Banning registry

[Tim James]

Cool, I didn't know they came striped as well.

Crazy fucking tapirs, never know what they'll do.

[Tom Chick]

Baby t.a.p.i.r. is now my favorite thing on the internet.

Hi, little guy!

-Tom

EDIT: Ha ha.

[Adree]

Baby t.a.p.i.r. is now my favorite thing on the internet.

Hi, little guy!

-Tom

http://www.wrongtees.com/images/designs/swatches/pedobear.png

[Tom Chick]

What happened to that thing's right leg? Was he injured? Or was he born that way?

-Tom

[Euri]

What happened to that thing's right leg? Was he injured? Or was he born that way?

-Tom

It recedes into the recently molested past.

[Adree]

What happened to that thing's right leg? Was he injured? Or was he born that way?

-Tom

http://roblogger.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/12/sidewalk-art-19.jpg

[Robert Sharp]

Baby t.a.p.i.r. is now my favorite thing on the internet.

Hi, little guy!

-Tom

My God, I hope you aren't playing with the word filter right now!

[Abilio Carvalho]

Baby t.a.p.i.r. is now my favorite thing on the internet.

Hi, little guy!

-Tom
http://i13.tinypic.com/89g6v78.jpg

[Octonoo]

My God, I hope you aren't playing with the word filter right now!

In what I always thought was just a cliche and metaphoric made-up online response to an unexpected post, I actually have true and legal cause to demand, "You owe me a new keyboard." Hawaiian Punch, for the record.

As an aside to all of this, Splash Damage also had a thing for this particular animal when I was following their forums leading up to Quake Wars. They even advertised an International Day dedicated to it (27 April). And here is their most popular forum gif:

http://i34.tinypic.com/iyq2jl.gif

I can't read their forums the same way anymore...

[Lorini]

He didn't call you a tapir, did he? I seem to remember there being a problem like that in the past...

Um no. Thank god.

[HUMBY50]

These new developments immediately made me think of this song

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIeRw8NZbfs

Shame on you Tom for trying to ruin this message of racial understanding.

[Staff Sergeant]

... some of you who don't get that being on a private forum is like hanging out in someone's living room ...


Largest Capacity Living Room
Owned by | Capacity
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Tom Chick | Can hold 2665 people.


I sent it in for you Tom.

[quatoria]

Um no. Thank god.

Surely not a chubacabra?!

[Chuck Jordan]

For what it's worth: that whole incident with the picture sent me off on one of my "I hate the internet" benders where I want to stab people for not being nice to each other. It's not even that the word is offensive (although it's still one of the only words I won't say), and it sure as hell isn't "censorship." It's just when somebody makes a polite request not to say something, why not either just acknowledge it out of basic, common courtesy; or ignore it?

I just wanted to publicly say I thought Tom handled it perfectly, and I wish he weren't getting so much flak for doing the right thing. People keep talking about what they can and can't say, but nobody's talking about what you should or shouldn't say, just out of respect. What's wrong with waiting until somebody proves himself to be an asshole before you start treating him like an asshole? Is everybody afraid the boards are going to lose their edge or something?

[BobJustBob]

What's wrong with waiting until somebody proves himself to be an asshole before you start treating him like an asshole?

That's what we did. Hence, treating Markell like an asshole.

[Machfive]

That's what we did. Hence, treating Markell like a tapir.

Fixed.

[Dave Markell]

You're a bitter little man, Bob.

[russellmz00]

Gently touching the tapir, so to speak?

so damn close. it should have been "chick gently touches tapir"

[Tim James]

I think the tapir has some new competition, the Visayan warty piglet (http://www.floridatoday.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081002/BREAKINGNEWS/81002019/1086).


A baby announcement came out of the Brevard Zoo this morning: Its first Visayan warty piglet was born Sept. 17.

The tiny, brown-and-white striped girl was less than a pound at birth and is eight inches long and close to two pounds now.

The zoo just received its four adult Visayan warty pigs in June. There are three females and one male, Pandan, who had the baby with mom Makina.

In a statement from Brevard Zoo, animal programs director Michelle Smurl said of the baby: “The keepers report that she is glued to the mother, and they often vocalize to each other with grunts, squeaks, and other pig-like noises. One of the keepers commented that she resembles a little melon with stripes.”

The public won't be able to see the piglet until later in the month, zoo officials said.

Visayan warty pigs are native to six islands in the Philippines but are extinct on four of them.

http://cmsimg.floridatoday.com/apps/pbcsi.dll/bilde?Site=A9&Date=20081002&Category=BREAKINGNEWS&ArtNo=81002019&Ref=AR&Profile=1086&MaxW=550&MaxH=650&title=0

[Balasarius]

I clicked on this thread thinking Sol Invictus got banned, dammit.

[Tim James]

Sorry, I forgot about all the recent drama and should have known the masses wanted to see some blood. :)

[Hanacker]

I clicked on this thread thinking Sol Invictus got banned, dammit.

Same.

[SpoofyChop]

I dunno. Does it really make sense to ban people for things they didn't do on this forum?

[arctangent]

A link is as good as a post to a blind tapir.

[Mark Crump]

I dunno. Does it really make sense to ban people for things they didn't do on this forum?

His post on QT3 wasn't exactly the paragon of good taste either.

[Brendan]

I assume that after Sol's apology and the locking of the thread that the matter has been dealt with to the entity's satisfaction and we all need to stop being such yentas.

[Drastic]

That thread was locked for awhile, then unlocked long enough for Solin Victus to deliver his I-have-sinned-against-you apology, then locked again, so pretty clearly he walked through penance in cooperation with Tom. Ergo thusly concordantly therefore (I'm positive the Architect was a yenta, too) I wouldn't expect him to join The Graphic of Woo anytime soon.

[Hanacker]

Oh, I missed the apology. Guess you had to be there when the locked thread got bumped.

Edit: Oh, it never got bumped? Just had to be looking for a change in the name of the last post?

[Mark Crump]

That thread was locked for awhile, then unlocked long enough for Solin Victus to deliver his I-have-sinned-against-you apology, then locked again, so pretty clearly he walked through penance in cooperation with Tom. Ergo thusly concordantly therefore (I'm positive the Architect was a yenta, too) I wouldn't expect him to join The Graphic of Woo anytime soon.


I wouldn't take that bet. I think he's had his second strike.

[Dave Markell]

I think Draikin is about to join the registry:


Nice job pirates. I guess they never thought someone with access to the gold copy would be a Fallout fan and risk his job to get the truth out.

860 Kb/s (http://www.quartertothree.com/game-talk/showpost.php?p=1502120&postcount=4496)

I hope he gets a nice Vault Boy icon when he does.

[Tortilla]

Whoa, that's a hell of a way to flame out!

[Jon Rowe]

what happened?

[Jason McMaster]

I think Draikin is about to join the registry:



I hope he gets a nice Vault Boy icon when he does.

Well, he IS an idiot

[ZekeDMS]

It's Yom Kippur, I think we should make with the extra yentacracy today.

[Dave Markell]

Follow-up post from Draikin confirming his piracy of a game that's not out for weeks: (http://www.quartertothree.com/game-talk/showpost.php?p=1502892&postcount=4565)


The escape from the Vault with Oblivion guards running after the PC and giant coackroches everywhere in the Vault was too much for me. I gave up on Fallout 3.

[Lunch of Kong]

Yom Kippur! Of course (smacks head) that's why there have been hundreds of cars parked up and down the streets of my neighborhood since yesterday evening (there's a synagogue 5 blocks away)

[Bahimiron]

Must be a reform synagogue.

[Tankero]

It's almost subtle, like a particular smell on a sudden gust. Truly, a nostalgic sort of flameout.

[Staff Sergeant]

Follow-up post from Draikin confirming his piracy of a game that's not out for weeks: (http://www.quartertothree.com/game-talk/showpost.php?p=1502892&postcount=4565)

Man, you really want him out, don't you :)

[shift6]

Yom Kippur! Of course (smacks head) that's why there have been hundreds of cars parked up and down the streets of my neighborhood since yesterday evening (there's a synagogue 5 blocks away)
That's why the economy is doing so bad, all the Jews are in synogogue instead of doing business!

[Kunikos]

Man, you really want him out, don't you :)

There are people who don't?

[Ed Solomon]

There are people who don't?

I'd hate to see him go. He has a certain Nivea-scented savoir-faire.

[Staff Sergeant]

There are people who don't?

There's a difference between not liking him (he's an incredibly obvious troll, and his posts are a waste of the electricity they use up on the way to my screen), and reporting everything illicit he does to the ban thread.

[Tom Chick]

The status of Draikin's account has nothing to do with Dave Markell's post. And in the future, I'd appreciate it if folks would limit their attempts at tattling to PMs.

-Tom