Mendax is "liar" in Latin... Well, I don't always do honour to my username either...
Let's believe he is the best chess player on this site. Why would he not be?
No... I don't want to spin out that quarrel...

How about returning to the OP? It really interests me.
MeepMeep seems to equate "to work" with "getting payed".
Is this your meaning MeepMeep?

"Sadly normal is an ulcerous growth of grumbeling gudgery, sourfaced illiberality"
- you took the words right out of my mouth, it must have been when you were kicking me (or my fence)
Wolves eh, I like it ...... wolves are stronger than dogs, and wilder
Sylence is Golden ...... they could write a song about you :-)

@ Meep Meep
keep it up you cork brained pantomine clown
your "dogs barking" line is "losing bite" with the constant repetition
& keep bulshitting yourself, you are the only person who believes your nonsense
Classic Meep Meep, delusional & defiant
naughty Meep Meep, off to the naughty corner for Meep Meep

"cork brained pantomine clown" - love it

mutual admiration,
I thought your "Help, it's the bloody blindfold" caper
with that chess thread was hilarious
if Meep Meeep can find a pair & try playing that chess game
then that thread will be awesomely funny

You wanna see my garden at the moment, full of pears, it will be a bumper crop this year, the apples are looking good also, gotta check me plums though, the wife used to do that for me ..... before we were married !!

I'm almost afraid to ask...
Does the wife talk with a plum in her mouth ?

Regarding my username, both the literal translation and the history seemed appropriate for this game.

nudge nudge, wink wink, a nods as good as a wink....

I have just muted the dog named MajorMitchell. You guys know me well now, I am not afraid to use the mute button.

Now, whether believing mendax to be the best chess player on this site is irrelevant to me. But he challenged me for a chess game then his true rating must be proven or I will not take a challenge from a no name. After all, he is just a no name on the internet, and he did not even capitalize his 'mendax' name.

About my original post, I don't equate work with pay. Quite often we do work for no pay but joy. Think of helping out a friend, do charity work, or give a full body massage to your lady friends. (Oh well, I might be tough and cruel to other guys, but I assure you, I have slow hands and am a lady man. Women just go nuts on me. In fact, even the mothers went nuts after me too after they tried to get me to marry off their daughters.)

What I am upset was the inherent nature of people impose their will on others, such as tax, or enforce some law/judgement on others.

Case 1, Mapu violated my right to play game unpause. Think common sense, what's the point of a vote when you don't want to vote? I was not making any deal, or gain from my vote. I simply did not want to vote pause.

Case 2. I want my tax money to go for things which benefit me. So, if I pay tax for military or police, then I get protection. For those who does not want to work, I don't want to pay tax to support them. If they turn criminal, I say, get the police and military to deal against them. Put out the harshest punishment against the criminals. Eventually you will have less criminals. Just keep increasing the harshness, like a feed back loop. Don't repent? Increase the negative feed back. Crush them. It worked for me on the street. I brutalized any kids who attacked me. Eventually they stopped.

Some of you prefer to feed those lazy bums to prevent them from turning criminals. Ok fine, you want to take the easy way out. I prefer to fight. I don't want to pay for them, I enjoy fighting. It's my right to chose. Maybe I am foolish but it's my right.

So, if you don't want them to turn criminal, then go ahead and pay extra tax or build charity centers for those bums. But do not take my money. Let me fight the criminal to save myself some tax.

"I brutalized any kids who attacked me"
This is what I want to happen .... forget democracy, accountability, civil liberties, they are for dogs and spastics and retards
Let us have a Law that brutalises children who attack people like MeepMeep (for that is his real name, he's not hiding, he doesn't need to, he's not scared of nothin').
Let's see what feedback we get then, a bit similar to what is happening in Turkey at the moment.
The young people attack just because we want to bulldoze their park and stick up a shopping centre, simple answer, brutalise them, get some feedback, if they don't do as told brutalise them some more. When enough are dead or seriously injured I think we will see some 'street justice'.
This is a perfect solution for a high class performer like Mr Meep. They must have been some foster parents, let me guess, Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun or was it Myra Hindley and Ian Brady.

Well, MeepMeep if you want a game of chess, I am still here.
I am just curious about the need to formally identify the potential opponent and verify his level, as if he is of inferior skill, you should be able to crush him quite easily.
We can play on ICC or playchess. We can refine the details of our chess appointment via PM if you are interested.
I value the things you are saying, as there are quite a few interesting points in what you are saying (whether one may agree or not with you) but there is a degree of boasting that makes me curious. Usually truly strong people do not boast.
I am also quite a decent tennis and squash player but I think such a challenge would prove harder to set up, right? ;)

MeepMeep - You've said you've muted me, but for clarity's sake I do not believe I'm the best player on this site. I just think I'm better than you.

I am very bad in sport, in fact when I played tennis, I tended to hit too hard and overshoot. You see, when you punch an opponent, you punch really hard. Thus my fighting back ground kinda ruin my sport.

If I am such a show off, why don't I immediately demonstrate/prove my ability on the forum? But noooo, I am holding if off to make the dogs mad. If I keep holding it off, I might not even bother to demonstrate or prove it. It's ok you guys don't believe I have such ability. It's more important to me to make the dogs mad, not about showing off my talents. Get it?

Years go, I was in this single club full of young yuppies. One time this one guy bragged about his Chi Gong power and challenged me to punch his stomach with full force. I checked out his stomach and it was indeed incredibly firm. But I surrendered to him and did not even bother to try. The girls went wild and wanted to see the clash of the titans. But I would not punch. So, up till today, no one would ever know what would happen if I decided to punch. There was a risk I might damage his internal organs, such risk forbade me to take the punch over some silly ego.

Remember, I studied philosophy at age 11. I started fist fight at age 7 so I do know a lot of things in advance. My maturity is always at least 10 to 20 years ahead of typical ignorant bozos like you guys on this forum.

So you're equating a possibly lethal test of manliness to a most certainly nonlethal chess game?

" It's more important to me to make the dogs mad, not about showing off my talents. Get it?" - we call it trolling, and we love trolling :-)

ha ha chess can be lethal: once I played a guy who looked a bit odd based on his manners. He happened to lose the game, and then threw all pieces over the board on the floor and left the playing room. Other guys told me "don't pay attention, he is a bit nuts but not a bad guy". Well chess can be dangerous, you see? ;)

So MeepMeep, not interested in pushing the wood? Loser gets a beer (or a tea if you prefer) to the winner!

is everyone having fun on this site, I've had to +1 you Julien, I couldn't stop myself

I got kicked really hard when playing chess once. I was bleeding and all. I was losing though, and I won because my opponent kicked me :)

And then there was the time someone accidently hit our car while I was playing chess...

Ooh, and then the time someone threw a pen at someone behind me because the guy behind me scared my opponent, and my opponent freaked out... I won that one too lol.

I stopped playing chess, I'm thinking about street running in Kandahar now. Much safer.

Everything but the Kandahar part is true, for the record.

"My maturity is always at least 10 to 20 years ahead of typical ignorant bozos like you guys on this forum."
Weel, in ma case, that maks ye very nearly deid, big yin.

Guys it's only a Mod troll ..... but I like it !!

Street fighter, moonlighter, bullshiter, nane whiter, poor writer, wolf biter, wolf baiter, wolf hater, wolf bait, born tae hate. Born tae be bitten. Ultra-superior foster parents should be strung up.

He's back on the Buckie !!

Ma tipple is superior, ken?

WOW that "mute button" is as impotent as you Meep Meep
is "mute button" your pet name for the knob at the end of your "ginormous" pecker
because it seems you must spend a lot of time stroking that ?
Blimey, you spend a lot of time & energy compensating for self perceived
( but self denied ) inadequacies.

Re your "Case 2" with spending on the unemployed
You do not understand sophisticated economics, you cork brained pantomine clown !!!

Wht do you think it costs to keep persons incarcerated in jails, maintain all those extra Law enforcement Officers & run a Judicial system.
I make no claim(s) that you will turn ALL those less fortunate citizens into productive workers,
but it's actually CHEAPER to the Taxpayer over the long term to INVEST in effective free public education, effective Rehabilitation for criminals, and effective support services for the disabled & disadvantaged.

You seem to think that the community (& land, all the environment ) exists to serve YOU
You are definitely a cork brained SELFISH pantomine clown,
YOU exist to serve your fellow humans and the world in which you exist as well as yourself and your family