Dirty Harry is now Crazy Uncle Harry

[EagerBeaver]

I think you have to view the political threads like the Animal Kingdom. In the Animal Kingdom there are no moderators but there are fights between the animals and predation between the animals. Biting, gnashing of teeth, growling and grunting, and lots of attacks and carnage. We do not intervene in fights in the Animal Kingdom and should not do so here.

If I was a Mod I would just post that all political threads are henceforth designated as free-for-alls and have "Animal Kingdom" status. No Moderator intervention can be sought or requested, nor will any occur, in political or sports threads. Any disputes will be resolved as they are in the Animal Kingdom. Moderators will only check on and moderate sex industry-related threads.

 

[wasisname]

Just because you don't think people should discuss politics on a board such as this one doesn't mean that you're correct.

Except he is.

There is a reason why politics religion [and money] are considered inappropriate topics for polite conversation.

You point out the train wreck that terb which is funny. When I use the new posts function on Merb, I can go a day or so and just get a few pages of posts to go through. On terb you get about 20, it is very easy to lose threads of interest because some asshats need to go back and forth with feuds and bullshit and that travel from thread to thread reducing the overall civility of the place which must also drag people away.
Would merb really become intolerable with only the sex industry stuff. Oh no it takes less time for me to go through the posts, I might have to actually find something else to do, the whoreer I mean horror. If people are interested in reviews or sex industry information they will still come to merb. They might come less often, but that is a good thing. It is a big planet out there with lots of porn to masturbate to, and I don't know about anyone else, I'd rather be jerking it to porn than slogging through off topic threads looking for information I am really interested in. Signal to noise ratio, having a good one used to be considered valuable.

The board is here for a reason, to discuss the sex industry, having a huge volume of off topic posts reduces the ability of the forum to serve its main function. I'd much rather a forum take takes a few minutes to go through over one that takes so long that I've been known to just give up. Plenty of forums function very nicely with either no off topic section or one that is never actually used like http://forum.axishistory.com/ and http://forum.bloodbowl-game.com/

I am sure there are many general forums where you can chat like a teenage girl and there must be many political forums where mind dead ideologues can shout at each other with their ears plugged up. However there is only one decent sex industry related forum that I know of. If every forum must be for all things to get traffic up no matter the quality, why even bother with specialized boards.

 

[EagerBeaver]

I think there is some merit to the post of wasisname, but MERB does not have the extreme traffic of TERB and it is not like you can't just skip over the political threads, although I understand they are still a distraction. Like I said previously the Moderators can choose to attach Animal Kingdom status to them like the sports "free for all" threads. I personally find most of the political threads mostly stupid on both sides of the debate. These threads tend to attract those who are polarized to one side or the other of a political debate and do not represent the most informed opinions in most cases. Most of what I read are various inarticulate regurgitations of things being reported in the mainstream mass media which does not critically analyze what they are reporting in many or most cases.

 

[Techman]

Quite a post, wasisname. I just took a quick look at your last 100 posts going back over a year and not one of them was outside of the lounge. So it's fine for you to come here and make posts that have nothing to do with the sex biz but not the rest of us? Kettle meet pot.

 

[Doc Holliday]

Stronger words & arguments among people can be heard within high school cafeterias......and on Crescent street this past weekend. Lots and lots of hotties in shorts & short skirts this weekend.....but way too many idiots with nothing better to do with their lives than arguing among one another over petty things, like not wanting to give the other guy their cellphone numbers, etc.

By the way, i kept bumping into this big tall due with the shaved head, sunglasses, red track suit, constantly talking on his cellphone. My buddy thought he was an agency owner or driver, i thought he looked like one of those Cuban gangstas in South Beach.

All i all, this is a good thread, talking politics is often interesting and entertaining, and rarely will things remain 100% calm and civil in such threads. It's like hockey and football: there's bound to be a few injuries once in a while, because they're games involving physical contact.

 

[Doc Holliday]

"Clint Eastwood is really getting into the big Labor Day weekend - today he was yelling at a lawn chair."-----Bill Maher

 

[rumpleforeskiin]

Doc and Techman,

Really now. You're arguing with a guy who:

a. Claims to have independent thought
b. Says this and that about Bill Maher
c. Says he never watches Bill Maher
d. Is oblivious to the conflict between a, b and c above.

Why don't you guys both go and find a couple of chairs to argue with?

And while you're at it, here are a couple of suggestions for the new Republican party slogan. Take your pick.

1. Arguing with chairs. It's the Republican way.
2. Arguing with chairs. Arguments we can win.
3. Arguing with chairs. Where our facts are really facts.

 

[daydreamer41]

I saw a link that someone posted that had Dinesh D'Souza being interviewed by Bill Maher. Maher came across as an idiot. That's my exposure to Bill Maher.

 

[rumpleforeskiin]

The board is here for a reason, to discuss the sex industry...

Wrong, wrong, wrong. The board is here to make money for Fred Zed and no other reason. The more traffic, the higher the rates, the more he makes.

Yes, the sex industry is the primary reason we're all here and as long as the reviews keep coming, so will the hits.

To prove my point, the price of a supporting membership on both merb and terb is $175 per month. A large banner on merb costs $275 per month, but $360 on terb. The traffic sets the rates.

 

[daydreamer41]

And while you're at it, here are a couple of suggestions for the new Republican party slogan. Take your pick.

1. Arguing with chairs. It's the Republican way.
2. Arguing with chairs. Arguments we can win.
3. Arguing with chairs. Where our facts are really facts.

Except Democrats NEVER use facts.

And that's a fact.

 

[Techman]

Wrong, wrong, wrong. The board is here to make money for Fred Zed and no other reason. The more traffic, the higher the rates, the more he makes.

Yes, the sex industry is the primary reason we're all here and as long as the reviews keep coming, so will the hits.

To prove my point, the price of a supporting membership on both merb and terb is $175 per month. A large banner on merb costs $275 per month, but $360 on terb. The traffic sets the rates.

Bingo! Give the man a cigar! But because I can't send a cigar through cyberspace, I offer a nice Republican safe Lawrence Welk video instead.

Trust me...it's worth watching!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ye3ecDYxOkg&feature=player_embedded


If that didn't make you smile, you have serious problems.

 

[Doc Holliday]

Trust me...it's worth watching!


If that didn't make you smile, you have serious problems.

LOL!!!! "One toke over the line....." Hillarious!!!! :lol:

 

[Doc Holliday]

Except Democrats NEVER use facts.

And that's a fact.

Didn't Paul Ryan just say the same thing? :lol:

Speaking of the prodigal son, he just admitted to lying about a marathon he ran in:

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0912/80554.html?hp=r4

 

[rumpleforeskiin]

Speaking of the prodigal son, he just admitted to lying about a marathon he ran in.

Yes, he did, but he was right on the money blaming Obama for the auto plant the closed in 2008. What? You mean Obama wasn't President in 2008?

You should also be aware that, according to Ryan, the following were also Obama's fault:
1. The biggest choke in sports history, that of the 2004 New York Yankees.
2. The crash of the Hindenburg.
3. The untimely death of Marilyn Monroe.
4. Pearl Harbor

 

[daydreamer41]

Maybe then you might as well consider shutting down the entire board.

Just because you don't think people should discuss politics on a board such as this one doesn't mean that you're correct. A sex board such as this needs other topics in order to attract people & encourage people to post. People would get bored surfing here if the board would be dedicated entirely to sex since there aren't enough posts made about the escort business in order to keep the traffic from coming, and there comes a time where you need to look elsewhere in order to keep it interesting to surf to.

Take a look at Terb....a board that brings in close to $1 million to its creator, who also happens to own this very one here....there are much more different topics than this one here, but the traffic there is immense & its popularity is huge.

So far, i think the political threads have been rather civil considering they are threads involving politics.

My personal belief as a decade-long proud member of Merb is that the more threads we have dealing in various topics, the more value it brings to the board. And considering that this is a time when discussing politics is at a 3 to 4-year high, then it's normal that members enjoy discussing political topics on a board such as this one. Why? Because they share a love of this board.

Wrong, wrong, wrong. The board is here to make money for Fred Zed and no other reason. The more traffic, the higher the rates, the more he makes.

Yes, the sex industry is the primary reason we're all here and as long as the reviews keep coming, so will the hits.

To prove my point, the price of a supporting membership on both merb and terb is $175 per month. A large banner on merb costs $275 per month, but $360 on terb. The traffic sets the rates.

You mean Fred Zed is a millionaire, and you like and respect him? That can't be.

How can you all be card carrying liberals and want Fred to make money? :lol:

 

[rumpleforeskiin]

You mean Fred Zed is a millionaire, and you like and respect him? That can't be.

How can you all be card carrying liberals and want Fred to make money? :lol:

OK, here's a little lesson for you. None of us is opposed to making money or even being millionaires. What we're opposed to is robbing the poor and giving their money to the rich. What we're opposed to is the rich not paying their fair share of taxes.

Why you don't have a problem with the 1% not paying their fair share is beyond me. Why you don't have a problem with Romney closing plants and shipping jobs to China and Mexico is also beyond me. Why you don't have a problem with starting a war with an unarmed man without also finding the money to pay for it is beyond me.

I happen to own a small business and make a very nice living. I have a number of employees whom I treat and pay very well. If I could double or triple my income or make 1000 times more by opening a plant in China or Mexico, I would never do that. Why not? Because I have something that Mitt Romney does not: scruples.

 

[daydreamer41]

OK, here's a little lesson for you. None of us is opposed to making money or even being millionaires. What we're opposed to is robbing the poor and giving their money to the rich. What we're opposed to is the rich not paying their fair share of taxes.

Robbing the poor? Giving their money to the rich? How is any rich person robbing from a poor person?

Please explain this to me. If person A works and has a car repair business and makes $100,000 and is asked to pay $40,000 a year in taxes and the government gives them a tax break of $5,000 is this person taking away from the poor? The person making the $100,000 produced $100,000 in profit. It's not anybody's money except the person producing it.

So how is this person taking money away from a poor person?

Why you don't have a problem with the 1% not paying their fair share is beyond me. Why you don't have a problem with Romney closing plants and shipping jobs to China and Mexico is also beyond me. Why you don't have a problem with starting a war with an unarmed man without also finding the money to pay for it is beyond me.

Pay fair share? Many people who have businesses, such as yourself, are paying 40 to 50 or more percent of their income in Federal, State and local taxes. How much is a person's fair share?

And gee, George Bush and the Iraq war is dragged into every liberal's argument. Is that a cannon of the Liberal's handbook? It has nothing to do with this discussion.

I happen to own a small business and make a very nice living. I have a number of employees whom I treat and pay very well. If I could double or triple my income or make 1000 times more by opening a plant in China or Mexico, I would never do that. Why not? Because I have something that Mitt Romney does not: scruples.

Kudos to anyone who has a business in the US, and employs people here.

But the last sentence at the end is a propaganda sentence.

Mitt Romney did not outsource jobs to China or Mexico. His company was a venture capital business which invested in US companies in the US, which were going under anyhow. He got venture capital money and re-organized the management of the company. Romney saved jobs while making money for himself and his investors. He did not off-shore these companies. Can't anyone give the man credit for what he has accomplished? Which has been much. He created so many successful companies, like Staples, and save even more.

It's a perpetuated LIE by the Obama campaign. It's just like the LIE that in the Obama campaign which had a man talking about his wife who died of cancer. She had health insurance from her job. Romney wasn't even involved in Bain Capital by the time he lost his job. It is a BIG LIE.

You all go ape shit over Paul Ryan's misstatement over how fast he ran a marathon. He said 3 hours instead of 4 hours, which is still a good time - 9 minute miles.

I want to see the next time one of you guys run around the block in 9 minutes.

 

[Doc Holliday]

“Clint Eastwood is now backstage arguing with a vending machine."----Canadian comedian Daryn Jones.

"Here's why Clint is a huge problem for the GOP: They meant to create a parody of Obama. Instead they created a parody of a Romney voter."----LOLGOP (via Twitter)

"I demand to see Invisible Obama's invisible birth certificate."------Michael Schaffer

"The voice telling Clint Eastwood to shut up wasn't Invisible Obama, it was a producer in his earpiece."----Jesse Baer

"If I had to guess Mitt Romney's favorite Clint Eastwood movie, I'd say "A Fistful Of Dollars."----Indecision (via Twitter)

"Clint Eastwood is in my bathroom right now yelling crazy stuff at my toilet."------Ben White

"Clint Eastwood was talking to an empty chair at the RNC. No, that's not the set up to a joke. Its not even a joke."-----Olivia Munn

"Clint Eastwood summed up the #RNC perfectly: An old crotchety rich white man fighting against an imaginary black threat."------Exavier Pope

"If Clint Eastwood insisted on talking to an inanimate object he could've just chatted with Mitt Romney."-----Daddyfiles (via Twitter)


>>> Nine one-liner posts made within minutes of each other merged into one. Mod 11.

 

[Techman]

You all go ape shit over Paul Ryan's misstatement over how fast he ran a marathon. He said 3 hours instead of 4 hours, which is still a good time - 9 minute miles.

I want to see the next time one of you guys run around the block in 9 minutes.

That wasn't a mistatement, it was an outright lie and not a small one either. Cutting over an hour from a marathon time is a huge margin to remove. And it came straight from his own lips, not from some PR firm doing campaign advertising. That's one hell of a big difference. When someone lies about the small things, and it's not a small thing to the runner community who take these things VERY seriously, you can bet that they lie when it comes to the bigger things also.

I wouldn't buy a used car, or anything else for that matter, from this guy much less vote for him.

 

[daydreamer41]

Obama Lies

Ok, read up on all of the Obama lies. The man is a perpetual lying machine.

You voting for him, Techman?


http://obamalies.net/

http://www.audacityofhypocrisy.com/fashion-shows/

And the grand-daddy of them all:

http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/obama-lies-while-accusing-romney-campaign-lying_651431.html
Obama Lies While Accusing the Romney Campaign of Lying

4:51 PM, SEP 1, 2012 • BY MARK HEMINGWAY


If you want a near perfect encapsulation of how the Obama campaign is leaning on incompetent partisans masquerading as "independent" media fact checking organizations to do their dirty work, I strongly encourage you to read today's article in the New York Times, "Obama Team Sharpens Attacks on Rivals’ Character." While the article is a far too credulous regarding the fact checker response to Paul Ryan's speech, it does contain this gem:

Mr. Obama this week, for the first time, entered the fray. Campaigning on Tuesday on college campuses in Iowa and Colorado, he told thousands of supporters not to believe the opposition’s attacks because, “how do I put this nicely? They will just fib.” On Wednesday in Charlottesville, Va., he ramped up his complaint, winning applause from the estimated 6,500 people.

“Sometimes they just make things up. But they’ve got a bunch of folks who can write $10 million checks, and they’ll just keep on running them,” he said. “I mean, somebody was challenging one of their ads — they made it up — about work and welfare. And every outlet said this is just not true. And they were asked about it and they said — one of their campaign people said, ‘We won’t have the fact-checkers dictate our campaign. We will not let the truth get in the way.’”

Mr. Obama was referring, as many other critics of the Romney campaign have, to a comment that its pollster, Neil Newhouse, made to reporters at the Republican convention on Tuesday, dismissive of those faulting the campaign’s television ads. What Mr. Newhouse actually said was, “These fact-checkers come to those ads with their own sets of thoughts and beliefs. We’re not going to let our campaign be dictated by fact-checkers.”

Mr. Newhouse did not say, “We will not let the truth get in the way.”
​

Emphasis added. According to the New York Times, the president appears to be lying in the process of accusing the Romney campaign of lying. It will be interesting to see if media fact checkers attempt to spin this statement.