Please help Forrest et al from the clutches of the tar baby
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Please help Forrest et al from the clutches of the tar baby
How about a third choice? "Just like reality TV, it is idiotic and entertaining. Keep it open for the sheer sock* value of what will happen next". That's my vote.
*note - this word should have been shock, not sock. But one of the Shirley's likes sheer socks, so we will keep it. Although I am sure 5 out of 6 Shirley's will agree that shocks can be fun as well.
Or "don't like it, don't read it. As long as some users want to participate, why stop them just because others don't like it?" And what JamesK said :) I love sheer socks :)
Totally! :-)Quote:
Originally Posted by JamesK
LOL. I better fix my typo!Quote:
Originally Posted by sskasser
WHAT?!? You DON'T like sheer socks? :(Quote:
Originally Posted by JamesK
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Originally Posted by sskasser
I've found that if you rub them together, especially during southern, summer, sunny Sundays that sheer socks sure shock sheep to sleep. However, "shocking sleeping sheep on southern, summer, sunny, Sundays using sheer socks" shennanigans is shameful. Wouldn't you agree?
My third choice would be to ban the troll.Quote:
Originally Posted by JamesK
Me too, two, to...help me RussellQuote:
Originally Posted by ianr33
I can't, I'm too busy grinning.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hammerhead Ferrari
(For those not on Facebook, the offer we made on a house June 3 was accepted today!)
Maybe we should use the tar baby to tar and feather the troll....
Russell, congrats on the house!
If the thread is closed he might find his way into another thread. Lets keep it open and occasionally feed him just for the sake of confinement.
I am afraid I agree, there needs to be a third option. Leave the thread open, just don't respond to it, and the trolls will eventually get tired of talking to themselves. We can't ban someone, if they don't violate any rules. Some trolls are too clever to get themselves banned by breaking rules. Sadly, trolls can provoke others into breaking rules, which is why the black bar is in one post.
Trolls mamas are so ugly that......
Dear Administrator,Quote:
Originally Posted by FW
your forum is so poor in quality and the way it is run that I am ceasing to participate in it.
Gian A. Ameri
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You are correct. If we were a quality organization, we would have banned you long ago, like most of the other cavdiving forums around the world :roll:Quote:
Originally Posted by gianaameri
So did he leave or get put in time out?
Lets keep it civil. Even a troll should be treated in a civil manner.
Since gianaameri posted a full name, I looked it up. The A. is Andrea, so he is a she.Quote:
Originally Posted by lv2dive
And yes, after she said she was leaving, I put her in time out, just to be sure. I was about to anyway. She is too clever to break any rules, but she was causing other members to be uncivil, which is still a violation of rule #6.
Thank you.Quote:
Originally Posted by mfascuba
Great now the vein on my temple can stop throbbing.
Forrest you put her on "time out"? Did ya bend over your knee, nick nack paddy wack , let her chew some bone? Did this old come running home? Any pics?Quote:
Originally Posted by FW
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Originally Posted by Slüdge
Halleluiah!!!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by hunabku
You know, in some countries Andrea is also a man's name. Ever heard of Andrea Doria?
Just a side note. You do know that the story of brer rabbit and tar baby has racial undertones from the south that have been long looked down upon and is no longer taught or discussed in schools because of it?
Ps: not a complaint or comment about racial sensitivity. Just more interested because I've found alot of people dont know.
Back to your regularly scheduled programming.
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Originally Posted by Slüdge
So is "Sludge"!!!!!
But we're not politically correct so we don't care.Quote:
Originally Posted by rddvet
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Originally Posted by Slüdge
Me either.
I brought it up because when I was a kid I went to the same school as my father and actually had the same teacher he had. One of our projects was some book/fable related project. My father did his on the Brer Rabbit story, and I was going to do the same. I wasn't allowed to due to the "racial undertones".
That is so stupid! The "Brer" bunch was as excellent a bunch of fables as were Aesop's.
Just because something was done in the south and has blacks and whites of that era portrayed in that era doesn't make it racist!
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Originally Posted by Jax
It is stupid but I can see the school's point as well. Tarbaby was still used as a term of racism up until I left Louisiana.
Yes. Of course, these were part of the "Uncle Remus" collection of stories by Joel Chandler Harris. They were also featured in the Disney movie, "Song of the South," the movie title also being that of the film's main song (we know it better as "Zippity do dah... Zippityay...").Quote:
Originally Posted by rddvet
I recall being read/discussing these stories in the 5th grade (mostly "Br'er Rabbit and the Honey pot"). But I can see why they would not be permitted for discussion in schools today.
As for the original topic, I would prefer the thread in question remain open. Hopefully, it will help us all learn "not to feed the trolls!" I agree... If we close the thread (i.e. a "rejection"), it will mean we're still paying attention to the troll and that will spur them on. If we keep the thread(s) open and just ignore all the troll post(s), that's even worse than paying them "negative/rejection" attention. I believe it will make the troll go away much faster if nobody cares (one way or another) about what they have to say.
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Originally Posted by rddvet
Agreed. At lease as recently as the late 70s and early 80s. It doesn't matter what the origin of something was once it takes on an identity of its own.
Good for you two! Congrats...she'll make an honest man out of you yet RussellQuote:
Originally Posted by Slüdge
Noooooooooooooo...Quote:
Originally Posted by gianaameri
Now that I was just going to tell him about the death on the hydro a few months ago, the guy breathing a wrong mix (36%?) at 175'. That would put some more fuel into his fire:smt077
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Unfortunately trolls are like the mythological Hydra (not the genus of small, simple aquatic animals).
When you cut off one head, two more heads emerge.
On my birthday !!Quote:
Originally Posted by Slüdge
congratulations Russell ^_^
Ah hell... Gian's on here as well? On behalf of the UK - I apologise to our cousins across the pond.. he seems to do this sort of thing everywhere. In mitigation, AFAIK he's not one of ours... we just host his blathering.. I used to find it amusing, now it's tiresome..
The ignore function is wonderful isn't it.. IMO it's best to put a blanket ignore on certain accounts - so that they can have arguments with themselves without bothering the rest of the world (and there's a few on both sides of the pond that can argue with themselves... it's not just Gian).. could that be the "third option" that everyone is looking for? A Sandbox area where we blanket ignore the troll-type people and leave them go play..
EDIT : - On the poll I am broadly in favour of leaving things open - sorry I didn't say that before.
When my children were younger I made sure to find not only a videotape copy of "Song of the South" but also an original reprint of his Uncle Remus tales. Joel Chandler Harris, along with Thomas Nelson Page covered the antebellum (and post war) years well and are still mentioned in some literary academic circles for authentically representing the black dialect of the day. See: http://www.walterbrasch.com/brerrabb...lerharris.html
Also, the two children of Joel Chandler Harris owned the Columbus (GA) Enquirer and they won a Pulitzer prize in the 1920's for in-depth reporting against the Ku Klux Klan. http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/a...1963-1875-1967
My family owned the other Columbus daily (the Ledger) and they bought the Enquirer from the Harris family.
Where is El Eyere when we need him ? :smt067:flame