"Richard Nixon is a no good, lying bastard. He can lie out of both sides of his mouth at the same time, and if he ever caught himself telling the truth, he'd lie just to keep his hand in." Harry S. TrumanOriginally Posted by Geppy
"Richard Nixon is a no good, lying bastard. He can lie out of both sides of his mouth at the same time, and if he ever caught himself telling the truth, he'd lie just to keep his hand in." Harry S. Truman
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Moderator!!
I reluctantly changed the "Originally Posted By" source on two posts. I say reluctantly because I remember some years ago a moderator (Loosechickens) on the original site banned a current site poster for a week for allegedly changing one of her posts in the same manner. I stood up for that poster under the guise that obvious satire should not be a banning event and was nearly banned myself (again) in retaliation.
I recall those days in a bad light and really wish we wouldn't duplicate them.
"Things should be made as simple as possible, but not one bit simpler." ~ Albert Einstein
ROFLOL!
So, here I have responded to TWO of your posts in one fell swoop (go ahead and brag about that in some "I told you so" way - LOL).
Sorry... sort of.
Back to not responding to you, but, again, I really do pray for you and really hope you can find some peace and happiness.
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To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer." Mahatma Gandhi
Be nice whenever possible. It's always possible. HH Dalai Lama
In a world where you can be anything - be kind. Unknown
I have nothing but respect and appreciation for what all you moderators do, but, in my opinion, that ship has sailed.
To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer." Mahatma Gandhi
Be nice whenever possible. It's always possible. HH Dalai Lama
In a world where you can be anything - be kind. Unknown
Yes, I should have put a snarl tag on my post…
But like I said it was never taught in school beyond some minimal punctuation and capitalization and how to identify nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs. I tested into the gifted program in 3rd grade when asked to take the test by a teacher. So I was in the gifted program since 3rd grade and AP courses in high school, including AP English, are we so sure I was a terrible student?No. Everyone learned grammar in school if they were paying attention. Old English and Norse are another story.
It was no more taught than Old English and Norse, so those actually are valid comparisons, besides being incredibly funny.
Trees don't grow on money
Grammar was minimal in elementary and high school. Much of my grammar was learned in my German classes in college, where the professor used the German terms and I had no idea what the English equivalents were. I had never heard of the word pluperfect for example, although I had certainly used that tense correctly. I never heard of dative or generative either, just a couple of examples.
it saddens me you have to deal with this. No clear winners come out of this. Perhaps modeling the uncivil behavior that has become commonplace in all of society can explain the exodus of many valuable contributors to these forums.
What does this mean? What ship has sailed?
There is no over moderation ship here. There might be an “under-moderation” ship, if that is what you mean. I am ok with that even though I have seen one relentless poster kill a forum. Granted, the forum was on its last legs. It was a weird forum death because this poster was preternaturally happy and upbeat but was laser focused on one thing: showing pictures of his dog. It was a dog forum, but 1/3 of the posts were links to photos of his dog, badly photoshopped photos with stupid poems or sayings.
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