Gawd you lot are funny.

I think OLO has been abused by people constantly banging on about the style of communication rather than the content.

Seriously, if anyone is really that upset they can just ignore that poster. It's not very hard.

I am really excited about Graham's new idea to nominate the Police. Foxy and pontificator will be beaming with pride. Sorry r0bert, I'd rather you just continue to sadly decry the 'missed opportunity' for 'productive' discussion. For some reason I enjoy your straight man, good all round nice guy thing you've got going on. I love it when you plead for clemency from the girls too.

I think in the end you all drastically overestimate this potential of OLO. I see few new ideas, and I know I'll be shot down, but the few new perspectives I've witnessed on OLO, looking from a topic from a different angle (apart from on gender threads) was actually antiseptic.

Phanto is good sometimes too. Pelican I agree with nearly everything she says, but that's boring. I don't know, is it really such an issue for people to slag each other off in a light hearted way. People seem to come back, and enjoy themselves.

I know I do. If anyone is genuinely offended after observing the way I relate they really are being silly. I'm nothing more than one of the two guys in The Muppets observing the show and making snide comments.

antiseptic,

'Suzie, I recommend you HTFU.'
That's bully talk. Suze can relate any way she wants.

As can I. As I will continue to do.

CJ,

'I think that OLO would be much more welcoming to women if posters like Antiseptic stopped posting egregiously nasty comments directed at them.'
You love him. You're f9ckn obsessed man. You'd be lost without him. Anyway, when I started you were one of the least 'welcoming' of posters with your little 'established' posters club.

If you're just messing with anti I like your style, but I think you really need someone to look down on.

Houellebecq,

The two guys in the Muppets are in context and funny, sadly, you're neither.

A misanthrope might suggest, that in other ways you do match them, Tired, cynical and a head full of stuffing. Ha ha he he Ho ho.:-)

PS
:-) = :) (allowing for *my* nose).

Foxy:"People don't have to face insults"

Certainly true, but one of the best ways to elicit a strong response from someone is to use language they regard as "insulting", regardless of the content.

I get a laugh every time someone describes me as "condescending", or "offensive", because I know it means they've been confronted with something that they found difficult to answer.

I get a kick out of a good response, too. Sadly, the level of rhetorical skill displayed on OLO is not as high as I'd like it, but it's better than many other sites.

I particularly enjoy hecklers, like the Pomeranian. All he has to do to stop me mocking him is stop heckling, but he's completely incapable of doing so: a consummate sideline-stander and leg-humper.

You'll note that I have rarely ever been directly insulting to you. That's because I respond in kind as much as possible and you have mostly been a reasonable and sensible poster who offers no insult herself. Of late you do seem to have got a bit carried away with your self-appointed role of thought-police...erm...person, though.

Houellebecq:"That's bully talk. Suze can relate any way she wants. "

Yes, indeed she can. I recommend that she'd do well to want to HTFU.

Foxy

You suggest "alpha male", that wouldn't work, some would see it as a badge of honour. Might I suggest "wannabe alpha male" (WAM) would be more apt. That field of thinking yields some delicious fruit (options). here are a few that could be applied :
i.e. MV mental vandal, for the mathematically minded... LMx2 little mind little man, R=e. rudeness is exponential. Well Some OLOers seem to love labels and pigeon holes.

Food for thought.
One wonders, how many of OLO ers do you think
- believe that parliament question time is representative of parliamentary debate? Therefore, appropriate all debates.

- believe that question time actually achieves anything?

If we consider that parliamentary debate rules have evolved
- over 100's of years
- designed around substance
- give fair voice to all sides
- rarely have issues with PC etc.(politeness)

Doesn't this say much about the ignorance and/or arrogance of those who choose BFI (brute force and ignorance) as their preferred mode?
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Davidf I forgot before, you deserve an A+ for effort too

Hay Houellebecq, you've got to be damn careful, walking on the ground, around here, & keep looking up.

If you are not switched on, you are likely to get crushed by some of this lot, falling off their high horses.

This especially relates to those who are more interested in spelling & punctuation, than what is being said.

I suppose it's what you would expect. It's easier to learn to spell, than to understand ideas.

Hasbeen,

Yeah, but I think I might get into it now. I really enjoyed joining in the morally superior lot in castigating antiseptic recently. It's so much fun, I can see why they love it so. Although I don't want to discourage people from letting rip, especially now some of my good influence has rubbed off on Foxy. Maybe as Foxy turns to the dark side I will slowly turn to the light. Me and Foxy have this yin/yang relationship.

[sic] Definition: An opportunistic put-down enacted by a pedant to disguise the fact they have no real comeback, relying on the false assumption that the writer of the original quote gives a sh1t that they've been 'caught out' spelling something wrong.

Septic,

'I particularly enjoy hecklers, like the Pomeranian. '
Yeah I'm getting real bored of that stuff. You need some new material, all the avenues have been exhausted. I think I've finally decided that CJ isn't just sycophantically sucking up to the female posters to wind you up, I fear he really is getting something more perverse out of it.

R0berts needy searching for affirmation from all female posters that he's not a raving misopgynist like that nasty antiseptic is somehow less creepy. Not sure why. Maybe the absence of the homoerotic competition between you and CJ, or maybe the lack of blatant hypocrisy seeing as how r0bert is never abusive himself.

Anyway, it's time for a new metaphor I think. A humble request from the audience.

Oh, and a request for Hyacinth (pontificator);
I haven't heard anything at all about your candle light suppers recently.
What's happened to the altruistic counsellor?

And finally,

A desperate call for the return of Col and Piper!
Even 'the vile ginx'.