The "I will be away for a while" thread

[i_like_1981]

Hey Fat Man, have you noticed the name of our latest member?

Our newest member: sportsbookm

Hmm... I just wonder what all this could be about?

I've also noticed that the number of members has gone up substantially recently, past the 300 mark. Last time I checked it it was around 250. Most of them are probably spammers, but I'm sure there may be one or two genuine new members in there somewhere. I'll go and check now.

Best regards,
i_like_1981

[Earl]

*yawn* [Earl mumbles to himself, as is his wont, "It's sure quiet around here."] Uh, what's going on?

Hey Fat Man, have you noticed the name of our latest member?

Our newest member: sportsbookm

Hmm... I just wonder what all this could be about?

I've also noticed that the number of members has gone up substantially recently, past the 300 mark. Last time I checked it it was around 250. Most of them are probably spammers, but I'm sure there may be one or two genuine new members in there somewhere. I'll go and check now.

Best regards,
i_like_1981

Oh ...

Uh, when you-all leave, don't forget to turn off the lights. *yawn*

(I'm just being mischievous.)

Seriously, "sportsbookm" doesn't sound like a spammer. He/she is undoubtedly genuine. A troll, perhaps, or even abusive (or civil? Could I be mistaken?); but still genuine. *yawn*

[recovering_fan]

NOTICE:

I will be posting considerably less often at this site. I don't want to get our number-one member and spiritual leader banned or anything ( THAT would cut the heart out of this place), but his last post juxtaposing the college student "OMGdudeWhat" with that freaky, toothless, inbred guy went way too far. In fact, it blurred the moral line separating us from ... that site that wE Do not name.

Up until now we've trashed and humiliated NAMES, not PICTURES. The names we've attacked have either been fake names, or incomplete names.

What made it far worse was that "OMGdudeWhat" had not said anything at all OTT at that point.

I'd like to stick around and check in with my friends here (including Fat Man) now and then, and set up chess games, but I'm rethinking things a bit. I like this site because of the decent people here. I'm not here for some kind of bullshit revolution.

Phew,
RF

[Fat Man]

NOTICE:

I will be posting considerably less often at this site. I don't want to get our number-one member and spiritual leader banned or anything ( THAT would cut the heart out of this place), but his last post juxtaposing the college student "OMGdudeWhat" with that freaky, toothless, inbred guy went way too far. In fact, it blurred the moral line separating us from ... that site that wE Do not name.

Up until now we've trashed and humiliated NAMES, not PICTURES. The names we've attacked have either been fake names, or incomplete names.

What made it far worse was that "OMGdudeWhat" had not said anything at all OTT at that point.

I'd like to stick around and check in with my friends here (including Fat Man) now and then, and set up chess games, but I'm rethinking things a bit. I like this site because of the decent people here. I'm not here for some kind of bullshit revolution.

Phew,
RF

OK, I understand that you're really upset over the OTT photo shop job that I had done on OMGdudeWhat's avatar, and I guess I really can't blame you for that.

But now, it's the only way I can express myself.

There was once a time when I could play the guitar, but I can't anymore.

There was one a time when I could do oil paintings, beautiful oil paintings of extra-terrestrial landscapes, but I can't anymore. I have an oil painting right now that is unfinished, and it will remain unfinished for the rest of my life.

All of this is due to my fractured left wrist, and I'm left handed. My left hand is all crippled up, and I happen to be left-handed.

If you recall, in some of my earlier forum posts in a couple of other topics, I mentioned that I had been living in a two bed room apartment, and taking care of a room mate who was recovering from a stroke.

I spent five years taking care of him, and after his second stroke back in 2001, he had suffered severe memory loss, became paranoid and delusional, and even physically violent toward me, and one night he came into my room, and attacked me with a machete, and fractured my left wrist.

I spent three days in the hospital, and my ex-room-mate was hauled off to the slammer for nine months. I had a stainless steel pin in my wrist and my arm was in a cast for almost a month before the cast was finally removed and the steel pin taken out.

But mow, my left wrist and my hand is permanently crippled up for life. Sometimes I wake up in the middle of the night with sharp stabbing pains in my left wrist. I take Aspirin for the pain. sometime it helps, but sometimes not. I'm not about to take any stronger pain medications for it, because I don't want to get all doped up like a zombie.

Then I really won't be able to express my thoughts coherently. So, I live with the pain so I can keep my mind alert, and be able to express myself. I don't know what I would do without my computer and the Internet.

It's all I have now, and all I will ever have from now on.

So, yeah! I had some fun today, doing a real hatchet job on OMGdudeWhat's avatar with my Photo Base 3 application.

After all the times I had been bullied around by the jocks, by PE coaches in school, and by obnoxious sports fans, I guess now, it's my turn to be the bully!

Does that sound sick?

Yeah, I guess it does!

OK, I admit it! It was sick!

But, I had fun doing it! And I still can't stop laughing my big fat ass off just thinking about it!

Yes, I know you're pissed off at me, and I don't blame you. I know I went way way way over the top. I admit that.

But hey! It's not like I committed a rape or a murder.

I only did a hatchet job on some guy's avatar.

And I happen to think it's funny, even if nobody else thinks its funny.

But then, that's just me. OK?

I won't be doing any more stuff to his avatar anymore.

OK, I did add a cheese head to his avatar tonight in my last post in that topic on Introductions.

I just wanted to add one more finishing touch.

But I'm done with him now. I had my fun for tonight.

Now, it's getting late, it's almost 3:00 AM where I'm at, so I need to log some sack time.

Night all.

[HugeFanOfBadReligion]

After all the times I had been bullied around by the jocks, by PE coaches in school, and by obnoxious sports fans, I guess now, it's my turn to be the bully!

Does that sound sick?

Yeah, I guess it does!

OK, I admit it! It was sick!

But, I had fun doing it! And I still can't stop laughing my big fat ass off just thinking about it!

I barely even have time right now to even make a brief post, but I really don't like that reasoning. So you insult and defame someone just because you think it's funny? I would have thought that someone who went through years of bullying would understand what is completely immoral and wrong with that. Especially on a site like this, where many members such as myself have had really dumb shit done to us because someone thought it would be funny.

[Fat Man]

After all the times I had been bullied around by the jocks, by PE coaches in school, and by obnoxious sports fans, I guess now, it's my turn to be the bully!

Does that sound sick?

Yeah, I guess it does!

OK, I admit it! It was sick!

But, I had fun doing it! And I still can't stop laughing my big fat ass off just thinking about it!

I barely even have time right now to even make a brief post, but I really don't like that reasoning. So you insult and defame someone just because you think it's funny? I would have thought that someone who went through years of bullying would understand what is completely immoral and wrong with that. Especially on a site like this, where many members such as myself have had really dumb shit done to us because someone thought it would be funny.

Good morning HugeFanOfBadReligion:

Well, first of all OMGdudeWhat comes in her with a pompous and arrogant attitude, thinking that he is better than all of us because he's an athlete.

And then saying that I'm upset about the name calling I received in school. If he had read my post in it's entirety, he would know that what had happened to me went way way way beyond mere name calling or being the "center of a joke" as he had put it. I got my head bashed against a fucking brick wall. I could have died from it. Getting one's head bashed against a brick wall and suffering some possible brain damage from it, is no joke.

But then, he probably thinks that somebody getting beaten and raped is also a joke!

Sorry, but his is just another conceited jock who needed to be taken down a few notches.

Anyway, I had promised that after what I had done last night, that I would not mess around with his avatar anymore.

So, I intend to keep that promise.

[ChrisOH]

OK, to ask what may be a really stupid question here:

The "inbred monkey guy (or girl)" picture -- is that an actual photograph or is it a composite of some sort?

I had thought it was a composite or photoshopped image -- am I wrong?

[Fat Man]

OK, to ask what may be a really stupid question here:

The "inbred monkey guy (or girl)" picture -- is that an actual photograph or is it a composite of some sort?

I had thought it was a composite or photoshopped image -- am I wrong?

I really don't know, but I think is most likely a composite.

At least, I hope nobody could ever look like that.

That would be really scary!

[recovering_fan]

After all the times I had been bullied around by the jocks, by PE coaches in school, and by obnoxious sports fans, I guess now, it's my turn to be the bully!

Does that sound sick?

Yeah, I guess it does!

OK, I admit it! It was sick!

But, I had fun doing it! And I still can't stop laughing my big fat ass off just thinking about it!

My reaction:

[recovering_fan]

After all the times I had been bullied around by the jocks, by PE coaches in school, and by obnoxious sports fans, I guess now, it's my turn to be the bully!

Does that sound sick?

Yeah, I guess it does!

OK, I admit it! It was sick!

But, I had fun doing it! And I still can't stop laughing my big fat ass off just thinking about it!

If you give in to Hate...



... then the Emperor has already won.

[Earl]

*Earl gives a thumbs up*

If you lower yourself to the level of bullies, what makes you different from them?

[recovering_fan]

*Earl gives a thumbs up*

If you lower yourself to the level of bullies, what makes you different from them?

Exactly.

It's like what those human rights groups tell us: when you torture Muslims, the terrorists win. Our ethical standards are what make us, as Americans, better than our enemies.

Not torturing people is one of those aspects of the U.S. that make us morally superior to countries like Iran and North Korea.

Not smearing the little people of the world is what makes our website morally superior to ... other websites.

--RF

[Fat Man]

*Earl gives a thumbs up*

If you lower yourself to the level of bullies, what makes you different from them?

Exactly.

It's like what those human rights groups tell us: when you torture Muslims, the terrorists win. Our ethical standards are what make us, as Americans, better than our enemies.

Not torturing people is one of those aspects of the U.S. that make us morally superior to countries like Iran and North Korea.

Not smearing the little people of the world is what makes our website morally superior to ... other websites.

--RF

Well, I had my fun last night, so I'm not going to do any more hatchet jobs on OMGdudeWhat's avatar anymore.

I'm done with that, and I do intend to keep my promise.

There's really not much more I can do to his avatar now anyway. I think I done it all.

But what really infuriated me, was his comment about being "the center of a joke" after I had describe to him, about my experiences in school.

For someone who is suppose to be intelligent and educated, he is so fucking ignorant, and after having read one of my previous posts, he says I was just "the center of a joke" like it was nothing.

So, he's really not so smart, because apparently, he lacks reading comprehension, otherwise he would not have made light of my past experiences.

Excuse me, but, having my head bashed against the corner of a concrete block wall, by a teacher, an adult who should have known better, and suffering a concussion and possible brain damage, that was not a joke.

That was really serious, and it could very easily have been DEAD serious!

So, I had my fun, doing a hatchet job on his avatar.

And so, last night, the joke was on him!

I believe in payback, tit for tat, and all that!

The payback's a bitch!!!

Well, I'm tired, I'm going to have something to eat while listening to the Phil Hendrie radio talk show, and kick back relax with some coffee and a cigar.

Later Gators.

[HugeFanOfBadReligion]

I've been unable to even visit this forum over the past few days as my computer broke down on Saturday, and I don't have any other computer. Being without a computer for a few days has been disadvantageous in several aspects. At times it has been problematic in being able to complete homework, and at other times, I've simply had nothing to do because I no longer watch TV, I quit video games, so unless I'm hanging out with friends, I can't really do anything with my spare time except for playing bass and doing homework (only homework that doesn't require a computer). I also have an audition for our school's battle of the bands this week and I don't even own any of the music we are covering, so without a computer where I could find the music on Youtube, it's been very problematic in my ability to practice on my own time. Additionally, there is so much knowledge that can be accessed quite easily with the Internet, and you often don't realize the extent of this until you can't find the answer to nearly anything at the click of a button. At the moment, I'm using someone else's laptop (of course, being the die-hard sports hater I am, I killed everyone attending a football game and I looted the change room, which is how I obtained this laptop, but I can only use it briefly or else it can be used as evidence against me), and I've probably spent well over an hour reading all of the new posts since I've been without a computer. Anyway, I probably still won't be able to post as much until I get a new computer, unless I can access other computers more often.

[recovering_fan]

Anyway, I probably still won't be able to post as much until I get a new computer, unless I can access other computers more often.

Okay, thanks for telling us about those practical impediments.

I, too, reserve the right to stop posting periodically, whenever the demands of real life impinge on my ability to post at this site 24/7.

(I think in general, we all understand that we all have lives outside Sportssuck.)

--RF