Excuse me for not being more eloquent ubik42 but I didn't sleep much last night. I've seen the company you keep and don't much care for your posts, there's a lot I'd really like to say to you but feel it's just a waste of time.
You have seen the company I keep. Aha! So it was YOU looking through my window last night.
Did you send that guy to my house? He should consider himself lucky.
Did you send that guy to my house? He should consider himself lucky.
What would I do without That Guy to provide me with a nonstop source of licentious ruses to complain about? Let's get down to brass tacks: I will stop at nothing to invigorate the effort to reach solutions by increasing the scope of the inquiry rather than by narrowing or abandoning it. My resolve cannot fully be articulated, but it is unyielding. As evidence, consider that That Guy is a serial exaggerator. If I were to be less kind, I'd say he's a liar. Either way, the acid test for That Guy's "kinder, gentler" new catch-phrases should be, "Do they still rule with an iron fist?" If the answer is yes then we can conclude that That Guy is addicted to the feeling of power, to the idea of controlling people. Sadly, he has no real concern for the welfare or the destiny of the people he desires to lead.
Be careful not to be charmed by That Guy's expositions. All they do is equip unrealistic, hypocritical hierophants of cronyism with flame throwers, hand grenades, and heat-seeking missiles. When I was a child my clergyman told me, "That Guy has lost all sense of compassion, understanding, and humanity." If you think about it you'll see his point. He is always trying to change the way we work. This annoys me because That Guy's previous changes have always been for the worse. I'm positive that his new changes will be even more politically incorrect because I do not find values that are obtuse, featherbrained, and lackluster to be "funny". Maybe I lack a sense of humor, but maybe That Guy is a vainglorious fraudster. I use that label only when it's true. If you don't believe it is, then consider that that fact is simply inescapable to any thinking man or woman. "Thinking" is the key word in the previous sentence.
Come to think of it, where did That Guy learn how to leave a large part of this country's workforce dislocated and disillusioned? At the intersection of Sexism Avenue and Wowserism Lane? My point is that I would like to give you an example of how rotten That Guy can be. That Guy has admitted that he intends to advertise "magical" diets and bogus weight-loss pills. Okay, that may have been a particularly bald-faced and unsubtle example, but That Guy pretends to have the solution for everything. In reality, he creates more problems for the rest of us to solve. Consider, for example, how That Guy repeats the term "undemonstrativeness" over and over again in everything he writes. Is this repetition part of some new drinking game, or is That Guy merely trying to confuse us into believing that his mistakes are always someone else's fault? All I can do now is give you a bare-bones answer and then let you dig into it yourself. To understand the basic answer you need to realize that I've known some big-labor bosses who were impressively pretentious. However, That Guy is mealymouthed and that trumps pretentious every time.
That Guy's long-term goal is to distract attention from more important issues. I hate to break it to him, but down that path lies only heartache and tears. That's why I insist on mentioning that if That Guy's barbs get any more spleeny, I expect they'll grow legs and attack me in my sleep. That Guy likes to argue that the rigors that his victims have been called upon to undergo have been amply justified in the sphere of concrete achievement. Even if there were a faint glimmer of truth in that argument, it would be extremely faint. The truth is that That Guy's goal is to create a beachhead for organized caciquism. This is abject sciolism!
Should someone think that I am saying too much, I am not saying too much but much too little. For That Guy somehow manages to maintain a straight face when saying that the worst sorts of furacious gadflies there are are inherently good, sensitive, creative, and inoffensive. I am greatly grieved by this occurrence of falsehood and fantastic storytelling which is the resultant of layers of social dishevelment and disillusionment amongst the fine citizens of a once organized, motivated, and cognitively enlightened civilization. The larrikinism "debate" is not a debate. It is a harangue, a politically motivated, brilliantly publicized, slimy attack on progressive ideas. I would like to go on, but I do have to keep this post short. So I'll wrap it up by saying that That Guy disguises his iron fist with a velvet glove.
I was considering deleting my previous comment to not make someone look like as big of a fool as I really think he is. However maybe it's best if I consider it a little longer, all things considered.
Someone took his serious pills this morning.
I was considering deleting my previous comment to not make someone look like as big of a fool as I really think he is. However maybe it's best if I consider it a little longer, all things considered.
Someone took his serious pills this morning.
Only morning? I'm on a twice daily regime:
Spartanemesis:
Spartanemesis:
He's looking a little anaemic; iron tablets would sort that right out.
I'll bring this back to the main topic and say hypothetically: If multiple pesonalities (on the site) are allowed then I can understand why some people would want--maybe even feel the need--to have the ability to block more than the 200 limit.
And I'm done wondering how an NM could have their title removed. I do wonder if all the nonsense is somehow... never mind.
Instead of increasing the block amount, how about putting a limit on the length of forum posts? That way, people would need to try and sound intelligent in a way seen as acceptable by most normal people.
Instead of increasing the block amount, how about putting a limit on the length of forum posts? That way, people would need to try and sound intelligent in a way seen as acceptable by most normal people.
Yes, we are in favor of that motion. In fact it's such a good one, we are of the opinion it ought to be enacted immediately after banning all members with the letters G-e-n-g-h-i-s-k-h-a-n-t in their usernames. Good idea indeed. You succeeded in "sounding" intelligent the "normal" way with that one. 
One of life's visionaries, ladies and gentlemen 
Instead of increasing the block amount, how about putting a limit on the length of forum posts? That way, people would need to try and sound intelligent in a way seen as acceptable by most normal people.
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Instead of increasing the block amount, how about putting a limit on the length of forum posts? That way, people would need to try and sound intelligent in a way seen as acceptable by most normal people.
a forum-bot can quickly calculate the info content of such a post and boot it one day after using a notice to the effect ... this post will be deleted in 24 hours for being as thick as a brick.
have to wait for the posts to go off-topic first.
for those who are wondering what's going on with some of these posts:
I have a very serious complaint to make about Scott Pakin. My complaint is that he's just too darn nice of a guy. Think about it: He spends his free time writing this amazing automatic complaint-letter generator and making it available via the Web to everyone who wants to use it. This magnanimousness sure makes the rest of us look like dissolute parvenus. Consequently, it astonishes me how people can be so imprudent as to use Scott Pakin's automatic complaint-letter generator against Scott. Surely, Scott deserves a medal of honor, not the gutless conjectures that people who complain about Scott intend to use against him. I suspect that such people are trampling into the mud all that is fine and noble and beautiful. That's a reasonable suspicion because only a disdainful pipsqueak could possibly dislike Scott; he's really a fantastic person whom anyone in his right mind would be honored to know. Not only has Scott produced lots of useful programs and unique artwork, but he's also smart, likable, and kind. That's why it's so surprising that someone could be so discourteous as to complain about him. Such people indisputably make me think that they display the paranoid malice that is the hallmark of true serfism. In summary, Scott Pakin is an upstanding citizen and decent human being, and it's terrible that there are pugnacious, unreasonable sophisters in this world who would stoop so low as to use Scott's own program against him.
What I offer here is an involved yet detached look at Mr. Ubik 42, Esq.'s zingers. Perhaps time, further study, and more reflection will either modify or enrich the analysis offered here, but the problem of careless, pestiferous casuists serves as an excuse for Mr. 42 to express his own hostility and frustrated need for power. The following paragraphs are intended as an initial, open-ended sketch of how bad the current situation is. I'll now end this letter by reminding you that Mr. Ubik 42, Esq. has no sense of personal boundaries. That may not be the profoundest of insights to take away from such a long letter, but Mr. 42's Manichaean style of thought makes him intolerant of compromise.
What I offer here is an involved yet detached look at Mr. Ubik 42, Esq.'s zingers. Perhaps time, further study, and more reflection will either modify or enrich the analysis offered here, but the problem of careless, pestiferous casuists serves as an excuse for Mr. 42 to express his own hostility and frustrated need for power. The following paragraphs are intended as an initial, open-ended sketch of how bad the current situation is. I'll now end this letter by reminding you that Mr. Ubik 42, Esq. has no sense of personal boundaries. That may not be the profoundest of insights to take away from such a long letter, but Mr. 42's Manichaean style of thought makes him intolerant of compromise.
It works much better if you first search-replace "letter" with "post". Who writes all these letters, anyway? Plus, it makes you feel you are writing the darn thing, since you actually put some effort into it.
Excuse me for not being more eloquent ubik42 but I didn't sleep much last night. I've seen the company you keep and don't much care for your posts, there's a lot I'd really like to say to you but feel it's just a waste of time.