it's not happening, we need another 5-year study

[iain]

[Greg_W]

This thread jumped the shark for at least the second time when Trask asked me to kill him to end his misery.

[RobBob]

I've been off the board since yesterday due to work, but I also have enjoyed the mtngoat/j_b debate. I have only been able to do a scan of it, but I would say that they got logjammed over j_b's insistence over peer-reviewed documents...and mtngoat has pointed out something noteworthy on that issue.

 

Unfortunately, peer-reviewed means too often "like minded people"-reviewed. Go ahead, scientists, spray away in response. But in my experience, when you draw together paper-writers in various disciplines, you find that their politics, motivations, and biases are the same. Look to the funders of studies for clues to what the results are likely to say on this issue.

 

Where is Copernicus when we need him?

[MtnGoat]

"I do have a problem with you being a boring fucking tool"

 

Apparently you also have a problem with your mouse usage, it keeps drawing you back to threads you say have been ruined by people you don't like. It seems to be a common problem here.

 

[Dru]

Maybe if some avatars posted porn and gratuitous insults towards dead people on this thread the admins would delete it. AND END THE MISERY!!!!

[RobBob]

I like this thread.

[iain]

Dru your post in red letters and red star rotating picture betray your true loyalties. Best go hook up with commie DFA and play some Tetris.

[Dr_Flash_Amazing]

That's some talk coming from a fella with a mouse for an avatar ... or should we say mole? DFA smells a double agent, here ... or is that his socks?

[iain]

perhaps you haven't seen my stars and stripes gurka...

[RobBob]

[AlpineK]

I like what other people have to say, but I find your style of writing horrible and your formatting atrocious.

 

I'll read your posts if you keep them under 3 finger widths on the screen.

[Dru]

I had the red commie star while wimpy DFA still had a weasel picture up. He is just trying to cash in on my commie coolness. Too bad Valeri Babanov isnt a sport climber.

[iain]

Well I apologize then Sir Sputnik, Das'voydanya Comrad.

[Dr_Flash_Amazing]

Damn! Found out! DFA is RED with embarrassment!

Edited December 19, 2002 by Dr_Flash_Amazing

[iain]

nice edit for the pun. you can't fool me by using the wussy hide the edit option

[allthumbs]

two fingers for this child

[iain]

just keeping this on top because I like the title.

[allthumbs]

do you think mtn goat sux fda?

[Dr_Flash_Amazing]

Well, dear Trask, Dr. Flash Amazing has in fact been pondering the "does MtnGoat suck?" issue lately. It occurred to DFA that the main reason MtnGoat bugs so much is that he basically never posts anything but exhaustively-argued political repartee. He never swaps good natured jibes (like your punk ass does), never posts a good joke, never throws out beta, never talks about his latest road trip or project or training method. Just plain not very friendly. Which is not to say he's directly unfriendly or hostile, he's just anti-social. Which, in and of itself is no big deal, but coupled with the lockjaw argumentative tenacity and decidedly selfish point of view, makes him an easy choice to dislike.

 

Can't say there's any real personal animosity there.

 

Hey, did anyone hear "Squirrel Cop" on This American Life last night? "I can't point to any one thing you did wrong, and I did call you down here ... but I really can't thank you for this."

[allthumbs]

accurate analogy

[MtnGoat]

you guys crack me up. calling *anyone* selfish when nearly every political thread involves precisely what the posters want other people to do, really takes the cake. Nothing is more selfish than deciding your plans for everyone outweigh their own because you know better than they.

 

That you supposedly may want it for someone "else" does not excuse that it's *you* that's wanting it, sorry!

 

I get plenty of social time, with jokes and all the rest in normal everyday life, what I don't get is the chance to back and forth on interesting issues.

 

If I actually posted on roadtrips and projects, would it really change the view of me given my viewpoints on a largely left wing message board? I have trouble believing it. I simply don't find page after page of freshies, horsecock, and snafflehound jokes all that exciting. Much as some don't like my posts.

 

Thing is, when I don't like it, I don't go the extra mile and insert post after post about how much I hate it, I just figure folks want to have their fun and I don't need to rag on it.

 

Perhaps as spring rolls around we could do a car camp somewhere, knock back some tall ones around a fire, and swap lies in person, that may help a bit.

[RobBob]

You guys don't realize it, but mtngoat is really another avatar of da Caveman.

[Dru]

The only reason people start political threads in the first place is for opportunities for name calling and general BS - now that Scottryx doesnt respond to trolling or go berzerk over Muir Hut anymore. Do you really think anyone is gonna change their mind as a result of two blowhards back-and-forthing over definition of peer Reviewed on a bulletin board?

[allthumbs]

Are you saying I'm actually not interested in politics and just like to stir shit up? Dru! You've hurt me...you've cut me to the quick.

[j_b]

what I am personally not clear about is why are you so intent on imposing your vision of what a bbs should be. Do you see anyone denying you the right to ceaselessly trade the same insults and obscenities with the same individuals? Personally it does not interest me to condone verbal abuse but I don't go out my way to try shutting you down. When something does not interest me, I just move on. So what gives?