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tailfins
02-08-2013, 12:10 PM
What do you do if someone makes an interesting, but very off topic post? Do you ask "tell me more" on the interesting post or do you leave it alone because it's off topic? Inquiring minds want to know.
darin
02-08-2013, 01:14 PM
You know how in real life an adult would not walk into a conversation about one person's kid's baseball team and jump in and force the change into a top of how football is superior? Because adults are their own boss, and adults know when and where to get on their soapbox? I suggest using that same courtesy here.
as an example: if you made a light hearted post about changing the subject, then I jumped in bitching about your grammar or political background. I would be out of line. Would be rude of me.
jimnyc
02-08-2013, 01:17 PM
Steelers rule!! :coffee: :poke:
logroller
02-08-2013, 01:34 PM
Building a trusting relationship with any animal has intrinsic value, but I'm just partial to dogs.
jimnyc
02-08-2013, 01:41 PM
Building a trusting relationship with any animal has intrinsic value, but I'm just partial to dogs.
The Walking Dead is back Sunday night!!!
fj1200
02-08-2013, 01:43 PM
What do you do if someone makes an interesting, but very off topic post? Do you ask "tell me more" on the interesting post or do you leave it alone because it's off topic? Inquiring minds want to know.
Run with it, probably a dumb thread anyway. :poke:
jimnyc
02-08-2013, 01:45 PM
Run with it, probably a dumb thread anyway. :poke:
I was in track in HS, speaking of running. Only the short track though, anything over 100m would leave me gasping for air.
jimnyc
02-08-2013, 01:46 PM
What do you do if someone makes an interesting, but very off topic post? Do you ask "tell me more" on the interesting post or do you leave it alone because it's off topic? Inquiring minds want to know.
Ok, in seriousness... If TOTALLY off topic, but interesting, and one wants to know more - the best way to handle that is to have someone start a new thread on that subject.
fj1200
02-08-2013, 01:47 PM
I was in track in HS, speaking of running. Only the short track though, anything over 100m would leave me gasping for air.
Speaking of short; how long was that bus you took to school? :poke:
jimnyc
02-08-2013, 01:52 PM
Speaking of short; how long was that bus you took to school? :poke:
I love when a post makes me literally crack up out loud. Even funnier when the woman in the next room wants to know what I'm laughing at, and then I tell her because some guy on the internet called me a retard, and then she laughed too!
jimnyc
02-08-2013, 01:53 PM
Speaking of short; how long was that bus you took to school? :poke:
Oh, and true story, I was banned from the school bus for one year. I took the seat cushion and squished it out the window. Do you know how many times that bus passed me after that, and a whole bus full of kids would open the windows and laugh at me cause I had to walk! LOL
revelarts
02-08-2013, 02:00 PM
And the Russians did kill the 1st dog in Space
The dog Laika, the first living creature to orbit the Earth, did not live nearly as long as Soviet officials led the world to believe. The animal, launched on a one-way trip on board Sputnik 2 in November 1957, was said to have died painlessly in orbit about a week after blast-off.
Now, it has been revealed she died from overheating and panic just a few hours after the mission started.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/2367681.stm
just like i said...
So what i want to know is WHY all the HUBBUB about Micheal VIK??!
Does that make sense.? LOG!?!
tailfins
02-08-2013, 02:01 PM
You know how in real life an adult would not walk into a conversation about one person's kid's baseball team and jump in and force the change into a top of how football is superior? Because adults are their own boss, and adults know when and where to get on their soapbox? I suggest using that same courtesy here.
as an example: if you made a light hearted post about changing the subject, then I jumped in bitching about your grammar or political background. I would be out of line. Would be rude of me.
I actually struggle with that in real life and is why I don't socialize much. I have walked away from many a conversation because I couldn't find an "on ramp". Sometimes I even forego saying "hi" to someone I haven't seen in a long time.
Thunderknuckles
02-08-2013, 02:10 PM
Steelers rule!! :coffee: :poke:
My name is Jason and I approve this message!
jimnyc
02-08-2013, 02:29 PM
And the Russians did kill the 1st dog in Space
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/2367681.stm
just like i said...
So what i want to know is WHY all the HUBBUB about Micheal VIK??!
Does that make sense.? LOG!?!
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gabosaurus
02-08-2013, 04:29 PM
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-0BCPq73pZ00/TjQlHNYxKxI/AAAAAAAAACU/NFHBTzO-2PI/s1600/banned.jpg
logroller
02-08-2013, 10:38 PM
And the Russians did kill the 1st dog in Space
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/2367681.stm
just like i said...
So what i want to know is WHY all the HUBBUB about Micheal VIK??!
Does that make sense.? LOG!?!
Laika was a terrorist communist. Totally different beast than the American dogs Vick killed...because nothing rhymes with orange....well "nothing" doesn't rhyme with "orange"...
You get my point.
Voted4Reagan
02-08-2013, 11:31 PM
4488
revelarts
02-09-2013, 09:43 AM
some youtube vid
Puppies are NOT Hotdogs or warships and if you notice in you youtube vid those children were NOT REALLY sleeping were they? Explain THAT! I don't think you will.
Laika was a terrorist communist. Totally different beast than the American dogs Vick killed...because nothing rhymes with orange....well "nothing" doesn't rhyme with "orange"...
You get my point.
your socalled """point""" is does not fathom the microverse, soooo therefore is not part of the real discussion here. Drummond's real point in the boxing (not Boxer) thread makes that completely clear. IF YOU'D READ A POST BEFORE REPLYING with NONSENSE , nothing personal.
4488
And Plitrh frulpition bypass to you ma'am.
And I mean that.
And what about the alien Iceberg report and the BLUE flood. Color is not universe or music. How soon we forget.
dorf blat .
Tyr-Ziu Saxnot
02-09-2013, 10:35 AM
Seven miners survived the blast and now lay deep within the bowels of the earth for 3 days. Pitch black and sealed in like rats on a sinking ship they each .....The Bismarck was the pride of the Germany navy. Tennessee Pride is a great pork sausage that fits in well with homemade biscuits , eggs and gravy. The well was deep with barely a foot of water remaining ...
Voted4Reagan
02-09-2013, 11:07 AM
4491
WiccanLiberal
02-09-2013, 11:30 AM
soylent green is people!!!!4492
Tyr-Ziu Saxnot
02-09-2013, 11:41 AM
4491
I like that guy. Also that movie too ..-Tyr
Tyr-Ziu Saxnot
02-09-2013, 11:43 AM
soylent green is people!!!!4492
Green people are aliens!!!!!! All except Alf...-;)
taft2012
02-09-2013, 12:09 PM
"The tragedy of man is not death or epidemic or lust or rage or fitful jealousy. No sir, the tragedy of man is boredom, sir - boredom! A man can only do a given thing so many times with freshness and spirit - then, no matter what it is, it becomes like an office task. I enjoy cards and whoring, but even cards and whoring can grow boresome. You tup your wife a thousand times and that becomes an office task, too."
Inish Scull.
Tyr-Ziu Saxnot
02-09-2013, 12:43 PM
"The tragedy of man is not death or epidemic or lust or rage or fitful jealousy. No sir, the tragedy of man is boredom, sir - boredom! A man can only do a given thing so many times with freshness and spirit - then, no matter what it is, it becomes like an office task. I enjoy cards and whoring, but even cards and whoring can grow boresome. You tup your wife a thousand times and that becomes an office task, too."
Inish Scull.
I love the Irish...-Tyr
Ireland - One race of people for whom psychoanalysis is of no use whatsoever - Sigmund Freud.
The problems that exist in the world today cannot be solved by the level of thinking that created them - Albert Einstein.
I am free of all prejudices. I hate every one equally - W. C. Fields.
The fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education - George Bernard Shaw.
One more--
Imagination is more important than knowledge – Albert Einstein.
taft2012
02-09-2013, 01:03 PM
Ireland - One race of people for whom psychoanalysis is of no use whatsoever - Sigmund Freud.
For the great Gaels of Ireland
Are the men that God made mad,
For all their wars are merry,
And all their songs are sad.
G.K. Chesterton
taft2012
02-09-2013, 01:06 PM
I am free of all prejudices. I hate every one equally - W. C. Fields.
Show me a great actor and I'll show you a lousy husband. Show me a great actress, and you've seen the devil.
W.C. Fields
revelarts
02-09-2013, 01:43 PM
A ton of Chi, urh with a bing bing ster and then a Bink. Y you Cad ET is not as great as they make out C but it's not SM at least. Drum a mond of digital E soxs and what have you got abcdeFJ no wait 1200 or million doesn't mater does it. Gabo was great. Spot sarus run when we were kids I could do it easy then, abcdefgHJ nope, Mick Micky Mouse owns every thing now Beauty, the Beast, Aladin, Jafar .OO. Kal marx predicted disney would rule Kathi annnnneed whole the world, the kithchen the kittens the whole 99 down to lil acorns. Marc us down for A... ur .. e....
Lius again and see what happens! . we don't tolertarate liars round, you here might find a missile where you least expect it man. Yep a Noir place in the nether regions. That's right a Nuke Man. Post that onto your modern thread. No prophets will revel at the arts or Rob ..er.. ta ta a Whit. So Sit a spell rro..ollll some Tafty in 20 or 12 loops. make a Tail or fins until the thunder falls and the knuckles To ro the boats are not red and you can do the trigg using trinity integers until you tyr and maybe go to the Ziu. There a Sax player at the entrance who say he did NOT voted 4 Reagan , he's a Wiccan and a liberal.
:hithere: welcome WoLONG :gunner4:
Robert A Whit
02-09-2013, 02:31 PM
The Walking Dead is back Sunday night!!!
I just heard on CSPAN that Abe Lincoln had an interesting experience with a prostitute and fled her place of business.
Robert A Whit
02-09-2013, 02:55 PM
Oh, and true story, I was banned from the school bus for one year. I took the seat cushion and squished it out the window. Do you know how many times that bus passed me after that, and a whole bus full of kids would open the windows and laugh at me cause I had to walk! LOL
I rode an exceptionally long bus to school.
revelarts
02-09-2013, 03:08 PM
...they say our love won't pay the rent...
your wife's Tennessee pork sausages an office task, too? I don't think so.
tailfins
02-09-2013, 03:42 PM
I rode an exceptionally long bus to school.
They told me if I behaved myself, I could apply for the short bus. I imagined how nice it must be not to wear wrist restraints.
revelarts
02-09-2013, 03:57 PM
http://th07.deviantart.net/fs71/200H/i/2012/023/d/6/ptero_by_pietro_ant-d4nf8v1.jpg
red states rule
02-09-2013, 04:01 PM
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-9GqC7hS9gQk/UFMEygnBQSI/AAAAAAAAAqU/mcd8oZm-kZI/s1600/Funny-Cat-Pictures-With-Quotes-Are-Really-Funny-To-See-6.jpg
Tyr-Ziu Saxnot
02-09-2013, 04:32 PM
A ton of Chi, urh with a bing bing ster and then a Bink. Y you Cad ET is not as great as they make out C but it's not SM at least. Drum a mond of digital E soxs and what have you got abcdeFJ no wait 1200 or million doesn't mater does it. Gabo was great. Spot sarus run when we were kids I could do it easy then, abcdefgHJ nope, Mick Micky Mouse owns every thing now Beauty, the Beast, Aladin, Jafar .OO. Kal marx predicted disney would rule Kathi annnnneed whole the world, the kithchen the kittens the whole 99 down to lil acorns. Marc us down for A... ur .. e....
Lius again and see what happens! . we don't tolertarate liars round, you here might find a missile where you least expect it man. Yep a Noir place in the nether regions. That's right a Nuke Man. Post that onto your modern thread. No prophets will revel at the arts or Rob ..er.. ta ta a Whit. So Sit a spell rro..ollll some Tafty in 20 or 12 loops. make a Tail or fins until the thunder falls and the knuckles To ro the boats are not red and you can do the trigg using trinity integers until you tyr and maybe go to the Ziu. There a Sax player at the entrance who say he did NOT voted 4 Reagan , he's a Wiccan and a liberal.
:hithere: welcome WoLONG :gunner4:
^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Bravo.
Lord of the underworld sought light to banish his dark dreams. Splintered in it filtered like sap oozing out from a wounded tree. Vaporizing his usual wicked lusts fathoms deep within his fevered and putrid brain. All the innocence he had slain, passed by in a flash.
His wicked soul was cleansed, cleansed by light's pureness finally , finally at last..
At last my cries were more than just felt and heard. They were embraced and returned by the sound of his powerful words.
Tyr-Ziu's last torment ages before the Sword split the Shield.. -Tyr
red states rule
02-09-2013, 04:34 PM
http://www.alinskydefeater.com/Blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/maher.jpg
Tyr-Ziu Saxnot
02-09-2013, 04:37 PM
For the great Gaels of Ireland
Are the men that God made mad,
For all their wars are merry,
And all their songs are sad.
G.K. Chesterton
Forgive your enemy, but remember the bastard's name.
Many people are alive only because it is illegal to shoot them
A well balanced Irishman has a chip on both shoulders
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red states rule
02-09-2013, 04:39 PM
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Voted4Reagan
02-09-2013, 04:47 PM
http://youtu.be/jIVmjP8nmzY
red states rule
02-09-2013, 04:49 PM
http://uberhumor.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/fun-motivate-42.jpg
Tyr-Ziu Saxnot
02-09-2013, 06:14 PM
http://uberhumor.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/fun-motivate-42.jpg
You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to red states rule again.
I've defeated a few chess players that went around strutting as if they had won. I just laughed at them...-Tyr
red states rule
02-09-2013, 06:16 PM
http://www.justsaypictures.com/images/liberals.jpg
Robert A Whit
02-09-2013, 06:48 PM
They told me if I behaved myself, I could apply for the short bus. I imagined how nice it must be not to wear wrist restraints.
What the hell? How could you qualify for no wrist restraints? We had them on all of our busses!!!
This is California, remember?
Do you know what they do to republican kids?
They have to ride the short bus, wear wrist restraints and sing happy songs about Obama.
http://youtu.be/pAlrSRVdKZY
Tyr-Ziu Saxnot
02-09-2013, 06:53 PM
http://youtu.be/jIVmjP8nmzY
Freaking bravo!!!!!!!! So much truth so little time.. -Tyr
red states rule
02-10-2013, 07:31 AM
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-1IkjnEgTSp4/UGt0Tr2kL0I/AAAAAAAADi8/2YY54h6uQfo/s1600/ObamaCoal.jpg
revelarts
02-10-2013, 08:04 AM
http://fc05.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2011/137/1/6/x_muppets_by_rahzzah-d3gih9g.jpg
Voted4Reagan
02-10-2013, 08:39 AM
http://cdn.memegenerator.net/instances/400x/34645801.jpg
PostmodernProphet
02-10-2013, 09:03 AM
I would carry on with both conversations because I am extremely intelligent and can do two things at once.....especially when I can do them at different times......sometimes the original thread was extremely boring and everyone wants to engage in the new conversation......some consider this thread hijacking.....in reality it is thread resurrection.......you will notice for example that this happened to your thread, which was excruciatingly boring......
tailfins
02-10-2013, 11:12 PM
I would carry on with both conversations because I am extremely intelligent and can do two things at once.....especially when I can do them at different times......sometimes the original thread was extremely boring and everyone wants to engage in the new conversation......some consider this thread hijacking.....in reality it is thread resurrection.......you will notice for example that this happened to your thread, which was excruciatingly boring......
I started this thread because somebody closed a thread called "effing snow!" and complained about it being derailed. This thread was an attempt to "serious up". I guess there is no such thing and getting banned every so often is just a normal part of being on a message board ... nothing you can really do about it. It's a good idea to be on several message boards so you don't have to care if you get banned.
gabosaurus
02-10-2013, 11:18 PM
http://i.qkme.me/3r4094.jpg
tailfins
02-10-2013, 11:21 PM
http://i.qkme.me/3r4094.jpg
As a bonus assignment, try FIVE letter words!
gabosaurus
02-10-2013, 11:47 PM
http://cdn.memegenerator.net/instances/400x/31300783.jpg
http://www.thefunnyblog.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/funny-grumpy-cat-meme-monday-good.jpg
Voted4Reagan
02-11-2013, 12:21 AM
http://cdn.memegenerator.net/instances/400x/34645801.jpg
Voted4Reagan
02-11-2013, 12:27 AM
I started this thread because somebody closed a thread called "effing snow!" and complained about it being derailed. This thread was an attempt to "serious up". I guess there is no such thing and getting banned every so often is just a normal part of being on a message board ... nothing you can really do about it. It's a good idea to be on several message boards so you don't have to care if you get banned.
look at it this way.... this is your most popular thread ever here...
Enjoy it
gabosaurus
02-11-2013, 01:11 AM
In N Out Burger is actually the only fast food burger that I will buy. Their meat is always shipped in fresh (not frozen) and they use locally produced vegetables and bread. It's not like the mass produced, heat lamped garbage that you get at Burger King or McDonalds.
red states rule
02-11-2013, 02:41 AM
http://www.victorluebker.com/uploads/3/8/5/7/3857257/9815814.jpg
Voted4Reagan
02-12-2013, 09:32 AM
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-vkA-RfWg5ng/UQ2JCYOkAuI/AAAAAAAACdM/pgxnHzLVoNg/s640/Obama+Dukakis.jpg
Tyr-Ziu Saxnot
02-12-2013, 10:28 AM
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-vkA-RfWg5ng/UQ2JCYOkAuI/AAAAAAAACdM/pgxnHzLVoNg/s640/Obama+Dukakis.jpg
The chump finally got the firing angle right-:laugh:
likely he is aiming at the American support troops on the roofs of the buildings..-:laugh2:
Voted4Reagan
02-12-2013, 10:35 AM
The chump finally got the firing angle right-:laugh:
likely he is aiming at the American support troops on the roofs of the buildings..-:laugh2:
Dukakis behind the MA-DEUCE always scares me.....
Obama with a Shotgun is pretty scary as well.....
tailfins
02-12-2013, 10:39 AM
I started this thread hoping to learn something. In that respect it has been successful, just not in the way I expected.
Lesson: DP is full of mental defectives. :poke:
Voted4Reagan
02-12-2013, 10:50 AM
http://cdn.memegenerator.net/instances/400x/34724203.jpg
Tyr-Ziu Saxnot
02-12-2013, 11:34 AM
I started this thread hoping to learn something. In that respect it has been successful, just not in the way I expected.
Lesson: DP is full of mental defectives. :poke:
So is the world. I hope that it does not come as a great shock to you.
There is crazy and then there is crazy!-Tyr
bingster
02-12-2013, 03:43 PM
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-9GqC7hS9gQk/UFMEygnBQSI/AAAAAAAAAqU/mcd8oZm-kZI/s1600/Funny-Cat-Pictures-With-Quotes-Are-Really-Funny-To-See-6.jpg
I was wondering why my cat looks like that all of the time.
gabosaurus
02-12-2013, 04:08 PM
Cats rule. Dogs drool.
aboutime
02-12-2013, 06:28 PM
I started this thread hoping to learn something. In that respect it has been successful, just not in the way I expected.
Lesson: DP is full of mental defectives. :poke:
Wanna learn something more effective?
Just look in a mirror.
tailfins
02-12-2013, 07:01 PM
Wanna learn something more effective?
Just look in a mirror.
Alright, Mr. Freudian Slip. I'm the most effective person you'll ever meet.
jimnyc
02-12-2013, 07:04 PM
I started this thread because somebody closed a thread called "effing snow!" and complained about it being derailed. This thread was an attempt to "serious up". I guess there is no such thing and getting banned every so often is just a normal part of being on a message board ... nothing you can really do about it. It's a good idea to be on several message boards so you don't have to care if you get banned.
Missed this yesterday. Can we please leave discussions about staff decisions off the board. I think you should know this is frowned upon by now. That's cool if you don't care if you get banned and all, but that doesn't mean we will ignore the rules.
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