MBA inspired question:
 

THe beauty of it is that I posted the How Do I Forward PMs post for the sole purpose of freaking MR out. Like I cant figure out where a forward button is?

He is a mental midget. I crush his head (thanks str8). Crush crush crush.

MBA inspired question:
 

It wasn't an 'honest comment.' I just couldn't resist.

Just skip over posts as soon as you're aggravated. With the exception of this one, I usually do.

MBA inspired question:
 

Can I tell you how relieved I am to know this? I was a little scared about that one. I am sitting there shaking my head thinking what the fuck, how can she not see the fucking forward button.

Another RT link.
 

http://www.trevorvanmeter.com/flyguy/ (random flash guy who you can make fly around)

MBA inspired question:
 

Are all these sebastian_dangerfield is on your ignore list posts about me and to me? ALL of them? What a mental midget. I crush Sebby's head. Crush crush crush

Now stop embedding his posts in yours. It ruins the effect. I was enjoying the peace and quiet.

Dealbreakers
 

Would it be weird to admit that I've fantasized about having a baby and giving it up for adoption so that I can take the 3 months paid maternity leave?

shut up. like you haven't all fantasized about the same thing!

MBA inspired question:
 

I applaud your efforts, but I'm sure by now you know the pattern:

inflammatory post
arguments
gets less responses
reasonable posts
normal discussion
inflammatory post
etc.

People always respond, either out of ignorance or because they just can't help themselves.

Dealbreakers
 

Hell, I'd fantasize having an employer that paid for anything, first.

p(have never fantasized about anything having to do with babies that didn't include avoiding having one)j

Quick question for JFF
 

Oh great. See now I have this creepy image of Sean Young (panties + package) from Ace Ventura: Pet Detective running through my head.

Thanks.

aV

Dealbreakers
 

Ya, that would be a great fantasy for me if three months' paid maternity leave did not entail not taking a vacation day or sick day for, oh, about 2.8 years.

Another RT link.
 

Loved that link. Word to the wise: As in real life, don't touch the copier.

MBA inspired question:
 

And this week's winner of the "Incapable of reading a post in any way other than literally" goes to...you. Congratulations.

And to preempt your next post, there really isn't going to be an award.

TM

Dealbreakers
 

Posting to this late - but you don't need a plate for a preggo space - purely voluntary (at least in my state) whereas H/C spaces are mandatory. Hey park in a preggo space - nothing says how far along you have to be or make you take a test to prove it (also no fine involved).

MBA inspired question:
 

Um, barely, I never said the PMs were forwarded to you. I never mentioned your name at all. It was an attempted dig at paigow, and nothing more.

Another RT link.
 

The eel gives quite a shock too.

MBA inspired question:
 

Shhh. Either JFF or paigow will hear you and I'll instantly become a rapist or rapist apologist.

As for actually blaming the victim, you got it wrong. WE are the victims. PJ is the accesory after the fact.

TM

Dealbreakers
 

If you're going to put your body through that go the surrogate route - get money for a trainer and Carribean vacation after the birth. (Although I think that was popular in late 80s early 90s and most states may now prohibit the $$$ for baby thing).

MBA inspired question:
 

You're missing the point again. Don't send pms to someone you don't know and are currently engaged in a flame war with unless you expect them to be made public. The word "private" in "private message" isn't a contract.

To illustrate, TM just sent me this PM (I am holding good on my promise to post insulting PMs to me all of over the board):

"Shut up, you little-breasted, big bootied, gay man dating, paigow befriender."

So there -- the PRIVATE message isn't really private after all -- Mooohahahahahahaha -- I win! ;)

Dealbreakers
 

Well, there's generally an exception for reimbursement for 'medical expenses.' Which purely coincidentally seem to run really, really, really high. I say put the trainer and Caribbean vacation under "postnatal care!"

MBA inspired question:
 

I have no dog in this fight and I could care less about the actual content of it, but I would consider it pretty bad form to forward an e-mail or PM or IM conversation to a third party without the sender's permission. Simple internet etiquette. I’d assume that the community in which the correspondents participate would be well served to know that one of the parties is prone to forward private communications, so the rest of the community can weigh that factor in when deciding whether to communicate with that party off line or not.

MBA inspired question:
 

You betrayed my confidence! How could you?

Thurgreed(gattigap, i sent her that pm knowing full well she would post it)Marshall

Hockey predictions
 

So, I ended up getting a *sweet* deal on tickets for the Rangers playoff game at MSG, and ..... uh, what's that you say?

Seriously, I give you the following hockey predictions:[list=1]Colorado wins the West. Patrick Waaaaaaaaah will avenge that game seven loss last year.

The Senators will make it past the Isles.

The Flyers will not be able to consistently protect Mister Bean in the playoffs, and they will not generate enough offense to get past the Leafs. Owen Nolan scores more than Slave at a drunken FB get-together, and Belfour stops Amonte and Roenick.

More after the first games are played.[/list=1]

Not (hit someone!) Bob

MBA inspired question:
 

I agree with you somewhat, and I wouldn't forward a pm that I received from someone who wanted to communicate something personal to me in private (which is why I haven't posted the PM Thurgreed sent me about his fears that he might be gay b/c he really really loves Clay). But if someone were to PM me out of the blue to insult me (I'm not saying that's what MR did -- I have no idea what the pms were about b/c I wasn't on the aforementioned vaulted forward list) I would not feel like it was a betrayal to share them with other people.

So everybody in this community be warned -- I've done it already today and I will do it again! Insult me in private at your own peril!

MBA inspired question:
 

He's running a conflicts check to see if he can pitch to represent someone other than Penske here.

Dealbreakers
 

I know. You must have missed this:

MBA inspired question:
 

I'm not missing the point. I learned that lesson a couple days ago.

However, that doesn't make forwarding PMs any less shitty especially when they have nothing to do with the people they're being forwarded to. In this case, I was trying to address something I saw as a personal issue between me and paigow, and she decided to involve other people. To me, that's shitty.

In my mind, if someone takes up an issue they have with me in private, I wouldn't make that coversation public, even if I thought the person was off his or her rocker. Not because I am bound not to take it public, but because, in actuality, the person is showing a bit of discretion by addressing things in private and I appreciate that level of discretion. I mean, maybe there was a miscommunication and the person just wanted an explanation. Should other people be involved in that case?

Now, if the person is doing nothing more than flinging insults, then there should be no expectation of privacy, but that's not what happened here. While my tone may have been a bit confrontational, all that happened was that Paigow said something that made me wonder and I asked her about it in private. That made me a psycho, I guess, and justified sending around the "crazy" PMs she got from me.

In the end, I acknowledge this whole thing was all my fault. I should have known that paigow is incapable of using discretion when addressing personal matters.

edited: I see you posted something I agree with, namely, that if the PM is purely an insult, you run the risk of being exposed as a spineless jerk, but that isn't what happened with me and paigow.

MBA inspired question:
 

Nah. (Though you should see my pitch materials!)

Truth be told, I have mixed feelings about my representation of Penske. Sure, there was the glare of the spotlight. There were the courthouse press conferences in Seattle, NYC, LA, SF, Houston, Minneapolis, Tokyo and Beijing. There was that opportunity to smack down that prima donna David Boies. (God, that felt good). There were the girls, the booze, the drugs, the cavorting in mounds of mismatched footwear. Boy, the stories I could tell.

But though fame is sweet, it is also fleeting. And god knows, it don't pay the bills (PenskeBucks(tm) are not considered legal tender outside of the 4th Avenue Starbucks, it appears).

So I've decided not to expand this little loss leader, and instead keep the bulk on my practice on something more practical and lucrative, like insurance coverage.

Hockey predictions
 

I'm not sure who Mister Bean is, but I'm sure once the Flyers figure out who he is Hitchcock will come up with a way to protect him. Flyers in 5. In my heart I think they will sweep, but I don;t want to be too much of a homer. They are too deep and the Leafs are too banged up.

Dealbreakers
 

What, you don't like gum-jobs?

j(feeling very wicked this afternoon)l :devil:

Hockey predictions
 

That is just fucking low.

not(amused)7yS

Hockey predictions
 

Look pal, we don't care one iota about your sexual orientation.

Hockey fandom is a "big tent"

not7y(everyone is Canadian)S

A variation on my favorite stupidity defense
 

the classic "I was kidding" comeback. "It as an attempted dig at x". I didnt mean it literally.

Quit while youi are not THAT far behind. No pun.

Hockey predictions
 

Apropos of nothing, but Not Bob, your avatar looke like how I imagine you to look. Sort of Wink Martindale meets the second Darrin from Bewitched meets Fred MacMurray

MBA inspired question:
 

MR PMed me to ask me a bizarrely paranoid question. When I told him it was a bizarrely paranoid question, he insluted me. I am not a forwarder by nature as I hate when people do that shit to me. But if any of you ever ask me a bizarrely paranoid questino and then proceed to insult me on PM for pointing out that your question is bizarrely paraniod, I reserve the right to forward the PM.

I hope that this does not violate any internet etquette.

A variation on my favorite stupidity defense
 

Oh come on now. If I could handle your heat and were willing to flame you, I might say that this is your favorite stupidity defense because you also like to use it yourself.

Oh, right, I know, it was intended to be self-deprecating.

Hang around on these Boards long enough and anything that you say will be packaged as the "classic [ineffective response]".

MBA inspired question:
 

MR, you have finally flipped your wig. You have fallen into my little trap and do not know whether I have forwarded the PMs or not and will never know bc I like to toy with your little brain.

Andif you continue to mischaracterize your psycho PMs, I may have to make my policy retrospective and post the PMS here to boot. You are welcome to post my responses by the way. I dont think I said anything I was ashamed of. But then, I would never PM someone to say something totally mortifying to me. THats just stupid.

Hockey predictions
 

Are you implying that Wink Martindale and Fred MacMurray were also gays? NTTAWWT

spookyfish

MBA inspired question:
 

You did this by yourself long ago.

TM

A variation on my favorite stupidity defense
 

Dont get touchy bc you used it yourself a few days ago.

MBA inspired question:
 

TM, I can just picture your reaction when you read that line. Did you rub your hands together in glee?