Because hastily-typed, not-proofread and misspelled-for-all-eternity thread titles really get me chapped.

He was mad.

No excuse. ;)

DUH. I'm being amused by his emotions.

Yes, I know. Me too.

Too bad the detractors followed you over from the Phi Beta Kappa thread. I totally agree with your observations. I lay part of the blame at the feet of MTV and rap music. Kids listen to incredible garbage today and are completely desensitized to words and language that we never would have considered using.

I do think, despite Mr. Darden's chest-thumping identity revelation, that typing away at a remote computer instead of speaking face to face with someone makes bullying and poor manners even easier. My kids have shown me some of the things that their friends--who I actually thought had pretty decent language and behavior--have typed on facebook and instant messaging. It is sometimes shocking.

Culture and society have definitely coarsened. That makes me sad. Now I will await the flurry of snarks that will undoubtedly follow.

PS I do visit two other chat boards that have much better manners. One is a financial site--pretty neutral topics ie budgeting etc.--but the other is political. Even there people don't make the mean-spirited, personal jabs that they do here.

Quotes like this:

(from the PBK thread)

tend to rub people the wrong way. So does saying some groups are more elite than others based on some totally random cross listing.

OK, come on, DITY, because this CAN'T be real.

You have all of 6 posts. So either you're some random person whose opinion we shouldn't care about, or you're a sockpuppet. If you're a random person, way to join a message board then just start bitching about it and its members. If you don't like it, why did you come here. If you're a sockpuppet, well then hope you like that keyboard courage.

Oh please. No one made any personal jabs at oldu (at least not until he called everyone angry and rude); they merely called into question the argument that s/he seemed to be making. If it is unconditional acquiescence s/he searchs for, s/he will not find it here (and maybe its best that s/he goes elsewhere). Disagreement does not automatically equal rudeness.

ETA: If society has indeed coarsened--which, if the biography I am reading about Elizabeth I is at all accurate, it hasn't really; it's different, but certainly no more coarse--then I mostly blame the parents, not the TV.

Sorry I LOVE this song too! I remember all those I have lost and look forward seeing them again in heaven.

http://www.solarnavigator.net/films_...movie_roar.jpg

ooo ooo ooo ooo

aah aah aah!

LOL!

Ohhhhh, was this thread intended to be invisible? For shame!

He made a thread to cry about his other thread. Those will always get the same response.

Please don't assume that all the regulars on gc are "kids" because they are not and quite a bit of intelligent conversation goes on but if you just started posting recently, I doubt you've had time to peruse the thousands of threads yet.