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Greta

#160
June 20, 2008, 06:42:58 PM
I really didn't read Saul's posts anyway....so, oh well....  >:D

There have been times where it has been tempting to leave, but rather in those times I just take a hiatus from posting. Sometimes the atmosphere around here becomes negatively charged as it has been of late, but I try to pick my way around it, I'm not one to get in fights.

I do get pretty darn incensed about some member's posts and attitudes, but I keep it to myself. I mean, it's just an online forum anyway! But it does bother me the rash of rudeness that erupts around here from time to time. Too much testosterone?  ;D Why can't people just be nicer, and discuss music rationally like adults?

All the sniping back and forth trying to put each other down, the constant attacking, it's all pretty silly and childish when you step back and look at it. : ( If someone tells me I'm stupid, or wrong, then so be it - they're right. Or at least they can think they are. Because you're just going to waste time, breath and keystrokes to tell them otherwise.

Rules of Engagement: Learn when someone is baiting you, and don't react to it. Don't talk at length about things you don't know about. Realize that some posts do not dignify an answer, and when they do, write coherently. And don't be a prick, even if you think you have the license to be.

These few simple rules would up the environment of this forum significantly. Luckily though, all the good here makes up for the not-so-good, so, I remain.  ;)

But I am glad that we do not have to experience Saul's "art" anymore...

karlhenning

#161
June 20, 2008, 08:24:53 PM
Quote from: Gurn Blanston on June 20, 2008, 06:20:43 PM
And yet, many times it felt like 50 Sauls...

Or, at the least, 50 new threads started by Saul per week . . . .

Lilas Pastia

#162
June 20, 2008, 08:44:39 PM
Quote from: Don on June 20, 2008, 03:33:06 PM
Nobody drives away full-grown adults; they leave of their own accord.  Put another way, I do the driving.

I do have to admit that 50 Sauls would be tough to endure; it would be necessary to eliminate at least 45 of them.

It's not wise to speak of eliminating 45 Sauls. It just fuels his paranoia...

M forever

#163
June 20, 2008, 09:07:41 PM
Quote from: karlhenning on June 20, 2008, 10:13:36 AM
Mendelssohn, I suppose.

Probably not. Remember, according to Saul, it is a tragedy that Mendelssohn converted. Although, IIRC, he more blamed his parents for influencing him and depriving him of his birthright to be part of the "chosen people". Mendelssohn, BTW, even though he wrote very nice music, was known to be rather direct and sarcastic as a person who openly made fun of people he saw as dimwitted. If anything I have read about him is true, he wouldn't have suffered Saul for 5 minutes...

Greta

#164
June 20, 2008, 10:04:00 PM
I knew it....M stands for Mendelssohn.... ;D

prémont

#165
June 21, 2008, 02:39:24 AM
Quote from: Don on May 28, 2008, 12:10:26 PM
No - I don't remember you either.
Wellcome to the forum, Don.  ;D
Reality trumps our fantasy far beyond imagination.

DavidRoss

#166
June 21, 2008, 03:55:12 AM
I also miss Chris and Rena and Owlice.
"Maybe the problem most of you have ... is that you're not listening to Barbirolli." ~Sarge

"The problem with socialism is that sooner or later you run out of other people's money." ~Margaret Thatcher

J.Z. Herrenberg

#167
June 21, 2008, 04:28:53 AM
I miss the stylish and intelligent Monsieur Croche.
Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything. -- Plato

(poco) Sforzando

#168
June 21, 2008, 04:30:32 AM
Quote from: Jezetha on June 21, 2008, 04:28:53 AM
I miss the stylish and intelligent Monsieur Croche.

You mean the guy from Malaysia who said he was 17 and sounded like he was 40?
"I don't know what sforzando means, though it clearly means something."

J.Z. Herrenberg

#169
June 21, 2008, 04:35:18 AM
Quote from: Sforzando on June 21, 2008, 04:30:32 AM
You mean the guy from Malaysia who said he was 17 and sounded like he was 40?

Yes. I always had my doubts about that... But if he really is, he is brilliant.
Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything. -- Plato

Renfield

#170
June 21, 2008, 04:42:20 AM
Quote from: Jezetha on June 21, 2008, 04:35:18 AM
Yes. I always had my doubts about that... But if he really is, he is brilliant.

I trust I can muster enough jadedness myself, to not sound like I'm turning 20 this September. ;) 8)


Although I like Monsieur Croche: at least he's got style, whatever his age. Is he gone?

J.Z. Herrenberg

#171
June 21, 2008, 05:13:20 AM
Quote from: Renfield on June 21, 2008, 04:42:20 AM
I trust I can muster enough jadedness myself, to not sound like I'm turning 20 this September. ;) 8)


Although I like Monsieur Croche: at least he's got style, whatever his age. Is he gone?

He has stopped posting. His last contribution dates from 28 May.

http://www.good-music-guide.com/community/index.php/topic,9.msg188092.html#msg188092
Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything. -- Plato

Renfield

#172
June 21, 2008, 05:16:51 AM
Quote from: Jezetha on June 21, 2008, 05:13:20 AM
He has stopped posting. His last contribution dates from 28 May.

http://www.good-music-guide.com/community/index.php/topic,9.msg188092.html#msg188092

A shame.

But life goes on: forum-life included. :)

prémont

#173
June 21, 2008, 05:22:48 AM
Quote from: Jezetha on June 21, 2008, 04:35:18 AM
Yes. I always had my doubts about that... But if he really is, he is brilliant.

So had I, but his post was always interesting. BTW I think he will return.
Reality trumps our fantasy far beyond imagination.

DavidRoss

#174
June 21, 2008, 06:29:53 AM
Quote from: Renfield on June 21, 2008, 04:42:20 AM
I trust I can muster enough jadedness myself, to not sound like I'm turning 20 this September. ;) 8)
Your posts led me to presume you were a sophomore in college, so it seems that you're right where you're supposed to be!
"Maybe the problem most of you have ... is that you're not listening to Barbirolli." ~Sarge

"The problem with socialism is that sooner or later you run out of other people's money." ~Margaret Thatcher

Bogey

#175
June 21, 2008, 07:15:28 AM
Quote from: DavidRoss on June 20, 2008, 03:09:32 PM
Speaking of which, where's our buddy, the Mahler-loving physicist Dave?  Haven't seen him around for awhile....

I believe I have his address around here somewhere.  Maybe I should drop him a line.  I have not been able to play the card since he left. ;)

There will never be another era like the Golden Age of Hollywood.  We didn't know how to blow up buildings then so we had no choice but to tell great stories with great characters.-Ben Mankiewicz

Renfield

#176
June 21, 2008, 02:00:09 PM
Quote from: DavidRoss on June 21, 2008, 06:29:53 AM
Your posts led me to presume you were a sophomore in college, so it seems that you're right where you're supposed to be!

Even though I am neither American nor currently observing full-time higher education (in practice), I am quite glad of that fact. :)


Edit: My point being that I could present myself as older than I am, not that I do! (Hopefully.) As could many people.

Solitary Wanderer

#177
June 21, 2008, 02:04:11 PM
I'd like to see Mark [Mark], Andy [AndyD] & Simon [Great Gable] back posting again  :(
'I lingered round them, under that benign sky: watched the moths fluttering among the heath and harebells, listened to the soft wind breathing through the grass, and wondered how any one could ever imagine unquiet slumbers for the sleepers in that quiet earth.' ~ Emily Bronte

Christo

#178
June 21, 2008, 10:09:11 PM
Quote from: karlhenning on June 19, 2008, 03:34:46 AM
Remember what Brian of Nazareth said: You're all different.

;)
... music is not only an 'entertainment', nor a mere luxury, but a necessity of the spiritual if not of the physical life, an opening of those magic casements through which we can catch a glimpse of that country where ultimate reality will be found.    RVW, 1948

Harry

#179
June 21, 2008, 10:59:44 PM
A not forgetting the lovely Muriel!
And Andy is missed too!
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