^ well, that wasn't the point Grumps was making (his post implies there was a "stronger" period of discourse), but I ain't asking for anyone to be polite or nice. I realize that this board is mostly populated by arrogant 20-somethings and I don't want to act gentlemanly all the time either. I'm just saying that the frequency and type of personal attacks is getting old and impeding conversation.

I mean if you want to follow your argument with an insult that's one thing "You are wrong because X,Y, and Z. Dumbass." But moron's comment about hooksaw seemed just designed to piss him off for no good reason. I don't see the function in that.

but hey, hooksaw is free now, so whatever.

7/30/2008 8:06:55 AM

I think the main point here is that hooksaw has no right to get angry at people for personal attacks because they are the only thing he excels at on this forum.

7/30/2008 8:13:22 AM

Honestly, I'd imagine hooksaw looking more like a much older Timothy McVeigh.

[Edited on July 30, 2008 at 11:34 AM. Reason : em]

7/30/2008 11:33:19 AM

okay, im just full of reversals now.

I couldnt see the DICK PIC at work, because its blocked by our firewall. i never looked at that thread at home, where i would have seen it.

so, the mods did NOT censor anything, and basically, i'm a retard



getting about time to lock this fucking thread, already





[Edited on July 30, 2008 at 1:05 PM. Reason : ]

7/30/2008 1:04:51 PM

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"I mean if you want to follow your argument with an insult that's one thing "You are wrong because X,Y, and Z. Dumbass." But moron's comment about hooksaw seemed just designed to piss him off for no good reason."

I don't see how it's different. Reasonable, mature people (no pun intended) can handle a little tacked-on jab.

7/30/2008 1:51:45 PM

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"But moron's comment about hooksaw seemed just designed to piss him off for no good reason. "

Even if it was, who cares? A internet message board comment meant to upset someone? Oh no, call the press!

Like Grumpy said:

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"It is, and I want to make this perfectly clear, the fucking internet."

Also the saying "If you can't take it, don't dish it out" applies.
And to a broader degree, if you can't take it, don't talk politics on the internet.

7/30/2008 2:43:41 PM

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"And if you pay attention to the TSB (which, I'm guessing you kinda don't), you can tell that hooksaw has held a certain sort of disdain for kw for awhile now. Now, I don't think that a PHd holding professor of econ should necessarily be given a free pass on the authority scale for anything econ he were to post in here, but, I'm generally going to take it as sound. Not ole hooksaw. He's fucking acted like kw's professor status didn't mean shit. And for that, he can fuck off. Bitch."

While we have had a back and forth - I think hooksaw was being genuine when he said

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"Ah, an honest man--my respect for you has increased tenfold!"

Mostly he makes fun of my spelling which is legit. In complete honesty, the lack of concern over spelling was one of the first things that attracted me to economics as an undergrad. Sometimes, I think econ PhD programs are full of dyslexic would be lawyers.

7/30/2008 2:51:38 PM

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"moron: Honestly, I'd imagine hooksaw looking more like a much older Timothy McVeigh."

nah... too sinister.

this is how i picture hooksaw:

7/30/2008 3:11:34 PM

^^ Thank you, professor. You are the man.

^ Not even close, schmoe.

In any event, this thread has had 58 posts and 562 views in two days--and I never even posted in it until now.



If some of you don't think you have an obsession with me, you're fucking bananas. Every thread ends in hooksaw derangement syndrome anymore.

7/30/2008 3:20:18 PM

i hear ya...

but i don't think "hooksaw derangement syndrome" means what you think it means.

you can still get help. it's never too late

DSM-IV Axis II: http://psyweb.com/Mdisord/jsp/mental.jsp#pd






[Edited on July 30, 2008 at 3:34 PM. Reason : ]

7/30/2008 3:31:36 PM

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"If some of you don't think you have an obsession with me"

Hate to burst your ego bubble there pops, but there are issues rather larger than your douchebaggery at play here. Namely, the place of personal attacks in the Soap Box and the enforcement of rules.

If this discussion happens to allow for many opportunities to dump on you, all the better.

7/30/2008 4:14:14 PM

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"Hate to burst your ego bubble there pops, but there are issues rather larger than your douchebaggery at play here. Namely, the place of personal attacks in the Soap Box and the enforcement of rules. If this discussion happens to allow for many opportunities to dump on you, all the better."

Does your alcohol-addled brain even have the capacity anymore to see what you did there, FrumpyFOP? You'll pardon me if I throw the bullshit flag on your feigned concern about personal attacks.

7/30/2008 6:17:45 PM

hooksaw, don't you have better things to do? you know, like shopping at lunchtime in your pajamas and complaining because Otis Redding is hurting your fragile ears?

7/30/2008 6:58:56 PM

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"Does your alcohol-addled brain even have the capacity anymore to see what you did there, FrumpyFOP?"

I think you misunderstood. I am supporting personal attacks in the Soap Box, when used in the right circumstances. I think it's obvious from my posting style that I am a big fan of insults, especially profanity-ladened ones. Some people in this thread have suggested that moron and others should have been suspended for "attacking" you, thereby getting you riled up enough to throw up a picture of a small penis. I'm even going to skip over, for a moment, the ramifications of your supply of small penis pictures.

The point is, if those people had their way, it would set a sad precedence for the Soap Box that would ultimately leave it a place very unfriendly to me -- so unfriendly, in fact, that I would probably leave it. As it happens, I like the Soap Box. I don't want to leave. Therefore, the issue of protecting personal attacks (when coupled with a substantiative post) is important to me, or at least as important as anything pertaining to the Wolfweb can be.

So, OK, you completely missed the point of my last post (and indeed most of my other posts) in this thread. And because you missed the point you thought you had me pwned. And because of all that, you get to look like an even bigger fool. So I thank you, hooksaw, for once again doing my work for me.

[Edited on July 30, 2008 at 8:04 PM. Reason : And as much as I enjoy drinking it's rare that you'll find me drunk at 4 in the afternoon on a Wed.]

7/30/2008 8:03:29 PM

that's a shame. I plan on being drunk at 4pm on a thursday.

7/31/2008 2:40:45 PM

^^^ FTR, they weren't "pajamas," they were lounge pants. I simply value personal comfort--and I don't mock you for the Castro cap and Birkenstocks you undoubtedly wear, neckbeard.

Besides, you can always put on a little fashion show of the latest in hippy-communist couture for your comrades. I mean, isn't it about time that you met your fuck buddies down at Cup A Joe on Hillsborough to rant about Bush's wiretaps or some shit?

^^ Blah, blather, slobber. You're a fucking Internet blowhard--STFU.

Hi, I'm FrumpyFOP and I take about ten times as many words to say half as much as anybody else! I'm a suitable case for treatment!

^ You wanna get high? Take about half a bottle of this:



[Edited on July 31, 2008 at 4:28 PM. Reason : ]

7/31/2008 4:24:59 PM

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"You're a fucking Internet blowhard--STFU. "

the fucking irony

the fun thing is, you'll froth at the mouth to reply to this

7/31/2008 4:45:31 PM

^ No frothing here, PoleTracks. But there's probably something other than froth in your mouth: man gravy.

7/31/2008 4:50:02 PM

Damn, dude, you're just inexcusably nasty. Do you realize that?

Why do you have to have to take every mundane argument to some homosexual/man-rape extreme? I mean, really, WTF is wrong with you?

Did you spend too much time in the prison system?

Having a hard time adjusting to society, are you?

Seriously.

Seek help.




[Edited on July 31, 2008 at 5:06 PM. Reason : ]

7/31/2008 5:03:39 PM

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"you have to have to take every mundane argument to some homosexual/man-rape extreme"

I was never able to really pinpoint it until I saw this post, but this is exactly why I don't mind and even laugh occasionally at others trading insults and I find hooksaw so low class.

[Edited on July 31, 2008 at 5:21 PM. Reason : d]

7/31/2008 5:20:25 PM

I'll ignore the continued homoerotic nature of hooksaw's posts, just to point out that he completely ignored the thorough nature with which I trounced him earlier.

"Yeah, um, well, you use a lot of words, so...you suck! BURN!!!!"

8/1/2008 4:31:04 AM