If you have the opportunity to teach someone a lesson, dear Aries, feel free to do so. More than likely there is someone in your world who could use a bit of instruction at this time. You will have the patience and clarity of words to straighten things out and make the correct path clear and obvious. Do not be stingy with your knowledge. The situation will improve for yourself and everyone around you when you selflessly spread your wisdom to others.
Dear Trolls:
We have been far more tolerant of your presence here than you would be of ours, had you a forum of your own. You have proved that that tolerance was wasted on you by being continually off-topic, rude, insulting and stupid. It is not up to me to ban anyone from this site. That power is Jeff’s alone. However, I will be policing comments to any of my posts and deleting any that are not meant to foster meaningful discussion, or that fail to bring evidence where evidence is needed, or that are logically absurd.
If, for example, you choose to hijack a thread about turkey-stuffing in order to make mock of the difficulties that we face in the Middle East, your comments will be nuked mercilessly. Surely there are a plethora of websites where your anti-American japes will be welcome. Go there. You have worn out your welcome.
And lest you think you’ve touched a nerve, a la Sullivan, you’re dead wrong. Were I to go to, I don’t know . . . say, Sadly, No! and behave as you do, I would have been booted very quickly. If there were any real debate you were offering, it would be a different matter. If you were bringing anything to the table it would be a different matter. But you don’t. And you don’t care. And that’s pathetic. Congratulations on your ability to irritate; it’ll take you far, I’m sure.
I hope this is sufficently on topic not to be nuked. Just have to take my chances.
H/T paulilc at Bloody Scott.
The Dawkins Delusion
“Just as humans seem to be 0.3 per cent genetically different from one another, and not 0.1 per cent, so we may be 3 per cent and not 1 per cent different from chimps, scientists behind the study say. Charles Lee, of Harvard Medical School, a leader of the research, said: “We are…finding evidence that could help to explain why humans are not chimps. We can safely say that there’s a lot more genetic variation between the human genome and the chimp genome than was appreciated.†“
Good decision I believe.
– So now you’re down on turkey stuffing, eh Collins….what’s the matter, doesn’t have any potatos in it…and we already know where you stand on carcus sex….
TURKEYSEXIST!!!!!!
TW: moved57 …..”Oh honey did I hurt you (fill in your fav joke lines here)….
Meleagriphobe!!!!!!!!!!
Meleagriphobe!!!!!!!!!!
Ornothroptophile!!!!!!!!!!
Will you guys keep it down…I have a splitting headache…..
STOP THE HATE!! INCREASE THE PEACE!!
Stupid warmongering neocons.
It saw them as I was looking into my Thanksgiving Day greenbean casserole, there, spelled out in green stringy beans were the words – great, terrible, crummy.
What does it mean? Is it my future? My past? It did occur to me that these words almost identically correlate to my thoughts after I masturbate, which I admit I do regularly, but not so often that I consider it an unhealthy vice.
I come seeking interpretive sage advice, neither to troll nor annoy. Though I’m a man of few posts, I’ve read this blog once-a-week or so for sometime and I do think a belated Thanksgiving Day thanks to Dan and Jeff and to the others here for their articulate humor and wisdom is in order. Then again, if I read, laugh and/or itch myself along with all the others here, yet never participate, am I a troll? Such elasticity confounds me. Maybe an apology on my part is due.
Thank You, I’m Sorry. Help. Goddamned Words. Thanks Again.
the stranger
Now. Dan. Where’s the fun in that?
“Oh, its just you freezing humans, we thought it was somthing important”: Preemptive strike from PETA; standing strong for sockpuppets, and faux animals, all over the world.
– One of their deep disguise efforts.
– A group Of the turkeys, For the turkeys, and By the turkeys. Now if they can just learn to recogize humanoids, they’ll be all set.
Shorter version: “Trolls don’t add anything to serious discourse.”
Welcome to teh internets, guys…
– Hmmmmm… Maybe you should go over to LiarDogFake semicolon, and admonish the brownshirt thought police, that protect Hampsher’s delicate eyes from the slightest non-resonance comments. the speed of redaction/ban is breath taking. Must be a bitch to reconcile that.
I come seeking interpretive sage advice…
The sage goes in the stuffing. I also add a little rosemary.
Please!
Where would I get my sense of superiority if you ban MonkyBrain and Actus? Where’s the fun in that? Without them to compare myself to, I am just another dullard.
Not just another dullard, Lost Dog.
You’re our dullard!
If you stuff a sage, what do you get?
A pudgy guru.
After two cups of morning coffee and a toasted bagel the recycled beans spoke to me with a verbosity unmatched in many months of regularity. High pitches followed baritone bellows, think back to when Godzilla stomped on Mothra’s nut sac, yeah, like that, on and on.
Evidentily through all my deep pondering of meanings and values of Western thought processes I failed to recognize certain necessary truths, such as peppermint schnappes, tequila, lime, salt and tap beer combined in constant intervals form stomach acids beyond cure of modern medicine. Expelling this potent mélange from one’s lower intestinal tract is the only hope of survival, at least without having to deal with odd voices echoing in the head.
Better now. Much.