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Yesitsme
Member

08-24-2004

Friday, March 03, 2006 - 2:25 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Yesitsme a private message Print Post    
How can you go to Carolina and not like basketball? They would be weird....in my opinion, of course! Stay away from those guys.

I have been known to think myself an idiot on occasion, so the rest of you guys have my permission to call me one. As long as it is not every day, because there are days when I am not one.

I just called my phone company an idiot....but I did mean the company itself and not the innocent customer service reps who have to deal with people like me who have spent over 2 1/2 hours on the phone with them in the past week (plus I wrote e-mails putting in writing exactly what I wanted done) and the company STILL doesn't have it taken care of. Arghhhhh! (I know it is off topic, but I just had to vent!) Sometimes I just think the world needs me to organize it.

Jimmer
Member

08-30-2000

Friday, March 03, 2006 - 2:27 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Jimmer a private message Print Post    
I always liked Forrest Gump's line:

"Stupid is as stupid does"

There are some people who may not be super intelligent but don't do stupid things and vice versa.

Chewpito
Member

01-04-2004

Friday, March 03, 2006 - 2:33 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Chewpito a private message Print Post    
Mocha, Your post way up there somewhere is exactly how I feel and just couldnt seem to say it...You Did!! I also am not looking to marry again, the paper work alone scares the heck outa me, and I like living alone...Im better alone.. But I also wouldnt mind having fun with someone also..Id like that person to be a constant, but im not going to wait for ever to find out.. I think there is to much being focused on the sex here, I hate when sex is a Tool. Its eather there or its not... and if its there, and every one is willing and safe..then why not. Geeeze, I need to keep my mouth shut cause I can see my self getting on a rant.. And Im totally pro choice!!!!

Rosie
Member

11-12-2003

Friday, March 03, 2006 - 2:41 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Rosie a private message Print Post    
I don't want to discuss abortions. I want to discuss telephone companies.

I call the telephone company and tell them what I want and they take care of the matter.

Why wouldn't they be able to take care of your requests, Yes?

Native_texan
Member

08-24-2004

Friday, March 03, 2006 - 2:58 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Native_texan a private message Print Post    
I don't mind saying that I have done some idiotic things, but I am not an idiot and I don't feel like anyone here has called me one and if they did, I'm rubber and they're glue.

Let's all share a cyber hug!
bear

Landi
Member

07-29-2002

Friday, March 03, 2006 - 3:02 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Landi a private message Print Post    
native! stop trying to grab my butt during your cyber hugs!

Native_texan
Member

08-24-2004

Friday, March 03, 2006 - 3:03 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Native_texan a private message Print Post    
Landi, that was Newman, not me.

Jeep
Member

10-17-2001

Friday, March 03, 2006 - 3:03 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Jeep a private message Print Post    
Thanks for the lively conversations today everyone! I'm taking off for the weekend. Now if I could only find that youngin.............

Karuuna
Board Administrator

08-31-2000

Friday, March 03, 2006 - 3:35 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Karuuna a private message Print Post    
FWIW, it is NOT allowed here to say all <insert any group of your choice> are idiots. That has never been allowed, and will never be allowed.

So I don't really understand what you are kvetching about. Unless you are trying to say you want to be able to say it's offensive when someone says something they're not allowed to say. But that's our job!


Wendo
Member

08-07-2000

Friday, March 03, 2006 - 3:36 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Wendo a private message Print Post    
Ooh, phone companies. <self moderating>

Rosie
Member

11-12-2003

Friday, March 03, 2006 - 3:39 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Rosie a private message Print Post    
It is raining here.

Oh, and it is all Landi's fault!

Costacat
Member

07-15-2000

Friday, March 03, 2006 - 3:39 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Costacat a private message Print Post    
Nah. I was using that as an example, cause I was too lazy to go look up an exact statement that I found offensive. It was easier to use something that was so obviously wrong, as an example! Y'know? :-)

And I did not call anyone an idiot! I didn't!

Rabbit
Animoderator

08-12-2001

Friday, March 03, 2006 - 3:40 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Rabbit a private message Print Post    
<Moderator hat on>

There seems to be an inference here that it is okay with the moderators to say "all women are idiots" and that is not correct.

You can't bash another member by calling them an idiot or another bashing name. Saying "all women are idiots" would include the subset of women who post on TVCH therefore would not be allowed.

Generalizations are allowed and debatable. We aren't the truth police, we don't moderate because an opinion is incorrect factually in our opinion, that is what debating and proving your case is for. Yes, some opinion that crosses the subjective line of being hateful is deleted. Though we try to be cautious in this. Name calling tends to be a great tip to us that the intent of the opinion is one of hate or anger.

We watch for directed attacks and stalking behavior meant to silence another persons right to state their opinion more than we are concerned with the opinions being stated.

Members are blessed with the right to simply ignore a poster they know will anger them. On threads I am not moderating but enjoying as a member, there are posters I never read anymore therefore don't respond to. Good for them, good for me.

<hat off>

Rabbit
Animoderator

08-12-2001

Friday, March 03, 2006 - 3:41 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Rabbit a private message Print Post    
Crap Karuuna beat me to it. No fair, I'm longer winded and type with my nose.

Karuuna
Board Administrator

08-31-2000

Friday, March 03, 2006 - 3:43 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Karuuna a private message Print Post    
I know what you mean Costa, but it seemed to imply that we allowed that, when we don't. You said if someone posted that, which I think implied that such a thing would go unmoderated, when of course it wouldn't.

So I just want to make sure we're all clear. :-)

In addition, we want to be clear that even *unpopular* opinions are allowed. We realize that it is difficult sometimes to draw a hard line between what is bashing and what isn't. That's why we have a highly diverse moderating team, so we can draw a consensus.


Karuuna
Board Administrator

08-31-2000

Friday, March 03, 2006 - 3:44 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Karuuna a private message Print Post    
Lol, Rabbit and you're much cuter too!

Wendo
Member

08-07-2000

Friday, March 03, 2006 - 3:51 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Wendo a private message Print Post    
Rabbit, so, if there's a generalization that I may personally find offnesive I should just ignore it and not say something? I can't challenge such a statement and discuss why I find it offensive? Doesn't commenting give the original poster to clafify their opinion so that I can understand what they're saying?

If I write something here that offends someone, I want to know. Because, I want to go back and clarify it or apologize for it. For instance, that's something I did the other day in this very thread. By commenting, doesn't that give the original poster the opportunity to know that their comments offended at least one person?

I'm interested in hearing other people's opinions but I do feel that comments that are demeaning, insulting etc. shouldn't go unchallenged either. (Especially if the post has been moderated.) It's not about ignoring a poster who makes one angry either because typically it's not about feeling angry.

Costacat
Member

07-15-2000

Friday, March 03, 2006 - 3:53 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Costacat a private message Print Post    
So one thing I'm still not clear on...

If someone makes a generalization, that sounds like a generalization, and that I disagree with, can I state that I disagree? Going back to Legalboxers oh-so-legal question? Because, honestly, I really am offended at some of the blanket statements made, and it's NOT clear to me that it's in "someone's experience."

So if I disagree, can't I say I disagree?

Oh, yeah, and I'm wondering how bruised Rabbit's nose is after that dissertation! I'm betting it's not a pink nose! <snicker>

Costacat
Member

07-15-2000

Friday, March 03, 2006 - 3:54 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Costacat a private message Print Post    
LOL. I think I just jinxed Wendo!

Wendo
Member

08-07-2000

Friday, March 03, 2006 - 3:55 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Wendo a private message Print Post    
Jinx! You owe me a drink!

Landi
Member

07-29-2002

Friday, March 03, 2006 - 3:55 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Landi a private message Print Post    
hey, i'll admit it's my fault. it usually is! LOL! just ask draheid, he always says it's MY FAULT!

oh and if we're gonna talk about phone companies, you cannot discriminate! you have to talk about wireless as well as land lines equally!!


Legalboxer
Member

11-17-2003

Friday, March 03, 2006 - 3:58 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Legalboxer a private message Print Post    
i second wendo and costacat

Rabbit
Animoderator

08-12-2001

Friday, March 03, 2006 - 3:59 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Rabbit a private message Print Post    
Sure you can disagree. Debate, discuss, argue, educate, dazzle us with facts and reason.

Debunk the opinion, just don't slam the person holding it. That is the degree of civility in debate we try to maintain.

There are hundreds of these types of posts here already and very few posts we have actually moderated.

Mocha
Member

08-12-2001

Friday, March 03, 2006 - 3:59 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mocha a private message Print Post    
I think if we're going to ignore people then the board should have the appropriate software to do so.

Rosie
Member

11-12-2003

Friday, March 03, 2006 - 4:02 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Rosie a private message Print Post    
Landi, I was hoping you would remember the good time we used to have blaming you for everything. You are a good sport!

ETA: I don't want to ignore Mocha.