Pamalinsky wrote:
Comrade Stierlitz,
I do appreciate your clarification regarding your avatar. And, I stand corrected. Thank you.
Most Cubists would've understood the misunderstanding of it and corrected it. In fact, Comrade Craptek gave me permission to call him “Crap” for short. As long as he could call me Pamski.
I don't appreciate, however, your so-called “60 Minutes” segment, where you found it necessary to leave an ugly image of me to justify your point. At no point in this conversation did I give YOU an ugly picture or description. So, your Counter Point had nothing to counter. Capish?
Furthermore, I do not accept your premise of having to play your game.
I could ignore this whole thing but choose to address it.
My problem with your image of me is not the image itself but, the intention behind it. That, to me, says a bunch. I do not like it.
When I first joined the Cube, I loved it, as I'm sure you do, because I wanted so much to interact with such witty people. I was a jackass, at times, not knowing how to speak “progtalk.” I posted attacks on those who did not recognize the spelling of my avatar. They spelled it with an “i” at the instead of a “y.”
Really stupid stuff.
I have since come to know those in the Cube family as loving friends. They are truly a treasure.
Also, for the record regarding Pinkie, I know I have absolutely no control over what she will do. She does what she wants to do.
Meanwhile, in between time, please know that I am on your side.
Love,
Pamsky
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Yeah, I meant it in good fun but I've found out on some discussion boards that intention can come across in wildly different ways. One discussion board that I frequent has absolutely Orwellian rules, they read like a government document, and they take everything at face-value. If you
take the piss out of somebody you'll have what feels like the wrath of god descend upon you. Another one I frequent has only one rule that boils down to "Don't be an ass" and things that would be incredibly,
IP-ban offensive on the Orwellian board are taken in good fun and are treated like playful banter. This board, TPC, seems to have more of an ability to detect the intention behind seemingly offensive things, like the second board described, and I guess I got too comfortable and too assuming. But, then again, this kind of stuff provides me with datapoints so that I know where I should stop, where I should kick it up a bit, where I should tone it down, what should be posted and what shouldn't, etc, and ultimately makes it easier for me to make quality posts without too much hassle or offense. Red Square's slapping that he gave to me a couple days ago gave me a datapoint of the big stuff, and you gave me a datapoint of the smaller stuff.
And I do agree that the Kube is a family. This is just about the only board that I didn't have to go through a bunch of hoops or go through a long period of time before I felt comfortable on it. It was just like merging onto an Interstate Highway that is completely empty. Sure, I did have to learn a lot of terms like the infamous Next Tuesday, but that means that the Kube is more like a Mafia family than a normal one, and I'd say that's a good description. The Mafia shoots down people that don't expect it, and we shoot down articles and politicians that don't expect it.
I suppose that that the reason why the Kube's a big family because this board is the only one in it's class, so you don't have to make it hard to join to compete with other boards and keep unsavory people out. But I think that it's a good thing that it's the first in it's class; I've searched for political boards before and they all take everything too seriously. I'm not too keen on serious political discussion, I'm more on the side of discussion that makes fun of and satirizes politics and the political system. Because you DO need to laugh at it all and the futility of it all, otherwise you'll go insane. I don't personally believe in a god, and I don't have a problem if you do, but if I did I'd believe that he'd be laughing his ass off at us all arguing and worrying about something that, in the grand scheme of things, boils down to chicken-shit.
However, I DID go through a period when I was just getting into politics of loving serious discussion, but then I saw what it was doing to me (making me paranoid, anxious all the time, worrying about things that in the end didn't matter at all), and I said "this is enough, I need to cut back". I looked at some stuff by Dave Barry and Greg Gutfeld, Lewis Black's and George Carlin's political humor, and various other outlets and authors of political humor, and I never looked back. I also found that, once I'd discovered and started getting into political humor, I was more well-informed and more savvy with politics presented in a humorous way than if I just read the same story or the same event presented in a serious way. Nowadays I make jokes in my head if I ever read any serious article and sort of write and subsequently read my own humor piece as I'm going along. I looked forever to find a board like this, and when I did I thought I'd struck gold.
And I don't feel intimidated by anybody like I do on some boards, even Red Square, but whenever stupid stuff like this happens I get scared off my rear end. I don't try to make enemies with anybody on the internet; I don't like some people and some people don't like me, that's just life, but I only have one that I consider to be my enemy. And I'm glad he's my enemy because upon his banning from the board that he and I interacted on I found out that he was a Nazi. Now, I don't know about you, but I don't want to be friends with Nazis.
And I suppose this kind of stuff was coming sometime. I always manage to get myself in trouble on internet boards at least twice, but then everything's smooth sailing. I've already gotten slapped by Red Square and now I've got a slapping from you, so I suppose that makes 2. But my policy is that if I get more than four slaps from board admins or whatever I retire from the board permanently.
And seeing as you've told your side, I wish to present my side of the story:
If I were making an accurate image edit of you I would've chose the Mona Lisa or some other work of art. I was just trying to make a joke, I just searched "fat chick", downloaded the funniest image I could find, poorly lasso selected the appropriate portions of your avatar, and edited it in less than 30 seconds. It is
the definition of "phoned in" and "one-off". Upon your removal of the poorly-glued on "joke" moniker, I tried to reinforce the already collapsing jest with a reference to an old news segment, something which in hindsight was a poorly-selected method of reinforcement. You essentially did a controlled demolition of one of my jokes, and I applaud you for that, because most of the time my humor is so obtuse, abstract, and morbid that nobody would even dare dissect, or worse, laugh at it. I've also never had a controlled demolition of one before; I've always been able to hold them up with wacky explanations, silly descriptions of situations, and these have usually made the joke stronger and more resilient to the explosives of rational thought.
So, we here at the one-man non-company of StierlitzCo applaud you for being the first ones to demolish one of our previously-thought unbreakable jokes. We offer no award but your own personal satisfaction. We will use the outcome of your demolition to make them unbreakable once again.
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Oh, and by the way, the Italian is "capisce" or "capisci", depending on who you're talking to and about. I've seen it spelled and spell it in English all the time as "kapeesh". But I've never seen it spelled as "capish". Not saying you're wrong, just an interesting observation, as I like to call them.
And by the way, Call me Comrade S, Comrade Stier, Comrade Stierlitz, The Duke of Idiocy, The Earl of Excellence, Prime Minister of Confuzistan, whichever floats your boat. But the whole "bull" thing? I was racking my brain, asking myself "did I talk about bulls with her?" "Is she trying to give me some 'bull'?" "Is she talking to someone else and misquoted me?". I thought my memory was failing on me, because my memory's usually a perfect 10 on a scale of 1-100. Pammy, please, out with the B, in with the S, and no combinations thereof, kapeesh?
And I must echo Ivan's sentiment that the Cube wouldn't be what it is today without somebody who's ready with a topical video on any subject. Not everybody can say that they own the "Youtube Swiss Army Knife". I try to but I always end up cutting myself with it. And the Opera singer aspect amazes me every time; what possesses an Opera singer who's met many famous musicians to move to Indiana and pretend to be an Orwellian Soviet on a website about right-leaning politics? It's one of those questions like "How many licks does it take to get to get to the tootsie roll center of a tootsie pop?" And the funny thing is is that the answer "The world may never know" applies to both questions.
Thanks for reading my
really long, fractured, and just plain all over the place post that probably could've been shorter latest book "How I massively screwed up but managed to make everything turn out kinda okayish",
~Comrade Stierlitz
P.S. - You should tell anybody who uses -ski in your name to "go 'ski'ing", if you know what I mean. It's only a call away, option 5 on the National Thoughtcrime Hotline.
