The Al Realpolitik Institute of Sulfur Mining & Extraction

[opebo]

Pretty much everytime Gustaf responds to opebo.

So the standard here is tiresome repetitiveness and trite, smarmy world-view.  Ok.

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The gnome strikes, and well:

If you can't be bothered to explain in detail, care to provide an example?

I operate on the basis that a certain level of basic knowledge ought to be assumed, and that there is no point in providing that basic level of knowledge to those that don't know it but who choose to comment regardless.

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Maybe Lief (like opebo) isn't smart enough to create his own, Hitler free message board?  Could someone give him a hand?  Please?!

Your idea of 'smart' is a curiosity, deadman!

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I entirely understand (and share) the desire to get rid of him, but why don't you guys just do that, then? Surely there has to be consensus on this issue in the mod squad by now? It just feels like he's being kept around as some sort of punching bag.

We can't just do that. Unlike what you seem to think we're not a band of thugs...

You're not?

If we were a band of thugs you would probably be supporting us.

haha, I just came here to post this one Kalwedge, though I had it edited like this:

Unlike what you seem to think we're not a band of thugs...

You're not?

If we were a band of thugs you would probably be supporting us.

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Is it wrong to answer this question with 'North Wales'?

It isn't 'wrong', but seriously you should get someone to put you in their rucksack and take you thither and yon little man.

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I support opebo's decision to self archive his greatest moments.

Did you just 'snap' me, intermoderate?

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Obama's trough pales in comprison to J.J.'s romantic trough which has lasted 49 years.

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#absurd

You seem to have attempted to use a hashtag. Hashtags do not work there. You may be looking for Twitter.

Xahar wants to be the new Al soooo badly you can almost see it.

I don't see the relationship, given that Xaviar is much funnier than Al, who is merely funny because of his pomposity.  We laugh with our dear Xagar, but as for the unfortunate gnome of the mine-shaft, one laughs (perhaps a little guiltily given his handicaps) at him.

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Hush, Opebo.  Your cliché is showing.

Which one is that, J. Crew?

[opebo]

You know, the 'everything about you' part.  It's tiresome.  Even BRTD hasn't posted anything obsequious in days.

Sorry, what are you saying?  That I was being obsequious to Jayhar?  I was critiquing Al, which I have done for years on here.  The little fellow rubs me the wrong way.

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Aw, your feigned ignorance is cute, I'll give you that.

But I have no time for you right now, I'm afraid.  I suggest re-reading my post for now.

I honestly have no idea what you're posting about, Joe.  Are you saying I was posting about myself when I posted about Al and Xahar?

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Clever people often get laughed at by buffoons like you.

Oh, Antonio, I never said he wasn't 'clever'.  He's just a bore and a trifle pathetic.  True, his cleverness is enormously overrated on this forum, but I tend to chuckle at his affectations rather than any intellectual shortcomings.

If one is to entertain the project of affectations, one must have a sense of humor about oneself (and if there if there is anything I know about, it is about entertaining affectations).

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WildFire?

Is that the gay bar you frequent?

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I think you need to get thicker skin. Adoration from a bunch of mildly retarded boys half your age whom you've never met shouldn't be this important to your self-esteem.

Damn! I felt that burn.

I didn't at all, must be thick-skinned.

[opebo]

Pretty much everytime Gustaf responds to opebo.

Boredom doesn't burn, Dead0.  That requires wit, in which you and Gustaf share the same handicap.

[opebo]

I still don't understand how a thread celebrating insults of one poster to another is allowed to exist if people are regularly being infracted for insulting one another.  Seems a bit....counter productive.  Even more so when you look at how many mods are posting and being quoted in it.

But the rules don't apply to the mods, obviously, dead0man.

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Understandably, I hope you never become a father; you don't seem to have what it takes to be one, or do you display anything remotely attractive to most intelligent women. The fact you want your child to live a miserable life because you chose to and place restrictions on him that are psychologically destructive provides an interesting insight into your own psyche.

This thread is becoming nothing but a litany of moderators abusing people from a position of complete immunity.

[opebo]

And then there is the step up in tax basis on your assets when you die, or even better, when your spouse dies, so you pay no capital gains taxes either.

Those things benefit your heirs.  Nothing can benefit a person after they die.

[opebo]

You missed the bit about when you spouse dies, when you get a step up in basis of all community property, not just half of it. And if the surviving spouse owns real estate, he or she gets to start depreciating it all over again.

Sorry I missed that.  Can you have a spouse in California?

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It is rare that someone snaps a majority of the forum with one casual backhand:

I think virgins paradoxically have a much higher standard for hotness than other people.

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Simple and absolutely sufficient. Classic Al:

Democrats have influences... Che Guevar

Try harder, idiot.

Oh come on.  I used to say that sort of thing virtually every other post the first 3-4 years of posting here.  There's nothing uniquely 'Al' about it - he can just still get away with it, while we mere mortals cannot.

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I take back every negative thing I've ever said about Simfan.  Bravo, sir.

Vicious personal attack on an average american elicits your applause.  Lovely.  You should both go  lounge around Vegas in your suits and porkpie hats and make fun of the 'squares'.

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Al often gets lazy with his retorts and is just needlessly rude and insulting, but when he really tries then no other poster can match him.

Nonsense.  Some of us matched and exceeded the catty old thing before we were muzzled.

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I care as much about my hormone levels as you care about your moral standing.

What the heck?  Its nowhere near as funny without identifying Nathan's interlocutor.

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Yeah Opebo is on a roll today.  It's almost like I hurt his feelings.

Christ man, have you no decency?  Even in this place..

Let me explain the procedure to you: you insult people in other threads, and then your achievements are enshrined here by your admirers.  You don't just clutter the place up with your dimwit.