samiyam wrote: 
I'm sorry if you thought I was angry. i was just being a little picky about the 'attacking inappropriately' statement. Meaning, no attack is appropriate...

And I'm giving you a pass on whatever you say because of your splendid writing.

No anger.

 samiyam wrote: 

Not according to the OED:

godsibb masc. (f. god GOD + sib(b adj., akin, related: see SIB a.) = ON. gu-sefe masc., gu-sifja fem., OSw. guzsowir masc., guziff, gudzsöff fem. In ME. a single example is found of a fem. godzybbe corresp. to masc. godzyb (see quot. 1340 in 1).> 

 romeotuma wrote: 

 hippiechick wrote: 
gossip... means "news"  That's the origin of the word.  What do I think of Owld Skipper?  I think he's said some really interesting and noteworthy things here at RP.  I don't blame him for being Canadian.  That's not his fault.    But I guess that's gossip too.

 pjcle wrote: 
Thankfully, the Beak is resilient enough to withstand the barbs cast his way. He is one of the few vocal conservatives at RP. The prevalence of the liberal viewpoint has sadly alienated many conservatives from RP. The love of music is universal and it draws people from every political stance. I'm more conservative than he is, and had I not made in-person friendships with members of the community, I would be long gone from here solely because of the widespread cheap shots taken at my own party's expense. Some days, I'm still tempted to wash my hands of the place, a la nook. What's worse than the community suffering from the dearth of a conservative voice is that B&R's efforts suffer from the loss of support, both financially and socially spreading the word.

Never assume that everyone anyone here agrees with your opinion. I certainly don't.

 Atman wrote: 
What pool of anger did this arise from?

 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.)