BS: Mudcatr people waht piss you off?

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcatr people waht piss you off?
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 16 Jul 04 - 07:37 PM

Keeping to character eh Martin. Be Blessed.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcatr people waht piss you off?
From: DougR
Date: 16 Jul 04 - 08:58 PM

Martin Gibson: Mogen David? You must not have discovered the joys of Charles Shaw yet!

DougR

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcatr people waht piss you off?
From: Joybell
Date: 16 Jul 04 - 09:08 PM

Me is already here! How weird! Ed are you me or am I? Me exists I'm pretty sure. But I could be wrong. Me and I believe we do. Time to go outside for a scream. Joy

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcatr people waht piss you off?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 16 Jul 04 - 09:49 PM

"It's up to them if they want to be upset about it."

Martin, you are so right! It's up to them. And that is the key to self-mastery right there. Talking and sometimes wrangling with people of many vastly different beliefs for the last 3 years on Mudcat Cafe has had an enormous effect in helping to teach me how not to give my power away pointlessly to other people by letting them push my buttons any old time they don't see something my way. I have learned to have more equanimity and good humour in the process. For that alone it's been worth it.

I think there's plenty of method in your particular brand of "madness".

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcatr people waht piss you off?
From: Once Famous
Date: 16 Jul 04 - 11:44 PM

Perhaps, Little Hawk. But the old WASPs here with their devout and totally hypocritical political correctness are by far my favorite target.

As I have said, that clique is the one that looks down their noses at many in their pseudo-sophisticated manner. They are about as fun as diarhrea at a party and to me never enlightening.

do you really think calling me "buster" can possibly upset me? It's about as lame as a man with 2 broken legs.

You have to be tough to live in Chicago, tough to work in the corporate world, tough to make life work to your advantage in general. These little old men in front of their keyboards, plotting and seething very seldom really push my buttons. My posts are purely impromptu to them. They squirm like little girls that have a worm dangled in front of them. I really don't mean them any harm, but I will always push back when pushed at and expose their brand of complete bullshit. For me, it's as I have been saying all along, just entertainment.

As for being Martin Gibson, I would rather be him here. If we don't have other lives than what goes on here, then I would say, I would not want to be one so pathetic.


Always enjoy dialogue with you, Little Hawk.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcatr people waht piss you off?
From: M.Ted
Date: 17 Jul 04 - 11:11 AM

So--you have created your own Golem to fight with the "little old men in front of their keyboards, plotting and seething"--when we want to talk to you instead of Martin Gibson, we'll start calling you Rabbi Loew--

So Rabbi Loew: We're just trying to help you to understand the way things work here in cyberspace--it may seem like you can do and say whatever you want, but after a while, you become what you pretend to be--when you live outside the law you must be honest--I know Little Hawk always says that he agrees--

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcatr people waht piss you off?
From: Ebbie
Date: 17 Jul 04 - 08:09 PM

Martin Gibson, you may think that your peculiar idea of entertainment on this forum is a new one- but if you check back a year or two on other threads you'll find that there have been others who also claimed they were pitching the shit for the fun of it. You're not original, only juvenile. IMO.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcatr people waht piss you off?
From: Once Famous
Date: 18 Jul 04 - 11:38 AM

M.Ted, I have no idea who this Rabbi Loew is , so your post is as empty as probably your sex life. Unless it reveals how anti-semitic you are. I think, I'll start referring to you as M.Teat, as I am sure that M.Ted is hardly how you sign your checks.

So M.Teat, change your shorts, today?

Ebbie, I don't know or care about the other posters you are comparing me to. As far as being what you call juvinile, I really don't care about that either.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcatr people waht piss you off?
From: GUEST,catter
Date: 18 Jul 04 - 11:55 AM

Its not the heavies on the cat that bother me, tho, at times they all have.

There is one catter that is smart, witty, philosphical, funny etc. Yet occasionally makes very personal attacks on another mudcatter with similar qualities. This upsets me more than the heavies. Because I expected better of him. And because the attacks are so detailed, so personal, so well thought out.

Ratbags I can cope with.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcatr people waht piss you off?
From: Amos
Date: 18 Jul 04 - 11:58 AM

(Enter Kingston Trio from stage left wearing Bermuda shorts and pink alligator shirts. They strum and sing:)

But did he ever awake, no he never awoke
And he's still asleep out there
He will stay unconscious through the next millenium
He's the man who just didn't care....

(Exeunt stage right, plinking).

Martin, your anti-social act is very funny.

A

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcatr people waht piss you off?
From: Jeri
Date: 18 Jul 04 - 12:39 PM

I'm with GUEST, catter up there.

There are ratbags in every forum, every community, office, family... everywhere. Some attempt to piss everyone off with such dedication that it seems desperate. We have these here. My guess is that they can succeed in little else, interpersonally, and at least they get noticed when they act like assholes. The desperation, however, is just too blatant for me to take them seriously.

Other folks, who come down to some nasty level to play, bother me more. I guess it's just that the threatening, rude, easily goaded, egotistical, whatever, plonker, was always lurking behind the public 'face'. Those qualities lurk behind most of our masks, in varying degrees. What I can't figure out is what makes people, who obviously CAN be nice, decide they can justify (to themselves) letting their 'inner asshole' come out and hurt people. I suppose what bothers me more than them just showing who they really are is the realisation that I'd misjudged them.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcatr people waht piss you off?
From: Don Firth
Date: 18 Jul 04 - 01:59 PM

AHA, Doug!

We may not see eye to eye on things political, but when comes to wines, we are in complete agreement! My wife, Barbara, who often haunts our local Trader Joe's (actual, they have several stores in Seattle), discovered Charles Shaw wines and we've been buying it ever since, both for our own enjoyment and for when we entertain. Here's a pretty informative web site about it (BLICKY). I lift a glass and drink to your health.

Well, well, well. Judging from the posts above, Marty, you seem to be the primary off-pisser around here.

Commercial offering possible therapy follows:—

Follow Doug's recommendation and give Charles Shaw wines a try, Marty. They're sold exclusively at Trader Joe's, but there are Trader Joe's stores in Chicago. They are excellent, and startlingly inexpensive, considering how good they are. Apparently there is nothing about them that is inconsistent with kosher laws, because I have a number of Jewish friends and acquaintances (sophisticated, well-educated, and cosmopolitan, all) who are also very fond of them. One friend (who hosted frequent song-fests in his home for years and, although he is gone now, his wife continues to do so) said once that he will not have Mogen David in the house. He told me that he drank it when he was younger and didn't know any better. According to him, it tastes like grape flavored syrup.

Now, don't say that Doug and I never did anything for you, Marty. Enjoy. Mellow out a little.

Don Firth

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcatr people waht piss you off?
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 18 Jul 04 - 02:11 PM

I suppose we all disagree about the nature of folk music and other stuff, but at least most of us care enough to have opinions

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcatr people waht piss you off?
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 18 Jul 04 - 03:55 PM

I really would have thought that Martin would have known about the legend of the Golem and the man who was created it, Rabbi Loew>, and would have recognised that there was nothing in the least anti-semitic in MTed's reference.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcatr people waht piss you off?
From: M.Ted
Date: 18 Jul 04 - 04:42 PM

Hard to believe that you don't know about one of the most enduring Jewish folktales--The story goes that Rabbi Loew created the Golem to defend the Jews of Prague against their enemies--but the Golem began attacking the Jews as well, and the Rabbi had to destroy him--

Well, actually, I can believe you don't know the story, since they don't have the book at Walmart any more--and who uses checks anymore, anyway?

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcatr people waht piss you off?
From: Les from Hull
Date: 18 Jul 04 - 04:44 PM

Actually all the people who know me have convinced me that I'm only a parchment of my own pigmentation.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcatr people waht piss you off?
From: M.Ted
Date: 18 Jul 04 - 04:53 PM

Thanks for posting the link, Kevin--not exactly the same version of the story, but it does connect it to cyberspace--

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcatr people waht piss you off?
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 18 Jul 04 - 04:58 PM

Actually in the light of "Martin Gibson" reminding people that the real person behind the curtain has virtually nothing in common with the "prson" who pops up here raging away in various directions, perhaps it's not so surprising.

So "Martin Gibson" presents as a middle-aged Jewish man living in Chicago, who might be expected to have heard the story of the Golem at some time. But for all we know the real person could be, for example, a Presbyterian granny living in Billericay, who very likely wouldn't have...

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcatr people waht piss you off?
From: M.Ted
Date: 18 Jul 04 - 05:27 PM

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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcatr people waht piss you off?
From: Once Famous
Date: 18 Jul 04 - 06:05 PM

Amos, you finally are starting to get it!

Good guess, Mcgrath, but just shows a good imagination.

As for wines, I just don't take them seriously enough. They either have to be sweet or I don't like them at all.

Mted, it's not really as common a storyas you think. And I write checks all the time. No ATMs. No on-line payments. Never had one bounce yet.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcatr people waht piss you off?
From: DougR
Date: 18 Jul 04 - 07:26 PM

Don: no doubt about it in my opinion. Until my step-daughter introduced me to Charles Shaw I was a confirmed Vodka drinker. On the rocks with a splash of water. The night I tasted Charles Shaw (Merlot is my preference)I stopped drinking Vodka or any other hard liquor (well a spot of Hennessee, neat, on rare occasions).

As to who on the Mudcat pisses me off. Nobody.

DougR

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcatr people waht piss you off?
From: GUEST,Judge dread
Date: 18 Jul 04 - 07:37 PM

Neither a wine buff or a word buff gibson. Sad!

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcatr people waht piss you off?
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 18 Jul 04 - 07:41 PM

Hey Judge dread or should I say guest!!!!!! Your words are a wind-up and no better than his. Reveal yourself if you wish some credibility.
Be Blessed.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcatr people waht piss you off?
From: Don Firth
Date: 18 Jul 04 - 08:09 PM

Jeeze, Marty, I've known the story about Rabbi Loew and the Golem for years, and I'm a Lutheran.

Sweet wine!?? Fruity in nose and flavor, yes, but sweet??

Yeah, Doug, I don't think I've had a drink of hard liquor for years (other than a dram of Drambuie from time to time, and an occasional beer on a hot afternoon, which is nowhere near hard liquor). Barbara and I have a glass from the stock of Charles Shaw that we keep on hand maybe two or three times a week with dinner and, of course, when we have guests. A moderate amount of red wine is supposed to Roto-Rooter the plaque out of one's veins and arteries. At last!! Something you enjoy that's actually good for you!

We like a fairly wide variety, but the Merlot is excellent.

Don Firth

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcatr people waht piss you off?
From: Once Famous
Date: 18 Jul 04 - 08:58 PM

Guest, judge dread:

Eat my shorts on rye toast.

Don, Have no idea what a Lutheran is either. Was it started by Lex Luther? Or Luther Van Dross. Wait, I think it was Luther Perkins, who was Johnny Cash's original boom-chucka-boom guitarist.

They don't teach that story in any of the religious schools I've been affiliated with.

Who gives a crap about wine, or in your case whine. Being a wine con-noyser doesn't impress me in the slightest.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcatr people waht piss you off?
From: Nemesis
Date: 18 Jul 04 - 09:10 PM

Just making a lateral enquiry here... is Charles Shaw the only manufacturer of wine available in the US or is it just because it's the most recogisable/ popular or something?

(I mean, there are many, many, different, fantastic Californian winemakers products available here in UK .. is all/most US wine exported?)

Just curious ...
Keen on Merlot too :)
Nem
x

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcatr people waht piss you off?
From: Don Firth
Date: 18 Jul 04 - 09:13 PM

Wow!! There's a helluva lot you don't know, isn't there, Marty? That explains a lot.

Don Firth

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcatr people waht piss you off?
From: Once Famous
Date: 18 Jul 04 - 09:15 PM

Don, what I forgot, you haven't even imagined. Consider your chain yanked for exactly the 1 millionth time.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcatr people waht piss you off?
From: M.Ted
Date: 18 Jul 04 - 09:42 PM

If you don't believe me, ask the Rabbi(about the Golem, not about the checks)--as I said, one of the most enduring stories, and you don't have to be Jewish to know about it--you just need to like movies--

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcatr people waht piss you off?
From: DougR
Date: 18 Jul 04 - 10:20 PM

Martin: I doubt any serious wine consumer would consider anyone who drinks Charles Shaw a "conesuier." I like it because it tastes good.

Don: The Sharaz is pretty good too!

DougR

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcatr people waht piss you off?
From: Once Famous
Date: 19 Jul 04 - 11:29 AM

How about Richard's Wild Irish Rose or Boone's Farm?

Or Mad Dog 20/20?

Or better yet, how about Listerine?

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcatr people waht piss you off?
From: el ted
Date: 19 Jul 04 - 12:04 PM

people who post in red all the time, because someone has just shown them how to do it.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcatr people waht piss you off?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 19 Jul 04 - 12:34 PM

Yes. Those people are scum. They should be excommunicated.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcatr people waht piss you off?
From: GUEST
Date: 19 Jul 04 - 12:36 PM

I feel the same about big, green and bold.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcatr people waht piss you off?
From: Oaklet
Date: 19 Jul 04 - 12:59 PM

And people who say that they'll produce the following line in green and red alternate letters, moving from left to right.





Then fail.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcatr people waht piss you off?
From: Don Firth
Date: 19 Jul 04 - 01:11 PM

Yup, Doug, Shiraz is another favorite. Although among the ones we've tried so far, it's hard to pick "favorites." They're all good.

Oh, yeah, Marty, I can imagine how much you've forgotten. The man with the Teflon brain. Drinking all that Listerine will do that to you.

Don Firth

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcatr people waht piss you off?
From: Once Famous
Date: 19 Jul 04 - 03:28 PM

Another don firth stalking thread to me above that I am forced to respond to because this anus face is a complete douchebag loser.. he's not even a good insulter.

I do believe all of that wine has fucked up your brain, Don. Time again to blow yourself with a straw. Please do use your Listerine, Don or at least cross your legs. Your breath is killing us all.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcatr people waht piss you off?
From: Peace
Date: 19 Jul 04 - 03:45 PM

It's true love, I can tell.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcatr people waht piss you off?
From: Jeri
Date: 19 Jul 04 - 04:12 PM

Kinda makes me nostalgic for the good old days on the playground. Jungle gyms, swings, slides and the lingering cries of:
"Yer mama's a douchebag!"
"You don't even know what a 'douchebag' is, you stupid asshole."
"I do SO know what a 'douchebag' is, pecker-breath - it's your mama!"
Then again, maybe it was just an episode of 'South Park'...

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcatr people waht piss you off?
From: SINSULL
Date: 19 Jul 04 - 04:21 PM

Anyone remember Cupid's Quiver - champagne flavored douche from the 60s? I'll bet if Don really is a douche bag, he's champagne flavored. And Martin? Probably Listerine.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcatr people waht piss you off?
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 19 Jul 04 - 04:33 PM

But remember "Martin Gibson" is a fictitious character, who has only been in existence since December 2002. So that kind of playground stuff is pretty advanced for someone of that age, even if he'd hardly qualify as being a "good insulter".

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcatr people waht piss you off?
From: Once Famous
Date: 19 Jul 04 - 04:50 PM

Champagne for Don? Maybe cheap champagne. No, definately sceptic tank fluid.

McGrath, what is your definition of a good insulter? what qualifies to you?

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcatr people waht piss you off?
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 19 Jul 04 - 05:20 PM

One essential for a "good insulter" would be the ability to nose out some characteristic of the person being insulted, preferably one about which they feel a bit insecure, and use that as the basis for the insult, rather than just throwing out random off-the-shelf abuse. If an insult isn't in some way accurate, it's got no real force.

So, for exmple, to get back to the playground, there'd be no sense in calling someone who didn't wear glasses "old four-eyes".

Being a "good insulter" isn't something of which I'd pride myself.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcatr people waht piss you off?
From: Once Famous
Date: 19 Jul 04 - 05:23 PM

I don't really, either. But what else, besides ignore, can you do with dumb asses?

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcatr people waht piss you off?
From: GUEST,Mrs Martin Gibson
Date: 19 Jul 04 - 05:25 PM

Marty, when you've finished jerking off on that frigging computer, come back to bed and get some sleep. Shame you can't do it for me, but I guess the pecker pills must take more than a couple of years to work.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcatr people waht piss you off?
From: GUEST,Mrs. Don Firth
Date: 19 Jul 04 - 05:54 PM

Marty, you can cum on me instead.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcatr people waht piss you off?
From: Peace
Date: 19 Jul 04 - 05:58 PM

Leave the wives out of it.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcatr people waht piss you off?
From: Peace
Date: 19 Jul 04 - 06:09 PM

As to the thread, I must admit that Freda Underhill gets me POed. She never loses her cool, is always thoughtful, has a great sense of humour, considers what she writes and its effect/affect on people, and it pisses me off that people can be so level-headed. They don't write 'em like that anymore.

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Date: 19 Jul 04 - 06:41 PM

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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcatr people waht piss you off?
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