I had a whole angry message all typed up, but seeing as everyones apologized to everyone by now, there's not much reason to post it.

I will make a couple of small follow-ups anyway.

Obsidianfire: Calm down, man! It's no fun reading comments like the one above. If you can't contribute to a healthy environment you should take a break and cool off. I would hit on her just to piss you off if this were any other site... but I like it here.

Karkarlee: 2 things: Fight your own battles and this is the Internet. That last part is important, because it WILL get worse, so you might as well get used to it. Your reply to moodonia was just fine; you don't need to send the attack dog after him.

"Lay offa Justin, he's just trying to protect me in the way most guys I know do - by defending at all costs, reputation included." Reputation lost.

Littlered: The veiled attacks are not welcome, even if the rest of the comments are accurate.

RadHazG's got it right>> ^RadHazG:
This entire thread is a perfect example of why everyone should READ YOUR PREVIEW first, before clicking that all important "submit" button. I find reading over my comment, and the comment I'm responding to one more time before I click that button prevents alooooot of unnecessary posting and/or possible offense on my part.
Type your post, cool off, read it over real quick once and glance at whatever your responding to. It will save everyone alot of headaches.
Oh, and remember, this is the INTERNET! Take everything you see and or read with a big ole grain of salt, and don't forget to bring your sense of humor along for the ride!

This entire thread is a perfect example of why everyone should READ YOUR PREVIEW first, before clicking that all important "submit" button. I find reading over my comment, and the comment I'm responding to one more time before I click that button prevents alooooot of unnecessary posting and/or possible offense on my part.

Type your post, cool off, read it over real quick once and glance at whatever your responding to. It will save everyone alot of headaches.

Oh, and remember, this is the INTERNET! Take everything you see and or read with a big ole grain of salt, and don't forget to bring your sense of humor along for the ride!

Yea...after dotdude broke down and cried because we buried his ego in a heap of half-truths I think we're letting this whole roast thing cool off.

>> ^lucky760:
I don't think this is a good idea. If we just prevent this one method of abuse they'll just try to find some other way to get their bitter revenge and maybe in a way that no one will easily detect.
By allowing it to happen, we can discover the abuse easily without any doubt of their intentions and then react accordingly.


Hmm, actually that's exactly the point I was making - good to read the whole first, eh?

The counter-argument in favour which I didn't make was that if you slow someone down, they'll in theory "cool off" and think twice. Hmm.

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(Edit): Forget it. I need time to cool off before I start "random meaningless rant" again for voicing my opinions about a change in videosift I don't like in the least.

Wow... 80% humidity and 96 degrees... sounds cool compared to Savannah.

Seriously... add about 10 to both of those numbers... can't wait to cool off up north in NC.

i've seen squirrels do this on hot days to cool off.

It does look more like he's trying to cool off on the cool concrete.

i've seen squirrels do this on hot days to cool off.

Hey, sometimes....the planet belches, farts, and exudes more Co2 inna day than a thousand five hundred and seventy of those "poooofts'".......Warm this bitch!! It's cooling off....desert is cold at night, too.....

I'll agree with you on most points Prospero, except your first. imho, when you are surrounded by 4 guys, who are (by the looks of it) talking shit; it's open season. The muscle dude is a hothead, but I think what he did was well within limits (notice he stepped away and cooled off the minute another guys stepped in to stop one of the original antagonists from continuing). As far as I'm concerned he was defending himself. Could those guys have done him any harm? Well, maybe not given what we saw here, but maybe they could have. How was he to know before the action started? Just an idle threat from 4 unknowns.

Spin your first sentence around: *why* were 4 skinny preppy boys who were no match for a muscular badass hassling a muscular badass? My answer: they thought they had him because of sheer numbers. Any one of them could have walked away and stopped being an asshole, but they presisted. Why? Ego? What does that mean about their state of mind? Borderline mob mentality? How far are they willing to go to ride it out?

Having been there myself: when you have 4 guys hassling you (I don't care who you are), your options shrink pretty damn fast and yes, simple demonstrating your *will* to use quick and brutal violence, can break the spell and get you out of trouble.

Hate to say, it, but I side with the meathead on this one.

Comment hidden because you are ignoring dag. (show it anyway)

We'll start a new thread with a new poll in 3.5 days. We're in the cool-off period.

...by using professional journalistic techniques and overly dramatic penadantics whilst editorializing....the media does it constantly, the daily pukers...

Saw a Nova episode addressing the same so-called life-threatening dilemma, with the host about to expire from the shear humanity of it all, with a buncha yahoos to back up the gravity of the worlds plight......worlds problem is not warming, cooling, famines or looting, it's man's stupidity and ego that fucks us all-oh yeah, and periodic natural warming-up and cooling-off periods, regardless of puny humans and their influence....



...This Viddie, preserved for all in a little playlist, we like to call, "Long-Winded Diatribes."

Cool! (off to go sift...)
Is Yahoo no longer supported? I don't see the logo -------->

*blog

This is getting heated/nasty and needs to cool off before it rips VS members apart. This is a happy little community but let loose the dogs of war in the blogs please.

(No pun intended on the dogs of war) heh

You didn't do anything wrong SG - I think we were just cooling off the evening's fun insanity with a *return to normalcy.