I'm surprised that he lasted as long as he did... :-?Originally Posted by Starbuck
I'm surprised that he lasted as long as he did... :-?Originally Posted by Starbuck
Maybe my premature balding will stop progressing now, as i've finally stopped tearing my hair out..!Originally Posted by Grey
'The Geocentrist formally known as Prince'Originally Posted by dgruss23
or some random symbol.....!![]()
Random, but why did marikatec get banned, he/she doesn't have any posts!!
I think it was a spammer, when BA banned it, he deleted all the spam posts.
Me, too.Originally Posted by Grey
Everything I need to know I learned through Googling.
I'm almost certain that he actually was just being deliberately obtuse for amusement, and trying to get a reaction. So I made certain to only respond when I found it entertaining myself to do so.Originally Posted by Mainframes
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Originally Posted by Mainframes
Sounds like a candidate for the name the next "prince" contest!
Everything I need to know I learned through Googling.
Wow, I never thought that would happen. I guess this shows that the BA is evenhanded when he bans folks for being insulting.Originally Posted by ToSeek
I'm not too surprised, JS's style of posting was always close-to-the-line. He even started a thread discussing it after he got in trouble with some of his posts.Originally Posted by Laser Jock
Shame he was banned, I was glad to see him back after that long hiatus.
First Bad PhD to be banned.
I PMed the BA with the same observation - now no one can say he only bans the woo-woos.Originally Posted by Laser Jock
Everything I need to know I learned through Googling.
I really think it's too bad that someone as knowledgeable as he got banned, but I don't blame the BA either. Have kind of been expecting it in fact. He didn't seem to understand that some of the things he was saying qualified as ad hominem attacks. Hope he does now.Originally Posted by ToSeek
New ban - nasaconspiracy, yet another incarnation of jesus_christ_hacker.
Guy never seems to give up, does he?Originally Posted by TriangleMan
I see it has been a while since someone got banned, TillEluenspeigel.
Guy just didn't get it I guess. I thought people were trying to give him the benefit of the doubt, but it was no good.Originally Posted by TriangleMan
Well I guess criticism from a young person drove him over the edge, but if you want to post on an internet forum you have to accept that posters of any age have a right to voice opinions.
Especially if that younger person makes a valid point. It's too bad for Till that we weren't willing to see the BABB turn into a cesspool I guess. There is no need for cussing on this board. I cus in real life. I cuss on the irc. When I post here, I have the chance to self-censor my cussing (on the occasion that I would feel like cussin). This is a good thing. Using a cussword here hardly does anything that an excalmation point won't accomplish. I cannot see any valid reason for cussing on an astronomy board...
weird question...
Does the colloquialism "cuss" exist out side the southern US? I'm pretty sure it's just a corruption of "curse", with typical Southern drawl thrown in. But I've never been out of the South long enough to hear it used elsewhere (except for Germany, but that doesn't really count, then).
I hear cuss more often than I hear curse out west here...
I use cuss, and I've never lived outside the Imperial Republic of Massachusetts.
And boy, do I cuss. During a Red Sox game, my f-bomb to legitimate word ratio is off the scale.
You and me both.Originally Posted by heliopause
I Swear. :-) But only when i get very angry, frustrated, or watching the Today show.
We even assimilate them into names; like Bucky "Effing" Dent and Grady "Effing" Little.Originally Posted by Darkwing
Dare I mention Bill "F" Buckner?
Truth be told, it wasn't Billy Buck's fault. Even if he had fielded it, he wouldn't have beaten Mookie to the bag. And the real blame lies with either John McNamara for leaving Billy Buck out there instead of putting in a defensive replacement as he did all year long (he wanted Buck to be out there for the on-field victory celebration), or Mike Stanley/Rich Gedman for the wild pitch/passed ball that really did us in.Originally Posted by FP
I don't understand why he got so upset. Besides, I'm not that young. I'm 22 and almost done with college. I didn't mean to make him angry. I thought I was being pretty reasonable. I was just trying to get him to tone things down a little so Star Girl wouldn't run across it. I know I can be overprotective sometimes, but Star Girl is still pretty innocent for her age (we live in a small mormon community) and this is one of the few bulletien boards she can go to without Mom worrying about what she will see and read. Anyway, I'm sorry for being such a prude. :(
It wasn't your fault. Like the BA said, Till was a troll. He would have gotten banned eventualy for something else. I, for one, am glad that we don't need to worry about language on this board. This should be a site that young people, like Star Girl, can frequent.