K Race
 

No, and I'm not sure why it should unless they make cork tampons. Or does butter (Cork's historically most famous product) have something to do with menstruation? (One of Penske's socks is now on the clock).

Rather, it was your (admittedly only through a stretch of my own) ambiguous use of the word.

K Race
 

I am not sure I understand your use of "mutually exclusive friendships" Are you saying that you don't think people should be friends with individuals A and B, if A and B are at odds, i.e. each person should take absolute sides?

Or the opposite, i.e. it is possible to compartmentalise friendships.

I assume we are talking about Slave and Paigow. If that's true I am comfortable with my relationships with both Slave and Paigow and the intersection of the same, and any feelings that either have about those relationships and/or antics, if any, are for those people to share with me. Not to be a jerk, seriously, but given the open animus between you and Paigow and the history of my relationship with Slave I find it hard to believe that you are standing up for either of them or that they would want or need you to.

K Race
 

I should have been more clear. By "enemy," I mean someone with whom there is a deep and searing mutual animosity. Not someones who find me annoying but about whom I could not give a rat's ass.

K Race
 

Oh no, this enemy is no current/former sock of a poster that may or may not be Penske, iykwim. This is a real live, in the flesh enemy.

K Race
 

Marinara is made with olive oil, not butter.

K Race
 

eta: :blush: sorry.

K Race
 

The opposite.
You are really missing my point. I'm not talking about taking sides with or standing up for either of them. I am talking about stirring the shit relating to their animus. Even when you post "TOS violation" as a joke it's a rehashing of something that wasn't particularly pleasant for the participants or entertaining for the onlookers.

My point being, I am not talking about her, or about them, and I don't intend to criticize them indirectly/behind their backs -- I am talking about you, and I'm trying to understand why you do what you do sometimes.

K Race
 

Cork is a slang term for Tampax, or at least among my high school friends. So I found your signoff amusing, and thought perhaps the effect was intentional.

K Race
 

Is he trying to be Prince Charles to your Camilla?

Ew. On many, many levels.

K Race
 

You can't use "eh" like that. It's got to be used in a crisp, short statement, like "So you're a fucking sock, eh?" There's also no "..." before it. It's supposed to follow in a nearly seamless fashion, with barely the hint of a pause.

K Race
 

What are the slang terms derived from "County Mayo"?

K Race
 

Me too. He completely blew it with his response to your funny comeback.

K Race
 

You didn't really have to take it to that one.

Speaking of which, I saw a recent photo of Prince Harry today. He really looks less like his parents than ever before (meaning his mother and his purported father). The picture brought to mind a pp [sniff] post of a few years ago, something along the lines of "he is the image of the riding instructor who sired him," but much sharper. I can't remember the exact words.

K Race
 

I don't know, but I think they are closely related to those derived from "County Sligo."

K Race
 

Oh, but I did.

It is my understanding from trashy Regency-period romances that the honorable thing is to make sure that the heir and the spare are both fathered by the husband, but that the paternity of any children born thereafter is up for grabs.

Ireland
 

Speaking of Ireland, I have not yet been but am planning a visit in June. The men will be playing a lot of golf so the women will have lots of time to do more interesting things (and by more interesting, I don't mean shopping). I'm only just starting to plan, so if anyone has any recommendations, please PM. (Kid-friendly recs are welcome but not my main focus, as we will have at least one very eager sitter. )

K Race
 

Got it. We agree on that much.


I think there is a range here, some of which you are overpersonalising. Did I engage in shit stirring that was beyond the boundaries of good clean juvenile interwebs antics. Possibly, probably, yes. Is all of it condemnable, probably no. So qualified mea culpa, wtm.

That said, in part, your wonderment at my motives probably mirrors my wonderment at you (and others) motives for continually pick at ppnyc (or other targets of the past). Why keep stirring that shit? You have made it clear you don't like her. Scroll past her and let it go.

Ireland
 

The shopping is supposed to be fantastic. Lots of cute little boutiques. There also may be some cooking classes or knitting classes or something. You should check into that online.

Ireland
 

Is the Guinness tour still located in Ireland or did it move to Epcot center?

K Race
 

You don't seriously consider picking on someone for what she posts "shit stirring," do you? That's just picking. And it may be as tiresome as all the other tiresome stuff we do here, but it's part of the deal and although ppnyc may feel differently, if she is in fact real, it's not all that mean by our standards.

K Race
 

Sure its a form of shit stirring. Every picking response is in part an invitation to the others in the inner circle of cool to pick at her, which will predictably result in her responses to the picking, which results in more picking by a certain group. Shitty and not amusing. And to what result? At what point do you think you have an affect on her? And what affect ideally would you like to have on her? That she was shunned by the population of the LT chatboard?

Further, continually to invoke the "is she real or a penskesock" is shit stirring. It's clear my socking is not cool, but invoking the subject continually related to me is sure to perpetuate the topic. I am sure you are privy to the same sources of information that I am and can easily confirm that ppnyc is a distinct poster on the board (IP addresses confirm that). Why not do that and move on and I will agree to move on from slave-paigow [sniff] shitstirring and we can live in perfect harmony from here on.

K Race
 

What do you mean "necessarily?"

eta - is RP right? You've been talking about me behind my back?

K Race
 

He probably was on board with the pegging stuff.

K Race
 

What do you mean "probably?"

K Race
 

I have to hedge my bets, just in case someone cites a post on the ModSquad board where I lobbied for your deletion and/or retractive banning. No offence. I was drunk. Or retarded.

Ireland
 

There are numerous places in Ireland to bitch, moan and/or nag.

Ireland
 

I was a poor college student the only time I have been there, so unfortunately I don't have a lot of suggestions. At the time, our activities centered around walking around the towns, visiting as many Guinness-selling establishments as possible, and ridiculously long public bus rides between cities.

That said, I think the main activity (that doesn't involve a pint glass) is enjoying the natural beauty of the countryside. Just driving around the Connemara (a pennisula near Galway), for example, can be quite nice.

K Race
 

Dissent. My opposition to pegging was what lead to my break with Bunifa. Compare and contrast with Hank...

Ireland
 

What tax bracket were you in?

K Race
 

"Inner circle of cool?" Please. There are 8 of us here. At most we can have two squares. And I would be at the outer one with the folding chairs.
Too fucking bad. Due almost entirely to your socking, everybody has doubts about whether new posters are live or Memorex and nobody wants to look like the joke is on them by responding earnestly. For you to complain about an effect that you have created is totally ridiculous.

As for ppnyc in particular, surely you don't have to have it pointed out to you why people have continually thought that she must be a sock.

To what information are you privy? I do not have access to IP addresses. My understanding is that mods generally do not. Do you? Or do you simply mean that I could ask RT?

Move on from what? If ppnyc posts something stupid or point-missing, I will respond if I want to, notwithstanding your "issues," the plaintive messages entitled only "Why?" that I have received via PM, or the fact that I really should be checking out cooking classes in Ireland online.

K Race
 

I think it's somewhat amusing that you have actually increased your use of this word that is all of a sudden so offensive to you. In fact, if you're doing it because you somehow think it bothers me, let me just tell you that I hope to see it in every one of your posts and am looking forward to the sock. Cheers!

TM

K Race
 

So that's how we are now? Fine.

And for future reference, saying "no offense" doesn't really help at all. If you feel you have to type that, then that's your own conscience trying to tell you that something you're about to do is going to offend someone. FYI.

K Race
 

The intended effect is to have her post something of value or something anyone (besides you, but you can always get that by email and pm, as you have over the years) would want to read.

I will anticipate your response: "But she is her own person. Why should she conform to the ideals of those in the inner circle of cool? Blah, blah, blah."

No one is asking her to conform. Everyone (and you seem to be the absolute only one who hasn't) has asked her to put some substance in her posts.

This is some unbelievable shit. You spend years and hundreds of socks trying to create as much confusion as you can. You lie about when you are behind a sock and when you're not. And then you turn around and accuse people who can't believe a word out of your mouth of stirring shit? Especially when all you do is try to stir shit? Impressive virtual balls.

TM

K Race
 

To set the record straight, there was no lobbying for deletion or banning of any primaries.

Shit-stirrer.

K Race
 

I find the "second generation" picking odd, that is NFH picking on someone else. but I guess my saying that about her is picking on her. Are you offended by the question?

Ireland
 

isn't cumswallowinglessons.com based in Ireland? some of these ladies might want to take a refresher course, or maybe not- I'm just throwing out options.

K Race
 

I'd hope he offends someone. That's the only thing that makes for the really funny bits on this board.

Re "no offence," you're kidding, right? That line's almost exclusively dropped where its unquestionable nobody could possibly be offended.

I hops I'm whiffing here.

K Race
 

Huh? how many generations of picking must occur before one is qualified to join in?

K Race
 

I don't answer broad hypos- sorry litigation training- but I can answer for you specifically: you are in the same catagory as NFH. I don't get how you feel qualified to make fun of anyone else. You must be able to distinguish shades of gray that I cannot distinguish.

K Race
 

I tried to stay out of the fray since, really do I have a horse in this race, no. But I have to say I REALLY don't see whereas my shit that I post is any more vapid than the posts already going on here. How is it substantively different my gossip/fashion posts, and your "new Halle" posts or reality tv. updates? To each his own. I've made some cool friends here but the same instigators refuse to leave me a lone.