Hi, I'm Mick

[Xamonas Chegwé]

Just try making your point without the insults and pointless polemics.

That's a very sneaky way of asking Seth to stop posting.

It's really not. He has made some genuinely interesting posts over the years. Of course, when he just trots out the same old dogmatic auto-replies, I stop reading. But when he opens up and speaks his mind (as opposed to that of the NRA or the tea party), he is actually pretty likeable.

[Hermit]

Just try making your point without the insults and pointless polemics.

That's a very sneaky way of asking Seth to stop posting.

It's really not. He has made some genuinely interesting posts over the years. Of course, when he just trots out the same old dogmatic auto-replies, I stop reading. But when he opens up and speaks his mind (as opposed to that of the NRA or the tea party), he is actually pretty likeable.

I was clearly exaggerating. Not a lot, though, especially given Seth's posts in the past few months.

[Xamonas Chegwé]

Just try making your point without the insults and pointless polemics.

That's a very sneaky way of asking Seth to stop posting.

It's really not. He has made some genuinely interesting posts over the years. Of course, when he just trots out the same old dogmatic auto-replies, I stop reading. But when he opens up and speaks his mind (as opposed to that of the NRA or the tea party), he is actually pretty likeable.

I was clearly exaggerating. Not a lot, though, especially given Seth's posts in the past few months.

Yeah. He's not shown much restraint, has he? Hence the holidays.

[JimC]

Just try making your point without the insults and pointless polemics.

That's a very sneaky way of asking Seth to stop posting.

Not a lot left when you take those out, that's for sure...

[FBM]

Yup.

Moving on...

I guess this means we don't get any evidence for god(s).

[tattuchu]

Yup.

Moving on...

I guess this means we don't get any evidence for god(s).

I figured this meant he was moving on from RatSkep, and so staying here. If he's moving on from here, not sure what to think. I was happy we had a new member. But if all he's going to talk about is religious twattery, then that's rather tiresome. I mean, think of the cheese, man. The cheese!

[FBM]

Yup.

Moving on...

I guess this means we don't get any evidence for god(s).

I figured this meant he was moving on from RatSkep, and so staying here. If he's moving on from here, not sure what to think. I was happy we had a new member. But if all he's going to talk about is religious twattery, then that's rather tiresome. I mean, think of the cheese, man. The cheese!

I thought so, too, at first, but he hasn't posted since, so maybe he got tired of us asking for evidence for his god and playing rhetorical word games to avoid actually doing so or admitting that he can't.

[Xamonas Chegwé]

He just didn't accept cheeses into his heart. He is lost. Poor sod. All we can do now is wank for him.

[JimC]

I thought you let cheeses into your fart?

[Xamonas Chegwé]

I thought you let cheeses into your fart?

Can't beat a good cheesy fart. I have improved many an elevator with such.

[JimC]

Can't beat your sulphuretted hydrocarbons...

[Seth]

There are NO "approved" insults here, neither are there "banned" insults. If the staff as a whole consider that your post was a deliberate, personal attack on another member, action will be taken.

You lie like a rug.

I would suggest using "go fuck yourself" a little less often.

I would suggest you do your fucking job and keep other people from forcing me to do so.

The staff are pretty much evenly split on whether it constitutes a PA on its own. I have never thought that it does and always argued against taking action but if it becomes the standard response to EVERY post that you disagree with, I could change my mind.

It's not and you know it perfectly well. It's an appropriate response to personal attacks on me and I'll continue to use it when it's appropriate to do so.

Just try making your point without the insults and pointless polemics. I kind of like having you around and would hate to see you serving one 6-month suspension after another.

Well, I'll tell you what, sparky, if it makes you feel better I can use "fuck off" or the smiley to the same effect. But if you would spend half as much time smacking everyone else who provokes those insults by insulting me first you'd have an easier job to do.

I would think by now you'd have noticed a pattern here. FYI, when somebody else makes it personal, I make it personal right back at them and will continue to do so, particularly when you mods studiously ignore those personal insults just as you always have, here, at RatSkep and at RDF before that.

I can't even recall how many years I've been saying the exact same thing to the exact same people with the exact same result.

So fuck off!

As for "pointless polemics", once again, fuck off. My posts are never pointless and are very often much better thought out and articulated than yours or most other people's posts because I take the time to make them that way. You think they are pointless because of your own inherent bias and bigotry and because you know full well that I make a lot of sensible, rational and logical arguments that you absolutely hate but haven't the gumption to rebut in a reasonable adult manner, which is true of many other members here, particularly rEv.

So fuck off again!

[Seth]

ETA: "Fuck yourself" is a bit unfriendly in some contexts, but not an insult. I have never reported a post for that expression.

Don't be a hypocrite and I won't have to call you one. Not that I think you're capable of doing so.

[Seth]

Yup.

Moving on...

I guess this means we don't get any evidence for god(s).

No, it means you have to do your own homework.

[Xamonas Chegwé]

You know what, Seth? The next time somebody reports one of your posts for a "fuck off" or a "go fuck yourself", I will vote for a further suspension of increased duration. Because you have just admitted that you are doing so as a tit-for-tat response that (you believe) is not against the rules. How's that?