I had to stay in the Jim Dolan mode today as I was emailing back and forth for business and I didn't want to change out Google accounts to get in my emails. In between emails I was commenting over at Lem's and got into it with Lawnboy.
I don't know if everybody knows that Jim Dolan is me but I guess you can figure it out. I just don't care that much anymore so I will be going around basically interchangeably.
It is just that I don't really want to get into it with Meade. I know how far I would go and I don't want to go there. But sometimes when you are killing time you just fall into the mud with the pigs.
Waddayagonnado?
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He is one unhappy, lonely, loser.
I thought maybe it was the guy who owns the Knicks, looking for something to do after Phil Jackson told him to STFU.
ChipS, When we sent a fruit arrangement to Trooper when he was in the hospital, the woman I spoke w/ on the phone thought it was for the Knicks owner.
Imagine if she'd leaked that to the paparazzi!
I had to stay in the Jim Dolan mode today as I was emailing back and forth for business and I didn't want to change out Google accounts to get in my emails. In between emails I was commenting over at Lem's and got into it with Lawnboy.
Just imagine if one of your customers accidentally got an email from "Trooper York." If curious, what would they find? Google "Trooper York" and what comes up? Nothing you wrote -- just stuff written about you. Most of it good stuff. But imagine if Meade started to feed Google nonsense? It's been done. The h8ers did it to Santorum.
You're a good egg, TY.
The mere existence of a more famous Jim Dolan gives Troop a certain Google anonymity.
BTW, I almost unloaded on Meade in that Lem thread after you posted that link about the black NBA excluding whites from his party. I wanted to point out to Meade how his wife ignores these things but instead scours the internet for more bad white guy sports team owners to post. If pressed on it, she says we don't get her humor.
I didn't post the comment though because it referred back to this Dolan guy.
"I got caught today"
Naw, the Crooked as A Dog's Hind Leg and Bright as a Cardinal's Beak guy got caught, nay, cornered by the Dogged, Meade-maddened and Rabid Ritmo who was right on the money, scoring point after point, redeeming himself with humor.
The heart disease stuff was low. Lower than I thought Meade would be publicly willing to go. That, along with the DBQ poking and smarm about Synova was creepily close to despicable, definitely worthy of a bean fart from the SoundBible (another name that made me laugh) particularly when the roles of Jesus and the Pharisee are both being enacted by the same person dispensing life advice.
“The worst part of it is, I’m burning stuff not for heat, but for aesthetics,”
By the time someone is willing to burn stuff like Integrity, Goodwill, and Moral Fiber for the show that results, the question of what else is left in the house that'll hold a flame arises.
I was just kind of distracted and I don't like to engage him directly as I want to respect Lem's boundaries and I know I would be out of bounds to say what I really think.
What he has to say don't mean jack shit to me.
His fake concern set my teeth on edge.
I was tempted to say that I hoped he got ball cancer.
But that is the type of thing I was trying to avoid. Luckily I had other things to do tonight.
But you know that's exactly the kind of reaction he's trolling for. What would leave him w/o a retort would be something like, "I appreciate your concern."
Or just ignoring him. He seems to leave a lot sooner when he's ignored.
Nobody asked to hear it, but I've got a theory about LSL's behavior at Lem's.
Everybody knows that TOP's banishment of commenters was a major mistake, and that traffic is still way down under the new moderated-comment regime. LSL & his meal ticket need to justify their bad business decision, and their justification is that even tho the quantity of comments is down, the quality is up. And good riddance to those losers who've decamped to Lem's.
To prove that Lem's commentariat is a quarrelsome, nasty bunch, it's necessary to poke the hornet's nest from time to time. LSL is quite good at that.
I'm sure his work today at Lem's earned him some extra playtime at the local dog park.
Chip S ...I think you are right about Meade's intentions. No other reason for him to stop by really.
I have also noticed he does NOT read the remarks of prior commenters when he takes a smarmy shot. In other words, he comes over with an agenda and narrative and sticks to it...regardless of the content of the comments per se. He's a "pound the table" kind of guy.
Jim Dolan has really screwed up the Knicks.
You aren't going anywhere in the playoffs with Carmelo.
Of course, who is going to beat Lebron?
Probably nobody.
Hey you have to work with what you can get if you catch my drift.
You have to have balls to get ball cancer. Lawnboy needs a hysterectomy.
Just a pat on my own back and Troop's . I came up w/ lawnboy, he came up w/ LSL.
I was tempted to put in a link to the "Lonely Hearts Killers" but I don't want to put any ideas into his empty little head.
I call baloney. We all know that 'Jim Dolan' is just another one of your made-up names.
We all know that your real name is Archie Manning.
Besides, why should any sane person engage with LSL and what's her name? Just let them pass by without commenting.
I must admit I am enjoying the pummeling he is getting. It is getting pretty personal and dare I say "uncivil."
Good times.
Yeah. Whistle past the creeper.
Oh, man, I loved James Dolan on "Star Trek"!
"Cap'n! This bra canna hold much more! She's gonna blow!"
I may have confused that slightly.
I went over to Lem's and read that series of comments. It's the same as usual - he's just being petty and snarky in hopes of starting a back and forth argument.
It's not a thing that a grown up, happy man does. I can't imagine them having a circle of close friends.
ndspinelli said...
Just a pat on my own back and Troop's . I came up w/ lawnboy, he came up w/ LSL.
My recollection is that DBQ came up with LSL. I may be losing it, though.
My bad if so.
Thank you Chicklit. I did come up with Leisure Suit Larry. One of my favorite old time computer games and the smarmy character who will do anything to get laid and is a huge loser, just seemed to fit the situation.
If they went back to open comments, it would certainly increase their traffic. But, they don't want to do that because LSL and Althouse need to be in control.
But, they don't want to do that because LSL and Althouse need to be in control.
I can see the control aspect. I wouldn't want to run a blog that was out of control. The civility and lack thereof was always a slippery slope at TOP because she loved and encouraged (and still does encourage) plenty of offensive opinion. I think what she intensely disliked was a consensus of opinion which ran counter to her own. Meade seems to have little to no independent opinion. That can't literally be true, but it seems important to them to appear that way. Or something.
I continue to drop opinions there -- less often than before -- and I frequently confront Meade these days rather than the hostess. But there is no more back-and-forth between the commenters like the old days. Declarative comments as somebody said. They know that and I recall Althouse saying that it was a downside of the new policy (despite what LSL says). They prefer that you address them instead. Fortunately not in the third person (yet).
DBQ, My apologies.
chick is our archivist and historian.
It is a really big internet, and it is filled with awful people. If you want a happier life, my advice it to avoid them.
TTBurnett ....your advice is why I don't drop in at Althouse. I no longer respect the place.
I wouldn't want to run a blog that was out of control. The civility and lack thereof was always a slippery slope
I get that too. It is a fine line between allowing a free flowing back and forth discussion between commenters and it sliding into an out of control vitriolic name calling that adds nothing to the discussion. If I want to go listen to a barroom fight, I can go hang out at a local biker bar.
How do you control this, since there isn't anyway, on Blogger, to ban certain actors/commentators. So you moderate comments, which takes away the entire reason that "I" was there in the first place, which was/is to debate ideas and discuss thoughts with the other commentators.
To go back to the Salon concept. The hostess brings up topics and the guests discuss. In a real salon setting if some guests get into a fist fight or start throwing drinks on each other, you can eject them. In the Internet.....what are you going to do. One thing the Hostess should NOT do is join in the fight herself and call the guests names like splooge stooge, or insult their intelligence. That IS what happened and why the guests departed elsewhere.
Yep. Reaping what was sown.
I cringe sometimes at how personal the back and forths with Meade get, but he keeps coming back again and again with his own personal insults, so the beatdowns (and they are epic) continue.
The "beatdowns" are the point.
Every nasty response he can elicit demonstrates the superiority of the TOP-down system of comment control.
We already know that She Who Must Not Be Named simply cannot admit to any error. As long as Larry's trolling continues to yield the kinds of comments it reliably does she can congratulate herself on the wisdom of her sequential positions on commenting, no matter how contradictory those positions have been.
Personally, I wish she got no comments at all, and would revert to posting her--shall we say idiosyncratic?--reveries of childhood. Good stuff!
You're probably right, Chip. They're not likely to be hurt by many of the insults - more likely to be hurt by being ignored and by witnessing thoughtful, interesting discussions happening here and at Lem's. Jealousy is a bitch.
Exactly.
Meade lives for attention, even if is a beating.
He is such a dog.
If anyone has noticed, I have been treating Meade like a person again, but only when he says something even slightly interesting. His attempted smack down of me vis a vis horses was humorous to say the least...he never read a word I wrote...just came on with his narrative like the baby boy he is in reality. I forgotten more than he's ever known about horses by the age of 10. He totally missed the idea of staying involved is how you change things...not like in his mommy's little protectorate.
I think you make a mistake being nice to him Ari.
I try to ignore him as best as I can and not address him directly despite big provocation. It feel wimpy to not attack guns blazing but I just don't want to go where my anger will take me.
I also notice that he backtracked to attack you again. You are better off not replying.
Agree with Troop. There is nothing but bad faith coming from that direction.
Yeah, for all the reasons you've just cited, I am going to ignore him after today. He doesn't notice "nice"...it spoils his canned narrative so he ignores it. Not responding to a tiny titmouse grifter like Meade will not make me feel wimpy at all...irritable maybe :-))
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