BS: Rules for Kittens in Mudcattery

Subject: RE: BS: Rules for Kittens in Mudcattery
From: Amos
Date: 10 Jan 09 - 12:43 PM

VT reveals herself as a true member of the Gigantic Enormous Covert Hidden Secret Bleeding-Heart Socialist Pinko Commie Bastard Left-Wing Conspiracy!! Yayyyyyyy!



A

Subject: RE: BS: Rules for Kittens in Mudcattery
From: Sleepy Rosie
Date: 10 Jan 09 - 12:50 PM

If you could kindly add 'anarcho' and 'libertarian' to the above, then pray tell where does one sign up?

Oooops, and you forgot 'Numpty' btw. I have been knitting badly printed leaflets from free-range llamas all week, my fingers are raw with revolutionary toil. Wouldn't want to have to do a second batch.

Subject: RE: BS: Rules for Kittens in Mudcattery
From: Little Hawk
Date: 10 Jan 09 - 01:21 PM

Ho! Ho! Ho Chi Minh! NLF is going to win!

Subject: RE: BS: Rules for Kittens in Mudcattery
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 10 Jan 09 - 01:37 PM

VT reveals herself

eyebrows raised ... I thought ASS revelations was in the Scraps, Feuds, etc. thread.

anyway... have I not been obviously as left as left can be in this and other threads?

what are people thinking of me?

I am an anarchist, I am an antichrist, don't know what I want but I know how to get it.

Subject: RE: BS: Rules for Kittens in Mudcattery
From: Matt_R
Date: 10 Jan 09 - 04:36 PM

STFU N00BS! Just kidding! :D

Subject: RE: BS: Rules for Kittens in Mudcattery
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 12 Jan 09 - 03:54 PM

huh?

Subject: RE: BS: Rules for Kittens in Mudcattery
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 17 Jan 09 - 06:53 AM

Well this Kit has learned loads in the last few days what with threads and threats going around different forums. A forum closing and accusations flying on yet another site.

Wondering why old scars must be exposed and univited descriptions at how they were got, shared with others who can never (nor should they)know exactly what happened. This just opens old wounds and creates new ones in others.

It all seems like the same type of "he said that" and "she did this" and " Mom, he's looking at me" crap I heard from my kids when they were young.

I would like to say as an experienced Mom. Keep your battles private. It does not look well to try and rally support. Get it into your heads that sometimes life is not fair. Don't let bad experiences ruin everything that is good. Show respect for your selves, for each other and for the rest of us not involved. Do your genuine best to work out problems privately. Pay attention to what you say and how it may be perceived by others. Be willing to forgive and accept forgiveness.

Can we do that? Please?

Subject: RE: BS: Rules for Kittens in Mudcattery
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 17 Jan 09 - 07:18 AM

I'm afraid VT, that for some people vendettas are a way of life.
In the same way as normal people need someone to love, these sickos need someone to hate.
I pity them for their sad little lives and petty obsessions.

Subject: RE: BS: Rules for Kittens in Mudcattery
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 17 Jan 09 - 07:51 AM

sigh...

I appreciate how you feel, but does name calling and blaming help the situation?

Subject: RE: BS: Rules for Kittens in Mudcattery
From: peregrina
Date: 17 Jan 09 - 08:05 AM

I think VirginianTam's post of, I think, 6.53, would bear repetition or inclusion in the FAQs. John M is right, of course, that people will be they way they are. But forum posts are a kind of public speech that lasts, is accessible to others, and creates a collective identity for this community.

Subject: RE: BS: Rules for Kittens in Mudcattery
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 17 Jan 09 - 08:59 AM

Yes peregrina, and this is why this sort of person surfaces on the internet.
In real life, nobody will listen to them.
In real life people will interrupt their pusillanimous tripe with logical arguments.
In real life they might have to admit to the possibility that they might just be wrong about something.
On the internet, they can post, and sit back with a smug little smile and say.
'THERE, THAT TOLD THEM'

It's a monologue and not a dialogue in fora like this one.

Subject: RE: BS: Rules for Kittens in Mudcattery
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 17 Jan 09 - 09:16 AM

I suppose am naive. My apologies go to a friend who pointed this out to me in pm and I took exception. He was right.   

I want to believe the best of everyone. Guess I will always be a kitten, never a cat.

Well, I still love the Mudcat and really enjoy most of what goes on here. That is the greatest lesson.

Subject: RE: BS: Rules for Kittens in Mudcattery
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 17 Jan 09 - 09:47 AM

No doubt, it's a great site, and I have made many good friends on here. I always take people at face value, and trust them until they prove unworthy of that trust.
It can be very disillusioning to have ones trust abused, but on the whole it's better to be naive and trusting, than to be suspicious and defensive all the time.

Subject: RE: BS: Rules for Kittens in Mudcattery
From: Gurney
Date: 17 Jan 09 - 08:20 PM

John, the trouble with 'taking on face value' on an internet site is that you can't see their faces!
I have misinterpreted comments here, and had mine misinterpreted, too.
People such as Amos, LH, Rapaire, Gnu, WLD, and in fact the vast majority of posters are NOT being agressive. They will pick you up if they disagree with you, but that is the free exchange of opinion, which is covered in the rules of the site. I usually picture them typing with a wry grin on their faces. I've never SEEN their faces.
In the several years that I've been here there has never been nastiness that was not interrupted by Joe or the clones.
All anyone needs here is a love of music and a normal skin thickness. The excessively thin-skinned would be better served to stay above the line, and only 'lurk' down here in the pits, because this is the bullshit area.

Subject: RE: BS: Rules for Kittens in Mudcattery
From: Janie
Date: 17 Jan 09 - 08:31 PM

Two things I try to keep in mind, (not always successfully) in both the 3-d world and cyberspace:

Personalities. Everybody's got one.

and

I don't have a dog in this fight.

Subject: RE: BS: Rules for Kittens in Mudcattery
From: Matt_R
Date: 17 Jan 09 - 10:44 PM

:facepalm:

Subject: RE: BS: Rules for Kittens in Mudcattery
From: Donuel
Date: 17 Jan 09 - 10:51 PM

I want a kitten but I am worried that my dog who is very jealous of my attention might bear envy of attention given a cat.

Subject: RE: BS: Rules for Kittens in Mudcattery
From: catspaw49
Date: 17 Jan 09 - 11:10 PM

Donnie, Mn, you're sniffin' glue again aintcha? Yeah.........thought so............Say, is it a cheap brand?   I'm kinda' short on cash..............

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Rules for Kittens in Mudcattery
From: Amos
Date: 17 Jan 09 - 11:19 PM

Mbo:

You have transcended all normal human modes of communication!!

Provide translation to earthlings!


A

Subject: RE: BS: Rules for Kittens in Mudcattery
From: GUEST
Date: 18 Jan 09 - 04:05 AM

I know ... how bad is it when n00bs don't even know what n00b means!

This is Facepalm

Subject: RE: BS: Rules for Kittens in Mudcattery
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 18 Jan 09 - 05:54 AM

p'raps he's daubed some of that glue on his palm.

maybe that's the name of the glue. Try Facepalm for those times when you just don't want to know.

la la la having a faceplam glue moment..

My name is Thwartin. I come from Flendropoli. It is near Yulmopia on the Anteswertian Plain. The Rudinoceri have destroyed the wild Yatzoming bushes. I had Jeeklurp for breakfast. The goats are afraid.

Subject: RE: BS: Rules for Kittens in Mudcattery
From: Sleepy Rosie
Date: 18 Jan 09 - 06:16 AM

This thread has become most strangely surreal. Like I missed out reading the middle bit somehow..

Subject: RE: BS: Rules for Kittens in Mudcattery
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 18 Jan 09 - 06:51 AM

Do what so many others do Rosie, just read the last message, and post accordingly.
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Subject: RE: BS: Rules for Kittens in Mudcattery
From: Lizzie Cornish 1
Date: 18 Jan 09 - 09:27 AM

Blimey! If the goats are afraid, then there's no hope left...

We're not coming down till Thwartin's gone!

Subject: RE: BS: Rules for Kittens in Mudcattery
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 18 Jan 09 - 09:40 AM

See!

Subject: RE: BS: Rules for Kittens in Mudcattery
From: Rapparee
Date: 18 Jan 09 - 11:19 AM

Yup. That's what happens. The goats flee up trees and I agree with them, in theory anyway.

Subject: RE: BS: Rules for Kittens in Mudcattery
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 18 Jan 09 - 12:14 PM

Good gollygee... I only knicked some bits of a children's story I wrote and put it into secretagent speak.

You'd think I was crazy or sumfink.

Subject: RE: BS: Rules for Kittens in Mudcattery
From: Amos
Date: 18 Jan 09 - 12:15 PM

LOL!! VT, you are a gem.


A

Subject: RE: BS: Rules for Kittens in Mudcattery
From: GUEST,Matt_R
Date: 18 Jan 09 - 02:56 PM

I thought it was Stanley Unwinese!

Subject: RE: BS: Rules for Kittens in Mudcattery
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 18 Jan 09 - 04:17 PM

really nothing like Stanley Unwin, Matt.

Story was inspired by unwords instead.

After the 3 periods substitute teaching a French III class where the only resource left by teacher was word search puzzle full of French words. In the 1st period I found the French words. In the 2nd period I found some English words. In the 3rd period I started seeing potentially funny unwords. Jeeklurp was the first and I thought what a funny word. What can it mean? So I defined it. A cool refreshing treat made with goat yogurt and fruit of the Jeek tree. Jeek tree is descended or cultivated from the wild Yatzoming, which used to grow on the Anteswertian plain until the Rudinoceri (or so it was erroneously reported) ate them all. Actually human cultivation changed the Yatzoming and the Rudinoceri went away. The goats were afraid because Thwartin had suddenly grown a beard. A thing not seen on the people of Anteswert. But the beard growing only happened to the Flendroplian males and not the Yulmopians which eventually caused great battles between these once friendly people.   

I just couldn't help myself.. several stories were born out of this exercise.

All I can say is beware of word search puzzles. That way danger lies.

Subject: RE: BS: Rules for Kittens in Mudcattery
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 18 Jan 09 - 05:48 PM

Funny you should say that... found a French wordsearch in Limpit's school bag the other day... and started looking for German words.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Rules for Kittens in Mudcattery
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 19 Jan 09 - 04:15 PM

LTS - that is spooky. Care to write a story from the words you found?

Subject: RE: BS: Rules for Kittens in Mudcattery
From: ClaireBear
Date: 19 Jan 09 - 05:54 PM

(And how's that school bag working out, by the way? Enquiring minds want to know...)

Subject: RE: BS: Rules for Kittens in Mudcattery
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 19 Jan 09 - 06:41 PM

She loves it and it has raised comments from classmates I think...

Thank you!

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Rules for Kittens in Mudcattery
From: ClaireBear
Date: 19 Jan 09 - 07:00 PM

Oh good. And I wasn't fishing for thanks, honest -- I was merely a little unsure about the bag's quality, only having seen it online.

Glad to know it's sturdy enough to withstand Limpet's schoolbooks!

Cheers,
Claire

Subject: RE: BS: Rules for Kittens in Mudcattery
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 20 Jan 09 - 06:50 PM

Oh it's standing up to its duties with gusto! It also helps when picking it out from the pile in the playground that no-one else has one like it!

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Rules for Kittens in Mudcattery
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 21 Jan 09 - 07:33 AM

I think the discussion regards Limpet's schoolbag is just a bit beyond the Pale.

Get it? exceeding the "Rules" of this thread... snerk

I thought that was quite clever.

Hey, now I am curious! What kind of school bag? Any pics?

Subject: RE: BS: Rules for Kittens in Mudcattery
From: MaineDog
Date: 21 Jan 09 - 08:17 AM

Welcome, Virginia,
Be not faint of heart.
You may not believe it, but Mudcat was far worse when I came in about 5 years ago.
MD

Subject: RE: BS: Rules for Kittens in Mudcattery
From: ClaireBear
Date: 21 Jan 09 - 12:15 PM

(description of rule-breaking bag sent by PM)

Subject: RE: BS: Rules for Kittens in Mudcattery
From: Megan L
Date: 21 Jan 09 - 12:22 PM

Claire the problem was not whether it was strong enough to withstand her schoolbooks but if it could withstand Limpit. Such a sweet delicate little thing she is (Oh how i wish max had a rofl icon) :)

Subject: RE: BS: Rules for Kittens in Mudcattery
From: GUEST,LTS pretending to work
Date: 22 Jan 09 - 07:29 AM

She was a sweet little pink-loving thing until that trip to Scotland a couple of years ago....

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Rules for Kittens in Mudcattery
From: bfdk
Date: 22 Jan 09 - 08:28 AM

You insulting Meg's pink outfit, Liz? :o)))

Subject: RE: BS: Rules for Kittens in Mudcattery
From: Megan L
Date: 22 Jan 09 - 12:17 PM

Whatch it the pair o ye ahm fair scunnered

Subject: RE: BS: Rules for Kittens in Mudcattery
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 22 Jan 09 - 03:59 PM

Eye eye Meg

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Subject: RE: BS: Rules for Kittens in Mudcattery
From: Megan L
Date: 22 Jan 09 - 04:01 PM

And as fur youMcKenzie :p yer naethin but a tumshie hieded bauchle wie a face like a skelped erse

Subject: RE: BS: Rules for Kittens in Mudcattery
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 22 Jan 09 - 05:03 PM

Aye Meg, an' whit are ye gaun tae dae fur a face, when the monkey wants his arse back?

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Subject: RE: BS: Rules for Kittens in Mudcattery
From: Rapparee
Date: 22 Jan 09 - 05:08 PM

Now, tsk, tsk, the two of ya. I want ya both at the kirk o' Sunday to repent.

Subject: RE: BS: Rules for Kittens in Mudcattery
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 27 Jan 09 - 12:48 AM

Mudcat kindness

Another good thing for kittens to learn is about the kindness of catters. I have been loaned (and may soon be purchasing same) a lovely Sigma guitar by a Mudcatter.

Another pleading guitar thread

This place is amazing.

I should mention another catter Richard Bridge has loaned me a mandolin, but he offered it at a session in Rochester so we had the acquainted in real life element.

Still such nice folks here.

Subject: RE: BS: Rules for Kittens in Mudcattery
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 27 Jan 09 - 12:57 AM

i just realised that if i add 2 more posts this thread will make it to

Subject: RE: BS: Rules for Kittens in Mudcattery
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 27 Jan 09 - 12:58 AM

300

Woot! I did it!