Goodbye to All That: Retiring from Political Threads

[ScottM]

Re: Goodbye to All That: Retiring from Political Threads

I'd like to formally announce my retirement from making announcements. Beer and nachos are in the back of the forum. Enjoy ...

 

[Red Cloud]

Re: Goodbye to All That: Retiring from Political Threads

Is someone jealous?

Yeah, I'm totally jealous of an attention whore for doing something I was completely unable to do myself if I had wanted to.

Good for you. Want a cookie?

**** yeah I want a cookie. You offering?

Thanks for the announcement. If you were really quiet about it you wouldn't have said anything anywhere. I guess you're just 1/2 an attention whore.

You calling anyone an attention whore is kind of a joke, isn't it? Go sit in the corner, Biff.

 

[ScoobyDoo]

Re: Goodbye to All That: Retiring from Political Threads

You calling anyone an attention whore is kind of a joke, isn't it? Go sit in the corner, Biff.

You have to care to be a whore. I don't.

 

[SPIN CONTROL]

Re: Goodbye to All That: Retiring from Political Threads

Say hi to Todd for us ok.

 

[Red Cloud]

Re: Goodbye to All That: Retiring from Political Threads

You have to care to be a whore. I don't.

So in other words, you're taking the argument you tried to use against me and turned it on yourself.

Further proof of my theory that it's possible to be so utterly stupid that you're brilliant.

 

[walrus]

Re: Goodbye to All That: Retiring from Political Threads

Say hi to Todd for us ok.

I miss Todd

 

[ScoobyDoo]

Re: Goodbye to All That: Retiring from Political Threads

So in other words, you're taking the argument you tried to use against me and turned it on yourself.

Further proof of my theory that it's possible to be so utterly stupid that you're brilliant.

I didn't make an argument. I stated a fact. As for the utterly stupid, you're the one responding to me.

 

[amherstblackbear]

Re: Goodbye to All That: Retiring from Political Threads

Yeah, I'm totally jealous of an attention whore

Figured as much. Why else would someone broadcast what was basically a rep comment to the world?

 

[XYZ]

Re: Goodbye to All That: Retiring from Political Threads

Good luck. It should be interesting to see what you use to fill the void this will leave in your inflated sense of self-worth.

 

[Plante26]

Re: Goodbye to All That: Retiring from Political Threads

Good luck. It should be interesting to see what you use to fill the void this will leave in your inflated sense of self-worth.

Kepler plans on frequenting scoring threads and callously disparaging noobs for messing up on who got the second assist.

 

[Red Cloud]

Re: Goodbye to All That: Retiring from Political Threads

Figured as much. Why else would someone broadcast what was basically a rep comment to the world?

So sorry I had to break up your boyfriend's tearful goodbye.

 

[one_to7]

Re: Goodbye to All That: Retiring from Political Threads

About one person quitting? Very likely (although I'd care if certain posters quit; they're fun. You're one of them -- I must admit I didn't notice you quitting).

About why posting politics is so enticing? I think a lot of people are interested in that. Every forum I've ever seen (even college hockey forums -- what could be less political on the face of it?) have political threads and they're all the same -- same perspectives, same mix of invective, preaching, holier-than-thou, honest discussion, hair pulling, leg pulling (all of which have been displayed here in 15 posts) -- but above all people getting the same fix. So why are certain people wired into that and what's different about people who simply skip over it all like an episode of Twilight?

Take away the accident of a given poster here or there, and what's left is something unusually compelling in an ocean of emotional disengagement. What makes this interesting enough to develop sincere likes and dislikes? Or to put it in a way you might like more, given that plenty of us are attention whores, what makes one stage more or less attractive? You would think that most of the action would be packed into topics relating directly to the forum subject -- that's where the highest hit rates should be. That would indicate that it isn't purely attention whoring (as much of that as there is), but that there's something in the subject itself that is catnip.

this is a little silly.

Sincere likes and dislikes? Really?

 

[DaveStPaul]

Re: Goodbye to All That: Retiring from Political Threads

Retirement events are supposed to have booze and pretzels. FAIL!

 

[amherstblackbear]

Re: Goodbye to All That: Retiring from Political Threads

So sorry I had to break up your boyfriend's tearful goodbye.

Your middle school want their burn back.

 

[Kepler]

Re: Goodbye to All That: Retiring from Political Threads

I am too short to mount a podium.

The rest of us are just paying rent, sir.

 

[Slap Shot]

I am too short to mount a podium.

"You must spread...."

 

[Red Cloud]

Re: Goodbye to All That: Retiring from Political Threads

Your middle school want their burn back.

You're going to have to do better than that, sweetheart.

 

[johnnypohlfan]

Re: Goodbye to All That: Retiring from Political Threads

This is all Obama's fault.

 

[Bob Gray]

Re: Goodbye to All That: Retiring from Political Threads

Makes sense. I don't come onto political threads that often anymore, especially since getting married and having more going on in RL. But, your absence will be one more reason not to enter them, as your comments were among the more thoughtful, even if we often didn't see eye to eye.

 

[unofan]

Re: Goodbye to All That: Retiring from Political Threads

So why are certain people wired into that and what's different about people who simply skip over it all like an episode of Twilight?

Now it's my turn to say it, who gives a ****?