Although I’m in Paris, I am reading comments, and have noticed two things:
1.) Certain people are dominating threads in posts, and doing it repeatedly. As I said in Da Roolz (rule 9):
Try not to dominate threads, particularly in a one-on-one argument. I’ve found that those are rarely informative, and the participants never reach agreement. A good guideline is that if your comments constitute over 10% of the comments on a thread, you’re posting too much.
Would people please pay attention to this? I don’t like truncating good discussion, but one-on-one arguments that run on and on remain unproductive, and please don’t get one going. Do your comments constitute more than 15% of a thread, and you do that often? Please refrain a bit.
2.) People are sometimes being nasty to each other, sometimes calling each other liars. Please knock it off: there will be no name-calling towards other commenters. If I see this again, I’ll give you a warning, and you’d better knock it off—and apologize if I ask you to. If you are into vitriol, please spew it on another site.
Thank you.
Thanks again Jerry. Some of the main reasons we come here every day!
Must be all that vitrail spewing out of Paris.
You beat me to that pun.
“Please it off” ?
I think you probably a word, here.
+1 = O, that is darling, Gamall !
= happens all the time when one’s brain
is working at Mach speed yet one’s fingertips
are … … not !
Blue
Mother Nature will never be offended by a word.
Yes,”knock” it off. Fixed, thanks.
Jerry: I was borne an atheist; my parents molded me into a Christian; but now I’m back!
One of a million stories in…the naked city. 😎
Jerry: I was borne an atheist; my parents molded me into a Christian; but now I’m back!
Mr. Maxwell, you’re deliberately flouting my request above, and the comments are fatuous. Please find another site to comment on.
I don’t know whether I’m swimming with sharks here or tuna, but it’s fun!
Take that back! Tuna are predatory too, sorry! By.
Question: Who is taking your picture?
If there is only one comment, does it constitute a thread?
If there are no comments, then my adding a comment would mean that my comment would constitute 100%.
If there is one comment by someone else, then my comment would constitute 50%.
What did I get wrong? Would someone explain without being rude? Without insulting me?
I get it! Before, I make my first comment, my comments would constitute 0%. So it is okay to make a comment 🙂
I don’t think that would be possible.
I was working it out the other day, there must be at least 8 comments that makes each one 12.5% 😉
Jerry: May I change my handle here to “Bill Maxwell – reborne atheist” Will you make that happen? I swear to less than 10%!
He’s already exceeding 10%. Ban him.
Forgive me, I know not what I do.
You could start by learning the correct spelling of born.
Yeah you do.
If we all write comments condemning Bill Maxwell, his contributions will fall below 10% which would make him statistically tolerable (due to no effort on his part), a condition which might prove a new experience for him.
I’m afraid the 10% rule is prone to dilation and contraction (almost obstetric).
Christ, would that I could write fast enough to dominate a thread here sometime. I’m always plodding along on the keyboard, wondering what the next word is gonna be.
“lower than snake dick” seems to have a ring of premeditation about it.
love ya!
Ken, love ya!
Jeez, that one was at least a little bit funny. Plus, I didn’t personalize it; I simply said, employing the subjunctive mood, that if someone were to repeat the thoroughly debunked claim that the late John McCain was a traitor who ratted out his fellow POWs by giving aid and comfort to their North Vietnamese captors during his five and a half years of captivity in that Hanoi Hilton hellhole — well, anybody who would do something like that would be lower than snake dick.
You’re not still sore about that little foofaraw are ya? Tell you what: you concede that the false and defamatory rumor against John McCain has been thoroughly debunked (per the citations I provided you at the time), and I’ll gladly make plain to all and sundry that the snake-dick crack doesn’t apply to you personally.
Deal?
You know what, Ken? Since I’m not banned yet: Fuck you. Fuck you for having this good of a memory; fuck you for making jokes this funny and then being all like, “oh, that one? I guess that was mildly amusing ahuehuehue”; fuck you for being so damn charismatic; fuck you for being so witty and smart and knowing so many words; and fuck you for being so successful and generally much better than I am.
Love ya, buddy 😛 You’re legit my second-best online friend.
You know what’s weird? You’re like, 70, right? My best online friend is about to hit 60. I befriended him on Steam (it’s a platform for people to buy, play, discuss, etc. video games). He had posted a message on a particular game’s board saying that he bought the game hoping to get back into gaming, but it turns out that, having not played a single game since the days of the Atari 2600, he and his old-man brain and hands couldn’t grasp how things worked today. Anyway, I messaged him and offered to be his mentor and, for the last nearly two years, I’ve been directing him in what to play and practice and hardware and software to use so he could slowly learn how to play modern games. And, of course, we talk about other things.
I could go on about that story and how sweet it’s been to see him progress over the last year and how happy I’ve been to help a ex-pat retiree in Japan learn his and his wife’s new favorite hobby, but my point is this: my two best online friends are weird old guys who are smarter than me. And I don’t know what that means.
It means you have good taste. 😎
I don’t know if you meant it that way, but that sounds super gross 😛
I should note that you’re my only two online “friends,” so the competition wasn’t stiff. Technically, you came in last 😛 But the fact that, over my two decades online, you’re one of only two people with whom I’ve developed enough of a rapport and regular interaction to consider calling an “online friend” is definitely a point in your favor. You should be proud to be called “online friend” by someone as respected and prominent a figure as I.
Sorry, but I think some of the comments on here in response to Jerry’s very reasonable demands, are very childish. Please do refrain from one-on-one arguments and personal attacks on other readers. There is enough nastiness and vitriol online already, and it is very off-putting.
Some are deep into their cups by now.
With good reason.
Seems to me that even we good guys and gals here are sometimes being adversely affected/infected by the Trumpian morass we currently live in. May it go away soon. And may we be kind to each other.
Just for the sake of not wasting anyone’s time I’ll post the following comments, so that all faux-outraged Trump supporters don’t feel the need to trot them out for the billionth time…
‘It’s comments like this that make people vote Trump.’
‘Congratulations – I’ve always been an independent voter but you made me change my mind and now I’m voting for Trump.’
There you go. Now you guys don’t have to waste time typing them out 🙂
No Comment .
Are you talkin’ to ME? Are YOU talkin’ to me?
The boss has accused me of commenting too much on certain topics ,so i am keeping shtum .
Due to Jerry’s roolz this is a non sequitur.