From the Beav:

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The Tequilashreiker first Groiny -
She has standards for humour dontcha know!


Yeah. She does. Good ones. The board, as presently constituted, reflects them. Now I'm sure that 'fin or someone will come in here and say that things were better four years ago when the board was 24/7 Scrooie-hijacking-every-thread-to-talk-about-a-guy-she-saw-in-the-supermarket-who-could-have-been-a rightwingnutbar-or-an-Americcan-plus-Layton-is-mallied-to-a-Chink, but I know and like the Beav, and I'm pretty sure he would agree that the general tenor of board humor and discussion has progressed way past that.

It was much easier for me at the beginning on the old board, when I could pretty much hate everyone except TS and the Groin-Mac-8Ace-Cap Anson axis unreservedly, but now I've gotten to know most of the people here a lot better, and I often find myself in the middle of disputes in which I like both of the combatants and wish they could somehow Work It Out.

The Beav was a great host... had me out to G's C, fed me, showed me his vast domains, mi casa es su casa... the whole nine yards. (Or whatever that comes to in dopey metric numbers.) I used to have fun with him on the Politics threads, even for all his Chimp-bashing, because for all his waving of the Maple Leaf, he never really seemed to believe (as some people here actually DID) that all Americann's is dUmbe plus stuPpid!!

The gravamen of his gripe against TS, (which seems to be of such magnitude at least in his own mind as to have taken him away from his beloved Politics threads), seems to be that Groiny Has Not Been Banned Again And TS Is Responsible For It.

Now no one is sicker than I am of the endless Groin-Yff back-and-forth. And there is no doubt in my mind that sometimes der Groiner, as much as I love him, DOES PROVOKE THE SHIT. Nonetheless, that ain't a reason to ban the guy.

Groin is, as, we all know, one of two people who have been banned -- in his case briefly. Yeah, sometimes he pushes the envelope. I grimaced when he resurrected the old "porn e-mailer" crap, a nasty little slander which I thought he-- among many others here-- had long since conceded was a crock of shit. But the guy's still a franchise player... take away his crap about YffaggycatamiteCricketstalkingme, and he's got a pretty formidable oeuvre.

TS has screamed at him (and at Yff) a hundred times to CUT THE FUCKING CRAP ALREADY. You know that, dontcha, Beav? Do ya really want Groin banned? Come on... get real. This board and the old ones had nine million flame wars and rivalries and neon-light hate-ons. At the previous places, people really did get banned (Mac, Cap, etc.) when they committed the heinous offense of being right-of-center-and-not-being-part-of-this-or-that-Fest-crowd. That was bullshit, and led in its own way to a monochrome board monopolized by an insular, nasty little clique of self-righteous ignorati. You don't and didn't want that, Beav... I certainly didn't see you posting at Shelbyville.

Note that you've been busting TS' shoes for months now, and yet you remain totally and utterly unbanned. You have carte blanche to say what you want, so long as you don't out anyone. Your campaign to have TS designated as Officially Unfunny is ridiculous and beneath you. TS has the best sense of humor of any human being I've encountered in three years on the Internet, and I've encountered a fairly large sample of people. (And YES, I would say that even if she didn't have red hair* and long legs). I still remember posts of hers from the old board which even she's forgotten, including one rip-up of some idiot poster (Spunkybushmonkey?) who was whining about what a beat it was that he had to look at uggo chicks (or some such) and sounding like a HS sophomore... and TS posted a great rant to the effect that she didn't put up stupid posts about the mere sight of old guys with comb-overs giving her a "perma-dry of the nether regions"... concluding with the deathless wurdz, "You shallow, ass-wipe tard. Go away."

As Emeril Lagasse sez, "BAM!"

Your other gripe, Beav, seems to be that The Board Has Tilted To The Right!! But to the extent that it's even true, that's not her fault... you can blame me for that much more plausibly than you can blame TS. Yes, I'm sure it was fun in the old days when the usual gLib suspects could hijack Mac's threads or say eat-my-shit-Mac-you-big-tard or put up blank posts after him, or otherwise try to marginalize the guy, but all that shit did was curtail rather than advance discussion.

Now we're beyond pretty much all of that. The left and the right can -- on occasion, granted -- actually have a genuine substantive discussion about political crap. Funny, smart newbies have come on board and added much to the place.... just ask yourself, btw, what kind of reception the bright and entertaining likes of Marsh McClueless, Father MacKenzie and Duplicitous would have gotten at the old place.

Jesus, Beav... come on. Get over it. Get back in there in Politics and tell us wot a great guy Dilton is. Bash Manboobs and the PCs. Resume banging the pans for such honest gLibs as may be waiting in the wings to replace the Ditherer-In-Chief. Enough with the TS-isn't-funny-plus-she-favors-right-wingers silliness... Jeebus, get back to me when a LEFTIE gets banned from this place.



*which she DOESN'T. It's brown. I swear. I saw someone in the airport in Casper, Wyoming who had *much* redder hair. Yawn. MUCH redder.