Insults and abuse

[gman]

Originally Posted by Fondueset

If you look at Adrian's last post it's pretty clear he thinks of punishment as something negative!

It's important to respect the ideas and values of weird, alien, europeanish cultures.
You gotta remember these people were raised with stuff like croissants and humiliating little coffee cups that nobody can drink from without looking silly.
Plus they got a lot of old buildings and statues and cheese and weird little cars and art and shit like that. Its made em all sensitive, so they like burst into song at the sight of a flock of swallows or start sobbing uncontrollably when they see some kid with a balloon.

I really have to hand it to em for keeping it together as good as they do, what with what passes for normal over there.

Rep sent!!!

[naiad]

Originally Posted by Fondueset

If you look at Adrian's last post it's pretty clear he thinks of punishment as something negative!

It's important to respect the ideas and values of weird, alien, europeanish cultures.
You gotta remember these people were raised with stuff like croissants and humiliating little coffee cups that nobody can drink from without looking silly.
Plus they got a lot of old buildings and statues and cheese and weird little cars and art and shit like that. Its made em all sensitive, so they like burst into song at the sight of a flock of swallows or start sobbing uncontrollably when they see some kid with a balloon.

I really have to hand it to em for keeping it together as good as they do, what with what passes for normal over there.

Maybe that is my problem - coming from the land of cream teas and garden parties, I am just not prepared for discussing important topics.

[Oldsarge]

I dunno. Since it's also the land of football hooligans and punk rock perhaps you just ought to pick up a crow bar, get good and drunk and let the good times roll? :

[Adrian]

Fondueset: Plus they got a lot of old buildings

Don't tell me, my house is 400 years old. You're lucky I was feeling sensitive as I would have gone harder on you Saved by the flight of a butterfly, who would have thought it!

You have to real careful of what you write to us European croisantiers because we sometimes get irate, I mean literirate, and that can be fatal:

Fondueset again: Oh yeah?! Well. Columbus was a jerk! So there.

NOOOOOoooooo.....
The cry rolled out over the distant Spanish plains and into space beyond, pushing against the subconscious of a thousand alien races on a hundred nearby planets. Their skins prickled, and not knowing why, they turned, looking around in vague apprehensive fear as the very foundation of existence rippled in shock.

"How could he know?" whispered Adrian, glassy eyed. "How could he know that Columbus was my secret hero, the indirect creator of bubblegum, rootbeer and West Side Story - the very essence of my being, the reason of existence and source of my contentment? How could he know?" he whispered into strange empty halls. He then realized what he was up against. He Who Spoke - the Unnamable Formless One, the Defier Of All was the very essence of life, no other could be Macho At All Temperatures. And knowing this total absolute unexplainable reality, Adrian vowed never to insult or abuse anybody anymore in his life, not even with the truth. If one had to speak the truth to straighten someone out, then better speak it sweetly, (after all, he was European).

Having experienced such a drastic disruption of life's values, it was time to take a new direction, so he flipped a coin to decide whether he would be a Jehova's Witness or a Hindu aesthetic. He threw the coin up into the air, and while it spun in the sunlight, time seemed to slow as he realized his whole future would determined by laws of order and entropy, and that the importance of what was going to happen would be unrepeatable in all of history. (Well, at least in his own short history.) Again, those countless aliens felt this second pulse in their collective unconscious and looked skywards. Again, not knowing why, they stopped all their activities, whether milking wella juice from sentient lichen or discussing abstact mathematics on the tips of the hairs of beryllium warriors.

The coin fell.

On it's edge.

And taking that to be a clear sign from God he decided to become an existentialist. It was the first step of many that eventually led to the Pathless Void, the realization of the nature of life, the knowing that the reason for existence is just that, the reason for existence.

Our far away friends, now feeling that everything had fallen into place, picked up where they left off and shuffled their feet in the daily dance of life. And we as freedivers will once more plunge into the glory of the sea, forgetting our little lives and rejoicing in the gift of existence.

[azapa]

Originally Posted by Fondueset

... humiliating little coffee cups that nobody can drink from without looking silly.

are you imagining for one minute that Americans don't look silly drinking from those 2 liter biggie sized cups of coke whilst waddling around Walmart??

[gman]

Originally Posted by azapa

are you imagining for one minute that Americans don't look silly drinking from those 2 liter biggie sized cups of coke whilst waddling around Walmart??

Yeah, but they're probably diet coke. To counteract our biggie fries and biggie burger we just had for lunch....

[Fondueset]

Dude, the supermarket down the street, on a busy day, is like an Heironymous Basch painting. You have no idea!

[azapa]

whilst i'm bashin': how do they make you guys jeans that big? I mean seriously, they must use some kind of scaffolding. Do they sell per square yard or by weight?

[gman]

Originally Posted by azapa

whilst i'm bashin': how do they make you guys jeans that big? I mean seriously, they must use some kind of scaffolding. Do they sell per square yard or by weight?

Omar the Tent Maker has a new drive through service chain here in the states. Waddle in, Waddle out. Free bon-bons while you wait...

Dang I just grossed myself out! I have to go for a run.

[azapa]

Originally Posted by gman

Dang I just grossed myself out!....

I have just read from the BEGINNING of this thread (now, there's and idea!!) and realized it is not a POST YOUR INSULTS HERE thread, more of a INSULTS ARE BAD thread.

I kinda' prefer the first interpretation, and the dumb outlet that this thread had become in the last 3 pages

let it roll??

[gman]

I took it as more of a "most people don't conciously try to insult, it just happens because writing makes it difficult to convey emotions and with folk from all over the world it is even tougher" thread. I got tied up in the middle of a misunderstanding due to use of "smiley faces" a while back. It was kind of tense and ugly for a bit, but I think everyone is grown up and mature enough to be over it by now. I know I certainly am. It is pretty amusing how the thread has evolved though....

[Erik]

Originally Posted by azapa

let it roll??

Vaminose amigo!

[Jon]

Since we're talking about fat Americans, I recall that Viking, a Swedish drysuit maker, came out with a new size run a few years ago. They called it the "American cut". That means the suits are the same height as their normal suits, just wider!

Jon

[azapa]

Originally Posted by Jon

Since we're talking about fat Americans, I recall that Viking, a Swedish drysuit maker, came out with a new size run a few years ago. They called it the "American cut". That means the suits are the same height as their normal suits, just wider!

Jon

now, strap on a cup holder either side and we're good to go....

[podge]

Originally Posted by Oldsarge

I dunno. Since it's also the land of football hooligans and punk rock perhaps you just ought to pick up a crow bar, get good and drunk and let the good times roll? :

In my misspent youth I had a 12 inch bright purple Mohican and my favourite crow bar I had sprayed white to make it easer to see the blood.
Manchester United FC forever!