Jesus Fucking Christ, indeed.

That's right, Christians. Shut up, they said. Nobody cares. If you're simple-minded enough to believe in religion, you're obviously not worthy of any courtesy.

@dip

That really isn't what this is about. We have had many, many productive and respectful conversations about religion over the years.

@ Draugnar:

Thank you for sort of sticking up for me in a round-about way, but I'm not sure it's really necessary to start a new thread to complain about some other threads. You could just have posted in the threads in question, surely?

I agree with your comments though.

For the record, I did *not* attack Mujus, and I don't think SYnapse did, either, whatever Lando decided to read into his thread. It was just a harmless attempt at humour.

Jesus fucking Christ indeed... http://goo.gl/UM8UF

Partysane, can you please restrain yourself and restrict such links to the "Daily Bible Reading" thread where they belong?

It's hard to conclude anything else. I understand not involving the mods, and I agree with that. But the fact that there have not been other people calling YJ out for his juvenile and disgusting behavior is telling. It would have been different if he'd pulled that stunt in a thread you didn't already dislike.

Actually, people have been called out many times for being dicks in Mujus's thread.

"the fact that there have not been other people calling YJ out for his juvenile and disgusting behavior is telling..."

Yeah, it's telling all right. Telling me that nobody cares about your moral outrage. As well they shouldn't, you whiny, whiny, baby.

Poor man, you, bearing such a cross, with this crown of thorns digging so painfully into your poor persecuted flesh. You have suffered just as Jeebus did.

Shut up. Muted.

See? Now you get it.

Self-moderation, COMPLETED.

How can you possibly be happy with your behaviour?

How can you possibly have any reaction that doesn't involve laughter, ignoring, or muting?

To answer your question though, I don't perceive that I've behaved in any sort of reprehensible manner.

@Yellowjacket, please refrain from posting any more links that are filtered at my work as pornography/distasteful (the ones today were the first I've ever had that problem with on this site) or I'll assume they are links to cheating accusations until I can confirm otherwise later in the day.

@Draug - what you on about, I'm not going to attack Mujus, I think he is a lovely man. The only reason I muted his previous threads was because it got a tad boring and I felt I'd heard it all before. I have nuff respect for the guy, big up to Mujus, God Bless You.

Jmo raises an interesting point. I could've lost my job today when those threads came up (yes, before you tell me, I shouldn't webdip while I'm at work.)

I think JMO just threatened YJ that if YJ somehow offends JMO's Office Nazis that he will be silenced for cheating accusations. I mean that is what happens to those who post cheating accusations, is it not?

So, JMO, just because your Office Nazis would restrict free speech, you believe it is right for you to threaten others? Harrumph! I feel a Draugma rant for threatened abuse of power coming on. :-)

This needed its own thread.

I'm with draug on this one. There's no rule against posting pornographic links.

Internet 101: *Never* open a link unless you know exactly what it is.

Internet 102: If you post a NSFW link and you don't mark it as NSFW, you are a total ass hat.

Maybe there should be

Careful there jmo, you're pretty close to exceeding your mandate.

My work blocks webdip all together. I'm stuck on my phone at work. It removes the risk of inappropriate content. I recommend that for anyone who has monitoring or filtering in place at their job.

To be completely honest, any company that doesn't block webDip has a IT Dept that's asleep at the wheel.

Any time i'm blocked from using webdip, i plug in a usb stick and run tor.

Problem solved.

Then it's ironic that a lot of IT companies have IT departments that are asleep at the wheel.

And ghug, then you would be agreeing with sarcasm

There's no rule against porn, but there is a rule that pushes common sense.

One of the supervisors in my department saw me looking at a map on webdip, asked what I was doing, then said that it would make a good program for the library teen center.

Work from home as often as possible and there will never be an issue.

Let's upgrade the art of insult and start questioning the value of a guy for real, not just by calling silly names.

Yellowjacket!
How comes it you always sound like a fussy old fogey with your scholastical lessons of logic and argumentation? At the same time you style yourself as a radical social satirist and master of merriment and laughter as if you were the one keeping this forum in a state of a merry carnival, without old YJ it would be dull and dreary and abandoned to a totalitarian fundamentalism - political and religious.
You proclaim yourself as "hilarious". From Greek and Latin: "cheerful, gay, merry, joyous".
While I grant this is not a bad aspiration, I like it as such, but unfortunately
you do have a peculiar feeling for what kinds of sentiments and influences that make yourself and others cheerful and joyous. I'd definitely say it needs a lot of development.

I can note and appreciate your talent. I understand that you are used to be granted and treated as belonging to the "intelligent", but I am left wondering at your age.
I can't remember I was ever such a pompously fussy oldie as you, nor was I ever so immature.

This is strictly AdHominem as it is meant to be.
"How can you possibly be happy with your behaviour?". I repeat this quote from Lando above.
No you cannot.
I'd prefer not to have to say this, I am not a Christian, but: YJ, you'd actually NEED, as a thirsty man, to let some Jesus flow into your heart and seek friendship in that kind of quarters. I reckon that is the straightest, perhaps only opportunity for you to develop some matured character.

As to age, I estimate he is in his early 20's.

YJ is lively, if he had Jesus he would be rocket-fuelled, I think he needs iodine :-)

For the record, Yellowjacket did not post a link. He posted actual sexually-explicit text to Mujus's thread, but not a link. So technically Jmo's ruling doesn't actually address what he did.

Oh dude, was there a link. You missed that?

http://sarahmonahan.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/everyone-calm-the-fuck-down-meme.jpg

Thank you for that insightful look into the darkest recesses of my soul, Sylence.

I believe I can let Dennis Leary speak my retort far more eloquently than I could.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrgpZ0fUixs

@Jamiet, for the record, he did, it's on the next page.

Yes but the argument was already raging by the time he posted that, surely?

no, but anybody who clicks on an ED link at work deserves exactly what he gets.

Well, I bow, YJ.

I may take your "insightful look into the recesses..." as irony or sincere. I take it as both.
As such it is a profound and complex answer.
I am not so conceited as to think that I can give a briefing of anyones soul.
We're the weatherbeaten captains of your own souls tossed about on the stormy seas. (I hope I shall not be attacked for being "religious" now...)

I could for some reason not run that Dennis Leary on Youtube, but I read the lyrics now.

Just a general remark: I am European. I must not forget that there's a difference in what issues the people take sides on, over here and over there the pros and cons they must relate to, how identities are defined.
Like the religion pro or con thing is not such a intrinsical stance here in Europe.

But all in all, I'd say the most essential difference is simply that America is more of everything and just years ahead of Europe on the same track.
The impressions and situations you had to deal with 20yrs ago are the same as the European must deal with now
more or less