A little contest

[Mizicke5273]

I have a hypothetical question....just wondering here. Now, say the person who wrote this PM, responds to this thread and guesses them selves.........do they win!??? Or if I "hypothetically" admit it was me and guess myself.....do I win? How about if I hop in my DeLorean, run it up to 88 MPH, arrive at the exact time the person was typing this PM up, and I physically push the submit button, does that mean I can guess myself and win? Or, what if I guess BigFoot?

[ashauler]

I have a hypothetical question....just wondering here. Now, say the person who wrote this PM, responds to this thread and guesses them selves.........do they win!??? Or if I "hypothetically" admit it was me and guess myself.....do I win? How about if I hop in my DeLorean, run it up to 88 MPH, arrive at the exact time the person was typing this PM up, and I physically push the submit button, does that mean I can guess myself and win? Or, what if I guess BigFoot?

Yes.
Yes.
Yes.
I don't know.

The above answers would be self-evident, had you paid particular attention to the description(s) of the prize........

[TommyTree]

Now I feel like writing a passive aggressive PM to complain about someone's treatment of... well, that part probably doesn't even matter. I'll just act like a little bitch, wait until it gets posted in public (because anyone who's spent more than half a minute on this forum knows that's coming), guess myself and collect my riches. It's a foolproof plan!

[badwhale]

Now I feel like writing a passive aggressive PM to complain about someone's treatment of... well, that part probably doesn't even matter. I'll just act like a little bitch, wait until it gets posted in public (because anyone who's spent more than half a minute on this forum knows that's coming), guess myself and collect my riches. It's a foolproof plan!

What's this? Have you inferred that we're unfair, or something?

[Paddy]

Here it comes

[TommyTree]

What's this? Have you inferred that we're unfair, or something?

I will infer that some of you, specifically you, don't read the posts closely enough. I was inferring that the public display of my PM would be the natural reaction of me acting like a spoiled brat who can't take a good-natured ribbing. In fact, the context of that entire post was my mockery of runningscared and his wussy little message to ashauler.

But maybe it's not that you didn't understand the thread. Maybe it's just my turn for the hazing that everyone seems to get. If that's the case, you'll find it hard to harass me. I roll with it pretty well. But please, keep trying.

[badwhale]

I will infer that some of you, specifically you, don't read the posts closely enough. I was inferring that the public display of my PM would be the natural reaction of me acting like a spoiled brat who can't take a good-natured ribbing. In fact, the context of that entire post was my mockery of runningscared and his wussy little message to ashauler.

But maybe it's not that you didn't understand the thread. Maybe it's just my turn for the hazing that everyone seems to get. If that's the case, you'll find it hard to harass me. I roll with it pretty well. But please, keep trying.

And how would I know that you "roll with it pretty well"? After all, you haven't even been here for 3 weeks.

Maybe it's just my turn for the hazing that everyone seems to get.

And here we go again with yet another passive aggressive observation of our board, or maybe I'm just not reading closely enough.

[TommyTree]

Seems badwhale's a little over defensive. For me bringing up hazing to be passive aggressive, there would have to be something wrong with hazing. Do you think there's something wrong with the hazing you've done that makes it bad?

[badwhale]

Actually, I’m not trying to argue with you. I’m trying to tell you something.

Since you joined, you plopped your feet up on the couch and have been posting like you own the place. That’s all well and good, but when junior members start to point out how we’re just such a big bad asshat bashing board, it rubs me the wrong way, and tells me that they don’t really know what this board is about. Probably because they haven’t spent nearly enough time here to get to know everyone. Ya know, community? Also, I did mention that I don’t know anything about you. How could I? You’ve been here for such a short time.

You failed what you call “the inevitable hazing” because you immediately got defensive and insulting towards me in every following post. I just posted a simple question which you could have answered as such:

I will infer that some of you, specifically you, don't read the posts closely enough. Nah, I was inferring that the public display of my PM might be the natural reaction of me acting like a spoiled brat who can't take a good-natured ribbing. In fact, the context of that entire post was my mockery of runningscared and his wussy little message to ashauler. I was just trying to join in on the fun, but maybe I'm too new for that.

But maybe it's not that you didn't understand the thread. Maybe it's just my turn for the hazing that everyone seems to get. If that's the case, you'll find it hard to harass me. I roll with it pretty well. But please, keep trying.

Not everyone gets poked or hazed or bashed on this board, because if they did then the namesake of the fanclub here would be right, which he isn’t. Yes, scammers / scumbags / trolls get shown the door promptly. Also, mistakes are made, and I’m humble enough to admit that I’m not perfect. Almost all newblets get their questions answered, and are usually welcomed.

Lots of newbs get it wrong, that we’re a community bent on showing everyone the door, and only the thickest skinned, shit slingin’ hard asses remain. This isn’t true, as there have been many well adjusted people who have floated through and or remained here enjoying our community without a “hazing period”, nor a “hail of profanities”, and they took more than “half a minute on this forum” to get to know it / us.

Will

[TommyTree]

Again, so much defensiveness. I don't know why you guys are so quick to say, "That's not how it is," when you could just go, "That's what we are and we like it that way." I have neither accused you of wrongdoing nor judged you for anything I have seen. But all this denial is sad. Embrace who you are, gentlemen, because everyone sees it, and have fun with it.

[CoventryCat86]

I will infer that some of you, specifically you, don't read the posts closely enough. I was inferring that the public display of my PM would be the natural reaction of me acting like a spoiled brat who can't take a good-natured ribbing. In fact, the context of that entire post was my mockery of runningscared and his wussy little message to ashauler.

But maybe it's not that you didn't understand the thread. Maybe it's just my turn for the hazing that everyone seems to get. If that's the case, you'll find it hard to harass me. I roll with it pretty well. But please, keep trying.

When someone sends an email, a letter, a PM, a text message to someone, it becomes their property and they can do with it as they wish. I think you agree with that, right Tom?

[TommyTree]

When someone sends an email, a letter, a PM, a text message to someone, it becomes their property and they can do with it as they wish. I think you agree with that, right Tom?

That was the entire point of my post, that, especially given the atmosphere here, you would have to be an idiot not to expect that. What I was proposing was that I would act like runningdeer, wait until the utterly expected appearance of my PM on the forum, and then guess my own name to get a prize. But, again, that's what I wrote in the first place.