I am Defecting

I didn't mean to offend you at all with the editing. I'm an admirer. One of the pitfalls that I've encountered posting here, is that this place is not a literary review. It's actually a hockey message board. Also, to my great displeasure, and inconvenience, the general postership does not value style over substance, if you know what I mean - I mean that your stylistic choices may not mean what you intend, or will be lost in translation. I've earned a bunch of warning points and proudly served multiple bannings trying to convert the herded masses. I'm telling you that we've got a place now. A home. We've got a thread of our own. It's not just me that carved out this niche. It's posters like Physics, X Benedict, GoDD. PA, and there are lots of others who it's politically inconvenient to mention, but Andrew Amerk. Even Hopeful Future played a part in the society that you now proudly (I hope) join. We've got a Schizophrenic Thread now, brother, and you'll NEVER be banned there, if I have anything to say about it. :pirate:

I'm going to follow Shraders' prompting and create something called The Schizophrenic Thread. I'm not doing this because I think we're schizo, but rather because it will allow us to discuss our interests in the style of our choosing, without the constraints of having to make sense to the general readership, or stay within the confines of a certain sports topic. I feel that this move will allow us more intellectual freedom, and give us a safe space to pwn the jocks who dare bust their way into our space.

Let me explain why I believe the above statement is offensive. Using "Christian" as an adjective for "hypocrisy and ignorance" is meant to imply what? - the origin of the hypocrisy and ignorance? You cannot say that it is the religion of the hypocrisy and ignorance because hypocrisy and ignorance do not have a religion. Hypocrisy and ignorance do not worship at church like people, or read religious texts. That would be absurd. All this to convince you that your use of the adjective "Christian," implies in your statement the origin of the hypocrisy and ignorance as being "Christian." I will not argue with you about "Christian hypocrisy and ignorance" defining all Christians. It isn't the place of an adjective to define anything, but rather to describe a thing. Working from your example, both "green," and "Christian" describe qualities of their nouns. Here is the comparison you make, and I will show you why I think it is a bad comparison: This is the perfect example of Christian hypocrisy and ignorance / That shirt is a good example of a green shirt. The subject of the statements are not similar: This (public reaction to a news story) / That (shirt). The subjects are different in size and scope. One is indefinite (the public reaction); the other is definite (the shirt). "This public reaction... perfect example... ignorance," is not a tautology like "that green shirt... good example... green shirt." The objects of the statements are quite dissimilar between "perfect example of Christian hypocrisy and ignorance / good example of a green shirt." One contains the superlative adjective "perfect," and the other contains the regular adjective "good." That changes the comparison being made. Also, I shouldn't need to explain how the adjective "Christian" describes something vastly different from the adjective "green." Furthermore "hypocrisy and ignorance" are different from a "shirt." Please save me the trouble of having to tell you why. A better comparison would have been "perfect example of Christian hypocrisy and ignorance / perfect example of American bigotry and conceit." Used as adjectives, in this way, "Christian" and "American" both describe qualities of origin. "Green" is not a quality of origin. The best example, for why your statement is offensive would be apparent were you to substitute "Christian," with another religious origin. "This is the perfect example of Jewish hypocrisy and ignorance" However, it isn't kosher to discriminate by religion, race, or sexual orientation. It's not o.k. to use the term "Christian hypocrisy and ignorance," any more than it is to use the term "Gay immorality and deviance." That is why I found your statement to be offensive.

Hey, let's not paint Christians with a broad hypocrisy brush. If you have a problem with hypocrisy, that's one thing, but all Christians aren't hypocritical, at least no more than any other religion. Also, Christians aren't any more ignorant than any other religion. To me, it seems you've got a problem with the stupidity of comments sections, not with Christianity.

My brother is providing my ticket. I envy your social schedule. It will be fun, especially the Bills games. But I do like it cold, and not sweaty I'd keep the house about 55 to 60 degrees if that were a viable option.

More power to her for not drinking, burp.

I'm going to the home opener. Gosh, I hate the heat of summer. It's hell. Give me the cold and dark of winter any day.

Inhale deeply, arms - out more, Do not hurry - three and four! Grace and pliability are emphasized! All around conditioning, And hangover quickening, If you're still alive and fidgeting - Exercise! If you're working out at home, Do lie down!- three and four! Correctly go through every single motion! Lose the tension that you feel, Get accustomed to the drill! Inhale deeply right until... Exhaustion! Quickly growing 'round the world - Flu and illness - three and four! The disease is gradually flourishing! If you're weak - straight to the grave! If you want your wellness saved, With a towel rub yourself, It's nourishing! If already you feel spent, Sit and stand, sit and stand - Do not fear the Arctic and Antarctic! Our main scholar Dr. Joffe Proved to us that booze and coffee Will be replaced by athletic prophy - - lactic All the talking should be stopped Keep on squatting 'till you drop Do not be such gloomy creatures! If you cannot hold your ardor Rub yourself with something harder In the water, you can start the Drilled procedures We're not scared of doltish talk - In response we run and walk,- Amateurs - triumphant from the start! Beautiful!- right from beginning No one's losing, no one's winning Stationary running is bringing Peace to hearts!

Here's a guy that I'm going to miss. He had great balance, strength, and always seemed to get the most of his carries.

Pope Francis?

Thank you for the advice. That's what I was leaning towards and that's what I'll do. I appreciate the support. Hopefully, I'll be able to make my case. +1 Liger for GM.

Imperfect accuracy is the small price we pay for being shot in the head first, here, on Sabrespace. Honest question: would you rather be shot in the head first, here, with questionable accuracy; or would you rather be eventually struck with a stray bullet in the head, right on the money? :angel:

That's good info. Thanks.

I guess modern day telephone and internet polling has to be reckoned with too. Otherwise, I'd say, just have all the primaries at the same time, but then, the large population states would gain an advantage by volume, and less populous states would be feeling like also-rans. It really is a delicate balance between state identity and USA. I'm interested too. You've got the problem solving part of me working, Neo. Mr. Fixit lives in a lot of us.

That was a bit moving, and I say that coming from a repressed place. I'm grateful to you for speaking out, fellow worker. Go Sabres!

I just think that a phase out of handguns is overdue. Let the cops keep them until there is no need for them.

First the sweet corn, then the peaches, next the grapes and apples. But the spinach and the snap peas are really, really first. I forgot about TOMATOES, big time whoops. And I haven't said a dang thing about potatoes. In conclusion, after much reflection, and a little bit of introspection, dirt.

Wow! I guess we're not turning away from this gun control debate anytime soon.

I'm sure there's something better, but Iowa, New Hampshire, Colorado, Nevada, and South Carolina are among the first to hold Dem. and Rep. caucuses. Those caucuses seem to have a huge influence on the rest of the rest of the nation's view on any one candidate's elect-ability. Having those states earlier would make it easier for candidates to get out and interact with diverse crowds, but I'm not saying that there couldn't be something better, at least with schedule. It's an interesting topic.

Germany plays such beautiful team football. They are so smart, and their movement off the ball is tremendous. As a former center midfielder, I've just been drawn to them in a big way. I grew up loving Dutch football, but the Germans I have to admire. Being half German doesn't hurt, in that respect. I'm even starting to search out news on the Bundesliga, which only a few years ago, I considered a second tier league. I'm considering getting an Augsburg jersey. Portugal did seem to get lucky during qualification, but luck has always been on Ronaldo's side. If only the rest of the Portuguese squad had such good luck, then they might have won a thing or two.

No. I'm Yuri, and my grammar and punctuation has always been fairly good. Hi Drunkard. I've been enjoying the general conversation in this thread. I see some similarities to myself in K8's syntax, but the content isn't very Yuri, imo.

30 days for posting "nonsense," bub. And Beukebamboom got a lifetime ban.

Sorry, K8Prisoner. I translated one of your posts into English and it still didn't make any sense. To tell you the truth, it sounded like an anti-Semitic diatribe. Here, judge for yourself: That post is getting closer to sanity. With that step, then I believe you state we are all born with a perfect helper and we don’t need to worship some devil middleman, which stole wonderful ideas, and dictated them from a devil false-god from original ideas. That created a community all based upon the golden rule- the catch all of many religions starting with the most disgusting: the Talmud, which teaches that one race should be kings and all members who aren’t of that race are actually cattle. And the Talmud teaches that all are owned to serve their masters as designated by a tradable stamp on every birth certificate and social security number that puts human tax value currently traded on the NYSE like a bond - yes you too! At between 500k to 1.5 million, based on your current Goyim bloodline and degree of Sephardidic and Ashkanazi bloodline values, as well as many others that are considered valuable. Check it out yourself: look at your birth/stock certificate as a bond that you owe on and payments begin between 16 and 26. depending on the amount of loan you beg them to allow. Approval of that loan benefits them as few do. Look at the nose jobs of Jewish actressess as they try to look like our vision of beauty to achieve us, as is allowed in Talmud, not the torah. And It’s allowed in the Koran, as that book much more closer resembles the worker bees' false anti-establishment and false anti-goverment text, which is actually been corrupted to get one third of the world surrounding a key resource To submit to the will of the state, which was carefully and completely replaced as the god’s, away from yours and my true helper and redeemer. Allahh, pfft. The latter grammar was out of respect for you and a state control as the real Allah doesn’t need your worship In fact, anyone or God, who demands worship or supplication , uses phrases like “The christian only through me, you are…”

I wonder what this would look like if you edited it into standard spelling, grammar, and punctuation. Would you be able to self-edit, or would you need some help? I'd try for a couple posts, if you approve.

In commemoration of Labor Day, the holiday established to celebrate American workers, I had an idea to start a thread to talk about work. It’s something we all have in common, and it’s something that we all have opinions about and experiences with. I think this topic has potential to slightly improve what we all get out of this board. Let’s start off by laying some ground rules. These rules are certainly debatable. I am making these suggestions to try to bridge the sort of pitfalls that this conversation might take. My intention isn’t for this to become a call-out thread. I wouldn’t like this thread to become a place to shame individual employers or co-workers. Also, it isn’t my intention to create a war between the boss and worker in this thread, but rather find areas for improvement in both directions. If we can avoid an uncivil class war in this thread, I would be pleased. I would ideally like to see this thread become a place to come for general advice, where we can draw from our collective experience. Here are my proposed guidelines. I will be happy to explain my thinking on any of these suggestions: It would benefit the thread that posters not mention specific employers It would benefit the thread that specific job titles are not mentioned It would benefit the thread that those who employ are given the same respect as those who are employed, and that the mutual relationship be revered. It would benefit the thread that posters speak from personal experience and with detail, but change the details enough that this thread doesn’t become so personal that it becomes inaccessible (picky) to the general reader of this forum who might wish to participate. My example: Here’s what I’ve got in mind. I’ve got the boss’s ear. I’m doing my job well, but I’m rather new at it. I was hired as a manager, and I’d like to get the most out of my department. I came into it with fresh eyes, and saw a lot of room for improvement, but I’m getting comfortable with the way things work and don’t want to become complacent. I’m in charge of a department at a hardware store. It’s a nice local one – the type you go into for advice. Anyways, I’d like to bring in fishing and camping equipment, because those are areas that I see we could expand into, at least for entry level gear, and I think we’ve got the space in my dept. Anyone have experience with that? I’m looking for advice either for entry level gear for camping and fishing, or general advice about taking initiative like this. Do I make the order and present it to the boss to pull the trigger, or do I have to persuade him through every step. I get the impression that this boss, and most bosses have enough on his plate, and would respect, if not appreciate me just doing the legwork, not having to think about it too deeply. I’d like to leave it as just a yes/no decision with all the details ready to execute. What do you think? Happy Labor Day, Fellow Workers! Go Sabres!