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I'm stepping gingerly into the fluffy post.
I'm not here often enough to know where I really belong, after the recent ruckus.
( , Wed 11 Nov 2009, 20:09, Reply)

the ruckus?
/has been waiting for a thread to crowbar this into forever
( , Wed 11 Nov 2009, 20:14, Reply)

Disliked some other persons.
I have no affilation with either camp although I rather thought that one of the persons was being out of order.
But I didn't grass.
( , Wed 11 Nov 2009, 20:20, Reply)

Post what you like and don't rag on anyone else for doing the same. If they bother you, that's what the ignore button is for.
I was hoping someone would get the reference :(
( , Wed 11 Nov 2009, 20:28, Reply)

by being armed with inflatable mallets and being let loose in a vast field.
( , Wed 11 Nov 2009, 20:30, Reply)

because (and this is guess work because no one has actually said anything to me) I insulted workboresme, her posting style and her cats names in retalation for her calling gonzo a cunt.
It has been roughly compared to me encouraging suicide.
Most importantly workboresme doesn't seem that bothered and I've spoken to her since.
( , Wed 11 Nov 2009, 20:32, Reply)

I thought that your comments were vicious, pointed and absolutely inappropriate for a venue like this.
I stand by that - nothing you've said or done since has redeemed you in my eyes.
But if I went sulking to the authorities about everything that offended me I'd have a tent outside the police station.
( , Wed 11 Nov 2009, 20:48, Reply)

offtopic in general or a thread saying a friend of mine is a cunt?
( , Wed 11 Nov 2009, 20:52, Reply)

Some other people, including you, I don't get on with.
I'm not a vindictive man. I'm not a particularly judgemental man.
I just find it distasteful that you find it appropriate to lay into someone that you don't agree with.
( , Wed 11 Nov 2009, 21:02, Reply)

When she starts a thread specifically and exclusivly to call someone I know and like a cunt. I got involved. i didn't just flame her for no reason, I also told her to stop before I did.
I wasn't trolling and it wasn't an unproked attack on a innocent person. This whole thing is fucking stupid...
( , Wed 11 Nov 2009, 21:07, Reply)

Or is my attempt to justify myself pointless?
( , Wed 11 Nov 2009, 21:23, Reply)

Then you MAY (or may not) have worked out WHY wbm was having a pop at Gonz.
Basically she got sick of him insinuating that she was/was not a cat abuser.
In her shoes I would have done the same.
Only an utter fuckwhit BLINDLY leaps to the defence of someone in those circumstances.
ESPECIALLY in the manner you chose.
( , Wed 11 Nov 2009, 21:35, Reply)

Why should I investigate anything when replying to posts?
If you're posting something that isn't general knowledge then expect confusion, you cannot expect every user to know your motivation for a post either you accept the confusion or you don't post.
Secondly I know why he was mocking her and it was in response to her frankly appalling "I had a fight tongiht I totally punched three guys out" post. That is not something to boast about and it deserved to be mocked.
Thirdly, I didn't blindly leap to his defence, I said "don't pick on gonzo you'll lose" she then replied saying she wasn't.
We can pick apart what specifically in my final response was so terrible later.
( , Wed 11 Nov 2009, 21:46, Reply)

Can we please have less bullying of psychochomp now? ta
( , Wed 11 Nov 2009, 21:52, Reply)

"Why should I investigate anything when replying to posts?
If you're posting something that isn't general knowledge then expect confusion, you cannot expect every user to know your motivation for a post either you accept the confusion or you don't post."
Firstly, do I really need to answer that initial question? Why on earth would anyone ever want to inform themselves before entering a discussion? Er, I dunno, maybe so they don't come across as a complete fuckwhit?
Secondly, none of the a priori information is anything but general knowledge. Posted publicly on a public website on the internet. Gottit?
Thirdly, motivation is irrelevant.
"Secondly I know why he was mocking her and it was in response to her frankly appalling "I had a fight tongiht I totally punched three guys out" post. That is not something to boast about and it deserved to be mocked."
We need to clear this up. wbm got fed up with Gonz making basically abusive references to her cat as I mentioned in my previous thread. It was not about the violence incident. That incident actually referred to her leaping (not blindly) to the actual physical defence of the son of her partner. At no point did she brag about her actions. If you had bothered to check the source material you would be aware of this. Again, this is all publicly available info.
Finally, you DID leap blindly in simply by chosing to act before equipping yourself with the relevant facts. I think that satisfies the definition rather well. And you did so with a deliberately menacing use of words.
For someone with a degree in Psychology you really do let the academic side down.
You may think that i am being an utter cunt here but yet again you would be mistaken.
( , Wed 11 Nov 2009, 22:24, Reply)

however I won't copy and paste your replies, I think you may be able to work it out.
Firstly yes you do have to answer the question. This is not an essay, do you expect every new member of the board to read the archives? Do you read every thread every day? Or do you just wait for your interfriends to gaz you something to be offended about?
Secondly, I don't read every thread as i mentioned above.
Thirdly, I disagree, context is everything and motivation is vitally important. What's your motivation?
This is getting off the point, as I have said I don't know the ins and outs of every fucking thing that happens here, your expectation that I do is frankly deluded. I read that post, I thought it was fucking shit, it smacked of internet lies and hardmanning. She said "Punched out 3 guys before getting hit myself" she couldn't in a million years "punch out" 3 guys. Therefore bragging.
Ok, did I or did I not tell her to stop picking on gonz? (I'll answer that for you, you'll take to long to reply. Yes I did)
Her responce was: "I am not picking on her
just asking a geniune question."
then I said. "Oh fuck off,
you are, and your one a day posts about your shit life are getting tiresome. I don't give a fuck about fishing and your cat has a shit name."
Right asking why someone is a cunt is not a "genuine question." I'm sure you'll agree with that.
Now which parts of my response are particularly offensive?
"Fuck off" I think if that was the case we'll all be banned.
"I don't give a fuck about fishing" really? are you offended by that?
"your cat has a shit name." now I know b3ta is a bit of a cat lovers paradise but that's not a banning offence.
So I can only guess the offence and the big drama is based on me saying. "your one a day posts about your shit life are getting tiresome" HAVE YOU FUCKING READ ANY OF HER POSTS??????? I will stand by that statment forever, she posts about once a day and it is nearly exclusivley moaning about how shit her life is.
Don't worry love, I only got a 2:2, your accademic superiority is safe.
You are being an utter cunt, you and all your overdramatic friends. Not to me though, to worksboresme, she is front and center to something she didn't want and didn't ask for because you and your gaz friends have an axe to grind and are trying to control offtopic. I bet she thanks you a lot.
( , Wed 11 Nov 2009, 22:51, Reply)

1) drink less
2) do fewer and less drugs
3) get more quality sleep
4) get more health in your diet
5) take more exercise (good honest hard work fits the bill and is cheaper the gym)
6) grow up and stop being a total reactionary wanker...
The B69 6 point plan!
You'll love it or your money back.
Anywho, I'm off upstairs to make lovely love to my lovely wife, so goodnight and god bless...
( , Wed 11 Nov 2009, 23:12, Reply)

I'm a positive person - negativity, animosity and antipathy depresses me.
I accept that WBM can be a little bit - well, dismal at times but I can't accept that a directed attack upon her enhances our odd little community.
I deliberately set out to lay into you a few nights ago, which is very unlike the persona I usually assume for B3TA.
I can do it again, or not, depending upon whether this petty feud is over.
( , Wed 11 Nov 2009, 21:24, Reply)

I'll be the first to admit that I really don't know the whole story but it seems to me like she's the one who started this whole mess.
If she doesn't want to be mocked or bullied she shouldn't come here.
Everyone is fair game.
( , Wed 11 Nov 2009, 21:28, Reply)

I have spoken to wbm about this, we're not exactly friends but there's no ongoing problems.
This is becoming a sustained attack against me, personally. Which is going on via gaz and not in public. I have said nothing over gaz which I wouldn't repeat here.
( , Wed 11 Nov 2009, 21:36, Reply)

It's about trying to tackle the unnecessary cuntishness that gets directed at what are percieved by some as easy targets.
( , Wed 11 Nov 2009, 21:51, Reply)

( , Wed 11 Nov 2009, 21:53, Reply)

I'd rather they say what they think I did wrong openly.
( , Wed 11 Nov 2009, 21:57, Reply)

I have standards and perceptions of an idealistic life.
Psychochomp thinks I'm smug, but the B3TANs I know understand that I pretty much live it.
So I'm being smug, but I've no stomach for on-line vitriol when off-line life is far more fuzzy and fluffy.
( , Wed 11 Nov 2009, 21:54, Reply)

Five bedroomed house with only six years left on the mortgage.
Sufficient investments that I should be able to retire in nine or ten years time.
Two fantastic pedigree dogs.
Cracking social life.
And - a recent development - rather splendid new woman in my life.
Oddly I feel rather guilty about laying all that out so let me be human as well.
Psychochomp - I thought you were a rather ill-tempered one trick pony but you've acquitted yourself well this evening.
( , Wed 11 Nov 2009, 22:17, Reply)

have a punch to the goolies. oof!
( , Wed 11 Nov 2009, 21:08, Reply)

There's a few people who go beyond forum banter and make personal attacks that are designed to make the recipient feel like shit. My post wasn't calling for a nanny state, just a bit of compassion. Coz it's not cool to not give a shit about your fellow human beings, yeah?
It's a blessing and a curse. I even care about you Chompy.
( , Wed 11 Nov 2009, 21:22, Reply)

Haha! Ah I dunno, feels like I'm pissing in the wind really.
( , Wed 11 Nov 2009, 21:52, Reply)

The implication that I am encouraging people to kill themselves is pretty fucking offensive, and a collosal leap from what actually happened.
( , Wed 11 Nov 2009, 22:05, Reply)

there are other people who my post was referring to besides you who have made personal attacks designed to make people feel like shit, particularly those who have spoken about genuine problems and are seen as easy targets. As I said - kicking people when they're down seems to be a sport on b3ta. It's not just about you.
I didn't imply you personally "encouraged" suicide. I implied that it's pretty heartless to make someone feel worse than they already do especially if you know they've got problems. And then they've been blamed for being oversensitive rather than the original posters taking responsibility for the fact that their posts were hurtful which is childish and downright unfair. I'd have more respect for someone who said "yes I'm intending to hurt someone and I don't care" than the people who try to justify it.
I don't want to talk about workboresme in the third person, as you said she hasn't actually asked us to defend her. So leaving her out of it, I still think your posts, and those of some others, were unnecessarily hurtful and that's all.
( , Wed 11 Nov 2009, 22:46, Reply)

For someone who claims to have a degree in psychology you really need to have a look at your Ego.
INJAYP
It's
Not
Just
About
You
Psychochump
( , Wed 11 Nov 2009, 22:56, Reply)

You're my favourite person on b3ta. So witty, and so intellectually superior.
( , Wed 11 Nov 2009, 23:00, Reply)

You changed it from chomp to chump! It's like you're channeling some of the greatest wit of all time! Some kind of mixture of Noel Coward and Oscar Wilde...
( , Wed 11 Nov 2009, 23:02, Reply)

Except, of course, it can be either - and I'd rather go by the dictionary than the word of some insufferable know it all on the Internet.
( , Wed 11 Nov 2009, 23:22, Reply)

No, it was a proper one. We have books and everything in our house.
( , Wed 11 Nov 2009, 23:35, Reply)

I'm so not lifting them when I help you move house. Books are dangerous mkay?
( , Wed 11 Nov 2009, 23:38, Reply)

Never mind all that fluffy vs. spiky bullshit. Come join us in this cozy thread.
( , Wed 11 Nov 2009, 20:15, Reply)

So far I have discovered a lot of clever ways to say what I do and that I'm not very good at selling myself.
( , Wed 11 Nov 2009, 20:10, Reply)

I also have some clever ways to describe my job, but they tend to make everyone else go WTF!
( , Wed 11 Nov 2009, 20:16, Reply)

Normally I am fond of making sentences as complicated as possible for my own amusement, but this is quite difficult. Woe.
( , Wed 11 Nov 2009, 20:19, Reply)

You can zoom in to a greater level of sentence complexity.
( , Wed 11 Nov 2009, 21:03, Reply)

I especially like doing this with quotes and song lyrics.
( , Wed 11 Nov 2009, 21:09, Reply)

( , Wed 11 Nov 2009, 21:20, Reply)

they tend to be my Facebook statuses!
( , Wed 11 Nov 2009, 21:57, Reply)

How hangs it?
I art been 2nd fixing electrics and installing new consumer unit today, as well as a whole load of oak-work.
Dusty and pooped!
But happy ;-)
( , Wed 11 Nov 2009, 20:23, Reply)

I realise you are probably sick of electrics and I don't blame you, but one of the sockets in my flat appears to function even when it is switched off, and this is not good.
( , Wed 11 Nov 2009, 20:27, Reply)

Potentially dangerous but probably not.
Funnily enough I'm rather enjoying the electrics.
( , Wed 11 Nov 2009, 20:39, Reply)

for the washing machine filter having Things That Should Not Be Inside A Washing Machine in it. I'm reluctant to call them out for anything else and the only sparks I know is my father... who isn't speaking to me.
There appears to be no tension in the switch, if you get my meaning; it feels too loose.
( , Wed 11 Nov 2009, 20:42, Reply)

If you can use a screwdriver you can change a plug-socket.
I can give you a step-by-step if you like!
( , Wed 11 Nov 2009, 20:50, Reply)

I would be eternally grateful since it'll save me another callout charge. You rock, good sir.
( , Wed 11 Nov 2009, 20:51, Reply)

Is it a double or single socket? Not significant, just curious...
Okay, here we go!
1) plug a known-working lamp into socket and make sure it's lit.
2) isolate power. Lamp SHOULD be off now. If not then panic!
3) using a small flat screwdriver remove the two screws holding the socket front in place. Retain these screws.
4) GENTLY pull the socket front away from the wall, straightening the cable as you go. There should be 3 or 4 inches of spare cable. Tilt the socket front forwards so the front is facing the floor and the guts are visible.
5) identify the Live, Neutral and Earth cables and the terminals they go in to. Live is Red or Brown, Neutral is Blue or Black, Earth is Yellow and Green.
6) using your screwdriver loosen the terminal screw on the Live terminal and pull out the (probably two) wires.
7) connect these wires to the terminal marked L on the new socket front. There should be enough slack in the cable to allow this without too much trouble. NICE AND TIGHT!
8) repeat for Neutral (to terminal marked N) and Earth (to terminal marked E)
9) manipulate cables back into metal box in wall keeping them clear of screw holes.
10) using screws from step 3) fix new socket front in place. NOT TOO TIGHT or you might crack the plastic.
DONE!
( , Wed 11 Nov 2009, 21:25, Reply)

Much obliged! *saves*
( , Wed 11 Nov 2009, 21:27, Reply)

or else I'd have fried ;)
( , Wed 11 Nov 2009, 21:47, Reply)

as it's the one I had my PC plugged into at the time...
( , Wed 11 Nov 2009, 20:43, Reply)

( , Wed 11 Nov 2009, 20:54, Reply)

that would have the side effect of making me rage remembering being made to sit through that bloody film more times than is necessary to maintain a healthy mental state (i.e. twice).
( , Wed 11 Nov 2009, 21:08, Reply)

I bet you'll be glad once you've installed the shower. Can then come home from work all clean.
( , Wed 11 Nov 2009, 20:37, Reply)

We only have a bath where we are at the moment, as thou may or may not remember.
The first shower I have when we get moved is gonna be the longest shower ever!
( , Wed 11 Nov 2009, 20:44, Reply)

Have you sneakily been orally injected with mint again?
( , Wed 11 Nov 2009, 20:41, Reply)

Unlucky!
( , Wed 11 Nov 2009, 20:54, Reply)

and it will be like playing reverse Russian Roulette.
( , Wed 11 Nov 2009, 21:45, Reply)

because they didn't have what I wanted to begin with [strawberry banana]
( , Wed 11 Nov 2009, 21:55, Reply)

Why cant things be spicky and fluffy, just like a hedgehog? They're lovely and not in the slightest bit nasty.
( , Wed 11 Nov 2009, 21:05, Reply)

I'd quite like a baby one to look after.
( , Wed 11 Nov 2009, 21:09, Reply)

It's my pet, I love sitting at night watching it.
And they snuffle.
( , Wed 11 Nov 2009, 21:12, Reply)

We had one in our old garden - the cat wasn't too sure what to make of it. She walked up to it, gave it a "what the fuck is this?" sniff and legged it!
( , Wed 11 Nov 2009, 21:20, Reply)

It's great watching cats with strange animals, especially some of the bigger lizards I've got.
( , Wed 11 Nov 2009, 21:23, Reply)

is one no human face can recreate. I loves it.
( , Wed 11 Nov 2009, 21:37, Reply)

by the cat sitting on the floor at the end of this clip.
( , Wed 11 Nov 2009, 21:46, Reply)

I kind of like the idea of everything being hedgehog-like. Would not only allow the fluffy and spiky to co-exist, but you'd easily be able to find out howmany hedgehogs you can contain within a fixed area before they're no longer able to get around without colliding into eachother excessively.
( , Wed 11 Nov 2009, 21:15, Reply)

Hedgehogs can lay their spines flat so as not to stick them into each other. How else do you think the manage to have babies.
( , Wed 11 Nov 2009, 21:22, Reply)

I am fantastically inebriated on real ale, discount lager and red wine, and about to do myself a steak baguette with onions and worcester sauce. then I will drink some more and pass out, in fuzziness. Like a contented kitten high on 'nip.
( , Wed 11 Nov 2009, 21:06, Reply)

Just hope this reply gets to you before you pass out.
( , Wed 11 Nov 2009, 21:18, Reply)

How's tricks these days?
( , Wed 11 Nov 2009, 21:26, Reply)

Hello Doc, long time no type. How's things?
( , Wed 11 Nov 2009, 21:28, Reply)

Things could always be better though. How's your fine self?
( , Wed 11 Nov 2009, 21:29, Reply)

seasonally depressed. And I have to be at work at 8 tomorrow, which is just sadistic. Other than that life has big changes in the offing which will be either fantastically good or unbelievably unbearable, time will tell...
I do miss the old days on here. When people were just people, not overly fluffy or spiky. Just, yunno, people, being funny and stuff.
( , Wed 11 Nov 2009, 21:39, Reply)

But hey, i'll get a job soon, well I'd better or I may just go mental and start killing people.
Here's to people just being people and being funny!
( , Wed 11 Nov 2009, 21:45, Reply)

go mental and start killing people at work. Starting with my line manager.
Why aren't we self employed? It would be the answer to all our problems. Probably.
And yes, here's! *raises tea*
( , Wed 11 Nov 2009, 21:49, Reply)

B3ta pub idea, which I still think would be a fantastic place.
*raises hot chocolate*
( , Wed 11 Nov 2009, 21:53, Reply)

the hot chocolate I mean. Pub sounds good too of course. On that note I'm going to go and make some sweet cocoa and get in bed with my electric blanket, my hot water bottle and World of Warcraft. Because that's how rock n roll I am. Night all :)
( , Wed 11 Nov 2009, 22:03, Reply)

WoW player.
I really think I should look into the pub idea though.
( , Wed 11 Nov 2009, 22:12, Reply)
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