Radio:
>>>What's all this picking on Tai now. From what I've seen she is no more prone to giving an opinion than anybody else here. The fact that she is a regular at UKA doesn't mean anything. I am too...well maybe...irregular.<<<
That makes no sense, Gary. Everyone is, as you say, entitled to their opinion so if tai says something, others therefore are entitled to say something back. She chose to attack maxwell and the others that responded to this thread and they have had their say in reply. Are you denying them this freedom? Ever decreasing circles.
And it has nothing to do with her or you or anybody else using uka. I made that reference after seeing her start a thread (as maxwell as done here) about someone she took a dislike to (see below). Hence my response about her lecturing us.
Tai:
>>Hey Story in disguise!! again.<<
I assume you mean 'stormy in disguise!! again.'
Er, if I was in disguise, I wouldn't be using the name 'stormy', would I?
>>At least I use a real name!<<
What, like tai is your real name? Why don't you show an email addy?
>>Put your facts where you hiding nowhere mouth is and name those I abuse on uka!<<
a) That doesn't make sense and b) I'm not hiding. My real name and email address is there for all to see ... it's a proper addy too ... provided by my ISP, unlike those who use the anon hotmail and yahoo web-based addys.
I didn't say 'abuse' I said 'insulting' (freudian slip there, perhaps).
Forgive me, but if this link isn't you insulting someone due to some perceived slight then I'm a penguin:
>>At lease there you get a decent discussion. I'm a peacemaker! Love is my middle name, it's obvious some of you don't know the meaning of the word.<<
Look, sorry to drag this on but if you get a decent discussion at uka (leasehold or freehold, heh), why on earth are you wasting your time attacking people here?
If you truly are a peacemaker, why have you entered a thread that most of us had ignored (until now) and launched an attack on maxwell and, presumeably, the two people that responded to jasper's retorts?
You didn't really expect those involved to say "sorry miss" did you?
BTW. Are you aware that the Jasper you are defending was kicked out of uka for his comments on peoples work?
At least here Jasper was (and still is) allowed a voice even if that means, from time to time, threads like this appear. Elsewhere, his threads and ones like this would have been deleted or closed thus depriving you and radio the opportunity to voice your opinions.
mwah
rofl
Stormy...stormy...stormy...
I just hate to see people who are regulars at other sites come here and be rebuked over it. Tai can take up for herself. You can take up for yourself. I'll take up for myself.
Here's a sample...
fuck off.
Oh... I cant read that link. uka is a secret society as far as reading the forums is concerned. Sometimes they throw open the doors and a password isnt necessary, sometimes they panic and clang them shut and my password DOES work, sometimes they double lock it and my password doesnt work.
How tiresome. I really cant be arsed.
Yesterdays competition, 'Who had the most deprived childhood'
Today's ' Who has the most transparent e-mail address.'
Tomorrow ' My dad's bigger than your dad.'
[%sig%]
So does this mean you have as few literary skills as does Sudge?
Well there you go! Another Pack-Mule with little other to offer other than Parrot skills to Vultures, or bird seed to verim!
*SIGH*
There was NO 'I had a worse childhood than you' competition, for my part, I was just pointing out that to use a bad childhood as a stick to wave at others doesn't really work unless your deprivation is unique, which in this case is bollocks. Deprivation in the last century was widespread.
The cheque left, Monday!
But I'll give them another $100 also if the ban that Jaques twat from publishing here! God; reading that crap is like eating a bowl poppy seeds with without a glass of water. And too many poppy seeds always gives me the runs *wink*
Ah, but you see Missi, Tai's son having a deprived childhood is a reason for us to feel sorry for him and gives him wisdom not permitted to the likes of us. But in Tai's world, Missi having grown up without a father is the 'reason you are so off the wall then'.
Oh, I love people who are consistent in their reasoning.
I believe the 'amnesty' IS intact, it doesn't preclude open, honest discussion.
We can't tip toe around this forum afraid that our every word is going to be construed as abusive. There is a responsibility on the part of the reader to leave their guns in their holsters too.
I don't believe I've said anything to provoke an abusive fight.
I'm sick to death with this 'victim culture' - it seems nobody is willing to take responsibility for their actions anymore - there's always some reason or excuse. I've had my share of it, let me tell you, but I don't need to wear my problems and experiences like a badge, and I always resent others who do so. Maybe they think it gives them some sort of validation, or to allow them to act or behave in a certain way, or adds to their perceived artistic integrity - that's all bollocks.
I just find it all a bit embarassing. Sort of sub-literate scrapping of the kind I used to cross the playground and talk to my English teacher about red wine and Oscar Wilde to avoid.
Missi - I thought that Tai was being a hypocrite mentioning her son's experience and then blasting yours.
Yes the amnesty is still working - but I have no idea why people log onto a website to scrap about and play one-upmanship on the 'I had a hard time o meter' or the 'you said this, then I said that, then you said this' game.
I actually don't find missi's posts too bothersome as I know where I stand with them and he is, at least, literate, at best, funny, at worst, brutal.
I ignore any thread or post that has smiley faces or raspberries or whatever it is people use punctuation for these days.
It makes me feel a bit seedy.
Hmmmm...just checked that Jasperkiller boy out! Naughty little UKA hacker he be! I wonder if he sees me under there watching all the moves? Errrr.....J.K., your cyberferret is dead btw...can I post it back now....))))))...CATCH....(((((((
ENJOY AND SMILE :-)
Jasper. I'd find a direct threat from Elma fudd more intimidating. :) There's about as much chance of your threats affecting me as there is Tony receiving this $200 donation. We're waaiiiiting!! ;)
As you probably know, Fergal, Wittgenstein confirmed what Zen Buddhists have always maintained - language can never be trusted to reliably express our thoughts; hence writing is an art not a science. Since on these thread we don't have the luxury of tone of voice and body language I think that emoticons are very useful and in no way 'seedy'. Still I'm starting to realise that some other people think like you and I'm slowly phasing them out - a pity though. (would have used a sad face)
There are a couple of other forums (fora?) that I use where people have signatures and quotations and also cut and paste other people's comments, sometimes by the time I've got to the bit where they are actually talking a post that takes up four inches of screen turns out to be one sentence.
I don't care for emoticons myself - if you can't communicate with language, you're not much of a writer. I don't mind indicators of tone such as *winks* or *grins* because I think it is sometimes hard to tell with those of us who are deadpan whether we are serious or not.
I'd hate to read some of these posts if there was a way of actually sensing body language (and likewise, I'd hate for people to be reading mine if they could really tell how fucked off I get sometimes)
Come on you bold pedants, is the plural of forum really forums or fora?
Author: Tai (---.access.as9105.com)
Date: 04-13-05 00:01
And as for you maxwell, so being abusive is a way to get Jasper to be nice is it.
rofl
Tai
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No, Tai, I just don't like the prick
Jasper if reading my work gives you the runs, why do you read it; do you like having the shits? You should read my latest post; 'the awakening', that should really have you shitting your rods.
GO SHAG A SHEEP< SHEEPSHAGGER!!!!
I strongly support the Jasper-fuck-off lobby.
Jon, your raising my very upseting occasion with a new member on uka who rated a sonnet of mine 5, and who by the way, apologised to me 3 three times, and by the way, this happened as you can see, several months ago and has not happened since, just shows firstly that I am a peacemaker and believer in loving rather than hating and 2ndly your sad immaturity. Insulting someone is abuse!! didn't you know that? I don't fight on uka, I have many friends there, that's your problem really innit?lol
As for the rest of you dribblers of twisting tongues. Do you really think being offensive is going to make you better people or writers! I was trying to get to know this site as a potential outlet for my work. We are all entitled to place our work at more than one writers site, I presume. I object to seeing anyone being ridiculed, humiliated and bullied verbally, as some here do on a regular basis. I am entitled to my opinion. I also think that you describing my son's childhood as deprived is sad in the extreme.
He is a fine healthy, happy, intelligent boy. Just one without a father, which I think most would agree would be the preference of any child. I raise my children on my own. I come across bullies a great deal of the time, women alone with children suffer this. It is a fact. People sickeningly, attack (in the real sence of the word) minority groups and any vulnerable people. It is a sad and shameful fact of life. I have only found this in the past 3 years of my single life. A big shock, but I deal with it, whenever it occurs! Cus I'm an Adult. Some of you younger people here may find yourself in the same position one day.
Thanks flash my name is Roberta, Bobby to my friends and the reason I have not put my email address should be obvious in the current climate of viciousness. It is a simple precaution any sensible single woman or parent would take.
I really for the people running this site.
And icons can diffuse a potentially explosive situation.imo. And I don't care who likes or hates them! It makes no difference to me or should it them.
You are quite welcome to your precious little haven, but be very careful about ridicule, it will just come back and bite you!!! We always get back what we put out 10 fold usually. Only way for some to learn.
Smile children, last posting here by
Tai
>> ...one without a father, which I think most would agree would be the preference of any child... <<
REALLY?
Roberta, your posts reveal a bitter woman. Not every man is a bastard you know, any more than every woman is a bitch.
Your reason for not posting your email holds no water. My email is there for everyone to see, (though it wasn't always on my posts, it was always visible on the site for those that wanted it), but I have only ever received 1 or 2 nasty emails, and that was 4 yrs ago. I think most here would agree that if anyone was going to get vindictive email, it would almost certainly be me. It hasn't happened.
Fake politeness aside, I'm really pleased to read that was your last posting. I normally try to be welcoming and tolerant, but sometimes it is just genuinely nice to see the back of someone.
Andrew, the plural of forum has been accepted very widely as 'forums'. Whether this is acceptable to the OED I don't know, but even they bow to common usage eventually.
>> ...one without a father, which I think most would agree would be the preference of any child... <<
I've just asked my son and he says he's quite happy having a dad thanks.
Does it not always seem that those who complain of being bullied are often most bullysome in their own way?
[%sig%]
As for the rest of you dribblers of twisting tongues. Do you really think being offensive is going to make you better people or writers!
wow. contradiction city.
(rofl)
He's suggesting you and Andrew unfairly hounded Tai I guess, a al Hawthorne... but I don't remember Hester Prynne flinging abuse all over the place at people either
Mississippi thank you for pointing out my error, I obviously meant that any child would prefer having a father. I was with my husband for 23 years and we loved eachother very very much. He was a great dad and I love men generally. So you and your little gang are completely off the track as I previously stated. Emily if you have anything to do with this site, I wouldn't want to be part of it anyway. People like you should be none judgemental and keep some sort of order, which you obviously are not and do not.
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