tonight i am planning to get bladded and sing heaven knows i'm miserable now with gut-wrenching sincerity
*nonchalantly flicks a peanut at back of ivy's head*
stormy would you kindly tell robert that a) he is flouting his own declaration on the "things i like thread" as it is still BST ... and b) that he could not choose a more appropriate song
thank you
stormy, please advise ivy that i will return to her in the morning, will promise never to see the elf or anyone else again, grovel, apologise, and then everything will be ok again as usual
Sorry - got side tracked - needed a refill
Have passed on all messages a per pro spat to ACAS
Hi Mr E.... no need to apologise ...... just that there's not been a fight for a few days and they are most entertaining!
(see my new limerick re rope and hanging ones self et al)
now .... last time I was here Ivorybuttocks was fluttering things at me. I leave for a few mins and there is a bust up with that dodgy used car chap Robert!
Tsk tsk
Just hangin out seeing whats happening..I'm not the worlds fastest typer so I kinda get left behind.
The above sounds very American when you read it out..which is strange because I come from Liverpool..originally
POINT PROVEN BEYOND REASONABLE DOUBT.
Hope you all enjoyed yourselves late last night. With the exception of Andrew, Mr E and Antoinette you ALL proved that you care not one iota for a soul in pain as long as you are entertained in the process.
Card games, you all got that right. BRAG and CLUBS certainly fit you lot down to the proverbial ground. I may not be a great writer, I maybe vitriolic, but something I have is something that the rest of you seem to be deficient in, it's called humility.
So go and pat each other on the back, but don't moan when you all get fed up of hearing each other bleat on and on and on about how brilliant you all are, and how bad everyone who doesn't agree is!
AJ
hi AJ!
If what you said is true.... do you honestly think that the anonymous emailers would declare themselves in your thread?
I doubt it.
You chose to resurrect a topic that is long dead. Personally I have never 'bleated' on about how good I am and nor, I think, have Robert and Ivory.
Mississippi chose to push his thread to the limit. He chose to interpret the responses he had as negative. I have had a look back and interpret the results differently. In response to his original question there was one reply saying he was not a problem. There were 5 replies against him. There were another 9 replies, including me, who said .... no problem mate...just tone it down a bit. To me that says a 10 to 5 result for him to stay. He chose to rip into the 5 against. Two of the 5 said "lets be friends". He told them where to go too.
After that it became a playground session of name calling. None of the protagonists in that piece came out of it well. My kids are 11 and 12. They can string an argument better than that!
Mississippi could have stayed. He chose to go. If what you say is true then I am disappointed that he would let a few anonymous emailers get to him.
At the end of the day AJ can you really, honestly condone the calling of a female contributor a "pretentious twat"? It's out of order and you know it. Most of us ignored it and hoped things would improve. But no.
Mississippi is a big boy now and can look after himself. He started the bun fight and he ended it.
I speak as one who quite enjoyed his diversions and his pops against authority. Your comments above are crass. Your point is NOT proven beyond doubt. If we had not messed about ... then your thread would be dead. (Zed's dead baby). I repeat:
The anonymous emailers will not crawl out. They never will. The people honest enough to speak against mississ have already done so in public.
Your thread is a waste of space and I await your apology for daring to include me in your, as ever, vitriolic nonsense.
Mississipi had a friend long before you joined the last carriage but decided to fight the masses himself.
You live by the sword ... yadda yadda
Your attack on Andrew (subsequently withdrawn I notice) was unnecessary and shows that perhaps you do not really understand what went on.
The 'gach' remark was made by richard, not andrew, who also went public and did not hide behind email.
Yours logically but not bitchily
stormy
Hi Stormy,
I haven't accused anybody with regards the anonymous e-mails, as how could I? They were anonymous. The purpose behind this thread was to expose some of the nastier elements behind the scenes so to speak.
Re: yadda, yadda and gach, what do those words mean? I am intellectually challenged after all.
AJ
'gach' was a quote from the above thread from k-oranj.
'yadda yadda' is an Jewish Americanism for etc etc.
I know what you were trying to do .... I was trying to tell you that it won't work and it's best to let the subject drop.
If Missis came back and carried on how he started out .... a mixture of humour and serious questions ..... then I'm sure he would be welcomed. It was the direct insults that hurt a few here and they cannot be blamed for that. Not all of us are hard enough nor old enough to withstand that.
Anyway..... I've got a double six..... me to start then?
Hey! Not defending Mississippi - but he's just aggravating - he's not a terrorist - he's not a monster - he's a living breathing person with a desire for attention
He's going about it the wrong way
People make the mistake (and I've fallen into this trap too) of involving themselves in nonsensical conversations with him - that's just a waste of forum space
He needs to be encouraged to work on WRITING .... discouraged from communication that is nothing more than crap ...
I know most of you do not like the idea of a forum moderator - but I'll say it again - a forum moderator - on each forum - should be posted - that moderator should be given deletion powers - if somebody's just on there to tick people off he/she will soon learn they're going to get deleted
Recently, I've seen the quality of these threads improving - on the ABCtales discussion of the writing, people are actually talking about the writing - I like that
When I first started participating, very little input was to be found in that section.
I think that if Mississipi comes back on the forum and posts distasteful or annoying messages, it should just be ignored - don't reply to it - he'll give it up and he might just work with you.
I want to be honest - and I am that, if nothing else - I've often left this site feeling that I want to take every item I've posted here, off the pages ... I've closed my computer down thinking 'there's no reason to participate there'.
However, a few of the members here have engaged in polite discussions with me and I appreciate that.
Sometimes, I've told fellow writers - fellow forum members - e-pals - come over to ABCtales - it's a good place to put your work - they've come to look - opened the forums, then written to me and said 'what the hell? What's there?'
Right now? The board's in good shape - there are some creative and constructive conversations going.
See, it was hard for me - as it is for all other themestreamers - we were used to having that environment - encouraging and friendly - everybody knew what the other guy was talking about ... we were spoiled - and then the site went down - I guess that's why we're a bit picky - we were all furious with themestream.com's management - but we have to admit - we miss it.
I frankly think ABCtales.com can become just a popular as themestream ... no - we're not getting paid for posting our work - but it's a darn good place to put your stuff online - it's good for people who have not published yet too. Gives them a feel for publishing.
I often get the feeling that people on this forum are laughing at me because I haven't yet caught on to who is who ... and maybe they are - but you know what? It doesn't really matter ... what matters is the CONTENT - I don't care if somebody wants to use 5 different e mail addresses and 5 different user names - if I like the content, I'll participate. That's how online content works.
The better it gets, the more people are going to come to it - the sponsors are happy and the site goes on - if people get ticked off and don't come any more, you end up with about 10 people posting - the sponsors don't want to support that ... you can't blame them.
Ok - I'll get off my soapbox.
Carly :-)
By the way - or in webese - BTW ... what is the game of BRAG ... is it something we can do on forum posts?
Ever played Balderdash? That could be done here ....
BTW - Liana - thanks so much for explaining yadda yadda - a lot of people say it here in Canada - I didn't really know what it was - I thought it was spelled 'yada'
Now I know.
It's a good way of saying etc., isn't it ... jolly good and all that rot ... yadda, yadda, yadda ...
Now about Balderdash - I'm starting a new thread - hope you'll play
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