Jolt Country

pinback wrote:(*) Did you know that in professional StarCraft, "foreigner" refers to anyone who isn't a South Korean? TRUE FACTS!

Did you know that in Salt Lake City, the term "gentile" is used to refer to someone who is not a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints? Apparently if you're not a Mormon you're a gentile.

Thus Salt Lake City is the only place in the world where Jews are gentiles!

Idra wrote:

Tdarcos wrote:It's also the "Intercultural Development Research Association" which "is an independent, non-profit organization that advocates the right of every child to a quality education."

You are a fucking joke.... Fuck you.

This is the best insult you can do? Lame, lame lame. You bore me. You are a wart on the skin of the universe, awaiting the splash of Compound W which will terminate your less-than-worthless existence.

RetroRomper wrote:

pinback wrote:Did you know that in professional StarCraft, "foreigner" refers to anyone who isn't a South Korean? TRUE FACTS!

Going even further, its possible to use South Korean as a unit of measurement.

Yeah, and in the world of weapons, the term "Hiroshima" is also used as a term of measurement, e.g. the largest bomb ever built, the Tsar Bomba, is rated at 3,333 Hiroshimas*, while Timothy McVeigh's Oklahoma City Bombing is rated at 0.03 Hiroshimas.

*Comparisons: Tsar Bomba, 50,000 Kilotonnes TNT; Hiroshima "Little Boy" approximately 15KT TNT; OKC Truck Bomb, approx. 0.002 KT TNT.

Tdarcos wrote:Yeah, and in the world of weapons, the term "Hiroshima" is also used as a term of measurement,

I guess since no one is posting any further, that I have essentially nuked the conversation...

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Number 5: What happened to the thread on Jolt Country?
Tam O'Shanter: It only got 24 posts. It needed to have 100 or it was to be destroyed after Christmas. You know, put down like a rabid dog.
Number 5: Or perhaps, like a rabid moderator, since everyone in the world knows about Jonsey. (Actually this joke worked better when I thought Pinback was the one who started that thread instead of ICJ.) Oh, you know what that means! All together now!
Both: Dead Post walking!
- Tales of Zenith

Tales of Zenith stars the talking robot from Short Circuit?

Flack wrote:Tales of Zenith stars the talking robot from Short Circuit?

I just didn't have a name for the guy, he is the manager of a homeless shelter whom nobody mentions his name, he just always goes around with a baseball cap with '5' on it.

It's one of the features of the strip - or will be once I get the current drawings put on the computer - is that we never see Tam O'Shanter, and we never know Number 5's real name.

Number 5's real name is Johnny.

As an aside, I will as they say LEAVE FOREVER if this base is put down. I'm here for Starcraft, everything else is secondary.

We're not gone; this deserves a separate post.

This base will be destroyed on May 30th and the Don Rogers base will be in its place.

Ice Cream Jonsey wrote:This base will be destroyed on May 30th and the Don Rogers base will be in its place.

I am sorry you have decided you don't want me here any more and have decided I don't matter. I will miss being here and on Caltrops after May 30 and I wish you all - except for Jonsey, who can go fuck himself sideways as far as I'm concerned - the best.

I'm really pissed that there was no discussion about the matter. I mean, it's Jonsey's board, he can run it any way he wants. I can simply decide I don't like it and quit participating, which, since I have no say in the matter, is the only option I have.

Thank you.

Tdarcos wrote:

Ice Cream Jonsey wrote:This base will be destroyed on May 30th and the Don Rogers base will be in its place.

I am sorry you have decided you don't want me here any more and have decided I don't matter. I will miss being here and on Caltrops after May 30 and I wish you all - except for Jonsey, who can go fuck himself sideways as far as I'm concerned - the best.

I'm really pissed that there was no discussion about the matter. I mean, it's Jonsey's board, he can run it any way he wants. I can simply decide I don't like it and quit participating, which, since I have no say in the matter, is the only option I have.

Thank you.

All right, you have convinced me. The base stays! THE BASE? STAYS!

I do have one question, Paul. Why did you take the potential destruction of this base as an insult against YOU? I meant for it to be a potential insult to Ben, since he wanted it.

Let me understand your reasoning so we can move past this.

Ice Cream Jonsey wrote:

Tdarcos wrote:

Ice Cream Jonsey wrote:This base will be destroyed on May 30th and the Don Rogers base will be in its place.

I am sorry you have decided you don't want me here any more and have decided I don't matter. I will miss being here and on Caltrops after May 30 and I wish you all - except for Jonsey, who can go fuck himself sideways as far as I'm concerned - the best.

I'm really pissed that there was no discussion about the matter. I mean, it's Jonsey's board, he can run it any way he wants. I can simply decide I don't like it and quit participating, which, since I have no say in the matter, is the only option I have.

Thank you.

All right, you have convinced me. The base stays! THE BASE? STAYS!

What bothered me was not that you were removing this base, but that you didn't ask first. If you said you were going to create a miscellaneous archive for stuff that was no longer relevant or wasn't getting responses, and were moving the contents of this base to that archive, that would have been better.

If you had posted a message that said that you were considering eliminating this base because you didn't think it got any new traffic and wanted to know what we thought of it, that would also have been better.

Then if the general consensus here was that this base wasn't really being used much and wasn't necessary, then that would have been a different matter and that I could go along with.

It was the fact that you just announced it as a dictum and the people who contribute here - especially me - had no say in the matter. (Yes, I know it's your domain and your system, and you may run it any way you please, but I think some courtesy to the audience is warranted.)

This was also why I said I would leave. I have no right to demand anything; I am simply a guest here in this place that you have been nice enough to provide to me and everyone else. But i do have the right to decide that I disagree with your policies and choose to no longer participate. Now, I could have silently walked away, and the problem with that is that nobody knows why I stopped, and second - as in the case that you decided to change your mind - I have no means at all to have any influence on policy if I do not voice my opposition to policy.

But I understand about setting policy. I've had to do it myself.

I mean, I run my blog with an iron hand; I have to, if I don't lock the place down the spammers come in and ruin it. I'm reminded of the story of a catfish farm that someone opened the wrong gate and the jellyfish - the locusts of the ocean - swarmed in and consumed all the catfish, that they measured it and they could go down as far as 20 feet deep it was still full of jellyfish. All those beautiful catfish destroyed by vermin.

And so it is with spammers and scammers, if I don't lock my blog down I get flooded with garbage. You saw it when a bunch of them tried to infest this place. Hell, the worst of the worst of the worst posters on Caltrops represent a calibre of fine commentary that is thousands of times more valuable than anything the spammers have ever posted on my board or anywhere else.

I don't know that the material here qualifies for moving to the "Best of JC" but if you had an "Archives" base to hold messages posted to defunct forums that would have been acceptable as opposed to simply erasing everything, which is what I thought the result was going to be.

Ice Cream Jonsey wrote:I do have one question, Paul. Why did you take the potential destruction of this base as an insult against YOU? I meant for it to be a potential insult to Ben, since he wanted it.

Let me understand your reasoning so we can move past this.

Let's say this, why would I think it was going to be an insult to Ben when you're going to replace it with a forum devoted to him?

I had the impression that it might even be possible given Ben was being given his own base about his show, you'd spoken to him and decided to replace this with that.

I think what irritated me most was that after all the work I put into it to save it "from the consignment to oblivion," that you were now going to nuke it anyway.

The second most irritating thing was when Pinback raped one of my posts that was in support of him. He never did say if he thought about my channeling of Pulp Fiction regarding his "mistake."

Do crazy people know they're crazy?

Flack wrote:Do crazy people know they're crazy?

One can't be cured until they admit there is a problem. While I believe I am sane, I am willing to admit I could be wrong and I might be crazy. Will the others who visit here admit that?

I will admit you're wrong AND crazy. Changing this base to Pinback's radio career is a good idea. I don't play Starcraft but I do listen to the radio.



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Some crazy people are sometimes aware they are crazy.

All of you can now fuck off.

Bruce

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