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Poll ended at Fri May 23, 2003 5:27 pm

are LC fans well educated sensitive people?
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are LC fans melancholic, depressed people?
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are LC fans rich idle people?
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Total votes: 7
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Paula
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Post by Paula »

I struggled thru McCabe and Mrs Miller purely for the sound track. It was one of the most bleak and dismal films I have ever seen.
John the Shorts
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Post by John the Shorts »

Paula

That sounds absolutely marvellous - bleak and dismal sums me up emotionally at the moment.

Margaret

Your in luck I can copy it for you, although copies are never as good as the original.

Anyone else wish to receive a copy of dubious quality?

JTS
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Post by lizzytysh »

Partisan ~

I've been either too busy or too tired to respond to some comments you made a while ago. Doing so requires a different kind of energy. I originally dismissed your comments as ignorant and stupid, and pursued instead my concern for children as victims. However, even though your comments remain as I've noted above, the issue has stayed on my mind. I finally have time to address them as I've wanted.
I think i may be the last though as you do seem to have got much better recently. I just hope you keep taking the medication, rather like your mentor.

p.
(who is still hoping that Judith will write something in English so he can read it)
Your final line, the same as a P.S., is just one more insulting remark about someone, who writes exceedingly well in English. It's your choice to be tacky and continue in the same vein of comments, when you have another choice, that of reading other material by her.

That line, however, isn't what concerns me most. The first two are. Without provocation, you have hurled ~ in insulting, personal fashion ~ a remark meant to denigrate; the same as a dead, bottom-feeder carp being slung onto a table where people are dining. Neither of us has any idea whether the person you refer to as my mentor takes medication, and it’s none of either of our business. You have no idea whether I do. Remarks such as yours could easily pique feelings of shame, embarrassment, and the feeling of being exposed in one who might, however.

Whether it’s psycho-tropic, anti-depressant, anti-anxiety, mood-elevating, or whatever kind of medications someone might take to address a chemical imbalance, organic brain disorder, or the aftermath of trauma, closed-head injury, or whatever, comments like yours serve only to keep doing so at a shame-based, stigmatic level. They also act as a deterrent to people seeking treatment and/or taking medications as prescribed, as they increase the fear that someone may find out and they’ll be perceived as weak , weird, or whatever, and subjected to various forms of ridicule and mockery.

To see your comments at the end of a posting where you so un-righteously and indignantly reacted, expecting an apology, regarding someone suggesting that you used the word fuck, as though that were the most abhorrent thing anyone could ever say about you [when in my life there was a time when it was included in perhaps every other sentence, and I’m confident it exists in your vocabulary] and using it remains voluntary, a choice......and to then see you take such liberties with regard to other people, at least one's presumed, personal life, and situations that are not voluntary, not a choice, and as a means for you to try to make a trivial and unrelated point, causes me to wonder whether you also think it’s okay to make fun of people who require high-blood pressure medicine, blood thinners, dialysis, wheelchairs, or the like. By doing so, you perpetuate a prejudice against people with mental illness, and other conditions addressable through mind-/mood-/chemical-altering medications.

Many lives are fraught with havoc, chaos, daily grief, violence, and violent endings, as a result of their, or people they know/are related to, not taking these prescribed medications, for any variety of reasons. It’s comments like yours that only act as obstacles, to people feeling that it’s okay to do whatever is necessary for them to live a normal life.

~ Elizabeth
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Partisan
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Post by Partisan »

Tysh Darling you have lost perspective.
Again.
Quelle surprise.

p.
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Post by George.Wright »

P, it depends on the perspective.....................
is it in a balanced brain?
or a twisted and warped one?
Best Regards.......................Georges(Baby)
I am a right bad ass, dankish prince and I love my Violet to bits.
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Post by lizzytysh »

It's amazing that you expect apologies, Partisan. You have bypassed an opportunity with unfortunate arrogance. You are certainly younger than your years. Whilst suggesting that I have lost perspective, it's appearing that you have never had it.

~ Elizabeth
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Post by tom.d.stiller »

Elizabeth,

I cannot but fully agree. If p ever had perspective. he has lost it some time ago.

Tom
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Post by tom.d.stiller »

Eve -

Fun? If "this is supposed to be fun", I ask: Can any kind of nasty behaviour be accepted, just because P supposes it to be "fun"?

Sorry, but whatever it was supposed to be, ages ago: this isn't funny anymore. And, Eve, some may remember it was meant to be fun, but the hundreds and thousand visitors of this site cannot be supposed to "remember"... They can't help but get the impression that "Beautiful Losers" are supposed to be nasty, highly prejudiced folks, seeking warmth from "little children", having "fun" at somebody else's expense, ...

"Choose your battles wisely?" - Well, p, choose your jokes wisely, especially when in public places!

Tom
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Partisan
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Post by Partisan »

Choose my jokes wisely? Now where is the fun in that?

Eve my sweet, go easy on them. Some people only have their righteous indignation to keep them alive. We must be tolerant and make allowances even if they cannot see their way to do the same.

p.
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Post by lizzytysh »

Fun with mental health issues. Fun with the victimization of children. Fun with insults to those who choose to express themselves through poetry. Fun at other people's expense. What fun. Sure makes this a safe place for people to feel free to come and participate. I don't share in this idea of fun, and will continue to speak out against it.

On the other hand, there is a lot of wit and good humour on this site. The need to sully it with remarks such as come out of Partisan is not satisfying any need for humour. What personal needs there may exist that result in these would best be "contributed" to other sites, where they would be welcomed and found humourous, albeit in shared, malevolent fashion.

~ Elizabeth
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Post by Kush »

Dear Sandra,
To answer your original question, I sort of like to think of ourselves as clowns in a circus (I may be loosely quoting Linda from some thread)......but we take ourselves and LC too seriously. More seriously than we or LC deserves to be taken.

p.s. Looking at the 7-0-0 score on the poll we obviously also have very high opinions of ourselves. :D
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Post by kev »

tysh, p throws the line and you bite every time, the guy's having fun
english sense of humour i think , ignore it
nascar, all left turns innit , good show though , tt on the island they let you ride the track as well
interesting site, i'll be back
tt lives
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Paula
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Post by Paula »

Kev how can you ignore the English sense of humour it is the best sense of humour in the world :lol:

Nice to see someone from the Isle of Man here. You gave us the Bee Gees :D
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Paula
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Post by Paula »

Kev how can you ignore the English sense of humour it is the best sense of humour in the world :lol:

Nice to see someone from the Isle of Man here. You gave us the Bee Gees :D
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