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A short story which may be well worth your time and energy.

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01:22 / 10.01.06

Oh, and John, just to set the record straight, I suspect that if the people you speak of on this site really knew their shit, they wouldn't be online jumping on other people's work, you know, under the guise of "creative criticism"...instead, I think they'd be posting their own Solid Gold, God-Perfect Productions to show us the proper way to do it...I don't see much of that, though. Go figure, eh? Oh, and I don't think it'd be too haughty or arrogant to say that, "I know my Shit, too." Now, all...let's leave this shit behind, now. It's gotten pretty old.

A Haus of Minions
(prev. Jenna Elfman's Hollywood Haus)

01:22 / 10.01.06

Good Lord. The European Linguistics and Bacon course didn't mention that over here in Europe the word is spelled "favourite"? What did you do for that top mark, Hawksmoor? Find the doll in the Wendy house, pet it and give it a nice European name?

That was the point, kiddo. That you tried to insult somebody - me, in fact, if you scroll up - by correcting their entirely correct spelling of favourite (check the Oxford English Dictionary - it's online), and therefore that possibly you are not as unassailably right about everything as you appear to think. Do try to keep up.

Anyway - while you're here, riddle me this. If your response to any comment that does not tally with your own beliefs is to me,this is right, and nothing can change my mind about that, delivered with varying amounts of abuse, what's the point of anyone trying to treat you like somebody who is interested in the exchange of perspectives that is often considered a fairly key element in what we Europeans call a conversation?

01:28 / 10.01.06

I'm not in Europe, though, am I, you Great British Genius? I'm in America. For God's sake, courses here mean American English and writing technique, not that sordid, cut up bullshit you speak, brother. LOL. Oh, I know our language came from “Your Land” and all that ruff, pip pip, eh, Mate, but we don’t speak the word spelled anything but favorite over here. Piss off…hahaha. LOL. Get over yourself, and get over this conversation, old sod. It's old. I've tried to leave it behind many times, but apparently, you English have trouble with getting over things, don't you?

Calm down, man. It's ok. It aint the end of the world.

01:31 / 10.01.06

no, i really do hope these insults werent symptoms of your being all twisted inside from your fears about being a big fat gay geek with glasses, and i do hope that you eventually get something out of barbelith.

no foolin.

your attempt to paint what was meant to be well wishing as an insult is unwelcome and incorrect.

also, you might want to meditate on how much easier leaving this behind is for you. 'this' was you being insulting as hell about us trying to help you. i am willing to move on, but your PMs and posts make it harder to do so.

A Haus of Minions
(prev. Jenna Elfman's Hollywood Haus)

01:38 / 10.01.06

I suspect that if the people you speak of on this site really knew their shit, they wouldn't be online jumping on other people's work, you know, under the guise of "creative criticism"...instead, I think they'd be posting their own Solid Gold, God-Perfect Productions to show us the proper way to do it...I don't see much of that, though. Go figure, eh? Oh, and I don't think it'd be too haughty or arrogant to say that, "I know my Shit, too."

The above complaint is, with almost exactly the same approach and an identical loathing of paragraph breaks, this complaint. Ten was, at least, a teenager.

Score another one for Tolstoy LOL.

01:39 / 10.01.06

wait, did you just add jingoism to your issues?
dude.

haus didnt tell you to spell it that way.
the point is that you can, and that to correct someone for using a spelling that you dont use is a bit much.

you might want to name yourself after a different architect if you are going to continue to insult the country of your namesake.

01:44 / 10.01.06

totsik...if you're gonna leave it behind, then leave it behind and stop trying to get the last word, man. If you're as mature as you say you are, you won't even stop to respond to this. Prove me wrong man. Prove me wrong, because, frankly, i'm sick of talking to you. Move on...you're acting like some spoiled kid, not having your way...do you always have to get the last word? Good day, bro. Grow up. Let's all talk about something else, eh?

01:45 / 10.01.06

totsik...if you're gonna leave it behind, then leave it behind and stop trying to get the last word, man. If you're as mature as you say you are, you won't even stop to respond to this. Prove me wrong man. Prove me wrong, because, frankly, i'm sick of talking to you. Move on...you're acting like some spoiled kid, not having your way...do you always have to get the last word? Good day, bro. Grow up. Let's all talk about something else, eh?

01:46 / 10.01.06

totsik...if you're gonna leave it behind, then leave it behind and stop trying to get the last word, man. If you're as mature as you say you are, you won't even stop to respond to this. Prove me wrong man. Prove me wrong, because, frankly, i'm sick of talking to you. Move on...you're acting like some spoiled kid, not having your way...do you always have to get the last word? Good day, bro. Grow up. Let's all talk about something else, eh?

01:48 / 10.01.06

i only said i was willing to.
you're the one who can end this, dude.

(clue: you dont end it by talking shit about someone's country)

01:52 / 10.01.06

Friend, i know who Hawksmoor was. Don't be an idiot. Why else would i take the name if i didn't know? And i wasn't putting your land down. Hell, i happen to like what i know of England. All you've got to do is shut up if you don't want me saying anything to you at all. Stop trying to be passive aggressive, and i'll let up on you. Damn, man. Grow the hell up. Leave it alone. You lost this debate, bro. As far as i think, anyway. Let up on it. I keep trying to let it go, but you seem pretty much intent on keeping it alive. No one else is saying anything, but you seem to wanna keep it alive.

01:58 / 10.01.06

oh, and whoever said i was mature?
you havent read the board much, have you?
i'll keep dong this as long as i find it entertaining.
i'm not proud of my childish nature, but at least i am aware of it.

A Haus of Minions
(prev. Jenna Elfman's Hollywood Haus)

01:59 / 10.01.06

I don't think this _is_ passive aggression. The thread I just started is passive aggressive. This is more just aggressive. Hold on while I seek a happy medium.

02:42 / 10.01.06

At least the Bleeding's stopped.

02:43 / 10.01.06

you are punbelievable.

A Haus of Minions
(prev. Jenna Elfman's Hollywood Haus)

02:46 / 10.01.06

Incidentally, I notice that Hawksmoor said that England was your country, toksik. Isn't that tantamount to calling you gay? Again?

02:47 / 10.01.06

Jesus Christ, Miho, just finish him already...

02:56 / 10.01.06

ah, but england is my country.
i am scottish, i just pwn it.
pwn it good and proper.

03:40 / 10.01.06

Wow. I left the house for, like, four hours, and I come back to this. God, I love Barbelith.

04:02 / 10.01.06

I received a PM from Hawksmoor that I will not reveal without his consent, but I will tell everybody that I have replied saying that I (we?) will happily critique his writing if:
a)he stops taking it personally
b)self-edits before posting
c)reflects and responds to our critiques

I want to critique and read his stuff. As a show of good faith, I'm going to look at another of his stories.

04:05 / 10.01.06

which apparently I can't do. Sorry.

07:43 / 10.01.06

I think the story needs more wingmen.

Quantum
(prev. Quantum - terribly nonplussed)

12:43 / 10.01.06

if the people you speak of on this site really knew their shit, they wouldn't be online jumping on other people's work, you know, under the guise of "creative criticism"...instead, I think they'd be posting their own Solid Gold, God-Perfect Productions to show us the proper way to do it...I don't see much of that, though.

Here's my Solid Gold credentials to critique your work Hawksmoor, which I have to say I didn't like. In all honesty I couldn't make it past the first few lines.

But more importantly why post stuff here for validation and then complain when people don't like it? That's the risk you run, that your work might actually be rubbish and you're too close to see it.

Don't know why I'm writing this as Hawks will probably never come back to read it. Ah well. He wasn't my Favorite (pay attention Haus) writer anyway.

(Post Scriptum: Oooh, I just noticed the end of the thread summary,

Now a rhyming summary you must endure,
Of whose quality is quite poor.

*shudder* "Of whose quality is quite poor" is truly deathless prose
That is not dead which can eternal lie,
And with strange aeons even death may die)

Shrug: Butcher Boy

14:45 / 10.01.06

Ooo I have to own up to that one. Deathless, maybe? Awful, certainly!

Stoatie. Stoatie? STOATIE.

15:12 / 10.01.06

I noticed that too, but thought it was very cleverly being especially poor in the part about being poor.

Mon Oncle Ignatius

15:59 / 10.01.06

I think it's all terribly unfair of y'all to critique the Summary without properly considering the fact, that, y'know, Double Shrug is Teh Man Who Wrote The Rhyme and Who Knows What It Means, only, Drude.

Just how many poetic thread summaries have you all Written, Bros.?

Stoatie. Stoatie? STOATIE.

16:11 / 10.01.06

I wrote one for a topic and it rhymed and I got a special certificate and my teacher said it was the bestest bestest rhyming summary EVAH!!! and I obviously knew what I meant even if nobody else did and that that made it good and then we all had cake. Therefore, U R TEH GHEY.

Shrug: Butcher Boy

16:41 / 10.01.06

Yeah where's yours GENIUS! LOL

A Haus of Minions
(prev. Jenna Elfman's Hollywood Haus)

16:41 / 10.01.06

You know, guys, it's OK to laugh, but there's a very special corner somewhere on LiveJournal that is a furious shade of purple right about now.

Shrug: Butcher Boy

16:45 / 10.01.06

?

17:00 / 10.01.06

y'know, i am starting to feel like maybe we werent getting hawksmoor. he seems to come from the 'if you can t say something nice, dont say anything at all' school.
on reading his amazon reviews, one finds he has given everything he reviews fiull marks except for one stephen king book that gets only four stars.

fair play to him marking down the king.
he can at least tell that something sucks, if not how much.

17:28 / 10.01.06

More fool him them for coming to a place like the 'Lith, with its savage, sharp-toothed critics slagging off everything they can set their eyes on... sigh, it must be hard being a writer...

17:31 / 10.01.06

That's the biggest mischaracterisation of the Creation forum I've ever seen.

17:46 / 10.01.06

Quite. Whenever I hear this ‘Barbelith is mean’ sentiment, I want someone to follow it with a link to these mythical Care Bear forums. Or anywhere else that’s more respectful to new members than Barbelith.

18:29 / 10.01.06

Barbelith is mean.

Would this be too obvious?

Probably.

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