If You Could Go Back To Any Time In History...

[Sean]

Getting back to the OP... I'd go back exactly 49 years to Dallas, stand on the grassy knoll and shout, "Duck"!*




*copyright Kryten

[Daisy]

Did I say he was an innocent victim Jim? Re-read my post and I can see that yes he does rub some people up the wrong way. And Sean, maybe he doesn't have the same sense of humour as you (or anyone else for that matter).

Maybe the best thing all round is to ignore him. I'm tired of threads descending into the pile on Rubato show, we're all grown ups here, right?

[Daisy]

And on the OP I'd love to go back to Bletchley Park whilst Turing and his team were working on breaking those German codes.

[Lord Jim]

I have to say, it is astonishing to me....

No, to be completely honest, beyond astonishing.....

That there are still folks here who are ready willing and able to make excuses for one of the most disgusting human beings on the planet...

A man for whom there is no excuse...(he's vulgar, he's ignorant...one could go on and on...)

And then I see this:



And it makes me wonder if rubato isn't some sort later day Adolf Hitler, who has some enormous attraction to women, despite all reason...

It seems logically impossible that someone that profoundly ignorant could fool that many people...

but look at all those clapping hands....

[Daisy]

A man for whom there is no excuse...(he's vulgar, he's ignorant...one could go on and on...)

but doesn't that make people who keep responding to him, knowing all of that, look just as dumb?

Don’t argue with idiots because they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.

[Andrew D]

... it makes me wonder if rubato ... has some enormous attraction to women, despite all reason...

Have you had a sex-change?

[Lord Jim]

but doesn't that make people who keep responding to him, knowing all of that, look just as dumb?

Well, yes and no....

Not just as dumb...

Not when you're talking about a person who is so dumb that they require someone to stand next to them saying, "in..out...in....out...to remind them to breathe...".....

We're talking about a profoundly stupid person here....

[Sean]

Rubato doesn't have to get my humour Dais, he just has to recognise that it is meant as humour. That's what the winky is for... Netiquette 101.

Let me put it this way... in another thread Gob (but this would hold for any member here) responded to a joke I made (at his expense) by calling me (not for the first time I might add) an "arse". He followed this with a (or maybe it was a ). If I had responded by getting genuinely narky because he called me an arse (at this stage I'm using parentheses just to be an arse) which of the following would you have been most likely to do?

a.) Berate him for insulting me
b.) Tell me to stop being a soft twat
c.) Turn into an ice-dancing mongoose and dance the Boléro

If the answer is anything other than b, then you either want me to treat rubato differently to everyone else here (either by ignoring him or changing the way I post just for him) or you need to get yourself a good agent! *



*See what I did there? *

*And again there! *

*etc

[Lord Jim]

A man for whom there is no excuse...(he's vulgar, he's ignorant...one could go on and on...)

but doesn't that make people who keep responding to him, knowing all of that, look just as dumb?

Don’t argue with idiots because they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.

Oh I hate it when a chick gets all classy and rational on me... (I get it from Kelly too... )

It's a terrible thing.... I'm a middle aged man...makes me feel like a schoolboy....

[Lord Jim]

And then you have to hear, "you're a better person than that."...

Well yes, I may be a better person than that, but that still doesn't mean I wouldn't kick them in the nuts if push came to shove...

[Sean]

Rise above it Jim! Be the bigger man.

[MajGenl.Meade]

Oh Meade, don't get me started on this yet again.... Let me ask you...If you could be stuck in a fox hole with me or rubato, who would you pick? Don't worry about hurting my feelings...

NOTA. I'd hope jay was available. And you clearly don't need me to get you started....

Unfortunately you will likely persist in refusing to recognize that your responses to rubato are tiresome, petty, uncalled for and viciously unpleasant. You will persist in hurling abuse at Andrew rather than respond substantively. You will continue to announce that one person being a butt (or even when not) gives you license to be far worse. I am sorry about those things. Fire away!

Meade

[TPFKA@W]

Jim I was not applauding Rubato nor his contribution to the ongoing and perpetual pissing contest he engages in with you and others. I was clearly applauding Daisy's rational contribution.

Don't be so obtuse.

[dales]

[Joe Guy]

If I could go back to any time in history, I would go forward to the future.

[Daisy]

Dont start Joe

[Crackpot]

I think what people are missing is the perverse humor found in prodding someone who absolutely denies ever saying or doing or being the slightest bit wrong regardless to the amount of evidence to the contrary.

dgs[/b]gets treated the same way by many of the people complaining.

People love a whipping boy.

[Gob]

I think what people are missing is the perverse humor found in prodding someone who absolutely denies ever saying or doing or being the slightest bit wrong regardless to the amount of evidence to the contrary.

Agreed, well said. I would also add "and whose boorish self-centred arrogance is built on sand, and whose childish "if I like it it's the best ever in the whole world and yours is crap*", attitude is a sure fire guarantee of causing ridicule."

But I'll call a détente on my part. I shall no longer insult retard rubato, unless directly insulted by him first.

Let's see how that one swings.

Anyone care to join me?



* I wish I could find that thread where I deliberately set him up on that matter, by putting "This is about a bands we like rubato, please don't come and tell us who you think is the best ever", or some such in tiny font, only to have his first post read along the lines of "Joe Blow is far better than anyone else so there huh" or the like.

Here's the thread I was thinking of!

Quote the OP to see the disclaimer.

[The Hen]

Well I am glad you're calling a detente.

[Lord Jim]

Rise above it Jim! Be the bigger man.

Oh good lord, that's even worse...