Kathleen Posted January 26, 2007 Posted January 26, 2007 She was related to someone else on LS. Can't mention any names though. She was THAT bad.
NearlyThere Posted January 26, 2007 Posted January 26, 2007 Hang out in the watecooler, or the rant section, or even the sex section, it's abit more fun over there. yeah I have got a question for over there!!!! Might actually post it tonight. I do venture out, (if you know what I mean) a bit more now, lol.
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Romeo Must Die Posted January 26, 2007 Posted January 26, 2007 Its easy. And its kind of fun. ASCII art can be googled on the internet. Copy and paste ASCII. Highlight text. Click Remove Text formatting button. Then click on the Bold button. Fill in blank spaces with periods. Preview Post for accuracy. The codes arent the same on LS so I had to figure out how to put periods in the blank spaces, a bit time consuming, but its doable. ......................................._+_........................|=O=|..................._.\=O=/...................(__|=|().................(..____() ....stillhere..( ___().......................(____()...................................................Bang, U dead LOL........................................
BenThereDunThat Posted January 27, 2007 Posted January 27, 2007 Just because a person has made a mistake in someone's eyes doesn't make them less HUMAN or deserving of abuse. One can state one's opinion or ask a question without being abusive--there is a huge difference! The old saying "two wrongs don't make a right" comes to mind... Personally, I feel that a person who is abused and goes out and abuses others just for the sake of making themselves feel better are not self-aware or just plain mean. I wouldn't trust that person nor value their opinion. One does have the right to stand up for oneself when one is being abused or attacked in a personal manner not just because it hurts but because it's WRONG. So if you will excuse me, as I have a horrible week at the office, I shall now go and kick my dog, belittle the grocery store cashier for screwing up my purchases, and eat some babies (LOL). After all, THEY are the one's who screwed up my entire week. hehe, LOVE this reply.... I never realized what a self-centered person I was until two things happened in my life. The first thing, I was in the card aisle of a store, looking for a card for someone (duh), and I don't know what made me think of it. But all of a sudden, I just scanned all the cards, and realized, 'it's all white faces.' What if I were black (or any race that isn't "white"), went and looked for a card, what the hell? This was before Hallmark introduced its Mahogany line. I'll never forget that moment. I was probably 19/20 years old. The second was, driving home from the hospital the morning my mom died. I was crying while I was driving - driving her car no less - and just all of a sudden wanted everyone else off the freakin' road. And that made me realize, if you see someone crabby in the grocery store, someone driving like an a**hole on the road, whatever. You have no idea where they just came from. Maybe they just came from the hospital, visiting a loved one that they know will never leave that hospital. Up until that point, I was lucky enough to never have to go through something like that. So it just never occured to me to think of something bad that someone might have been through to make them act that way. You know?
puddleofmud Posted January 27, 2007 Posted January 27, 2007 Awf! I know what you mean! We do have realizations that carry us and we don't choose when nor where they will happen. But we are responsible, once the come to us to HONOR for a life-time as to HOW we respond and use these great realizations. Personally, I thank your for the "card" comment as to racial issues. Though I do not wish to bring to light racial issues, just an nod that I appreciate your youthful kindness. My Mommy couldn't use "white" bathrooms or drinking fountains, could not sit at a table in a restaraunt. She couldn't buy a Valentine Card in the Kress Dimestore. But she could give me dime and I could buy it! Often she and I would play a game: when I had to "pee-pee" we would pretend that she was my baby-sitter so I could use the bathroom. It was either that or walk seven blocks to the one and only "coloured toilet" in town. I am white and green-eyed. She is dark as as any sweet wood, so exotic, soooo extremely and extraordinarily beautiful. NO ONE and I do mean, NO ONE could be as beautiful as my Mother. Her dark eyes would slay anyone's A$$. She is seventy and still a "brick house". Not to mention that she is not in the least embittered and would rather give street junkie her attention as compared to the riches she may now buy at any given shop and pee wherever she pleases. Just to think that someone cared about the same time as I was given that dime is most amazing and truly, truly healing. I don't hear this kind of thing often, and when I do I am just freaking FLOORED. But my Mom wouldn't be--she always believed in compassion and that compassion is the bridge to her Creator. Gosh, I am still floored...and just crying myself silly... One never knows as to whom they connect.
BenThereDunThat Posted January 27, 2007 Posted January 27, 2007 THAT is exactly what I am talking about! (apologies for totally hijacking this thread...) I had NO CLUE growing up, in my own little white-bread world, what it would be like to be "different," to be "not accepted,". In that quick moment in that card aisle I GOT IT. I didn't completely get it, obviously, not having lived it. But, it was just one of those moments, where I stepped outside of myself. The first time in my life I had ever done that. I don't know what made me realize it, I don't know what put the thought into my head. All I know is for that one small moment, I just realized. That's all. I just realized.
puddleofmud Posted January 27, 2007 Posted January 27, 2007 Agreed, a moment of compassion affects the entire world. A moment of anger affects the entire world. A moment of compassion heals oneself and a moment of anger steals one's life. We, living where we do, have a CHOICE to decide how we are affected, where 3/4 of the world do not. I do not feel that we are we at all hi-jacking a thread by mentioning some well-earned, well-fought, well-realized options about how one "deals" with life...
BenThereDunThat Posted January 27, 2007 Posted January 27, 2007 You are absolutely right. We are NOT hijacking this thread. This thread was started in the spirit of understanding others, right? Anyway, POM, thank you for sharing your story of you and your mom. There are so many of us who could never even begin to understand that. Never even begin to comprehend what it might be like to have to be deceitful to just use the freaking bathroom. Myself included.
puddleofmud Posted January 27, 2007 Posted January 27, 2007 Don't worry about it because you don't have to! My Mom would hate that any one would worry about that kind of thing. Because one should not even have to "think" about any thing like that. That is what so many sacrificied their lives for: for us to never even know any thing like that existed. My Dad was in the military at the time; and went to war for his country. He wouldn't like for anyone to be concerned w/ oppression unless one truly meets the definition of "oppressed". There are far more worrisome things to be concerned about. Opressing ones' self just isn't that high on the global "rictor scale" Considered how the vast majority of women on this Earth have little choice and ARE oppressed--we are basically whining about nothing in comparison...I am quite spoiled compared to most of our world's female counter-parts, thus I feel no reason to better myself, compare myself, nor entertain thoughts of hating ANY woman for ANY reason. PERIOD.
frannie Posted January 27, 2007 Posted January 27, 2007 As for does the BS deserve it if they stay? Hmmm... no, the BS never deserves it but she should not be surprised. That's kind of like asking if a physically abused spouse deserved a beating the second time because she didn't leave after the first. I've snipped out the first part of your reply to me since I didn't, and never would, compare one person's pain with another. You would have to take up that point with someone who made it. I don't happen to believe that anyone 'deserves' any pain. But like you I think some people shouldn't be surprised if they end up in pain. But that doesn't mean they deserve a kicking on forums they came to in order to get help in their situation. I don't see where it helps anyone.
ratingsguy Posted January 27, 2007 Posted January 27, 2007 Just because a person has made a mistake in someone's eyes doesn't make them less HUMAN or deserving of abuse. Wow, I couldn't have said it better myself. It really angers me how some holier than thou posters who love to cast stones can even attempt to imagine what some of us go through. Since this is a forum, all opinions are welcome, and while we may not like or agree with all of them, it's a shame that some people can't share a dissenting opinion with any tact. That is not to say that they are not welcome, but the outright viciousness accomplishes nothing. Make your point, but try to have some respect for the other posters here if you wish to persuade someone to your way of thinking. ...So it just never occured to me to think of something bad that someone might have been through to make them act that way. You know? I do know, and like yourself I didn't have this epiphany until only recently in life. I work in sales (of sorts), and every once in a while you will come accross a real a-hole. It happens. People in the business will tell you that you're not being rejected, but rather what you have to offer is. Of course for some people, it's difficult to separate the two when you have someone swearing at you or slamming their door in your face. But truly, you have no idea who that person is or what he or she has had to face in life... or throughout the course of that day. I mean there are real mean people out there who will never change, but usually there's always a root cause for people to behave the way they do. That's how I think of it now.
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