Pelican:“You don't like group hugs Pied? :)”

Any hug these days that doesn’t leave goobers on me is A-okay with me.

I’ve been trying for days just to be nasty to someone but can’t manage it, I feel I am missing something important that lots of OLO users have.

Minds out of the gutter gentlemen.

Now I’m worried examinator is gonna call me P-ant.

'Enjoy your gruntlement!'

I will Foxy. I always do.

TPP,

'why on earth can't I go out of character even for fun?'
Haha. I'm so busy playing different characters I don't even know when I'm in character any more.

pelican,

'for Houlley this is like fish in a barrel stuff.'
Actually I once went fishing at a trout farm in Austria and couldn't catch one.
I must say I'm happy with what I've created here though.

Such as....

A platform for some of Cols finest work!

'We do not wear suits to "enhance our worth" but to demonstrate it.'
Arf Afr! Ah Col, it's really not fair you're work so often goes unappreciated.

An opportunity to illicit scorn from the judgemental and high and mighty.

Bringing out the quotes such as ... 'When you wear a suit you are publicly declaring whose side you are on'

Getting somewhere with Fractelle and her issues with men.

Pissing off the Police (Foxy) again.

Even when people think I'm the shallowest of the shallow, showing I can drain a little more out of the pool.

Oh, Oktono's 'what had happened in his life to make him think that purchasing such disgusting footwear was desirable or even acceptable'. Oooh such delicious anger! So much more revealing and honest and open and interesting than the snide 'you're shallow' posters.

All in all, smugly knowing that most of what I'm on about flies over people's heads. Sure I can be incoherent and obtuse and rarely serious, but I provided a platform for much deeper discussions, and you were all involved, but decided to take the easier and more entertaining route. Not a bad thing, but the accusations of shallowness and pointed fingers should hence be turned upon themselves.

Houel how do you do it?

I do my little private rants at people in my editor, find it kind of stress relieving, but I couldn’t on purpose click “post” if I was pretending to be someone else or if I (and I really suffer from this) think it would really hurt someone’s feelings and especially if directed at a known female.

Hey I have a pair of red “crocks” I love love love them. No I don’t wear them in public!

My daughter right now is sitting in front of me wearing her MacDonalds uniform and has to walk to work… what a sucker.

TPP,

'and especially if directed at a known female.'
How Odd. So you think one should be nicer to females than males? Not a feminist I presume.

See, now if someone like you, who I don't see ever post anything nasty, wanted to be the police like Foxy or Fractelle, I could handle that. But some of the stuff those two come out with is really nasty, even if they always say it's in 'retaliation'. Then they go on as if they're so 'nice', and bang on that people should be more like them. I think you're nice though. Actually 'nice' is a stupid word. Nobody is nice or nasty, people are just people.

McDonalds uniform would suck. I used to be so desperate and excited to change out of my school uniform when I got home from school, and refused to be seen in it outside school. School is where they train you to be a drone. Someone rings a bell and people obediently get up and wander off to the next lesson, kids are no more than sheep. I always used to say the bloody lazy teachers should move, there's only one of them and 30 of us.

Dear Houellebecq,

Most people have more than one 'layer,' to them
but if a person only consistently shows us just
the one layer - we can only take them at face
value. You claim you wanted a 'serious,' discussion
on this topic - but that's not possible when you make
people feel like scapecoats, who you feel threatened by.

As I wrote on another post - I think it is important
to be secure and unafraid of speaking your own mind.
If your intentions are not just to win the game, then
you can feel good that you've spoken your mind without
malice or anger but just from the depths of your truth.
However, that's difficult to continue to do - when
someone keeps making fun of you and continually jabs
at you, and then accuses you of not taking part in
a 'serious,' discussion.

Ah well, no matter who we are, I guess sometimes
things don't always work out the way we want!

H,
I'm intrigued how you interpolate your seeming lack of regard for others sensitivities as being a good thing? To me that is plain ordinary wantonly boorish.

Assuming that people like Foxy or me are playing 'policeman' is a borderline paranoid narcissism. i.e. that you are somehow the centre and therefore any disagreement with what you 'say' is a personal attack on you personally. Don't you think it might simply be a request to tone it down a bit. BTW Putting something politely doesn't compromise the integrity of your views. Punk attitudes are so adolescent.

Fractelle like all of us has issues on some topics and at time bites when she shouldn't but to deliberately bait her as you seem to makes one wonder why? It's hardly funny nor is it fun unless you have sociopathic dysfunctions .... that make all conversations either a matter of personal integrity or esteem that drives a overly confrontational persona