It was all carlton's idea.

Go read the ALR.

Ivan..

You are a nut case... you know that right?

i came in here so fast when i read that... LOL

i found it a bit strange after some of the discussions last weekend that you would be concerned about racial slurs

That shits not funny. Got me all worked up. I never read this forum, but you got me to come over here to see what was going on.

Nice one Ivan.

Bastard.

ok... ive decided to play along

ok... i think thats enough bait.... now we can just wait and see who takes it

I am the greatest. I can't believe noone has used this forums for this purpose. It is perfectly designed for it. If we had done this back when you could pay to join a lot more memberships would have been sold.

probably true, im not gonna post anything else, just because i dont want to make it seem fake... jorge's post is borderline

Yeah keep it vague you bastards let's see if we can keep it up for like an hour.

Yeah, I had a bit about photos of kittens I wanted to do originally, but that might have been a bit much.

Oh well, hope I didn't ruin it.

i dont think you did... but it might be ok... it just makes ivan look like hes over reacting and you are being sarcastic

Ooooh! Ooooh! Oooooh!



Can I play along?

damn now even off2cjb is in on the gag...

Well it is not exactly going as I'd hoped. It has turned into the board agains ivan sort of thing. How bout an ally you bastards. Friggin chicken shit white people.

It took me a second to figure it out. Damn that's funny.

I guess you can consider me an ally. "Racism and threats" that's about as detailed as I got. I mentioned Sean and NY Madman specifically because they are NOT supporting members and aren't in on it... I wonder if they'll start jousting as a result.

This is fun.

Make sure Ivan mentions that Catholics are a target of the name calling, he'll be there . . .

"If you bash Catholics, He will come . . ."

Just got this Private Message from Samueul . . .

Samueul

Member # 1507 posted 05-23-2003 09:55 AM
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So what the hell was said?????

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Must stay away from political/religious debates. Must stay away.......

Do I dare let him in on the game?



EDIT:

We could use him as a plant . . . I could feed him false information, let him help push the embers into an inferno . . .

Heh heh heh . . .

Oh, and if I do feed him a line, what line should I feed him? How nasty are the comments Ivan is so worked up over?

Damn, this could be a lot of fun . . .

I'm gonna wind Samueul up . . .

Hey Samueul . . .

I don't want to get too far into it. It was really mean.

Basically, someone (not naming names--yet) decided that being a Supporting Member was the same thing as being a Moderator. They thought that meant they could say anything they wanted and get away with it, that very few people would read it.

Well, they were wrong.

Suffice to say, Ivan is plenty worked up because "rounding up Mexican fuckers and driving them back to where they belong" isn't the best way to solve America's problems . . .

And then, of course, it degenerated into a fight, and even nastier things were said . . . no shit, the ALR was civil compared to this melee . . .

Some people don't like NAFTA, I guess . . .

I think Todrick and Carlton are just pushing Ivan's buttons to get him spun up in the ALR, but no shit, some of the things that were said . . . I can see why Ivan is heated . . .

Damn, Fridays require some fun, don't they?

Well to make it believable let's use a topic that sounds good. Let's say someone was bitching about how all international students are nothing but leeches and possible terrorists that should not be allowed in the country. That ties in with the fact that I am a mexican national and a college student. Then we can expand with comments about those who set boobie traps and such for illegal aliens and shoot them and such. We can say someone compared it to trapping rats. Those types of comments would be sure to piss me off. From there it is easy to say that the discussion descended into racist remarks which were escalating in their severity. I think that sounds believable.

Thanks for making this Friday memorable... LOL... Heading to Moab tonight, Ian is probably already there so he won't hear about this gag for a while! Keep up the fun!

Is there not one non-sucker between you? This was Ivan, there was no doubt right away.

Pretty funny Ivan, you really should have started it when Ian was taking money, would have been a whole lot more support here.

Just posting to make it look like we're still talking about stuff in here . . .

Is this what bored people do ? I'm just sad that I didn't think of it first!

I've tried to manufacture flame wars before.

But I never thought to do it through conspiracy. Good idea, Ivan.

I think Ivan needs to generate a couple "inflammatory" quotes.

Don't attribute them to anyone, just post some outlandish things . . .

Man. I am reading that thread in the ALR. Madman stepped in and now its "fully on".

How much longer are we gonna keep this up?

This has got to be the funniest thing I have ever seen on a board before. People are so gullable(sp).

How long was the Booty-Call thread?

Keep it up until the steam is gone . . .

This could get really good.

Time to start bickering in the ALR thread.

It looked like it had started to lose it's leggs so I'm doing my best to get things rolling again. Looks like it's picking up steam now.

Ok ok how was that last one. Did ya see how I threw a quote in there without attributing it to anybody. Damn dude I almost pissed myself off when I thought of that container thing. That would be a fucked up thing to say.

That was good . . .

Hey, socal, I don't know that PNUT is a supporting member. Does he know about the joke? Will he not notice in the Admin forum (he's a moderator) that the thread isn't really there?
Also, maybe an admin should post SOMETHING in the Admin forum.

My browser shows no new posts in that forum. Maybe tweak the look a little?

Love this shit, haven't had a fun Friday in months . . .

I didn't put anything in the admin forum. I just said I did to give some credence to the degree of offensiveness. There are very few moderators and the ones that do try to ask in admin that aren't supporting members we'll ignore.

O.K. this might end up killing me. I'm so bumbed I came into this late but I am trying to make a contribution . Now the funny: Peenut just PM'd me through xoc asking where the thread is. My response is that for some reason it won't let me show a copy from the supporting members area. And I'm trying to figure out how to do it.

Told ya, Patrick . . .

Very amusing jackass.

Well done.

Damn, just based on the very eager Pm's and his comments in the ALR thread, it looks like this is really killing Penut.

We really ought to identify someone who's on the "bad" side of this thing. I'd volunteer but I already supported Ivan. But if someone would like to use the following text as an example of the heated discussion, you can attribute it to me.

"Listen dipshit, I'm sure that you're opinions are all the rave at the local klan meeting, but around here, you're not impressing anyone. Its so brave of you to spew your racist shit on the internet. :rolleyes: Crawl back into your fucking hole, jackass."

We really need a bad guy someone to take the fall and at least mildly support the other side. Maybe taking the freedom of expression stance or something. Anyone wanna be a villain for the weekend. I wanna see if we can keep this up til monday.

On second thought you know what guys this is getting out of hand and some might not get the joke. We should stop no matter what carlton says.

I was starting to lean that way and trying to give a slight oposition viewpoint put you guys made the thing so bad and so vile that I didn't know if I could withstand the potential barrage of anger. Any other ideas?

Its a three day weekend. Lets see if this can be pushed til tuesday!

Aw look at PNUTNUM being a good guy. I got this pm a little while ago.

Here is the message sent by PNUTMNM:

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Yo Ivan, the thoughts and feelings of the many far outweigh the narrow thoughts
of the few in this case. What was said?

Stay strong, bro.

looks like he fell for it.


SUCKER!!!!!

What was said, what was said, what was said?

It's got to be killing him

Keep this in mind if your plan is not to answer him. Members can see that you've read a PM in their profile and might be expecting a timely response. Make up some more shit Ivan.

I only read the pm in my email not by looking at my profile so it will still be unread. Let's try to come up with a text of quotes of what was said.

This is going to be fun

o.k. I just posted that the thread in here got locked and that the one in the ALR will be next unless people calm down..

Go to town people

you ppl are nuts i love it

Allright. The seed has been planted. Now without even ever posting the origional alleged post we can now post supposed responces from the offender that we have recieved in PMs. It no longer will have to be about the first post now that the discussion between the offender and the offended has been taken to PMs.

So who wants to be the first to post the response that they recieved? Anyone need help writing one?

(Evil laugh) (rubbing hands together) It's Brilliant!!!! Haaaaaaaaahahahahahahaahahhaaha.

Don't know if I want to be the first...although I mentioned the PM's first, so it might make since if I do.
but getting some help in writing responses would be excellent.

Oh yeah, Ivan, something I meant to tell you earlier...

We got your back bitch

I wanna play. I'll take the "freedom of expression" route and defend the rights to say what was said.
Gimme quotes. Let em hang me, I don't even own an Xterra anymore. Screw it!

BOOO some jackass let the cat out of the bag. Who told that claus guy. Oh well it was fun while it lasted.

Exactly what I was thinking. We have a traitor in our midst!

Whoever it was..... you Benedict Arnold.

I bet it was Graham.

LOL

Apparently we are all a bunch of elitist bastards. I totally knew people felt that way on a sub conscious level over this forum. Looks like I really shook the hornets nest.

I win!!!!!

"Looks like fun, sorry I missed it."

Ivan, did you know I was in Moab all weekend ?

I miss all the fun (but you guys all missed a cool rollover and a lightning hit on an Xterra).

How well does an X take a lightning hit?

Was it going 88 mph at the time?

Better than an Xterra tipping over.

Actually Ian I didn't find out you were in moab until after I started the thread. Show some pics son I wanna see.

did anyone get either of those events on film or video?

And who flipped and where??

I don't know about video but I have pictures of Mike (Weelit) flopping his X on it's left side at the end of the wedgie on Poison spider. I haven't uploaded them yet though. I'll post them when I get home from work today.

No pics of the lightning strike.

Nope.

Fuck Claus. He's a fucking pansy. I bet he throws another hissy-fit and quits the board. Again.

I did let Samueul in on the joke, and he was cool with it. I think he even played along a little . . .

Ah... reminders of one of my favorite trilogies.

"Hello!!.. McFly!"

GEEEEEEZUZ KRIST! Are people really this fucking sensitive? Have we really evolved to such levels of pussydom? Man, the whining is just amazing. We're people really that heartbroken over someone potentially getting his feelings hurt over the net?

You'd think it was the end of race relations as we know it. Unfuckingbelievable!

i find it funny as hell that none of them understand that we didn't think they would think it was funny...

I sometimes wonder what some people will do when they encounter a real crisis? I thought it was funny as hell and I didn't post one thing in the thread.

Even if it was funny to just socal, myself, Todrick, and Ivan, that's more than enough people to justify calling it fucking hilarious and a roaring success . . .

I still say it was a good idea, Ivan. Well done.

i think ivans trying to get it going again.... dont know if it will work.... maybe if carlton plays along... check it out

You can add me to that list. What I think is even funnier is that they still don't even get what the joke was. It wasn't about winding people up over racism but that fact that their cheap asses couldn't get into the forum where "it" was going on.

They're just pissed because someone got over on them and they weren't able to play. Cheap bastards

Looks like you're going down Carlton...

I think socal just stomped on that try . . .

should I have my title be Uber-mod?

edit..

we need an evil laughing smilely

I say, "yes."

carlton you gotta play along... the only thing better than getting them on friday would be to get them again with THE SAME SCAM!!!

i would be honored

here ya go:

I just changed my club affiliation to : Uber-Mod hehe

Maybe manufacture a falling out between a couple of people? Like Todrick and socal (you guys are friends outside XOC, right?)?

I don't think a hidden anything in the Supporting Members forum will get anyone again . . . not for a while, anyway . . .

LOL thats great... now you just gotta use that smilie i posted

i could do this but we'd have to plan it out... maybe some kind of resentment that i moved to AZ... i have no idea... the problem her eis we agree on so many topics it would be hard to argue.... except maybe about motorcycle helmet laws :p

Well, I'm just throwing shit out there . . .

If something sticks, wipe it off and come up with a better idea . . .

Make sure you tell me if I get banned so I quit posting.

ok who can go a bit without posting.... say something challenging carlton... then change you profile so your club says "BANNED" and your profiles says things like "he dont live here no more"

and DONT post to the public forums... id do it but im a XOC junkie

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mike do it.... you're perfect

YOU'RE NOT!

Damn dude.

bite me...

i type fast and dont think about it seriously my copy is good when i build websites for clients.... it gets worse when its a website for myself and it goes to hell on here... you think this is bad you should check out my AIM logs or see me in a chat room.... its a mess

god.. are we fucked up or what?

Goddammit, my fucking eyes are hemorrhaging!

sorry

No way, I'm having too much fun razzing Carlton, maybe later.

o.k. Mike..

you have been expelled by the Soup Nazi!1

:-D

lol.... yeah this does provide a big ol green light to insult carlton

And I know how you liek that Todrick

Damn it!

Now all the Supporting members need to start posting that I'm emailing and IM'ing them what a prick Carlton is.

Ban us all you bastard

o.k. this is SO not fair.. Ivan should be in here taking some of this crap

I can not tell if this Malco guy si in on the prank or is really pissed.. oh well..

I gotta know.. who is going to be the one to post the copy of this thread when all is said and done??!!

Two words : shift key.

The shift key gives you the amazing ability to turn i into I , y into Y ect. Also "..." would be sufficiently replaced by "." at the end of a complete thought , known to the rest of us as a sentence.


And I'm supposed to be bitter about you going to Arizona? What , that you left me behind here in miserable California? Were we an item? Did you break up with me and leave the state? Were we fucking ? Did you skip out on some debt that you owed me? You left without coming by to say "see ya" but I'll get over it man.

I'll be o.k. I'm tough that way.

If there was an argument it would have to be based on the question I have of why your wife is so damn mean to me when I call.

Send me a PM.

I'll post it.



Make sure it has plenty of cuss words!

ok that works ... lets save it and use it later in the week.... once this one plays out

No , I don't think he's in on it. He is getting way to emotional. I think it would be safe to call him a victim of "joke" number 2. My belief is that you only need to get one person with a ruse for it to be successfull. I don't care if anyone else finds it funny as long as you reel in one person.

Can banned members still use the PM function?

Doesn't matter, just state that you got one, I'm pissed, and Carlton is a scared little boy for not fessing up

This is kind of fun dogging Carlton.

No offense Carlton :p

say its an e-mail

you guys are just cruel..

This is sort of like a "roast"

THAT MOTHER FUCKER

claus is a bastard.... seriously if he knows its a hoaz WHY OPEN HIS FUCKING MOUTH, he could just sit back and enjoy it like the rest of us.... i bet he tells you what your xmas present is before you unwrap it too

Claus is a pent-up asshole.

I doubt he gets let in on many jokes. I've been ragging on him and the fact that he ran away from XOC before.

He doesn't know it's a hoax . . . I think he's fishing. Ignore him, or tell him he's wrong, but don't give in right away . . .

IluvmyX has a good point.

for the longest time Todrick Socal and myself have sort of "not liked one another" and it seems that has caused some to take pause to think that this may be real.

Hmmm hehehe

Damn you Ivan for starting this!!!

now iluvmyx is with him on it

damn we need to fix that...

Nah . . . ignore it.

You can't "fix" it, so the best bet is to just treat them as misguided.

"I think it's a hoax!"
"You think wrong . . . "

I'm trying to figure out which on Claus A Christensen is:

The little brother that you had to pay off so that he doesn't tell your parents that he saw a naked girl in your room when he walked in on you knowing that he was fucking with you when you were a kid.

Or:

The fat girl in kindergarden that you would do the slightest little thing to annoy that would respond in the loudest most noticable attention getting voice that she could just to get you in trouble.

Or:

The kid who wasn't geeky enough to hang out with the geeks and not cool enough to hang out with anyone else that tried desperately to belong only to find himself on the outside looking in at every social group he ever attempted to be a part of.

Or perhaps ,

The over sensitive whiner that we all know that makes a big huge deal about everything just to draw attention on himself because his philosophy is - Negative attention focused on me is still attention focused on me.

OR:

A woman trapped in a man's body.

Or lastly:

A Fucking Pussy.

carlton... the funny thing is socal and i were bichin about you abusing your powrs a botu a month ago... so that is fresh in people memories...

tell you what, carlton, edit my post in the ALR... then i will freak

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christ im not even gonna fix that, the first part of that post was barely even english :p

bitching about you abusing your powers about a month ago. So that is fresh in people's memories.

(Just thought I'd help translate since I understand the exotic language known as Todrick.)

the funniest thing is i speak perfect english and part of my job involves creative writting .... i get lazy when im not working

o.k. done..

we are going to burn in hell for this

What's done?

And did you ban 'em or not? Eric says he was able to PM . . .

Well, my last post might leave them scratching their heads. Sorry Carlton , nothing personal. Right?

I deleted one of Todricks posts.. I did not delete anyone.. that is just mean

Iluvmyx needs to go away or he will ruin it

Not a problem.. in the end you will get what is coming to you

Fine.

Ban ILUVMYX.

I doubt Ian will fuss all that much about it . . .

damn it carlton...

you posted in the wrong forum

Uh, Carlton . . .

Did you mean to post about having to go painting in the ALR?

I think you just screwed the pooch, man . . .

I saw that.. DAMNIT.. but I deleted it.. hopefully you are the only one that saw that

Hey this is getting personal now. Somebody called me a long-standing well respected member of xoc. That is a bunch of bullshit. I am not an FOG I refuse to admit that. So what if I have been to gox twice and have been here for years. I took the better part of last year away from xoc. As far as being well respected I resent that. I have been rated by 32 people and have a 3 truck rating that is by no means well respected. Fuck you Todrick for saying such false things about me.

Carlton , that was hifuckinghilarious. Nice catch.

Bounding between two xoc windows will get you if you are not careful

FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK

actually you are right Socal.. it could be that little slip up makes it all the funnier

Basically we are all just fucking clowns killing time. I don't even think it matters any more if anyone else finds it funny. Just as long as we find ourselves amusing. I almost think you should have left it there. Then it could have been put to bed with us all laughing at ourselves.

I agree.

I will psot it again then..

Here is what i have..

Hey guys..

I am about to have to go paint the bathroom so you are going to have to think of some other way to keep thing going..

Perhaps Ivan Todrick and Socal should get into it..

Anyway.. Ivan is the dork that got this thing going.. I still have not figured out how the hell I got dragged into it..

I am going to just leave the other post in the ALR alone and let you guys pick it up...

Todrick's been giving you typing lessons?

We're even planning and faking the exposing of ourselves. That is funny!

Yup

Don't bother, Carlton.

It's locked.

socal?

I didn't lock it. Ian?

My money is on Matt, then.

back open

I don't know who locked it... strange..

Ian?

Maybe Ian did since it was moved to admin.

Damn!

It's moved to Admin? That means we can't play anymore . . .

Carlton unlocked the one in the ALR. I didn't want to do it since I figured it was Ian. Carlton can do it though since he's uber mod.

Here's what Carlton wrote and the reason shit kept dissapearing was because I was deleting it from you guys posting in the wrong forum. Socal did it too, but it looks like I was too late-

Just so I'm on the same page, Carlton did not ban Mike or Ivan ? Correct ?

Nope nobody was banned. I am taking a break from the alr thread so I can watch the train wreck I have created.

Nope. No banning. No one is mad at anyone here. At least not in this forum.

MaloCS actually fell for it. He'll be at my house tonight, and I'll let him see behind the curtain.

You actually had me fooled again today (fuckers), I was thinking of closing the ALR.

I could get angry and move this thread into the ALR and ban all of you, then we could have a party.

Looks like we were a little more convincing than expected.

I love the "(fuckers)"

Wow.. we fooled the God of our world!! Is this possible?!

I am sure that Ian is still recovering from the trip to Moab.. I can not imaging us pulling to wool over his eyes so easily.

Looks as though Ian has joined the fun, look out Carlton!

I could fight with socal some more since we did get into an argument about gangwars. It would look more authentic this way.

no i wanna fight with socal late rin the week regarding my wife being rude... will be funny as hell

I havent had this much fun on the baord since i got into it with caverX

Damn, all of the sudden I'm the bad guy. Why does everyone want to fight with me now?

What do you mean, "All of a sudden?"

Bitch.

You know, I've been staying away from the XOC debate team for quite some time now. Sure , Chia and I had our little discussion , but as far as religion and politics, I gave that up a long time ago. You can only say so much to people that don't know when they are wrong.

But I have been going with the helpfull , slightly humerous guy thing for a while now.

You're saying it's still not working for me?

yeah im even trying to stay out of the religion crap.... it tough...

but for some reason i seem to still piss people off even when i am simply telling people not to be pricks...

oh well.

oh, and patrick... no its not working for you

socal, you got PM . . .

Who? You mean me?

Fuck.

Yes, you . . .

You knew who I meant . . .

You know, if you guys can use this forum to stir up bad feelings in the rest of XOC, I can get by with one little spelling mistake in this same forum . . .

Bitch.

OOPS.... thanks ian... the secret is out... now you all can see just how funny the whole joke was

I still think many people will find it un-funny. Hopefully the fact that I got fooled twice will make them see the light.

Ian...

who else

i just re-read the thread.... my favorite part was socalpunx reaction to claus blowing our cover the second time... that and our intentional screw up letting the cat out of the bag

What day is today ? Oh yeah, the 28th. LOL. There will be no editing of posts in this thread. That is cheating.

I just read this whole thing. Damn you guys are devious. I thought it was pretty damn clever. If not a bit cruel. Good show!

Ehhhh none of the above. I put 2 and 2 together very early on. and thought it would be funny to act insulted and pissed off. I have been on this board for almost 3 years now (Xlax) seen Snarl, NYMadman, LilXterra and all the other people what blew up on this board, Nothing surprises me, nothing insults me. I could not give a flying hoot if someone got called racial slurs. 1. the person doing it would be an idiot and the person being the victim would most likely have provoked it. I love pushing other peoples buttons and see them react. I do have a sense of ha ha (Ask anyone in PNWX) You should have picked a ficticous member and blamed it on him as I would also have fallen for it.

Again for what it was worth, nice try adn thank you for making a dul day at work seem a bit more like a holiday.

Claus

Totally fucking fishing....Sucka...

Uhhh yes Graham I am so hurt...

OK, finally something funny in this whole shitpile. I almost got banned for NOT being a moron. Yeah, now THAT'S funny.

too bad this post on page 3 shows its edited... hey change the tile of the thread back.... we need to save this bad boy for later referance

Graham, you devious shitbag! I can't believe you were planning on using me as a shill. I am glad I only posted once and had the common sense to keep my post as truthful as possilbe without taking either side..... Hilarious.... You guys have way too much time on your hands...

Very cool game guys. Cruel?.....but cool!

Glad I didn't let myself get into it. Something just felt funny about it to me....and so I decided to just watch and see where it came out. Now we know......

Hmmmm.....now what can I do to Carlton at the Plant Tour?

I still don't think it's funny.

With friends like that, who needs enemies?

I guess friendship, trust, and loyalty is a bit more black and white to me.

How does anyone know that in the future you guys won't start giving bad info to "non-supporting" members just because it's "funny"?

How can I support the board without being associated with "supporting" members. hmmm...

Flame, whiner, whatever... :rolleyes:

You know, I noticed that the entire first page of this thread is composed of "Supporting Members." It seems to me that being a "supporting member" should mean more than just getting a few perks for $20. Doesn't it mean that you help "support" the board in general, rather than tear it down?

I'm not trying to piss anybody off, but if I were a newbie and I saw all of the supporting members and moderators smacking each other like kids in a playground, I'd go somewhere else.

Your friendly "Tin Soldier,"

I will be watching you.....

You have to sleep sometime......

A warning....I was on the road with a band....I learned ALL KINDS of stuff to do.

Sorry, man, what can I say?

How long were you kept in the dark? 55 minutes? I let you in on it pretty damn early . . . mainly because I did feel bad about using you like that . . .

My apologies . . . :p

The funny thing is.. that I think the site as a whole would be better if you were not here anymore.

When was the last time you actually had something usefull to say? (bitching and complaing do not count)

in a sense i think you may be right... as a whole supporting member might be able to do more to support the site, but not in the ways you mention it...

you have to remember who most of the supporting members are... long time members who like to joke and have fun... it was just a joke...

christ did everyone develop thin skin since XOC came around... the Un-bored was brutal

and honestly i think a newbie would be more turned off by the fact that several people didn't even see how it could be funny... let alone that it was.

oh well... we obviously don't see eye to eye... i thought the internet as well as this site specifically were supposed to be Informative AND Entertaining... guess i was wrong

Geesus FUCK. This thread WAS in the Supporting Members forum. Therefore until this thread was moved here for all to see , the only people that could have possibly posted were supporting members.

All this bullshit about the people who participated in this being responsible for tearing down XOC and being responsible for the downfall ect. is just that , BULLSHIT. Did anything spill over into ANY other forum other than the ALR where shit like this exist ALL THE FUCKING TIME?

In the Supporting Members thread , where it was initiated , not ONE person voiced an objection. People who commented on the thread included some of the longest standing members here yet , not one objection.

I ask again; While this topic has been on going , has it affected any of the technical , local club , or informational topics in ANY WAY AT ALL? NO!

People have still been talking about tires , stereos , seats , transmissions , manifolds , lifts , places they've been . places they are going , sports , movies , joys and problems with their vehicle just like they allways have.

My guess is that guys like Electro Ken and ToolBox didn't even notice it and if they did it didn't have any effect on them at all since they use this board solely for technical and excursion type information.

This complete and utter nonsense about any of us contributing do any feared downfall of XOC is total bullshit. This is a community. That means more than just an exchange of technical ideas. The off-topic stuff does not infact contribute to maintaining an Xterra , true. But it does contribute to the members here getting to know each other and forming that community.

This , like any other good automotive board on the net , just like any community itself , has it's share of good information , it has it's share of clowns and has it's share of complete idiots. If you desire a utopian society where everyone is in agreement all the time and everyone likes everyone all time , you are in a complete dreamworld.

I , like the others who participated in the Supporting Members thread , do contribute usefull and helpfull information when it is aplicable. Carlton , is a wealth of knowledge and gives very good information.

Is there anyone here who really thinks that he now becomes less informative because he participated in this? Hardly.

A week from now people will still be talking about tires , stereos , seats , transmissions , manifolds , lifts , places they've been , places they are going , sports , movies , joys and problems with their vehicle just like they always have.

They will also be talking about religion and politics and other controversial subjects and probably get into arguments and they will try to debate until their fingers wear out trying to convince others that their viewpoint is the correct one.

Just like they allways have.

Couldn't agree more Socal... The ALR is the Jerry Springer show of XOC. We all come here to see what's going to happen next. Some of us are the idiots in the audience and some are the idiots on the stage.. Either way, we hold the same title... Idiots

amen

I ain't no idiot! /throws chair/

[QUOTE]Originally posted by JayzX:
[QB]I ain't no idiot! /throws chair/




Yes you are! /breaks bottle and goes for the eyes!/

Well put Socal!

I swear people get their panties in a bunch over the smallest thing. "Us versus them?" If only they knew all the massively exciting things going on in the Supporting Members forums... :rolleyes:

I honestly think the *funnier* thing is how everyone is now trying to justify it.

People may have gotten their panties in a wad, but look who's getting defensive.

:p

Just my opinion, of course...