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Military.com Forums Hot Topics & Current Events Point-Counterpoint Have you grown thicker skin here.|
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''Dance like no one is watching" |
Some of the topics floating are making me reflect for some reason. I've read where ppl say that bulletin boards have helped them become better debators IRL because of all the online practice. I wonder if the same could be true for having thicker skin IRL. I can be a sensitive person but I really do feel like this place has toughened me up a bit.
It's funny b/c there's this unspoken rule that when you're are a newbie you go thru some sort of intitiation process until you have proved yourself. I remember there were 3 posters who sorta chided me and gave me a hard time when I first came. Sgt _Schlappy f100kid Surface Dog Don't ask me what the topics were, I just remember the names. f100kid goes by something different now, and he probably doesn't even remember as we get along well now. I just remember thinking, man why are these ppl so mean, why are they picking on me, do they have to cuss so much, why are they so nasty etc LOL. Anyway, I was just wondering if I'm the only one that's come a long way when it comes to letting stuff roll off and not taking offense to everything imaginable. Maybe you haven't grown a thicker skin, maybe you lost some skin, or gained some perspective? Share... "It is the weak who are cruel. Gentleness can only be expected from the strong" -- Leo Roskin |
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10 Day Warning, Going around Word Filter FPM 1/5/09 |
I don't think I've grown thicker skin. I think this place has become dumbed-down because all of the former "great" posters (the ones who could really get your blood boiling) are just gone.
There doesn't seem to be too many people left here who are capable of even quickening my pulse anymore. |
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I know I annoy you; what's yer point?? |
I don't know about debating skill improvement but I do get entertainment.
I used to love back in the day when trolls appeared daily and there was a race to beat them down. do you remember when the people's propagandist who posted as "ssssrrrs" spelled 1,000 different ways used to come in here and wreak havoc? We called him SARS... LMAO. When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains, and the women come out to cut up what remains, jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains and go to your gawd like a soldier. -Rudyard Kipling |
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Yep....was a while ago for me but I got a bit of a reality check from a couple of people who aren't around these days. I found myself sitting back a reading mostly, to get to know people and I think that is a good way for newbies to go.  |
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I know I annoy you; what's yer point?? |
I aslo recall a poser named "brasscat" who pretended to be some kind of cold war spy. He was entertaining and got crushed but cam back in multiple versions.
When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains, and the women come out to cut up what remains, jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains and go to your gawd like a soldier. -Rudyard Kipling |
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Does anyone know where Groovy Lady went?
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''Dance like no one is watching" |
I remember I favored the 'in the news forum' for a long time over p/cp. I bonded with several posters and would laugh at/with them chewing on trolls. They are all gone now
 I rarely see snipe anymore. Red_sleeves was one of my favs. "It is the weak who are cruel. Gentleness can only be expected from the strong" -- Leo Roskin |
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Basic Training |
Sounds like old age is creeping up on you, Bone!  "Never try to teach a pig to sing; It wastes your time and annoys the pig." - Heinlein |
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''Dance like no one is watching" |
Her and leeky got hitched.. "It is the weak who are cruel. Gentleness can only be expected from the strong" -- Leo Roskin |
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I know I annoy you; what's yer point?? |
There was a guy named Alan whose screen name was 63DH30 who created a thread called "morning coffee" it was hidden away in some obscure location where the casual peruser would not find it. About 20 of us used to have a blast on that thread. As far as I can tell there is only one other besides me remaining from that thread.
When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains, and the women come out to cut up what remains, jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains and go to your gawd like a soldier. -Rudyard Kipling |
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''Dance like no one is watching" |
Geesh, you got here right around the same time color tv was invented. "It is the weak who are cruel. Gentleness can only be expected from the strong" -- Leo Roskin |
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ROTFLMAO! A match made in heaven. |
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I know I annoy you; what's yer point?? |
Been a member a long time. I just keep taking long breaks*** (read Deployments)*** When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains, and the women come out to cut up what remains, jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains and go to your gawd like a soldier. -Rudyard Kipling |
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30 day warning Posting Hot Links MD 7 Dec 08  |
Groovy is alive and well  |
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The most bellicose people here don't have the balls to do the same thing in public with strangers. So how can one let the trash-talking here affect them? It's hollow.
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10 Day Warning, Going around Word Filter FPM 1/5/09 |
Maybe (I'll at least entertain the possibility that it could be something as simple as that)... but sometimes I think it's that I wish I could find a worthy adversary. |
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mcgreer--
You doubt that I would not confront people on the street like I do here???   |
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10 Day Warning, Going around Word Filter FPM 1/5/09 |
I think it was Socrates who said: "know thyself". |
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"Does anyone know where the love of God goes when the waves turn the minutes to hours?" - Gordon Lightfoot |
That's how I am, what you read in my post...you'd hear out of me in person. I don't have much respect for those people I like to call "keyboard heroes" who get all bad from the safety of a keyboard. Don |
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Hey, brother - a Marine knows his limits. |
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