[worry]

You know which mite got heavy? The chigger that bit up BK's LOG!

[Nicodimas]

Mentalist, on 30 August 2016 - 12:47 AM, said:

I also think we're getting a mite heavy for the Inn here...

Copy.

[Malaclypse]

Captain Needa, on 24 August 2016 - 07:59 AM, said:

I need specifics.

What do you dislike?
What do you like?
What would you like to see (more of)?
Etc.

Otherwise it's a bit ...

You're new aren't you? What you need doesn't register with me. Do you have any friends here who have been here longer than you? They might remember me and can catch you up because I don't have the time, interest or energy for it. I like your standoffish attitude though, that'll be fun later

[Nicodimas]

Malaclypse, on 30 August 2016 - 01:00 AM, said:

Captain Needa, on 24 August 2016 - 07:59 AM, said:

I need specifics.

What do you dislike?
What do you like?
What would you like to see (more of)?
Etc.

Otherwise it's a bit ...

You're new aren't you? What you need doesn't register with me. Do you have any friends here who have been here longer than you? They might remember me and can catch you up because I don't have the time, interest or energy for it. I like your standoffish attitude though, that'll be fun later

Are you the Mal they keep referring too?

[Mentalist]

Malaclypse, on 30 August 2016 - 01:00 AM, said:

Captain Needa, on 24 August 2016 - 07:59 AM, said:

I need specifics.

What do you dislike?
What do you like?
What would you like to see (more of)?
Etc.

Otherwise it's a bit ...

You're new aren't you? What you need doesn't register with me. Do you have any friends here who have been here longer than you? They might remember me and can catch you up because I don't have the time, interest or energy for it. I like your standoffish attitude though, that'll be fun later

That's Sombra you're talking to. He's going through a phase...

[Mentalist]

worry, on 30 August 2016 - 12:52 AM, said:

You know which mite got heavy? The chigger that bit up BK's LOG!

Did it bite off more than it could chew?

[worry]

Yah big chunks, now his dingus looks like the Ocarina of Time.

[Slow Ben]

Mentalist, on 30 August 2016 - 01:12 AM, said:

Malaclypse, on 30 August 2016 - 01:00 AM, said:

Captain Needa, on 24 August 2016 - 07:59 AM, said:

I need specifics.

What do you dislike?
What do you like?
What would you like to see (more of)?
Etc.

Otherwise it's a bit ...

You're new aren't you? What you need doesn't register with me. Do you have any friends here who have been here longer than you? They might remember me and can catch you up because I don't have the time, interest or energy for it. I like your standoffish attitude though, that'll be fun later

That's Sombra you're talking to. He's going through a phase...

Are you kidding me? I cant keep up with that assholes name changing.


And i'm pretty sure this thread is specifically for Mal calling people different variations of cunt, and you're all just ruining it.

[Mentalist]

Slow Ben, on 30 August 2016 - 02:16 AM, said:

Mentalist, on 30 August 2016 - 01:12 AM, said:

Malaclypse, on 30 August 2016 - 01:00 AM, said:

Captain Needa, on 24 August 2016 - 07:59 AM, said:

I need specifics.

What do you dislike?
What do you like?
What would you like to see (more of)?
Etc.

Otherwise it's a bit ...

You're new aren't you? What you need doesn't register with me. Do you have any friends here who have been here longer than you? They might remember me and can catch you up because I don't have the time, interest or energy for it. I like your standoffish attitude though, that'll be fun later

That's Sombra you're talking to. He's going through a phase...

Are you kidding me? I cant keep up with that assholes name changing.


And i'm pretty sure this thread is specifically for Mal calling people different variations of cunt, and you're all just ruining it.

shhhh, you'll give the game away!

Mal is an oldish contrarian, and he's trying to stir shit up, but make his flamewar seem glorified as a crusade against the entropy and complacence that's supposedly consuming the forums. Or something.

"ruining it" requires the very randomness Mal is trying to champion in is own, weird curmudgeon-y way.

[Malaclypse]

Vengeance, on 30 August 2016 - 12:30 AM, said:

Nicodimas, on 30 August 2016 - 12:13 AM, said:

Vengeance, on 29 August 2016 - 11:19 PM, said:

As for your theory on nuclear power. With no regulation we wouldnot even have nuclear power. We would have coal power and child labor. With no regulations we would have 2 Great Lakes that are dead zones of life. We would be like China but 1000 times worse. With no government we would have strip mining in Yellowstone and the dead lands. Our forests would be a distant memory. Your utopian dream of corporations that care have never existed not nor would it ever exist. As for completion to build roads there is. The government says we are going to build this road. Companies submit bids to build the road. There bids are examined and the one that fits all of the regulatory requirements and is best price is chosen. The government doesn't own the construction companies but it does pay them to build the road. No company could have afforded to build the national highway system. Nobody but the federal government.

Go play at breitbart.

I did state "complete" deregulation, when I should have stated corporate-government collaborative based deregulation, this would be the system of using the best part of corporations to enhance the current system's to fast track technology systems that are available now.

For instance:
The forest's would be enhanced in this process! We could privatize forest systems, this way logging could get in there and minimize forest fires. This is a problem if your in the know. The money from logging would go to replanting sustainable agriculture system's that would be master planned.

It's not a utopia, by any mean's it's just a greater way for systems to work together, then by placing so many scenarios as lose lose. Enhanced co-operate collaborative programs

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No company could have afforded to build the national highway system

No company was allowed to try. Who built the railroads again?

Corporations with government subsidies and using slave like labor in order to keep costs down. Oh and by out right theft and or murder to get any land that would not be sold to them. Yeah that is a great example. How many thousands died because the government didn't enforce regulation?

Let's look further at the railroads. They were only linked to specific stops because it was to expensive even with government subsidies to link every town. One of the reasons the government took over for the national roads. The railroad paid people nothing and worked them to death while the owners became barons and the richest people in the country. Yeah feel free to go back to that time if you wish.

What in sweet cunting fuck is this? An interesting (ish) debate buried in a pointless vanity thread? The adult thing to do is to start a thread on the subject you're so passionate about and attack it in an organized way, so that you're on record for what you've said and anyone who found the conversation interesting could catch up quickly. That's a moderation issue but also, if anyone wants to actually resolve a question in their own mind and they're less than absolutely certain, they should be able to come to a place like this and start a specific thread about it and not be bombarded with nonsense. This place attracts the most difficult, defiant and desperate wannabe intellectuals (myself included) of any imaginary place I've ever visited and we would knock the shit out of any question if we could stay on topic. The thing that I look for is someone who actually wants an answer to their question(s). A lot of people just moan endlessly about stuff but they're not actually interested in the things that they're ostensibly so upset about. It seems that they just want to assert their empty worldview and then cry foul when anybody challenges them on it. For me, in a situation like that, I'm a weasel in a henhouse - on one level I really enjoy it, and on another level it makes me unutterably sad, which makes me angry and well...here we are.

This post has been edited by Malaclypse: 30 August 2016 - 03:33 AM

[D'rek]

There's a road near here that was built by a guy. Mining companies were using boats to reach a prospective site, so the guy (and some friends/hired labour, I'm sure) cleared a private road and built a bridge to the site. Worked out for them, since the surveys came back great and suddenly the guy had the only road to a literal gold mine. Apparently he lived pretty good off of taxing the mining companies for using his road for a while.

I forget the rest of the story but the man got syphilis, the bridge collapsed, and the road is public now... not necessarily in that order.

worry, on 30 August 2016 - 01:38 AM, said:

now his dingus looks like the Ocarina of Time.

Ew.

[Malaclypse]

D, on 29 August 2016 - 07:30 PM, said:

Vengeance, on 29 August 2016 - 02:31 AM, said:

Malaclypse, on 29 August 2016 - 01:46 AM, said:

Abyss, on 28 August 2016 - 04:20 PM, said:

Vengeance, on 28 August 2016 - 01:15 AM, said:

D, on 27 August 2016 - 11:27 PM, said:

Urquart, on 26 August 2016 - 02:04 AM, said:

but I still think you're a bunch of insufferable cunthammers generally.

So... same as before? We've always been that

I don't get it Mal, if Americans ruined Malazan fandom why would you choose to setup a bed-and-breakfast in America, then?!

In mals voice

I didn't. I went to the last vestige of the empire to set it up. Someplace where civilized people would be found. Some place where ideas abound and people are actually able to put two thoughts together....


Canada....

Oh hey that reminds me.... Mal, when you have five minutes some friends of mine from CBSA and CIC would like a word with you. Bring comfortable clothes, an overnight bag, your passport, and lube.

Oh really? You mean they would like a word with Hetan surely? I was born here. Her immigration status has been a terrible burden for both of us since we discovered how hostile the immigration process is. So we've been living in desperate uncertainty with regard to her status here, unable to get healthcare or a proper driver's license, having been forced to surrender her UK driving license for the dubious privilege of getting a two- month, then a three-month, then a two-month temporary driving license and then at some point having to apply for special permission to get another temporary driving license - not knowing how long the immigration process was going to take - 113 page long application, designed to be impossible to complete 100% correctly so they can judge you purely on your bank account and find a technicality to reject you on without seeming exclusionary - typical Conservative bullshit. You will notice that the Liberals retook power shortly after my return, btw. In any case, she has her permanent residency so take your empty threat and shove it up your well-used ass (not that there's anything wrong with that

Obviously you should have reached out to abyss ages ago. Think about how much effort could have been saved.

The whole thing could have been completed in 3 months using the special 25 page form.

See what hostility got you..the 113 page form.

They should have just moved to Canada, instead of AMURRICAAAAA. Then they wouldn't have needed a driver's license because they could just ride their complimentary polar bear everywhere (no license required and the application is only 2 maple-syrup-soaked pages long in English and 13 poutine pages in French).

All that paperwork and you can't even ride a bald eagle...



Speaking of which, I saw a bald eagle last week! First time ever for me, they don't normally emigrate to these whereabouts. Seems he is roosting in an old abandoned fire tower. I saw him perched on some trees and got a great view of him swooping over a lake. It was pretty cool.

You haven't answered my question. It's my thread - I think you should be obligated to answer my fucking question and no I'm not going to repeat it. This offering of yours is fun and I like it BUT why did you think Salt Spring Island, which is gloriously situated very near to the American border (so I can understand your confusion), was in Amurrica? I just need to know the specific reason why you became convinced enough to post it on the forum because I take you for a principled human being - I don't believe you would willingly propagate a falsehood if you could help it. I have that much faith in you BUT you seem to be consistently wrong for good reasons, which I find hilarious and I know that's hurtful but fuck it, why else are we here but to say things to people that most people wouldn't say to anybody in person, except I do on a fairly regular basis. It's messy and difficult but the friends you end up with are fucking durable and you can count on them. Bah.

[Abyss]

Malaclypse, on 29 August 2016 - 01:46 AM, said:

Abyss, on 28 August 2016 - 04:20 PM, said:

Vengeance, on 28 August 2016 - 01:15 AM, said:

D, on 27 August 2016 - 11:27 PM, said:

Urquart, on 26 August 2016 - 02:04 AM, said:

but I still think you're a bunch of insufferable cunthammers generally.

So... same as before? We've always been that

I don't get it Mal, if Americans ruined Malazan fandom why would you choose to setup a bed-and-breakfast in America, then?!

In mals voice

I didn't. I went to the last vestige of the empire to set it up. Someplace where civilized people would be found. Some place where ideas abound and people are actually able to put two thoughts together....


Canada....

Oh hey that reminds me.... Mal, when you have five minutes some friends of mine from CBSA and CIC would like a word with you. Bring comfortable clothes, an overnight bag, your passport, and lube.

Oh really? You mean they would like a word with Hetan surely? I was born here. Her immigration status has been a terrible burden for both of us since we discovered how hostile the immigration process is. So we've been living in desperate uncertainty with regard to her status here, unable to get healthcare or a proper driver's license, having been forced to surrender her UK driving license for the dubious privilege of getting a two- month, then a three-month, then a two-month temporary driving license and then at some point having to apply for special permission to get another temporary driving license - not knowing how long the immigration process was going to take - 113 page long application, designed to be impossible to complete 100% correctly so they can judge you purely on your bank account and find a technicality to reject you on without seeming exclusionary - typical Conservative bullshit. You will notice that the Liberals retook power shortly after my return, btw. In any case, she has her permanent residency so take your empty threat and shove it up your well-used ass (not that there's anything wrong with that

No no no, you misunderstupided. We're keeping Hetan. It's you we're sending back. Or possibly to Syria... Or Somalia. Depends on which cheap fare is available. Are you allergic to goats?

[Malaclypse]

Abyss, on 30 August 2016 - 04:38 AM, said:

Malaclypse, on 29 August 2016 - 01:46 AM, said:

Abyss, on 28 August 2016 - 04:20 PM, said:

Vengeance, on 28 August 2016 - 01:15 AM, said:

D, on 27 August 2016 - 11:27 PM, said:

Urquart, on 26 August 2016 - 02:04 AM, said:

but I still think you're a bunch of insufferable cunthammers generally.

So... same as before? We've always been that

I don't get it Mal, if Americans ruined Malazan fandom why would you choose to setup a bed-and-breakfast in America, then?!

In mals voice

I didn't. I went to the last vestige of the empire to set it up. Someplace where civilized people would be found. Some place where ideas abound and people are actually able to put two thoughts together....


Canada....

Oh hey that reminds me.... Mal, when you have five minutes some friends of mine from CBSA and CIC would like a word with you. Bring comfortable clothes, an overnight bag, your passport, and lube.

Oh really? You mean they would like a word with Hetan surely? I was born here. Her immigration status has been a terrible burden for both of us since we discovered how hostile the immigration process is. So we've been living in desperate uncertainty with regard to her status here, unable to get healthcare or a proper driver's license, having been forced to surrender her UK driving license for the dubious privilege of getting a two- month, then a three-month, then a two-month temporary driving license and then at some point having to apply for special permission to get another temporary driving license - not knowing how long the immigration process was going to take - 113 page long application, designed to be impossible to complete 100% correctly so they can judge you purely on your bank account and find a technicality to reject you on without seeming exclusionary - typical Conservative bullshit. You will notice that the Liberals retook power shortly after my return, btw. In any case, she has her permanent residency so take your empty threat and shove it up your well-used ass (not that there's anything wrong with that

No no no, you misunderstupided. We're keeping Hetan. It's you we're sending back. Or possibly to Syria... Or Somalia. Depends on which cheap fare is available. Are you allergic to goats?

I'm allergic to dumbness. What the fuck are you trying to say here? Are you drunk? I'm half in the bag and this still seems abominably stupid. Please advise.

[Malaclypse]

Heh. Long story short - we're enemies, you and I, so why not engage? Passive-aggressive tactics only work against other passive-aggressive people and submissives. I'm aggressive-aggressive. It seems I've driven you and your furry friend to spouting nonsense. I don't understand people who won't fight.

[Aptorian]

It's probably because it's an abhorrent way to behave in a social situation.

This post has been edited by Apt: 30 August 2016 - 06:21 AM

[Malaclypse]

Apt, on 30 August 2016 - 06:20 AM, said:

It's probably because it's an abhorrent way to behave in a social situation.

Oh wow I see you have some immediate support there. Thing is, you precious flowers, this is not a social situation or if it is, it's a very low risk social situation so if you can't speak your mind and risk the consequences here then it's impossible for you. I punish people who imagine that they know more than they actually know and I'll do it alone surrounded by the friends of the person I'm challenging. When dealing with someone who's genuinely struggling with the mess that is modern life, I'm compassionate. Abhorrent?! What a ridiculous word to use in this context - "an abhorrent way to behave in a social situation" ? I spent ten years in England smashing the intellectual shit out of any fucker who would think to use the word abhorrent to describe non-criminal activity. I'm disappointed Apt.

[EmperorMagus]

Malaclypse, on 30 August 2016 - 06:12 AM, said:

Heh. Long story short - we're enemies, you and I, so why not engage? Passive-aggressive tactics only work against other passive-aggressive people and submissives. I'm aggressive-aggressive. It seems I've driven you and your furry friend to spouting nonsense. I don't understand people who won't fight.

You're here looking to have fun arguing with people.

I'm here having fun watching you spout nonsense. I (and probably most of the others) am not engaging you because there is nothing in it worth my time and attention.

But go on, this is mighty amusing.

[TheRetiredBridgeburner]

That's how some people feel about unwarranted aggression in any situation. If that's being a "precious flower" or whatever other dismissive nonsense you want to brand anyone who disagrees with you with, I can't say I'm overly concerned.

I'm with Apt. I don't see the need for such behaviour in social situations. If someone's incorrect (to use your example) they can be corrected - happens to all of us - but it's not a call for point scoring.

[Obdigore]

I've figured it out.

Mal is Trump.

Think about it now... the tiny hands... thinking you can insult people into liking you ... it all makes sense. I wonder if he has the same cheeto-dust colored skin and a terrible comb over.