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22:03 / 24.11.07

Here´s Olulabelle´s post that 40% mentions.

ONLY NICE THINGS

22:43 / 24.11.07

Wasn't that a light-hearted response to a baby photo?

07:27 / 25.11.07

It was a response to a funny picture where it looked like 40% was a doll or a tiny person or something (I forget which) but it was a joke because the person who was clearly 40% was who I was referring to when I said, 'who is the man peering over your shoulder?'. I think the photo was taken at an angle so there was funny foreshortening or something.

Anyway, clearly I am very bad at joking.

10:33 / 25.11.07

The evidence of this thread would suggest that you're not really the source of the problem, Lula.

10:33 / 25.11.07

I know but I feel bad.

12:09 / 25.11.07

sometimes it's good to let things go

Kind of sums up how I feel about Barbelith. Turn it off, Tom!

jentacular dreams

12:16 / 25.11.07

%Yes, it's the only way we can be free!%

15:49 / 25.11.07

So 40%'s final post is whiny and self-regarding; it paints him as the victim; it nurses grudges; it broods over tiny hurts inflicted long ago.

Truly, he died as he lived. Well done!

16:13 / 25.11.07

lol

19:31 / 25.11.07

I mean, seriously. I hate to speak ill of a guy who's not here to defend himself—unless, of course, 40, you are reading this, in which case remember, I say this in a spirit of gentle correction—but, man, the guy seems hell-bent on exhibiting all the traits that branded him as mockworthy to begin with.

21:51 / 25.11.07

Not to start a fight or anything, Jack, but isn't that pretty much what everybody does, all the time, everywhere?

Let's just walk the fuck away, all right?

22:02 / 25.11.07

isn't that pretty much what everybody does, all the time, everywhere?
Which part of which post are you talking about, Qalyn?

22:06 / 25.11.07

exhibiting all the traits that branded him as mockworthy to begin with.

I was going to say "Jack, I've seen you do that plenty of times" and I then realized he could say the same of me. This thread is such a schweinerei.

22:23 / 25.11.07

Fair enough.

00:07 / 26.11.07

You're entirely right, Q—we, all of us, do have a knack for reverting to type, and even for rehashing old arguments.

It's all about context, though; confirming the worst impressions about yourself is bad enough. But to do it in a post that's supposed to be a look back at the way you were—that is, in a context that carries with it a subtext of not being like that anymore? To bring up old hurts in a post that's supposed to represent a clean break?

C'mon. That's not just everyday garden-variety knuckleheadedness. That's just oblivious. And sad, and equally creepy and pathetic, and, in the end, kinda funny. I mean, it's distressing, and more than a little depressing. But still funny, in a bleak sort of way.

So thanks, 40%, for checking in to let us know that you learned nothing during your time here. For what it's worth, we didn't learn a damned thing either.

Less searchable M0rd4nt

08:12 / 26.11.07

I learned that chalk makes your tongue feel funny.

13:06 / 26.11.07

I learned that silence is often the best counsel.

13:10 / 26.11.07

STRONG TRUTH

13:11 / 26.11.07

(Yes, I am part of the problem. Shut up.)

14:05 / 26.11.07

Shut up.

Rolling. On the floor. Laughing my ass off.

12:33 / 16.03.11

Speaking only for myself, I learned rudimentary html coding and expressions like tl:dr

20:54 / 21.03.11

Oh my God, FLASHBACK! Gotta go tweet about it...

14:08 / 24.03.11

They never quite remember me. Sigh.

23:24 / 27.03.11

That's because you never either upset or mollycoddle them enough.

They never remember me even when I'm an enormous prick to them!

06:57 / 09.04.11

But they're probably quite frightened. Of your world-beating schlong.

14:12 / 13.06.11

Otherwise, farewell Barbelith and may life treat you well.

See ya later alligator!

Tuna Ghost: Pratt knot hero

14:54 / 21.06.11

What a strange thread to see on my wanderings through Conversation. It's like walking through a hallway you expected to see empty and finding...finding...aw fuck I dunno, I got nothin'

19:19 / 29.02.12

Hi

I’ve just been re-reading this and one other significant thread I had on here, and it’s been helpful to see one thing clearly – I take myself way too seriously!

Let me stop blaming other people for making simple observations of how I’m actually behaving and let me do your job for you for once:

40% - you don’t know half of these people to speak to properly. Why are you addressing them at such length as if they should give a flying fuck? And let me also point out that noone cares about your oh-so-deep apologies and regrets any more than they care about the things you’re apologising for in the first place. Get over it, please.

Having re-read these threads, I have some idea of why I sometimes make people laugh with frustration. I do have a unique ability to pour fuel on a fire that’s about to die, and perhaps that’s exactly what’s required on a discussion board like this (or at least would be if it was still going) – constant provocation! For people who enjoy dissecting other people’s behaviour and pointing out where they’re going wrong (which I also enjoy) I think I have provided something of a banquet over the years. For that much I’m sure you can thank me.

I hold no hard feelings about anything, seriously, and I’m a little disappointed not to come back here and be able to interact with other people and benefit from the intelligence of some of the commentary here in the present. Such is life though.

I just thought I should write at least one self-critical post which doesn’t portray me as an innocent martyr and the board as picking on me maliciously, cos that shit is deader than disco.

23:25 / 02.03.12

You're CUTE!

22:10 / 08.06.12

But will anyone's opinion of you have changed, do you think, 40%, after reading the above?

I can't speak for everyone, obvs, but you seem as insane, in a nice way, as you ever did.

But what do you care? You shouldn't. In the time it took for you to respond to some on here, who'd make a used cum rag feel like it was climbing up the career ladder, relatively speaking, you could have written a song.

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