The Parking Lot

[Eluard]

Eluard, I hardly ever put anyone on ignore because I'm a moderator here and sometimes I actually have to do something related to it. This isn't one of those times because part of my job is not to referree flame wars. But I have to say that I find your post incredibly mean-spirited and nasty on a personal level.

Ever hear of live and let live? First off, it's not cool (as I'm sure you know) to try to "out" someone who may or may not be the alt you accuse them of being. It's almost as bad as posting their real name or phone number or such, which is a violation of forum rules. What you did is just in bad taste. Second, please refrain from the royal "we" in your post; "we" don't all share your opinions. To be frank, your post says more to me about you than about Tath. Maybe you should think about that. Third, I really question your motive for this in the first place. The poetry forum is a big tent and, while people do get into this sort of thing from time to time, there's room for everyone here. And here's the important part: it's a much more pleasant place to be when people don't make it uncomfortable by flaming each other.

And, yes, Tath is my friend. Not my cyberfuck buddy, my friend. I think the world of him and I often find his poems moving and, for me inspiring. I've known him for about three years and I'm pretty sure his r'aison d'etre here is the same as most people's: to write poetry and have a few laughs with people of like minds. Isn't that yours?

Why don't you do the adult thing here and let it go? If you want to come back here and bash me, that's certainly your perogative. You wouldn't be the first here to do it, but letting it go and just writing poetry instead will feel a lot better for everyone in the long run.

I'm not going to bash you Angeline, but I fully expected you to say all of this. It was always going to be too much effort for you to sort out the real rights and wrongs here — your devotion to your friends was always going to outweigh everything else. I knew that in advance. Loyalty is a fine thing, but there first has to be good judgement in what one should be loyal to. In this case it has let you down badly.

What moderation here, on this forum, amounts to is defending a little inner circle of friends from everyone else and never mind how it drives people away.

I stand by every word I said above. (And my use of 'we' is justified, whether you know it or not. But that 'we' just doesn't include you and a few others.)

 

[Tzara]

You people are all fucking in the parking lot?

Apparently this is more common than I would have thought. I'm looking at my parking ticket from the hotel and it states in large, friendly letters:

PARKING COMPANY OF AMERICA · (714) 536-6889
Available for private parties​

Forget the swingers' clubs. Striped asphalt is apparently where it's at.

Yes, I know quoting myself is poor form. What can I say? My formingliness went poorly.

 

[The_Fool]

Apparently this is more common than I would have thought. I'm looking at my parking ticket from the hotel and it states in large, friendly letters:

PARKING COMPANY OF AMERICA · (714) 536-6889
Available for private parties​

Forget the swingers' clubs. Striped asphalt is apparently where it's at.

Yes, I know quoting myself is poor form. What can I say? My formingliness went poorly.

The question is are the lines in the parking lot perfectly straight, or do they have a slant to them?

 

[Tzara]

The question is are the lines in the parking lot perfectly straight, or do they have a slant to them?

In Riemannian subspace, lines always cross. It's what they do.

Give them a break. They are just made that way.

 

[Eluard]

In Riemannian subspace, lines always cross. It's what they do.

Give them a break. They are just made that way.

Not in the negative curvature spaces they don't.

 

[Tzara]

Not in the negative curvature spaces they don't.

Just checking that you're paying attention.

 

[Tathagata]

Hey, I’ll tell you what you are. You’re a tiny dick in a fat suit. It’s fairly hilarious to hear you say that you are here to write poetry — I must have been reading the wrong threads all this time. But seriously, it’s perfectly obvious why you are here. The entire forum is covered in your drool and spittle as you suck up shamelessly to one female after another. (“hey, here are five more blues songs that you may not have seen before;” “Ah! let me tell you all about my last bottle of Scotch”; “here’s something on rock music you may not have heard about”.) And, in truth, I don’t hear any of those women complaining, so I was all prepared to just let you get on with it. Really — why should I care?

Except, you know, some part of me does care. (And this is where I take you to one side and talk to you man to man.) Because, really, and I mean, I know, I get it — we all get it — you're no intellectual — but with every dopey comment you make, every juvenile joke and piece of flirtatious idiocy, every pop-culture reference that is so ham-fistedly inserted to show that you actually know something, every bit of spittle left on the shoulder of some hapless female, every morsel of bad, high school poetry — those stunning four-liners (how do you get the stamina for that stuff, man?) — that you produce at intermittent intervals, I feel that you are giving men in general a bad name. That’s right. All of those men who created 3000 years of civilisation and culture are looking at you and thinking: fuck, is this what we’ve been reduced to? some alcoholic tosser wanking over an ostensible poetry forum.

But even with all of that I was prepared to let you stick to your side of the road — as you volplane to a well-earned obscurity — and I stick to mine. But you are incapable of doing that aren’t you? So even though my harmless, and pretty unflirtatious comment to bijou, was really not something that you needed to comment on, you felt the need to comment. And I get the reason: because every man on this forum makes you look bad. Every man here makes the tiny dick in the fat suit look like nothing more than that.

Please, tell everyone one more time, how you are really here to write poetry. Because bothering with you has made me feel down and I need the laugh. Or even better, write one of the members here a PM accusing them of getting at you secretly. Because we all know that you are a delicate egg of a man — who just needs to be shown the respect you’ve never in your life deserved.

Now — howsabout you put me on ignore and we go our way in peace, huh?

I think it's really swell how you were " prepared" to " just let me get on with it"
That's really magnanimous of you.

You seem to be obsessed with dick size, perhaps your stylish font, long rambling unintelligible poems with the capitalization,are some kind of over compensation ( but probably it's just me being too fuckin dumb to understand them I'm sure)

Frankly your opinion of me and my work couldn't matter less to me.
You're an insecure, paranoid, sad little man with no concept of social grace or interaction who is using his "intellect" to try and get attention on a porn board.
And from what I hear, them brains aren't getting you any attention, or " laid" for that matter

and I think it will be more fun to keep you off ignore so I can randomly hide secret hate messages that only you will understand in places I know you'll look.



As for you ever talking to me " man to man" you'd have to become one first.
I have no use for you and no respect for you , I feel somewhat bad that you're such a miserable person who still resorts to name calling on a fuckin porn board.
You do realize this isn't the real world right?


Stop whining about how I'm getting attention and it bothers you, which is basically all you're doing.

 

[Liar]

Not gonna get to your merry-go-round, lads. I'll let the two of you hug it out.

But unrelated to all of that...

You do realize this isn't the real world right?

Wrong. Unless, when you're talking on the phone, you don't see that as a real conversation either.

 

[Tathagata]

Not gonna get to your merry-go-round, lads. I'll let the two of you hug it out.

But unrelated to all of that...
Wrong. Unless, when you're talking on the phone, you don't see that as a real conversation either.

If I'm talking to someone on the phone, unless it's a sales person or some kind of business call, I know the persons real name, where they live, and probably know them pretty well as a person.
But I understand your point.

 

[Liar]

If I'm talking to someone on the phone, unless it's a sales person or some kind of business call, I know the persons real name, where they live, and probably know them pretty well as a person.
But I understand your point.

Personally, I just call random strangers and chat them up

 

[Eluard]

First off, it's not cool (as I'm sure you know) to try to "out" someone who may or may not be the alt you accuse them of being. It's almost as bad as posting their real name or phone number or such, which is a violation of forum rules. What you did is just in bad taste.

I didn't realise that it "isn't cool" to "out" someone's ALT. That's one of those cool rules I missed somehow — I suspect many others didn't know that either. But are you seriously claiming that that's "almost as bad" as posting their real name and phone number? Do you think it's possible for you to justify that with some kind of argument or reason — because frankly it just sounds off the planet.

 

[Tathagata]

Personally, I just call random strangers and chat them up

I'm too shy for that

 

[Eluard]

I think it's really swell how you were " prepared" to " just let me get on with it"
That's really magnanimous of you.

My point was that that is something you don't want to do — and you've never wanted to. But just keep on going as you are — with everything you say and do you prove my point.

But here is another way — prove me wrong. Start behaving like a man and write a poem that is undeniably great. I'll be the first to applaud it.

But then my money is on you not being able to come close.

 

[Recidiva]

I've stumbled into some sort of surreal poetry slam.

/popcorn

 

[Tathagata]

My point was that that is something you don't want to do — and you've never wanted to. But just keep on going as you are — with everything you say and do you prove my point.

But here is another way — prove me wrong. Start behaving like a man and write a poem that is undeniably great. I'll be the first to applaud it.

But then my money is on you not being able to come close.

If I wasn't so tired from writing insipid 4 line poems and playing with my tiny dick I'd look up some really big words and use them
I'll do it later....if I'm not too drunk

 

[Liar]

...and write a poem that is undeniably great.

I don't think there is such a thing.

 

[WickedEve]

If I wasn't so tired from writing insipid 4 line poems and playing with my tiny dick I'd look up some really big words and use them
I'll do it later....if I'm not too drunk

I'm still sexually attracted to you, though I am concerned about your monkey spittle that's covering the forum

 

[Recidiva]

I'm still sexually attracted to you, though I am concerned about your monkey spittle that's covering the forum

That's the sexy part.

 

[Tathagata]

I'm still sexually attracted to you, though I am concerned about your monkey spittle that's covering the forum

It's not all spittle....just the stuff that smells like bananas

I like that fact you have 3 gaunt feet

 

[WickedEve]

It's not all spittle....just the stuff that smells like bananas

I like that fact you have 3 gaunt feet

Correction: 3 talented gaunt feet.

 

[Tathagata]

Correction: 3 talented gaunt feet.

If only I had 3 tiny dicks.....

 

[WickedEve]

If only I had 3 tiny dicks.....

At least you have one.

 

[Angeline]

I didn't realise that it "isn't cool" to "out" someone's ALT. That's one of those cool rules I missed somehow — I suspect many others didn't know that either. But are you seriously claiming that that's "almost as bad" as posting their real name and phone number? Do you think it's possible for you to justify that with some kind of argument or reason — because frankly it just sounds off the planet.

Well maybe you can ask other people here or if you go to any other forums, check there. Nobody ever told me that either, but I've always assumed that if someone is using an alt there's a reason and I try to respect it. I don't think that sort of thing is inner circle knowledge; seems like a no brainer to me.

And as far as what moderators do, you don't see most of it because we don't announce it. It mainly involves getting rid of spam and dealing with people who pm asking for help with this or that. We also try to keep the forum going as far as getting people involved in challenges, encouraging them to write, etc. I can only speak for myself, although there are three mods on this forum, but I try to wait and see if participants are going to start challenges and such because it's better--to me--that way. The forum is more active if it's self-starting, if you see what I mean.

 

[Angeline]

I've stumbled into some sort of surreal poetry slam.

/popcorn

Coke? Pepsi?

I like it when you stick around.

 

[Recidiva]

Coke? Pepsi?

I like it when you stick around.

I have no idea what's going on, but I'm just attempting to be respectful.

Yes, soda would be great. Popcorn?