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bumblebeeboy2
> Teenager of the Year <
United Kingdom
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 Posted - 07/12/2004 : 10:06:38
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Originally posted by Cheeseman1000
For the record I think Simon Bumblebeeboy is not so bad on this front.
damn straight. guilt by association though i guess... lol! 
And it's hard to be a human being, and it's harder as anything else, and I'm lonesome when you're around, and I'm never lonesome when I'm by myself, and I miss you when you're around. |
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Cult_Of_Frank
= Black Noise Maker =
Canada
11687 Posts |
Posted - 07/12/2004 : 11:12:39
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I have noticed this trend of forum chat/back-and-forth and had intended to post a guidelines as a reminder to people but sadly it was left by the wayside and now we have this. Here's the general policy:
Occasionally, and (hopefully) after everyone has made their points on a certain topic, things slowly drift. This is usually started by an on topic post with some additional stuff that then is replied to and slowly becomes the new topic of conversation. This is natural and okay, so long as it happens late enough in the thread that the original topic has run it's course.
Other topics are brought off course well before they should. Two or three off topics posts is OK if it reverts to the original topic, but otherwise, if there's enough to be said to merit more than that, start a new topic for it.
Finally, general one-word/one-liner banter is okay in moderation but shouldn't be abused. This includes "LOL" posts, "smiley" posts, etc. If you have one, two, ... five, ... or ten people that you continually are associating with and the conversation seems to run from thread to thread and throughout all the threads, start your own general chat thread. Contain it. Try not to let all the threads be the same thing, because it gets pretty old.
The occasional silly thread is okay, but having a million topics (well, ok, 5) that are "AC" topics, or posting threads that clearly should and will bear no real conversation is really not helpful and just increases the clutter.
We'd prefer not to see a bunch of smutty topics and directly posting pornographic images is not allowed.
Spam is not tolerated. We hate it.
Respect your fellow Frank Black fans. Name-calling/mudslinging is something we'd expect on a <insert random crappy band>, not here. Disagreements are normal, deal with them maturely.
Please report anything you feel to be in violation of these to me as it is growing increasingly difficult to keep up with all the threads here and I can't see everything anymore. Yes, that's right. I used to be able to.
Thanks for your cooperation. I'll be posting this elsewhere (somewhere more visible) after some tweaking and discussion with Dave...
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shineoftheever
> Teenager of the Year <
Canada
4307 Posts |
Posted - 07/12/2004 : 11:17:50
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Sooo, How was everybody's weekend?
"You'll soon be dust your deeds already are, You saw no orb no fiery bushes either, I must be drunk I feel unsteady, No monster me, sadly no saint either... " |
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VoVat
>> Denizen of the Citizens Band <<
USA
9168 Posts |
Posted - 07/12/2004 : 11:18:33
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Personally, I found the numerous "AC" threads amusing. If something like that happened every day, though, it would cease to be such. Basically, I agree with Dean here. Moderation is the key.
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Carolynanna
>> Denizen of the Citizens Band <<
Canada
6556 Posts |
Posted - 07/12/2004 : 11:18:51
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Posted - 07/12/2004 : 11:24:18
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just a quick couple of words in my defence then I don't think I'll be bothering you guys again.
1. I apologise if my posts have offended or annoyed anyone. This is true, i didn't mean to at all, not my intention, I saw the railroading and jumped in and played. What I do not apologise for is my defenciveness of this. To be made aware of a problem by an aggressive post by another member was upsetting, and I got defensive
2. I reacted to what was posted before me every time, if a post has been patronising or insuling I have responded in kind
3. I'm sorry that my post numbers upset you erebus but I was kind of using this forum as a bit of an escape route from the shite that is my every day life.
4. The point of my anger with all of this is not as much the sublect but again the way it was handled, I didn't realise this was upsetting anyone and trying to make me look stupid by pointing it out in the nastiest of ways is not respectfull or mannerfull or polite so in many ways as bad as the supposed railroading, a fact so many of you seem to have glossed over. I don't give people hassle for the sake of it but I will respond to aggressiveness directed towards myself.
5. Yes the railroading has annoyed people but would as many of you have posted if I'd complained that I couldn't read any of these foreign language posts taking over non foreign language threads and that I was sick of all this french/german/spanish bullshit? I think not...
6. Part of my anger in this matter was the directed nature of the aggression, so many responsible but so few targeted
I dunno, I just think it all got out of hand and it was unnecessary,I lost my temper and I edited that. so yeah.. thats me
Frank Black ate my Hamster
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KimStanleyRobinson
* Dog in the Sand *
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Posted - 07/12/2004 : 11:47:05
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Originally posted by GypsyDeath
but now its us 'englanders' you get all handbags at dawn about it.
I could give a shit about the derailments, but this phrase is funny.
I can't wait to use it.
"Dude - don't get all handbags about it! Gheesh!"
Tre's got teeth - ya'll better watch watcherduen with that one.
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Erebus
* Dog in the Sand *
USA
1834 Posts |
Posted - 07/12/2004 : 11:49:00
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Originally posted by Tre
just a quick couple of words in my defence then I don't think I'll be bothering you guys again.
3. I'm sorry that my post numbers upset you erebus but I was kind of using this forum as a bit of an escape route from the shite that is my every day life.
I wasn't upset but rather was just chiming in with the comment about pay-per-post. Realizing the situation had already become touchy, as someone who spends too much time here but has somehow managed less than 500 posts in over 18 months, I couldn't resist a jab at those less discriminating than myself.
I admit to being moved to chime in because, as an introvert, I have developed over the course of my life a sensitivity to just how much extroverts babble. I see extroverts as bulls in life's china shop, shattering ideas and silence with equal oblivion.
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Posted - 07/12/2004 : 11:56:48
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and being similarily sensitive in nature believe it or not my defence mechanism is to kick in before I get kicked down. As so often happens. I kept arguing last night that it was only a forum yet I saw people getting upset and I was a red weepy shaky leaf by the end of it, I don't need that from an internet site
And it's easy to be extroverted when pople don't have to look at you, and it kind of felt nice being that bubbly chatty girl for a while.... oh well, there's that bonfire well and truely pissed on
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Posted - 07/12/2004 : 11:59:24
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Originally posted by Erebus
I see extroverts as bulls in life's china shop, shattering ideas and silence with equal oblivion.
"A joke is an epitaph on a feeling." - Nietzsche
Plus, If we didn't have any extroverts we'd all be sat in our houses frightened of our own shadow. If this is how you see it maybe you need to invest in new metaphorical glasses
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Erebus
* Dog in the Sand *
USA
1834 Posts |
Posted - 07/12/2004 : 12:17:53
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Originally posted by Tre
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Originally posted by Erebus
I see extroverts as bulls in life's china shop, shattering ideas and silence with equal oblivion.
"A joke is an epitaph on a feeling." - Nietzsche
Plus, If we didn't have any extroverts we'd all be sat in our houses frightened of our own shadow.
One could see introverts as unafraid to be silent and alone while extroverts require apparently constant reassurance from their kindred spirits, much as one usually finds the bovine in herds. How's that metaphor? |
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Posted - 07/12/2004 : 12:22:59
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one could also class someone who sits silent and alone as one who has little if anything to say or someone who is afraid or unable to partake in normal social interaction. Like a crazy old hermit living in a cave. There's a new metaphoric take on things.
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floop
= Wannabe Volunteer =
Mexico
15297 Posts |
Posted - 07/12/2004 : 12:52:50
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Originally posted by shineoftheever
Sooo, How was everybody's weekend?
it was good, but i did way too much drinking. i'm still recovering.
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VoVat
>> Denizen of the Citizens Band <<
USA
9168 Posts |
Posted - 07/12/2004 : 13:13:45
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On behalf of introverts everywhere, I call upon my brethren to crush the extroverted oppressors!
Except joining forces and fighting would require too much social interaction, so it's not going to happen.
Seriously, I'm a very introverted person, but I still babble a lot. I don't know that the two things are necessarily related. I'm shy, but I'm not quiet. Not online, anyway. At least not in certain forums.
And I'm not afraid of my own shadow. My reflection is utterly terrifying, though.
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ProverbialCereal
- FB TabMaster -
USA
2953 Posts |
Posted - 07/12/2004 : 18:27:00
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I'm an introvert.
I think deep down inside everyone has a little introverted piece of them itching to get out and shutup and sit in a corner quietly.
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Little Black Francis
> Teenager of the Year <
3648 Posts |
Posted - 07/12/2004 : 19:24:13
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All right fuckers, I go out to play golf and this is what I come home to?
I think Dean (cult of Frank), Apl4ersi and Floop (when he was being serious) said everything I want to say.
I can't fathom you people fucking calling each other names and trying to stab each other in the back of the heart.
Fuck it all if it comes to that, seriously, go the Weezer forum if you want to go off on somone.
I got into an email war with a German guy today, a new member to the site, because I thought he was being a pretentious asshole with his precious" bootleg. I could care lesss about a cd or abootleg. Trade it? Fucking stick where the sun doesn't shine.
the dereailment of topics is a legitimate topic and a problem that does need to be addressed. Not to brag, or show my ego, but I have been a member since the 1st week this site was up, I am a life-time member and I feel like I am an honorary modulator. I am friends with ALL of you. I don't know why we can't find a resolve somewhere, at least some mother fucking peace!
Can we not share peace together? If we can't do that, then we better start to practise fucking oursleves, because that's all that's left.
Look people, I love you all. I love this site. This is my internet social life. Or at least the seed from which it blooms.
Stop insulting each other.
I had to read 4 mother fucking pages of insults mixed between arguments.
Yes! There are 2 sides to this.
Yes! everyone is entitled to their mother fucking opinion
Just fucking drop thisshit
It makes me sick
I want to puke
and then gargle hydrogyne peroxide
I have a non cancerous tumor? Do you give a fuck ? No
There are already 5,500 members now... it's getting out of control
We all, anyone who posted on this thread or read this thread which by my Rainman estimation is about 25... 25 mother fucking people out of 5,500 are all upset about going off topic
(I did link a picture of a woman's bare ass, I'll find it and delete it, I didn't mean to link porno, it was accidental)
What do you thnk the other 5, 475 people have to say about this?
Do you get my fucking DRIFT?
The only people concerned about this is a select few. WE should unite. WE should make this forum a better place.
YEs! I am a motherfucking optimist. If you don'tlike it, fucking bring it. "I'll scrap with you anytime."
I feel like I am in the middle of a Kubric movie, Clockwork Orange persay...
Look people, agree to disagree...
Try to make a conscious effort to respect people's topics... especially seriousones, which they alll should be
and by serious I mean good hearted... someone has a reall topic...
Don't be disrespectful
Brush up on the fucking guidelines provided to you by the Modulaters
And try to fucking get along
We all have so much to offer to each other
It would be a shame if it all goes to waste
If you want to chit chat, do it! Just don't interupt other people...
Me, I don't give a fuck. Yeah, sometimes the shit gets annoying. Yeah, I bet people hate me, like the new German guy. But whatever. Thus islife. Fucking Deal!
God. Why the fuck do I care? Because I love this place. I've loved it since the day it was born. It's a child to me, that's my metaphpr and I am sticking to it, or standing behind it.
I don't give a fuck if you don't like each other, just bite your fucking tongue. It makes me sick to see people be mean to each other. For whatever reason, or for no reason.
Fb.net is my home, don't fuck it up!
And Floop's secret ingredient in his quesadillas is Ex-Lax
and his quesadillas suck ass...
Fuck you Floop, you fucking asshole! =) (j/k)
Love you Floop... platonically of course
I love you all, Apl, Floop, Cult, Dave, Barticus, the Simons, all my Brits, all my Canucks... I love you all, more than you will ever know
So fuck me gently with a chainsaw
I shall never link porn to this site again
I shall be careful and respoectful of other peoples' serious threads
I shall being saying goodbye now
I'll never eat a quesadilla again
I fucking hate myself
Dag!
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fudd
= Cult of Ray =
664 Posts |
Posted - 07/12/2004 : 19:34:23
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ProverbialCereal
- FB TabMaster -
USA
2953 Posts |
Posted - 07/12/2004 : 21:50:46
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Dunno how a Frank Black song off Dog in the Sand could do that...
But, I'd rather Robert Onion do it if I had to choose.
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floop
= Wannabe Volunteer =
Mexico
15297 Posts |
Posted - 07/12/2004 : 22:17:10
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Originally posted by fudd
Does anyone wish The Swimmer really had trashed LBF's computer?
i'm 99% positive that The Swimmer stole a beer from my fridge. but i can't prove it.
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Monsieur
* Dog in the Sand *
France
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Posted - 07/12/2004 : 22:27:59
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floop
= Wannabe Volunteer =
Mexico
15297 Posts |
Posted - 07/12/2004 : 22:37:09
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nevermind. i just realized that i'm drinking it right now. sorry.
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El Barto
= Song DB Master =
USA
4020 Posts |
Posted - 07/12/2004 : 22:43:46
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I pine for the day when computers require a breathalizer test before allowing its users onto the internet....
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Little Black Francis
> Teenager of the Year <
3648 Posts |
Posted - 07/13/2004 : 01:22:42
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fuck it man, I am so tempted to delete my aforementioned reply... and this one too, so none of you fudges can ever read it again!
to make it mother fucking vanish
in thin air
and you forgot to save it, didn't? you?
you forgot your motherfucking Desktop shortcut...
fuck it...
do you want peace? or war?
make up your mother fucking minds!
ThiS Shit makes me so sick I want to puke, and kill myself like E. Smith.
Fuck you guys for making me angry and to make me feel an emotion that I can equate with something close to hate. Fb.net is not about hate and insults, maybe passion and brimstone and beezlebub, but not hate. Yee! We feel the rage! the passion! the ecstacy! the emo"tion! the fucking reason we are here in the 1st place... the chuck
Just fuck you. Fuck you in your stupid ear. Wax it up with KY, lube it up with some ALCOHOL, and let me fuck your ear./.
Fuck this bigotry.!
Take it, suck it and fuck it. Judge me?! Go the fuck ahead. Yes! I am the fourm-drunk-idiot, I still have a soul, a poor heart, a skeleton... And fuck you! if you think I don't! Seriously. Fuck you. Kill yourslef. Eas a dick. Eat a hefty bag of dicks for all I care.. I am filled with rage right now.... for no reason... and no reason = the banter in this thread...
me casa est me casa, don't' fuck it UP!
Fuck you.
Fucking deal with it.
Fucking deal.
Fuck you.
Ban me. (don't, please=)
Ban Floop.
Ban peace.
Promote war.
Do whatever it is that's makes you cop a feel.
Don't mind me.
I am just slowly dying.
Fuck it.
This shit is making me sick...
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TarTar
* Dog in the Sand *
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Posted - 07/13/2004 : 01:43:42
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Eat a hefty bag of dicks for all I care
Hilarious. Pure genius.
But my question for you, Little Black Francis, is when did you become Eminem?
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TarTar
* Dog in the Sand *
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Posted - 07/13/2004 : 02:02:44
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For as much as I enjoy this forum and look forward to coming home from work or hanging out with friends and seeing what's been said since I last checked in here, I never have taken the forum so seriously that I would get pissed about deviating from the original topic in a thread. I think that's part of the magic of the forum, it's conversational to a degree but allows the people involved more time to really give their input. If one really feels like writing an essay on a given subject, they are given this opportunity and people will read it and respond to it, and if someone wants to just quickly mention something they are reminded of by the topic, they can do that and it can create a whole new route of ideas and conversations. Sure, sometimes it's going to stray from the original point and trail off into inane chit chat, but that's just how it goes, you're going to get that, and it can be fun, but if it's not what you're looking for, don't take everything so seriously that it brings you down and annoys you. The more you look for it to bother you, the more it's going to be there to bother you.
We have a cool enough and smart enough crowd around here that we have plenty of intelligent and insightful discussions, and we have a crowd with a good and diverse sense of humor, so we get lots of that, too. I really don't care if my threads stray from their original meaning, I'm just glad to be interacting with people who have similar tastes and ideas to mine. If this place just becomes another bitch-moan-and-fight fest like so many other forums, I'll leave, cuz I don't look for aggression on thse forums, I look for discussions.
"There is a new craze in the nation/ it is lamination/ we like to laminate/ we laminate our driver's license/ so cannot be changed" |
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Cheeseman1000
>> Denizen of the Citizens Band <<
Iceland
8201 Posts |
Posted - 07/13/2004 : 10:24:05
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There is good points here. Every day I have to go to work and argue that actually, no, Shed Seven do suck. I value the time spent with people here that like similar music, movies, etc.
I like being able to discuss Mclusky with Malax and Wolfman.
I like being able to discuss scary post-rock with apl and benji.
I like it all. I even like that it has the flexibility enough so that you can go off on a tangent on a thread and still bring it back on track if you wish.
I like that I meet a whole bunch of people that I wouldn't normally meet on here, with different (but equally valid) opinions. I like being able to get into light-hearted arguments about scones.
There's no-one on here that I dislike, and considering LBF's stat of 5500 people here, thats not bad going.
Nothing's perfect, but I think we have a good thing going here and its going to take a bit more than this argument to, um, derail that.
Kind regards,
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Homers_pet_monkey
= Official forum monkey =
United Kingdom
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Posted - 07/13/2004 : 10:34:58
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Damn LBF, that's a whole lot of fucking!
I thought it was hilarious how in the middle of that second rant, you put 'ban floop'. That cheered me up no end. Not that I want floop banned, far from it (who else would make the quesadillas?), I just though that was a hilarious thing to slip into the middle of your rant.
Oh well, I thought it was funny.
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floop
= Wannabe Volunteer =
Mexico
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Posted - 07/13/2004 : 10:39:27
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Originally posted by Homers_pet_monkey
Damn LBF, that's a whole lot of fucking!
I thought it was hilarious how in the middle of that second rant, you put 'ban floop'. That cheered me up no end. Not that I want floop banned, far from it (who else would make the quesadillas?), I just though that was a hilarious thing to slip into the middle of your rant.
Oh well, I thought it was funny.
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you hate me, don't you homers 
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Homers_pet_monkey
= Official forum monkey =
United Kingdom
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Posted - 07/13/2004 : 10:41:29
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You know I don't.
Did you not find it funny though? He WAS only kidding wasn't he?
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Cheeseman1000
>> Denizen of the Citizens Band <<
Iceland
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Posted - 07/13/2004 : 10:45:16
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I think I could make better quesadillas than floop, he wouldn't be such a great loss.
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floop
= Wannabe Volunteer =
Mexico
15297 Posts |
Posted - 07/13/2004 : 10:47:43
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Originally posted by Homers_pet_monkey
You know I don't.
you do, you HATE me 
i'm going to go find somewhere to cry now
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Homers_pet_monkey
= Official forum monkey =
United Kingdom
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Posted - 07/13/2004 : 10:53:05
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Aaaah sarcasm! So you are saying you wouldn't care less if I hated you, because YOU hate ME?
I'm REALLY going to find somewhere to cry now.
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floop
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Mexico
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Posted - 07/13/2004 : 10:54:19
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you hate me too cheeseman. everyone hates me
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misleadtheworld
* Dog in the Sand *
United Kingdom
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Posted - 07/13/2004 : 10:58:43
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I like playing the word association with you, Floop. But your dislike for Wilco will be your downfall.
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floop
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Mexico
15297 Posts |
Posted - 07/13/2004 : 11:00:31
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but, they suck.
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