Best post ever

[nns]

Hi guys (and Ladies),
I was wondering which thread (except yours) you have enjoyed the most (the most interesting, the funniest, the most controversial and so on).

I am asking you that because since I am fairly new here, I haven’t been able to read all of them, yet.

This post was inspired by the one posted on 10-19-2003 by BLONDIE81, "HELP ASAP GEORGE ORWELL 1984" :banana: (you will able to see it on page 2). That's my top 10 all-in-one.
What I don’t understand is why none of you "old members" of this forum did not bother to reply and help that little, helpless creature. Shame on you, all of you! :smash:

cheers,
nns

[subterranean]

Hi NNS, welcome. Intersting topic, but do you refer to post related to Orwell only or to gerenal post..if you mean the later then i suppose you posted in the wrong sub-section

Shame on me..?!

[nns]

Hi Subterranean
When I did post the thread I was actually referring to the Orwell related topics. However, I would not mind getting any of your preferences, regardless of the section.

As for the shame thing, that was just a joke of course. In any case you have no reason to feel ashamed of anything: after all I see you only joined the club on Dec 2003; under scrutiny are those who did join before October 19 2003, and left Blondie81 without a single answer. And that must have hurt (what I suppose it's a) her, because she never posted again. Never.
Which, you'd agree with me, is a shame.
By the way, did you go back to read her single (and precious) post?

[den]

Actually, lots of people come here with blatant, or not so, questions for `help' and they often go unanswered, in all parts of the forum not just this one.

I'm not here to do anyone's homework :p and yeah it's too bad some people never come back and post again, but that's the way it goes around here.

No specific topic springs to mind as a favourite, it's kinda quiet around here these days, or I'm just not seeing a lot of topics I like.

[subterranean]

True Den, they started a post by saying " anyone read A..", "oh i love this book, what do you think of it..", or "let's discuss B and share us your opinion..". People may evetually posted their opinions, but the thread starters themselves never gave thiers..


and left Blondie81 without a single answer. And that must have hurt (what I suppose it's a) her, because she never posted again. Never. Which, you'd agree with me, is a shame.

Well didnt you read the thread title? Isn't obvious about her intention with the thread she/he started?

[crisaor]

Some of the threads in this board derived in interesting and somewhat heated discussions, and they got closed and/or erased. I'd say one of those. :p

[den]

Actually I don't mind helping people sometimes, I've gotten PM's from people out of the blue asking for help. Just depends on what kind of mood I'm in I guess ... teehee. And of course if it's something I know a lot about or am interested in that helps too. I read 1984 like, years ago! so it's not something I'm very interested in anymore.

[Stanislaw]

I don't mind helping seriouse people, or people who have been at this forum for a while.

But the ol' post twice,
"help me, I don't want to do my work, someone else do it for me... post" kinda gets eratating, since there are atleast one of those per day,.

Maybe I am just a cold hearted ***. but we all have our hobbies. :cold:

anywho, I don't really feel bad about not helping. I came here to escape school and discuss, not do other peoples work.

Ex. helpmeplease1233254365457325 sais: I need help my teacher is mean, he makes me think. I hate doing that. thinking is for people who can think... please help me do my hwk eversomuch, I would be so superduper happy, thnks -^^-"

I think that about sums up my rant... time to inhale air and start breathing again. :rolleyes:

[amuse]

or, thinking is for people who are motivated to do so. ;)

but seriously. i liked when vbm, for example, asked for help. she was prepared to the nth.

[nns]

Hi fellow users,
this thread has taken a turn I wasn't expecting. But that's my fault! When I gave the example of the thread posted by Blondie81 I was only kidding. Her question was so (may I say it?) stupid - I mean, she did not understand one single thing of the book - that I found it quite funny. When I asked why nobody helped her out, I was being ironic, or at least trying to be. Unsuccesfully it seems. No offense, but I think only brain surgery could have helped her. And that's maybe.

Seriously now. I will give you a serious example of what I was originally looking for: take for instance the thread posted by TotalNutso on 10-11-2003 "The significance of colours in 1984". I found the discussion that followed very interesting because it is something I had never considered before, and so ...I have learned something.

That's the kind of things I was asking you to report under this sub-sub-section. Thank you for your inputs.
nns

[subterranean]

Hi NNS, I dont know which post about Orwell is the best. I have to go thru all those posts in Animal Farm, 1984 etc threads to be able to vote for one ;). But I mostly love the discussion in the Animal Farm thread

[Stanislaw]

You mean that kind of random repeatadly hijacked one?

[subterranean]

errr...perhaps

[Stanislaw]

of course, that is a pretty good one!

[BSturdy]

Don't worry I'm here

[Scheherazade]

To save the day? :p

Help the helpless, rejected I-cant-do-my-homeworkers? :p

Seriously, I don't mind helping others as long as they are ready to do a bit themselves, like reading the books beforehand at least... But there are some even I cannot bring myself to help... Like recent http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=3417 threat...

Help me because I am too lazy??? :rolleyes:

[BSturdy]

Tongue in cheek!

Folks will be folks

[subterranean]

Some of the threads in this board derived in interesting and somewhat heated discussions, and they got closed and/or erased. I'd say one of those. :p


Indeed...this is an authoritarian forum..
Sorry to say, but that's the truth!

[Stanislaw]

when was our glorious, rightous admin overthrown and replaced?

[Riddick]

WTF when will you guys stop *****ing about a closed thread, that was hatefull and useless, the whole thing should be deleted.

[subterranean]

have you came back just to start a fight?

[Scheherazade]

I would like to nominate the first three posts of angryteacher:
Hi yall, I am a eleventh grade summer school teacher, and I need someone to answer some questions or make me an answer key to questions of the book tale of two cities. I am too busy at school to do it so I am hoping someone would help..?! If anyone would like to help please let me know and I'll give you the questions.. thanks ahead of time, ~Mr. Anderson
i have not read this book. I am a summer school teacher and i am given books to have the kids read. this is not my lesson plan.
I dont care about these kids and, yes they will all fail. I am such a great teacher. He he.
Mr. Anderson??? Someone has been watching the Matrix movies too much! :p

[shortysweetp]

what the deal with a teacher that dont care about the kids?? thats the wrong people shouldnt become teachers if they dont care about kids

[Snukes]

Can we say projecting...?

[Jay]

We can but not really too sure what's the reference... I might know in the morning though ;), my brain works the most mysterious ways when it's trying to find a thought :D

Though a thought is already forming... woah, wonder if saying 'projecting' has got something in common with 'influence'... better go before I get more thoughts, they're scary :D

[Basil]

Scher, I am disappointed in your judgment upon this troubled soul who was merely seeking aid to a problem that lay outside of his control. Did it ever occur to you that supplying answers to someone on the internet is not unlike hiding Jews from the Nazis during the Holocaust? And might I remind you that these were elaborate, complex questions in the always tricky multiple-choice format, in which the false answers outnumber the true answer by a 3 to 1 ratio?

I could share an obscure parable here to illustrate my point, but you would only misunderstand it.

[imthefoolonthehill]

have I ever told you guys that I went to school with a girl who read Animal Farm... (this was in JR high... but we were a very literary class - read as a class Macbeth at age 14 and Hamlet at 13)... anyways... she got up to do her book report and started talking about how it was such an interesting look at farm life and farm animals....
I can't remember hearing such a mix of groaning and laughter.... poor girl.

[ihrocks]

Ya know, I'm probably asking for it here -- and I've been such a good little ihrocks lately -- but having read this, and being a friend of the person known as Abdorinbo, I feel a little compelled to say a word or two.

The first time I posted here....way, way back in the ancient days of this forum (the information superhighway was still a dirt road) I received a reply: "I am Abdorinbo and I will be your friend." Truer words were never written, for Abdo has been a very good friend to me. Before "Abs" came to this board, the posts read like several people talking out-loud to themselves and not like the easy and relaxed conversations that go on now. He got people to start interacting. He started dialogues and gave members a chance to get to know each other. He was extremely intelligent, a gifted writer, and generous with his knowledge.

Then, one day, things started to change. The Abdorinbo who had been colorful, a little off the wall, but very friendly, began to grow hostile and angry. While just about everyone else here at that time decided to simply be offended, I asked Abs what was up -- sudden personality changes in the so-called "real world" are often an indication that something is very wrong. Such was the case here. I won't go into detail, but my chum Adborinbo was going through a very rough time in his life. He was lashing out here because it was the only outlet he had. Yes, it was ugly, and yes, he was wrong. And yes, things got very out of hand. Banning him was probably the only solution, though it pained me to watch because I knew how much this place meant to Abdo. I knew he was being self-destructive, trying to erase any good from his life, because the darkness that had overcome him made him think there was no place for goodness or beauty.

I'm very pleased to say that Abdorinbo has moved out of that darkness now. He's doing very well, has another home in cyberspace where he is still "off the wall" but accepted as part of the community, and has many good things going on in his life.

So go ahead and say Abdorinbo was an ***hole, or whatever else you like; you can remember him only for the dark times, only when he was at his worst, but this forum wouldn't be what it is were it not for him and when he was at his best, he shined like the Northern Lights here.

An example (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1670)

So I guess this was more than a word or two, and I know there will be those who disagree with me. However, it seems that Abdorinbo's name has survived long after his departure from this place; maybe this will help some of the new people see why.

[mono]

Ya know, I'm probably asking for it here -- and I've been such a good little ihrocks lately -- but having read this, and being a friend of the person known as Abdorinbo, I feel a little compelled to say a word or two . . . .
I know I have seen his posts around, and I thought him a wonderful poet, but just not the best interpersonal type. If Abdorinbo had trouble during such times, I can understand, however; stress has disturbing ways of working on the mind.
Abdorinbo reminds me, ihrocks, of a member we once had named Spite; no moderators ever banned him, but he got painstakingly close, or so it seemed. He seemed to have a bright mind, but often showed his more offensive side more often. An long example (with an Edgar Allan Poe reading and an interesting dialogue also between Jay, sub, and Scher :D):
http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=3540&page=1&pp=15

[Bongitybongbong]

have I ever told you guys that I went to school with a girl who read Animal Farm... (this was in JR high... but we were a very literary class - read as a class Macbeth at age 14 and Hamlet at 13)... anyways... she got up to do her book report and started talking about how it was such an interesting look at farm life and farm animals....
I can't remember hearing such a mix of groaning and laughter.... poor girl.
I remember reading it and I thought not about animals but about mthe symbolism...I'd be laughing so hard if I was very.

[Basil]

Mono: I think you do Abdorinbo a disservice by comparing him to a kid who liked to make-believe he was a vampire-mercenary for hire--not to mention Spite's bad habit of *squinting* at people. Abdo was a little bit better than that.

Ihrocks: I, for one, miss Abdo. I’ve always felt a little guilty that I was involved--albeit indirectly--with his getting banned. He had a knack for skewering folks’ pretentious natures in such a way that always made me laugh. And while I don’t think it is necessarily productive to ATTACK people on a forum, I think it is a good idea to CHALLENGE people--especially if you don’t agree with what they’re saying. It forces people to think about what they profess to believe in, and helps them figure out why they believe it. That's MUCH preferable to letting people lazily dispense their poorly-reasoned ideas willy-nilly. If you can't defend it, maybe you shouldn't say it in the first place . . .