Suleiman
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Hey - don't get me started on sucking and biting. I just got a call from the missus telling me she's going to be delayed a few more days.
The squid are actually pretty nice, if you can find a large enough one. A friend of mine used to have this two foot long glow in the dark rubber squid that was almost all tentacle - YEOUCH!. There was another fellow who used to orbit through the same circles I did, back when I was an active participant in the local community, who had been using a rubber snake for so long it went from being a joke to a specialty of his.
But seriously - and yes, even I can be serious - the reason for my frivolity in answering the original topic is just to point out not to take stuff so seriously. There are, and will always be, people who stand you up for a date, people who decide that you are not what they are looking for, and people who gleek at the last minute and can't actually show themselves. These boards are littered with similar commentary.
Part of the reason the administration, in their admirable wisdom, does not allow variations of the 'loser list' is that they can not confirm these reports, and it really is too darned easy to throw a tantrum because somebody said or did the wrong thing at the wrong time, and once you're on one of those lists, it's kind of hard to get off. I've been booted from a number of groups because I speak my mind. You will note that, while I occasionally do poke fun at people, there are often sympathetic others who agree with my stance.
I have been labeled a poser, a player, a wannabe, and a loser, because I have an opinion. I have been booted out of groups, lists, and forums, because somebody got their knickers in a twist over what I had to say. You may notice that I do not use profanity if I can help it (I do occasionally use a small amount for emphasis, or because it is part of my natural mode of speech as a californian), and I even go so far as to try and avoid using any sort of directly insulting phrasing - I will not, for instance, decry someone as an idiot. I will rip into their argument, if the reasoning is slipshod, which many have taken as a direct insult, but I have certian standards of conduct that I hold myself to. So far as I know, on those occasions when I have been blacklisted, I have been made unwelcome simply for using the same style of communication that is present in every post I have made to these fora over the last few months.
If someone acts in a truly objectionable manner - NOT simply disappearing after a few emails for whatever reason - if someone is crude, if someone is harrassing you, if you have made it known that they are unwelcome and they continue to make a nuiscance of themselves, by all means, contact the moderators. Offer a complaint. Depending on the day's workload, it may take them a little while to respond, but I guarantee you, I have never known such courteous or thorough people. Your complaint will be taken care of, if a person has seriously been a problem.
Getting stood up is not a real problem. Getting dumped is not a real problem. Getting your name smeared because somebody throws a tantrum, that can be a problem.
Just a different perspective to consider.
~S
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Think of my verbosity as a sort of litmus test for our relationship. I write in a manner identical to how I speak and how I think. If you can not cope with what I have written here, it is probably for the best if we go our separate ways.
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