Atman wrote: 

 maryte wrote: 

 oldviolin wrote: 

Fixed your typo.

 jagdriver wrote: 
"Stop calling me Ethel"

 hippiechick wrote: 

Cookinlover has the strength of 100 men, and the sack of a hamster...

 Atman wrote: 

"You boys fight it out among yourselves."

"OK-K-K-K-K, Ethel."

 owld_skipper wrote: 
Well, then why don't we play 

"What do you think of Owld Skipper?" 

Talking about people, esp when they are not even present, is gossip. 

 owld_skipper wrote: 
I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by
madness, starving hysterical naked,
dragging themselves through the negro streets at
dawn looking for an angry fix,
angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient
heavenly connection to the starry dynamo in the
machinery of night,
who poverty and tatters and hollow-eyed and high
sat up smoking in the supernatural darkness of
cold-water flats floating across the tops of cities
contemplating jazz,
who bared their brains to Heaven under the El and
saw Mohammedan angels staggering on tene-
ment roofs illuminated,
who passed through universities with radiant cool
eyes hallucinating Arkansas and Blake-light tragedy
among the scholars of war,
who were expelled from the academies for crazy &
publishing obscene odes on the windows of the skull,
who cowered in unshaven rooms in underwear, burn-
ing their money in wastebaskets and listening
to the Terror through the wall,
who got busted in their pubic beards returning through
Laredo with a belt of marijuana for New York,
who ate fire in paint hotels or drank turpentine in
Paradise Alley, death, or purgatoried their torsos night after night
with dreams, with drugs, with waking nightmares, al-
cohol and cock and endless balls,
incomparable blind; streets of shuddering cloud and...

     

 samiyam wrote: 
Hey, you f#$ktard!

Hey, you g@#ddamn f#$ktard!

I think I see the difference. Attacking others is okay, as long as it's not profane or inappropriate?

Maybe we should start a thread about how to communicate in a way that is effective, without being violent toward others. Move in that direction anyway.

At this point, samiyam, you can say anything/do anything, you are the Bean King! Alas, I wish my appreciation for you was unconditional, but KEEP WRITING YOUR STORY and stop wasting your precious writing skills wrangling with g@#ddamn f#$ktards!

 maryte wrote: 
Well, maybe Oscar said it first, but I read it in a collection of conversations with Winston Churchill...  sorry for being a bit uncouth.
.

 owld_skipper wrote: 
Maybe we should take this over to "talks behind their backs" forum...

"You know Beaker was once a juggling clown but I hear lately he's forgotten how to juggle."

Maybe then we'd get a laugh and people would calm down.

 samiyam wrote: 

    Oscar Wilde.

 ScottFromWyoming wrote: 
Offense is always taken, never given.

(With a few exceptions to this adage, it would seem.)

 hippiechick wrote: 
This is correct, and Beaker has castigated me for trying to publicly analyze his posts to get to his why's and motivations. I was wrong then and it's wrong now. That being said, if someone pushes your buttons to such a degree that you're reading racism/sexism/etc into his/her posts where none exists, it's a good idea to step back and not let it produce such a response in you. I wish Beaker's style weren't so provocative but it's finely-tuned at being just that: a provocation. It's up to the target to not be provoked, sometimes.

We've crossed swords, sure. We've also shared some of our life (travel, pets, music music music) outside of this forum and I look forward to the day we can have a pint and watch some live music.

 meower wrote: 
I was being sarcastic, don't ya know

 hippiechick wrote: 

ha!

 samiyam wrote: 
This is gossip. If you like participating in gossip, then fine. 

Why don't we start a new thread: "What do you think of ________ (fill in the blank) 

I'll be gone for 2 weeks starting tomorrow, so you can talk about me then. 

 hippiechick wrote: 

i totally agree.  Let's please not start a "what do you think of...." thread...

 hippiechick wrote: 
Then people would be going behind his back.  Which would be worse?  Besides, the fact is that Beaker has a legitimate right to voice his opinions whether they hurt other's feelings or not as long as he's not profane or attacks others in inappropriate manner.  Winston Churchill once said the only thing worse than being talked about was not being talked about.  Sometimes we all have to roll with the punches.  But there's a difference between being honest and being unkindly honest.