rules to help us get along - Page 1

I've noticed that on several message boards people tend toward being argumentative and insulting. Not all of them. But on some there are folks who have only 7 functioning synapses in their entire brain and the feel the need to show the world that their 7 synapses work almost as well as the millions that normal people possess. These people feed off of drama like the fat guy eating spaghetti in "Monty pythons" the meaning of life" They argue about things they know, people they know, things they don't know, people they heard of, granola, breeders, kennels, aardvarks and topics so varied that no math genius could extrapolate a probability algorithm to predict the outcome. These people will argue with determination but maybe not a firm grip of reality (OK some don't even have a finger touching reality) I am not saying we can't disagree on any topic. There are many different training methods, different bloodlines and most have at least some merit. However there are some certain boundaries that I feel we should all heed.   1) write every response as if you are writing to Mike Tyson. Yes write it as if you are speaking to Iron Mike and he is in the next room and he is having a bad day. I have seen on some of the web boards people talking as if they are the reincarnation of the outlaw Josie Wales. YOU ARE ON A COMPUTER. This is a tool for exchange of ideas. Not that I'm a very tough person but in every fight I have ever been involved with I have never had anybody bring up dog training during the fight because that would be rude. IF you really want to be intimidating I really think that you may need to take off the bunny slippers and step away from the computer. You cannot stare a computer down since it has no eyelids and does not blink.    2) If you must insult someone please be original. Profanity while never really being appropriate is just too easy.  Now if someone posts that a person has the intellectual capacity of a ground squirrel whose mother had been exposed extensively to both second hand smoke and Barry Manilow music, then you would have my attention.   3) If you are going to comment about a topic please have at least some fundamental understanding of the topic you are writing about.   4) When forming thoughts please try to use the gray matter in your brain.  I think some people use lower parts of their central nervous system.  It gets real difficult to understand if you are using your brain stem or hypothalamus to coordinate your thoughts since you are using brain incorrectly.   5) On dog related boards please keep topics dog related . If I went on the Swedish catapult society web page and discussed schutzhund, people would get annoyed. So don't talk about your trebuchet on a dog board.unless you are using it to teach a send out.   6) Of most jokes that are funny the first time many lose their effectiveness if you repeat them 453 times.    Please remember that as dog enthusiasts we need to project a positive image to both new people to our sports and to the uninitiated who may be just curious.  Let's all agree that we should try not to look like a bunch of monkey's throwing intellectual poop at one another.     jeff

i saw a monkey pee on a girl once.....at the zoo...

 

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Yes indeed you are a pirate, Cappie, and you, Jeff, a poet. I am especially fond of your #2 rule and will mostly likely use it one day soon (on another board) and act as if I thought it up all by myself. Thanks!!

May I make an addendum to rule 2? Have the testicular fortitude to use your real name!

I laughed as I read your post, I can think of a few posters who probably had to tab in and out of dictionary.com for the "big words".

By the way, second hand smoke and Barry Manilow isn't that bad, if you ask me.  Your stepdaddy's meth lab and the Ying Yang Twins...now that would be more fitting in many situations around here.

 KCzaja............you guys are killing me!!!

Here in Amish country we don't get exposed to much other than "accidental benign" nuclear fallout from Three Mile Island. You wouldn't believe the size of the catfish in the Susquehanna River. Some are big as houseboats, but it's those two-headed calves that creep me out the most.