roachboy

walking around the city for a few hours is good.
clears the head.

cyn--i think i overreacted to your post--it *was* patronizing and it *was* unnecessary. it advanced nothing--but judging from your post above, it was not meant as an insult so i apologize for claiming the contrary.

on the question of how host is treated in here: this is more a problem. in your capacity as a mod, you have legitimated a recurring and tiresome type of sniping at him--which is rarely--if ever---about the content of the posts and which focusses on the amount of material he gathers as if the amount of material was in itself an imposition on you personally and an imposition on others as well. since you, as mod, made this attack seem hunky dory, it has been repeated over and over in this forum and elsewhere.

the critique says nothing--at all---about what host is saying--it seems little more than a petty sniping that is only ok because you, cyn, sanctioned it because you occupy the double position as mod and member who happens to be a mod and you do not make a distincton between these roles when you post. i think this runs absolutely counter to everything you say above about openness--about acceptance.

so i am not sure that you are in a position to lecture me or anyone else abotu acceptance and openness.
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as for this empty category of "elitism": it is a particularly worthless limbaugh buzzword used to present folk who do not agree with limbaugh-esque political views as some kind of persecuting Other.

i see it as nothing more than a device used by people to exempt themselves from thinking too much and to blame others for their doing so. can't deal with arguments you dont agree with: it's the fault of the person who advances those arguments...they are Persecuting you by trying to argue that the world could be seen otherwise. to avoid being Persecuting by these requests that you think about what you believe, the planet limbaugh offers you the option of total passivity. that is how "elitism" functions as a term.

i think it ridiculous--but curiously it keeps coming up here, and seems to work in itsd limbaugh-esque sense. it is "elitist" to make demands on a reader. it is "elitist" to pose questions and not accept bullshit in response.

is that what the folk who throw this term around mean by it?
either explain or give it a rest...

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as for the humor thing--i simply dont find anything about this thread funny.
i didnt think caddyshack was funny either....like i dont think shit jokes are funny--i dont think fart jokes are funny. just a question of taste--i am not much of one for fratboy humor--i am not much of one for fratboy anything, really. so there is no particular need to revisit the thread.

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