[Illuyankas]

amphibian, on 13 February 2012 - 03:29 AM, said:

How does misconstruing what I say in an intermittently all caps, completely non-logical and non-coherent manner get you three rep points? Oh, it's because you've hit upon the magic meme of me hating women.

Never mind that at least three of my posts about this subject are in response to those by a male forumite. No, the meme says I only disagree with women. Don't worry about all the times I've supported or recognized achievements by forumites and people of all ages, genders and approaches to life. No, the meme says I think women can't accomplish anything. Toss out the window any possibility of me viewing friendship as an immensely valuable relationship that can exist separately from or even within romantic ones. No, the meme says I view women as dumb tools for fucking.

You can climb off your high horse and go back to your "I'm going to make myself feel good by ranting incoherently and with great gusto" all caps with the calm that calling me a misogynistic shithead achieved.

Macros has the right of it. There's a certain amount of shit you put up with in real life and on the forums and once it goes past that, exit stage left as you tell the shit-spewers what they're up to.

Adios.

*Exeunt stage left in melodramatic tears, shunned by literal horde of female forum members who clearly only have you on Ignore because of your excellent progressive views and posts proving you and your assumptions correct and that you're not a hypocrite incapable of self-reflection or the possibility that you might possibly be incorrect in some fashion, obviously*

[JLV]

I heard people had strong opinions about stuff, once.

[Loki]

There is a park directly diagonal from my place and everytime the neighbourhood kids play there they seem to think it is cool to swear. I suspect they do it because their house is too far away for their parents to hear it but then again perhaps it's just how they usually speak (you never know these days).

Anyway, yet again I am privvy to the sounds of minors screaming four-letter words as loud as they can. God bless the youth of today

[Tsundoku]

... and here was I thinking that I was supposed to be the misogynist shithead of this forum.

Amph, how dare you steal my schtick! I demand satisfaction (no, not that sort ... well, maybe after ...)! We will meet at noon (because dawn is too early), and we will consume chocolate and watch Meg Ryan films ... unto DEATH!

No, wait, that was supposed to be beer and pr0n. Oh well. Long story short, I have to up my game.

Thus: "Bitches be crazy."

Thanks to all anyway for making me chuckle and temporarily forget about my shitty day.

So, what have we all learned? Besdies how to piss each other off I mean. Yes, that's right - there's dealing with the world how it should be and dealing with the world as it is.

This post has been edited by Sombra: 13 February 2012 - 08:18 AM

[pathos]

Have managed to lose my watch!!! how am i supposed to know when it is hammer time?!

[Mezla PigDog]

Sombra, on 13 February 2012 - 08:17 AM, said:

So, what have we all learned? Besdies how to piss each other off I mean. Yes, that's right - there's dealing with the world how it should be and dealing with the world as it is.

Sombra, you have never been the forum misogynist shithead. You're our dirty old man!

I've learned many things!

1. Amphibian is a Vulcan. He has successfully purged all emotion from his decision making processes.
2. Going to 3 parties in one night isn't worth bragging about if everyone is glad when you leave.
3. I hate missing forum drama

[Loki]

Extra Special Pathos, on 13 February 2012 - 09:49 AM, said:

Have managed to lose my watch!!! how am i supposed to know when it is hammer time?!

It's ALWAYS Hammer time!

[Mrs Savagely Wishy Washy]

Adjutant Stormy, on 12 February 2012 - 10:02 AM, said:

Messing with my groove is that I tried to use the inter-user messaging service and it didn't work.

Also, the entire reason I was using it was to inquire as to how and why Miss Savage was using gray text. And to implore her to cease and desist.

Loki, on 12 February 2012 - 10:11 AM, said:

Adjutant Stormy, on 12 February 2012 - 10:02 AM, said:

Also, the entire reason I was using it was to inquire as to how and why Miss Savage was using gray text. And to implore her to cease and desist.

Seconded.

If I'm not using my phone to access the forum I tend to skip her posts because they hurt my eyes if I try to read them.

@Miss Savage - Sorry, but dark grey on black is hard to read.

Mezla PigDog, on 12 February 2012 - 10:22 AM, said:

Miss Savage, on 12 February 2012 - 09:51 AM, said:

Mezla PigDog, on 12 February 2012 - 09:12 AM, said:

Having to work with my Sunday breakfast. Arse.

grant application? i am with you, mez. I'm not yet writing one, but will have to hit the race in the not too distant future. good luck.
don't let it spoil your breakfast.

It's an absolute pain in the arse and I don't think I've ever applied for a grant where I've seen the call go out in plenty of time, it's always a last minute thing. We decided to apply for this one a week ago and the deadline is tomorrow. This is my biggest one yet, about £1million worth (if I've done the costings right......) so I'll be rather pleased with myself if it's succesful but right now I hates it!

Edit - grey text doesn't bother me, I used IP Board or the mobile skin.

In answer to all of you who have been wondering about the grey colour of the font I'm using, very simply I find white on black really hard on my eyes. Maybe my screens are all super-bright, and that's why I find it difficult to read. Or maybe my eyes are super sensitive to glare. I don't know.
I'll try an even lighter grey to accommodate for Adjutant Stormy and Loki and my oh so sensitive and selective sight.

And Mez: good luck! I'll keep my fingers crossed.

This post has been edited by Miss Savage: 13 February 2012 - 12:34 PM

[Lizradusa]

Miss Savage, you could change the skin you use. I use the grey on for example and it shows black writing on a light grey ground and is much easier on the eyes.

[Loki]

My ear is bleeding...... :S

[Shiara]

Lizra, on 13 February 2012 - 12:47 PM, said:

Miss Savage, you could change the skin you use. I use the grey on for example and it shows black writing on a light grey ground and is much easier on the eyes.

I use the same skin as Lizra (which, incidentally, makes the lighter grey even harder to read! )

[Tsundoku]

Loki, on 13 February 2012 - 12:52 PM, said:

My ear is bleeding...... :S

Stop listening to Justin Beiber then.

[Loki]

Sombra, on 13 February 2012 - 01:47 PM, said:

Loki, on 13 February 2012 - 12:52 PM, said:

My ear is bleeding...... :S

Stop listening to Justin Beiber then.

Harsh, Sombra. Harsh.

You cut me deep.

[Mrs Savagely Wishy Washy]

Lizra, on 13 February 2012 - 12:47 PM, said:

Miss Savage, you could change the skin you use. I use the grey on for example and it shows black writing on a light grey ground and is much easier on the eyes.

Loki, on 13 February 2012 - 12:52 PM, said:

My ear is bleeding...... :S

Shiara, on 13 February 2012 - 12:55 PM, said:

Lizra, on 13 February 2012 - 12:47 PM, said:

Miss Savage, you could change the skin you use. I use the grey on for example and it shows black writing on a light grey ground and is much easier on the eyes.

I use the same skin as Lizra (which, incidentally, makes the lighter grey even harder to read! )

Ahhh- the skin. It didn't even occur to me to change the skin. Despite the fundamentally flawed approach of changing my font colour rather than everybody else's. To tell the truth, it didn't make any difference at all on my eyes because mostly, when I read posts I don't read mine. However entertaining I think they are.


.........and here we go: Miss Savage posts white!

(Loki- be glad I didn't use aquamarine. That makes your eyes pop right out of their sockets.)

This post has been edited by Miss Savage: 13 February 2012 - 02:25 PM

[QuickTidal]

Strangely enough AIJ, the most sound advice comes from Macros, whom I agree with entirely.

Amph made some decent points about how teenagers (in this specific case teenage girls) allow their hormones to run their lives without restraint. There is no proper thought involved in the things that teenagers do, it is nearly all passionate, all or nothing, I hate you/I love you first class D-R-A-M-A. It always has been this way and always will be this way.

- It's just a formal, not her wedding. It's NOT as big a deal as folk seem to say it is.

- Formals NEVER last that long anyways, so unless she assumed they were heading out to the Chock'lit shop after for a malted and a maybe a movie I don't see the issue with AIJ being double booked on that night. As long as she arrives home safe after the night begins to wane, he is free to go where he wishes.

- To point out I speak with experience on the subject. I was dating a girl when my HS formal rolled round and mere weeks before it occurred... we broke up. So my ex-gf (and good friend) came with me as a favour. We left the formal at around ten and she actually headed off to a girls night at a friends house afterwards. The reason I wasn't annoyed: I wasn't expecting her to come home with me or anything. She accompanied me and that was VERY kind of her to do. I wasn't about to saddle her with behaving as if she were my gf and NEEDED to stick around. We had fun, we danced, we socialized and she went to a prior engagement after. Easy peasy.

- The only reason a teenage girl would expect more than that from someone escorting her is if she expected more from him. Sorry, but the way AIJ sings this particular scenario gives me the impression this girl might be interested in him and that's feeding part of her upset. I could be talking out of my ass though, so who knows. But if that is the case she ought to let him know that. If that's not the case then as long as he takes her, dances ect. and she has a good time, who cares what he does afterwards on his own time? What is he meant to do? Go home and sit on his butt watching kung fu movies? Seems silly when there is a perfectly good party to go to.

- AIJ: Arriving quite late to the party is actually supremely cool to do. By the time you get there people are already buzzed and or drunk and you walk in sober as a priest on Sunday, dressed to the nines and ready to mingle it up. Mystery-late party arriver is always cool.

In conclusion, take the girl to the formal and make sure she has a good time, dance with her, tell jokes, get along as best you can with her friends, and at the end of the night (in formal terms) escort her home to be sure she arrives safely. Treat it like the end of a day with a friend. Make sure she had a good time, and then off you go. If it's not too late (and I doubt it will be) then hit up the party.

If the party is even remotely cool it won't even get properly going till at least 11PM anyways.

I dunno, to me this shouldn't have blown up on him the way it did. It probably comes down to the formal-girl expecting more from him than a "friend" ought to in the situation, and the party-girl was annoyed he might not be coming and didn't see the reason he couldn't. A double booking on a night like this should not be an issue.

Had it been me the way I would have played it would have been to allow the formal to go on for as long as they do, and when it petered out around 10-11PM he takes the girl home and head out to the other party. There was no real call for the bent gasket, and whether the girls find out about the double booking is besides the point. If the girls found out I was double booked I'd have simply told formal-girl "Yeah, I was going to head out after to another engagement, but that depended on how long we were out for the formal." (thus saving her feelings, but letting her know that this is a "friend" thing and nothing further) and to the party-girl I'd have said "Hey, I'm probably coming to your shindig, but I've got something to do beforehand. If I come, it will be a bit later on, but if I can make it I totally will." (allowing party-girl to hope you'll come, plus adding an air of enigma to just how popular you are...it makes you mysterious).

That's how I see it anyways.

And Illy, yeah...you need to calm down sir. We get it, you like to shout and swear at people...but that's not really going to help the situation methinks.

[Centzon Totochtin]

I like how the ones getting emotional over this in this thread are the men, it amuses me greatly XD



My sleeping patterns are still screwed up... it sucks

[Loki]

QuickTidal, on 13 February 2012 - 02:50 PM, said:

- It's just a formal, not her wedding. It's NOT as big a deal as folk seem to say it is.

Does Mrs QT think her prom wasn't a big deal? Maybe you guys don't think that your Formal or your Prom means much but most of the guys and girls I know would say otherwise.

This post has been edited by Loki: 13 February 2012 - 03:22 PM

[Mezla PigDog]

I've never been to a formal or a prom or a ball. Not that I'm a social pariah (I don't think) and have never been invited to a party or anything but in my social circles they've just never happened. WHAT COULD IT MEAN?!?! Oh yeah that I'm not a wannabe Yank (who are in fact wannabe English upper classes, and nobody who you would invite to a party wants to be one of those......well apart from all the filthy money they have).

This post has been edited by Mezla PigDog: 13 February 2012 - 03:25 PM

[Tapper]

I'm really happy the Continent doesn't do proms (well, maybe they do nowadays, we now also have Halloween ). We just go out and get smashed.

[Mrs Savagely Wishy Washy]

QuickTidal, on 13 February 2012 - 02:50 PM, said:

Strangely enough AIJ, the most sound advice comes from Macros, whom I agree with entirely.
[......]

this whole issue.....smells like teen spirit!

This post has been edited by Miss Savage: 13 February 2012 - 03:45 PM