but still...I just don't think it really matters too much what someone says if they just can't say it to me. I mean, what kind of spineless crap is that? Why would I care? I only posted here because I can't talk to the person/people I posted about because they just don't give a shit what I think or feel anyway. Spineless or not, it was quite a relief to be able to say what was on my mind, know they would see it and ignore me as per usual. At least I had a chance to say what I felt though.

AS far as someone's name not appearing somewhere and hard feelings, no one has EVER quoted me on Barbequotes and I am not upset at all about it!

*mutters under breath* "bastards!"

13:18 / 31.10.03

I hate to say it cause it's true: people are like that everywhere. barbelith isn't special or unique for it's rampant assholery, it's just serving as a little window on the real world.

just ignore the shitheads, enjoy the good and the fun folks, and believe, as I do, that things have a way of eventually coming around.

13:24 / 31.10.03

also, before someone jumps all in my shit, obviously you shouldn't ignore people in the middle of an ongoing discussion. I'm referring to the nastiness that people tend to display beyond heated words that are often part of a discussion.

13:33 / 31.10.03

Cheers BK! True dat.

Matthew Fluxington

13:33 / 31.10.03

I'm going to bite your fucking face off, Anna de Logardiere!

The resistable rise of Reidcourchie

08:24 / 03.11.03

Yes I would assume that this thread is all about you. Perhaps if you hate the thread then not reading it would be an idea?

Tryphena Absent

08:38 / 03.11.03

We no name, names, Qalyn

Oh please, I could go through that thread and name practically everyone you people are talking about (except for May, that's a little too obscure)! It's more difficult here because people are referring to things that have been said and I have an aptitude for often missing the nastier threads (entirely by accident).

Flux, if you bite my face off, I'm going to get my chainsaw (yes I actually do have a chainsaw unlike some people I know who only threaten to use imaginary chainsaws), get in my car and drive all the way to wherever the hell you are and I'm going to use it. Okay? Once I've done that I'm going to pick Eddie Willis up by his ankles and dangle him outside the window by his ankles and then I'm going to shake him and hopefully cause some minor brain damage.
Theo will be left unharmed, that kid's already damaged enough.

Personally I happen to think that I'm too wunnerful for anything here to be about me but hey maybe I'm wrong. Truth is I don't care but that doesn't mean that this thread isn't horrible. I'd like to think it's all about frustration but that's not what I'm picking up, it seems to have reverted to sly bitching. That means this board is populated by sick puppies, that's kind of sick.

08:59 / 03.11.03

I have noticed here on Barbelith that people are consistently pleasant to your proverbial face and then snicker to their own special clique about you when you can't respond
Really? Here I've been bimbling along thinking people were pleasant and that was it. Tra-la-la, I'll just keep on being nice I think.
Or are you referring specifically to certain people? That would fit the thread I suppose..
Anna, is it true I could be a snide sick puppy and I didn't know? Should I get a clique to bitch to? Am I being naive, or are you lot being cynical and generalising the bile of a handful of posters to the whole board?

Tryphena Absent

09:27 / 03.11.03

Well I'm talking more about the way things are coming across than each individual's intentions. It's all well and good to say these things here but it kind of feels like it's (atmospherically) become this place to say things about people that you wouldn't say to their faces. That's not very nice but then I think most people probably realise that I prefer the sledgehammer to the face approach by now. For god's sake, if you think someone's a twat you should let them know!!

12:19 / 03.11.03

Quantumn, please don't say I am generalizing about Barbelith, people do this everywhere and that is that would be the generalization. If no one did this type of thing here, I would call this place eutopia and invite the rest of the world.

BUt since you actually displayed your talent at being snide, I am not surprised this

Anna: "We no name, names, Qalyn", I was refering to how we should approach a thread of compliments - which has been started already. You have already posted in it....and you didn't name a name, did you? The idea was to avoid it being some sort of popularity contest.

Tryphena Absent

12:41 / 03.11.03

Doesn't mean it won't make people sad May. Just think of everyone who blatantly won't get a mention in that thread, they'll read it and be all like well that's not me. It won't be the paranoia you get here, it'll just be a quiet kind of loneliness instead.

This world is awful.

12:46 / 03.11.03

Quantum, please don't say I am generalizing about Barbelith, people do this everywhere and that is that would be the generalization. If no one did this type of thing here, I would call this place utopia and invite the rest of the world. It should not be a surprise, I find threads like this are proof of the nastiness that goes on in people that they don't readily share. What more blasted proof do you need?

Anna: "We no name, names, Qalyn", I was refering to how we should approach a thread of compliments - which has been started already. You have already posted in it....and you didn't name a name, did you? The idea was to avoid it being some sort of popularity contest.

Now, can we get back to saying nice things about each other before I bite someone's face off?

12:48 / 03.11.03

For krist sake. Is there a ghost posting this shit for me? I am gonna smack it out.

12:54 / 03.11.03

Anna, that is partially the point. Between the two threads, to balance out your reaction to them, so that if you can look at this thread and be certain people are talking about you, then you should also be able to read the "praise thread" and feel at least a little bit the same way. People have a harder time believing that people would say such nice things about them.

12:55 / 03.11.03

please don't say I am generalizing about Barbelith, people do this everywhere and that is that would be the generalization Trix
Sorry, I should have made it clear I wasn't aiming at you specifically- I just think a lot of people do see this hidden side to barbelith that I just don't see. Either I'm blind to it or just not in the firing line, but either way I think people are pretty nice here, I think it is a sort of utopia, and people are less nasty here than everywhere else.
Even this thread seems pretty tame to me, I have to say. Please don't bite my face!

14:59 / 03.11.03

Quantum: I think you are right, you are not in a firing line. It helps to feel insecure when you live in a virtual warzone. This place isn't too bad because at the very least, the insults are intelligent and entertaining..well, quite a bit of the time, but it is this same intelligence applied to disparaging comments that creates the ability to be so clever about insults. One could, if they desired, slip an insult or snide comment into every post they make in the guise of discussion.

I don't really care at this point. If people don't have the guts to be upfront, then fuck them. Their comment isn't worth me getting all fucked up over. Really, wouldn't it be them who has the problem?

And yes, considering some of the crap this "familith" (loving this word Anna

) can come up with, I am sure this thread could have been a lot worse.

Let's face it, we must really love each other.

Ya buncha monkeybutts.

15:03 / 03.11.03

you buncha grouches. shaddup, alla ya'll, and gimme some sugar!

YARRRRR!

15:26 / 03.11.03

I got your sugar right here, BitchieKittie! Yeah, right here baby, come and give it a lick!!

What? It's a lolly.

13:11 / 07.11.03

Fuck the meta-thread navel-gazing, I need to vent...

Thank God the ideological Left is still driven by good old human compassion.

13:12 / 07.11.03

Bitch had it coming to her, man.

22:28 / 08.01.04

Why does every thread on this board have to reference GM and/or his works lately?

22:40 / 08.01.04

Thanks, that's clearer. Stupider, but clearer.

05:34 / 09.01.04

Don't get your 20 sided die all in a bundle.

08:32 / 09.01.04

If would like to share your thoughts on relationships and attractiveness, I'd love to hear about it.

14:14 / 09.01.04

... naturally I'm just sitting here eating a pasty and waiting for a job!

16:31 / 10.01.04

Let me know when that happens.

21:19 / 26.01.04

So if the Democratic nominee were, say, Satan ... ?

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