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What did Thumper's Daddy say?
- Thread starter Kookamoor
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abecedarian
Well-Known Member
Foot kissing?? Ewww! I do great foot massages,but I draw the line at foot kissin'.. that's just not of Gawd 
Oh feet! Ouchie, I broke my freaking second toe about three hours ago on a wall I really should have been familiar enough not to slam it into.
Just reading the word feet makes it hurt more. How can something so darn little hurt so bad?
But FTR, because I'm so anal and always have to remark on stuff like this, the woman who used her hair on Christ's feet is only named as "an immoral woman" or "a certain sinful woman" in Luke 7:30-something. In Catholic tradition, she's fused to the Magdalene, but she could have just been some random gal per Scripture.
Just reading the word feet makes it hurt more. How can something so darn little hurt so bad?
But FTR, because I'm so anal and always have to remark on stuff like this, the woman who used her hair on Christ's feet is only named as "an immoral woman" or "a certain sinful woman" in Luke 7:30-something. In Catholic tradition, she's fused to the Magdalene, but she could have just been some random gal per Scripture.
Motokid
New Member
for slacker, sirmyk, acolyte (sorry if I spelled that wrong), and abecedarian here's the thread that kind of started this one...
http://forums.thebookforum.com/showthread.php?t=6268
It's along the same lines, but a tad more specific to critiquing a members writing.
A few of you might have very excelent thoughts and input.
http://forums.thebookforum.com/showthread.php?t=6268
It's along the same lines, but a tad more specific to critiquing a members writing.
A few of you might have very excelent thoughts and input.
Just to add my 2 scents, 2 pence, or whatever currency you maybe using.
Unfortunately there seem to be a few very rude and arrogant people on this forum. I have been here quite awhile and you always get the odd person but at the moment it numbers quite a few and their rudeness is not only directed and newbies or contained within the writers show case.
Those members here that are rude, snippy, insulting are just plain cowards and that's all there is to it. They feel brave and safe on a forum when in real life they would never dream of acting in such a manner. I'm willing to bet a large sum of hard cash that those rude and snippy people on this forum wouldn't say *boo* in person.
As Kook said, if you can't say something nice then why not say nothing at all? Are you so insecure? Can't we all just get along
There... my rant over. Nothing to see... move on!
Unfortunately there seem to be a few very rude and arrogant people on this forum. I have been here quite awhile and you always get the odd person but at the moment it numbers quite a few and their rudeness is not only directed and newbies or contained within the writers show case.
Those members here that are rude, snippy, insulting are just plain cowards and that's all there is to it. They feel brave and safe on a forum when in real life they would never dream of acting in such a manner. I'm willing to bet a large sum of hard cash that those rude and snippy people on this forum wouldn't say *boo* in person.
As Kook said, if you can't say something nice then why not say nothing at all? Are you so insecure? Can't we all just get along
There... my rant over. Nothing to see... move on!
Motokid
New Member
so then furry one....how do you respond to the way this person was treated on her first and only post?
http://forums.thebookforum.com/showthread.php?t=4671&highlight=nick
I have yet to see this kind of "snobbery", or "snippishness" or disrespect on a persons first post since I've been here.
http://forums.thebookforum.com/showthread.php?t=4671&highlight=nick
I have yet to see this kind of "snobbery", or "snippishness" or disrespect on a persons first post since I've been here.
Hmmm was a joke but maybe I was wrong. We all do wrong from time to time right?
Would you like to try dig up anything else or you done now? How does finding one case where I may have been rude ( GOSH you mean im not perfect? ) invalidate my points? I'm pretty nice to most people 95 percent of the time. Would you agree with that?
Would you like to try dig up anything else or you done now? How does finding one case where I may have been rude ( GOSH you mean im not perfect?
) invalidate my points? I'm pretty nice to most people 95 percent of the time. Would you agree with that?
Motokid
New Member
That was not a specific dig at you fuzzy face, you are not the only person who posted in that thread, and yours was not the harshest thing said...just an example of the fact that nothing new is happening around here that hasn't happened in the past. And some of the past things are worse than some of the present things you speak of.
As people come and people go, so do different, and sometimes abrasive personalities. I think this forum has a great bunch, and wide variety of people. I don't want to see things change, and I like how we, for the most part, police ourselves.
I'm not sure I would call anybody a coward here unless they flame out someone and then dissappear altogether. I give everybody the benefit of the doubt and try to work things out within the forum guidelines, and not have to have Mod. intervention, or just stomp away angry and refuse to play anymore.
I just don't see that there's a problem. Certainly not a huge problem.
Maybe I'm wrong.
Do others here think that there's a serious problem with disrespect?
As people come and people go, so do different, and sometimes abrasive personalities. I think this forum has a great bunch, and wide variety of people. I don't want to see things change, and I like how we, for the most part, police ourselves.
I'm not sure I would call anybody a coward here unless they flame out someone and then dissappear altogether. I give everybody the benefit of the doubt and try to work things out within the forum guidelines, and not have to have Mod. intervention, or just stomp away angry and refuse to play anymore.
I just don't see that there's a problem. Certainly not a huge problem.
Maybe I'm wrong.
Do others here think that there's a serious problem with disrespect?
I know you were not digging at me in person. I just get slightly irritated with the "lets dig something up nah nah nah" tactic instead of actually debating the topic in a serious manner
Sure, I have been rude in the past. Sure, in the future I maybe rude again. Nobody is perfect.... he who is without sin cast the first stone and all that. Nobody is perfect and CERTAINLY not I. That I would never claim. I do feel however that I try to treat everybody with respect and in general am not rude, snippy, or sarcastic.
There are those on the board that are, in general, rude and unpleasant to others. Not ALL the time, but enough.
Sure, I have been rude in the past. Sure, in the future I maybe rude again. Nobody is perfect.... he who is without sin cast the first stone and all that. Nobody is perfect and CERTAINLY not I. That I would never claim. I do feel however that I try to treat everybody with respect and in general am not rude, snippy, or sarcastic.
There are those on the board that are, in general, rude and unpleasant to others. Not ALL the time, but enough.
Motokid
New Member
"if there is one then I don't know what it is"
The answer is police ourselves.
Protect the newb, and stick up for those who need help.
Step in when you see something you don't like, and call it as you see it.
If nothing else it'll cause a dialog that will let the newb, or any member know that not everybody here is rude, and that they have a friend. Knowing somebodies got your back is a very reassuring thing.
Doing it behind the scenes like jenn mentioned may not work well in that it took me a few weeks to even know how to read and write pm's. I think posting it right in the thread for all to see is the best way to handle things. Get it all out in the open for all to see and comment on as needed.
Honesty. Isn't that what this is all about. If you think somebody is being rude call them on it.
The answer is police ourselves.
Protect the newb, and stick up for those who need help.
Step in when you see something you don't like, and call it as you see it.
If nothing else it'll cause a dialog that will let the newb, or any member know that not everybody here is rude, and that they have a friend. Knowing somebodies got your back is a very reassuring thing.
Doing it behind the scenes like jenn mentioned may not work well in that it took me a few weeks to even know how to read and write pm's. I think posting it right in the thread for all to see is the best way to handle things. Get it all out in the open for all to see and comment on as needed.
Honesty. Isn't that what this is all about. If you think somebody is being rude call them on it.
Motokid
New Member
"Yes, but that often doesn't work."
It's got to work better than nothing at all, or discussion it weeks, or months after the fact when things are blurry and emotions are forgotten.
trying to eradicate a mistake at the moment the mistake is made is better than trying to explain it in another thread at another time.
That's my theory and I'm stickin' to it.
It's got to work better than nothing at all, or discussion it weeks, or months after the fact when things are blurry and emotions are forgotten.
trying to eradicate a mistake at the moment the mistake is made is better than trying to explain it in another thread at another time.
That's my theory and I'm stickin' to it.