Gaijin Smash: Ms. Grinch (May 22/07)

[Chrome Newfie]

Article link: Ms. Grinch (http://www.gaijinsmash.net/archives/ms_grinch.phtml)

Entertaining. But Az, you are incorrect about one thing. Women do know about having a penis. They have ours. ;)

[Pierrot le Fou]

Do you post anything but one-line quips in regards to Az's articles?

If you are going to post them, could you please quote the article you're posting so that I don't have to click a link to understand what the dickens you're on about?

[koku]

Wow that was a fun one. Maybe I was in the right mood, but holy batshit, the tits of iron -- "That shit HURT!!" -- and imagiining a 50+ year old lady marching around pointing and exclaiming "TSUKIMA!! TSUKIMA!!" just had me laughing.


Aaaaah, thanks for that.

[Chrome Newfie]

Do you post anything but one-line quips in regards to Az's articles?

If you are going to post them, could you please quote the article you're posting so that I don't have to click a link to understand what the dickens you're on about?

I will not post the entire article because 1) it is a duplication of information, 2) I would very much prefer to direct the traffic to Rudius Media on the assumption that it eventually benefits Az, and 3) by now, the format of these threads, meant to provide a place on the OP9 forums for the kind of discussion that is best conducted in forums rather than youtube-like comment lists, should be no suprise to regulars -- if you're not interested, why did you click the thread in the first place?

I generally will not post the article in part for reasons 1) and 2) above, plus 3) I believe I am neither knowledgeable enough, or egotistical enough, to determine what would be of most interest to the readership. Sometimes I quote the minimal amount relevant to a "quip", as you put it, but I don't always have time.

I "quip" because I dislike appearing as a disinterested robot providing a service, but neither do I really want to dominate any potential conversation with my own opinion. So I tend to restrict myself to flippant, generally inconsequential (though hopefully amusing) remarks in the initial post.

You may choose to disagree with those reasons. They are mine, and thus largely incontestible in their sphere of relevance (that is, me, and me alone).

[Daishikaze]

Wow, that is one strict teacher.

[koku]

Wow, that is one strict teacher.


I feel I should be cupping my mouth and saying "OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHH" right about now.



I dunno, should I?

EDIT: Talking about the Grinch, and not the OP's response it seems. Oops.

[ParryDat]

Good Read

[mawande]

That is one bad teacher. I think. I don't know, what results does she get? What avenues can you pursue when you're dealing with a teacher who isn't a closet sex-maniac as far as you know? Who do you complain to?

[Ivor's Tinfoil Bandana]

If you are going to post them, could you please quote the article you're posting so that I don't have to click a link to understand what the dickens you're on about?
That would be a good idea, as gaijinsmash is blocked at work :bored: (reason : Profanity !).

[Roxie]

Holy shit, Umbridge ALIVE! and Japanesy!

Hyde, rss it to your google's feeder.

[CrazyAce86]

^
That's what I was thinking as I read it. It's Umbridge! I'm just waiting for the squad to show up now.

I never had a teacher quite that bad, but I did have one very close to it named Mrs. Griest. (Pronounced 'gry-st,' so you can imagine what we did with that name.) Ugh, I hated her.

[Roxie]

I had an abusive teacher. Ms. Sims in the 5th grade.

She stuck her fingernails into me b/c, unbeknownst to me, I was talking and not staying in the line.

She had a sleepover at her house with all the girls, but did not invite me.

She told us it was OK to call each other nigger.

Several other things...I began to write them down, told my mom and she wrote up a request for a conference. I gave it to Ms. Sims but nothing happened.

Mom escalated to the principal for a conference.

meanwhile, I was given extra work in class so I would "stay out of her [ms. sims] business"

they have the conference and I'm in the lobby. Ms. Sims runs out and then comes back with a huge notebook.

Apparently, she told my mother that she never received the request for a conference and she would prove my mother was lying by bringing in the notebook. As she was flipping through it, my mother spotted the letter and stopped her and said, "there it is"


yeah, she was a bitch.

[Decade]

The "wrong location" problem is something I got all the time when I went to Hong Kong (I still get it today).

Before I left and after I came back, everyone kept asking me:

"So how was Japan?"

":bored: I don't know, I went to Hong Kong."

"Yea I know, were the Japanese nice?

"There arn't (many) Japanese people in Hong Kong"

":confused:...you playing a mind game with me or something?"


:duh:

[Eddie Echoplex]

The "wrong location" problem is something I got all the time when I went to Hong Kong (I still get it today).

Before I left and after I came back, everyone kept asking me:

"So how was Japan?"

":bored: I don't know, I went to Hong Kong."

"Yea I know, were the Japanese nice?

"There arn't (many) Japanese people in Hong Kong"

":confused:...you playing a mind game with me or something?"


:duh:

This is why you should bring a taser, maybe the electric shock might fix that brain.

"So was Japa--BUZZZZ-- Arrghhh, My head is full of hurting!!!"

[Daishikaze]

The "wrong location" problem is something I got all the time when I went to Hong Kong (I still get it today).

Before I left and after I came back, everyone kept asking me:

"So how was Japan?"

":bored: I don't know, I went to Hong Kong."

"Yea I know, were the Japanese nice?

"There arn't (many) Japanese people in Hong Kong"

":confused:...you playing a mind game with me or something?"


:duh:

Same here, its always Sweden this and Sweden that, But I keep telling them I live in Switzerland.

[Decade]

Just so you know, I'd HAVE to laugh if anyone ever asked you about naked beaches in SWITZERLAND :rofl:

[Plekto]

I was wondering what was more offensive to the poor girl - the guy across from her leaving a little space between the desks, or nearly getting a flying desk to the grill from a crazed obasan in makeup armor.

****
And this, folks, is precisely why even the Yakuza fear Obasans. This woman is going to be a ringleader of the PTA in 20 years, make no mistake about it...

[Daishikaze]

Just so you know, I'd HAVE to laugh if anyone ever asked you about naked beaches in SWITZERLAND :rofl:

They have at least once.

[Digital Masta]

She looked kind of like Bambi, when he learned that his mom had died...except in this version, the hunter cooks Bambi's Mom up into veal Parmesan and eats her right in front of Bambi too.

Isn't veal baby cow? Deer is Venison, no?

[Pierrot le Fou]

That would be a good idea, as gaijinsmash is blocked at work :bored: (reason : Profanity !).
There's also the fact that it's a giant site which, even with the images blocked, looks nothing approaching work-like. OP9 at least looks like it could be work related (I have smilies blocked, avatars blocked, and pretty-much anything that isn't text turned off).

Many of us support Az in other ways than providing hits to his website.

[xinster]

There's also the fact that it's a giant site which, even with the images blocked, looks nothing approaching work-like. OP9 at least looks like it could be work related (I have smilies blocked, avatars blocked, and pretty-much anything that isn't text turned off).

Many of us support Az in other ways than providing hits to his website.

This is really just stupid nitpicking at this point but i think its better if we link to Rudius/ Festering Ass, that way we help all the other writers too and make sure Tucker sees all of Az's fans

[Pierrot le Fou]

This is really just stupid nitpicking at this point but i think its better if we link to Rudius/ Festering Ass, that way we help all the other writers too and make sure Tucker sees all of Az's fans
Simple request: paste the articles.

This is not nitpicking nor is it stupid.

You can paste the article AND paste the link.

God forbid.

[Annoying MSN Person]

Pasting the entire thing would be nice. And make more sense.

The only net access I have blocks the articles as porn (understandably), and the library powers that be have now decided that any site even related to the word "proxy" is porn too :/

[Roxie]

I disagree.

[Hatsumomo]

Don't be hatin' on Estelle Getty. She and Bea Arthur will get you with their floppy gray vaginas of doom.

[xinster]

Simple request: paste the articles.

This is not nitpicking nor is it stupid.

You can paste the article AND paste the link.

God forbid.

well, when you put it that way, clicking a link, god forbid, is a pretty simple request too.

[Pierrot le Fou]

Save that at least two people in the thread have stated that they cannot view the site. Another one has requested that it be posted here as it doesn't look very work-related.

Your 'simple request' is impossible for two people, while our 'simple request' is perfectly possible for anyone but those two people who have posted in the thread.

God forbid you be accomodating.

[xinster]

he's just a good guy who's doin us a favor.

In fact, let's all give him a round of applause

*applauds Newfie

[Pierrot le Fou]

No, he's doing you a favor. Those of us who do not/can not visit the site are not having a favor being done.

Is this difficult to understand, because you don't seem to be able to wrap your head around it.

[bubbles]

He's going to be making the threads, any nice person is within their rights to paste in the article further down whether he likes it or not x.x

Gently caress Nga Kete Wananga-o-Otautahi.

[Chuckles]

Okay... he's doing us a favor and not you.

*claps for him*


I mean, shit, he could just do nothing at all.

[Ichisan]

No, he's doing you a favor. Those of us who do not/can not visit the site are not having a favor being done.

Is this difficult to understand, because you don't seem to be able to wrap your head around it.

You're a bit argumentative aren't you?

*Waits for Pierrot le Fou to reply arguing that he is not argumentative.*

[bubbles]

Okay... he's doing us a favor and not you.

*claps for him*


I mean, shit, he could just do nothing at all.
And fuck you too :/

If he did nothing at all then at least I wouldn't be notified of how retarded my internet browsing abilities are.

[Pierrot le Fou]

Okay... he's doing us a favor and not you.

*claps for him*


I mean, shit, he could just do nothing at all.
I would prefer him doing nothing to half-assedly posting one-liners in response to something I haven't read and won't be able to read at work.

[stsparky]

GaijinSmash.net - May 22, 2007


Ms. Grinch

There is one English teacher I've nicknamed that I failed to mention before. She gets her own editorial.
I call her Ms. Grinch. It's difficult to tell her age, because she's wearing enough layers of makeup to effectively shield her from shotgun shells to the face. I wonder if she's actually ever taken off makeup in her life - like the rings on a tree trunk, perhaps we can determine her age by counting the layers of foundation. I am going to guess no younger than 50. For a 50 year old, she's in pretty good shape, but she dresses like a trendy 20-something. Mercifully, nothing revealing, but still, with jeans and shirts perhaps tighter than they should be. I've said before that I have no problem with Mrs. Robinsons, but I'm afraid I do have to draw the line at Estelle Getty.
In planning our first classes together, she wanted my self-introduction to include a quiz about San Francisco. As such, she asked me about what SF was most famous for. Jokingly, I suggested Gay Pride, thinking way, way back to the young student who answered that question with "Gay Bridge". Ms. Grinch's face lights up (I suppose - under all that makeup who knows what's going on...) - "Oh, Gay Pride!" she says, "Oh, so there are a lot of gay people in San Francisco then!" I said there were, but that I was really only joking, and if we wanted to talk about the history of San Francisco, surely we could cover anything ranging from the gold rush and the Golden Gate Bridge, to Alcatraz, how Sean Connery and Nicholas Cage survived Alcatraz, or hell, even Rice-A-Roni. "No no, I want to talk about the gays!" Ms. Grinch insists, and that is how it was decided that, during my first classes with very impressionable Japanese 15 year olds, I would give a talk about Gay Pride.
Not that I have anything against Gay Pride - I am from San Francisco after all - but I don't really want to talk about Gay Pride when I'm, y'know, not gay. I'm sure most homosexuals out there wouldn't exactly leap at the chance to talk about the wonders of being straight. We can't ask Kate Moss to give a talk about being dangerously obese, can we? Or, how about asking women to be thrilled to talk about how great it is to have a penis.*
*Although, ladies, you have NO idea what you're missing. Cause it's fuckin' awesome.
Ms. Grinch asks me to outline my potential Gay Pride talk with her. I try to think of the most straightforward explanation I can think of. I say that, perhaps in America, on the coasts people are more open and accepting of alternative lifestyles, but in the middle of America (red states!) people aren't quite as accepting. Ms. Grinch nods along as if I'm revealing some long-hidden truth to her. "The middle of America...oh, so you mean, like Arizona?"
...So, Arizona is considered the mid-west now? Who knew? You hear that all you Arizonians out there? You guys are the Midwest now. Time to start hating gays and worshipping football, if you haven't already. I also expect a fine herd of cattle and the dogged cowboys to properly wrangle them. I don't wanna hear any "desert wasteland" excuses outta you either.
I can't really blame her for this too much though, it's not like Americans are any better...
Mom: Hey, I heard on the news that there was an earthquake in Hokkaido...are you okay?
Me: Yeah Mom, Kyoto doesn't really feel earthquakes that happen over 600 miles away...
Can it get worse? Oh boy yes it can.
Grandma: Boy, are you eating right? I heard that food's real scarce thanks to that Kim Jong Il character...
Me: ...That's not even the right country!
Once Ms. Grinch and I were during a skit during class. I forget what the context was, but Ms. Grinch asked what I would like. The textbook had me say orange juice or something boring like that...but I like to ad-lib a lot during class, so I put on a pouty face and said that I would like a hug. ...Didn't expect her to actually do it. ...By GOD, those were the hardest tits I have ever felt IN MY LIFE. And I've been to a lot of strip clubs in my day. I'm not even exaggerating, it felt like having two slabs of granite be pressed into my chest. That shit HURT, and it continued to hurt for a day afterwards.
Now, I don't know why Ms. Grinch has Tits of Iron...and I don't want to know either. There is no explanation that will bring me any measure of joy, so I choose to remain blissfully ignorant.
Ms. Grinch gets her name from the fact that she somehow finds a way to completely kill all the fun in any activity we might plan to do. I could come up with a "Let's Learn English Through Blowjobs!" class and Ms. Grinch would find a way to suck all the fun out of it (not literally...oh GOD, not literally...). The first big problem is that when the students are divided into groups and told to move their desks together, we spend about 15 minutes with Ms. Grinch bitching about "tsukima" - open spaces between the desks. Yes, in Ms. Grinch's world, things are brought to a grinding halt if the students don't have their desks perfectly aligned with one another.
I wasn't aware that having the desks be in contact with each other was so VITAL to the enjoyment of an English activity.
Because she makes such a big deal out of it, the students make it a point to try and rebel against her, either gradually opening up subtle little spaces between their desks, or Grand Canyon-sized rifts. Ms. Grinch is deeply and personally offended - I think the the male students could get up, pin her to the ground, and take turns tea-bagging her, and she'd be less bothered by that than she would be by the tsukima. So we spend 15 minutes (sometimes longer) with Ms. Grinch screaming "tsukima! Tsukima!" while students try to move their desks apart when they think she's not looking.
The Japanese version of Dangerous Minds, ladies and gentlemen.
Once, one boy, in flat-out open defiance, left a chasm of tsukima between him and the girl in front of him. It was huge, roughly equivalent to the size of the space between Mariah Carey's breasts. To further spit in her face, he put his head down on the desk and went to sleep. Ms. Grinch comes along, and with a hearty shout of "TSUKIMA!" she *kicks* the desk forward, with the student still sleeping on it. I'm not talking about some weak-shit granny kick either, she put all the might of a Japanese obasan into her leg and Kazuya Mishima'd the damn thing. The desk goes FLYING right into the poor girl's desk. The girl, who is already kind of shy and introverted to begin with, nearly dies of a sudden heart attack. Can you blame her? Ms. Grinch goes to the (now wide awake) boy and berates him over the tsukima - "How rude you are to her! Isn't it offensive to her to have that much tsukima!" Meanwhile, I was wondering what was more offensive to the poor girl - the guy across from her leaving a little space between the desks, or nearly getting a flying desk to the grill from a crazed obasan in makeup armor.
Aside from the TSUKIMA!, she will also stop an activity and berate the students if they aren't doing exactly what she wants them to do, in the manner she expects it. In some cases, she'll take away points from groups in a game/activity. And once a group's gotten on her Shit List...they're just royally fucked. In one sannensei class, a group of more or less good kids came under Ms. Grinch's watchful eye. One of the boys had been singled out for talking when Ms. Grinch expected silence. Was he chatting with his friends in the back, or dissing other students? Nope. He was simply enjoying the game more than Ms. Grinch thought he should be. She began to take away points from this group, in some cases when the boy was breathing in a manner she didn't like. As you might imagine, the rest of the group members were getting very frustrated over being punished for the actions of ONE boy who wasn't even really doing anything wrong to begin with. After they'd lost a full 6 points, one girl, who had been playing with a fake rose, extended it towards Mrs. Grinch. "Why do you hate us? Why can't we be friends?"
Ms. Grinch's response? Deduct another point from this group. ...You're a mean one, Ms. Grinch.
Words simply cannot describe the dejected look on the girl's face. Her rose, despite being plastic, also seemed to droop lower than flaccid Japanese penis. She looked kind of like Bambi, when he learned that his mom had died...except in this version, the hunter cooks Bambi's Mom up into veal Parmesan and eats her right in front of Bambi too.
And that is why games with Ms. Grinch just aren't fun. This Christmas, you'd better watch out, for if you have any TSUKIMA! between your study desks, you might just wake up to find that Ms. Grinch has beaten you silly with her Ben Grimm tits.
Posted by gaijin at 12:25 AM

[Pierrot le Fou]

Danke.

[Chuckles]

Do you go blind with rage every time someone uses an inside joke and doesn't explain exactly what they're talking about?

I mean, he posted a simple response to an article and made a topic for those of us who have already read it to consort, does being left out of such grand fun really bother you that much? If you don't like it, don't enter the topic... Or you know, wait til you get home and read it then post here.

[Pierrot le Fou]

Do you go blind with rage every time someone uses an inside joke and doesn't explain exactly what they're talking about?

I mean, he posted a simple response to an article and made a topic for those of us who have already read it to consort, does being left out of such grand fun really bother you that much? If you don't like it, don't enter the topic... Or you know, wait til you get home and read it then post here.
Do you go blind with rage every time someone makes a special request and doesn't explicitly tell you that you could have done the same?

I mean, I made a simple request to a thread and made a post asking that those of us who don't/can't read what the thread is about be given a manner to find out. Does being in an exclusive club really mean that much to you? If you don't like it, then put me on ignore... Or, you know, die a painful horrible death being sucked dry by leeches or something.

[羽之助]

Could I have some of that cheese powder on my popcorn, please?

[mikem]

Could I have some of that cheese powder on my popcorn, please?

Sorry you have to go to Tomorrow Land for that. We only have Cappuccino here.

[xinster]

GaijinSmash.net - May 22, 2007



post the comments too you selfish fuck

[Danistar]

I'm just not getting why everyone here seems to think that it's absolutely necessary for them to read Az's articles at work and can't just wait and read them later.

[Pierrot le Fou]

Because, quite frankly, I kill time at work -- not generally at home. My posting tends to be 99.8% from work. Many people are the same. If we have to be at the desk, and we're compiling something/printing something/waiting for something and have several minutes to kill, we do so by reading something/checking forum posts/whatever.

We don't HAVE to read them, but when someone starts a thread about an article every week and doesn't post the article, it's obnoxious. It's like someone posting a link to a news article and commenting on it without having it make any sense unless you need the news article. It's poor etiquette.

[Decade]

I'm going to have to side with PLF on this one.

Unfortunately, my current job sucks monkey huevos (I'm actively trying to get a new one at the moment), and I'm trying to kill time for about 70% of my day.

If I couldn't read the articles at work either, I'd appreciate it if someone would just copy and paste them over in these threads.

But it was already taken care of as we see we already have a volunteer, so not much point left in continously arguing about it.

[Danistar]

Because, quite frankly, I kill time at work -- not generally at home. My posting tends to be 99.8% from work. Many people are the same. If we have to be at the desk, and we're compiling something/printing something/waiting for something and have several minutes to kill, we do so by reading something/checking forum posts/whatever.

We don't HAVE to read them, but when someone starts a thread about an article every week and doesn't post the article, it's obnoxious. It's like someone posting a link to a news article and commenting on it without having it make any sense unless you need the news article. It's poor etiquette.
Alright, that's fine. So read the OP9 threads, and if you're interested in something on a thread that you can't view at work, then look at it when you get home. Problem solved. No need to go apeshit on some guy for updating people on OP9 that Az has written something new.

[Roxie]

We don't HAVE to read them, but when someone starts a thread about an article every week and doesn't post the article, it's obnoxious. It's like someone posting a link to a news article and commenting on it without having it make any sense unless you need the news article. It's poor etiquette.
Well, that's purely your opinion. It's not obnoxious at all, he's got a perfectly good reason for doing so. It's not the same as a news article, b/c I don't personally know that news orginaztion like I know Jeff.. I know Jeff could use the money and attention more than I could use the convience..I mean you're not going to find that in a etiquette book.

It's really a personal preference thing. B/c I too read his editorials at work, but do not wish to visit a site with that name, I have them rss feed to my google reader-or- I wait till I get home and click on the link.

[Saitou Hajime]

Problem solved. No need to go apeshit on some guy for updating people on OP9 that Az has written something new.

Read PLF's posts, and then how most other people responded to his request. One side is definitely calmer than the other, and it's not the latter.

[Danistar]

Did you read PLF's posts? The first thing that he responded with was an insult, what are you talking about? And I don't really care about how calm the responses were, I just think it's lame for someone to take his own time to update the forum that Az has posted something new, and then instead of people thanking him, they get mad at him and ask that he do more.

[Saitou Hajime]

You realize most of PLF's posts are like that, right? He made a simple request with a touch of antagonism, but that's PLF. It doesn't mean he's not calm, or that he's flipping out. In contrast, look at Xinster's response towards stsparky's posting of the article.

[Decade]

:meh: Is there really any need to keep arguing about this? Somebody responded to the request and it was taken care of with the article posted here, what point is there to just keep arguing with each other now?

Regardless of who I agree with, one side already got what they wanted, just let it die already.

[Danistar]

Of course I know what PLF is like, and for the most part I enjoy it, that's why my title used to be "Gay for Nintendo/sometimes PLF". But again, I don't care who is calm and who isn't, the problem I have is that PLF and others got mad at a guy who was providing a free service, because they wanted him to do even more.

:meh: Is there really any need to keep arguing about this? Somebody responded to the request and it was taken care of with the article posted here, what point is there to just keep arguing with each other now?

Regardless of who I agree with, one side already got what they wanted, just let it die already.
Of course there's a need to argue about this, that's what we do here when we get bored.

[SlickWilly440]

Did anyone else notice the misspelling of the Japanese word "gap/small spaces"? It's actually "sukima," instead of "tsukima." Unless the teacher pronounces it that way. When I first saw that, I thought I had been mishearing & mispronouncing the word as "sukima" my entire life, so I immediately checked the dictionary and my anxiety quickly when down.

Thanks.

[xinster]

You realize most of PLF's posts are like that, right? He made a simple request with a touch of antagonism, but that's PLF. It doesn't mean he's not calm, or that he's flipping out. In contrast, look at Xinster's response towards stsparky's posting of the article.

I was being sarcastic; I'm the one who thanked him in the first place.

[Saitou Hajime]

Obviously; it's the exaggerated imitation of PLF I was referring to, not a suggestion that you were angry with stsparky.

[xinster]

You can't escape me!

[Pierrot le Fou]

Of course I know what PLF is like, and for the most part I enjoy it, that's why my title used to be "Gay for Nintendo/sometimes PLF". But again, I don't care who is calm and who isn't, the problem I have is that PLF and others got mad at a guy who was providing a free service, because they wanted him to do even more.


Of course there's a need to argue about this, that's what we do here when we get bored.
But it's not a service!

Were he to post the articles, it would be a service, because the thread would have meaning. Without reading the article, it is of absolutely no help or value to me whatsoever, and solely serves to clutter up the board.

Were he to actually provide a service, say create a thread that led to discussion without extra reading, then you may have a point. As is, he's just posting to hear himself comment, or to gain Az's love and adoration, or God knows what, because it sure isn't to start a fruitful discussion.

Are there really people who think that the threads he starts are more geared toward a discussion on this board than a comment on the page the article is actually posted on?

[gentlemanandscholar]

What happened to the entertaining debates about abortion, the state of Japan and politics?

What we have here is a pathetic argument about whether linking to an article is adequate enough.

I grade this A+ internet bullshit. I'm with bated breath for the holocaust to be referenced.

[Azrael]

^Agreed. The "argument" as it were stops here.

If Chrome wants to c/p the post for the people at work who can't read Gaijin Smash, he may do so. If he doesn't want to do that, that's fine too. Perhaps someone else will be so kind as to do it. Perhaps someone can include a link to the "Printer-friendly version", which is merely black text on a white background. Perhaps you may figure out that putting /archives//print/ in between the gaijinsmash.net and the editorial name (in this case, ms_grinch.phtml) will take you straight to the printable version.

Either way, end of discussion.

[silentplummet]

Idle hands.

[Chrome Newfie]

If Chrome wants to c/p the post for the people at work who can't read Gaijin Smash, he may do so. If he doesn't want to do that, that's fine too.

The above constitutes the only possible comment, and source of comment, that I'd consider relevant to my efforts. Thanks, Az.

For those folk who have work issues and no other internet source, I would inquire if anyone has attempted anonymizer.com or similar services. If successful, the use of one of those would solve the more general problem of unreasonable blockage.

That said, with Az's blessings now granted, I will copy/paste the articles, on the caveat that it will be on my convenience - if I have no time or inclination, I will leave it up to someone else, later in the thread.

I feel mildly amused, that PLF could be so easily upset by the relatively minor accomplishment of not being helpful enough, at least to him. I'll be sure to apologize for not inflating your car tires the next time I call BCAA for a stranded driver. ;) As to the annoyances over the quips, I should observe that I'm not leaving you out of the joke; that would be the fault of your workplace IT department. Perhaps they would be more responsive to "the snark"?

And with that, I'm done with concern over the matter. What was it Spider Robinson wrote? "The thing to do with an unkind comment is to fail to hear it."

Now, can we please get back to angry teachers and the dogs-with-tied-on-horns that love them?

[Pierrot le Fou]

You weren't being helpful!

Posting something that cannot be understood from the content of your post is not helpful.

You have your analogy backwards. You were stranded and out of gas, the BCAA comes and fills your tires and leaves.

Was that helpful? NO!

It isn't rocket science.

[xinster]

you cannot escape rong death

[羽之助]

So yeah, hear about the lone yakuza gunman who holed out in a house and managed to outgun the whole of Japan's elite special task force police? I like the part where they left a shot police officer for several hours bleeding on the pavement because they were too scared to rescue him (he then died).

[Decade]

God PLF, JUST CALL IT A DAY. You already got somebody to post the article in here for you, it doesn't matter if it was chrome or not, IT WAS ALREADY DONE.

Next article, I'll volunteer to copy it here for you, so just call it a day and go have a smoke or something.

Fucking A, if this keeps going I hope a mod or admin locks this or something.

[silentplummet]

PLF is the mod.

[羽之助]

http://www.hanacoast.ws/femalestars/pictures/306407/modsquad-peggylipton.jpg

The Mod Squad, perhaps.

[ミュー]

Many of us support Az in other ways than providing hits to his website.
The essential question here is; can free handjobs somehow compensate server bills?

[Pierrot le Fou]

God PLF, JUST CALL IT A DAY. You already got somebody to post the article in here for you, it doesn't matter if it was chrome or not, IT WAS ALREADY DONE.

Next article, I'll volunteer to copy it here for you, so just call it a day and go have a smoke or something.

Fucking A, if this keeps going I hope a mod or admin locks this or something.
Decade, perhaps you're a tad confused. I have already thanked Mr. Sparky for his posting of the article. It was quite helpful. What perturbs me is that people keep telling me that I am getting on someone's case for not being helpful enough, as if he's gone out of his way to be helpful, when it's patently obvious that he hasn't been, or else I wouldn't be having this God-forsaken discussion.

I am not asking people to wash my dishes, or shine my shoes, I'm not asking for a digest to be written of each post, and for people to write down my thoughts and post them for me. I'm asking that if you're going to comment on something, include relevant details of what you're commenting on such that people can respond on the basis of what you've actually written.

This especially drives me nuts with things like youtube videos or photos, where someone posts the link and then "lol" or something absurd, and people just keep chiming in with, "that's awesome!" "OMG!" or whatnot.

It's rude. Poor etiquette. Stop calling it helpful. It isn't. It's rude. And not helpful. If you can stop trying to tell me to shove it for being ungrateful, while not having provided anything to be grateful for, then you'll suddenly see me stop responding.

But if you keep trying to tell me I'm an ungrateful cunt for filling my tires with air when I was out of gas, or throwing change at me from your speeding vehicle, then I'm going to tell you that you're being a putz and you should engage your gray matter.

[silentplummet]

I personally don't, and I'd be surprised if anyone else here did, give a flying fuck if any of this drives you nuts. It's not being rude, or unhelpful. It's posting a link on a damn forum. It's too bad you can't follow the link while you're at work and supposed to be doing something else, but that's really your problem to work out, and not anyone else's but yours.

What would happen if I direct-posted NSFW content here, in an attempt to give you the very courtesy you have so vocally and wrongfully demanded? You'd ban or at least warn me, and you'd be right to.

We don't owe you any favors PLF, now isn't it time you gave it a rest? You appear more and more like an inside-out asshole with each post.

[Pierrot le Fou]

If you posted NSFW links, I would hope you were banned, yes. Because it's inappropriate, and poor etiquette to boot.

I'm not suggesting people 'owe' me anything. I'm suggesting that people make an effort or don't bother posting, not because they owe me something, but because it's the proper thing to do.

You're acting infantile. I've held my tongue many-a-time, and this time I spoke up. stsparky posted the contents, I thanked him, and the rest of you seem to want to keep this issue going because somehow it makes you feel better. God only knows why.

[silentplummet]

Did you write the rules of etiquette? The rule on OP9 forums is that the post has to be 10 characters long. What is the proper thing to do on the internet? If you see that the majority of posts are not suited to your idea of propriety, then perhaps the majority has disagreed with you, sir.

You are tilting at windmills.

[Pierrot le Fou]

The proper thing to do on the internet is to be vaguely civil and not be a belligerent little shit like you're doing now. What is your major malfunction?

[Chuckles]

Why isn't this dead yet? Just everyone stop responding to it unless it's directly related to the article... BAM, problem solved.

[silentplummet]

Civility? That boat already sailed. I believe it was around the time you demanded someone copypasta an entire article right here on the forum "so that [you] don't have to click a link".

You have repeatedly asserted that we are obligated to do this, first as a matter of your own convenience, later according to a rather unique concept of propriety or etiquette invented by yourself. But not one of us is obligated to do so, and any arguments to that effect are utterly baseless.

It is, however, your responsibility to moderate these forums. You are making a mess of the place it is ostensibly your purpose to keep clean. Take responsibility and concede.

[Pierrot le Fou]

Civility? That boat already sailed. I believe it was around the time you demanded someone copypasta an entire article right here on the forum "so that [you] don't have to click a link".

You have repeatedly asserted that we are obligated to do this, first as a matter of your own convenience, later according to a rather unique concept of propriety or etiquette invented by yourself. But not one of us is obligated to do so, and any arguments to that effect are utterly baseless.

It is, however, your responsibility to moderate these forums. You are making a mess of the place it is ostensibly your purpose to keep clean. Take responsibility and concede.
First of all, I am not a moderator. I have never been a moderator, I will likely never be a moderator, and I have been banned by moderators.

For what reason you seem to think I am a moderator is beyond me.

Secondly, I asked nicely in my first post for him to post the article so that I could understand what he was talking about. I used please, I was civil, I didn't insult him.

My concept of etiquette is not some invention. When you communicate, in general, the idea is to have people understand you. When your post is NOT understandable and doesn't communicate anything to many people based on what's written, then it's poorly written.

This isn't some abstract concept here, it's pretty simple.

Does it communicate what you want to say? If so, great. If no, then perhaps you should think about having it make sense.

[Ceirnian]

Do you post anything but one-line quips in regards to Az's articles?

If you are going to post them, could you please quote the article you're posting so that I don't have to click a link to understand what the dickens you're on about?

Yeah because that's so polite.

[silentplummet]

You're not a moderator? I must have gotten the idea that you were from the avatar that said "The mod is watching" or something like that.

Well in that case I don't have any particular philosophical objection. I still think you're completely wrong, but it doesn't matter to me as long as you're not leveraging your will on the forumers. Peace-

[Pierrot le Fou]

Yeah because that's so polite.
I used please, I was civil, and I was asking nicely.

Yeesh.

Folks, if he's going to link the article, would it be so tough to copy-paste it too? Would it ruin your experience? Would it make it somehow negative? Is there some horrible downside to it?

No, no, and no.

Your opposition to doing it is for what reason exactly? Because I said 'quip' and 'dickens' and offended your slacker natures?

[Ceirnian]

Linking the article is fine, it's just the way you typed up your request came off as somewhat rude. I'll go ahead and break down how I perceived each line.

Do you post anything but one-line quips in regards to Az's articles?
This is what you started off with. Not terribly aggressive but still enough so that it sets your request in a bad light. That alone would make me not want to listen.

If you are going to post them, could you please quote the article you're posting so that I don't have to click a link to understand what the dickens you're on about?
With the first part of your post setting the mood, this also comes off as rude. It sounds more like a demand where you threw in please just so you could fall back with "well I said please".

I only posted since you called your first post nice, it's not really a big issue so I don't see why people are getting worked up over it.

[Pierrot le Fou]

It was very nice for me. I'm a prickly person.

[Azrael]

However, I am a mod (well, admin) and this is quite enough.