pelican: << CJ could be a Japanese woman who does origami in her spare time >>

Spooky... actually it's bonsai that's my passion. I do, however, have a black belt in origami.

"r0bert is never abusive himself." not quite, sometimes I fire off a post before I think about it enough. Unnecessary conflict is not part of my preferred approach to posting or life. Polarising debate does get attention, it get's affirmation from those who agree with you but I don't see that it helps.

I don't want to be in the habit of responding to people abusively here then take that stuff back into the rest of my life.

Houellebecq I've not worked out if you really believe that I'm "searching for affirmation" or if it's just a dig that you hope get's under my skin. It's certainly not my view of the world. I would rather be someone that most readers bothered trying to understand than dismissed based on past history even when they disagree.

R0bert

Posted by pelican, Saturday, 27 February 2010 7:57:28 AM:



"Gender doesn't matter - we are all
just usernames from a forum point of view."



Collectively, that would make us foruminifera, would it not?




In these now arbitrarily more verbose times (see: http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/thread.asp?discussion=3478&page=0 ),
I can't pass up the opportunity to congratulate david f on his skillful use of a lower case sans serif 'l' in what would otherwise have been the acronym OLO in the topic title, making it doubly bilaterally palindromic. Back to front, and inverted, it reads the same. Very insightful in the context of the topic, david f. Doubly bilateral palindromicity is not easily achieved.

Speaking of usernames (which pelican does), I note the relatively recent re-badgings of erstwhile Forum identities 'Fractelle' and 'Q&A'. Specifically, to 'severin' and 'qanda', respectively, judging by the literary styles of posts. Do these changes reflect the acquisition of new computers, or alternatively re-installations of operating systems, concomitant with loss of the original OLO keys and passwords for login, I wonder? Or are there other reasons for the changes?

Tell me qanda, qanda, qanda. Tell me qanda, tell me why.

Dear Forrest Gumpp,

In addition to being doubly bilaterally palindromic OlO also stands for the dichotimising of the OlO kinds of humanity into those who understand binary notation and those who don't.

lOl david f (in a strictly binary doubly bilaterally palindromic way, of course).

I now feel suitably dichotomised. Ol Ol Ol!

Is such binary notational comprehension a sex-linked characteristic in your experience, O font of all wisdom? Not wishing to engender any conflict on the Forum, but this just strikes me as something you are likely to have your finger on on OlO.

Cornflower, <" How is 'HTFU' any worse than calling a person 'septic', relating him to pus, putrefaction and sewage?
Likewise, when a women refers to a male adversary as a 'little' man there are several unflattering interpretations, all meant with malice aforethought."

Well it is heartwarming to see someone standing up for 'septic there Cornflower. We will wait and see what happens next time he has you in his sights for a nasty response.

Unfortunately, I asked my 18 year old daughter what HTFU meant, and she said it stood for "Hate To F... You"! So you can see why I then came up with the belittling comments that I did to poor dear 'septic.

You are right though Cornflower, and I now regret stooping to his level and making personal insults.
I stand corrected, and I will NEVER consult my daughter about these things again!