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datasuspect Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-05 08:31 PM
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"morans"
is that a brand now or something?

it was funny for like two minutes. plus it is insensitive to some irish people.
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Arkana Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-05 08:33 PM
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1. Eh?
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Stop_the_War Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-05 08:34 PM
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2. I'm Irish and I have never heard the term used in an anti-Irish way
Edited on Wed Feb-23-05 08:34 PM by Stop_the_War
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datasuspect Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-05 08:37 PM
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5. smiley-challenged here
i guess sarcasm doesn't translate well on the internet.
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khashka Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-05 09:23 PM
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18. Well, I appreciated the sarcasm
but then I've always thought sarcasm was the highest form of wit and the last refuge of the truly superior.

Khash.
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datasuspect Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-05 09:28 PM
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22. and a litmus test
oops. i didn't mean that.

D I S C L A I M E R

The author of the above-mentioned text impies nothing sinister toward any poster in this thread personally and hereby releases and holds harmless himself from any consequent invective.
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khashka Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-05 09:39 PM
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24. That's OK
I was being sarcastic.

Khash.
(or I am being sarcastic now?)
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Aristus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-05 08:35 PM
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3. Okay. one more time, newbies:
Edited on Wed Feb-23-05 08:36 PM by Aristus


Asshole repuke can't spell. That makes him a 'moran'.

And the Irish pronounciation would be More-RAN.

edit: this photo has been cropped. In his other hand, he's holding another sign saying "Go Bush!", or "Go U.S.A.!" or something like that.
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datasuspect Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-05 08:37 PM
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4. aware of that
ad nauseam.

i was partially joking. but i guess the pic is funny. but not THAT funny.

i mean it's kinda like shooting fish in a barrel.
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guitar man Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-05 08:38 PM
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6. hehe
I like this one

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datasuspect Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-05 08:39 PM
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8. now the photoshop possibilities
hold some potential.

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RebelOne Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-05 08:38 PM
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7. I wish there could be some kind of notice posted
Edited on Wed Feb-23-05 08:39 PM by RebelOne
at the top of all the boards explaining why we spell moron as moran. There are so many newbies posting that we do not know how to spell moron. In fact, they seem to think that we are "morans."
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datasuspect Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-05 08:40 PM
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9. no notice needed
my post was partially tongue-in-cheek.

believe it or not, it's not that much of an inside joke.
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JimmyJazz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-05 09:17 PM
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12. Maybe not, but we got called "stupid" for our intentional
misspelling of the word today - therefore, it deserves another go around - why are you dissing us lizards today, btw?
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datasuspect Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-05 09:18 PM
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13. who called you stupid?
your words have never betrayed that.

point the motherfucker out . . .
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JimmyJazz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-05 09:21 PM
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16. Here's the thread in toto, but the message where she said that
calling people "morans" is stupid is the first deleted message - you get the tone of it anyway.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x2688440
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datasuspect Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-05 09:25 PM
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19. i guess i should be careful
i hope i didn't imply any specific person was stupid.

still i think it would be better if cletus (the guy in the poster) had spelled it "moran's"
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JimmyJazz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-05 09:27 PM
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21. naw - you didn't...but now you know why it was brought up again....
although you have been a bit critical of us lizards of late...Is there something wrong?
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datasuspect Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-05 09:39 PM
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25. i'm not trying to be critical
just generalized anomie.

i generally lurk here and other places (politcal and non-political) and am not new to discussion lists in general. i go through periods of heavy posting and then find something else to do.

i dunno. sometimes i feel like i'm just writing on the equivalent of an electronic restroom wall, but i realize that the onus largely rests on my shoulders to be more active in many departments of my life so that i can actually make some form of contribution.

i have a tendency to get depressed many times and i think my insecurities form the basis for a lot of my verbal nastiness (in electronic and real life), but things haven't really been too good lately.

i'm looking around at the world, looking at my employment prospects, taking stock of myself personally--the realization that i probably will NEVER fit in is descending upon me like a black vapor.

you can run around and go through the motions and carry on like there is nothing wrong, but i've largely stripped things down to the point where i have relatively few distractions. i've disallowed the possibility of finding satisfaction through material things and have figured out how to live with practically zero income and now my brief incursions into the workplace leave me feeling like a kindergartner. i mean the surveillance and punishment ethic is alive and well (i worked for two weeks this month as a temp) and i cannot fathom living the rest of my life going back and forth to a cube farm to sit and moisten a chair for 8 hours.

in short, i am in yet another existential crisis and have fucked myself in a hole.

still, i guess there is hope, but i can understand why HST ate a bullet sandwich. i don't blame him. it surprises me how a singular nonconformist like him could hold out for so LONG.

sorry . . . went on a rampage there. thanks for asking if something is wrong.

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xmas74 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-05 08:44 PM
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10. I'm a newbie and I knew what the joke was.
Maybe because I have puke morans posting to me on other sites. (and I know how to spell moron).
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JimmyJazz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-05 09:25 PM
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20. You are no longer a newbie in my book --
you seem to have a knack for finding my silly threads and posting to them :toast:
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xmas74 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-24-05 05:42 AM
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26. Thank you!
How sweet you are!
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Glenda Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-05 09:07 PM
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11. I thought it was pretty funny, and still do
which is why I have the avatar!

:crazy:
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kanrok Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-05 09:20 PM
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14. Like this?
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datasuspect Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-05 09:21 PM
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15. NOW THAT is funny!
or at least not so fucking tired.
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JimmyJazz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-05 09:22 PM
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17. The joke hadn't been brought up in ages - but
stop the morans screen name got one poster's panties in a wad - otherwise, it would not have been regurgitated.
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tjdee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-05 09:29 PM
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23. Funny every time!
Aww man, I can't believe you don't think that's hilarious!

Everytime I'm reading through threads, seeing that picture always gets a chuckle out of me. It's just so funny, he thinks he's being all clever making the sign, about being stupid no less, then AGAIN when he holds it up for the picture...man.

Different strokes for different folks and all that....
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StopTheMorans Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-24-05 07:59 AM
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27. i don't get it
:shrug: :cry:
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