Warbler

ferris209 said:

Warbler said:

he's still arrogant as ever.    He also needs to lose some weight.  

You talking about Stewart?

nope. 

he's still arrogant as ever.    He also needs to lose some weight.  

Ric Olie said:

3) The "thrown" is all yours, whatevas that is

oops!  I've edited my post.

*while Ric Olie and xhonzi are arguing with each other,  Warbler pulls out a snub-nosed revolver from his sock,  and shoots Ric Olie and xhonzi*  

ha!  the throne is mine now!

Vaderisnothayden said:

Political discussion is not the purpose of art nor is it what makes art worthwhile.

Planet of The Apes? 

Several episodes of the Star Trek series? 

that's true, he was gambling.  I never thought of that.

I'm not sure what he could do if any.   I can't if he's doing all these things because he's actually sorry or just to make it look like he's sorry so he can start making NFL money again.   I guess I'm not showing him mercy.  Perhaps some acts of evil don't deserve mercy, I don't know.   I just know for certain that if I started to cheer for the Eagles again, I'd never be able to look my dog in her eyes again.  

the thing I don't understand is why Vick gets to play again, but Pete Rose is gone for life.      Is gambling worse than torturing and murdering dogs?

I can tell you from past experience, its very hard to go reading someone's posts even though you put them on ignore and then once you've them it can be very hard not to respond.

it doesn't matter to me either way right now as long that dog murderer is wearing Jaworski's jersey.

yeah,  I'm fighting a one man battle in my over there right now.   I'm amazed at myself that I've been able to keep it so civil.    I've defended my position without resorting to name calling or personal attacks.  I think I've finally started to be able to control my temper.

I want to see it, just to see the 3D effects. It should make for a mildly entertaining 2 hours anyway.

I created a thread of about the petition in another forum and created a poll in the thread.   21 people, so far, voted that they will sign the petition.  http://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread.php?t=127312

its a good thing I'm not an Eagles fan right now.

I got into an argument with someone about the petition in another forum,  tht person gave me a suggestion what he thought we should do instead the petition.    Now, I don't think we should do it instead of the petition, but what do this in addition to the petition: buying stock in Lucasfilm.    I'm not even sure if this is possible to do, but I think its worth looking into.   At  the very least, we could use it as a way to refute all those that try to say we have no say in what version gets released.   If we had stock, we'd be part owners, that would certainly give us a say.   I realize we wouldn't able to buy much.  But I think even owning little my help our arguments.  What does everyone think?   

I won't sue you, but I will slap you!  *slaps Ricardo*  

well, these things happen from time to time. 

Regan was much, much better than Palin. 

now why would you wish hell for the the rest the board, bkev?  that's just not nice.

Happy New Year Everyone!

I'm PC guy.

a crook from Chicago who happens to be black winning the Presidency?  Yeah I'd have said that would be very unlikely, and  I would have been correct.    A crook from Chicago who  happens to be black did not become our next President.  Obama did.   

even so, I wouldn't vote for her in the next primary if were you.   Unless you want Obama to have another 4 years in the white house.   She doesn't stand a chance against him. 

Lets not make this a fight, I really don't want to fight with VINH. 

Vaderisnothayden said:

The other thread isn't relevant. This is a new thread, thus a new discussion.

I have to disagree here.    The discussion here originated in the other thread I  mentioned.   The first post in this threat is a quote from a post I made in that other thread.  It is clearly a continuation of that conversation.  Gaffer created this thread in order to move this conversation out of the the other thread because it was off topic there.  

Vaderisnothayden said:

The fact that he felt the need to say that implied a certain tension. It's not a neutral or even conciliatory statement. It's "I don't mind people not liking sports so you shouldn't mind people liking sports." Which didn't need to be said. And in the context, saying he didn't mind people not liking sports almost implies the opposite to what it sounds like it's saying. People often say the direct opposite of what they feel in conversation.

He felt the need to defend liking sports, as if my post was an attack on liking sports. And I didn't appreciate my post being interpreted that way. I thus expressed exasperation at the tendency people have to get defensive just because you say you don't like something.

I just reread Frinks post and didn't get any implication that Frink meant the opposite of "I don't mind people not liking sports so you shouldn't mind people liking sports."  I think you reading into stuff that isn't there.  

Vaderisnothayden said:

He felt the need to defend liking sports, as if my post was an attack on liking sports. And I didn't appreciate my post being interpreted that way. I thus expressed exasperation at the tendency people have to get defensive just because you say you don't like something.

maybe he did get defensive and maybe you overreacted just a little.  

Vaderisnothayden said:

You did ask "who cares?"   That was worth responding too.  

 

No, I did not ask who cares. Look at my original post. There's no question mark at the end. I was not asking a question. The who cares was a rhetorical statement that was an expression of the fact that I didn't care. Look carefully at my original post. The whole post leading up to that is solely about my attitude towards sports, about how I feel. The who cares was the end of a statement on how I didn't care. The actual phrase was "but as it is, it's just like who cares", as in that's how I felt about it. There was no question in that. I was not asking who cared, nor was I saying nobody cared, nor was I saying nobody should care or that people were wrong to care.

I reread you post and you are correct and you did not put in the question mark.   I guess he implied that it was a question.  I did the same thing.  It did seem to me like you were saying nobody cares.   When I reread your original post after reading what you've said here,  I can see that we(Frink and I) did not understand what meant to say.   However I do believe it was an understandable misinterpretation.  The "who cares." could easily be misinterpreted as asking "who cares?", imho.

Vaderisnothayden said:

Giving what this thread is about, I don't see what is so wrong with someone trying to say why he likes sports and why its ok to watch them.

But that's not what he did. What he did was get defensive and start trying to justify and basically imply that my post had said something it hadn't.

again, I just think it was an honest misunderstanding of your original post.

Vaderisnothayden said:

The whole "I don't mind people not liking sports and you shouldn't mind people liking sports" that was implied in his statement was drawing boundary lines and adjucating tension, which was totally unnecessary. I didn't appreciate his unnecessarily defensive reaction.

perhaps you misunderstood his post just like we misunderstood yours?  Again, I just think you're overreacting a bit. 

Vaderisnothayden said:

I reread you post and can see that you certainly did not say it wasn't ok to watch sports.   Maybe what Frink said wasn't meant just for you was just to the anti-sports people in general.  In any case, its not worth any of us getting upset at each other.   So lets all calm down. 

I'm calm, but I'm not so sure Tv's Funk is. He seems to have a certain hostility towards me. While this discussion was going on here he was giving me a whole lot of very much personal trouble on another thread. Which was an aggravating factor in my reaction to his defensiveness here. Btw, I appreciate your conciliatory tone.

I really don't want get into what has gone on between the two of you in other threads.    Perhaps you two could talk over your differences via PMs?  Just be careful to communicate clearly, and be calm and patient with each other and open minded. 

I guess I didn't with mine.  Oh well, the sound and picture are still great and at least I know I won't have this problem on other blu-ray players.

its a Samsung P-3600.