Sheep, baaaaaaah, baaah bah!
POSTED BY: AngusThermopyle
UPDATED: Friday, June 8, 2007 16:23
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Quote:OT: I sometimes think of the length of replies as the indication of an efficient original posting; that small hole at just the right spot in the dam wall
Originally posted by AngusThermopyle:
To think you wrote all that because of what I wrote ...
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Originally posted by heb:Quote:
Originally posted by AngusThermopyle:
No probs, mate. I just like to stir things up from time to time, get people a little ornary - whatever the hell that is... I'm British, you know. Ta ta me old china.
As a Brit myself, I would just like to point out that it is generally not considered polite to turn up some place and 'stir things up' as a new member...
Get a life, Heather. I wasn't being offensive to anyone. To think you wrote all that because of what I wrote kind of makes my point. So, thanks for that. For a Brit you appear to have no sense of irony what so ever. Well, at least Whedon does.
May none of your pizzas have unfortunte toppings.
I'm not entirely sure I proved your point. I did not write that post because I was upset or offended at what you wrote because I know I am obsessive and do not need anyone else to point that out for me. The reason I wrote that post was because there are an abundance of people on the internet these days who do not make use of the social skills that I am sure they would use in person. In life I wouldn't dream of taking the mick of people I had only just met. It occurred to me that perhaps it had not been pointed out to you and the increasing number of others doing this that this was generally not a done thing.
You can take my previous post and this one as proof of your point because, according to you, your post upset me enough to write this or you can take it as what it was intended which was a complaint at a lack of social skills these days.
So to reiterate:
I was not upset or offended by the substance of your post
But I did think I'd point out that your post was impolite incase you hadn't realised.
So basically, feeling superior due to the fact that I wasn't the one calling people a sheep, I was trying to help.
Perhaps you could give me some help with the 'getting a life' thing.
Heather
Ps. Perhaps you'd like to explain the irony to me then as I clearly missed the point.
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Well, my sister's a ship... we had a
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I wear the cheese. It does not wear me.
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Heb - I'm practically certain ole what's-his-bucket doesn't have irony in ole Sheep's Farm On Bottom, or wherever "he's" from. Unless, of course, "he's" purchased it at Ye Ole WalMart (2-for-1 @ $1.98).
I do love a good smack-down. ;-D
First "European": Hur, hur, hur. Sheep. Baaah. Hur, hur, hur.
Second "Brit": Hunh, hunh, hunh. Short post make me smart. Hunh, hunh, hunh.
First "European": Henh, henh, henh. See? I'm British, me ole teacup. Henh, henh, henh.
Second "Brit": Hur, hur, hur. Of course y'are, mate. Why it's so funny, dontcha know? Hur, hur, hur.
First "European": Henh, henh, henh. Uh, yeah, 'sroit! Dude! Henh, henh, henh.
Second "Brit": Hunh, hunh, hunh. Yo! Hunh, hunh, *herk*...'scuse me.
"Today we get to meet the real you." Niska - War Stories
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Originally posted by AngusThermopyle:
No probs, mate. I just like to stir things up from time to time, get people a little ornary - whatever the hell that is... I'm British, you know. Ta ta me old china.
As a Brit myself, I would just like to point out that it is generally not considered polite to turn up some place and 'stir things up' as a new member...
Get a life, Heather. I wasn't being offensive to anyone. To think you wrote all that because of what I wrote kind of makes my point. So, thanks for that. For a Brit you appear to have no sense of irony what so ever. Well, at least Whedon does.
May none of your pizzas have unfortunte toppings.
Ps. Perhaps you'd like to explain the irony to me then as I clearly missed the point.
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Well, my sister's a ship... we had a
complicated childhood
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I wear the cheese. It does not wear me.
By all means, Heather. The irony is that my comments were tongue in cheek and they seem to have sparked off something.
I'm curious, do you only take the mick out of people you've gotten to know then? Me, I wade straight in there and break the ice as soon as possible, makes for more stimulating conversation. It's just "poison in jest", nothing more.
May none of your pizzas have unfortunte toppings.
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Originally posted by terryo:
The reason I mentioned the SSE is that most of them are young, enthusiastic actors in love with the material and it shows. There isn't a fake suck-up, stuck-up attitude in any of their productions and again, it shows. The actors have to sell t-shirts after the show for crying out loud. You can't do that without passion.
Every summer here, Montana Shakespeare in the Parks tours for three straight months with about three days off the entire time, driving to all the little podunk towns (my home"town" has about 200 people), putting up the stage, putting on a performance, selling shirts and mugs afterwards to help raise enough money to keep doing it, tearing down the stage, getting to eat around 11pm, then going to stay at strangers houses before getting up the next morning to do it all again. They love their work and it shows in the performances. I've been going for close to 30 years now, and I haven't seen one bad performance yet. Those people are the reason I love Shakepeare. I've yet to see a movie version that comes close to what they do.
(Again, apologies for hijacking the thread.)
Packer fans welcome.
All others tolerated.
Hijack away. All comments welcome.
May none of your pizzas have unfortunte toppings.
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Originally posted by ReeQueen:
Heb - I'm practically certain ole what's-his-bucket doesn't have irony in ole Sheep's Farm On Bottom, or wherever "he's" from. Unless, of course, "he's" purchased it at Ye Ole WalMart (2-for-1 @ $1.98).
I do love a good smack-down. ;-D
First "European": Hur, hur, hur. Sheep. Baaah. Hur, hur, hur.
Second "Brit": Hunh, hunh, hunh. Short post make me smart. Hunh, hunh, hunh.
First "European": Henh, henh, henh. See? I'm British, me ole teacup. Henh, henh, henh.
Second "Brit": Hur, hur, hur. Of course y'are, mate. Why it's so funny, dontcha know? Hur, hur, hur.
First "European": Henh, henh, henh. Uh, yeah, 'sroit! Dude! Henh, henh, henh.
Second "Brit": Hunh, hunh, hunh. Yo! Hunh, hunh, *herk*...'scuse me.
"Today we get to meet the real you." Niska - War Stories
LMAO. I am actually English, me old cock sparrah. Cor blimey guv'nor, strike a light, isn't it obvious? Apples and pears, me old trouble and strife.
May none of your pizzas have unfortunte toppings.
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By all means, Heather. The irony is that my comments were tongue in cheek and they seem to have sparked off something.
I'm curious, do you only take the mick out of people you've gotten to know then? Me, I wade straight in there and break the ice as soon as possible, makes for more stimulating conversation. It's just "poison in jest", nothing more.
Maybe as a group of people meeting for the first time I would take light-heartedly take the mick but not when I'm the only newcomer to an established group and I'm not sure how it would be recieved.
Firstly I'd introduce myself.
Secondly I'd make sure that it was clear that my comments could not be interpretted as my actual thoughts. I'm still not seeing where in your initial post it could be interpretted that you didn't actually think some people on this board were 'sheep'. I'm sorry if I misunderstood but I still can't understand how your original statement is tongue in cheek.
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Well, my sister's a ship... we had a
complicated childhood
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I wear the cheese. It does not wear me.
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Quote:You mean there are some postings here that aren't tongue-in-cheek?
Originally posted by heb:
... I still can't understand how your original statement is tongue in cheek.
Oh ... OK, you got me
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Being British, I am hoping that you may be able to tell me the meaning of the phrase "pear-shaped", as in "and then it all went pear-shaped", a phrase used or abused frequently by my favorite author (Terry Pratchett - he hangs out on Olympus with Joss). Also:message to EVERYONE: look up the meaning of the word irony, willya, sheesh.
lunatikat - as much woman as you can cram into one space without getting two women
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Originally posted by Lunatikat:
Being British, I am hoping that you may be able to tell me the meaning of the phrase "pear-shaped", as in "and then it all went pear-shaped"
THANK YOU!
I'm not British, and I would really like to know that one...
edited to add: I did find this:
http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Curves/Pearshaped.html
and further explanation here:
http://alt-usage-english.org/pear_shaped.html
this is sooo funny: it is a British expression all the time!
http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-pea2.htm
and you can give up on anyone online figuring out what irony means, I think it is too subtle for cyber-speak....
and what is up with all of Angust's double or triple posts? Hasn't any one taught you how to edit?
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