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POSTED BY: AnthonyT
UPDATED: Thursday, October 2, 2025 14:14
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Originally posted by SignyM:
Unfotunately, my daughter and SO just LOVE company watching TV. And for some strange reason that I can't fathom it's not enough to keep each other company, they need my company!
Please, someone rescue me!
Try reading. With a little practice you can completely shut out the TV, and still nod or exclaim about something every once and a while to make yourself appear involved in watching the show. Also useful for speakerphone conference calls.
"Keep the Shiny side up"
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HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! Thanks Geezer!
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Ya gotta love this board!
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I wanted to psot this because I thought it was insightful. Been on several bbx of various kinds: health-related, technical, political, gnl discussion (but never a fan site (b4!) and wherever you go it's all the same:
Flamebait is a message posted to a public Internet discussion group, such as a forum, newsgroup or mailing list, with the intent of provoking an angry response (a "flame") or argument over a topic the troll often has no real interest in. (This is not to be confused with tweaking someone.)
There are various motives or explanations for this behavior. The most popular is the desire for attention and the desire for entertainment at the expense of others. Posted flamebait can provide the posting party with a controlled trigger-and-response setting in which to engage in conflicts and indulge aggressive behavior anonymously, without facing the consequences those behaviors would certainly bring to bear in real life. In other instances, flamebait may be used to reduce a forum's use by angering forum users. Especially, a hate group is very vulnerable to flamebaits.
It is often hard to determine who is really responsible for the degradation of a reasonable discussion into a flamewar. Someone who posts a contrary opinion in a strongly focused discussion forum may be easily labeled a "baiter", "flamer" or "troll". Therefore, it seems especially important to make the rules and focus of a discussion forum public to avoid misconceptions about its accepted use.
Taking the bait refers to someone who responds to the original message regardless of whether they are aware the original message was intended to provoke a response. Often when someone takes the bait, others will point out to them YHBT for "You have been trolled". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flamebait
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Reality sucks. Especially when it contradicts our cherished ideas.
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And now to interject a little humor.
For the love of mercy put down the cola before reading tho, might save wear and tear on your monitor.
http://redwing.hutman.net/%7Emreed/
Heh.
FYI - I don't watch TV at all, sometime around the beginning of the OJ Trial circus it just sickened me to the point where I threw the cursed thing out the back window after a rough day and really, REALLY didn't wanna hear that tabloid trash going on and on and on.
I've never regretted doing that, not once.
I saw an advert for Firefly on someone else's TV right after playing Privateer for a couple hours, and it was the similarity that drew my interest - and the F*X killed it.
If there was anything worth watching ON it, I might bother, but really their ain't.
-Frem
It cannot be said enough, those who do not learn from history, are doomed to endlessly repeat it
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Thanks for the Coke warning!
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Reality sucks. Especially when it contradicts our cherished ideas.
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today in clownworld
basically called them sick men of Asia like imperial Japanese used to?
Beijing launches attack on 'ignorant and impolite' JD Vance over 'Chinese peasants' jibe
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14583849/beijing-china-jd-van
ce-peasants-tariffs-trump.html
the East has their Emperors and Dynasty so the Emperor of the West will also celebrate
Trump administration having early discussions to hold grand military parade in Washington on June 14 -- his birthday
https://japantoday.com/category/world/trump-administration-is-having-e
arly-discussions-to-hold-a-military-parade-in-washington-on-june-14
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from the Desk of Trump
The White House plays 'Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer meme that Trump posted' on loop in the briefing room
https://x.com/TheInsiderPaper/status/1973560529475301595#m
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