Comments on: Metapost: I am immature http://joshreads.com/?p=967 Tue, 09 Feb 2010 19:26:03 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Luna http://joshreads.com/?p=967&cpage=4#comment-186447 Luna Thu, 01 Mar 2007 01:18:14 +0000 http://joshreads.com/?p=967#comment-186447 Heavens to Mergatroid is anybody still reading this thread? This is what I get for being away for two days - I had to scroll back scroll back scroll back to see what happened. Oh, Dingo! Me loves you so! I don't know what else to say that hasn't already been said. I wish you the very best in life --- and really you should write a book. You are a true master. Love, Luna Heavens to Mergatroid is anybody still reading this thread?

This is what I get for being away for two days – I had to scroll back scroll back scroll back to see what happened.

Oh, Dingo! Me loves you so!

I don’t know what else to say that hasn’t already been said. I wish you the very best in life — and really you should write a book. You are a true master.

Love, Luna

]]> By: Dub Not Dubya http://joshreads.com/?p=967&cpage=4#comment-186360 Dub Not Dubya Wed, 28 Feb 2007 21:14:00 +0000 http://joshreads.com/?p=967#comment-186360 I'm a couple of days late but feel the need to chime in anyhow. Rich, thanks for pointing out what was probably the incident that hurt our Dingo. I remembered it and figured that was what he was talking about, but I couldn't remember exactly when it happened or in what thread. Dingo, let me just say, along with so many others here, that I will miss you terribly if you decide not to post here anymore. I hope you will stay. It's not cool that someone took a shot at you, but I hope you can tell that you have many, many more supporters here than detractors. And I really do think the vanishing posts were a case of the spam filter acting up, not censorship by Josh. (For those who believe in such things, Mercury is currently retrograde, which is said to cause all kinds of odd things to happen on the Internets.) I do totally understand that you need to do what you need to do to take care of yourself, particularly while job-hunting. I wish you all the success in the world in finding a wonderful job, and I hope things continue to go wonderfully between you and your sweetie. You are loved and appreciated here, my friend. Please know that. Love, Dub I’m a couple of days late but feel the need to chime in anyhow. Rich, thanks for pointing out what was probably the incident that hurt our Dingo. I remembered it and figured that was what he was talking about, but I couldn’t remember exactly when it happened or in what thread.

Dingo, let me just say, along with so many others here, that I will miss you terribly if you decide not to post here anymore. I hope you will stay. It’s not cool that someone took a shot at you, but I hope you can tell that you have many, many more supporters here than detractors. And I really do think the vanishing posts were a case of the spam filter acting up, not censorship by Josh. (For those who believe in such things, Mercury is currently retrograde, which is said to cause all kinds of odd things to happen on the Internets.)

I do totally understand that you need to do what you need to do to take care of yourself, particularly while job-hunting. I wish you all the success in the world in finding a wonderful job, and I hope things continue to go wonderfully between you and your sweetie. You are loved and appreciated here, my friend. Please know that.

Love,
Dub

]]> By: whoamItoday? http://joshreads.com/?p=967&cpage=4#comment-186071 whoamItoday? Wed, 28 Feb 2007 08:14:07 +0000 http://joshreads.com/?p=967#comment-186071 whoamItoday? I'm Aunty. Aunty a day late but still, here I am. I too have tried to find a post that would be so unusual as to be offensive to Dingo in particular and homosexuals in general. Nothing stands out to me in the general sense, as there are many general insults about all sorts of categories of people. In the particular sense, yeah, someone did say they didn't appreciate Dingo so much, but they *seemed* to banter about it without true offense. It wasn't flamey or anything, I thought. And I can agree with the sentiment. I appreciate your posts, but the links, not so much. Not offended, mind you, but rarely further amused than your post alone so I don't bother. (except occaissionally when it looked like another pic of your sweetie, I would look to see that it was still the same sweetie and be all 'aw gee' that it was. 'Cause love is grand.) The thing is, hiding out pouting then sneaking back in to post a 'test' is just not a viable way of dealing with being offended. If you are offended, say so. Or suck it up and move on. None of us can see you pouting in the corner, after all. Sneaking back in disguise seems to have only made the situation worse by offending someone who was honest enough to say so and (worse yet) setting off the spam bot. I'm hoping Josh can fix the banning of your IP addresses, and you can see your way to coming back. and if you're offended by what someone says then by gosh, call 'em on it. (or call the Pope) . including me if you are offended by this. whoamItoday? I’m Aunty. Aunty a day late but still, here I am.

I too have tried to find a post that would be so unusual as to be offensive to Dingo in particular and homosexuals in general. Nothing stands out to me in the general sense, as there are many general insults about all sorts of categories of people. In the particular sense, yeah, someone did say they didn’t appreciate Dingo so much, but they *seemed* to banter about it without true offense. It wasn’t flamey or anything, I thought. And I can agree with the sentiment. I appreciate your posts, but the links, not so much. Not offended, mind you, but rarely further amused than your post alone so I don’t bother. (except occaissionally when it looked like another pic of your sweetie, I would look to see that it was still the same sweetie and be all ‘aw gee’ that it was. ‘Cause love is grand.)

The thing is, hiding out pouting then sneaking back in to post a ‘test’ is just not a viable way of dealing with being offended. If you are offended, say so. Or suck it up and move on. None of us can see you pouting in the corner, after all. Sneaking back in disguise seems to have only made the situation worse by offending someone who was honest enough to say so and (worse yet) setting off the spam bot.

I’m hoping Josh can fix the banning of your IP addresses, and you can see your way to coming back. and if you’re offended by what someone says then by gosh, call ‘em on it. (or call the Pope) . including me if you are offended by this.

]]> By: macb http://joshreads.com/?p=967&cpage=4#comment-186010 macb Wed, 28 Feb 2007 04:37:21 +0000 http://joshreads.com/?p=967#comment-186010 Sorry, it was the critic Wolcott Gibbs who made the comment about Time magazine's style back in the 1930s, not the equally-curmudgeonly Winston Churchill. Sorry, it was the critic Wolcott Gibbs who made the comment about Time magazine’s style back in the 1930s, not the equally-curmudgeonly Winston Churchill.

]]> By: macb http://joshreads.com/?p=967&cpage=4#comment-185993 macb Wed, 28 Feb 2007 04:21:06 +0000 http://joshreads.com/?p=967#comment-185993 Late again I am, to use old Time magazine style of writing sentences backward (Winston Churchill, in disgust, described the Time style as "backward ran sentences until reeled the mind" which makes a good lead-in to...) My mind is reeling. Dingo has stated that he plans to leave this site for good, citing changes and recent racist and homophobic comments. I don't think any of mine are guilty (I'm Macb, by the way, not Mac, or another poster with similar moniker) but if anything I've said offended I am sorry. I did take some swipes at Dick Cheney, but I don't think that's what Dingo was alluding to (sorry for ending the sentence with a preposition). Anyway, late is better than never to add my voices to all those others: Dingo, please don't go. Late again I am, to use old Time magazine style of writing sentences backward (Winston Churchill, in disgust, described the Time style as “backward ran sentences until reeled the mind” which makes a good lead-in to…)

My mind is reeling. Dingo has stated that he plans to leave this site for good, citing changes and recent racist and homophobic comments. I don’t think any of mine are guilty (I’m Macb, by the way, not Mac, or another poster with similar moniker) but if anything I’ve said offended I am sorry. I did take some swipes at Dick Cheney, but I don’t think that’s what Dingo was alluding to (sorry for ending the sentence with a preposition). Anyway, late is better than never to add my voices to all those others: Dingo, please don’t go.

]]>