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dirtineye
Trad climber
the south
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Topic Author's Original Post - Aug 6, 2008 - 12:25pm PT
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By popular demand, well actually by demand of L, we bring you this thread, primarily to further drive site content away from stupid climbing topics, but also in the interest of humor, no matter how little.
Threads that are Lynnified become a bit sappy. the goodness and sweetness literally oozes from the thread eventually.
Negativism just shrivels up and dies out cause it can't compete with permanent happy thoughts.
I try to avoid these thread at all costs. (see, it works!)
Threads that are Loisified are totally different, as you may have noticed. A loisified thread rambles. It rambles without a pattern, from simple logical innacuracy to tragic errors in thinking that would make a professor of math cry. Or laugh.
Because Lois, although she does not usually mean to be, is very funny.
Loisified threads are also full of anger and exasperation. Not from Lois, but from those she infuriates and frustrates.
Remember, Lois IS the Emily Latella of ST. OR maybe of the whole world. It is really too bad that Gilda Radner is dead, or we coula ask her if Emily was inspired by a nurse she met once in new Jersey. maybe Gene Wilder would know, We should email him and ask.
Well, that's all for now. Feel free to add your own observations to this analysis.
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bluering
Trad climber
Santa Clara, Ca.
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And threads that are 'dirt'yed, are usually negative and pessimistic and cynical and grouchy......
What's the point? We all know each other, are we psychoanalyzing everone?
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dirtineye
Trad climber
the south
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 6, 2008 - 12:33pm PT
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LIAR!!
I write funny Sh!t all the time.
I can't help if if your sense of humor is atrophied. Or just totally lacking.
Or removed in some misguided medical procedure done by a faith healer.
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couchmaster
climber
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Ha ha Dirt! So true... Emily Latilla.... heh heh.
I never ever read anything LEB ever writes anymore, since she appears to only read the first 3-5 words of every post she responds to. So why waste my time?
I wonder why she stays here? The rest of us at least all climb.
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nita
climber
chica from chico, I don't claim to be a daisy
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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perfect Nita! and I like the grin on the just cropped face too!!
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Ouch!
climber
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This thread has great potential. Lynne needs to post up some pictures for appreciation and adjustment.
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WoodySt
Trad climber
Riverside
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Hang in Lois. I love the way you irritate some of these guys. They actually have to think when you post something, and that's very demanding for them.
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dirtineye
Trad climber
the south
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 6, 2008 - 01:18pm PT
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At least The Lois is responding.
Where is Lynne? Hiding? Afraid to come in here?
Don't worry, we'll be nice.
Heeeeere Lynney, Lynney, Lynney.
And Lois, just what do I have to atone for?
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Ouch!
climber
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Woody, thinking gets way more credit than it deserves.
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dirtineye
Trad climber
the south
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 6, 2008 - 01:43pm PT
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Me???? Caustic??
How can you say that??
I just tell the truth, and when the times comes for all rational debate to end as it does not work with illogical nincompoops, I just go ballisitic, as that is the internet way.
You are hurting my feeling Lois.
I think I'm going to cry now.
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Tarbuster
climber
right here, right now
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heh, heh, heh...
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dirtineye
Trad climber
the south
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 6, 2008 - 01:56pm PT
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No really Tarbaby, I'm cryin now.
Great big tears.
Lois hurt me.
Boo-hoo.
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L
climber
Flat-faced Buddha Cat City
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Perfect, Curt!
Now look, this is the type of humor we all need to invest in once in a while, and not take ourselves so darn seriously!
Lois is actually a very nice woman, and yes, she occasionally diverts a thread some 120 degrees off course from the OP because she wants to talk about things she knows about, and that's not climbing. She's been amazingly good of late at starting her own threads and allowing all sorts of diversions by anyone willing to participate. I like her style.
You can choose to be annoyed, frustrated, angry, etc...or you can just accept that this is how life is, and direct the focus back to the OP. It's really up to you how you react to her posts.
What I like about Lois is that she very seldom--if ever--tells people on this Forum what they should do, think or feel. She may be unsympathetic to the poor, the Democrats, the people worried about The Myth of Global Warming or whatever, but she doesn't should people she's chatting with.
Dirtineye has a biting wit that...well...bites. He's struggling with a disease that should've taken him to The Farm a while back...and by sheer tenacity, he's told it to fluck off for a while (BTW Curt...I've got a great blueberry miracle cure for...oh wait...nevermind).
Now sometimes, the negativity gets to me...especially when I'm going through my own challenges. And in the past I wasn't good about dealing with it constructively. I've realized that was my lesson, not Curt's.
He's a really smart guy who appears to get frustrated with certain things and doesn't always monitor his responses. I chose to get offended...that was my reaction. I'm the one who chose it. The flip-side of his lack of politeness is a wickedly fun sense of humor, and some pretty adroit observations on what's going on in the world. You either take the "good" with the "bad" (these are projections of our dualistic nature, BTW--not Absolute Truth), or you X yourself from most of life and become a miserable clod of complaining mud. That sounds like a lot of fun, doesn't it?
Lynne is a really nice woman, too, who's fairly new to the Forum and appears to feel the need to monitor things, sort of like a Den Mother. She posts a lot, and critiques other people's posts with many shoulds and shouldn'ts, always accompanied by her faith in Jesus, the bible, a bubbly salutation and smilie faces. That's just her gig and it seems to make her happy, while allowing her to feel connected to the climbing world.
This all goes back to MisterE's thread on Levels of Connection. These are all ways we relate to the world--our styles may differ, but in the end, we're all doing the same thing: Trying to connect to others.
In the past, if I didn't like someone's style, I'd just ignore their posts. What I'm finding now is that after I get over my own (as in "owning it") emotional reaction to what someone writes, I can have an exchange with them that comes from a much more objective place. Or I can choose to not engage at all. Again--and this is the point of this essay--you one and all are choosing whether to participate in these discussions or not.
Want to be happy? Stop trying to change what is and accept that this is the way it is right now. Be like Doug and just laugh at it. Or get all pissed off and post up AC-like rejoinders...but remember it's you reacting. It's your stuff getting activated...which is really a good thing in the end...although not many of us think so.
Thanks for the thread, Curt. It made me laugh.
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Fish Finder
Social climber
THE BOTTOM OF MY HEART
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well said L .
and with balance and style.
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Jaybro
Social climber
wuz real!
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kumbaya!
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Karl Baba
Trad climber
Yosemite, Ca
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Lois and Lynne are both nice.
Lois is just irritating like water torture because she has a additional capacity for denial that prevents her from absorbing any argument or facts that run contrary to what she wants to believe.
If she didn't want to think the sun was out in the sky, she'd argue against it until it wasn't in the sky anymore.
We all have places of denial in us, we believe what we want to believe. Some folks are just harder core than others.
She's post and say that it's because she doesn't agree with me that I'm writing this. I beg to differ in advance.
I don't always agree with Lynne either but she would try to listen to my point and respond to the spirit of questions directed at her.
Peace
Karl
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bluering
Trad climber
Santa Clara, Ca.
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It's pretty simple, you're all a bunch of fags for putting down Lois and Lynne.
Of course, you'll proably say that we're just criticizing their input. Up yours....I'm criticizing your criticizism!!!!!
This thread sucks. Kill it.
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Ouch!
climber
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"The Myth of Global Warming"
Nice post, L. BUTTTTTTT! It ain't no dang myth.
You do write well for a girl.:)
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