h_y_e_n_a bird somehow, between what amounts to so much opportunistic predation and scavening for shit to rake i find the name highly appropriate though maybe "pinworm" might have been even more fitting, to be honest. 040302 ... pobodys nerfect *agrees* And if we didn't already have a nice birdy here, "vulture" would've been a fitting name too. 040302 ... white_wave you hit it right on the nose. i couldn't have said it any better myself. 040302 ... birdmad i'm only being kinda nice here... mostly i'm testing a theory Wave, Pobody, i like you two well enough as blatherskites, but i'll offer you the caveat of not feeling too happy that i felt the need to jump out and claw something or someone my motives are mainly my own is feeling quite serpentine 040302 ... .fallen oh this is gonna get REAL funny .... I can see it ... yup.... I hope I have popcorn handy when it does. 040302 ... pobody Point observed. I just hope hyena gets a taste of his/her own medicine. From what I've seen,it's deserved because the attacks seem to be done with no other reason that to hurt and bully with no remorse. 040302 ... hyena i should show remorse? pray tell why? are we all not adults... er, well, at least reasonably emotionally mature individuals here? perhaps i was mistaken. perhaps the minority view is not welcome, there is no place for the contrast to blather_support_group. tough_shit. yes, opportunistic predation; should i go after the bull when a calf is lame? i see no wrong in pointing and laughing when someone is being entertaining, whether it demean them or not. do you want to teach me morals? 040303 ... birdmad it's less an issue of "morals" than some equivalent to "karma" in other words, just as much as you may perceive it to be your right to do what you do, someone else may perceive it as their right to mess with you for it. this is basically true in any open line of communication adulthood and maturity are façades in situations like these, social behaviour never really evolves much beyond the schoolyard anyway, so as a result, there are those who will line up on one side of a scuffle, those who will line up on the other side of it and the larger majority who will simply be content to do their own thing and take little or no notice of it but to rubberneck your suggestion that this is somehow an attempt to stifle your opinion suggests that you are as thin-skinned about being picked on as you would hope your targets are actually this is just one unsolicited opinion in return for another unsolicited opinion no one asked you what you thought of anyone no one asked me what i thought of you i, like you, felt the need to rip into someone for my own amusement, and in this case, you presented yourself as the most obvious target to me in similar fashion to whatever it was that earmarked white_wave as your target if that somehow strikes you as a suppression of you and your opinion... tough_shit 040303 ... Death of a Rose don't worry birdmad, I laid some ever soooo tempting bait on hyena and she jumped all over it. It wasn't even worth bothering to respond to, as the experiment was to see if she would take the bait in the first place. Intelligent scavenger she isn't. If it had been a trap, she would be writhing upon sharpened steel spikes. 040303 ... oldephebe ah gotsa feelin' that there hyena feller/gal is laughin' his/her arse off behin' dis heah propped up projection SHE/HE is capering madly behin' dere's a pattern ah see das startin' to emerge outta all these flinging feces fests. A certain trend mind you..a rhythym..the imprimature of cadense, is starting to develope, coalesce..hyenas' having a ball and aint't goin no where no time soon. *laughs heartily and emptily and somehow insincerely* any whooo i like birds line about hiding behind pseudonyms and not having the scrotal fortitude to unsheath ones true blather identity as easily as one unfurls the ol' canine bicuspids - i'm guilty a this..i guess right now i'm a rubbernecker 'cause i'm too full a' not caring..*and with the next breath he contrdicts himself* but could someone tell me how this latest round of the blather malice minuet started? I guess if one merely lists, describes the negative antics of another and ascribes an apt characrization to that behavior and or person is that stigmatizing or pejoratively painting someone? and to erect the whole dubious dialectic of relative morality argument..is that like proactively or subsequently trying to protect ones premise from being attacked or aptly characterized? damn! i really wanted to stay out of this one..like the bird said most social intercourse has NOT evolved beyond the school yard...if i call someone who has stomped gleefully all over the heart of someone w/o warrant meaning w/o provocation, peremptory or a bully or an inflamed anus i'm NOT being biased i'm using just the word i want to to express a well documented and firmly founded negative attitude towards that person. Bias or prejudice or slanting occurs when we or one use words carrying negative or positive connotations w/o justification - sooo.. However it strikes me that i am now subtly ascribing a negative bias upon hyena w/o soundly investigating the facts..simply because of a past encounter with him/her...so i guess i'll check out what actually went down.. Lechen! and er...Bis bald! 040303 ... hyena saying that our social behavior hasn't left the schoolyard is giving us too much credit. our innate behavior has barely had time to evolve past animal states; it is only our socialization that adds new rules to the recipe. my suggestion that it was an attempt to stifle my opinion was a query meant to point out the possibility of others. the toughness of my hide is irrelevant, as it would take a much more deep and accurate slice than i believe any here to be able to deliver to do me harm. it nearly saddens me that others have not realized their own untouchability--and perhaps that is the bit of benevolence inherent in my cuts? i speak of culling the weak; it is not people, but parts, that i consider so. if it hurts, learn from it. doar, i can smell what your booming voice hides. such a kept pet, such delusions of eloquence. you haven't enough spikes to make a shishkabob. i took your bait and made a meal of it; the snack was appreciated. oldephebe, you guess correctly, the laughter rolls and rolls. seeing people in a huff is quite a ball. and how it started? birdmad was quite right, i was offering unsolicited opinions, and rather harsh ones, and he returned in kind. and how i myself started? i have no illusions about being beyond my animal nature. it started simply because i wished it to. and the mention of morality was not to protect my positon, but to illustrate that such grounds are invalid. i claim no moral high ground; i claim no moral ground at all. birdmad and oldephebe, you are both delightfully reserved, careful in expressing your opinions to be sure that only what you intend is expressed. elegant; even a beast can appreciate that. and if there are others that wish to take a stab at me, be my guest. don't be disappointed when i don't get offended. 040304 ... oldephebe tree - it's this damned corset, intemperance and ribaldry eschewed for the sake of that really slimming profile the corset gives me... 040304 ... oldephebe oops! holy freudian faux pas! i'm not sure who hyena really is..as i said patterns are starting to coaleasce but i am not ready, inclined publicly ruminate upon that..and hyena is entitled to his/her privacy so just forget about any inadvertant association i tried to make between tree and h y e n a ... see why i try to be precise? i mean aside from the aesthetic improvements the corset makes to my slowly encroaching and carb addicted mid-section. damn! 040304 ... Observation Outlook #4 Serengetti Plains There are clues (if you do a certain amount of reading) that correlates the strange resonances between the tree and the hyena. Mutual marking of territory? 040304 what's it to you? who go blather from