I enjoy reading Craigslist. If you are not familiar with CL it's a worldwide bulletin board where people can buy and sell anything, it has a singles section, a kinky section, a real estate section, chat rooms, and my favorite Rants and Raves.
Now R&R is a great idea in concept. It's a message board where you can go to praise something you think is worth while or to rant about something that ticks you off. And, of course, like most message boards it has been taken over but those dregs of society we affectionately term trolls and flamers.
Trolls and flamers are basically people with no life. Their sole purpose is to sit around all day posting stupid things in an attempt to get a rise or reaction out of someone. They all went to the same troll academy and the insults usually follow a topic pattern of racial, fat, death, gays, children, and ethnic backgrounds.
Despite the proliferation of these flamers on a place like CL, there are still some that make interesting posts. They make comments designed to make you think or that are topical in nature. You can find me on the Detroit Cl and my handle is (sitting here reading).
Now, typically I will post things on CL much as I will post them here. Topics that I believe are worthy of discussion. Of course sometimes, when I stumble across an idiot, I can't help but respond in a way to let them know they're a few sandwiches shy of a picnic. I especially like when they reply to another persons post and resort to name calling....that almost always will get me going is the original poster (op) made any sense at all.
Here is an example of a post I made tonight. The OP told anti-smokers to be careful what you pray for because if it comes true the state of Michigan will have to find a revenue source to make up for the $2 billion dollars in taxes they now collect from smokers. The follow is a typical sequence on R&R.
This was the reply to that post:
RE: non smokers, careful what U wish for (Michigan)
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Reply to: pers-ra5ny-1254288338@craigslist.org [Errors when replying to ads?]
Date: 2009-07-05, 12:05PM EDT
Just a couple of comments. Can you tell us some of the programs that are paid for by the sacrifice your making to your life for the better of mankind? Perhaps we'd be better off without some of them. It would be a good way to cut some of the over spending this government does in the first place. You have every right to smoke, hell.....smoke until lungs shrivel up into a raisin, and emphysema has you breathing from a tank of oxygen you have to cart around with you. Go ahead jackass puff down all you want.
You said "They have also forgot to tell you that alcohol, risky sex practices, obesity, auto & motorcycle accidents are a far bigger drain on medical resources than smokers could ever be".
None of those have any effect on my life, and health. What you don't have the right to do is endanger MY life or MY children's lives. Every time you smoke down in a public restaurant or some other enclosed place you endanger everyone around you with no regard. Don't try to make yourself out to be some type of martyr either. Acting like your doing a public service by slowly rotting yourself from the inside out by sucking on a cancer stick to the betterment of Michiganders everywhere. Dick.
To which I replied:
Re:RE: non smokers, careful what U wish for (Michigan) (sitting here reading)
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Reply to: pers-xkjdc-1254838921@craigslist.org [Errors when replying to ads?]
Date: 2009-07-05, 6:50PM EDT
***None of those have any effect on my life, and health. What you don't have the right to do is endanger MY life or MY children's lives. Every time you smoke down in a public restaurant or some other enclosed place you endanger everyone around you with no regard. Don't try to make yourself out to be some type of martyr either. Acting like your doing a public service by slowly rotting yourself from the inside out by sucking on a cancer stick to the betterment of Michiganders everywhere. Dick.****
Can you say Baaaaaaaa? I think you can.
Before you go calling people a "dick" maybe you should enlighten us.....which test was it that verifies that smoking causes cancer? In a 5,000 square foot restaurant with 50,000 cubic feet of air at what point is the concentration of cigarette smoke enough to cause cancer when ingested? Can you name me three research scientists that have said, conclusively, that cigarette smoke causes cancer in everyone that smokes? These are trick questions because you can't. There are no conclusive tests. Not for lung cancer or any other form of cancer.
Cancer is caused by a predisposition genetically "dick". Not by smoke. Smoke may be a trigger but so might after shave, cologne, hair spray, bug repellent and breath like a buffalo fart. It is people like you that run like lemmings to the cliff then ask why am I falling. Because you don't question, you believe what anyone in authority tells you and you fail to research a topic.
I don't know what the OP's first post was because I haven't read it yet, but if it has anything to do with warning fools like you to beware of your rights running out the door, you better thank him. Let me ask you something....did you know that in the new Senate Health Bill for President Obama's proposed national health program there is a clause that allows the government to fine you up to $1,000 a year if you fail to provide yourself with health insurance? And as a result of these fines that expect to collect $38 billion dollars a year. You do the math. Then show me where in our Constitution it gives the government the right to dictate to us that we have to have health insurance?
Your rights are being reduced on a daily basis and you sit there and nod your head like a plastic dog in the back window of a real car.....not one the government tells you, you want.
Now back to the smoking question....do you know where second hand smoke came from? It came about when doctors and scientists couldn't come up with a reasonable answer to why do people that don't smoke get lung cancer and die! And they had no answer and it was a big hole in their anti smoking campaign...then suddenly, viola, second hand smoke kills babies from 100 feet away. Lemming.........
•Location: sitting here reading
To which someone replied to me:
re:Re:RE: non smokers, careful what U wish for (Michigan) (sitting her (yeah, right)
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Reply to: pers-uuwkm-1254877119@craigslist.org [Errors when replying to ads?]
Date: 2009-07-05, 7:21PM EDT
Whether or not second hand smoke causes cancer is irrelevent. kinda like you.
Smoking STINKS. Smokers STINK. Second hand smoke burns your eyes and irritates your lungs.
Around people with lung desiese it could be dangerous, even causing a fatal asthma attack.
Smoke all you want, just do it in your own stinky house.
Fuck all you stinky smokers. I hope you all die painfull cancerous deaths.
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To which I replied:
re:Re:RE: non smokers, careful what U wish for (Michigan) (sitting her (sitting here reading)
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Reply to: pers-v4cf2-1254910122@craigslist.org [Errors when replying to ads?]
Date: 2009-07-05, 7:48PM EDT
Dear Functional Illiterate,
It was the other poster that said it causes cancer not me. As for my smoking I quit 3 years ago after 42 years of smoking. I had the will power to see that I was doing something that could harm my body and decided to change that. Unlike you that, based upon your grammar and spelling, probably decided school wasn't your thing somewhere around 8th grade. Good luck with that!
Anyway, you're entitled to your opinion but it may mean more if you understood what it was you were responding too, versus finding new and unusual ways to put "fuck you" into a reply.
Carry on as if you were normal.....
•Location: sitting here reading
Now R&R is a great idea in concept. It's a message board where you can go to praise something you think is worth while or to rant about something that ticks you off. And, of course, like most message boards it has been taken over but those dregs of society we affectionately term trolls and flamers.
Trolls and flamers are basically people with no life. Their sole purpose is to sit around all day posting stupid things in an attempt to get a rise or reaction out of someone. They all went to the same troll academy and the insults usually follow a topic pattern of racial, fat, death, gays, children, and ethnic backgrounds.
Despite the proliferation of these flamers on a place like CL, there are still some that make interesting posts. They make comments designed to make you think or that are topical in nature. You can find me on the Detroit Cl and my handle is (sitting here reading).
Now, typically I will post things on CL much as I will post them here. Topics that I believe are worthy of discussion. Of course sometimes, when I stumble across an idiot, I can't help but respond in a way to let them know they're a few sandwiches shy of a picnic. I especially like when they reply to another persons post and resort to name calling....that almost always will get me going is the original poster (op) made any sense at all.
Here is an example of a post I made tonight. The OP told anti-smokers to be careful what you pray for because if it comes true the state of Michigan will have to find a revenue source to make up for the $2 billion dollars in taxes they now collect from smokers. The follow is a typical sequence on R&R.
This was the reply to that post:
RE: non smokers, careful what U wish for (Michigan)
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Reply to: pers-ra5ny-1254288338@craigslist.org [Errors when replying to ads?]
Date: 2009-07-05, 12:05PM EDT
Just a couple of comments. Can you tell us some of the programs that are paid for by the sacrifice your making to your life for the better of mankind? Perhaps we'd be better off without some of them. It would be a good way to cut some of the over spending this government does in the first place. You have every right to smoke, hell.....smoke until lungs shrivel up into a raisin, and emphysema has you breathing from a tank of oxygen you have to cart around with you. Go ahead jackass puff down all you want.
You said "They have also forgot to tell you that alcohol, risky sex practices, obesity, auto & motorcycle accidents are a far bigger drain on medical resources than smokers could ever be".
None of those have any effect on my life, and health. What you don't have the right to do is endanger MY life or MY children's lives. Every time you smoke down in a public restaurant or some other enclosed place you endanger everyone around you with no regard. Don't try to make yourself out to be some type of martyr either. Acting like your doing a public service by slowly rotting yourself from the inside out by sucking on a cancer stick to the betterment of Michiganders everywhere. Dick.
To which I replied:
Re:RE: non smokers, careful what U wish for (Michigan) (sitting here reading)
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Reply to: pers-xkjdc-1254838921@craigslist.org [Errors when replying to ads?]
Date: 2009-07-05, 6:50PM EDT
***None of those have any effect on my life, and health. What you don't have the right to do is endanger MY life or MY children's lives. Every time you smoke down in a public restaurant or some other enclosed place you endanger everyone around you with no regard. Don't try to make yourself out to be some type of martyr either. Acting like your doing a public service by slowly rotting yourself from the inside out by sucking on a cancer stick to the betterment of Michiganders everywhere. Dick.****
Can you say Baaaaaaaa? I think you can.
Before you go calling people a "dick" maybe you should enlighten us.....which test was it that verifies that smoking causes cancer? In a 5,000 square foot restaurant with 50,000 cubic feet of air at what point is the concentration of cigarette smoke enough to cause cancer when ingested? Can you name me three research scientists that have said, conclusively, that cigarette smoke causes cancer in everyone that smokes? These are trick questions because you can't. There are no conclusive tests. Not for lung cancer or any other form of cancer.
Cancer is caused by a predisposition genetically "dick". Not by smoke. Smoke may be a trigger but so might after shave, cologne, hair spray, bug repellent and breath like a buffalo fart. It is people like you that run like lemmings to the cliff then ask why am I falling. Because you don't question, you believe what anyone in authority tells you and you fail to research a topic.
I don't know what the OP's first post was because I haven't read it yet, but if it has anything to do with warning fools like you to beware of your rights running out the door, you better thank him. Let me ask you something....did you know that in the new Senate Health Bill for President Obama's proposed national health program there is a clause that allows the government to fine you up to $1,000 a year if you fail to provide yourself with health insurance? And as a result of these fines that expect to collect $38 billion dollars a year. You do the math. Then show me where in our Constitution it gives the government the right to dictate to us that we have to have health insurance?
Your rights are being reduced on a daily basis and you sit there and nod your head like a plastic dog in the back window of a real car.....not one the government tells you, you want.
Now back to the smoking question....do you know where second hand smoke came from? It came about when doctors and scientists couldn't come up with a reasonable answer to why do people that don't smoke get lung cancer and die! And they had no answer and it was a big hole in their anti smoking campaign...then suddenly, viola, second hand smoke kills babies from 100 feet away. Lemming.........
•Location: sitting here reading
To which someone replied to me:
re:Re:RE: non smokers, careful what U wish for (Michigan) (sitting her (yeah, right)
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Reply to: pers-uuwkm-1254877119@craigslist.org [Errors when replying to ads?]
Date: 2009-07-05, 7:21PM EDT
Whether or not second hand smoke causes cancer is irrelevent. kinda like you.
Smoking STINKS. Smokers STINK. Second hand smoke burns your eyes and irritates your lungs.
Around people with lung desiese it could be dangerous, even causing a fatal asthma attack.
Smoke all you want, just do it in your own stinky house.
Fuck all you stinky smokers. I hope you all die painfull cancerous deaths.
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To which I replied:
re:Re:RE: non smokers, careful what U wish for (Michigan) (sitting her (sitting here reading)
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Reply to: pers-v4cf2-1254910122@craigslist.org [Errors when replying to ads?]
Date: 2009-07-05, 7:48PM EDT
Dear Functional Illiterate,
It was the other poster that said it causes cancer not me. As for my smoking I quit 3 years ago after 42 years of smoking. I had the will power to see that I was doing something that could harm my body and decided to change that. Unlike you that, based upon your grammar and spelling, probably decided school wasn't your thing somewhere around 8th grade. Good luck with that!
Anyway, you're entitled to your opinion but it may mean more if you understood what it was you were responding too, versus finding new and unusual ways to put "fuck you" into a reply.
Carry on as if you were normal.....
•Location: sitting here reading
This could go on all night but even I know you shouldn't argue with a fool...but it's good for the occasional giggle. I'm betting you wish you had the last 4 minutes of your life back, huh? Anyway, if you want some interesting reading log into your local CL and take a peak. But be careful you just may want to post!
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