Sadness and Joy in the News

[Vince]

Linda Lakeside wrote:

I like the dancing, uh, guys with shades.

Guys with shades huh?
*lights cigar*

< looks over at the guide dog and white stick>

*arrogant smirk*

[lizzytysh]

One for each year.

~ Lizy

[Tchocolatl]

This reminds my of the thread about your transcript, Paula. As I was stressing about the differences in Brit and US English and how this English teacher told me about Canada being influences by one or the other in time , Linda came to clame that as far as she knows Leonard Cohen was writing in CANADIAN. Now Ln you seem to be well aware of those differences. How come? Thanks to this McGill teacher maybe?

Snow does THIS IS SPAM! could help in your case? Or should we kill a bird or two to calm down your anguish of life?

Well now is someone in that forum was not knowing what Jarkko and Eija''s son is doing in life, he/she knows now. Live long and prosper, Rauli.

End of this file.

Cyber Hug in return, Laurie

Now, I think that the error Lz did (does) that pissed so off Laurie is not a coma or two. No. It is the total of comas, dots, letters, posts. The number of posts and the numbers of words in the posts of Lz. In short, what Lz does is called..... FLOODING A FORUM. This has the characteristic to annoy a majority of members and it is regarded as one of the most bad manners one can have on Internet in a SERIOUS forum. As we are not in a serious forum but in a forum dedicated for leisure, the behavior is not so serious also.

Now this is something between Laurie and Lz.

And I understood there is something hitching between Ln and Lz too. That because of this she called for a slaughter and Bee answered, cause I understood that there is another thing between Bee and Lz also.

Phew.

I'm a complete stranger of those things. I know nothing about those things, so I prefer let people who are skilled in the art handle the situation.

Just remimber that nobody and nothing is perfect but all in all this is more than OK and we can make mistakes, mistakes are not something to hang somebody, like so many seems afraid of being hanged if they ackowledge doing or having done a mistake.

Well.

I don't really feel concerned this time. What can I say?

Do you know what Bush answered when he was asked why he did not send the army in New Orleans?

- What? Don't you think these poor people had enoughm trouble like that? You would not want us to go and bomb them also?

Joke.

Have a nice day.

[Tchocolatl]

Vince, I'll may answer later, (I don't know when) now, you arrogant fellow. The woman is too busy right now. therefore completely blind to any sense of humour.

[Ali]

Paula, thanks for your post, it was so well thought out and funny

[Paula]

Ali glad you enjoyed it was a copy and paste from an email I received today it just seems appropriate.

[Snow (retired)]

Tchocolatl wrote:
>. . . what Lz does is called..... FLOODING A FORUM.


Exactly how many messages can a person post before flooding a forum - and how few before parching it?

[LaurieAK]

Paula~

I love this piece. Someone had sent it to me a few years ago, but I lost it when my email imploded. It's a hoot!

Linda~

Lakeside wrote:

It seems everyone types faster than I do.

No worries mate, it is what I am paid to do.
Take all the time you need Linda, we will wait for you . . . tick. . . . toc . . . . tick .
TA Dah!! See! You're not so slow!

Hey Tom~

Good to see you here!! Thanks for speaking your mind with your usual dose of intellect and reason.

L

[Ali]

Paula, My husband Lee who is a born and bred Bristolian has written a short missive based on his opinion of what the standard European language should be.
With all the focus from English newspapers lately on dialects his opinion is that his native 'Brissle' is best.

"Year, da korekt language ter speak is Brissle, day ought'l make dat da internatnal language, den yoo'd all speak proper like what we doo's.
When you sens ledders to peeple in Brissle, they'm don understan um an I kant fink y?
Weem oviously well edicated down year ain us? I nose that!"

[LaurieAK]

Dear Tchoc~

you wrote:

No. It is the total of comas, dots, letters, posts. The number of posts and the numbers of words in the posts of Lz. In short, what Lz does is called..... FLOODING A FORUM. This has the characteristic to annoy a majority of members and it is regarded as one of the most bad manners one can have on Internet in a SERIOUS forum. As we are not in a serious forum but in a forum dedicated for leisure, the behavior is not so serious also.

Oy. You had me there, and there, and there, and....then the Disclaimer (?!?). What?
You mean being annoyed with this is only okay IF we were a group of folks dedicated to solving hard math problems?
People are people, no matter what the reason for the gathering.

What has become apparent during this 'tango' is that *I* am not alone in my 'annoyance' about Lizzy's behavior (not Just mass) around these parts. I am not saying *I* am a majority; I do believe it is the contrary, unless I see otherwise. But who really knows what the 'silence' of most really means. There is an air of a game to this as you say, but the point from the beginning on my part has been quite serious and remains so. It also has come to pass that I have tired of this. I DID rest my case and meant it. I am not fighting with Liz to fight with Liz. Some around here recognize that and I am forever grateful to their speaking up. Whether specifically on my behalf or to voice their own gripes, it is all pertinent dialogue, and much needed as I see it.

Tchoc, I do appreciate your words of wisdom, whether I totally agree with them or not I think you recognize I am not a bad character harassing a member for the sake of 'game.' At least I hope this is not how I am being viewed. But I took the task upon myself and have only meself to blame for the fallout.

regards,
Laurie

[bee]

But I took the task upon myself and have only meself to blame for the fallout.

Dear Laurie, you have nothing to blame yourself about. You did, what you had to do-your bright intelligence and talent shines trough your posts, your poetry is evidence to that. If someone, who has only slight reflection of that light, tries to ridicule you for your job and how you make your living, it is a shame on that person, you don't blame yourself.
No matter how one wants to cover oneself up, the truth always comes out. It is what they tell in the fairy tales about the devil, how he likes to dress him self up us a gentleman, in impeccable suit and hat, white shirt and a bow tie. Only, when one looks closer, at his feet-the one foot is that of the goat. That's how you know, what is under the suit-the heiry, ugly devil himself.
Nicholas Cusanus- the renaissance philosopher writes, that all human beings are created with wisdom deeply imbedded within a person. Those with eyes can perceive it in the hustle and bustle of the marketplace in the daily transactions of men. It is present in the traffic between buyers and sellers, in weighing goods, in counting money. "For all these things are based on the basic power of human being, the power of measuring, of weighing, and of counting. In this power lies the foundation of all the activities of reason: it is the distinguishing feature of mind. To grasp the essence and the secret of our intellectual nature, we need only examine its simplest and most ordinary expressions."
With this in mind, surely we all, no matter how mush schooled or ignorant, we have a dose of wisdom. I think it is all admirable, if we can exchange that wisdom or knowledge. What is appaling to me- is the pretensiousness. Is nice, if you have a cabbage, hand it to me and say it is a cabbage, don't tell me- it is a rose. Surely, I can apriciatte a cabbage, but you would make me angry, if you were insisting, that is was the rose. It is not about you, Laurie.
Tom, is nice to have you back.
I missed you.

[Tchocolatl]

"You mean being annoyed with this is only okay IF we were a group of folks dedicated to solving hard math problems?"

Exact. Wink.

Laurie, I saw Lz being under many vicious attacks (I do not say yours are - yours were not vicious, in my eyes, just a virtuous cry of impatience, which is a very human thing), the worst I witnessed was Partisan's posts, once upon a time, when he was young ;0). Believe me, I was often pissed off of him acting like this, as I had the feeling this could be called harassment - and I mentioned it a couple of time. Then I, once, myself get tired to Lz flow of writing (who I am, to be, but.... ) not so much because the posting was huge, but because I had the feeling that - having now no 'predator' - she was taking it too easy with some people it term of respect while playing games with them (the once victim of others was doing things to others, now so to speaks). So I understand that those things happen.

Well.

Now I saw many other people taking offense of the flow regularly.

When she is under attack, or thinks that she is, she fights back. Like anybody. So goes the flow.

I meant that I understand that you, at your turn, have a reaction. I just thought this was something between you two to discuss and solved. But, like anybody else, I may be wrong (hum... ME??!!.... well... maybe. It is not sure, though).

However, to demonize her - or anybody else - is too much. I'm sure you can understand that, you and your cute horns. Just stick to the facts, allow me to finish with.

Well, resolve you fight in peace, which I mean, mainly, here, without me.

[linda_lakeside]

Linda came to clame that as far as she knows Leonard Cohen was writing in CANADIAN. Now Ln you seem to be well aware of those differences.

I think I've always known that there is no such language as 'Canadian'. Canadians have long been influenced by the American way of speaking/writing, so our 'British' taught English is going by the wayside. Any references I made to LC writing in 'Canadian' were intended to be a light-hearted way of referring to Leonard's sticking to the way I remember being taught. So long ago. He even uses those cumbersome 'g's' with the little squiggle on top and in the centre, connecting the two round parts. - how's that for perfect English?

Linda.

[linda_lakeside]

And I understood there is something hitching between Ln and Lz too. That because of this she called for a slaughter and Bee answered, cause I understood that there is another thing between Bee and Lz also.

Tchoco,

I never called for a 'slaughter', the word I used was 'interaction'. This was after Bee posted. Not before. Also, I'm never completely blind to a sense of humour, it just depends on whether it's truly humour or sarcasm disguised as humour.

"Phew" - yes, I agree.

Linda.

[bee]

I just thought this was something between you two to discuss and solved. But, like anybody else, I may be wrong (hum... ME??!!.... well... maybe. It is not sure, though).

T
Tchoco- yes, you are wrong.
But is not a matter of wrong or right, Tchoco, and you know it very well. There was no effort of making somebody to look bad, or demonize one, the truth in the matter was revealed in the very writings of the that person. That was the feet of the goat. Besides-that person is far from being a demon, just the ordinary person, wanting very much to be somebody-she isn't. Same ordinary prejudice, ignorance, baseless thirst for power, things one can observe every day.