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Lord Pinko Social Experiment

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Lord Pinko Social Experiment

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So I received an email from Lord Pinko about how he was disappointed in how I stabbed him in the back by taking Marcathonas' side once he *left* the forums.

I responded to his email saying that everything I had said was true, and that I *had* tried to help him, but he had made no effort to help me help him by moderating his posts that were only intended to offend, and other blah, blah of this nature.

So I get the following return response.

Pinko was a character I created.
I am a GCSE drama student and lord pinko was an experiment on how people
react to someone with his beliefs and creeds.
There are several versions of him scattered over the Internet and it has
been quite interesting getting to know him.


The email continues with how the perpetrator of this "experiment" was indeed offended by my post that stabbed him in the back.

Well, Boo Bloody Hoo! as Marcathonas would say.

Of course, this should really surprise no one in the anonymous world of the Internet. However, for someone to come onto *our* site, do nothing but cause grief under false pretenses for the sole purpose of conducting a social experiment, and then become offended once the one person that tried to help him basically gave up in disgust, is just laughable.

The solace that anyone annoyed by this pissant of a cretin can take is that as a drama student he has essentially no financial future whatsoever. Have fun waiting tables for the rest of your life "Lord Pinko". And by the way, I do want fries with that.
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Reply #51 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
I didn't realize there was going to be any math on the exam.
Reply #52 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
But if ignorance = strength and weakness = strength then ignorance = weakness?!

The transitive property of Orwellian analogy??? Getting a little deep here. Let me get my waders on.   

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Reply #53 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
It will get more attention as an idea and less as something you did while drunk.


Uh oh. I usually only come to the forums after I get too drunk to play the game anymore. Guess I had better change my tactics.

Nice use of the transitive property, wof. Ignorance truly does equal weakness.
Reply #54 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Seriously, this cutesy phrase has to stop, please


You've obviously never heard me speak that sentence...

Mumble,

Have we strayed too far from the OP? I thought the monkey was a real trip into space, but darned if the bard himself didn't rise from the dead to bring us right back on topic.

Pity, I like monkeys...
Reply #55 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
As far as I can tell the original topic has been sufficiently covered and all concerned parties have had their chance to comment. At this point, let the conversation wander where it will.

I could pretend that my comment about Shakespeare and Marlowe was a clever reference to an example of character impersonation that predate's the internet by a few hundred years, but it was just train of thought from typing monkeys to Shakespeare to Marlowe.

Elwoods interjection of humor into the thread was welcome. Humor is always a good thing unless it's at someone else's expense.
Reply #56 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Amen, humour is always the best medicance, it's also the best form of exersice for certian parts of ze body.

Also the right thing is always the hardest thing to do, remmember that.
Reply #57 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Also the right thing is always the hardest thing to do, remmember that.


... just, stop posting. Or rather, stop coming out with inane rubbish that has no link to reality. Please?
Reply #59 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Why thank you both.

Also:

pissant of a cretin


I'm going to have to steal that one for personal repartee. Brilliant
Reply #60 from Stardock Forums Top
He's probably just mentally ill and can't distinguish reality from a fantasy he's created for himself.
Reply #61 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Humor is always a good thing unless it's at someone else's expense.


Seems a swarm of platitudes might be taking wing

Ahem, seriously though, some theories of humour claim that all jokes are at *someone's* expense. Mumble, do you buy that notion, and if so, are you saying that the only comedy style you like is self-mockery?

On alternate Thursdays, I get pretty sensitive about jokes "at someone else's expense," not least b/c I grew up gay, bookish, and unathletic in the US South. But most of the time I think that "expense" is the wrong metaphor and that what really counts is some analog to the "eye of the beholder."

Or like what that old judge said about porn--I can't define, but I know it when I see it, "it" being malicious intent.
Reply #62 from Stardock Forums Top
Those 'Judgers' and their theories. They can really take the humor out of life. Something always has to be at someone elses expense.

"it" being malicious intent



unfortunately...
I grew up gay, bookish, and unathletic in the US South.


means you probably saw a lot of "it". Of course, for all we know, you could be just be straight and wishing you were an born again evangelical minister.
Reply #63 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Seems a swarm of platitudes might be taking wing

Are these duck-billed platitudes?

Ahem, seriously though, some theories of humour claim that all jokes are at *someone's* expense. Mumble, do you buy that notion, and if so, are you saying that the only comedy style you like is self-mockery?

I think most jokes are at someone’s expense, but there are exceptions. Ask me to tell you the one about the penguins sometime. I can and do enjoy jokes that are at other people's expense, but I usually feel a pang of guilt and try not to repeat them. But certainly, self mockery is the safest approach.

"it" being malicious intent.

In my mind, a person’s intent makes all the difference in the world. The fact that it's often so hard to discern is the problem. One of my favorite comedians is Dave Chappelle who reportedly fired someone that worked for him because of the *way* he laughed at his jokes. I definitely can understand this viewpoint.
Reply #64 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
. I can and do enjoy jokes that are at other people's expense, but I usually feel a pang of guilt and try not to repeat them. But certainly, self mockery is the safest approach.


Fawlty Towers anyone?
Reply #65 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Fawlty Towers anyone?


?? Not familiar with the reference. Can you explain this (without getting banned of course).   
Reply #66 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Oh. Just googled it. I've seen the show at least a hundred times (pretty tough for only 12 episodes ever made) but never knew the name.

Actually, I'm more a fan of Benny Hill. I haven't seen one of those in ages. I'm particularly fond of his portrayal of the strongman not quite capable of holding the pretty young girl over his head.
Reply #67 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Fawlty Towers is a classic English comedy starring Monty Python's John Cleese as Basil Fawlty, a rude, abrasive, hateful hotel manager who has appalling luck.

It's probably the best comedy ever made, and has excellent writing and acting. Any doubts of this should watch "The kipper and the corpse", purely that Cleese believably pulls of a reason to jump for joy at someone's death without being completely evil.

And for the record, as I said before, I ASKED kryo to ban me, to prevent me from losing it over the Pinko/Creationistmoron debacle.

It's just Zoomba decided later it might be worth enforcing it >_>.
Reply #68 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Just good natured ribbing.
Reply #69 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
It's probably the best comedy ever made


I'm kind of mixed on that one Marc. Monty Python's Flying Circus seemed to be the better of the two, but that is my opinion. Benny Hill was king and I do believe they still play reruns on BBC, so you can still catch it Mumblefratz. But I see that no one mentioned the Black Adder or Dave Allen at Large. Familiar with those two Marc, and if so, did you like either one? Dave Allen at Large seems to have fallen of the face of the Earth, but you can still catch Black Adder.  
Reply #70 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Yes, I'd agree that Fawlty Towers is the best comedy series ever made. There was a documentary about it, where Cleese described just how many agonizing weeks went into writing a single episode. It shows in the tightness and timing in each episode. It also explains why only 12 episodes were made.

Edit: And of course Monty Python and Blackadder are great too.
Reply #71 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
IMO, Holy Grail outdoes flying circus. But Python were without a doubt the best comedy group ever. They simply can't be beaten.

Notice how a show from the 70s is less PC than nowadays, when we're supposedly "shockingly liberal"? The final episode is a good example. "You krauts have no bloody sense of humour!"

Benny Hill didn't do much for me, and Dave Allen at large I found sort of meh. Blackadder was very good though, and I believe "Over the Top" was voted best comedy episode ever, for managing to be both poignant and funny.

Dad's army is another classic.
Reply #72 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Agree, I loved Holy Grail...

Oh and welcome back Marcathonas.   
Reply #73 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
"jette le vache" Throw the cow. One of the best movie lines from all time.
Reply #74 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Pick up Medieval 2. You can jette your own vache with a trebuchet!