I'm running for New Mod!

[vanlose kid]

Wait, are people really acting like "go kill yourself" or "kill yourselves" can't sometimes be used just as figures of speech, to express antipathy? If someone says "go fuck yourself", is that incitement of self-rape?

It happens.

http://articles.latimes.com/2013/sep/12 ... g-20130912

Some people aren't as smart and cool as some people. Go figure.

Not even the investigators get it, and they're smart, right? From the article:

“We can see from what we've investigated so far that Rebecca wasn’t attacking back," Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd told reporters Thursday. "She appeared to be beat down. She appeared to have a defeatist attitude. And quite frankly, the entire investigation is exceptionally disturbing to the entire investigative team.”

It was her own fault apparently. Very un-American girl, or something.

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[seemslikeadream]

that's the temperament in a mod we want here at RI

excellent way of drawing new members


maybe it's ok for the bullies here but a mod? I think not

[FourthBase]

Never realized there was a voting process. Scary.

Something about someone wanting the office (this much) not being fit to have it.

Usually, but this is a pretty fucking exceptional circumstance.

No. Definitely. If it's up for a vote.

Dude, says he's a teacher, sometimes. Wonder if he treats ignorant kids the way he treats ignorant posters.

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I'm gonna guess no. This isn't a classroom. And we're supposed to be adults.
But if we're going to be monitored with schoolmarmish zero-tolerance exactitude...
Then we might as well be kindergartners.

If we can't dial shit the fuck down and apologize and hit a reset button, then...
Well, even preschoolers know enough to do that.

[vanlose kid]

Herr Riddler doesn't do apologies. Why, are you asking?

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[FourthBase]

Jack was only being a bully by dismissively tossing off a "kill yourself" if we're setting the bar for what we as adults should be expected to grasp as figurative language down to accommodate children or the retarded. Are you people fucking serious right now? He was being a dick. Big deal. Get over it. Or are you all so fucking bored lately that you need this unnecessary drama for the entertainment value?

"Waaaaaaaahhhhh!"

[seemslikeadream]

Jack was only being a bully by dismissively tossing off a "kill yourself" if we're setting the bar for what we as adults should be expected to grasp as figurative language down to accommodate children or the retarded. Are you people fucking serious right now? He was being a dick. Big deal. Get over it. Or are you all so fucking bored lately that you need this unnecessary drama for the entertainment value?

"Waaaaaaaahhhhh!"

it wasn't just one time and it wasn't to just one person...IT IS JUST NOT RIGHT TO TELL SOMEONE TO KILL THEMSELVES

it is a jerky thing to do...... really juvenile....really hateful ..we don't need a hateful juvenile jerk here for a mod

[vanlose kid]

Jack was only being a bully by dismissively tossing off a "kill yourself" if we're setting the bar for what we as adults should be expected to grasp as figurative language down to accommodate children or the retarded. Are you people fucking serious right now? He was being a dick. Big deal. Get over it. Or are you all so fucking bored lately that you need this unnecessary drama for the entertainment value?

"Waaaaaaaahhhhh!"

I like the way you group children and the retarded. Reminds me of the view on that defeatist girl above. And if you think boredom is driving me, and not only pulling it out of your ass to make me shut up, then you need to check yourself.

PS: Are you Carol Newquist? Jack says so. And he's a very smart guy. So?

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[FourthBase]

Oh shit, lol, it's a Holier-Than-Thou-Off! Let's see who can one-up each other by spewing the bitterest indignation and splitting the thinnest of politically-correct hairs. Or, let's be fucking adults? Yeah, even just mouthing off the words "kill yourself" as a formless expression of disdain is too dickish of a move for me to use myself, but I'm abnormally sensitive. Even just the merest intimation of the real thing, I find ever-so-slightly too uncool. But should anyone with an undamaged grown human brain ever confuse that idiom with a literal exhortation to literally kill yourself? No, not unless it was actually meant that way. It clearly wasn't. So, pretending that it was or might as well have been is pure histrionics. If you really fucking need the theatrics of Jack performing an apology ritual, to make up for being an asshole, then ask him, expect it of him, or don't, whatever, ultimately my name is Paul and that emotive interpersonal shit is between y'all. But come on, quit the taking-it-literally shit.

[seemslikeadream]

I am not expecting Jack to apologize to me...I don't fuckin care.... but that's me and I'm stable ...he just can't be telling people to kill themselves as a mod

[vanlose kid]

Oh shit, lol, it's a Holier-Than-Thou-Off! Let's see who can one-up each other by spewing the bitterest indignation and splitting the thinnest of politically-correct hairs. Or, let's be fucking adults? Yeah, even just mouthing off the words "kill yourself" as a formless expression of disdain is too dickish of a move for me to use myself, but I'm abnormally sensitive. Even just the merest intimation of the real thing, I find ever-so-slightly too uncool. But should anyone with an undamaged grown human brain ever confuse that idiom with a literal exhortation to literally kill yourself? No, not unless it was actually meant that way. It clearly wasn't. So, pretending that it was or might as well have been is pure histrionics. If you really fucking need the theatrics of Jack performing an apology ritual, to make up for being an asshole, then ask him, expect it of him, or don't, whatever, ultimately my name is Paul and that emotive interpersonal shit is between y'all. But come on, quit the taking-it-literally shit.

There you go again. Am I on a couch? Who are you, Freud? I am not "emoting", Paul. I'm asking you not to tell me who it is I am or what it is I'm thinking. Simple.

I find people going around telling other people to kill themselves offensive. Do I need your permission? No. Why do you think that makes me childish? Did you read it in a book? Or is it because you find going around telling people to kill themselves funny, ergo, everyone should think like you? And the holier that thou shit, what's that? Another way of winning the "debate"?

Enough of this. I asked you to back off and you come up with more of your pseudo-analysis crap. It's crap, Paul. Really. Plain. Vanilla. Crap.

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[vanlose kid]

I don't know why I bother.

Look, Paul, no offense and I apologize. Okay, and to Jack too. Okay? But hear this. He's an asshole. He gets away with it. That's fine. But he came up with the idea and this thread about him being the new mod, and you know what? I think, personally, that it's a bad idea. And no, I'm not part of some mob. Never was, never will be. What's more, there are assholes and there are assholes.

One of the biggest assholes on this board, and a former mod, and a dude I really love is barracuda. He had room for woo and bicycles. See if he'd started this thread I'd have voted yes. He shoots straight and is honest about his assholery. He even apologizes when he steps over the line. That's cause he took himself seriously enough not to take himself seriously. In mod coolness (my view) he's up there with WR. I miss him to be honest. And I'm going to miss WRex.

But Jack? Forget it.

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[FourthBase]

No, as a mod he probably would want to not tell people to go figuratively kill themselves. I'm betting he's aware of that. Of course. Perhaps not "Holier", then. More-Sensitive-Than-Thou. No, you don't need my permission to do anything whatsoever. Nor do I need your permission to tell you what I think of that. Nobody needs anyone's permission. Hooray!

[Searcher08]

I don't know why I bother.

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One of the biggest assholes on this board, and a former mod, and a dude I really love is barracuda. He had room for woo and bicycles. See if he'd started this thread I'd have voted yes. He shoots straight and is honest about his assholery. He even apologizes when he steps over the line. That's cause he took himself seriously enough not to take himself seriously. In mod coolness (my view) he's up there with WR. I miss him to be honest. And I'm going to miss WRex.

But Jack? Forget it.

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^^ Exactly This ^^
Why he is even putting himself up is beyond me.
Fact check: THERE.IS.NO.MOD.ELECTION.PROCESS

Cuda took his role fucking seriously, put a load of energy into it and was able to maintain focus in the midst of opinions he really did not personally care for at all. Ditto WR.

[vanlose kid]

Now it's

... More-Sensitive-Than-Thou. ...!

That's supposed to be the winning put down from you huh? You are such a manly man, man. You might as well have said Less-American-than-your gunghooey all-American self. I bet you'd have loved to have told that twelve year defeatist old girl to toughen up you jockstrap.

Americans, of the left and right, some, a great number, still have this bullshit militant get tough attitude going that's just ... whatever. Indoctrination. Go watch some pigball or something.

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[JackRiddler]

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Good news everyone, my exploratory committee has prepared the platform.

Stump speech:

"My friends, this board is in need of a killing spree, and I'm the man to do it. All decisions will be final. Cthulhu bless us, every one! Now let the blood and wine flow, mofos!"

Approved Main Slogan:
More Mao, less Savaranola.

What, you think there are other options? You may be in the way of historical imperative. Don't make me say off with your head, sorry. With regrets, but you can't make an omelette, etc.

Now according to R.I.§701(b)ii, a candidate is barred from committing to appointments ahead of the election. I checked with the party lawyers, who are all experienced gay Jew ambulance chasers and only in it for the money, so you know you can trust their advice. They have assured me I can say this much: barracuda is my adviser on matters of permanent war and defense. compared2what? has been helping to prepare a plan for seamless domestic security. And bks will be guiding the crew in setting a reliable ideological line. I've been in touch with simulist on matters of Scientific Orthodoxy, what a blast from the past that's been. We're also looking to poach some outside talent from ATS, and we can probably borrow a few enforcement thugs from DU for the initial purges.

Within the first hundred days, I pledge to issue two dozen licenses for unlimited thread proliferation as patronage items to my best buds, and to establish a Ministry of Woo Control ("Mini-Woo").

Also, we need entitlement reform. The demographics are indisputable. It's science.

Slogan #2--still in focus group, but here's a preview:
Riddler 2014. You don't want him. You know you need him.

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