This x1000. It's seriously fucking annoying, so much so that I almost always automatically stop posting in any thread that you guys turn into a philosophical wack-off contest.Quote:
Originally Posted by JazMerkin
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This x1000. It's seriously fucking annoying, so much so that I almost always automatically stop posting in any thread that you guys turn into a philosophical wack-off contest.Quote:
Originally Posted by JazMerkin
I am clearly in the minority in terms of expressing my own views in this thread and I accept that. I have tried to play the devils advocate, but know that when I do that the argument is usually quite close to home. Either way, people with mental difficulties have a hard life and I shouldn't make it harder.
Such intolerance, hostility and anger issues. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by CFHThis x1000. It's seriously fucking annoying, so much so that I almost always automatically stop posting in any thread that you guys turn into a philosophical wack-off contest.Quote:
Originally Posted by JazMerkin
To be honest I only really post nowadays to talk to Miles. Post's I'm not interested in I just skip past and ignore.
There are many threads I don't even enter as the subject/poster don't interest me. I don't go in to complain though, that would just be rude.
Then why do you reject psychology and more importantly psychiatry? That's science, the drugs they perscribe DO have an impact, they do treat real symptoms and they do provide help.Quote:
Originally Posted by miles
I find that most people who reject those sciences are either #1 in denial #2 don't fully understand them or #3 they are scared of them.....which are you miles?
I grew up never believing in all that stuff either, but I've seen it in action, I've had life experience, and although I am 100% on board with Personal Responsibility and not blaming problems on a mental disorder or chemical imbalance or whatever sometimes you can't help but explain/treat/handle things through those fields of science.
Yeah but they came into a thread that was seemingly about Bi-Polar disorder. Not religion. I personally don't mind but can see their point.Quote:
Originally Posted by BilboSuch intolerance, hostility and anger issues. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by CFHThis x1000. It's seriously fucking annoying, so much so that I almost always automatically stop posting in any thread that you guys turn into a philosophical wack-off contest.Quote:
Originally Posted by JazMerkin
To be honest I only really post nowadays to talk to Miles. Post's I'm not interested in I just skip past and ignore.
There are many threads I don't even enter as the subject/poster don't interest me. I don't go in to complain though, that would just be rude.
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Originally Posted by El KabongThen why do you reject psychology and more importantly psychiatry? That's science, the drugs they perscribe DO have an impact, they do treat real symptoms and they do provide help.Quote:
Originally Posted by miles
I find that most people who reject those sciences are either #1 in denial #2 don't fully understand them or #3 they are scared of them.....which are you miles?
I grew up never believing in all that stuff either, but I've seen it in action, I've had life experience, and although I am 100% on board with Personal Responsibility and not blaming problems on a mental disorder or chemical imbalance or whatever sometimes you can't help but explain/treat/handle things through those fields of science.
This was the apparently boring idea I was exploring. Miles claims to be purely a man of science yet objects to the administration of drugs to restore chemical balance because of some commitment to the idea of a natural self, i.e an individual's personality that should for some reason he can't explain be free of chemical contamination, even though all the mind is is the product of chemical interactions.
Anyway I don't want to stop CFH from feeling able to contribute due to the noxious content of my post so I shall stop here.
Thats a pretty good point there Bilbo. Take that Miles! :)Quote:
Originally Posted by BilboQuote:
Originally Posted by El KabongThen why do you reject psychology and more importantly psychiatry? That's science, the drugs they perscribe DO have an impact, they do treat real symptoms and they do provide help.Quote:
Originally Posted by miles
I find that most people who reject those sciences are either #1 in denial #2 don't fully understand them or #3 they are scared of them.....which are you miles?
I grew up never believing in all that stuff either, but I've seen it in action, I've had life experience, and although I am 100% on board with Personal Responsibility and not blaming problems on a mental disorder or chemical imbalance or whatever sometimes you can't help but explain/treat/handle things through those fields of science.
This was the apparently boring idea I was exploring. Miles claims to be purely a man of science yet objects to the administration of drugs to restore chemical balance because of some commitment to the idea of a natural self, i.e an individual's personality that should for some reason he can't explain be free of chemical contamination, even though all the mind is is the product of chemical interactions.
Anyway I don't want to stop CFH from feeling able to contribute due to the noxious content of my post so I shall stop here.
People that are actors/artists/creative types have a greater number of mental disorders than people that are not by percentage. So that we have many that have mental disorders should be no surprise.
What is make them great at whatever art avenue they pursue also is or contributes to their mental instability.
Thoughts?
My thought is that you should spell check your thread and edit it so that it makes sense :pQuote:
Originally Posted by boozeboxer
Onto Zeta Jones. I think we should note a few points.
Firstly, it is the media who have labelled her bi polar I don't believe she announced those words to the world.
Secondly she is a very high profile and wealthy person coping with the very real possibility of the loss of her husband. She can afford the costs of going off to a specialist centre for the kind of therepy and one to one psychological counselling that would probably be a benefit to a lot of us at times in our life if we could justify the expense.
I don't see the big deal really. It's the same as going to a spar or health retreat for a few days of detox. Most of are in no position to do such a thing, but if we were multi millionaires with no limits it would be quite common to kickstart a health plan that way.
Similarly here she was feeling down and so did this to help lift her mood,a change of scenery, chance to talk through her problems in a secure enviroment etc.
That the tabloids decided to run with the article 'Zeta Jones Bi Polar' really says more about them and us than her.
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Originally Posted by BilboMy thought is that you should spell check your thread and edit it so that it makes sense :pQuote:
Originally Posted by boozeboxer
Onto Zeta Jones. I think we should note a few points.
Firstly, it is the media who have labelled her bi polar I don't believe she announced those words to the world.
Secondly she is a very high profile and wealthy person coping with the very real possibility of the loss of her husband. She can afford the costs of going off to a specialist centre for the kind of therepy and one to one psychological counselling that would probably be a benefit to a lot of us at times in our life if we could justify the expense.
I don't see the big deal really. It's the same as going to a spar or health retreat for a few days of detox. Most of are in no position to do such a thing, but if we were multi millionaires with no limits it would be quite common to kickstart a health plan that way.
Similarly here she was feeling down and so did this to help lift her mood,a change of scenery, chance to talk through her problems in a secure enviroment etc.
That the tabloids decided to run with the article 'Zeta Jones Bi Polar' really says more about them and us than her.
good point Kev. I am trying to eat over lunch hour/talk on phone/write coherent posts.......
any of you see the tv programme stephen fry did about bi-polar? An actor I know a bit about - Jeremy Brett - was also diagnosed late in life a bi-p. Lots of them are afraid of taking drugs that 'smooth' them out, they've lived a long time that way and now you want to change who they are? What if they're no longer funny? etcQuote:
Originally Posted by boozeboxer
A lot of people on anti-depressants and mainly those on anti-psychotics stop taking their medicine due to side effects but also because if you look at the behavioral psychology of taking those pills a person is taking them to PREVENT symptoms rather than to subdue symptoms and well in layman's terms people take the medicine, they feel better, they decide they don't need to take the medicine OR they take the medicine, they feel the side effects, and they stop taking the medicine thinking the symptoms won't reccur.Quote:
Originally Posted by Howlin Mad Missyany of you see the tv programme stephen fry did about bi-polar? An actor I know a bit about - Jeremy Brett - was also diagnosed late in life a bi-p. Lots of them are afraid of taking drugs that 'smooth' them out, they've lived a long time that way and now you want to change who they are? What if they're no longer funny? etcQuote:
Originally Posted by boozeboxer
I hate being bi-polar, it's amazing!
I could tell you some great stories from people who have worked with those in institutions but I dont have time right now
It really can be like 'medication time' from One Flew Over :-\
He went there.Quote:
Originally Posted by 0james0
;D
I've got a mate who works in a nut house and I've had the pleasure of going in one once to see someone I knew who had lost the plot.Quote:
Originally Posted by Howlin Mad Missy
It was like walking into something out of resident evil! Zombies everywhere. Actually scared me a little. Some freaky shit!
I have been in a 'nuthouse' once to visit a relative. Everyone seemed normal. I had a nice roast dinner and apple pie. So did they. Only difference was I could leave and they couldn't. (well, not the ONLY difference, but the only visible one).Quote:
Originally Posted by 0james0I've got a mate who works in a nut house and I've had the pleasure of going in one once to see someone I knew who had lost the plot.Quote:
Originally Posted by Howlin Mad Missy
It was like walking into something out of resident evil! Zombies everywhere. Actually scared me a little. Some freaky shit!
I tend to be a cynic when it comes to people having mental health issues. When Britney Spears went off a couple years ago, my thought was "too much methamphetamine." Charlie Sheen finally did too much dope...Growing up, and over the years since, I've seen people do so many things that made no sense, were over the top violent etc... and it was normal to nod and wink because, you know, that individual was just too high, the drugs got the better of him, and he needed a trip back to prison to get clear. Poor folks rehab.
My parents both lived through every minute of the Great Depression, my dad fought in WW2. Maybe that influence is why I've always looked at 'mental illness' as weakness, as not being able to handle life. When "Saving Private Ryan" came out I remember telling my father that I had heard that some scenes were so graphic that vets watching it were advised to seek counseling. He scoffed at that- I didn't need counseling when I saw it for real, how is some movie supposed to upset me? An ex used to have panic attacks. My reaction was always; Fake, a play for attention.
I guess that isn't a very enlightened attitude, and that some people are chemically or genetically pre-disposed to folding up. I try to be understanding and sympathetic but inside I do still have a smirk and a sneer for those that can't cope.
The Sun went with 'Zeta in mental clinic' ;DQuote:
Originally Posted by Bilbo
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Originally Posted by MemphisThe Sun went with 'Zeta in mental clinic' ;DQuote:
Originally Posted by Bilbo
haha the sun is truly the worst paper in the world, it's like it's written by adolescent schoolboys for other adolescent schoolboys.
Andrew Austin is the man. Great stories about how he took the door of the patients smoking area and the staff smoking area..how rather than trying to coax them to take there meds and take a looong 'play the game' as the other nurses did he used to roll out the trolley and ask them what they wanted today, uppers? downers? these ones are a pretty colour, two?three? how about the whole bottle?Quote:
Originally Posted by ryanmanI have been in a 'nuthouse' once to visit a relative. Everyone seemed normal. I had a nice roast dinner and apple pie. So did they. Only difference was I could leave and they couldn't. (well, not the ONLY difference, but the only visible one).Quote:
Originally Posted by 0james0I've got a mate who works in a nut house and I've had the pleasure of going in one once to see someone I knew who had lost the plot.Quote:
Originally Posted by Howlin Mad Missy
It was like walking into something out of resident evil! Zombies everywhere. Actually scared me a little. Some freaky shit!
Funny thing was they didnt argue, looked at him like he was a nutter and took their meds no problem but of course you can't act that way (why not)
how you'd get a bunch of people sitting round with the dr's & nurses, all with nothing to say being depressed for an hour. Time's up they all wander outside and start chatting about football like regular folk ;D
how when he was observing a schizo rehab meeting - which was patting a balloon to each other (?) when he took over asked who wanted to go to the pub, they all wanted to go - cant do that they're in schizo rehab- going to the pub in clinical world = bad. patting a balloon = good rehab
'BONKERS BRUNO LOCKED UP'.Quote:
Originally Posted by BilboQuote:
Originally Posted by MemphisThe Sun went with 'Zeta in mental clinic' ;DQuote:
Originally Posted by Bilbo
haha the sun is truly the worst paper in the world, it's like it's written by adolescent schoolboys for other adolescent schoolboys.
hahaha, the fucking insensitivity! I remember being stunned by that. It cracks me up now though.
Like when they went to town on the 'disgustingly racist' Jade Goody for calling Shilpa Shetty a poppadom and in the exact same issue reported on Chinese snooker sensation Ding Jui with the headline 'Pot Noodle' :DQuote:
Originally Posted by ryanman'BONKERS BRUNO LOCKED UP'.Quote:
Originally Posted by BilboQuote:
Originally Posted by MemphisThe Sun went with 'Zeta in mental clinic' ;DQuote:
Originally Posted by Bilbo
haha the sun is truly the worst paper in the world, it's like it's written by adolescent schoolboys for other adolescent schoolboys.
hahaha, the fucking insensitivity! I remember being stunned by that. It cracks me up now though.
Or how their sister paper the News of the world will go undercover to expose the sordid secrets of our celebrities and make the most absurd moral judgements on them and then it turns out that they themselves are all a bunch of illegal phone tapping criminals.
I wish the judges would get tough and ban the Sun and News of the world and stop anyone who works on the papers for ever being involved in 'journalism' again.
When I went in they were all noticeably crazy. One guy was roaming the corridors asking everyone if they had seen his rabbit (he's been looking daily for 5 years but still not found it!) another women jumped out at me because I was walking on the floor and it was electrocuted! She jumped out of no where and screamed at me to get off the floor! I appreciate she was looking after me, but still, made me jump out my skin. I did decide to resist her offer of walking on chairs and continued to use the electrified floor, I explained I had rubber shoes, but she didn't seem to understand. Probably thought I was nuts!Quote:
Originally Posted by ryanmanI have been in a 'nuthouse' once toQuote:
Originally Posted by 0james0I've got a mate who works in a nutQuote:
Originally Posted by Howlin Mad Missy
house and I've had the pleasure of
going in one once to see someone I
knew who had lost the plot.
It was like walking into something
out of resident evil! Zombies
everywhere. Actually scared me a
little. Some freaky shit!
visit a relative. Everyone seemed
normal. I had a nice roast dinner
and apple pie. So did they. Only
difference was I could leave and
they couldn't. (well, not the ONLY
difference, but the only visible one).
All genuine stories, there were a couple other odd things that freaked me out on my visit, but I can't remember them now.
It was sad to see, but still bloody scary!
Now those people in the nuthouse seem like proper crazy people. That for me is real mental trauma rather than the more superficial designer mental illnesses that seem to be emerging. Looking for a rabbit for a period of 5 years is seriously hardcore. Feeling depressed is nothing when compared with that. The intelligent depressed person probably has the ability to adapt, the rabbit guy is condemned that way for eternity.
Nothing worse than eternally looking for a rabbit IMO. That is beyond existential.
Anyway, I am going to go easy on the mentally ill. They have their own lives and they and their loved ones need to do what is right by them. Personally, I find the idea of artificially altering the brain for something like depression quite repellant, but each to their own. To me there is nothing more noble than a troubled mind howling into the wilderness like King Lear. You wouldn't want to imagine him popping some prozac and having a sleep. No, you have to work your own way through these things and though life is tough, that is part of the savage wonder.
It's a beautiful spring day today and I am going to go and look at the lake and see the cherry blossoms. Life is indeed a beautiful thing and I am going to cherish it in all the ways that the mentally ill cannot. If I see a rabbit I shall let it be.
I wasn't trying to be mean, just honest. It's something that happens in almost every off-topic thread you guys participate in and it has just gotten to be a bit much.Quote:
Originally Posted by BilboSuch intolerance, hostility and anger issues. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by CFHThis x1000. It's seriously fucking annoying, so much so that I almost always automatically stop posting in any thread that you guys turn into a philosophical wack-off contest.Quote:
Originally Posted by JazMerkin
To be honest I only really post nowadays to talk to Miles. Post's I'm not interested in I just skip past and ignore.
There are many threads I don't even enter as the subject/poster don't interest me. I don't go in to complain though, that would just be rude.
To be fair, I am willing to keep to thread topics unless someone else deviates from it. I've no issues with anyone, but can see why me and Bilbo going off on the god thing can seem a bit annoying. We should probably keep all that in some super thread somewhere.
Fair enough, actually you're never really a rude person just very blunt sometimes.Quote:
Originally Posted by CFHI wasn't trying to be mean, just honest. It's something that happens in almost every off-topic thread you guys participate in and it has just gotten to be a bit much.Quote:
Originally Posted by BilboSuch intolerance, hostility and anger issues. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by CFHThis x1000. It's seriously fucking annoying, so much so that I almost always automatically stop posting in any thread that you guys turn into a philosophical wack-off contest.Quote:
Originally Posted by JazMerkin
To be honest I only really post nowadays to talk to Miles. Post's I'm not interested in I just skip past and ignore.
There are many threads I don't even enter as the subject/poster don't interest me. I don't go in to complain though, that would just be rude.
Also I've had a niggle with you ever since you reprimanded for my calling a Japanese man by an abbrievated form. I know you edited it afterwards but the veiled banning threat made me simmer slighty as I was thinking to myself how many fucking years have you known me to suddenly suggest I might have a racist attitude towards the Japanese? I mean it's not like I create threads weekly about their imperialistic aggression or right to exist...
And then the site went down and I checked with downforeveryoneorjustme.com and it said the site was up so I thought you might actually have banned me.
I almost had a Miles moment when he had his second mental breakdown on Saddo's after Youngblood stealth sad clicked (his first being the Yuri Forman incident) and I was thinking what I could do to express my righteous indignation. And all I could think was unfriending you on facebook so that you would feel the loss. And then I thought you might not even notice and it would get to me if you didn't mention it and I'd end up being tormented about why you didn't notice and refriend request me.
And then the site came back and I realised you hadn't banned me after all and I was annoyed because I had invested a lot of energy into the fall out in my head and didn't want to give it up.
So I when you called me boring I thought it was an opportunity to be beligerrent and tetchy and maybe have a public spat. But then you went and followed up in a sane and non hostille way and took the wind out of my sails a bit and now I'm not sure that you are so unreasonable after all.
But I'm still a bit tetchy and annoyed that once again I wasted energy on an imaginary feud in my head :-\
lol miles. this is probably this first ever funny post I've read from you. It is either your best ever tongue in cheek work, or the words of someone closing in on the step off time.Quote:
Originally Posted by miles
Oh, come now, dear child, I am sure there has to be at least one other funny post out there somewhere. Intended to be funny, but also a seriousness lurking beneath. King Lear is one of my favourite Shakespeare plays, a might fine piece of work by the immortal bard. King Lear is Shakespeare's very own wheatfields and the crows.Quote:
Originally Posted by Youngbloodlol miles. this is probably this first ever funny post I've read from you. It is either your best ever tongue in cheek work, or the words of someone closing in on the step off time.Quote:
Originally Posted by miles
As an aside, Bilbo's last post has me convinced that he is bi-polar as well. :p
I think that's a fairly reasonable assessment..;DQuote:
Originally Posted by milesOh, come now, dear child, I am sure there has to be at least one other funny post out there somewhere. Intended to be funny, but also a seriousness lurking beneath. King Lear is one of my favourite Shakespeare plays, a might fine piece of work by the immortal bard. King Lear is Shakespeare's very own wheatfields and the crows.Quote:
Originally Posted by Youngbloodlol miles. this is probably this first ever funny post I've read from you. It is either your best ever tongue in cheek work, or the words of someone closing in on the step off time.Quote:
Originally Posted by miles
As an aside, Bilbo's last post has me convinced that he is bi-polar as well. :p
just a foot note to this thread,
There is such a vast difference between depression which so many experience, know and understand, to which you most certainly fit all the criteria for being familiar with miles, and bi polar, which is depression and sanity's evil counterpart, via gross psychosis often in the name of mania. They almost shouldn't even be discussed within the same parameters.
Go fuck yourself. That make you feel better? :)Quote:
Originally Posted by BilboFair enough, actually you're never really a rude person just very blunt sometimes.Quote:
Originally Posted by CFHI wasn't trying to be mean, just honest. It's something that happens in almost every off-topic thread you guys participate in and it has just gotten to be a bit much.Quote:
Originally Posted by BilboSuch intolerance, hostility and anger issues. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by CFHThis x1000. It's seriously fucking annoying, so much so that I almost always automatically stop posting in any thread that you guys turn into a philosophical wack-off contest.Quote:
Originally Posted by JazMerkin
To be honest I only really post nowadays to talk to Miles. Post's I'm not interested in I just skip past and ignore.
There are many threads I don't even enter as the subject/poster don't interest me. I don't go in to complain though, that would just be rude.
Also I've had a niggle with you ever since you reprimanded for my calling a Japanese man by an abbrievated form. I know you edited it afterwards but the veiled banning threat made me simmer slighty as I was thinking to myself how many fucking years have you known me to suddenly suggest I might have a racist attitude towards the Japanese? I mean it's not like I create threads weekly about their imperialistic aggression or right to exist...
And then the site went down and I checked with downforeveryoneorjustme.com and it said the site was up so I thought you might actually have banned me.
I almost had a Miles moment when he had his second mental breakdown on Saddo's after Youngblood stealth sad clicked (his first being the Yuri Forman incident) and I was thinking what I could do to express my righteous indignation. And all I could think was unfriending you on facebook so that you would feel the loss. And then I thought you might not even notice and it would get to me if you didn't mention it and I'd end up being tormented about why you didn't notice and refriend request me.
And then the site came back and I realised you hadn't banned me after all and I was annoyed because I had invested a lot of energy into the fall out in my head and didn't want to give it up.
So I when you called me boring I thought it was an opportunity to be beligerrent and tetchy and maybe have a public spat. But then you went and followed up in a sane and non hostille way and took the wind out of my sails a bit and now I'm not sure that you are so unreasonable after all.
But I'm still a bit tetchy and annoyed that once again I wasted energy on an imaginary feud in my head :-\
I wasn't outright threatening to ban you per se, I was just saying that anyone who persists in using racist terms would be banned, including long-term members like yourself. I know you didn't intend it to be racist, which is why I edited my post, but it is a term with a long, racist history behind it.
It's funny you'd call me 'blunt' on here, because I often find myself wishing I could be more blunt in real life. Maybe that just comes out on here.
Anyways, before I make myself a total hypocrite by completely derailing this thread, I would like to add that anyone who depression, anxiety, bi-polar disorder, or any mental health problems are not serious and can just be shaken off or whatever are stuck in the dark ages and they can fuck right off. The widespread nature of those types of attitudes keep people from getting the help they need and this leads directly to a low quality of life for mentally ill people and even death.
And I didn't call you boring, I called you (and Miles) annoying.
Shakespeare fucking blows.Quote:
Originally Posted by milesOh, come now, dear child, I am sure there has to be at least one other funny post out there somewhere. Intended to be funny, but also a seriousness lurking beneath. King Lear is one of my favourite Shakespeare plays, a might fine piece of work by the immortal bard. King Lear is Shakespeare's very own wheatfields and the crows.Quote:
Originally Posted by Youngbloodlol miles. this is probably this first ever funny post I've read from you. It is either your best ever tongue in cheek work, or the words of someone closing in on the step off time.Quote:
Originally Posted by miles
As an aside, Bilbo's last post has me convinced that he is bi-polar as well. :p
I would be happy to stick that thread at the top of the Let's Get It On board for you.Quote:
Originally Posted by miles
Oh yes Miles has annoyed me too, at least in relation to the Japanese. Firstly he actually used the very same word in the hidden board and you posted underneath with no reprimand, so i feel he got away with it.Quote:
Originally Posted by CFHGo fuck yourself. That make you feel better? :)Quote:
Originally Posted by BilboFair enough, actually you're never really a rude person just very blunt sometimes.Quote:
Originally Posted by CFHI wasn't trying to be mean, just honest. It's something that happens in almost every off-topic thread you guys participate in and it has just gotten to be a bit much.Quote:
Originally Posted by BilboSuch intolerance, hostility and anger issues. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by CFHThis x1000. It's seriously fucking annoying, so much so that I almost always automatically stop posting in any thread that you guys turn into a philosophical wack-off contest.Quote:
Originally Posted by JazMerkin
To be honest I only really post nowadays to talk to Miles. Post's I'm not interested in I just skip past and ignore.
There are many threads I don't even enter as the subject/poster don't interest me. I don't go in to complain though, that would just be rude.
Also I've had a niggle with you ever since you reprimanded for my calling a Japanese man by an abbrievated form. I know you edited it afterwards but the veiled banning threat made me simmer slighty as I was thinking to myself how many fucking years have you known me to suddenly suggest I might have a racist attitude towards the Japanese? I mean it's not like I create threads weekly about their imperialistic aggression or right to exist...
And then the site went down and I checked with downforeveryoneorjustme.com and it said the site was up so I thought you might actually have banned me.
I almost had a Miles moment when he had his second mental breakdown on Saddo's after Youngblood stealth sad clicked (his first being the Yuri Forman incident) and I was thinking what I could do to express my righteous indignation. And all I could think was unfriending you on facebook so that you would feel the loss. And then I thought you might not even notice and it would get to me if you didn't mention it and I'd end up being tormented about why you didn't notice and refriend request me.
And then the site came back and I realised you hadn't banned me after all and I was annoyed because I had invested a lot of energy into the fall out in my head and didn't want to give it up.
So I when you called me boring I thought it was an opportunity to be beligerrent and tetchy and maybe have a public spat. But then you went and followed up in a sane and non hostille way and took the wind out of my sails a bit and now I'm not sure that you are so unreasonable after all.
But I'm still a bit tetchy and annoyed that once again I wasted energy on an imaginary feud in my head :-\
I wasn't outright threatening to ban you per se, I was just saying that anyone who persists in using racist terms would be banned, including long-term members like yourself. I know you didn't intend it to be racist, which is why I edited my post, but it is a term with a long, racist history behind it.
It's funny you'd call me 'blunt' on here, because I often find myself wishing I could be more blunt in real life. Maybe that just comes out on here.
Anyways, before I make myself a total hypocrite by completely derailing this thread, I would like to add that anyone who depression, anxiety, bi-polar disorder, or any mental health problems are not serious and can just be shaken off or whatever are stuck in the dark ages and they can fuck right off. The widespread nature of those types of attitudes keep people from getting the help they need and this leads directly to a low quality of life for mentally ill people and even death.
And I didn't call you boring, I called you (and Miles) annoying.
Secondly he also mentioned admiring that 'nice man from the Japanese mainland' which I believe discriminates against any Japanese not living on the main bit, as if to say their bit is minor.
If that isn't an attempt at creating some kind of social regional divide I don't know what is, so I think he should be in future instructed to refer to the island of Japan rather than mainland.
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Originally Posted by CFHI would be happy to stick that thread at the top of the Let's Get It On board for you.Quote:
Originally Posted by miles
I think we merit our own Bilbo and Miles Get It On Board. We could alternate modship on rotating weeks and ban the other from the board for that time and fill it with our own thoughts, only to see them deleted and replace the following week.
I usually skip over most of Miles posts, so I must've missed that one. Why don't I just cut right to the chase and ban him permanently?Quote:
Originally Posted by BilboOh yes Miles has annoyed me too, at least in relation to the Japanese. Firstly he actually used the very same word in the hidden board and you posted underneath with no reprimand, so i feel he got away with it.Quote:
Originally Posted by CFHGo fuck yourself. That make you feel better? :)Quote:
Originally Posted by BilboFair enough, actually you're never really a rude person just very blunt sometimes.Quote:
Originally Posted by CFHI wasn't trying to be mean, just honest. It's something that happens in almost every off-topic thread you guys participate in and it has just gotten to be a bit much.Quote:
Originally Posted by BilboSuch intolerance, hostility and anger issues. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by CFHThis x1000. It's seriously fucking annoying, so much so that I almost always automatically stop posting in any thread that you guys turn into a philosophical wack-off contest.Quote:
Originally Posted by JazMerkin
To be honest I only really post nowadays to talk to Miles. Post's I'm not interested in I just skip past and ignore.
There are many threads I don't even enter as the subject/poster don't interest me. I don't go in to complain though, that would just be rude.
Also I've had a niggle with you ever since you reprimanded for my calling a Japanese man by an abbrievated form. I know you edited it afterwards but the veiled banning threat made me simmer slighty as I was thinking to myself how many fucking years have you known me to suddenly suggest I might have a racist attitude towards the Japanese? I mean it's not like I create threads weekly about their imperialistic aggression or right to exist...
And then the site went down and I checked with downforeveryoneorjustme.com and it said the site was up so I thought you might actually have banned me.
I almost had a Miles moment when he had his second mental breakdown on Saddo's after Youngblood stealth sad clicked (his first being the Yuri Forman incident) and I was thinking what I could do to express my righteous indignation. And all I could think was unfriending you on facebook so that you would feel the loss. And then I thought you might not even notice and it would get to me if you didn't mention it and I'd end up being tormented about why you didn't notice and refriend request me.
And then the site came back and I realised you hadn't banned me after all and I was annoyed because I had invested a lot of energy into the fall out in my head and didn't want to give it up.
So I when you called me boring I thought it was an opportunity to be beligerrent and tetchy and maybe have a public spat. But then you went and followed up in a sane and non hostille way and took the wind out of my sails a bit and now I'm not sure that you are so unreasonable after all.
But I'm still a bit tetchy and annoyed that once again I wasted energy on an imaginary feud in my head :-\
I wasn't outright threatening to ban you per se, I was just saying that anyone who persists in using racist terms would be banned, including long-term members like yourself. I know you didn't intend it to be racist, which is why I edited my post, but it is a term with a long, racist history behind it.
It's funny you'd call me 'blunt' on here, because I often find myself wishing I could be more blunt in real life. Maybe that just comes out on here.
Anyways, before I make myself a total hypocrite by completely derailing this thread, I would like to add that anyone who depression, anxiety, bi-polar disorder, or any mental health problems are not serious and can just be shaken off or whatever are stuck in the dark ages and they can fuck right off. The widespread nature of those types of attitudes keep people from getting the help they need and this leads directly to a low quality of life for mentally ill people and even death.
And I didn't call you boring, I called you (and Miles) annoying.
Secondly he also mentioned admiring that 'nice man from the Japanese mainland' which I believe discriminates against any Japanese not living on the main bit, as if to say their bit is minor.
If that isn't an attempt at creating some kind of social regional divide I don't know what is, so I think he should be in future instructed to refer to the island of Japan rather than mainland.
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Originally Posted by CFHI would be happy to stick that thread at the top of the Let's Get It On board for you.Quote:
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I think we merit our own Bilbo and Miles Get It On Board. We could alternate modship on rotating weeks and ban the other from the board for that time and fill it with our own thoughts, only to see them deleted and replace the following week.
That would be awesome.