IS it wrong to ask what happened to CSB?

[loCAtek]

I guess wetbacks just don't get it.

Gracias A Dios

[Gob]

Gob, I don't understand why you de-registered (or tried to), it seemed quite hasty to me. And then asking to 'ban the lot of us' Why wasn't I consulted, I didn't want to be banned, so why presume to speak for me?

Why did I try to deregister?

In part to reduce the chances of me posting there, in part to give the CSB over to the Triumvirate, so I could gleefully chuckle at it becoming what they wanted. (Be careful of what you wish for.)

It's a shame that it's not available for perusal now, there was a period before the final door slamming, where 90% of threads went along the lines of;

Edi: America's in a shit state.
Steve: I agree and here's some gobbledygook to alter my potatoes.
Edi: What's that you say Steve, the MOTU have made it worse? I agree, here's some more doom and gloom.
Steve: Unions Obama, little man forging my painted onion.
Edi: I agree Steve, here's a black picture for you.
Mort: The dems did it.
Steve: Culpable homicide of Chinese origin in the exported halo a tin heart Mort.
Gwen: Pats Steve on the Head.
Dales: I hate them all.
Edi: Have I told you the banks are to blame.
Steve; How mimsy were the borrogroves.
Edi: Well done Steve have a biscuit.

repeat until Edi starts a new doom and gloom thread.

My asking to be banned was just to highlight Edi's desire to control the board and who posts there, so that conversations like the above, (worshiping Edi's high school Marxist doom and gloom) would be the norm.

[Joe Guy]

I just put myself on my ignore list.

How's the weather?

[Econoline]

It's a shame that it's not available for perusal now, there was a period before the final door slamming, where 90% of threads went along the lines of;

Edi: America's in a shit state.
Steve: I agree and here's some gobbledygook to alter my potatoes.
Edi: What's that you say Steve, the MOTU have made it worse? I agree, here's some more doom and gloom.
Steve: Unions Obama, little man forging my painted onion.
Edi: I agree Steve, here's a black picture for you.
Mort: The dems did it.
Steve: Culpable homicide of Chinese origin in the exported halo a tin heart Mort.
Gwen: Pats Steve on the Head.
Dales: I hate them all.
Edi: Have I told you the banks are to blame.
Steve; How mimsy were the borrogroves.
Edi: Well done Steve have a biscuit.

repeat until Edi starts a new doom and gloom thread.

The entire "Economics" forum over there was almost exactly like that--except that the posts from editec and Steve were considerably longer, with Steve's bloated with extraneous copy-and-pastes and editec's relieved by occasional wit. And a lot of the threads were started by Steve rather than editec.Every time I poked my head in there, all the threads were the same, until I finally learned to avoid that forum. (Yeah, slow learner. Or maybe just an incurable optimist. Or both.)

Oh, and (as I pointed out over there a few weeks ago) nobody was posting in the "Just For Fun" forum anymore...which for some reason made me even sadder about the condition of the CSB than some of the other shit that went down.

[Timster]

It's a shame that it's not available for perusal now, there was a period before the final door slamming, where 90% of threads went along the lines of;

Edi: America's in a shit state.
Steve: I agree and here's some gobbledygook to alter my potatoes.
Edi: What's that you say Steve, the MOTU have made it worse? I agree, here's some more doom and gloom.
Steve: Unions Obama, little man forging my painted onion.
Edi: I agree Steve, here's a black picture for you.
Mort: The dems did it.
Steve: Culpable homicide of Chinese origin in the exported halo a tin heart Mort.
Gwen: Pats Steve on the Head.
Dales: I hate them all.
Edi: Have I told you the banks are to blame.
Steve; How mimsy were the borrogroves.
Edi: Well done Steve have a biscuit.

repeat until Edi starts a new doom and gloom thread.

The entire "Economics" forum over there was almost exactly like that--except that the posts from editec and Steve were considerably longer, with Steve's bloated with extraneous copy-and-pastes and editec's relieved by occasional wit. And a lot of the threads were started by Steve rather than editec.Every time I poked my head in there, all the threads were the same, until I finally learned to avoid that forum. (Yeah, slow learner. Or maybe just an incurable optimist. Or both.)

Oh, and (as I pointed out over there a few weeks ago) nobody was posting in the "Just For Fun" forum anymore...which for some reason made me even sadder about the condition of the CSB than some of the other shit that went down.

OK. May I forward a pet peeve.?

WTF is the deal with posting the ENTIRE post proceeding the post ( pictures and all ) when it is obvious that the person just posted the same fucking post above?? WTF? A waste of bandwith to be sure. . And a waste time and effort to be sure. Fine. Click the "quote" button. But Fuck off. Really. People get it.

I want to choke these morons by their neck until they lose conscientiousness.

Really.

Editec. Redundancy does not make your point extra special.. STOP IT!!! @



I really hate that.

[@meric@nwom@n]

It's a shame that it's not available for perusal now, there was a period before the final door slamming, where 90% of threads went along the lines of;

Edi: America's in a shit state.
Steve: I agree and here's some gobbledygook to alter my potatoes.
Edi: What's that you say Steve, the MOTU have made it worse? I agree, here's some more doom and gloom.
Steve: Unions Obama, little man forging my painted onion.
Edi: I agree Steve, here's a black picture for you.
Mort: The dems did it.
Steve: Culpable homicide of Chinese origin in the exported halo a tin heart Mort.
Gwen: Pats Steve on the Head.
Dales: I hate them all.
Edi: Have I told you the banks are to blame.
Steve; How mimsy were the borrogroves.
Edi: Well done Steve have a biscuit.

repeat until Edi starts a new doom and gloom thread.

The entire "Economics" forum over there was almost exactly like that--except that the posts from editec and Steve were considerably longer, with Steve's bloated with extraneous copy-and-pastes and editec's relieved by occasional wit. And a lot of the threads were started by Steve rather than editec.Every time I poked my head in there, all the threads were the same, until I finally learned to avoid that forum. (Yeah, slow learner. Or maybe just an incurable optimist. Or both.)

Oh, and (as I pointed out over there a few weeks ago) nobody was posting in the "Just For Fun" forum anymore...which for some reason made me even sadder about the condition of the CSB than some of the other shit that went down.

OK. May I forward a pet peeve.?

WTF is the deal with posting the ENTIRE post proceeding the post ( pictures and all ) when it is obvious that the person just posted the same fucking post above?? WTF? A waste of bandwith to be sure. . And a waste time and effort to be sure. Fine. Click the "quote" button. But Fuck off. Really. People get it.

I want to choke these morons by their neck until they lose conscientiousness.

Really.

Editec. Redundancy does not make your point extra special.. STOP IT!!! @



I really hate that.

It's for clarity.

[Lord Jim]

Strop, I wish I'd seen the post where editec was asking that you, Hen and @W be banned....

That must have been a humdinger....

[Crackpot]

It wasn't

[@meric@nwom@n]

It was one of Eddie's long rambling impartation of his wisdom in these matters and at one point he said he would outright ban Strop, Hen and @w since our only purpose there was to cause trouble.

More dinger than Hum I think.

[The Hen]

He was (and is) very wrong.

Still, that's editec for you.

[Gob]

Nah, it was one of Edi's; "You should all do as I say, and limit "freedom of speech" to "freedom to chat about my views" and all will be well here," posts.

[Joe Guy]

OK. May I forward a pet peeve.?

WTF is the deal with posting the ENTIRE post proceeding the post ( pictures and all ) when it is obvious that the person just posted the same fucking post above?? WTF? A waste of bandwith to be sure. . And a waste time and effort to be sure. Fine. Click the "quote" button. But Fuck off. Really. People get it.

I want to choke these morons by their neck until they lose conscientiousness.

Really.

Editec. Redundancy does not make your point extra special.. STOP IT!!! @



I really hate that.

That was one of the dumbest & irritating things that I saw over there. Especially when it included a lot of pictures.

It's one thing to cut & paste a few lines here and there and respond to them, but it's quite lazy and stupid to include someone else's entire post within yours.

I agree with your hatred.

[Timster]

Actually I wrote that. @meric@nwom@n was quoting me. And I still really hate that.

[liberty]

We do have to admit that the US of A has some very serious problems such as the national debt. I believe that my share is about forty thousand dollar. Hey Gob, how about a loan?

Would someone tell me what edi meant MOTU?

[Joe Guy]

Actually I wrote that. @meric@nwom@n was quoting me. And I still really hate that.

Sorry.

I should have paid more attention.

Besides, I don't think I'm supposed to ever agree with @W.

I need to review my handy dandy cyber-behavior toward friend & foe notebook.

[dales]

We do have to admit that the US of A has some very serious problems such as the national debt. I believe that my share is about forty thousand dollar. Hey Gob, how about a loan?

Would someone tell me what edi meant MOTU?

Masters of the Universe.

You're off by close to ten-fold (the latest I heard was a per-capita debt of somewhere around $300,000).

I think that's what finally broke the old CSB.

[loCAtek]

The entire "Economics" forum over there was almost exactly like that--except that the posts from editec and Steve were considerably longer, with Steve's bloated with extraneous copy-and-pastes and editec's relieved by occasional wit. And a lot of the threads were started by Steve rather than editec.Every time I poked my head in there, all the threads were the same, until I finally learned to avoid that forum. (Yeah, slow learner. Or maybe just an incurable optimist. Or both.)

You knew it had hit bottom when ~Steve started creating sock puppets to agree with Editec even more.

[Lord Jim]

To elaborate a bit on Dale's response, Lib, (frankly I didn't know what it meant either after I returned to CSB after a two year hiatus and discovered that editec was rabbiting on about it all over the CSB) the "MOTU" (Masters Of The Universe) apparently is an expression that originally comes from a Tom Wolfe novel....

In editec's interpretation, the "MOTU" refers to a cabal of ultra rich conspirators who control virtually every aspect of life...Their fiendish plan is to convert the world into an international "neo-feudalist" state with themselves at the top and everyone else on the planet enslaved in their service. (The theory is very similar to the old anti-semitic, "International Jewish Conspiracy" canard, with the "Jewish" part removed)

It is, at it's heart, a super-simplistic theory that attempts to account for a vast array of complex problems and situations that involve many factors with a single, unitary explanation that explains, "everything". In my view it reflects both a paranoid world view, and intellectual laziness.

For those who embrace it, however, it does have one singular benefit; it allows them to explain their own unfortunate situation in a way that does not require them to accept any personal blame or responsibility for their circumstances. If their life has turned to crap, it's all the fault of this great conspiracy; they themselves are blameless. Therein, I believe, lies the theory's psycological appeal....

Editec became completely obsessed with this idea, and in addition to starting thread after thread that focused on some variation of this theme, also attempted to turn many other unrelated discussions into conversations about it. (Though not, in my opinion, to the extent that Steve did; editec at least was capable of occasionally talking about something else.)

If you wish to explore this further, you are of course free to start your own thread about it, but frankly if you do, you shouldn't expect to get a lot of responses. (Except perhaps sarcastic ones) I suspect that most of the people here got pretty much burned out and fed up with that whole schtick...

I know I did...

[@meric@nwom@n]

The real MOTU!

[Gob]

We do have to admit that the US of A has some very serious problems such as the national debt. I believe that my share is about forty thousand dollar. Hey Gob, how about a loan?

The cheque is in the post...