USMB Coffee Shop IV

[saveliberty]

Stat, you are making generalizations based on a single poster. No one expects you to have to defend yourself in the CS. R.D. gets it too, that is why the posts were deleted. Hope you can see that and accept your lifetime fate as a CS member.

 

[Statistikhengst]

No.

 

[saveliberty]

Well that makes my day less happy.

 

[kaz]

No.

So what are you looking for exactly? Was it one poster or more? I already asked you that.

Factually BTW, I have replied to your posts and repped you in the CS and have never gotten a reply from you once. I have had regular and nothing but positive discussions with posters like Jake, Pogo and Mertex in the CS that I rarely agree with in other forums.

 

[Spoonman]

Safe travels and cheaper gas for BBD!

Been thinking about the board changes. It is the people that make the board, not a format. It wouldn't be USMB if some of you choose to leave. Try to hang in there. For those that do, we will probably have some new friends as others who actually like this format, that is used elsewhere, find us.

I am going to give the board about one more month, but the attitude outside of the lounge has become very, very raw. Members have made death threats on other members. The level of personal attacks has skyrocketed and a startling lack of the most basic of human decency is showing in many members. It is very, very ugly, and frankly, I have more important things to do in life. So, if the board stays this ugly, I'll be gone.

When a member writes THREE TIMES in a row on a thread that two other members should go kill themselves, and that member, after having been reported, is not banned, then something is seriously wrong with USMB. Seriously. That happened yesterday and the offender is here today, posting away.

That is just plain old batshit crazy. And an excellent way to completely destroy an online forum like this one.

Kind of saw that coming

 

[Statistikhengst]

Safe travels and cheaper gas for BBD!

Been thinking about the board changes. It is the people that make the board, not a format. It wouldn't be USMB if some of you choose to leave. Try to hang in there. For those that do, we will probably have some new friends as others who actually like this format, that is used elsewhere, find us.

I am going to give the board about one more month, but the attitude outside of the lounge has become very, very raw. Members have made death threats on other members. The level of personal attacks has skyrocketed and a startling lack of the most basic of human decency is showing in many members. It is very, very ugly, and frankly, I have more important things to do in life. So, if the board stays this ugly, I'll be gone.

When a member writes THREE TIMES in a row on a thread that two other members should go kill themselves, and that member, after having been reported, is not banned, then something is seriously wrong with USMB. Seriously. That happened yesterday and the offender is here today, posting away.

That is just plain old batshit crazy. And an excellent way to completely destroy an online forum like this one.

Kind of saw that coming

Yes, you did, and I echoed your sentiments.

 

[Spoonman]

Not going to hold my breath on on the disagree issue. It will stay in place until they realize disagree runs off a few noobs.

CK got back to me. Says treating the disagree like negs in the Lounge (CS) is a good idea, keep this a nasty free zone.

I wish somebody had enough persuasive ability to convince admin that the red X should just be eliminated everywhere. I do think it is contributing to the board being way more uncivil, most especially since it is unlimited, but I have been wrong in the past and I could be wrong now. But thanks for doing that. At least it might help keep the CS the place it was intended to be.

Those redexes had nothing to do with R.D.'s behaviour today.

I just want to be very, very clear about this, Foxfyre. I posted here this morning (east coast time) about how raw things have gotten in USMB. I am not the first person to do this here.

Spoonman has noted it, 007 noted it, SaveLiberty has noted it, you have noted it, just to mention four members. I stated very specifically some things that are happening outside of the lounge, where certain members are making death threats - and/or simply wishing for the death of posters on this board. To me, this is totally, and I mean, totally unacceptable. As a matter of fact, one member put out a thread about 5 or 6 hours ago advocating euthanizing all Democrats.

Is there anyone here who thinks that making death threats in USMB is a good idea or even half-way in the zone of basic human decency?

As a result of my posting, R.D. decided to attack me quite directly, something I have never done to a member in the CS, ever. I decided to let R.D. know that I thought that is pure bullshit. Because it was pure bullshit.

Spoonman can write that things are getting rough and R.D. doesn't attack him.

007 can write that things are getting rough and R.D. doesn't attack him.

SaveLiberty can write that things are getting rough and R.D. doesn't attack him.

You write that things are getting rough and R.D. doesn't attack you.

But as I essentially issued the same sentiments, R.D. attacked me and she also blatantly lied and said that my postings are pornographic. This is patently untrue.

Interesting to note is that the four of you are Righties and I am a Leftie.

I just find it totally informative and yet sad that Righties can let off steam here, but if a Leftie like me does it, all of a sudden, all hell breaks loose. So much for the idea that all members are treated here equally. They are not. And R.D. did not apologize to me. Instead, she apologized for her part in it all, whatever in the hell that is supposed to mean. R.D., you should be ashamed of yourself right down to your shoes for what you did and for the cowardly, half-assed apology.

What I have learned today is that Lefties really aren't as welcome here in the CS as they think. We are tolerated, but really welcome we are not. What a shame.

Actually I'm left handed

 

[kaz]

if a Leftie like me does it, all of a sudden, all hell breaks loose

Actually I'm left handed

Wow, how can you tell? Honestly, you all look the same to me. I'm a bit embarrassed, when I used left handed spoons, they must have just been appalled by my ignorance. They seem to work the same though. This is very confusing.

 

[Derideo_Te]

Wow Kaz. $80k???? I cannot in my wildest dreams imagine having that kind of money to spend on anything that is enjoyed for a day and then it's over with and done.

I could pay it if I had to, but I don't see how it's worth that much money for one weekend. It was fun, but I bet saveliberty's $4K one was just as much fun.

Neither Hombre or I or our parents had any money when we got married. I did have a church wedding with flowers, music, vocalist, and a reception afterward at my great aunt's house--no wedding dress as there was not money for that but I didn't care at all--and I think the whole thing cost maybe $50 by the time we gave an honorarium to the preacher.

Our wedding was Christmas Eve so it coincided with the in-laws annual Christmas Eve party. Probably spent the most on the 3 cabs to and from the ceremony itself which was just immediate family and best man and maid of honor as I recall.

 

[Ringel05]

Okay, it's been one of those days, hot, no one is cooperating with my impatience........ etc. Seems to be happening to many here today.......

Stat, I think you're being a little oversensitive, while we all have had minor disagreements and a few full blown spats from time to time in the CS we've managed to make it work. As for what happens on the open board..... hell, it's election season. Just wait for the insanity of 2016........
Oh and I advocate the euthanizing of the entire human race...... It'll solve all our problems and conflicts.......

 

[Spoonman]

Just imagine what the boards will be like as the
November elections draw near

 

[Ringel05]

if a Leftie like me does it, all of a sudden, all hell breaks loose

Actually I'm left handed

Wow, how can you tell? Honestly, you all look the same to me. I'm a bit embarrassed, when I used left handed spoons, they must have just been appalled by my ignorance. They seem to work the same though. This is very confusing.

I'm amphibious..... Wait. That doesn't sound right.

 

[Derideo_Te]

And for today's history lesson:

On this day in history, September 2, 1969 America's first automatic teller machine (ATM) was opened for business at Chemical Bank in Rockville Center, NY. and the banking system has never been the same since. Slow to catch on at first, by the 1980's the machines had replaced the need for bank tellers to receive deposits, cash checks, or transfer money between accounts. They have expanded into hospitals and gas stations and convenience stores and cruise ships and malls and shopping centers and are as indispensable to most people as cell phones and e-mail. Even the banks have ATM machines outside so you don't have to go inside to do a banking transaction.

Coupled with on line banking, direct deposit, automatic bill pay, and debit machines everywhere, many of us rarely go into a bank anymore and may go weeks or months without ever writing a check. It is inevitable that we are moving toward being an entirely cashless society. (No, I don't mean broke though there is that too. )

The younger generation can't remember a time when we didn't have these machines. But I bet some of us are old enough to remember the real fear and trepidation we felt when we first stuck our ATM card into one of the machines to make a cash withdrawal, and even more so the first time we put our pay check into the envelope and stuck it into the machine as a deposit. It did take some emotional adjustment to learn to trust them.

Used to be that on payday there was always a line at the bank at lunch time trying to cash checks so that you could do the shopping on the way home. My own bank was one of the first to install an ATM and I can recall how nice it was to just walk past the line, stick in my card and walk out with my cash. It took all of 2 minutes as opposed to wasting my entire lunch hour.

 

[kaz]

Oh and I advocate the euthanizing of the entire human race...... It'll solve all our problems and conflicts.......

Yes, we are not prejudice, we hate everyone equally regardless of whatever particular group they belong to!

 

[Spoonman]

I think I'm going to go start a thread just so I can get the OP title next to my name

 

[Derideo_Te]

Just imagine what the boards will be like as the
November elections draw near

There will be cyber bloodshed out there.

We will hunker down here in the CS until the screaming dies down.

Then we will peer through the virtual smoke and dust and see who is left standing.

 

[kaz]

I think I'm going to go start a thread just so I can get the OP title next to my name

It's cool, isn't it?

 

[Statistikhengst]

Just imagine what the boards will be like as the
November elections draw near

There will be cyber bloodshed out there.

We will hunker down here in the CS until the screaming dies down.

Then we will peer through the virtual smoke and dust and see who is left standing.

 

[Darkwind]

IT appears that yet another star has been caught in that scandal of hacking the cloud that revealed A-list stars in the nude.

 

[Statistikhengst]

Okay, it's been one of those days, hot, no one is cooperating with my impatience........ etc. Seems to be happening to many here today.......

Stat, I think you're being a little oversensitive, while we all have had minor disagreements and a few full blown spats from time to time in the CS we've managed to make it work. As for what happens on the open board..... hell, it's election season. Just wait for the insanity of 2016........
Oh and I advocate the euthanizing of the entire human race...... It'll solve all our problems and conflicts.......

It's simpler than that. My patience with trolls has run out.