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| 2004-06-28 |
| Quick note, folks, concerning the flame wars in the comments yesterday. They were multiple, long and really unnecessary. It tends to discourage others from visiting here. Rantburg has had solid growth over the past two years, and I don't want to spoil that. Moreover and more important, the flame wars eat Fred's bandwidth. And that ain't free. Jen, Mike, Badanov, Aris, Robert, Fred, Steve, me, .com, ALL of us, have a lot more in common than different in what we stand for. So as the immortal Frank Burns said, let's be nice to the nice. Save the anger for Lumpy. But if you insist on flaming, hit Fred's tipjar to pay for the bandwidth. |
| Posted by:Steve White |
| #43 Frank, that is just too, too funny! |
| Posted by: Jen 2004-06-29 11:48:46 AM |
| #42 must be the Olympics - they can't let the flame go out |
| Posted by: Frank G 2004-06-29 11:43:07 AM |
| #41 "without" air. |
| Posted by: Aris Katsaris 2004-06-29 11:26:49 AM |
| #40 This is great! A two day old flame war inside a request to end flame wars! |
| Posted by: tu3031 2004-06-29 11:25:54 AM |
| #39 Orson> Yeah, when people's ONLY available retort is to call me "goatfucker" and "cunt", that's a sign of truly ASTOUNDING portions of intelligence. They certainly succeed in revealing my own stupidity. Their other remaining tactic is to accuse me of instigating flamewars and "hijacking threads". Which is only true in the sense that you can't have antisemetism without jews, you can't have fire with air, you can't have pain without life. Drive away everyone who disagrees with the majority opinion, and you won't have flamewars either. Then again you could also choose not to have flamewars if you did away with the insults. |
| Posted by: Aris Katsaris 2004-06-29 11:25:42 AM |
| #38 "your" was meant in the plural, not yours personally docob. |
| Posted by: Aris Katsaris 2004-06-29 11:17:30 AM |
| #37 "After all it wasn't done to satisfy any of your pleas" I never asked you to leave, much less plead with you to do so. "Nor could I stay silent in the face of stupidity." I and many other RB'ers obviously have the same affliction. |
| Posted by: docob 2004-06-29 11:10:32 AM |
| #36 "Nor could I stay silent in the face of stupidity." If you did, there wouldn't be any. |
| Posted by: Orson Buggy 2004-06-29 11:07:14 AM |
| #35 docob> Not sure if you could count it as a "promise", or merely as a statement of what I intended to do. After all it wasn't done to satisfy any of your pleas, it had been my own desire to leave. When I had said it, I had meant it. I regretted it, because as I said I found I could not keep away -- Rantburg's too informative for that. Nor could I stay silent in the face of stupidity. |
| Posted by: Aris Katsaris 2004-06-29 10:59:31 AM |
| #34 "So would 80% of the intelligence." Nah, that would only happen if .com were to leave us. Speaking of leaving (for good), didn't you promise to do just that? And now you are back. What gives? |
| Posted by: docob 2004-06-29 10:38:48 AM |
| #33 Yeah, that's debatable, but you do make for an interesting read nevertheless. |
| Posted by: The Doctor 2004-06-29 10:38:06 AM |
| #32 rriiiiggghhhttt |
| Posted by: Frank G 2004-06-29 10:37:19 AM |
| #31 So would 80% of the intelligence. me being arrogant? no way! |
| Posted by: Aris Katsaris 2004-06-29 10:31:53 AM |
| #30 If you'd go away, Aris, 80% of the flamewars would go with you. |
| Posted by: Robert Crawford 2004-06-29 10:09:57 AM |
| #29 Robert> Because I'm not the one who called people "cunts". Or to put it in another way, because I don't want to do so enough that it would suffice to keep me away, the knowledge I would no longer be so annoyed at ignorance, frustrated at stupidity, or aggravated at insult. |
| Posted by: Aris Katsaris 2004-06-29 9:47:14 AM |
| #28 Aris, why don't you take a break from Rantburg? |
| Posted by: Robert Crawford 2004-06-29 9:29:22 AM |
| #27 Long Hair Republican> Take it up with your gods because personally I've no desire to forget or forgive. |
| Posted by: Aris Katsaris 2004-06-29 9:26:18 AM |
| #26 yes i will not swear again either. i think i said a rude word in passing and i regret it. adds nothign takes up bandwidth. |
| Posted by: Anon1 2004-06-29 6:59:33 AM |
| #25 I am guilty....should and will be more nice to Rantburger's. Aris I am sorry I keep calling you goat fucker, I will no longer stoop to that level no matter how good it feels at the time. Fred, I love this sight. I will maintain some sort of civilance from now on. |
| Posted by: Long Hair Republican 2004-06-29 1:48:46 AM |
| #24 I like the heated and intense discussions and debates. I have never liked the personal attacks. It gets us too far into the storm drain below the gutter. |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2004-06-28 11:06:14 PM |
| #23 mmmmmm...pie [/homer] |
| Posted by: Frank G 2004-06-28 9:14:37 PM |
| #22 |
| Posted by: spiffo 2004-06-28 7:54:29 PM |
| #21 Yep, the great Flame Wars of Ought Four. Remember them well. Yessir, yessir. Almost had to get out the blunderbuss. |
| Posted by: tu3031 2004-06-28 7:36:40 PM |
| #20 It was kinda hard to read through all the thrown pies, though... |
| Posted by: Fred 2004-06-28 4:13:42 PM |
| #19 Actually, the thread rose to quite a high intellecutal plane -- concluding with a discussion of various thoughts of the English philosopher G. K. Chesterton (a liberal, but objectively on the side of the conservatives). |
| Posted by: Mike Sylwester 2004-06-28 2:45:21 PM |
| #18 No ponies but a couple of jackasses and one |
| Posted by: Shipman 2004-06-28 2:33:33 PM |
| #17 Was there a pony in there somewhere? Yes, and it was delicious. |
| Posted by: Steve 2004-06-28 2:08:21 PM |
| #16 Was there a pony in there somewhere? |
| Posted by: Classical_Liberal 2004-06-28 2:00:45 PM |
| #15 Ya missed a good one Mukci. There were jesus freepers, commies, commie trolls, agent prevaricators, castigators and two small town circus acts. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2004-06-28 1:43:19 PM |
| #14 im alway miss the good threads. :( |
| Posted by: muck4doo 2004-06-28 1:28:18 PM |
| #13 Jeeebuz. LOL! |
| Posted by: Shipman 2004-06-28 1:25:30 PM |
| #12 I'm sorry I missed it; weeds will do that to you. Interesting read, though; I wish I could have jumped in . . . |
| Posted by: The Doctor 2004-06-28 1:06:51 PM |
| #11 And Steve, I don't appreciate being named "first" as one of the biggest abusers. I try to keep my answers as short and as necessary as possible. Some thanks I get for my (paid-for) input. |
| Posted by: Jen 2004-06-28 12:55:21 PM |
| #10 Steve, I've already hit the tip jar and I take no responsibility for the querrelous and verbose arguing of the Leftist trolls that come here and post reams of disinformaton. If you don't like my input, I have other things to do than post here. |
| Posted by: Jen 2004-06-28 12:51:23 PM |
| #9 seesm like theres some confusio about whether RB is "a VRWC website" or a site for discussion of military and intelligence matters, albeit one with "attitude". Fred has been pretty clear about this in the past, but some folks cant get past their own obsessions to see it. |
| Posted by: Liberalhawk 2004-06-28 12:48:27 PM |
| #8 Dang--go away for a weekend and I miss all the fun! Sounds like the fireworks are a week early. |
| Posted by: Dar 2004-06-28 11:49:35 AM |
| #7 Jen, Mike, Badanov, Aris, Robert, Fred, Steve, me, .com, Zhang Fei started it! . |
| Posted by: Mike Sylwester 2004-06-28 8:16:11 AM |
| #6 All we are sayyyyinng is give peace a chance... |
| Posted by: Chris W. 2004-06-28 7:22:21 AM |
| #5 I'll buy that, for now. But if you ever cross me up, you're gonna get a Number Eight. |
| Posted by: Col. Flagg 2004-06-28 6:57:16 AM |
| #4 Actually, DBT, "Nuke DBT" might be even more popular, fuckwit. Sorry Steve. Truth can be a bitch. DBT is a biatch. |
| Posted by: .com 2004-06-28 5:37:11 AM |
| #3 Maybe there is something we can all agree on: one...two...three...Nuke Fallujah! |
| Posted by: Dog Bites Trolls 2004-06-28 5:33:41 AM |
| #2 And in memory of the late Frank Burns could we all remember the greatest of them all, Jack Benny and his side kicks. "Get a breath of that country air, breath the beauty of it everywhere, rise up early, the day wont let you sleep." |
| Posted by: Lucky 2004-06-28 2:49:55 AM |
| #1 Well I'd like to take umbridge, Er Humbridge(?)Not sure which but dude your treading a fine line! |
| Posted by: Lucky 2004-06-28 2:40:06 AM |