I'm sad...

[mstriumph]

KB's been one of my favourite online places over the past coupla years .... mainly because it ISN't so full-on techo that it intimidates me and it has such a diverse collection of characters and opinions among its contributors that it's an interesting place to be, just to see them operate and interact.

Unfortunately, lately we seem to be losing some of those characters .....

No question that they sometimes get out of hand - step over the boundaries - that's what happens when you have interaction between strong personalities ---------
and no question that some of the excesses need a look-see/swift kick up the whatsit from the moderating team - that's their job and their responsibility

------ i just mourn the people we are losing and wish there was a better way to tone them down without alienating them completely/ having them leave the site....

beige is sooooooo boring

[Disco Dan]

Pm Sent...

[merv]

Don't worry we're still here and prepared to have fun.

[Sniper]

Pm Sent...

Jesus Dan, do you hit on everyone who is female and is feeling a bit down???

RUN MS, RUUUUUUUNNNNNN

[mstriumph]

Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)
The Female of the Species

WHEN the Himalayan peasant meets the he-bear in his pride,
He shouts to scare the monster, who will often turn aside.
But the she-bear thus accosted rends the peasant tooth and nail.
For the female of the species is more deadly than the male.

When Nag the basking cobra hears the careless foot of man,
He will sometimes wriggle sideways and avoid it if he can.
But his mate makes no such motion where she camps beside the trail.
For the female of the species is more deadly than the male.

When the early Jesuit fathers preached to Hurons and Choctaws,
They prayed to be delivered from the vengeance of the squaws.
'Twas the women, not the warriors, turned those stark enthusiasts pale.
For the female of the species is more deadly than the male.

Man's timid heart is bursting with the things he must not say,
For the Woman that God gave him isn't his to give away;
But when hunter meets with husbands, each confirms the other's tale—
The female of the species is more deadly than the male.

Man, a bear in most relations—worm and savage otherwise,—
Man propounds negotiations, Man accepts the compromise.
Very rarely will he squarely push the logic of a fact
To its ultimate conclusion in unmitigated act.

Fear, or foolishness, impels him, ere he lay the wicked low,
To concede some form of trial even to his fiercest foe.
Mirth obscene diverts his anger—Doubt and Pity oft perplex
Him in dealing with an issue—to the scandal of The Sex!

But the Woman that God gave him, every fibre of her frame
Proves her launched for one sole issue, armed and engined for the same;
And to serve that single issue, lest the generations fail,
The female of the species must be deadlier than the male.

She who faces Death by torture for each life beneath her breast
May not deal in doubt or pity—must not swerve for fact or jest.
These be purely male diversions—not in these her honour dwells—
She the Other Law we live by, is that Law and nothing else.

She can bring no more to living than the powers that make her great
As the Mother of the Infant and the Mistress of the Mate.
And when Babe and Man are lacking and she strides unclaimed to claim
Her right as femme (and baron), her equipment is the same.

She is wedded to convictions—in default of grosser ties;
Her contentions are her children, Heaven help him who denies!—
He will meet no suave discussion, but the instant, white-hot, wild,
Wakened female of the species warring as for spouse and child.

Unprovoked and awful charges—even so the she-bear fights,
Speech that drips, corrodes, and poisons—even so the cobra bites,
Scientific vivisection of one nerve till it is raw
And the victim writhes in anguish—like the Jesuit with the squaw!

So it comes that Man, the coward, when he gathers to confer
With his fellow-braves in council, dare not leave a place for her
Where, at war with Life and Conscience, he uplifts his erring hands
To some God of Abstract Justice—which no woman understands.

And Man knows it! Knows, moreover, that the Woman that God gave him
Must command but may not govern—shall enthral but not enslave him.
And She knows, because She warns him, and Her instincts never fail,
That the Female of Her Species is more deadly than the Male.


not moi that needs to run, Sniper

[Finn]

Don't worry we're still here and prepared to have fun.

Considering you live in Porirua, what's your idea of fun?

[Finn]

KB's been one of my favourite online places over the past coupla years .... mainly because it ISN't so full-on techo that it intimidates me and it has such a diverse collection of characters and opinions among its contributors that it's an interesting place to be, just to see them operate and interact.

Unfortunately, lately we seem to be losing some of those characters .....

No question that they sometimes get out of hand - step over the boundaries - that's what happens when you have interaction between strong personalities ---------
and no question that some of the excesses need a look-see/swift kick up the whatsit from the moderating team - that's their job and their responsibility

------ i just mourn the people we are losing and wish there was a better way to tone them down without alienating them completely/ having them leave the site....

beige is sooooooo boring

Are you ovulating?

[Big Dave]

Considering you live in Porirua, what's your idea of fun?

I spent a week in Porirua one night.

[mstriumph]

Are you ovulating?

- on the OTHER hand, there are SOME .....................

[merv]

Considering you live in Porirua, what's your idea of fun?

I suppose I could have a perfect day doing your missus while you're having a perfect day with mine while Steam watches on.

Otherwise we have fun just enjoying how nice our city is without too many JAFAs around.

[merv]

I spent a week in Porirua one night.

You'll be back for the next Capital Coast Adventure then BD - Foreskins reckons next year for that.

[Colapop]

"YOU FUCKING USELESS CUNTS JUST CAN'T LIVE WITHOUT ME." WINJA - 2006 a...

[jrandom]

- on the OTHER hand, there are SOME .....................

Aha! Avoidance! She doesn't want to talk about it, Finn. I think there must be something going on here.

(probably ovulation)

[Maha]

Unfortunately, lately we seem to be losing some of those characters .....

Ya win some ya loose some mst, there will always be someone else to take over when those that leave.... leave!!
Just means that those intense people on here can free up their ignore list a tad...

I spent a week in Porirua one night.

You were booked in for 6 months.....what happened?....

[mstriumph]

'ignore lists' ...... and miss all the FUN??