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At 5/4/09 07:30 PM, Grammer wrote: I wonder if anyone ever confused me with GrammerNaziElite.

Also I found this picture hilarious, but probably a tad racist. Someone tell me if you think it's Newgrounds appropriate.

I don't think it's racist. Their water is pretty polluted, and those symptoms are pretty accurate descriptions of dysentery.

not to second guess the closing of the legalize weed thread, but everyone is aware that no one is going to bother with the search bar and we'll be stuck with another three within the week?

At 5/4/09 09:38 PM, SolInvictus wrote: not to second guess the closing of the legalize weed thread, but everyone is aware that no one is going to bother with the search bar and we'll be stuck with another three within the week?

Yep. That's life on the forum.

I was going to send avie a pm joking about how he just harshed my buzz, but I think that would be in poor taste at this point.

At 5/4/09 09:42 PM, Proteas wrote: I was going to send avie a pm joking about how he just harshed my buzz, but I think that would be in poor taste at this point.

well i hope he sees it eventually, its pretty funny.

i had a look around and oddly enough (well all right, it isn't that odd) most of the weed threads are in general. i guess all the threads i remember passed beyond the nether regions of the politics forum.

At 5/4/09 09:38 PM, SolInvictus wrote: not to second guess the closing of the legalize weed thread, but everyone is aware that no one is going to bother with the search bar and we'll be stuck with another three within the week?

Then those get deleted or locked. What's so hard to understand about that? It's called mods doing what they're supposed to and locking and deleting the shit. People have been getting too comfortable trolling and being prejudice lately too, so they're getting drop kicked out too. I'm not liking how standards have slipped in this forum, and I have to admit, part of that problem lies with me as I'm charged with doing what's right by this board.

So yeah, I see more pot legalizing, abortion, other repeat threads? Gone.

I see more racist, prejudice, hateful statements? Ban.

I see evidence of trolling or flame baiting? Stopped.

That's what mods are supposed to do and that's what I ought to be doing next time before I make posts about how I don't like the way the forums are going. If you don't like these things either, then make sure to help me out and report this kind of crap. It's not tattling, it's keeping the forum clean and not letting it deteriorate and fall to the nastier elements.

At 5/4/09 09:48 PM, SolInvictus wrote: well i hope he sees it eventually, its pretty funny.

Indeed it is.

i had a look around and oddly enough (well all right, it isn't that odd) most of the weed threads are in general. i guess all the threads i remember passed beyond the nether regions of the politics forum.

Probably because it always boils down to the same arguments for or against every time, and mostly these threads seem to me to be a lot like the communism and other threads springing up recently. It's teenagers or college age kids thinking they're intelligent by arguing a "controversial point" without having all the facts and figuring the forum is full of like minded individuals who will agree with them and agree they're geniuses.

At 5/5/09 01:00 AM, aviewaskewed wrote: I'm not liking how standards have slipped in this forum, and I have to admit, part of that problem lies with me as I'm charged with doing what's right by this board.

you were in the right, i just hate the fact that no one can have a decent discussion around here. plus its fun to talk about pot. speaking of which; i haven't been high in a while. pot, pot, pot. and theres a suspicious looking plant growing next to my house.
but ya, keep up the anti-troll patrol.

At 5/5/09 01:41 AM, SolInvictus wrote: you were in the right, i just hate the fact that no one can have a decent discussion around here. plus its fun to talk about pot. speaking of which; i haven't been high in a while. pot, pot, pot. and theres a suspicious looking plant growing next to my house.

Could it be....mmmm....POT?!!!

But yeah, that's what I want to see too, people have a decent conversation, and talk about some stuff other then the same handful of topics.

but ya, keep up the anti-troll patrol.

will do.

At 5/5/09 01:04 AM, aviewaskewed wrote: It's teenagers or college age kids thinking they're intelligent by arguing a "controversial point" without having all the facts and figuring the forum is full of like minded individuals who will agree with them and agree they're geniuses.

I hope that you weren't referring to me there. I simply wanted at least one person to respond to some of my arguments so I can refine them, or perhaps discard the faulty ones. I was getting seriously frustrated, though, as I have spent a lot of time researching the topic, and I spent a lot of time writing in that thread, but I only got one person to respond to anything I wrote in 5 pages of stuff, and that was when I disagreed about something small.

It seems like the attention spans of many posters have decreased... I used to be able to spend a lot of time writing an idea and get really interesting responses to it.

I got a question.
Before the invasion of Iraq... were they a Communist society?

Google doesn't give me the answer, so I think it's best to ask other people.
I'm correcting my project and I wrote that Iraq wasn't a Communistic country.

But I don't remember why, and I don't want to leave up an unfounded claim.

No, definitely not. Iraq was actually supported by the US and other Western countries because Saddam was seen as anti-Communist in a strategically important area.

At 5/5/09 04:12 AM, fli wrote: I got a question.
Before the invasion of Iraq... were they a Communist society?

Formerly part of the Ottoman Empire, Iraq was occupied by Britain during the course of World War I; in 1920, it was declared a League of Nations mandate under UK administration. In stages over the next dozen years, Iraq attained its independence as a kingdom in 1932. A "republic" was proclaimed in 1958, but in actuality a series of strongmen ruled the country until 2003. The last was SADDAM Husayn.

cite

At 5/5/09 01:00 AM, aviewaskewed wrote:

At 5/4/09 09:38 PM, SolInvictus wrote: not to second guess the closing of the legalize weed thread, but everyone is aware that no one is going to bother with the search bar and we'll be stuck with another three within the week?

Then those get deleted or locked. What's so hard to understand about that? It's called mods doing what they're supposed to and locking and deleting the shit. People have been getting too comfortable trolling and being prejudice lately too, so they're getting drop kicked out too. I'm not liking how standards have slipped in this forum, and I have to admit, part of that problem lies with me as I'm charged with doing what's right by this board.

you do good enough my friend. you should be commended on the efforts on our behalf.

So yeah, I see more pot legalizing, abortion, other repeat threads? Gone.

I see more racist, prejudice, hateful statements? Ban.

I see evidence of trolling or flame baiting? Stopped.

Good job. I mean it too.

That's what mods are supposed to do and that's what I ought to be doing next time before I make posts about how I don't like the way the forums are going. If you don't like these things either, then make sure to help me out and report this kind of crap. It's not tattling, it's keeping the forum clean and not letting it deteriorate and fall to the nastier elements.

lol. cleaning was never my favorite thing to do but necessary nonetheless.

dont get discouraged, im sure i speak for many when i say you and your mod clan do a good job here.

At 5/5/09 04:23 AM, slowerthenb4 wrote: "republic"

I was going to say "Totalitarian Dictatorship," but... republic? Really? hm.

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You know what really irks me? I just realized I have two perfectly good machete's I could have practiced sword sharpening on, I didn't have to go to the mall and buy that piece-o-shit katana.

And; whoever it was at Domino's that thought to put Philly Cheese Steak toppings on a pizza is a fucking genius. The stuff tastes just as good the next day as leftovers as it did when it was fresh out of the box.

*nom**nom**nom**nom**nom*

At 5/5/09 09:09 AM, Proteas wrote: And; whoever it was at Domino's that thought to put Philly Cheese Steak toppings on a pizza is a fucking genius. The stuff tastes just as good the next day as leftovers as it did when it was fresh out of the box.

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I love cold pizza.
I love it with beer for breakfast mmmmmmmmmm. My favorite is Hawaiian with cheddar cheese as well as mozza & bacon .
Because you just can't go wrong with bacon !

At 5/5/09 11:40 AM, morefngdbs wrote: Because you just can't go wrong with bacon !

Can never go wrong with bacon. :-D

I like the Philly Cheese Steak for the simple fact that it has no sauce. I'm not a big sauce kind of guy... plus, it has BEEF. Not ground beef, real strips of BEEF. And peppers, and onions, and PROVOLONE!!!

*drools*

At 5/5/09 12:13 PM, Proteas wrote:

At 5/5/09 11:40 AM, morefngdbs wrote: Because you just can't go wrong with bacon !

Can never go wrong with bacon. :-D

I like the Philly Cheese Steak for the simple fact that it has no sauce. I'm not a big sauce kind of guy... plus, it has BEEF. Not ground beef, real strips of BEEF. And peppers, and onions, and PROVOLONE!!!

*drools*

I once tried an interesting thing that came equipped with parma ham. It was... Strange. Delicious, but nevertheless strange. The salty ham did unspeakable things to the poor mozzarella cheese, and yet it tasted good as a whole. Strange is probably the best way to put it.

Oh, and by the way, did you guys know that the finnish fast-food chain Kotipizza (literally "Home Pizza") won an award for their "Berlusconi" pizza with reindeer meat? The Italian prime minister made some remarks about finnish cuisine back in the days, something about how we eat a steady diet consisting solely out of reindeer meat, and the rest is history. I have tasted REAL reindeer, and I can tell you that much, that the pig faces some serious competition as "best food source" from the reindeer.

Anyhow, the bearnaise sauce pizza still tops my list of freaky flattened fast food. It is the fact that the pizza is seasoned with a sauce and not a regular topping that makes it so extraordinary.

I'm on the same side as avie. We let this forum get riddled with retardation. I've been cracking down, but since I don't have the time to read every 10+ page thread, It would be nice if I got a PM once in a while when people start trolling in a thread.

and frankly any argument of "i wasn't trolling, i didn't call anyone a faggot" is not going to hold up. If you say stupid shit for the sake of riling people up, you WILL get banned. This forum has a much higher standard for discussion and if you can't get your shit straight before you post and you think it's cute to go into a hot-topic thread and say some pig headed shit, you won't get a reaction. You will get banned and your post will be deleted.

At 5/5/09 02:20 PM, Malachy wrote: This forum has a much higher standard for discussion and if you can't get your shit straight before you post and you think it's cute to go into a hot-topic thread and say some pig headed shit, you won't get a reaction. You will get banned and your post will be deleted.

Well, I'm glad that you guys are doing this. Some of the racist stuff makes me feel sick when I read it.

At 5/5/09 01:41 AM, SolInvictus wrote:

At 5/5/09 01:00 AM, aviewaskewed wrote: I'm not liking how standards have slipped in this forum, and I have to admit, part of that problem lies with me as I'm charged with doing what's right by this board.

you were in the right, i just hate the fact that no one can have a decent discussion around here. plus its fun to talk about pot. speaking of which; i haven't been high in a while. pot, pot, pot. and theres a suspicious looking plant growing next to my house.
but ya, keep up the anti-troll patrol.

It could be worse, it didn't have to be violent video games and movies with gunfights to draw some complaints.

It would be funny if people thinks this movie is responsible for bar fights.

some guy: This movie promotes drinking!

At 5/4/09 07:30 PM, Grammer wrote: I wonder if anyone ever confused me with GrammerNaziElite.

Also I found this picture hilarious, but probably a tad racist. Someone tell me if you think it's Newgrounds appropriate.

Many of those are results of the time when my family went on vacation to China in 2002, mostly it happens to me. Didn't completety recover until few months later...

At 5/4/09 07:19 PM, stafffighter wrote: For those of you wisely not venturing outside the lounge I present a report on the the current status of the politics.

Pot: Good
Communisum: Good
Jesus: Apparently said something about the dude's mother.

Indeed, back then those pro-communist posts would come from you-know-who tried to burn the school to da ground. Now many of the recent ones came from another you-know-who shared the name of a baseball player who punched the wall back in 2004.

At 5/5/09 03:24 PM, SevenSeize wrote: I WANT BRAAAAIIINNNNSSSS

Will a sugar cookie and some orange juice suffice?

Or at the very least, go back in there and tell them to "put it back" at spatula-point.

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I did something REALLY stupid a little while ago. I was trap shooting with my brother and his girlfriend (excuse me, fiance, he proposed last night), and it was my turn to load the clay launcer... something I have not done in YEARS as we recently dusted this thing off and brought it out.

I don't have near as much upper body strength as I thought.

I didn't get it latched properly, and the launching arm flung back out and scratched the hell out of my right right forearm (and jerked a muscle in my left forearm, probably pulling it). No need for stitched, but, it looks bad and hurts a bit. But now I get to go to work tomorrow and try to convince people that, no, I didn't try to kill myself... again.

At 5/5/09 04:02 AM, Tancrisism wrote: I hope that you weren't referring to me there. I simply wanted at least one person to respond to some of my arguments so I can refine them, or perhaps discard the faulty ones. I was getting seriously frustrated, though, as I have spent a lot of time researching the topic, and I spent a lot of time writing in that thread, but I only got one person to respond to anything I wrote in 5 pages of stuff, and that was when I disagreed about something small.

No, I think you're one of the better posters on this board and a big reason I locked that topic was because looking through it I'm seeing you putting out lots of effort and people are ignoring it because like I said, with topics like pot it's very difficult to see real debate on it because most of the people attracted to such debate are pot users that just want to spew out their "why pot is great" and considering the age group it's probably people just parroting what they read off sites like weed.com. They're not interested in a discussion or a debate, their interested in just saying with a mass of others how they should be allowed to smoke up if they want and this is the most logical thing in the world so why defend it? It's also a topic done to death. So yeah, you're post was the tipping point, but only from the "goddamn, if we've got a reg like Tan, a reg that represents to me the good on this board getting pissed and ignored, this pit is done"

It seems like the attention spans of many posters have decreased... I used to be able to spend a lot of time writing an idea and get really interesting responses to it.

Yeah, I think part of the problem is because a lot of new posters don't have the proper role models anymore for how they should conduct themselves here. They think it's an anything goes free for all, or that it's general with political talk. Some of this misunderstanding though I believe is because there are people here who DO post a lot and who ARE basically "regulars" but are using bad habits and are encouraging bad habits either because they don't see anything wrong with it, or because it amuses them to do so. I like to think I'm a nice guy and I try to be protective without restricting the freedom of ideas and all that happy crap, but damn, enough is enough sometimes. That kind of thing has to stop. Can't rise above ad hominem, false evidence, and name calling? You really aren't welcome here. That's how this section was when I arrived and I'd like to see it that way again.

I got nominated as director and writer for the 3-day-play event.

Day one: Writers gets a phrase and they write a 10-minute play with that phrase.
Day two: Writers and directors come together, and start auditions.
Day three: Rehearsals
Day four: Put it on stage.

It's actually a 4-day-play event, but I guess writers get push away.
I feel lucky. I had some tough competitors and to be one of 10 writers...
Even more lucky is that I get to be a director (although, not of my own play.)

We don't know what the play will be about until we get our phrases.
Think of it as... Whose Line Is It Anyways.

At 5/5/09 06:36 PM, fli wrote: I got nominated as director and writer for the 3-day-play event.

Congradulations

We don't know what the play will be about until we get our phrases.
Think of it as... Whose Line Is It Anyways.

Your phrase is "The letter h"

At 5/5/09 06:26 PM, SevenSeize wrote: I can't have sugar.

...?

Anyway, OUCH Proteas! You gotta be more careful young man. Is the cut too deep?

"Tis a flesh wound!

Hurt like hell, bled for a few seconds, now it just looks nasty. It's no worse than a bad cat scratch. No rust on the thrower, and I had my tetnis shot done when I sliced my thumb open last month, so I'm pretty much good to go.

Go get some Mederma. It's good for keeping cuts from scarring, and clears up old scars.

Mederma's a bit out of my price range. Besides, scars serve a reminder to me not to do the same stupid shit twice. :-D

But I did have a Johnny the Homicidal Maniac moment when I got back to the house, though.

At 5/5/09 02:20 PM, Malachy wrote: I'm on the same side as avie. We let this forum get riddled with retardation. I've been cracking down, but since I don't have the time to read every 10+ page thread, It would be nice if I got a PM once in a while when people start trolling in a thread.

and frankly any argument of "i wasn't trolling, i didn't call anyone a faggot" is not going to hold up. If you say stupid shit for the sake of riling people up, you WILL get banned. This forum has a much higher standard for discussion and if you can't get your shit straight before you post and you think it's cute to go into a hot-topic thread and say some pig headed shit, you won't get a reaction. You will get banned and your post will be deleted.

That's very true, but the problems I have with reporting people is that the majority of the people you've described are the "post and run" type, and their posts to me on the edge. However, I do keep a little black book (in the back of my mind) of everybody's posting type, so I do know sometimes if I recognize a name if someone's trolling or like what you said, just being a dumbass.

At 5/5/09 06:53 PM, SevenSeize wrote: The letter H is the best whose line episode ever.

That's mild compared to the Richard Simmon's episode...

I keep wondering what will my scene be. I'll be meeting up with the other writers tomorrow at 4PM-- and will have exactly 24 hours to write a 10 minute scene.

At 5/5/09 03:49 PM, Idiot-Finder wrote: Indeed, back then those pro-communist posts would come from you-know-who tried to burn the school to da ground. Now many of the recent ones came from another you-know-who shared the name of a baseball player who punched the wall back in 2004.

Everytime here opened his mouth, he was destroyed by someone. His constant worship of North Korea is ridiculous to say at the least.

Who is the other dude you are referring to?