• BBS community improve

    From kk4qbn@VERT/KK4QBN to Ravne on Sunday, May 26, 2024 14:59:00
    Re: BBS community improve
    By: Ravne to Tiny on Sun May 26 2024 08:17:24

    You <insert word here>, are a bigot. Wow... I almost never bother with
    mro / anti mro posts, but you are more offensive then he is.

    I get it, I came on way too strong & was extremely clumsy with my delivery. Point taken, lesson learned. I'm a big enough person to admit when I'm wrong. I have some autistic tendencies & that seems to make it difficult for me to see where the line is before I cross it.

    "Autistic Tendencies" wow...
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  • From MRO@VERT/BBSESINF to Tiny on Sunday, May 26, 2024 17:36:00
    Re: BBS community improve
    By: Tiny to RAVNE on Sun May 26 2024 06:11 am

    Quoting Ravne to Kk4qbn <=-

    You may be right on some level. To clarify, I don't think all straight white men are a problem. I also don't think that other demographics can't be a problem, but I do think (rough guesstimate) 4/5 times this kind of behavior comes from straight white men. -!-

    You <insert word here>, are a bigot. Wow... I almost never bother with
    mro / anti mro posts, but you are more offensive then he is.


    Ravne is the kind of closet bigot that thinks black people are stupid and don't carry identification. ....but ONLINE they/them will stand up for their rights because of white guilt.

    probably doesn't have one black friend and crosses the street to the other side when they encounter a person of color when walking.
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  • From MRO@VERT/BBSESINF to Ravne on Sunday, May 26, 2024 17:37:00
    Re: BBS community improve
    By: Ravne to Tiny on Sun May 26 2024 08:17 am

    Point taken, lesson learned. I'm a big enough person to admit when I'm wrong. I have some autistic tendencies & that seems to make it difficult for me to see where the line is before I cross it.

    wtf THAT IS MY WORD. don't trigger mrobot.
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  • From Tiny@VERT/PHARCYDE to RAVNE on Monday, May 27, 2024 06:08:00
    Quoting Ravne to Tiny <=-

    I get it, I came on way too strong & was extremely clumsy with my delivery. Point taken, lesson learned. I'm a big enough person to
    admit when I'm wrong.

    Apreciate that. Thank-you.

    Shawn

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  • From Dumas Walker@VERT/CAPCITY2 to RAVNE on Monday, May 27, 2024 12:45:00
    You may be right on some level. To clarify, I don't think all straight white men are a problem. I also don't think that other demographics can't be a problem, but I do think (rough guesstimate) 4/5 times this kind of behavior comes from straight white men.

    There are a lot of straight women, regardless of color, who will get pretty fired up about groomers and paedofiles... especially if these women are
    also mothers. Only the ones that are pretty far left won't, at least not publicly.


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  • From Dumas Walker@VERT/CAPCITY2 to TINY on Monday, May 27, 2024 13:05:00
    P.S - Since you only care about genders and such and nothing else, I'll
    await breathless for you to call me a straight white man, or something else you find offensive.

    Maybe someone should create a bot that counts how often Ravne uses that
    term? :D


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  • From MRO@VERT/BBSESINF to Dumas Walker on Monday, May 27, 2024 17:47:00
    Re: BBS community improve
    By: Dumas Walker to TINY on Mon May 27 2024 01:05 pm

    P.S - Since you only care about genders and such and nothing else, I'll await breathless for you to call me a straight white man, or something else you find offensive.

    Maybe someone should create a bot that counts how often Ravne uses that term? :D

    I think we should create a rule that bans bots to the bbs ad sub and one posting per week.
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  • From Tiny@VERT/PHARCYDE to RAVNE on Tuesday, May 28, 2024 06:38:00
    Quoting Ravne to Gamgee <=-

    where I mentioned it: It's less than a week to Pride month. How about
    we get some real ACTUAL support from y'all, instead of jumping on the bandwagons of demonizing us.

    I don't support "pride". I could care less what your or anyone else does
    in the bedroom. It really is at the very BOTTOM of the list of causes that
    we should be worried about. You sleep with / love who ever the hell you
    want.

    Let's turn pride month into anti war month. Something that matters and
    will save the world.

    Shawn

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  • From Dumas Walker@VERT/CAPTEST to ARELOR on Tuesday, May 28, 2024 10:22:00
    How did I do that, by assuming you're a straight white man? The level of entitledness you display tends to be indicative of straight white men. I

    That sounds like a bigot flag to me right there.

    Yes. I also don't see straight white men having such a monopoly on entitledness, either. I see it in a lot of younger people regardless of
    race, gender, or sexual orientation.

    They also mistake older people who worked hard for what they have as
    "entitled" when they just want to protect what they've earned. The key
    there is they "worked hard" for it and don't expect anything above what
    they worked for, unlike the entitled youth who thinks their short time of (maybe) working entitles them to the same things.

    They also think that social media personality = a career.


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  • From Dumas Walker@VERT/CAPTEST to RAVNE on Tuesday, May 28, 2024 10:22:00
    Projection tends to be the main MO of all of these types, the ones that hate on
    LGBTQ people & call us groomers & pedos. The haters are the ones that truly >want to be pedos, they've even shown us by trying to make child marriage legal.

    I don't think he has called them all groomers and pedos. That said there
    are persons who have indeed tried to get under the LGBTQ+ unbrella that all groomers and pedos. My understanding is that most LGB community members
    are just as concerned about that as straight people are, and they don't
    want the groomers/pedos in their community. I am guessing you fall into
    that "concerned members" group?

    Who tried to make child marriage legal recently? I know historically
    people did get married off at very young ages, but I have not seen any push
    to have that happen here in the US lately.


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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@VERT/REALITY to Tiny on Tuesday, May 28, 2024 08:09:00
    Tiny wrote to RAVNE <=-

    Let's turn pride month into anti war month. Something that matters and will save the world.

    Imagine a global 30-day cease-fire. Every conflict.

    (Naaah, military-industrial complex shareholders wouldn't stand for it.)



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  • From Denn@VERT/OUTWEST to Dumas Walker on Tuesday, May 28, 2024 10:06:00
    Re: Re: BBS community improve
    By: Dumas Walker to ARELOR on Tue May 28 2024 10:22 am

    Yes. I also don't see straight white men having such a monopoly on entitledness, either. I see it in a lot of younger people regardless of race, gender, or sexual orientation.

    They also mistake older people who worked hard for what they have as "entitled" when they just want to protect what they've earned. The key there is they "worked hard" for it and don't expect anything above what
    they worked for, unlike the entitled youth who thinks their short time of (maybe) working entitles them to the same things.


    I think of the ones that signed a contract, (loan) to go to college then expect the rest of us that worked like dogs to pay their loans off.

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  • From MRO@VERT/BBSESINF to Dumas Walker on Tuesday, May 28, 2024 12:27:00
    Re: Re: BBS community improve
    By: Dumas Walker to ARELOR on Tue May 28 2024 10:22 am

    That sounds like a bigot flag to me right there.

    Yes. I also don't see straight white men having such a monopoly on entitledness, either. I see it in a lot of younger people regardless of race, gender, or sexual orientation.


    I am a straight white guy and I've feelt disadvantaged my entire life.
    I feel like I have a target on my back in the workplace. I don't even talk to women and you can't use racial identifiers or people think you are racist. I even say black guy, white guy, big dude, etc.

    They also mistake older people who worked hard for what they have as "entitled" when they just want to protect what they've earned. The key there is they "worked hard" for it and don't expect anything above what

    yeah my ex's dad was a 'boomer' and people talked shit to him on facebook. he was a prolific flame warrior like myself. that being said, dude worked for everything he had. he worked when on vacation. he was a sales guy for industrial cnc machines. A lot of our vacations included a 1 day business meeting for him.

    and then when he died his daughter who had nothing got all his money. she thought he was a piece of crap because he moved her around a lot when she was a kid. i pointed out he was trying to be a provider and during those times there were bad recessions where a lot of people couldn't find work.
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  • From Nightfox@VERT/DIGDIST to MRO on Tuesday, May 28, 2024 11:54:00
    Re: Re: BBS community improve
    By: MRO to Dumas Walker on Tue May 28 2024 12:27 pm

    I am a straight white guy and I've feelt disadvantaged my entire life. I

    You said in an earlier message that you're black..? This was a message you posted to Ravne this past Friday:

    people to make it feel hostile. The days of you older straight white men being the majority are ending, we need to appeal to those that are becoming the majority. If I hadn't been into BBSing in the mid 90s & had other women

    what are you talking about? i'm black.

    Nightfox

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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@VERT/REALITY to Dumas Walker on Tuesday, May 28, 2024 17:54:00
    Re: Re: BBS community improve
    By: Dumas Walker to RAVNE on Tue May 28 2024 10:22 am

    Who tried to make child marriage legal recently? I know historically people did get married off at very young ages, but I have not seen any push to have that happen here in the US lately.

    Missouri tried to ban child marriage but ran into resistance from house republicans.

    The committee's chair, Rep. Jim Murphy, a St. Louis-area Republican, said in an interview that there aren't enough votes within the committee to get it to the House floor.

    Seven of the 14 committee members oppose the legislation and disagree with raising the state's marriage age, he said. "It's on the.going 16 to 18,"

    Murphy, who supports the bill, said of the opposition. "There's just enough members in that committee that don't think that's a good idea." One of those lawmakers is Rep. Dean Van Schoiack, a Savannah Republican and vice chair of the committee. Van Schoiack said in an interview that he knows people who got married as minors, including a woman at roughly age 17. The couple, he said, is "still madly in love with each other."

    "Why is the government getting involved in people's lives like this?" Van Schoiak said. "What purpose do we have in deciding that a couple who are 16 or 17 years old, their parents say, you know, `you guys love each other, go ahead and get married, you have my permission.' Why would we stop that?"
    https://www.kansascity.com/news/politics-government/article288424893.html#story link=cpy
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  • From MRO@VERT/BBSESINF to poindexter FORTRAN on Tuesday, May 28, 2024 23:22:00
    Re: Re: BBS community improve
    By: poindexter FORTRAN to Dumas Walker on Tue May 28 2024 05:54 pm


    "Why is the government getting involved in people's lives like this?" Van Schoiak said. "What purpose do we have in deciding that a couple who are 16 or 17 years old, their parents say, you know, `you guys love each other, go ahead and get married, you have my permission.' Why would we stop that?" ht tps://www.kansascity.com/news/politics-government/article288424893.html#stor y link=cpy


    I say let them do it, especially if they have children. I'm not for much older marrying younger, though.

    I had a kid young and i would have married young if i had the opportunity at the time. we were in a 'common law' marriage for 11 years. that's better than most adults I know.

    I also didn't live with my parents until I was 35.

    Marriage is such a joke now. People shouldn't marry without an ironclad prenup. Even if you're poor.
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  • From Arelor@VERT/PALANTIR to poindexter FORTRAN on Wednesday, May 29, 2024 04:34:00
    Re: Re: BBS community improve
    By: poindexter FORTRAN to Tiny on Tue May 28 2024 08:09 am

    Imagine a global 30-day cease-fire. Every conflict.

    (Naaah, military-industrial complex shareholders wouldn't stand for it.)

    I'd go the American way and turn it into a comercial festivity with discounts and liquidations of old stocks.

    "Celebrate peace month with us! 40% off in any obsolete weaponry! Help the planet purchasing refurbished tanks instead of having new ones made! Try now our steel ammo, much less poisonous to the environment than traditional lead ammo, 30% off this month only!!!!"


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  • From Tiny@VERT/PHARCYDE to POINDEXTER FORTRAN on Wednesday, May 29, 2024 06:21:00
    Quoting Poindexter Fortran to Tiny <=-

    Let's turn pride month into anti war month. Something that matters and will save the world.
    Imagine a global 30-day cease-fire. Every conflict.

    Even that would be amazing.

    (Naaah, military-industrial complex shareholders wouldn't stand for
    it.)

    So true.

    Shawn

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  • From Dumas Walker@VERT/CAPTEST to DENN on Wednesday, May 29, 2024 07:58:00
    Yes. I also don't see straight white men having such a monopoly on entitledness, either. I see it in a lot of younger people regardless of race, gender, or sexual orientation.

    They also mistake older people who worked hard for what they have as "entitled" when they just want to protect what they've earned. The key there is they "worked hard" for it and don't expect anything above what they worked for, unlike the entitled youth who thinks their short time of (maybe) working entitles them to the same things.

    I think of the ones that signed a contract, (loan) to go to college then expect the rest of us that worked like dogs to pay their loans off.

    Exactly the types I was thinking of. The folks in that category are almost exclusively young and are very entitled. Very few, if any, older men or
    women in that group of any race, gender, or orientation.


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  • From Dumas Walker@VERT/CAPTEST to POINDEXTER FORTRAN on Wednesday, May 29, 2024 08:11:00
    Who tried to make child marriage legal recently? I know historically people >> did get married off at very young ages, but I have not seen any push to have >> that happen here in the US lately.

    Missouri tried to ban child marriage but ran into resistance from house republicans.

    OK, so they apparently already are legal if they were trying to ban them.

    Who is trying to make them legal in places where marriage between the age
    of 16-18 isn't *already* legal?

    Seven of the 14 committee members oppose the legislation and disagree with raising the state's marriage age, he said. "It's on the.going 16 to 18,"

    So it is not ok for a 16-or-17 year old to be married (with parental
    consent) but it is ok to expose that "child," and ones even younger, to books with pornographic images (just so long as they are same-sex images), even
    when the parents oppose the idea?

    "Why is the government getting involved in people's lives like this?" Van Schoiak said. "What purpose do we have in deciding that a couple who are 16 or
    17 years old, their parents say, you know, `you guys love each other, go ahead
    and get married, you have my permission.' Why would we stop that?"

    So it is only legal with parental consent. They are not trying to *make it legal*, it is *already* legal.

    By the way, you don't have to pick on a "hick state" for this, either. California also allows persons under 18 to marry with parental consent,
    just like Missouri does.

    On the surface, I don't think that is a good idea to allow those < 18 to get married, but it sounds like they already do.


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  • From Dumas Walker@VERT/CAPTEST to POINDEXTER FORTRAN on Wednesday, May 29, 2024 08:14:00
    Imagine a global 30-day cease-fire. Every conflict.

    (Naaah, military-industrial complex shareholders wouldn't stand for it.)

    This.


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  • From MRO@VERT/BBSESINF to Arelor on Wednesday, May 29, 2024 13:54:00
    Re: Re: BBS community improve
    By: Arelor to poindexter FORTRAN on Wed May 29 2024 04:34 am

    (Naaah, military-industrial complex shareholders wouldn't stand for it.)

    I'd go the American way and turn it into a comercial festivity with discounts and liquidations of old stocks.

    "Celebrate peace month with us! 40% off in any obsolete weaponry! Help the planet purchasing refurbished tanks instead of having new ones made! Try now our steel ammo, much less poisonous to the environment than traditional lead ammo, 30% off this month only!!!!"


    the american way is to sell it to another country, then eventually go to war with them.
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  • From MRO@VERT/BBSESINF to Dumas Walker on Wednesday, May 29, 2024 14:38:00
    Re: Re: BBS community improve
    By: Dumas Walker to POINDEXTER FORTRAN on Wed May 29 2024 08:11 am


    So it is only legal with parental consent. They are not trying to *make it legal*, it is *already* legal.

    By the way, you don't have to pick on a "hick state" for this, either. California also allows persons under 18 to marry with parental consent,
    just like Missouri does.

    he picked it because it's in the headlines. news is entertainment now.
    my state of wisconsin allows marrying at 16 with consent of guardian.
    MANY states allow marrying at the age of 16 with consent.

    So what these legislators who said no really want is to keep out of people's business.

    We have bigger fish to fry. btw, look at congress' minutes. those people can't decide on SHIT. they go to lunch and break more than they discuss and vote on bills.
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  • From Dumas Walker@VERT/CAPTEST to GAMGEE on Thursday, May 30, 2024 09:10:00
    +1

    +2,000,000

    When I am reading via a QWK reader I cannot upvote things. :D


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  • From Dumas Walker@VERT/CAPCITY2 to PHIGAN on Wednesday, June 05, 2024 08:51:00
    I think he thinks we're all depraved men in soiled sweatpants living in their parent's basement. Sounds like projection to me.

    Yeah. I WISH my parents had a basement.

    I wish mine still lived in their previous home. It had a finished basement (well, technically it was a bi-level) complete with bathrooms and bedrooms.
    That'd be a nice setup! :D

    Now, my mother lives in a much smaller home with no basement, while my
    father and his wife live in a home with a clean, dry basement but with no facilities. It does at least have electric and is a walk out. ;)


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  • From MRO@VERT/BBSESINF to Dumas Walker on Wednesday, June 05, 2024 22:13:00
    Re: Re: BBS community improve
    By: Dumas Walker to PHIGAN on Wed Jun 05 2024 08:51 am



    I wish mine still lived in their previous home. It had a finished basement (well, technically it was a bi-level) complete with bathrooms and bedrooms.
    That'd be a nice setup! :D

    Now, my mother lives in a much smaller home with no basement, while my father and his wife live in a home with a clean, dry basement but with no facilities. It does at least have electric and is a walk out. ;)

    atleast you got a mom! my mom died of covid on her birthday.
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  • From Dumas Walker@VERT/CAPCITY2 to MRO on Thursday, June 06, 2024 09:24:00
    atleast you got a mom! my mom died of covid on her birthday.

    ;(

    True, and I am glad I do still have one.


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  • From MRO@VERT/BBSESINF to Dumas Walker on Thursday, June 06, 2024 18:14:00
    Re: Re: BBS community improve
    By: Dumas Walker to MRO on Thu Jun 06 2024 09:24 am

    atleast you got a mom! my mom died of covid on her birthday.

    ;(

    True, and I am glad I do still have one.

    i'm just jerking your chain. she did die though.
    so did her sister a year later. then another sister died of cancer last summer. smoked marlboro reds every day.
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  • From Dumas Walker@VERT/CAPCITY2 to MRO on Friday, June 07, 2024 08:29:00
    summer. smoked marlboro reds every day.

    That will unfortunately do it.


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  • From Nightfox@VERT/DIGDIST to Dumas Walker on Friday, June 07, 2024 10:18:00
    Re: Re: BBS community improve
    By: Dumas Walker to MRO on Fri Jun 07 2024 08:29 am

    summer. smoked marlboro reds every day.

    That will unfortunately do it.

    When I was in 5th grade, I remember the class having an assignment to make some mock advertisements to promote health and not doing unhealthy things. I remember one of the students drew a graveyard with "Marlboro country" written below it.

    Nightfox

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