Thread Killer Champions: Franzbear & Moonbear

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The discussion revolves around the humorous concept of "thread killers" on a forum, where participants analyze who tends to end conversations with their posts. The top offenders identified include franznietzsche, Moonbear, and tribdog, with a playful tone suggesting a competition for the title of "thread killer." Participants debate the validity of counting last posts as a measure of thread-killing ability, arguing that it should be adjusted based on the total number of posts each user has made. The conversation shifts into a light-hearted narrative, likening thread-killing to a horror movie scenario, with participants playfully accusing each other of sabotaging discussions and attempting to "steal" the thread. The banter includes references to fictional scenarios involving dramatic rescues and humorous characterizations, maintaining a light and comedic atmosphere throughout.
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  • #6,252
Pretty good, but who is the skeleton guy? The thread ghost?
 
  • #6,253
I never read that humor thread, but I do remember reading BT's posts in a thread about a conflict between soldiers and civilians in the Middle East. He expressed an extreme concern for the welfare of the civilians. A very pacifistic viewpoint. I think he dances on the edge of many ideas. The world is a conceptual place to him. I'd have to read that thread, but I doubt BT is a racist hate mongerer.

He is intelligent, and happens to be annoying because his comments are unappreciated where he chooses to post them. But it doesn't hurt me. I know that I appreciate the freedom to post where I please on this site. So I don't complain too much about it. There are times a little self-moderation would be nice though, but even good guys have bad days.
 
  • #6,254
The skeleton guy is Yomamma. He used it in a previous movie, which I'm sure is buried dozens of pages back.
 
  • #6,255
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  • #6,256
BicycleTree said:
I have never said racist things. What you are referring to is some social theories about the origins of humor, that humor may have its beginnings in instinctual racism. Never have I asserted that racism actually is valid, and in fact the tune of my posts then were that humor is not quite the total good that you see it as. Claiming I was racist is blatant misrepresentation of the worst kind, because from your responses at the time I know you understood what I was saying.
That is certainly not what I got out of those posts. Why do you think I was so damned furious with you at the time? You cleary stated that racism and hatred of those unlike ourselves is an ingrained feature of human psychology, which you couldn't possibly believe unless you feel it. Were you simply a racist yourself, I could handle that although I wouldn't like it. It was your assertion that I, and everyone else in this site, are likewise was the intolerable premise. I don't even know what race anyone here is, unless they've posted a picture, and even then sometimes it's hard to tell. I couldn't care less.
The only way that I would be able to find those posts is by checking the history of my own, because I know what I said, but I can only go back 20 or so. If you can find them, and show evidence in favour of your argument, I will publicly apologize to you right here for my responses, but I don't think you can do it.
 
  • #6,257
Racism, or its broader cousin, tribalism, is an ingrained feature of human psychology. Otherwise, why would it be so prevalant? And why would consciously open-minded people tend to take as mates those close to them in culture and genes? Why would people form themselves into groups and societies of those like themselves? Why is it that psychology experiments like this one: http://www.newshounds.us/2004/11/19/buried_in_the_sand.php (do a search down for the keyword "prejudice" to find the right spot--I remembered that article from SciAm and that's the only place I found it online) show an instinctual bias against those in other groups?

I'm certainly not suggesting that it cannot be compensated for. Myself, I bear no conscious racism towards anyone. But the instincts are there... you and everyone else has approximately the same genes as any member of the KKK. The seeds of racism are the seeds of communality, and while a civilized person can be more altruistic, always the tendency is latent. It's like sex; healthy people have some desire to copulate with very many of the attractive potential mates they encounter. We don't need to act on this desire, and in many cases doing so would be criminal, but the biology is set up to encourage it.

Now, why you would jump to conclusions to believe that I myself must be racist, consciously so, is beyond me, as I have never said anything of that nature. My best guess is that you felt your ideals were threatened and were subconsciously looking for something to discredit in your mind the person who "threatened" them, so that you could by extension disregard the "threat." Or maybe you were merely unsure of how someone might not connect assertion of an aspect of human nature to action on that aspect. Talk about cynicism.
 
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  • #6,258
Huckleberry said:
The skeleton guy is Yomamma. He used it in a previous movie, which I'm sure is buried dozens of pages back.
You guys couldn't tell it was mke from th *slap* part?
 
  • #6,259
To those of you reading this who think, "no, I'm not racist at all, not even subconsciously," you're probably only kidding yourself. It may be that some people are naturally less disposed towards tribalism, but more likely you are just overriding it. And it may be there more than you think... think about who you choose to associate with closely.
 
  • #6,260
And yes, Bicycle Tree does too many silliloquoys
 
  • #6,261
BicycleTree said:
Racism, or its broader cousin, tribalism, is an ingrained feature of human psychology. Otherwise, why would it be so prevalant?
I don't for a second believe that it's natural, because all humans come from the same original gene pool. It's prevailent because it's taught, consciously or not, by people who are insecure in their own existence.

BicycleTree said:
Why is it that psychology experiments like this one: show an instinctual bias against those in other groups?
I'm not all that hot on psychology to start with, and this seems like a particularly lame excuse for an experiment. The participants, just in being segregated by colour in the first place, are indoctrinated with the notion of 'us & them'.

BicycleTree said:
I bear no conscious racism towards anyone. But the instincts are there...
I still don't see how you can believe that the instinct is there unless at some point you've experienced it. I know that it certainly isn't in me. Maybe it's just because of my multi-ethnic background, but I doubt it.

BicycleTree said:
you and everyone else has approximately the same genes as any member of the KKK.
Exactly. Me and everyone else, including Chairman Mao and Martin Luther King Jr.

BicycleTree said:
healthy people have some desire to copulate with very many of the attractive potential mates they encounter.
In my case, all of them, they don't have to be all that attractive, and I couldn't care less what race they are. Naturally, I want my children to be 1/2 like me; what the other half is doesn't matter a bit.

BicycleTree said:
Now, why you would jump to conclusions to believe that I myself must be racist, consciously so, is beyond me, as I have never said anything of that nature.
Covered in 3rd item above.

BicycleTree said:
My best guess is that you felt your ideals were threatened and were subconsciously looking for something to discredit in your mind the person who "threatened" them, so that you could by extension disregard the "threat."
They weren't threatened; they were hugely insulted.

BicycleTree said:
Or maybe you were merely unsure of how someone might not connect assertion of an aspect of human nature to action on that aspect. Talk about cynicism.
Again, see item #3.

Alright... I totally disagree with everything you've put forth regarding that theory of instinctual racism, particularly as it relates to humour, but you've convinced me that you meant no malice. It certainly didn't seem so at the time, because you were very antagonistic in your assertions. You definitely could benefit from some practise of diplomacy. The foregoing post was a fairly good start. If you had acted in this civilized a manner back then, the whole issue probably wouldn't have arisen.
That being said, I'm sorry that there was a misunderstanding. Let's start it over fresh.

Your surrealistic posts are still annoying, though.
:-p
 
  • #6,262
Danger said:
Your surrealistic posts are still annoying, though.
:-p

You give them way too much credit to call them surrealistic. Nonsensical ramblings are more like it.
 
  • #6,263
Moonbear said:
You give them way too much credit to call them surrealistic. Nonsensical ramblings are more like it.
I'm trying to make peace here. Lots of time for sniping later. :biggrin:
 
  • #6,264
Danger said:
I'm trying to make peace here. Lots of time for sniping later. :biggrin:

I dunno, he comes around posting nonsense that he knows is nonsense and then wonders why people are annoyed. :rolleyes: If you are going to post stuff just to be annoying, then don't be surprised when we give you a hard time over it.

I had forgotten about that tribal nonsense. I guess I just assume now that most everything he posts is not to be taken seriously and don't even remember what he's written by the time the thread moves onto the next page.
 
  • #6,265
wow this thread got stuoid :rolleyes:
 
  • #6,266
yomamma said:
wow this thread got stuoid :rolleyes:

Aww, just because franzbear isn't as smart as all the other kids around here, you don't have to call him stupid (at least not to his face). :-p
 
  • #6,267
I don't remember what I've written by the time the thread moves to the next page. :-p

edit- Hey, I remember last page. I put my second movie up and haven't heard all my critical acclaim yet. :biggrin: It was overshadowed by the argument.
 
  • #6,268
Huckleberry said:
I don't remember what I've written by the time the thread moves to the next page. :-p

edit- Hey, I remember last page. I put my second movie up and haven't heard all my critical acclaim yet. :biggrin: It was overshadowed by the argument.

I haven't opened it yet. I'm sitting in the lab at the moment, but am just about to pack up and head home, so I'll take a look at it there.
 
  • #6,269
Moonbear said:
but am just about to pack up and head home, so I'll take a look at it there.
Better hurry before the censors get to it!
 
  • #6,270
Moonbear said:
Aww, just because franzbear isn't as smart as all the other kids around here, you don't have to call him stupid (at least not to his face). :-p
He didn't. He called him stuoid. He obvious suspects that Franzbear is on the thread equivalent of steroids.
 
  • #6,272
Danger said:
He didn't. He called him stuoid. He obvious suspects that Franzbear is on the thread equivalent of steroids.
Oh, but of course! You'd think I'd recognize the name of a steroid when I see it. :rolleyes: So, what do stuoids do? I always think of guys named Stu as accountants. Does a stuoid make you faster at adding columns of numbers in your head, or able to memorize vast quantities of obscure tax code?
 
  • #6,273
Moonbear said:
:smile: That's great! I really think that skeleton costume suits yomamma well. :biggrin:
Same from me, Huck. Sorry I didn't respond before. I was a little occupied.

Moonbear said:
Oh, but of course! You'd think I'd recognize the name of a steroid when I see it. :rolleyes:
Yes, I did. You should be ashamed of yourself. PhD indeed!

Moonbear said:
So, what do stuoids do?
I dunno; I've never taken them. If Franzbear really is on them, apparently they make you damned nigh indestructible.

How fast were you driving, anyhow? Didn't you leave work like 5 minutes before this post?
 
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Danger said:
Yes, I did. You should be ashamed of yourself. PhD indeed!
:redface:

I dunno; I've never taken them. If Franzbear really is on them, apparently they make you damned nigh indestructible.
:smile: That must be his secret. Now we just need to find his supplier and cut him off from those stuoids so we can kill him. :devil:

No, no, franzbear, it's for your own good.
 
  • #6,275
Yomamma chose the skull face lego guy. He used it in a movie he made when SOS first linked to the site here. I went with that.
 
  • #6,276
A stuoid, is the negative equivelant of steroid :rolleyes: it..makes you weaker, but gets you lit (this is from franzbear's point of view) It comes as a mushroom, and what franz does, is he boils it into a tea, he drinks it, causing utterly strange posts to occur inside his body
 
  • #6,277
I'm still wondering how "thread killer champions" turned into "franzbear," or "franz..."
 
  • #6,278
don't forget franzie, franzo, franzino, or franzestite
 
  • #6,279
yomamma said:
A stuoid, is the negative equivelant of steroid :rolleyes: it..makes you weaker, but gets you lit (this is from franzbear's point of view) It comes as a mushroom, and what franz does, is he boils it into a tea, he drinks it, causing utterly strange posts to occur inside his body

I'm so disappointed in my son. Franzbear, you should know better than to believe in that homeopathy stuff. :rolleyes: Tsk tsk.
 
  • #6,280
Moonbear's just going to sneak in during the night and steal them so she could get high

Moonbear didn't hear that, right?[/size]
 
  • #6,281
yomamma said:
Moonbear's just going to sneak in during the night and steal them so she could get high

Moonbear didn't hear that, right?[/size]
I'm not so old my hearing is going bad yet! I'm not interested in getting high off of stuoids; who knows what sort of side effects they might have! :eek:
 
  • #6,282
yomamma said:
Moonbear didn't hear that, right?[/size]
Are you nuts?! She has ears like a bat. RUN!
 
  • #6,283
Danger said:
Are you nuts?! She has ears like a bat. RUN!
He's just lucky he's too young for the electroejaculator. :mad:
 
  • #6,284
bad temper, idiocy, going online while you're supposed to be at the lab working, having franzbear for a son, these are the side effects of stuoids. MOONBEAR!?[/size]
 
  • #6,285
Moonbear said:
He's just lucky he's too young for the electroejaculator. :mad:
Damn right. :approve:
 
  • #6,286
yomamma said:
bad temper, idiocy, going online while you're supposed to be at the lab working, having franzbear for a son, these are the side effects of stuoids. MOONBEAR!?[/size]
Hmm...since BT seems to have left the room, how about we all gang up on yomamma instead? :devil: :biggrin:
 
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yomamma said:
bad temper, idiocy, going online while you're supposed to be at the lab working, having franzbear for a son, these are the side effects of stuoids. MOONBEAR!?[/size]
Moonbear said:
He's just lucky he's too young for the electroejaculator. :mad:
Are you sure you don't want to rethink that?
 
  • #6,288
Oh my god, she's high :rolleyes:
 
  • #6,289
Danger said:
Are you sure you don't want to rethink that?
I joined a forum and I had to pick the one with all the perverts :rolleyes:
 
  • #6,290
Danger said:
Are you sure you don't want to rethink that?
Don't think it didn't cross my mind. :devil: But, it might outright kill him, and that wouldn't be much fun. I'm only a thread-killer, everyone else I prefer torturing. :biggrin:
 
  • #6,291
Moonbear said:
Hmm...since BT seems to have left the room, how about we all gang up on yomamma instead? :devil: :biggrin:
A decent suggestion. :biggrin: He has been getting a bit uppity since he became a teenager.
 
  • #6,292
Moonbear said:
Don't think it didn't cross my mind. :devil: But, it might outright kill him
As in the Little Johnny joke: "Rectum?! It damned near killed him!"? :biggrin:
 
  • #6,293
Danger said:
As in the Little Johnny joke: "Rectum?! It damned near killed him!"? :biggrin:

:smile: :smile: Little Johnny is one perverted kid! :smile:
 
  • #6,294
Don't think it didn't cross my mind. But, it might outright kill him, and that wouldn't be much fun. I'm only a thread-killer, everyone else I prefer torturing.

:eek: when moonbear's about to torture you, you can just kiss your ass goodbye.(danger please do not interpret this as something that it's not meant to be :rolleyes: )
 
  • #6,295
yomamma said:
(danger please do not interpret this as something that it's not meant to be :rolleyes: )
Moi? o:)(10)
 
  • #6,296
Moonbear said:
He's just lucky he's too young for the electroejaculator. :mad:
Moonbear aint so scary. I aint afraid ah no electroejaculator. I think Moonbear is sexy when she's angry. I could spend all day antagonizing her just to make up later.

Does this irritate you? *pulls at Moonbear's ear*
Do I nauseate you? *pinches Moonbear's nose*
 
  • #6,297
Danger said:
Moi? o:)(10)
This deserves a gigantic rolleyes smiley, but this will have to do:

:rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes:
 
  • #6,298
Huckleberry said:
Moonbear aint so scary. I aint afraid ah no electroejaculator. I think Moonbear is sexy when she's angry. I could spend all day antagonizing her just to make up later.

Does this irritate you? *pulls at Moonbear's ear*
Do I nauseate you? *pinches Moonbear's nose*
huck there are children present...


shouldn't you be warning us about moonbear?
 
  • #6,299
Huckleberry said:
Moonbear aint so scary. I aint afraid ah no electroejaculator. I think Moonbear is sexy when she's angry. I could spend all day antagonizing her just to make up later.

Does this irritate you? *pulls at Moonbear's ear*
Do I nauseate you? *pinches Moonbear's nose*

Oh, so you're a masochist, are you? :devil: You know you're not too young, don't you? *readjusts settings: high...nope...very high...nope...rhino...that should do it*

Oops, I seem to have dropped some sushi; Huck, please be a darling and pick that up for me. I'll share the sushi if you do that for me. o:)
 
  • #6,300
I'll get the urn :rolleyes:
 
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