Does the name calling and general rudeness typical of PARF go on here on PPOT as well? I guess I'm not reading the threads here where it's happening.
An exception would be the poll I started, 'Is DARISC an idiot'?' where the name calling and insults began immediately. But I purposely posted that poll here rather than on PARF, on a spur of the moment whim. I was idly curious whether those on PARF who find me irritating, a troll, an idiot, etc., would immediately jump right over here and pile on.
They sure did. It was pretty funny. After the first page I started posting nasties to myself, replete with name calling, invective and bile. This had a few confused momentarily. At one point Z-man posted an eye-rolling 'I thought i'd seen everything'. I PMd him asking to be banned for personally attacking myself, but the poopy head wouldn't play along.
I'm not aware of it if I'm an irritant to anyone here on PPOT, but I'm well aware of the fact that I am to the majority of posters on PARF where I respond to their conservative posts in the same fun loving spirit of name calling, insults and vitriol that comprise most of their posts.
There are a small number of other non-conservatives who post there regularly as well. I won't deign to speak for them, but I think they have as much fun playing antagonist to the majority of conservative protagonists there as I do.
I seriously think that if my ilk (HAHAHA, I get a kick out of being ilk) didn't jump into the fray, there would be no fray and PARF would become pretty boring for the conservatives there because they'd be preaching to their choir and constant 'Spot on, dude!, Yeah, typical *******', etc. would become very monotonous and boring. I know it would for me if I was part of that majority. I'd quit going there.
Oh yeah, I crack up when, now, somebody tells me 'you're an idiot! Just look at that poll you moron!' MY poll. Too funny!
Another Exception, to my mind, is LeeH's thread,
http://forums.pelicanparts.com/off-topic-discussions/606550-careful-what-you-say-your-female-airline-pilot.html (well I'll be damned, i just went there to verify Lee's moniker and the thread's been closed!) where he simply posted how his pilot wife dealt with two jerk passengers making sexist comments and the thread quickly went toxic - because it wasn't about BBQ sauce, beer, guns, women's butts or cars, but rather involved social issues inextricably entwined with political perspectives. In other words, the stuff of PARF.
Personally, I'm glad it was closed rather than moved to PARF because it had already reached the level of toxicity that would have caused it to be closed there too.
This is an interesting thread, but I don't see a problem of any consequence here - and I suspect this all falls on deaf ears as far as most PARF posters go.
Oh yeah, there's one ongoing irritation to a lot of posters here on PPOT, but I'd hardly describe it as toxic. Rather, I find it funny as hell because it points out the extremes to which some people take serious this goofy Internet.
That would be Paul and his speeding Bullit.
