Gav said:
Your attempts to get personal amuse me.
Replying to an offense is getting personal? Hooray for local meanings of words!
Gav said:
Just my way of pointing out, maybe you should have a little more discretion about things like that.
There's an easier way to avoid reading such things: avoid the gomoku thread completely (it's the only thread we flood with that kind of talk anyway, which, for your information, wasn't dirty).
Gav said:
Especially around people who already have a sarcastic and cynical view of your infinitely powerful and never ending magical fairytale love.
Well, we can't be blamed for the rest of the forum not having such nice loves. No need to get your frustration out on us. That's what your friends are for.
Gav said:
This said, arguing with you is like arguing with a human who has the mind of a plant... which someone with a mind could elaborate is no mind at all.
Why, because you can't make a plant believe your bullshit? Or because even a plant can beat you at an argument?
Gav said:
Your view of a good forum sounds like a bunch of preschoolers scribbeling "I wubby wubby wuv u!! " on a blackboard.
No, our idea of a good forum involves intelligent discussions. I'd like to point out that it also involves freedom of speech and a group of people capable of reading things without commenting anything offensive (you know, "don't say anything if you don't have anything positive to say" and all that). That said, i do not consider this forum to be a good one, not anymore.
Gav said:
This clashes violently with my view of a good forum. Here lies the essence of our conflict.
Again, no. The essence of the conflict lies in you not being able to see a happy couple not giving a shit about what the rest of the world thinks about them because you get jealous and whatnot. Don't worry, i've met too many people like you in my life (and i try to avoid them as much as possible), and i'm sure Ivana has too; one more won't make a difference. Sad that it had to be
you, though.
Gav said:
I don't want to go in to the intricacies of my posting style or choice of content... But what I'll explain is, by JOKE... I don't always mean "knock knock..." I mean, don't take things so literally.
The problem with you (and my mother, and so many other people) is that 1) you make offensive jokes, 2) only you and your group of friends (but not the victim of the joke) get your jokes, and 3) you make jokes like that aimed at two persons only (i.e. at nobody else). You know we won't get your jokes, and then you use that to try to come off as someone smarter than us (which your behavior disproves completely, by the way). Of course, people like you always make sure they have backup so they don't fall down alone, so you have your nice friends, Taliesin
et al., who are always there to back you up and come up with offenses of their own. But that's not cool, contrary to popular belief.
Gav said:
Now I expect an angry and personal broken english rant in response, as it is all you are capable of...
Her english isn't broken. tihs iz br0k3n englilsh, and writing shit like 'fruhstration' when you're a native-english-speaker is too; but what she writes isn't. That she doesn't have perfect english is 1) not her fault, 2) not something you should make fun of (and don't give me any "this is a forum and i can say whatever i want" bullshit, because most forums don't allow flaming and what you're doing is flaming), 3) not something that has the slightest thing to do with her intelligence, and 4) something that has absolutely nothing to do with anything anyone has said in this argument. Having said that, i'd like to add that her english is sometimes more readable than yours and most of the time more readable than most forum-members'.
Gav said:
no doubt my eyes would water with fruhstration if I actually gave a fuck what complete retards thought about my netiquette... as you just don't get it and nothing I ever write will make you get it.
This is part of the playing-smarter-than-your-joke's-victims thing i mentioned above. But you're right about one thing: we don't get your behavior; we don't get how somebody can enjoy hurting others so much (or, alternatively, we don't get how somebody can have such a strong need to feel superior to others and such a limited mental capacity to come up with smart ways to feel like that).
Gav said:
Maybe that's my short coming. I spend too much time elaborating when I probably lost you at "Your attem..." .
Yes, i don't know what an attem is, and i certainly don't think i have one, so you did lose me with that last thing you said.