Hide me.

[beam me up scottie]

Have you guys been out there *points to main forums*? You can't agree with anyone without pissing off someone else's fan club.

Yeesh.


Stalkers, nasty pms, and I've never been accused of saying, doing and being so many awful things without actually saying, doing or being any of them.

It's just not possible to agree with one poster anymore without being another's enemy.



Makes me appreciate this group even more.

Anyone feel like hanging out in here with me til things calm down?

[truebrit71]

1. Yup the usual cast of cloud-being worshipers...

... have taken their "who me?" religious privilege for a walk in GD and it ain't pretty....

[beam me up scottie]

3. Some of GD's atheists make us look like kitty cats.

[Solly Mack]

6. Roar

[beam me up scottie]

11. Speaking of cool kids!

Solly Take No Prisoners Mack is in da house!

[Solly Mack]

13. I'm a dweeb...

...with a mean side is all.

[AtheistCrusader]

44. It is GLORIOUS.

They herp and derp about how mean we are, and then they dip their toes in GD... and the piranhas show up for lunch. It's hilarious.

[skepticscott]

2. Heck, I can't even get along

with people in here. Sagan knows what I'd do out there in the real world...

[beam me up scottie]

4. Well unless you're with the Kool Kids it's safer to stay where you're appreciated.

And you're much more than appreciated here, scott.




My brothers and I used to fight like cats and dogs, I like to think AA people are family.

Meh, we disagree and move on.

[Heddi]

8. Oh shut the front door. We love you

don't let the assholes get you down.

[mountain grammy]

39. Thank Sagan you're here.

[F4lconF16]

5. Just got my second hide...

So I will come hide in here with you. Whatcha up to tonight, BMUS?

[beam me up scottie]

9. Making veggie lasagne with my homemade marinara sauce!

Trying to use up what's left in the freezer before this years tomatoes are ready to pick.

How bout you, F4lconF16?

[F4lconF16]

19. Eating curry and finding a tattoo place.

For my wonderfully stupid tattoo I plan on getting next week.

Veggie lasagna, eh? You should post that recipe, I'm in the mood to try something new tomorrow

[beam me up scottie]

22. I don't follow a recipe, just wing it.

Layers include an artisan cheese/ricotta mixture, spinach and shredded carrots with lots of onions and garlic for seasoning.

I also bake Italian bread from scratch with garlic oil on the side to go with.

My s/o begs me to make it and he's not even a vegetarian.

Now if I could just find a source for fresh cannoli shells I'd be all set.

[Heddi]

7. You should go to one of the SEVERAL chat-rooms we have floating around in the innertubes

SEVERAL. as in MANY MORE THAN ONE AND LESS THAN INFINITY. And chatrooms nonetheless!!! Why, Perhaps we should lot into our America On Line Eletronic Mail World Wide Web Page too while we're at it.

With all that chatrooming and world-wide-web surfing I just don't know how you can get any thing done. AT ALL. nothing. done.

[beam me up scottie]

10. Argh.

It's not for lack of trying.

I can't help you evil do-badders plot to take over the world with dial up, now can I?

I'll just hold down the fort here.

[onager]

35. We've taken over DU already.

Or so I've read. Religious believers are persecuted, and can barely get a post in edgewise, thanks to us hogging the boards with our atheisitic bullying.

Going back to my workstation now. Up there on the Grassy Knoll...

[beam me up scottie]

36. SOL!

(Snorted Out Loud)!



You have your own workstation on the Grassy Knoll?

Is that Atheist Code for one of those "several off-site chat rooms" I hear so much about in another room?

[mr blur]

38. Who's got an "off-site chat room"? What is this, 1996?

Do they have a Geocities page, too?

[beam me up scottie]

48. Only for people with AOL.

Conspiracy nuts...

[Novara]

12. I see what you mean.

GD is cluttered with individual threads justifying or decrying rioting. Hey, everybody's got an asshole opinion, man.

[beam me up scottie]

14. And FSM help you if you're one of the rare birds who can see both sides of the issue.

It's not like humans can feel more than one emotion at a time.

[Novara]

15. I'm sensing a correlation

Between the law n order folks and religious belief. Ya think?

[beam me up scottie]

16. It's amazing what you notice when you're paying attention.

What really bother me are the threads about sentencing criminals to prison time or the death penalty.

Watching people you once respected because they're liberal on other issues bragging about how they want others to suffer horribly is a real eye-opener.

[LostOne4Ever]

17. General discussion can be scary sometimes

[font style="font-family:'Georgia','Baskerville Old Face','Helvetica',fantasy;" size=4 color=teal]Thank Athena that we have this safehaven run by our awesome hosts![/font]

[beam me up scottie]

18. Yes, indeed!

Out hosts are the best!

[PeaceNikki]

20. Are you being a troll again?

I'm staying out of there. The cathartic poking of fun is on hold.

[beam me up scottie]

23. Someone said I sound like a cop yesterday.

Everybody's hair is on fire and if you don't join in the panic you're one of THEM!!1!

Yeah, it's no fun right now.

[PeaceNikki]

26. Years ago someone called me "Karl Rove's butt monkey"

But being called a Walker supporter by one of my stalkers was even more unrealistic.

[beam me up scottie]

29. That's cuz you're a mean girl who couldn't make the debate team.

Or were you the captain of the team?

I can't keep it straight.

Once you realize these people never got over high school you know there's no reasoning with them.

[PeaceNikki]

31. I was the whiz!! Or maybe in the high school production of "The Whiz"?

Whatever, we all work for Monsanto now and that's all that counts.

[beam me up scottie]

54. So we are "pissing off the right people"?

Or are we the "right people" because we're not Dr. Oz groupies?

It's all so confusing...

[PeaceNikki]

62. The latter, natch.

Last year I learned that I'm in a "group" with bettyellen, zappaman and Sid. I think I play the triangle.

[beam me up scottie]

63. And there are five of us who are "BFFs" !

What adult uses the term "BFF"?



Makes you wonder if they're supposed to be up past their bedtime or if failure to logic is just another symptom of residing in mom's basement for too many years.

[onager]

41. PN - is this you with Jeb Bush?

Sorry, spillover from Heddi's "library" thread. Couldn't resist:

[PeaceNikki]

42. OMFG, I shouldn't have opened this in a meeting.

FUCK

lol

[Warren DeMontague]

21. GD has been a fucking mess for years.

What's really creepy are the list-makers and the score-keepers. "Oooh, mark that down, put it on their permanent record!"

Some people REALLY need to find new hobbies.

[beam me up scottie]

24. I remember when I was happy to be out there.

Of course that's when I thought that asteroid was going to hit the earth...

[Warren DeMontague]

25. I just stopped taking it as seriously.

Which sort of perversely makes the people who take it SOOOOOOPER SERIOUS all that much more funny.

[beam me up scottie]

30. The worst thing is when someone attacks you out of left field for

something you said to their friend five years ago.

[Warren DeMontague]

32. I told you, there are LISTS. Oh, boy, are there lists.

I run into people who think I'm either their worst enemy or their best friend, because I agreed/argued with them or some member of their "team" 6 months, a year, 2 years ago.

...im all, no, actually, i try pretty hard not to make or take it personal, I dont hold grudges, and my opinions on things- which I am fairly up front about- have stayed fairly consistent over the years.

Nor do I have a "team". If I did, they'd probably kick me out.

It's especially glaring right now (and bound to only get worse) because I am literally neither pro nor anti HRC at this extremely early stage of the primary process. So people cant understand how I can question her more pablum-like campaign statements yet simultaneously make fun of some troll who comes in with "BENGHAZIIIIIII...derp"

[beam me up scottie]

34. It's not even hunting season yet.

The roving gangs of Hillary Sucks vs Hillary Rocks are looking for rubes to beat the hell out of because the poor things don't know enough to avoid their threads.

I can't hide threads fast enough and I'm trying to figure out if I should use ignore for the first time ever on the divas who post dozens of vanity threads every day.

[skepticscott]

37. Oh, you got that right...

Just wait until the primaries start…GD will be uninhabitable..

[AtheistCrusader]

45. I miss DU2's ability to see how many people have me on ignore.

That was a sweet feature. It smelled like... victory.

[beam me up scottie]

49. And they think we're tribal?

Once it's primary time I'm out of there. Can't afford to risk what's left of my sanity.

[LiberalAndProud]

64. Not acceptable, bmus.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=forum&id=1230

Bookmark this link. Your sanity is safe here. Well, safer than elsewhere, anyway.

[beam me up scottie]

65. Thank you.

I left DU for far too long, barring any computer and/or personal disasters I'll be sticking around with the rest of you heathens.

[PeaceNikki]

28. For real.

I swear they keep spreadsheets of every post you've ever liked. It's pathological.

[trotsky]

43. What you said.

Sheesh, it's a war zone.

[Warren DeMontague]

27. You should be careful putting those words in a post.

Some jurors are real literalists.

[beam me up scottie]

33. Talk about the motherlode of bad ideas.

Letting a group of cliquey clueless wonders who think popularity is more important that substance form a jury of "peers" is really working out well.

[mountain grammy]

40. Really good thread here..

I'll hang out with you any day BMUS. I love this group,, my own island of misfit toys in our uber Christian country. The way things are going, I wouldn't be surprised if we have to hide for real someday.

I read everywhere that religion is dying, but I guess I'll probably go first. Hell, the planet will probably go first.

[beam me up scottie]

55. Our own Island of Misfit Toys!!!

That is perfect!

mountain grammy ---

[Curmudgeoness]

46. Your OP pisses me off.

I'm pissed off at the lack of tolerance of other opinions we see sometimes.

I don't know what you got yourself into elsewhere, but I can only assume that you decided to wade into the "rioters have every reason to be angry/rioters are just thugs" issue? Not me. I have my opinion, but it will serve no purpose to get into the fray.

[beam me up scottie]

50. Hell no, I'm too much of a coward to wade in there.

I'm an expert swimmer but there be crocodiles in those waters.

Like I said, most of us can be split on issues. While I think some of the looters are opportunists, I won't sit in judgment of frustrated black folks who have to wonder if they or their kid will be the next casualty. I lived near the bottoms in a southern city, I've seen what it's like for them. Maybe I'm idealistic but I still hold public servants to a higher standard.

And unlike our detractors in the other forum who live to lecture atheists for being angry, I believe minorities are more than entitled to their outrage. It's not my place to opine about more appropriate ways to deal with it.

[nil desperandum]

47. Sometimes

when I hear some pandering tool talk about the big tent we democrats have where all are welcome to enter and join in honest discussions about our diverse natures and our differing views I realize it's actually just pandering and absolutely without merit.

Every group has some distaste for dissent, but there are times when I believe there is an echo chamber mentality in some groups where if you miss your cue and forget the echo you are in the deep water and quite alone...no big tent, no welcoming handshake, just a breath away from perma-ban and good riddance to your dissent filled viewpoint.

Makes me think about the greatest generation, Ike's boys those democrats and republicans who fought the Nazis and the Rising Sun's attempts to enslave the world and knew that you often had to find commonality with those you don't see eye to eye in order to get important work done. They knew needlessly belittling or antagonizing didn't advance the dialogue and they knew that their opponents were also their countrymen.

Now each party hates the other and within each party disparate elements also hate each other. Instead of that big melting pot of assimilation we are dividing into factions of single issue blowhards who can't find commonality among their supposedly own kind.

No wonder we are where we are....

[beam me up scottie]

51. You don't have to tell me.

Things went to hell after the 2000 "election". As a native Vermonter I will forever be grateful to our late great Senator Jim Jeffords who switched parties in 2001. A courageous and thoughtful man who did the right thing even though he knew he would become a pariah.

It was not an easy decision, his fellow Republicans had been his friends for decades and he tried to work within the party, tried to reason with them, but he finally decided that he couldn't be a part of it anymore. He called himself a moderate but for them he was far too liberal and there was no longer any room for dissent. The way they viciously attacked him after made me swear I would do everything in my power to help defeat them for the rest of my life.

I voted for Jeffords more than once, even though he was a Republican he was more pro-choice than our catholic Democratic Sen. Leahy.

You can read more about him here: How Jim Jeffords single-handedly bent the arc of politics and here: James M. Jeffords, Vermont Republican who became independent, dies at 80.

What happened in 2000 changed the course of this country and it inspired three men to create DU.

[A HERETIC I AM]

52. Why don't you just admit.....

You're a horrible person?

[beam me up scottie]

53. Well where's the fun in that?

Why ruin it for people?

I'll be their huckleberry.

[onager]

56. HUCKLEBERRY? Stop triggering me!1!

[beam me up scottie]

57. One of the few roles I actually liked him in.

Love some of the remakes of old westerns, True Grit was another. The characters have so much more depth, it's not all white hats vs. black hats.

Of course when it comes to spaghetti westerns Once Upon a Time in the West will always be my favourite.

[A HERETIC I AM]

58. It's not supposed to be fun.

It's supposed to be tedious.

Like Confirmation classes or learning the catachism or trying to convince deluded people to wise up.

[beam me up scottie]

59. I never was subjected to that.

Thanks to my non-delusional parents. Dad was only a catholic long enough to get in trouble for asking questions during catechism.

You're not there to learn, dammit!

[A HERETIC I AM]

60. My confirmation service took place in the National Cathedral in Washington, DC.

I spent the entire time, along with my buddy from our church, messing with the kid in front of us. He had a force field, you see? And we were tasked with overcoming his paltry magic.

The seeds of my religious skepticism were set long before, however.

But still.....


IT'S NOT SUPPOSED TO BE FUN!


Ok...yes it is.

[beam me up scottie]

61. LOL! I see!

My s/o never made it to confirmation. His mother divorced his catholic dad and rescued him only to put him in bible study at her baptist church.

Out of the frying pan...

Then there's my ex who was busted getting stoned with his best friend in the balcony when they were supposed to be preparing to be born again.



No wonder they're so attracted to this heathen.