Oh, and I hate you all. Myself included.

You're my kind of ******* assshole. :D

I miss red_ufo

tabs has new medicine... he's all "glass is half full" now
and he caved and got himself an avatar again

:D

While I have had my moments on PPOT with others with whom I disagree, I have always felt we would be fast friends if we ever meet in real life. With these folks, while they hold a (sometimes vastly) different perspective than mine, I always feel like I'm discussing the topic at hand with an intelligent, well-meaning individual that honestly holds to their beliefs and can explain them rationally.

I simply never got that feeling from Rodeo. He was here for one purpose and for one purpose only, to troll. I cannot understand people that participate in any discourse or forum to make enemies; either by design or by habit. Things are certainly better around here without him. My only fear is that wherever he is now, things have gotten that much worse and, if you guys are right that he may have gotten a job in our new Congress, that simply compounds my fears. Oh well; maybe he is just a paige, and the Dems actually follow through on their text messages. Couldn't happen to a nicer guy.

Nicer? It must be the moderating effect of all of those Europeans.

see, we are good for something after all !

I think we would all get along in person, because nobody would be stupid enough to bring up politics or war.

Beer, boobies, cars, sports...that's what's important.

could you EVEN VISUALIZE a yearly party held in different parts of the country each year???????

what a hoot that would be! a few hundred guys all showing up w/flame suits on! hahahahahaha!

i'm glad you're all enjoying the acid i put in your water. just don't mind the pretty colors...

I think the Internet Prozac is kicking in...

LOL ,and thought i was having proper flashbacks lately...

What happened to Rodeo? He get banned or just run off?

Everyone seems to be piling on Rodeo, but from my perspective, things began heading south several years ago around the time of the appearance of Mul1 (but I'm NOT blaming him for it). Before you know it, BOTH sides were contributing equally much to the degradation of PPOT imo. This is a nice change....well, at least until the next elections roll around :)

Don't look now Markus, it's starting to happen again...

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/off-topic-discussions/324438-its-becoming-more-clear-what-democratic-strategy-now.html

Next time you must say knock on wood (and this has nothing to do with your feelings about the grid girls).

Art, while that thread is political in nature, it is no where near what we had just a few months ago. Heck I don't think a single poster has resorted to the usual name calling and such that we saw in 2006.

Some of you guys have not been around here very long, or have short memories. The most heated discourse on this board that I recall was immediately after 9/11, (when emotions were at a fever pitch), and during several other lightning rod type events such as Reagan's death. The '04 presidential election was about a year-long mud-slinging affair.

I have a different theory, which is that both sides of the political spectrum are simply worn down by the current administration. People who voted for Bush and supported him have little or nothing left to defend or hang on to, and the rest of us are also resigned and all out of anger. I believe firmly that this decade has been an unqualified disaster for the world precipitated by the (strange) election of a dangerous, empty suit as U.S. president, but it is what it is and I cannot let it ruin my days. The planet will recover, or it won't; either way I won't be around more than another 20 or 30 years and I wisely did not have children.

Steve Rodeo is a great guy, and he gets along just fine w/ people in the world. For whatever reason, he was not well-suited to the kind of jousting that occurs here. He saw bullies and ass holes where they did not always exist, (and sometimes where they did, IMO), and became spring-loaded on line. I am as hot-headed as they come, on earth as well as the web, but I know that about myself and can recognize when I have gone over the line or let someone get my goat too easily. I also have the advantage of being what the late, great Mulholland called being a "hybrid", I pride myself as not being pigeon left or right on issues. This allows me to find more common ground w/ most people here, but I can't stand ideologues of any stripe. I was raised by them.

BTW, I think that Mulholland also was easily baited, and definitely got too sucked into arguments here. Both Mulholland and Rodeo are extremely nice people in the real world. Mul is a bit eccentric, but I'm nuttier than a squirrel turd myself so I shouldn't talk.:)

There are a few people that I don't care for here, and vice-versa I'm sure, but w/o that proverbial "nuance" that is missing in written words there can be a lot of missed cues and the web-savvy amongst us know how to not let things get too personal. It pains me when I see some of the animosity, but that is the nature of bar rooms. And this is our "Cheers". SmileWavy

Norm!!!!

I hate the fact that you hate yourself! You need to:

1. Get some medication (or not)
2. Get some counseling (or not)
3. Get religion (or not)
4. Get laid (or not)
5. Get drunk (or not)
6. Change your political position (or not)