Blasts from the pastFollow

Hehe, these old threads are pretty awesome. It's quite crazy how your enthusiastic and fun-seeking youth has given way this bitter and cynical old age. I mean it in a nice way, of course.

And gbaji, you actually seemed a lot more reasonable back then. A lot less entrenched in your positions. You still had the crappy analogies and slippery slope argument, but at least you were willing to give the other side some credit.

I do wish we had some more reasonable conservative posters, if thats not an oxymoron, on this board. It'd be fun to discuss things with someone not suffering from delusional paranoia. Or was that paranoid delusion?

Torm was awesome. She should come back.

Patrician was always worth the read. Totem, Moe, Smash, and Joph are as well. Not trying to sound as a brown-nose (though I can certainly understand as to why I would sound like one), but those posters have always been able to get a good chuckle out of me.


Even though I think he is a dickless cnut, Bodhi used to do the same. But his posting as of late has sucked.

An Nobby will always remain a favorite of mine. Mostly because I imagine his accent in his posts and it makes me giggle. To be truthful, I imagine what it is like to hear an Brit say "cnut". Hell I'll come out and admit it, an Nobby in his most ornery moment, is a bit of a climax for him I imagine.

Who else wants in on the circle jerk?





Edited, Apr 2nd 2008 6:07am by NaughtyWord

Who the hell is NaughtyWord? Did someone get their username changed or does he/she just suck that bad I never noticed after 13k+ posts?

I miss that Barkingturtle guy, he was a barrel of laughs.

Edited, Apr 2nd 2008 8:27am by Kakar

I lived my newbie raiding life vicariously through Calimyr as he spoke of far off, exotic zones like Plane of Growth and Temple of Veeshan. He used to write some pretty sharp observations about the high end game. I was surprised when I learned he was like 17-18 or something.

They're probably lawyers or something horrible like that.

I don't think so. I'm fairly sure they were going to Ohio State for some hard science. Math or Physics, maybe. Also, as an interesting aside, both tiny Filipino men.

I can't get to them anymore either.

The other side had more credibility, based their arguments on more then just blindly repeating the anti-war rhetoric of the week, and actually appreciated and reciprocated when someone like myself gave them some ground on an issue. Today, if I do that, it's taken as "proof" that my entire position is wrong, and not just the one point I'm conceding.

So, pretty much the same thing that happened to US politics as a whole.

Ahhh. If I were Rimesume I'd change my username too. So I guess I was right with both guesses.

That's nothing to do with the left in particular, though. Demonising the other side is a tactic used on both side. Calling people who opposed the war un-american and un-patriotic, calling liberals libertards (or was it tarderals?), both sides are engaged in it.

And, with all due respect, you're as guilty as anyone of accusing other people of being "a moron who's been suckered into supporting something bad for him", look at your own quote, in the same post:



Isn't this exactly the same as what you're accusing liberals of doing?



It does, I totally agree. The political debate has been a lot more poisonous since the Iraq war. Saying it's a liberal-only ploy is dishonest, because both sides are engaged in it. Heck, lots of people even make a career out of pointlessly insulting the other side.

I would say this is always the case when the stakes are high politically. It seems to me, though, that the recent bout started in 02-03. When people, at the time, questionned the war/the patriot act/guantanamo, they were immediatedly called anti-american, AQ-sympathisers, traitors... Not just by the crazy talk-show hosts like Limbaugh and Coulter, but by the most prominent politicians in the administration. Boycotting a girl-band cos they said they were ashamed of their President? I don't find it so astonishing that the people on the recieving end of this abuse are enjoying giving some of it back now that the pendulum of public opinion has shifted a bit.

I agree it's gone too far. I don't think Bush is more of war criminal than a lot of other Western leaders have been through the years, just like I don't think those that criticised American foreign policy in early 03 were "anti-american".

Whatever it all is, it's certainly not confinded to one side.


Edited, Apr 3rd 2008 9:52am by RedPhoenixxx

Elaborate April Fools joke? Seems everyone is coming out of the wood work at one time.

No tbh at least in my case I have been quiet because I got up in Totem's face about the Kerry vs Bush election and got my *** waxed. I still technically owe him a doll of Ann Coulter iirc, I am not flush with cash and item is probably a goddamn collectors edition but if he wants to shoot me message to collect he is welcome to although I would hope we could come together and find some other arrangement for me to provide him the 30 bucks the doll cost at the time. I am game for Paypal, or giftcard of your choice hell I will even donate to RNC the 30.00 if he wants.

Of course as I have always stated I am a moderate who lives in AZ and plan to vote for McCain ( like my vote would count otherwise). He may view me donating to RNC under these circumstances as not fufilling our orginal agreement but I have no plans on the orginal he basically got me self banned from these boards for 3.5 years in shame that I had lost so I will accomidate some form or arangement but not the orginal "bet". He wants a Girls Gone Wild Video I can do that if he wants the orginal bet I am telling him to lick my moderate ballsack tbh I cant afford to track down an Ann Coulter doll ( at my last view of her she was planning on voting for HRC which should turn his stomach anyways)

PS if HRC wins I vote for her even though my vote wont count otherwise preach on Brother McCain who I have sent to DC 2x. Sue me I love the rockstar even though I voted against him 1x if Bill could run agian I would be out on the streets denouncing my Senator.

So no april fools joke I acknowledge debt Totem and will pay as I can, try and keep it in spirit of orginal bet without intrest though =P