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That's a shame, and I mean ally/Antigone leaving TMT. Perhaps I should post that over there but Kovacs' link was the first time I'd seen any of this and it seems ally is still here in some form so it seems both more fitting and more constructive to say it here. Taking Kovacs' link as an example, Opprobrium is already crowing over your leaving and, well, she's a complete prick as anyone with more than two brain cells to rub together must realise and personally I'd take that alone as enough reason to stay anywhere. 'Antigone' is harsh certainly but fairly so I'd say personally, constructively berating things like Lily's obvious mental issues when everyone else is seemingly prepared to excuse them simply because of who she is (an allowance that helps no-one and certainly not Lily herself). Maybe it's just me but I think that kind of person, someone in the role Antigone has always played, is more required there now than ever before. And all of that comes from someone who was at serious odds with bulletproofalice over, amusingly, TMO's role on Handbag in the past so I should like it to be taken as proper respect and not any kind of arse-kissing.
All of which could be said better and probably more subtly if I wasn't so drunk and it wasn't six in the morning but I do hope I'm making some kind of sense here. Anyway, I realise this post is much more about Handbag and The Mock Turtle than it is about TMO so if Darryn wants to delete it or anyone else wants to take me to task on that basis then I'll take any and all of that on the chin.
quote: That's a shame, and I mean ally/Antigone leaving TMT. Perhaps I should post that over there but Kovacs' link was the first time I'd seen any of this and it seems ally is still here in some form so it seems both more fitting and more constructive to say it here. Taking Kovacs' link as an example, Opprobrium is already crowing over your leaving and, well, she's a complete prick as anyone with more than two brain cells to rub together must realise and personally I'd take that alone as enough reason to stay anywhere. 'Antigone' is harsh certainly but fairly so I'd say personally, constructively berating things like Lily's obvious mental issues when everyone else is seemingly prepared to excuse them simply because of who she is (an allowance that helps no-one and certainly not Lily herself). Maybe it's just me but I think that kind of person, someone in the role Antigone has always played, is more required there now than ever before. And all of that comes from someone who was at serious odds with bulletproofalice over, amusingly, TMO's role on Handbag in the past so I should like it to be taken as proper respect and not any kind of arse-kissing.
All of which could be said better and probably more subtly if I wasn't so drunk and it wasn't six in the morning but I do hope I'm making some kind of sense here. Anyway, I realise this post is much more about Handbag and The Mock Turtle than it is about TMO so if Darryn wants to delete it or anyone else wants to take me to task on that basis then I'll take any and all of that on the chin.
quote:Originally posted by Bamba: That's a shame, and I mean ally/Antigone leaving TMT. Perhaps I should post that over there but Kovacs' link was the first time I'd seen any of this and it seems ally is still here in some form so it seems both more fitting and more constructive to say it here. Taking Kovacs' link as an example, Opprobrium is already crowing over your leaving and, well, she's a complete prick as anyone with more than two brain cells to rub together must realise and personally I'd take that alone as enough reason to stay anywhere. 'Antigone' is harsh certainly but fairly so I'd say personally, constructively berating things like Lily's obvious mental issues when everyone else is seemingly prepared to excuse them simply because of who she is (an allowance that helps no-one and certainly not Lily herself). Maybe it's just me but I think that kind of person, someone in the role Antigone has always played, is more required there now than ever before. And all of that comes from someone who was at serious odds with bulletproofalice over, amusingly, TMO's role on Handbag in the past so I should like it to be taken as proper respect and not any kind of arse-kissing.
All of which could be said better and probably more subtly if I wasn't so drunk and it wasn't six in the morning but I do hope I'm making some kind of sense here. Anyway, I realise this post is much more about Handbag and The Mock Turtle than it is about TMO so if Darryn wants to delete it or anyone else wants to take me to task on that basis then I'll take any and all of that on the chin.
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I've just woken up and had that familiar sinking feeling of "Oh fuck, I've posted something somewhere on the interweb, I wonder what kind of a twat I've made of myself this fucking time?" So, to find out that I'd actually been nice about someone comes as a massive relief really and yeah, I stand by that stuff just for the record.
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Erm... I'm really sorry, Bamba; I genuinely thought it was a parody about personal spats from other boards unnecessarily spilling over onto TMO. I read it in a hurry and that included the name of the poster. If I'm totally honest, up until now I thought it was written by Ringo in a particularly clever pisstake mode.
ETA: I appreciate that your username doesn't share a single letter with the name Ringo, but, what can I say, it was early, I was scanning posts in a hurry...
quote:Originally posted by jonesy999: Erm... I'm really sorry, Bamba; I genuinely thought it was a parody about personal spats from other boards unnecessarily spilling over onto TMO. I read it in a hurry and that included the name of the poster. If I'm totally honest, up until now I thought it was written by Ringo in a particularly clever pisstake mode.
ETA: I appreciate that your username doesn't share a single letter with the name Ringo, but, what can I say, it was early, I was scanning posts in a hurry...
Still, any LOL is a good LOL, right?
Nah, I'm afraid I was being straight up, I get embarassingly earnest when drunk at times, but I can totally see how it might've read like a piss-take. It's cool though, I wasn't, and still aren't, bothered by your lollage, just confused so cheers for clarifying.
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quote:Originally posted by Samuelnorton: Incidentally, what do you make of Kovacs having online chatroom conversations with girls half his age? Really, I am genuinely interested.
Well, as Modge is clearly not a stupid woman, I would imagine that perhaps, perhaps she views kovacs' online antics as harmless amusing games that have absolutely no impact on the reality of their relationship. Perhpas, perhaps, the nature of the message board medium allows someone who is clever and has too much time on their hands to archly play around with personalities and ideas that are distinct from their everyday life.
Or what's much more likely is that everything that has ever been posted on the Internet is true, and kovacs really is a paedophile, and Modge married him because she's just, you know, stupid.
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A girl half my age would be seventeen and a half. I have no interest in talking to girls of that age in my leisure time: I see enough eighteen year-olds at work. No offence to them but we don't really have enough in common to furnish decent conversation. I do sometimes talk to women aged, say, between twenty and thirty on MSN -- and VP is right in her summation of that. Have a care not to insult my wife, Rick.
quote:Originally posted by London: To make sure they've reached the same level of maturity?
LOL!!!11!!! Because she'd be loads younger! lol! Way to flip that back on him London!
Anyway - Hugh Hefner made that (stupid) comment and I'm sure he only added the 'seven years' thing to steer around the peadophile angle.
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if it's any help, I bedded a teenager last year, and I felt pretty bad about it the next day. She was legal and everything, but I did feel like a pervy old bastard.
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So Bambi...got anything else to say? Oh I forgot, you haven't got the balls have you.
Not even Louche gonna jump to your defence. She's going off you big boy...halitosis kills romance don't you find. Or maybe go scuttling back to The Cuban Lounge to watch the clock tick.
Prick.
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quote:Originally posted by kovacs: A girl half my age would be seventeen and a half. I have no interest in talking to girls of that age in my leisure time: I see enough eighteen year-olds at work. No offence to them but we don't really have enough in common to furnish decent conversation. I do sometimes talk to women aged, say, between twenty and thirty on MSN -- and VP is right in her summation of that. Have a care not to insult my wife, Rick.
I wasn't being insulting. It was a genuine question, in that I asked her what she thought about your talking with teenies in chatrooms - you know, the chats that produced the conversations you later posted online for (your own?) amusement.
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quote:Originally posted by Gods Plumber: So Bambi...got anything else to say? Oh I forgot, you haven't got the balls have you.
Not even Louche gonna jump to your defence. She's going off you big boy...halitosis kills romance don't you find.
This is actually the worst attempt at having a 'pop' at another poster I've ever seen - and I frequent the imdb boards on a daily basis, for fuck's sake.
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sorry to interrupt the flirting, but I wanted to make sure that rick has all his Very Important and Meaningful questions answered:
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quote:Originally posted by Samuelnorton: Incidentally, what do you make of Kovacs having online chatroom conversations with girls half his age? Really, I am genuinely interested.
Well, as Modge is clearly not a stupid woman, I would imagine that perhaps, perhaps she views kovacs' online antics as harmless amusing games that have absolutely no impact on the reality of their relationship. Perhpas, perhaps, the nature of the message board medium allows someone who is clever and has too much time on their hands to archly play around with personalities and ideas that are distinct from their everyday life.
Or what's much more likely is that everything that has ever been posted on the Internet is true, and kovacs really is a paedophile, and Modge married him because she's just, you know, stupid.
Calling kovacs a paedo/pervert is insulting to me because it presumes that at best I am stupid enough to put up with it and at worst I am in some way party to it. And I think kovacs has covered the question about "teenies" himself.
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