Well, I'm finally done with this place...

[CosmicCowboy]

Congratulations.

I thoroughly enjoy political discourse but that is no longer what this place is about. It's all about your snarky little gang trying to irritate and snipe like a gang of juvenile delinquents and then slapping yourselves on the back about how witty you are all the while running and hiding from real discourse behind whining claims of "straw men" and stupid demands for links to links to links that get posted.

I recognize that every political forum has its idiots or just bumfucking crazy people like Boutons, but when the seemingly sane people get caught up in this crap as well it's really depressing and this place has turned into a total waste of time.

Chump? You win Charlie Sheen...You get the award for pompously thinking you are really putting it to people while just coming off as a snarky little bitch that wants to aggravate people...congratulations...you succeeded...You used to be better than that and occasionally brought substantive takes...what happened?

The rest of you? Winehole?...you seem like a smart guy but again the desire to impress your gang with your witty snitty insults drowns out the quality you used to bring to the forum...

Clambake? Whatever happened to just talking politics and bouncing differing opinions off each other?...are you just trying to impress Chump and the rest of the little gang?

I could go on...there are a lot of other quality posters that have jumped on the snark bandwagon plus the hanger on third stringers that it's just no fun in here anymore. There are a lot of you guys I'm sure I would like in person and I actually think you guys would like me too, but I'm done.

I'm sure there will be high fives all around and victory declarations and snarky comments about me slinking off with my butthurt so knock yourselves out...that's what this place has become...and quite honestly I don't need the aggravation and refuse to waste any more time in here...

Maybe we can even get Kori to change the name of the forum to something more appropriate like the Charlie Sheen Winners Club...enjoy the forum you have ruined...

[boutons_deux]

Gfy

[clambake]

little gang?........little?

how dare you

[Oh, Gee!!]

Chump, you broke CC.

[Oh, Gee!!]

Gfy

:lol

[mavs>spurs]

Chillax brah, you can't let the internet defeat you like that. Aren't you self employed? Then you sir have the luxury of being able to kick back and have a beer with lunch, then come back when you feel better brah.

[CuckingFunt]

Over the MLK thread? For serious?

[George Gervin's Afro]

We can call this the 'Winning Forum'..

[SA210]

Over the MLK thread? For serious?

I don't know if CC and i agree politically at all, but can't say I blame him.

[DarrinS]

I'd have to agree that the quality of this forum has deteriorated over the past few months.

[clambake]

I'd have to agree that the quality of this forum has deteriorated over the past few months.

you came in here lying. you're not qualified to judge.

[4>0rings]

Bnsf

[Winehole23]

I thoroughly enjoy political discourse but that is no longer what this place is about. when people routinely call you on stuff you basically either make up or Fwd from mailing lists, and turn the smugness and snark around on you -- who have been lacking for neither here at any time -- I can see how that would make your experience here somewhat less enjoyable.


ain't it awful? people are so mean!Sorry I've disappointed you, CosmicCowboy.

without your admonitions relating to the chronically inferior quality of posters besides yourself and the anointed few -- whomever they are and to whom we may attribute the intelligence, humanity and high standards of quality and mature narrative that formerly prevailed here -- we will be very unlikely now to detect that inferiority. happily for our sakes, you have just emphasized it strongly.

anyway, enjoy your time elsewhere! hope you come back, someday.

:toast

[greyforest]

bye.

oh wait this is spurstalk politics...

your ideology is terrible and has ruined the country and my entire generation's future!

http://i.imgur.com/t8Xmd.gif

[Blake]

rofl cosmic attention whore riding his golf cart off into the sunset

[Bartleby]

eEqUyNaSdvg

[cheguevara]

poor baby

[spursncowboys]

I agree with CC.

[Winehole23]

what, that this place has slid downhill in the last three years?

[Winehole23]

have posters become too snarky and mean?

[Winehole23]

if the generally low quality of political banter disgusts you, either improve it or find another board that suits you better. why waste your time on a bunch of sarcastic jerks?

[spursncowboys]

Just the average trolling.maybe one OP out of five seems to have an actual discussion. Although I've always had a problem with clam and cd doing their shtick.

[cheguevara]

have you guys looked at policymic.com? pretty decent site for politics discussion.

and thankfully guys like Dumpster and Boutons would not be tolerated there :lol

[Winehole23]

you pine for the good old days three years ago, SnC?

[spursncowboys]

if the generally low quality of political banter disgusts you, either improve it or find another board that suits you better. why waste your time on a bunch of sarcastic jerks?

With all the people I have on ignore,I don't deal with it, but I do see how their non sense drives away logic. I do however realize my options on how to spend my time, but thank you anyways.

[Winehole23]

to me, that is hilarious. it's like having a beauty contest between a hyena and a warthog.

the mature, sober, reflective qualities which are allegedly missing in this forum, are equally missing in the all bitchy submissions related to the general lack of quality. at any rate, genteel, adult conversation has never been typical here, but has not been totally absent either, during the relatively brief period of my participation here.

[spursncowboys]

you pine for the good old days three years ago, SnC?

Did toy think i didn't read you're question the first time? why don't you just come out and say what you are trying to say.

[spursncowboys]

have you guys looked at policymic.com? pretty decent site for politics discussion.

and thankfully guys like Dumpster and Boutons would not be tolerated there :lol

I'll take the morons over the over zealous mods. I agree with cc's assessment.not his decision to quit.

[jack sommerset]

Another one bites the dust. The Internet geeks claimed another head.

[Winehole23]

if you care so much about having a conversation then start one, or at least, you can reply to something I said. replying is of course optional.

[The Reckoning]

wait CC i still need to submit my app for you to hire me. ive been a ranch foreman in charge of renovation of in/out structures!

and i can make a mean cocktail...dont leave me, please...

[Winehole23]

Did toy think i didn't read you're question the first time? why don't you just come out and say what you are trying to say.I think I've already implied it clearly, but here goes. your argument that this forum has slid downhill rests on a specious distinction. 2009 politics forum was not way better than it is now.

it did have ExtraStout though, so there is that.

[Agloco]

I fancy this place, despite some of the obvious trolling which abounds. Generally, I've found folks to be cordial, if not friendly at times.

[ChumpDumper]

Sorry, dude.


:depressed

[Wild Cobra]

I fancy this place, despite some of the obvious trolling which abounds. Generally, I've found folks to be cordial, if not friendly at times.
It still has those who don't miss an opportunity to push others around. It does get tiresome to deal with some of these first grade bully types.

CC will be back.

[ChumpDumper]

I admit, when people are evasive, I'm a dog with a bone. It's just too much fun -- especially when it's over nothing important. I never imagined CC's source would be particularly damning to him; I just found his reaction to be fascinating.

[Wild Cobra]

I admit, when people are evasive, I'm a dog with a bone. It's just too much fun -- especially when it's over nothing important. I never imagined CC's source would be particularly damning to him; I just found his reaction to be fascinating.
That's why you are a despicable piece of shit.

[ChumpDumper]

That's why you are a despicable piece of shit.:lol This is exactly the kind of thing I'm talking about. Folks freak out over the weirdest things.

Thanks! :toast

[Agloco]

I admit, when people are evasive, I'm a dog with a bone.

This.

I've read some of TJastal and Fabbs threads in the Spurs forum. rofl.

[Winehole23]

:lol This is exactly the kind of thing I'm talking about. Folks freak out over the weirdest things.
Not only that, posters wait up on you to do so and actually do so even when the pretext is totally unprovocative.

for example, WC mostly doesn't notice whenever I agree with him; indeed, usually he responds defensively to attempted agreement.

[ChumpDumper]

Not only that, they wait up on you to do so and actually do so even when the comments are totally unprovocative.

for example, WC usually does not notice when I agree, and indeed, usually responds defensively to attempted agreement.You agreed with WC?

That's why you are a despicable piece of shit.

[Wild Cobra]

WC mostly doesn't notice whenever I agree with him; indeed, usually he responds defensively to attempted agreement.
I have done that at times, but you have to admit. CC is right about you. You have a reputation too.

[ElNono]

bye

[Winehole23]

You agreed with WC?

That's why you are a despicable piece of shit.sure. for a swarm of other reasons too, but yeah. very occasionally WC says something so anodyne and obvious I can't bring myself to disagree. a few other times I've flat agreed with him.

[Winehole23]

I have done that at times, but you have to admit. CC is right about you. You have a reputation too.what reputation?

[Sportcamper]

LMAO @ successful business owner / gentleman farmer trying to have an intelligent conversation with a bunch of unemployed stoners…:lmao

[Wild Cobra's Surgeon]

That's why you are a despicable piece of shit.

Interesting...


I don't like most black people. There are very few who I have met that grew up in a cultural setting I have any respect for. Most I have met are out right thugs, and lack integrity. I could say I don't like black people, but there are some exceptions. If I based all my decisions on statistics, I would stay clear of blacks.

[JoeChalupa]

I fancy this place, despite some of the obvious trolling which abounds. Generally, I've found folks to be cordial, if not friendly at times.

I concur and I just skip over any posts that I don't tend to read anyhow. I have nobody on ignore at all and yeah, this forum has its ups and downs just like any other and I'm not going anywhere.

[Winehole23]

LMAO @ successful business owner / gentleman farmer trying to have an intelligent conversation with a bunch of unemployed stoners…:lmao
CC wasn't trying very hard, tbh

[JoeChalupa]

Now let me go read the MLK thread which just from the title I didn't read it.

[clambake]

three skirt wearing neocons in here.

[Winehole23]

Another one bites the dust. The Internet geeks claimed another head.along with yours, apparently. Where have you been?

[ElNono]

jack has been waiting for Obamacare to be overturned... I told him it was going to take a while.

[Winehole23]

lost a bet and kept his word? my opinion of jack just rose a little...

[ElNono]

lost a bet and kept his word? my opinion of jack just rose a little...

Oh no. No bet involved.

[Winehole23]

???

[Crookshanks]

I agree with Cosmic Cowboy. This forum used to be a lot more interesting; and even when I didn't agree with something, I still found the dialog civil and sometimes informative. Now, it's nothing more than a bunch of diehard libs crapping all over anyone who doesn't share their views. People are rude, crude and sometimes downright disgusting. You've driven away most of the conservative posters - so I guess you guys win and the political forum is just a place for libs to meet and talk.

[clambake]

listen skanks, cc was too ashamed to tell us how he got the link.

go have some milk.

[Winehole23]

I agree with Cosmic Cowboy. This forum used to be a lot more interesting; and even when I didn't agree with something, I still found the dialog civil and sometimes informative.with clambake continually gnawing your heels, and others saying terribly profane things to you, I can understand your reluctance to post here.

Allegedly CC's decision to quit the forum is similar, but I'm not seeing it. CC's basically a big bully who got tired of the shoe being on the other foot. It's understandable that the sheer volume of weak posting yielded eventually to loud complaints about the boorishness of his critics...

[JoeChalupa]

I agree with Cosmic Cowboy. This forum used to be a lot more interesting; and even when I didn't agree with something, I still found the dialog civil and sometimes informative. Now, it's nothing more than a bunch of diehard libs crapping all over anyone who doesn't share their views. People are rude, crude and sometimes downright disgusting. You've driven away most of the conservative posters - so I guess you guys win and the political forum is just a place for libs to meet and talk.

This has always been a place for all political views to express their opinions. Yes, there are far right and far left fanatics who post up in here but it isn't hard to address the serious responses and the trolling.
While I disagree with some of CC's stances politically and sometimes morally to take things to a personal level, which it would have to be for a person to leave the this forum, is totally uncalled for and just shows ignorance, IMHO.
CC is a top notch poster in here, IMHO and I would hate to see him go as he has an insight that I enjoy listening to. Keep it to continue CC.

[JoeChalupa]

At the political forum we all got along great.

[Winehole23]

that said, it would suck if CC is leaving because we've been too mean

[Winehole23]

regular posters don't fall off trees

[mavs>spurs]

One day I envision a political forum free of the threat of the Iranian Boogeyman imho. where liberals and conservatives alike can live free, and out of the cold grip of fear.

[Blake]

I agree with Cosmic Cowboy. This forum used to be a lot more interesting; and even when I didn't agree with something, I still found the dialog civil and sometimes informative. Now, it's nothing more than a bunch of diehard libs crapping all over anyone who doesn't share their views. People are rude, crude and sometimes downright disgusting. You've driven away most of the conservative posters - so I guess you guys win and the political forum is just a place for libs to meet and talk.

Crookshanks being rude and crude, doing her part to drive away the diehard libs.

The way Jesus would, imo.

[Blake]

that said, it would suck if CC is leaving because we've been too mean

It's a shame when people that dish it can't take it.

[timvp]

CC is country strong. I think he just reverse trolled you guys.

[ChumpDumper]

CC is country strong. I think he just reverse trolled you guys.I would like to think so. Wouldn't hold it against him if he came back.

[Winehole23]

Crookshanks being rude and crude, doing her part to drive away the diehard libs.

The way Jesus would, imo.intent isn't everything. it matters that she hasn't succeeded.

lol Blake crying about rudeness and crudeness

[EVAY]

CC is country strong. I think he just reverse trolled you guys.

If you are right it is a level of nuance rarely encountered here. My thoughts on the topic are in the MLK postings.

[Blake]

CC is country strong. I think he just reverse trolled you guys.

If CC came in here and said gotcha, I would call country strong bullshit.

[Blake]

intent isn't everything. it matters that she hasn't succeeded.

lol Blake crying about rudeness and crudeness

Rofl you think I'm crying.

I want to see more Crookshanks postings, tbh

[Winehole23]

if "rude and crude" was meant to be existential description of what Crookshanks said in this thread, I'd say that's way off the mark. not even close, tbh.

[MaNuMaNiAc]

:lmao @ Crookshanks being insulted.

Shanks, you insult 90% of the posters in this forum with your bulletproof idiocy and your stupid comments every time you post. Don't come here acting like an innocent victim now... GTFO!

I'll never understand people's need to announce they are leaving as if anyone gives a rats ass. I think it was whottt who started this bullshit trend, or at least the one that popularized it. Honestly, just leave and be done with it...

[MaNuMaNiAc]

Hey Cosmic, I love your profile pic bro

http://www.spurstalk.com/forums/image.php?u=207&dateline=1146517345&type=profile

:lmao suitable you might say

[ChumpDumper]

:lmao @ Crookshanks being insulted.

Shanks, you insult 90% of the posters in this forum with your bulletproof idiocy and your stupid comments every time you post. Don't come here acting like an innocent victim now... GTFO!

I'll never understand people's need to announce they are leaving as if anyone gives a rats ass. I think it was whottt who started this bullshit trend, or at least the one that popularized it. Honestly, just leave and be done with it...Unfortunately, whottt eventually did that.

[Blake]

if "rude and crude" was meant to be existential description of what Crookshanks said in this thread, I'd say that's way off the mark. not even close, tbh.

Saying this place is nothing more than a bunch of diehard libs is rude, imo

Saying they crap all over anyone that doesn't share their views is crude, imo.

Her hypocritical ass saying it at all is rofl.

[Blake]

:lmao @ Crookshanks being insulted.

Shanks, you insult 90% of the posters in this forum with your bulletproof idiocy and your stupid comments every time you post. Don't come here acting like an innocent victim now... GTFO!

I'll never understand people's need to announce they are leaving as if anyone gives a rats ass. I think it was whottt who started this bullshit trend, or at least the one that popularized it. Honestly, just leave and be done with it...

[I'm leaving] threads have been around since the dawn of the first message board.

History scholars sometimes talk of the time Cosmic Caveman started one after getting his neanderthal butt hurt by Gronkdumper

[MannyIsGod]

I dont post here as much as of late because I don't really enjoy it as much and I've gotten much busier with school and research. Honestly, I don't really think its so much that the forum has changed but more that I have grown weary of politics and the general cynicism I feel towards most of the process and its implications on most of us. I think its healthier for me just to avoid it although Ill never be able to avoid it completely.

I dont want to juxtaposition my general dissatisfaction with politics on the posters here and I suspect thats at least part of what CC is doing.

[clambake]

:lmao @ Crookshanks being insulted.

Shanks, you insult 90% of the posters in this forum with your bulletproof idiocy and your stupid comments every time you post. Don't come here acting like an innocent victim now... GTFO!

:toast

[LnGrrrR]

What'd I miss? :lol

[clambake]

What'd I miss? :lol

cc is a bully in a skirt
spursncowboy is a swollen vagina
crookskanks is still sewage
and wc.........well, you know

[MannyIsGod]

Wrong thread.

[ChuckD]

:lmao @ Crookshanks being insulted.

Shanks, you insult 90% of the posters in this forum with your bulletproof idiocy and your stupid comments every time you post. Don't come here acting like an innocent victim now... GTFO!

I'll never understand people's need to announce they are leaving as if anyone gives a rats ass. I think it was whottt who started this bullshit trend, or at least the one that popularized it. Honestly, just leave and be done with it...

This. We don't need to hear Washington's farewell to the troops. Just go.

[LnGrrrR]

I agree with Cosmic Cowboy. This forum used to be a lot more interesting; and even when I didn't agree with something, I still found the dialog civil and sometimes informative. Now, it's nothing more than a bunch of diehard libs crapping all over anyone who doesn't share their views. People are rude, crude and sometimes downright disgusting. You've driven away most of the conservative posters - so I guess you guys win and the political forum is just a place for libs to meet and talk.

I'm pretty sure that calling people rude, crude and disgusting isn't really elevating the conversation.

[LnGrrrR]

I dont post here as much as of late because I don't really enjoy it as much and I've gotten much busier with school and research. Honestly, I don't really think its so much that the forum has changed but more that I have grown weary of politics and the general cynicism I feel towards most of the process and its implications on most of us. I think its healthier for me just to avoid it although Ill never be able to avoid it completely.

I dont want to juxtaposition my general dissatisfaction with politics on the posters here and I suspect thats at least part of what CC is doing.

Don't worry Manny, you'll be back when the primaries are over. :D

[AFBlue]

I love this place and all you crazy ass posters. :toast

[Drachen]

I know this is exactly the snark he is talking about, and I tried to resist posting this but it is too perfect.

ReYfu5E-hOE

[ChuckD]

:lol Drachen, ftw.

[Nbadan]

Starting mediocre threads and bumping your own Volt threads does not a good poster make...I think people make these "i'm done" threads to convince themselves that they should resist the temptation to post here....

Posters come, posers go...

[ElNono]

???

Long story short, the last time I recall him posting regularly was when that Florida judge declared Obamacare unconstitutional. I told him back then none of that really mattered until the SCOTUS rules on it, and that would take a long time. He disagreed. I figured he'll come back once the SCOTUS makes their decision.

[Winehole23]

I'm pretty sure that calling people rude, crude and disgusting isn't really elevating the conversation.neither does this comment

Crookshanks isn't the friendliest poster herself, it is true, but sometimes even I am taken aback by how hard other posters other posters strain to be personally insulting and vulgar to her, nearly every time she posts here.

clambake just called her sewage, MaNuMaNiAc called her impenetrably dumb...

[Winehole23]

and that's fairly tame for this board

[Wild Cobra]

I agree with Cosmic Cowboy. This forum used to be a lot more interesting; and even when I didn't agree with something, I still found the dialog civil and sometimes informative. Now, it's nothing more than a bunch of diehard libs crapping all over anyone who doesn't share their views. People are rude, crude and sometimes downright disgusting. You've driven away most of the conservative posters - so I guess you guys win and the political forum is just a place for libs to meet and talk.
That's what liberals do. Take over a place by making it so bad, conservatives move away.

NY... Are you listening?

[Capt Bringdown]

Aww, did someone throw their teddy out of the pram?

http://ts1.mm.bing.net/images/thumbnail.aspx?q=1573826603692&id=96e7585e85c4ea1397b062e4b49d2a7e

[Capt Bringdown]

LOL, "country strong"

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-JETmZ9t70Ak/TlMEbZEYkAI/AAAAAAAAAO0/LitVJK_4CH8/s1600/take_my_broken_heart.jpg

[MaNuMaNiAc]

neither does this comment

Crookshanks isn't the friendliest poster herself, it is true, but sometimes even I am taken aback by how hard other posters other posters strain to be personally insulting and vulgar to her, nearly every time she posts here.

clambake just called her sewage, MaNuMaNiAc called her impenetrably dumb...

its not an insult if its true tbh

[The Reckoning]

is crookshanks attractive?

[ChuckD]

neither does this comment

Crookshanks isn't the friendliest poster herself, it is true, but sometimes even I am taken aback by how hard other posters other posters strain to be personally insulting and vulgar to her, nearly every time she posts here.

clambake just called her sewage, MaNuMaNiAc called her impenetrably dumb...

She's a "true believer", and they don't discuss, they prosthelytize, and if that doesn't work, they chastise. People don't like that.

[JoeChalupa]

Bottom line is that reality bites, as one sees it. Discussion in an open minded forum is very healthy, IMHO. When one views another in a negative way simply because of their beliefs it is a fomula for disaster. CC has always made his point of view quite clear. His responses and threads reflect that quite clearly.
CC makes very solid points that do make one look in the mirror but that also opens him up to criticism and opinionated responses which is what forums are all about. Give and take is the norm.

[CubanMustGo]

That's what liberals do. Take over a place by making it so bad, conservatives move away.

NY... Are you listening?

LMFAO at WC or anyone else claiming libs have an exclusive on crapping on people here or anywhere else. Extremists from both sides are equally despicable (and look in the mirror, WC).

[Wild Cobra]

LMFAO at WC or anyone else claiming libs have an exclusive on crapping on people here or anywhere else. Extremists from both sides are equally despicable (and look in the mirror, WC).
I just thought I would shake things up a bit. I'm pretty mush typical in my fiscal conservative views and am socially libertarian. Just because I refuse to be politically correct, I am dubbed extreme?

Let me ask you something. If NY raises taxes of the rich, how many of them do you think will seek legal residency in some other state they own property in, and deny NY of their taxes? I think NY will lose revenue rather than gain it. The liberal thought is such the wealthy and businesses dry for tax revenue, then wonder why businesses and the wealthy move elsewhere, or overseas.

[Winehole23]

She's a "true believer", and they don't discuss, they prosthelytize, and if that doesn't work, they chastise. People don't like that.oh right, it's all her fault.

[Winehole23]

its not an insult if its true tbhthe truth can be insulting. was your intent?

[MaNuMaNiAc]

the truth can be insulting. was your intent?

I must admit it was, yes. I thought that was pretty obvious though

[Winehole23]

you said telling the truth isn't an insult, but when pressed, you admit your intent was to insult. your intent was plain, but your words were a smokescreen.

[johnsmith]

This thread is funny as shit.

I've gotten mad at people in this forum too, when I started posting in it years ago, now I take it for what it's worth......not much.

I am constantly amazed by the volume of posts some people make in here.....mostly I'm jealous, because I'd punch my mother in the face for that amount of free time......ok, maybe not my mother, but Boutons Mom for sure.

[Agloco]

I must admit it was, yes. I thought that was pretty obvious though


you said telling the truth isn't an insult, but when pressed, you admit your intent was to insult. your intent was plain, but your words were a smokescreen.


Methinks it's much harder to keep a conversation civil under the blanket of anonymity. tbh fwiw imho iirc There's something about interpersonal interactions. They foster a healthy level of respect for other parties.

Meeting some of the posters here has helped me understand how their life experiences have shaped their views. It not something easily conveyed on a keyboard (I'd go so far as to say that it's impossible).

Not that I've ever intentionally insulted anyone here.

[TeyshaBlue]

Methinks it's much harder to keep a conversation civil under the blanket of anonymity. tbh fwiw imho iirc There's something about interpersonal interactions. They foster a healthy level of respect for other parties.

Meeting some of the posters here has helped me understand how their life experiences have shaped their views. It not something easily conveyed on a keyboard (I'd go so far as to say that it's impossible).

Not that I've ever intentionally insulted anyone here.

gfy

[MaNuMaNiAc]

you said telling the truth isn't an insult, but when pressed, you admit your intent was to insult. your intent was plain, but your words were a smokescreen.

The truth is only insulting to those that are unaware its the truth. Shanks is permanently unaware of anything resembling reason. In other words, yes I had an inkling she might feel insulted.

Guilty as charged sir.

Interesting how she's never aware of how she insults others but is always acutely aware of feeling insulted herself. I guess other people must take the more direct, obvious approach :lol

In any case, I don't much care for Shank's bullshit or the high horse she seems to ride on when she gets flak for it.

That answer your question?

[TeyshaBlue]

I dunno....I've been part of discussion boards since the days of steam powered servers. While I've made some great friends over the years, most have come to fruition after a encounter in meatspace. Until then, it's words on a screen.

[TeyshaBlue]

Strictly my personal perspective imo

[Drachen]

:lol Drachen, ftw.

I honestly tried to resist and was successful for about 6 hours. It just fits though. (plus I love that movie).

[Winehole23]

In any case, I don't much care for Shank's bullshit or the high horse she seems to ride on when she gets flak for it.

That answer your question?you carry baggage, she carries baggage, everybody carries baggage. the complaint about crookshanks unbearableness deserves more of the same. luckily for me, your silly baggage related to crookshanks is of no interest to me.

[CuckingFunt]

I've never really understood how it's possible to be genuinely hurt by pixels. But it seems to happen. A lot.

In this particular case, though, I'm more amused/confused by the suggestion that the lack of civility 'round these parts is at all sudden or has become markedly worse in recent months (or that the MLK thread was a big enough straw to have finally sent the camel to traction) than I am by the general observation that people can be asshats in here.

[Agloco]

gfy

Good mornin old fella. :toast

[Winehole23]

Methinks it's much harder to keep a conversation civil under the blanket of anonymity.true. however, we all agreed to this:


By agreeing to these rules, you warrant that you will not post any messages that are obscene, vulgar, sexually-oriented, hateful, threatening, or otherwise violative of any laws.

[MaNuMaNiAc]

I've never really understood how it's possible to be genuinely hurt by pixels. But it seems to happen. A lot.

In this particular case, though, I'm more amused/confused by the suggestion that the lack of civility 'round these parts is at all sudden or has become markedly worse in recent months (or that the MLK thread was a big enough straw to have finally sent the camel to traction) than I am by the general observation that people can be asshats in here.

this. I'd have thought people already knew it was a spurstalk requirement

[MaNuMaNiAc]

you carry baggage, she carries baggage, everybody carries baggage. the complaint about crookshanks unbearableness deserves more of the same. luckily for me, your silly baggage related to crookshanks is of no interest to me.

indeed

[Winehole23]

continual, petty sniping keeps in in front of my nose whether I want it there or not.

reality is that which, when you wish it gone, doesn't disappear. all the stupid petty resentment and backbiting here is like that.

[Agloco]

true. however, we all agreed to this:


By agreeing to these rules, you warrant that you will not post any messages that are obscene, vulgar, sexually-oriented, hateful, threatening, or otherwise violative of any laws.

+1

However, expectations are too high imo. There's no real accountability for violating said agreement, save inactivation of ones account.

Free of the fear of reprisal, your only hope for civility lies in individual self-restraint. Given the additional context of anonymity, I'm not at all surprised by what transpires around here at times.

[clambake]

i don't treat anyone else here the way i treat skanks.

there's a reason for that.

i hope she can't handle it, but i think you can.

[AFBlue]

Methinks it's much harder to keep a conversation civil under the blanket of anonymity. tbh fwiw imho iirc There's something about interpersonal interactions. They foster a healthy level of respect for other parties.

Meeting some of the posters here has helped me understand how their life experiences have shaped their views. It not something easily conveyed on a keyboard (I'd go so far as to say that it's impossible).

Not that I've ever intentionally insulted anyone here.


gfy

:lol

[Winehole23]

i don't treat anyone else here the way i treat skanks.

there's a reason for that.

i hope she can't handle it, but i think you can.what about us?

can you not pm her? do we all need to be privy to it?

[Agloco]

:lol

TBs just grumpy this morning tbh.

[Winehole23]

+1

However, expectations are too high imo. There's no real accountability for violating said agreement, save inactivation of ones account.

Free of the fear of reprisal, your only hope for civility lies in individual self-restraint. Given the additional context of anonymity, I'm not at all surprised by what transpires around here at times.I repose no hopes in accountability or enforceability, but only in whatever posters might claim as proper to themselves. Usage is everything.

[TeyshaBlue]

TBs just grumpy this morning tbh.

lol @ "this morning".

[clambake]

what about us?

can you not pm her? do we all need to be privy to it?


i hope she can't handle it, but i think you can.

[Winehole23]

I get that. You want to drive her away.

[Winehole23]

you don't really think crookshanks is going away, do you?

[clambake]

you don't really think crookshanks is going away, do you?

phony christians never do.

[The Reckoning]

wasnt everyone talking about meeting up and drinking beer together, etc etc?

damn gossip club. youll hug and makeup eventually.

[Winehole23]

phony christians never doneither do their sublimely tedious self-appointed persecutors, apparently

[clambake]

poor thing

[Winehole23]

false pity...that's my line!

[Blake]

And that line fits well here

[Winehole23]

go away, you cranky old man. I already have a daddy.

[Blake]

go away, you cranky old man. I already have a daddy.

Yet another line that could be served up nice next to a number of Winehole23's posts in this thread.

[Winehole23]

fire away

[ElNono]

That's what liberals do. Take over a place by making it so bad, conservatives move away.

NY... Are you listening?

I can confirm NY is doing fine...

[Blake]

fire away

Already did, old man.

[jack sommerset]

A political victory, a rise in rents, the recovery of your sick, or return of your absent friend, or some other quite external event, raises your spirits, and you think good days are preparing for you. Do not believe it. Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of Princples.

Emerson

God bless

[mouse]

This is a sad day for ST

[ChuckD]

oh right, it's all her fault.

Much of what happens to her here IS her fault.

[spursncowboys]

i don't treat anyone else here the way i treat skanks.

there's a reason for that.

i hope she can't handle it, but i think you can.

You contribute nothing except bad put downs; "link" ; and trolling at its worst. I wouldn't say being on this forum is productive but I can't waste my time reading your posts. if people wouldn't quote you id appreciate it.me and my enflamed vagina.

[LnGrrrR]

I get that. You want to drive her away.

WH, are you saying you don't think Shanks might realize how insulting she is, perhaps unintentionally, if someone points it out?

[mouse]

I fancy this place, despite some of the obvious trolling which abounds. Generally, I've found folks to be cordial, if not friendly at times.

Radiation can do that to a person.

[Winehole23]

Much of what happens to her here IS her fault.you descend to her level? how kinky.

[Winehole23]

WH, are you saying you don't think Shanks might realize how insulting she is, perhaps unintentionally, if someone points it out?the way it is done here is often off the scale vulgar. and, yes, I think she gets that other posters HATE her just like she hates others. she clearly means to be insulting to some, but certainly that does not mean that insulting her in return is some laudable, virtuous activity.

also, the dogpile can be unseemly

[ChuckD]

you descend to her level? how kinky.

You know the old saying "If you go looking for trouble, you'll most likely find it"? She's an almost perfect example and application of that saying. If she doesn't like the reaction she engenders, she needs to either slow her roll, or GTFO.

[JoeChalupa]

More GTG's are needed I say. CC is a good man with strong beliefs and views. I sure hope he doesn't leave and keeps posting.

[Winehole23]

It's too bad. I guess we just don't measure up to the high, high standards of decorum, diction and probity our predecessors in this forum set for us.

[Blake]

It's too bad. I guess we just don't measure up to the high, high standards of decorum, diction and probity our predecessors in this forum set for us.

a forum that is a sub-forum of an NBA fan messageboard?

Shocking that standards of decorum would ever stoop to "you suck" levels.

/blue

[Winehole23]

was making fun of CC's claim that this place has slid downhill

[Blake]

was making fun of CC's claim that this place has slid downhill

Kinky

[clambake]

You contribute nothing except bad put downs; if people wouldn't quote you id appreciate it.
why so mad? i don't mind paying your salary. i think the army is the only place for you. when you constantly refer to "professors", then i know you've topped out intellectually.

me and my enflamed vagina.

DADT

[Winehole23]

Kinky:drunk

[JoeChalupa]

Get in here and post CC!

[Bender]

I browse Political for entertainment... but I don't participate.

CC gave us his exit statement for Political, but he can still post in the Club...

[Wild Cobra]

I browse Political for entertainment... but I don't participate.

CC gave us his exit statement for Political, but he can still post in the Club...
And CC has posted in the club.

Haven't you other guys been there?

[Bender]

And CC has posted in the club.after his Political exit speech?

I haven't been paying attention...

[Wild Cobra]

after his Political exit speech?

I haven't been paying attention...
Yes, after.

[Wild Cobra]

CC most recent post as of this posting (http://spurstalk.com/forums/showpost.php?p=5588201&postcount=7)

[JoeChalupa]

He'll be back.

[mouse]

A person who say's I am done done with this place it's really a figure of speech.
Like when you say I am done with marriage. or I am done with drinking. He was just trying to vent.
When your really done with something you just stop.

[JoeChalupa]

Glad to see him continue.

[Cry Havoc]

Speaking as someone who's attacked others more often than I'd like, I can honestly say that I have a tolerance limit of how much of this forum I can take. There are very few posters that actually listen to people and have the decency and open-mindedness to admit when they are wrong, or even the greater step of changing their mind about something. I would like to think that I am that way most of the time, but in reality it's pretty rare that I have actually given active thought while browsing this forum, especially more recently when posters for the most part seem even more diametrically opposed regarding corporations vs. individual rights/etc.

There's a point I feel to which posting here becomes superfluous. If I wade through 15 pages of a topic and I see a couple of posters constantly bringing up tired rhetoric that has already been dismissed as completely exaggerated, or worse, blatantly untrue, and they stick to that logic despite having demonstrable evidence to the contrary... well, I just shake my head and wonder what the point is. It's frustrating to no end to put real effort into a post only to have it shouted down by someone presenting an argument that holds no water, or isn't even relevant. I can't remember the last time I clicked on this forum hoping to find actual rational discourse, because it just doesn't exist, or if it does, it's just a misnomer.

CC and WC, I do apologize for my attacks on you. They were uncalled for and borne out of frustration with the perception I had that you were in those cases unable to consider another viewpoint, not out of dislike for you as individuals.

That said, I do feel that this forum has become largely a waste of time, because too often sound arguments with sources and references fall on deaf ears to the drum beat of the prevailing party, whether it be Democrat or Republican. I wish it wasn't such an accurate reflection of the current state of politics, but it is what it is.

[Cry Havoc]

I agree with Cosmic Cowboy. This forum used to be a lot more interesting; and even when I didn't agree with something, I still found the dialog civil and sometimes informative. Now, it's nothing more than a bunch of diehard libs crapping all over anyone who doesn't share their views. People are rude, crude and sometimes downright disgusting. You've driven away most of the conservative posters - so I guess you guys win and the political forum is just a place for libs to meet and talk.

This is a pretty astute microcosm of the forum. To paraphrase: "This forum used to be so kind and inviting for people to post before you stupid ignorant assholes of a different political ideagogue from myself destroyed it for my fellow 'team' members I march in lockstep with on every single political or moral issue, who have never ever said anything out of line and only insulted you in the first place because you deserved it for being sinning heathens."

Great attitude, Crookshanks. You have the objectivity of a Lakers fan betting against the Spurs.

[mouse]

Cry Havoc is 2012 underrated political poster of the year.

[ChuckD]

They just can't stay away...:lol

[spursncowboys]

Speaking as someone who's attacked others more often than I'd like, I can honestly say that I have a tolerance limit of how much of this forum I can take. There are very few posters that actually listen to people and have the decency and open-mindedness to admit when they are wrong, or even the greater step of changing their mind about something. I would like to think that I am that way most of the time, but in reality it's pretty rare that I have actually given active thought while browsing this forum, especially more recently when posters for the most part seem even more diametrically opposed regarding corporations vs. individual rights/etc.

There's a point I feel to which posting here becomes superfluous. If I wade through 15 pages of a topic and I see a couple of posters constantly bringing up tired rhetoric that has already been dismissed as completely exaggerated, or worse, blatantly untrue, and they stick to that logic despite having demonstrable evidence to the contrary... well, I just shake my head and wonder what the point is. It's frustrating to no end to put real effort into a post only to have it shouted down by someone presenting an argument that holds no water, or isn't even relevant. I can't remember the last time I clicked on this forum hoping to find actual rational discourse, because it just doesn't exist, or if it does, it's just a misnomer.

CC and WC, I do apologize for my attacks on you. They were uncalled for and borne out of frustration with the perception I had that you were in those cases unable to consider another viewpoint, not out of dislike for you as individuals.

That said, I do feel that this forum has become largely a waste of time, because too often sound arguments with sources and references fall on deaf ears to the drum beat of the prevailing party, whether it be Democrat or Republican. I wish it wasn't such an accurate reflection of the current state of politics, but it is what it is.

touche.:toast

[JoeChalupa]

This place is what you make of it. Yeah, there is plenty of partisan, one sided opinions/views posted up in here but damn, we are all different and we are all not going to think alike.
Get over this whining and just post and voice your opinions and to hell with everything else. I for one am not solely on the left or the right of all issues. I'm a conservative progressive.
If you were to see how I attempt to run my home you would think I am a staunch conservative but I'm not. I run a strict home but am progressive in my political views. Odd but it is what it is.
I just take the good with the bad and I do enjoy this place and what I read and ignore. Keep it to continue people.

[Nbadan]

Stay here long enough you'll see plenty of decent posters leave....many eventually come back as an alternative avatar, a few never do, but someone else always comes in and fills the gaps left behind....we very rarely lack for alternative views in this forum and perhaps that helps to contribute to its dysfunctional state at times. The Political Forum was never meant to be a permanent forum here at Spurs talk...it was created more or less as a joke...but something unexpected happen...for a time, the Political Forum became the number one forum at Spurs talk......and that was with only about 15-20 semi-regular posters...today this forum has between 30-50 regular to semi-regular posters and nearly a half millions posts, we attracted the highest numbers of vistors on a day at over 6500...the joke it seems, had turned on all of us..

[Winehole23]

sun don't shine on a dog's ass every day

[The Sun]

sun don't shine on a dog's ass every day

Good morning!

[mouse]

This place went downhill when MavTalk shut down.

[DMC]

I happen to not take anything here seriously because everyone is suspect as a troll, or their posts are suspect as trolls. Even well meaning threads will likely become fertile troll grounds for someone to make a really off the wall statement, sit back and watch the pile on begin. For that reason, it's futile (to me) to treat it like a formal debate.

[Winehole23]

lol the sun

[Wild Cobra]

lol the sun
You mean that round bright yellow thing that has been absent from my area for a while?

Hear about our flooding!

Flooding continues in Salem, Willamette to crest this afternoon (http://www.katu.com/news/local/Rhonda-Shelby-Training-day-in-Salem-as-rain-pours-down-137678303.html)

[Winehole23]

H/T, considerate office personnel who sheltered refugees from a swamped school bus

[JoeChalupa]

I'm not done.

[JoeChalupa]

I'm just getting started.