A word from Julie, Your Cruise Director

[Chris Harlan]

[James Culbertson] “an uninterrupted echo chamber of bitterness.”

Such great phrase, is it not?!

[Tim Wilson]

First, thank you all. I appreciate your kind words and understanding.

Sorry to be away for the day. I didn’t plan it that way…although if I’d thought about it I might have. 🙂

And hey, I’ve been using emoticons since the second I knew such a thing existed, but now I worry that someone might see it as not very well-veiled hostility. LOL

Anyway…

[Chris Harlan] “[James Culbertson] “an uninterrupted echo chamber of bitterness.”

Such great phrase, is it not?!”

It really is classic, but c’mon man, this place is wall to wall interruptions. LOL

I felt bad about that thread though, because I like and respect Evan….but it’s a classic example of a thread with difficult but legit issues (less for me about the unimpeachably ethical Evan than the issue of implied endorsement in general), derailed by one guy. The thread feels a lot different with him not on it. Especially once I get around to removing the now-orphaned posts replying to him. 🙂

[Clint Wardlow] “I don’t think a few questionable posts from time to time will earn you a nuke. In fact, the occasional such post adds a little spice.

It is just when someone hijacks almost every thread, every day until it devolves into childish bicker-fest that the nuke button needs to be pushed.”

Exactly.

I regularly refer to this a full-contact forum, and I like it like that. It’s why I tend to let things run hotter than some people might like. I really only step in when it gets personal, and in this one case, where it felt wholly troll-y.

(“Wholly troll-y” is almost as good as “echo chamber of bitterness,” right?)

Everybody has a bad inning now and again, and we’re all dealing with all kinds of nonsense in life offline. (Wait, what? What is this “life offline” you speak of?) The goal is to make room for each other’s bad days, and leave time for ice cream after arguments to the death.

(Well said, Herb.)

[Martin Curtis] “Wow. Amazing. Did you see the pants Julie was wearing?”

Those pictures were worth a lot more than a thousand words.

[Chris Harlan] “Well, 3 Cheers for Mr. Man!”

“Mr. Man” are definitely two of the words I was thinking of, and definitely the nicest thing anyone has ever said about me here that wasn’t also complimenting my hair. LOL

Thanks again, everyone. We now return you to your uninterrupted interruptions and ice cream.

Tim

[Tom Sefton]

Yes, well done Tim. Every thread was turning into a childish bitch fest!!!!!! and I was tired of digging my dictionary out to try and understand what a hominem was.

I still assume a straw man is some sort of reference to a farmer?

[Aindreas Gallagher]

no – the straw man is the pagan assassin who took down nicholas cage. you can see him here pouring in the bees.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1GadTfGFvU

https://vimeo.com/user1590967/videos http://www.ogallchoir.net promo producer/editor.grading/motion graphics

[Tom Sefton]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_mW8mBzmHo

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[Glenn Grant]

[Tim Wilson] “(“Wholly troll-y” is almost as good as “echo chamber of bitterness,” right?)”

Isn’t that from a Neil Diamond song?

[Clint Wardlow]

[Aindreas Gallagher] “no – the straw man is the pagan assassin who took down nicholas cage. you can see him here pouring in the bees.”

I thought it was Edward Woodward that got taken down by that pesky straw man. Oh wait, different decade…different straw man (and a naked Britt Ekland doing a sexy dance).

[Jeremy Garchow]

[Martin Curtis] “Wow. Amazing. Did you see the pants Julie was wearing?”

Really we should be asking, who DIDN’T see those pants?

[Jeremy Garchow]

Today I Learned, bees can be poured.

At least, in the land of Movie Magic.

Pour bees.

[Chris Harlan]

[Lance Bachelder] “There’s been a few morn’s I’ve awoke, clicked in and wondered if I was gonna be nuked myself, yet somehow I’m still here lol and looking forward to more heated debates with true peers 🙂

Thanks Tim.
“

We’ve had our taste of merlot, and we’ve had our taste of brandy; the consensus is that the merlot decanted just fine, but that, sadly, the brandy had been uncorked for a bit too long.