New Year's Resolutions?

[writing irish]

Re:trolling. Engaging in spirited debate, perhaps even ridiculing viewpoints you find absurd or offensive, is different from deliberately being a douche and pissing people off just for the satisfaction of knowing that you've made someone else upset.

It's pretty clear to me which of the more aggressive posters on this board are the ones who are passionate about their opinions...and which ones get their jollies by provocation. The latter activity is the heighth of ***** behavior...as if being all tough within the anonymity and safety of an internet message board makes you some sort of stud. :

I find it depressing that people are ****ing with Alley right after he decalred his intent to be more chilled out.

Back to resolutions...mine is to be healthier...boring, I know. But I really let myself go in 2006 and it shows. Fortunately, I was in pretty good shape before entering my period of self-neglect. 2006 will go down in my history as the year I really let the long/irregular hours and the sedentary nature of journalism get to me.

I think the reason people wait until the calendar changes to make resolutions is because most of the time, the resolutions are about health...diet, exercise, cigs, alcohol. It's hard to make changes like that during the holidays, for obvious reasons. So yeah, it's lame to wait until an arbitrary date on the calendar to get your **** together, but I can see how that comes about.

 

[alleyallen]

Wow, here I am trying to be civil, especially refraining from calling you or anyone else names, and I get this. Good stuff.

First of all, you'll notice I said you and others who post stuff just to rile up others. Obviously I would include Fenian in that category because, quite frankly, his posts are sometimes just as ineffective and he gets just as defensive.

Second, I wasn't including you in the whole not stopping for someone in the crosswalk. But you yourself said in your first post you like to put things in just to see the response of others, just to see others get riled up.
That's not, to the best of my knowledge, the intention of this board or the intention of 90 percent of the posters on here. Most of us are trying to have fun and reasoned debates about issues without getting ugly. It seems you are seeking something totally opposite of that.

And I'm constantly dismayed at people who are proud of being assholes. I've never understood that. Never. And I intentionally likened it to being a grown-up bully, because that's just what it is. And if that's why you post on this board, then it makes me sad because it shows you have so little else going for you.

 

[Sly]

Homer: Congratulations, Bart. Giving up smoking is one of the hardest things you can ever do. Here, have a dollar.

Lisa: But Dad, he didn't do anything!

Homer: Didn't he Lisa? Didn't he?

 

[Evil Bastard (aka Chris_L)]

Re:trolling. Engaging in spirited debate, perhaps even ridiculing viewpoints you find absurd or offensive, is different from deliberately being a douche and pissing people off just for the satisfaction of knowing that you've made someone else upset.

It's pretty clear to me which of the more aggressive posters on this board are the ones who are passionate about their opinions...and which ones get their jollies by provocation. The latter activity is the heighth of ***** behavior...as if being all tough within the anonymity and safety of an internet message board makes you some sort of stud. :

I find it depressing that people are ****ing with Alley right after he decalred his intent to be more chilled out.

I find people who try to determine what is and is not acceptable behavior on this board to be the biggest bores. I'm glad things are clear to you but I forget ever asking your opinion.

As far as Alley is concerned - he posts about avoiding pissing matches as his resolution and yet he's the first one to respond to my post. What was the need in him that made that necessary? Did something in his brain say, "Well I can't let that go without adding in my own two cents because I'm AlleyAllen damn it and the board deserves to hear what I think on this matter!" Here I am trying to curb my dangling pieces of yarn in front of kittens and right away I get this tempation of a response? Heaven help me!

 

[alleyallen]

Re:trolling. Engaging in spirited debate, perhaps even ridiculing viewpoints you find absurd or offensive, is different from deliberately being a douche and pissing people off just for the satisfaction of knowing that you've made someone else upset.

It's pretty clear to me which of the more aggressive posters on this board are the ones who are passionate about their opinions...and which ones get their jollies by provocation. The latter activity is the heighth of ***** behavior...as if being all tough within the anonymity and safety of an internet message board makes you some sort of stud. :

I find it depressing that people are ****ing with Alley right after he decalred his intent to be more chilled out.

I find people who try to determine what is and is not acceptable behavior on this board to be the biggest bores. I'm glad things are clear to you but I forget ever asking your opinion.

As far as Alley is concerned - he posts about avoiding pissing matches as his resolution and yet he's the first one to respond to my post. What was the need in him that made that necessary? Did something in his brain say, "Well I can't let that go without adding in my own two cents because I'm AlleyAllen damn it and the board deserves to hear what I think on this matter!" Here I am trying to curb my dangling pieces of yarn in front of kittens and right away I get this tempation of a response? Heaven help me!

Hmm...so now any response to any post is a violation of my own resolution? I'll be gentle in saying this...that's not what I wrote, so your argument is flawed from the get-go.

And you'll notice I recognized your resolution and only called it evil, something which shouldn't bother you since it's, y'know, part of your name.

Then I wondered why people seem to derive so much joy out of trolling, and suddenly you're a wounded man wondering why I violated the cease-fire.

Irish was right...I'm attempting to impose a bit of civility, at least on my part. I'll leave you to your thoughts. Enjoy them.

 

[zeke12]

Because douchebags are douchebags.

 

[Evil Bastard (aka Chris_L)]

Alley - your resolution had to do with not insulting people or getting into petty arguments. By writing that bit about Denis Leary and assholes - what did you think you were doing if not trying to call someone an asshole? If you think otherwise - you are splitting hairs (but hey if rationalizations are what you need to survive - more power to you). As far as petty arguments are concerned - what could be more petty to argue about than New Years resolutions?

I do hope that you read more in the New Year though.

zeke - you are beyond predictable. Ding fries are done!

 

[cranberry]

2. I will try to stop immediately thinking that a girl who puts a cigarette in her mouth will put anything in her mouth (like all sorts of food or the dicks of strange men). Though mostly true in real life - this is the Internet and I should refrain from having that thought here because chubby girls talking about smoking turns to images of fat chicks with the dicks of hobos in their mouth which leads to me scrubbing my eyeballs. And who needs to scrub their eyeballs?

Or maybe you could just stop visiting sites like fatsmokingcows.com?

 

[Point of Order]

An oldie but a goodie - lose some weight! lol

 

[zeke12]

zeke - you are beyond predictable. Ding fries are done!

Predictable, dependable, and, most importantly, accurate.