By Beauty Damned

Well, I'm pro-Bush and anti-Madonna, but I can't believe that they kicked you off the website just for making fun of their bitchiness.

I'm going to add you to my blogroll, because I need more liberals to get some balance in there. At my present rate of traffic, you can expect to receive one visitor every three thousand years.

Hahaa! Thanks Graham. I definitely appreciate it, even if I am a die-hard Madonna fan and I wish George Bush would get trampled by a herd of elephants...LOL! (That's what makes life interesting right?) A very old man once told me "you can't argue with someone who already knows that they're right." Lately, that phrase has taken on more profound meaning for me...

maria
You've read Chosesinconnues postings there I presume. He has become my dearest friend in the world and he's been out of town...anyway I told him that i wasn't ever posting there again because of bullshit like the aboved mentioned. He just emailed me and he is beyond upset. He's had postings deleted, he's been warned on several occassions and look at that shit that has been allowed to stand for days.
It tears at my heart that there are still people out there like this. Our country just went to war and these fucking idiots are talking about a couple whose been together for 25yrs having a smooch in celebration of winning an award.
I suspect the idiot who wrote the first nasty post is around 50, fat, bald, bangs away on his puter in his upstairs room that he refers to as a "loft". I bet his 80yr old mother lives downstairs,prepares all his meals and he still has cowboy and indian bedsheets. The guy probably hasn't had a date since he took his sister to prom....Fucking Pricks....

I admire Choses for being so strong and standing up against that repugnant mob for so long and I totally sympathize with his frustration. I noticed he has resigned himself in this most recent onslaught as it is obvious there is no changing the warped and highly prejudicial opinions which many people share on that site and the manner in which comments are monitered and "debates" conducted. I also admire you Sandy, for not being afraid to go against the grain as so many people obviously are at BH, stumbling over themselves to agree with the spewage of the day. It's that "mob mentality" again. I would hate to see those people if they got physically violent.

You know what else? There are a lot of things going on these days to talk and care about, but they seem to choose the pettiest and most insignificant molehills only to transform them into mountains.

You said: "Our country just went to war and these fucking idiots are talking about a couple whose been together for 25yrs having a smooch in celebration of winning an award." Regardless of what side a person is on in the war debate, what you have said here is very true. There is so much going on in the world and all these people can do is fester about what Susan Sarandon said or how stupid everyone in Hollywod is who opposes war. And then to lump gays into the group of people that they feel like bashing and to delete or ban comments which express opposition and outrage at this view...how fucking low can you go BH? (See if I said that on there, I'd probably be banned all over again). I wish I could let it go, but it deeply disturbs me and I can't seem to ignore it completely though I truly wish I could.

Maria
You would not believe the amount of email I have been getting from the regulars at the BH...I am completely overwhelmed by it all. I posted this morning on a thread, but it'll never be the same for me. I guess I think I owe them something ..they were there for me while Jason was gone...I dont' know about any future postings...I looked through the threads and the celebrity bashing thing seems so unimportant right now..

Yeah, celeb bashing IS unimportant. But it's an amusing pastime for those of us with nothing better to do at the moment.

To be fair, I believe THAT particular post got nuked. And yeah, it was a doozy.

And I'm an asshole, Maria.....your first clue was what?

In any regard, please accept my apologies for previous dumbassness..:)

Why, that's mighty big of you evilmike.

Don't worry, I've seen your kind before... ;o)

Greetings Maria et al...

Thanks for the sympathetic references.

A random "Google" search under my pseudonym brought me here.

Sandy!!! Are you all right??

If you're out of BH .. so am I darlin'... it's a testosterone slugfest at this writing. As they say "been there, done that". No interest.

Maria??

HUH?? You got banned from BH???

What the fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck???

That homophobe "Tinseltrasher" posts that nasty diatribe about the "Tonys" and his posting stays there and is NEVER deleted nor his IP banned.

Sounds alot like an inside job to me.

I'm beginning to o.d. on that site... no question. I enjoy a lively row but the level of intolerance and downright lack of exposure is enough to send this ol' fairy right over the edge ;)

I still can't believe I was banned. It was so unbelievable. Both my home and work IPs were banned. For having a silly, childish little verbal sparring with Sandy. Go figure, Sandy and I made amends and have come to relate on a wide range of subjects and in the meantime I wear a gag while visiting BH. Yes I still visit BH. I read and I become irate, but I cannot voice my opinion. I just silently stew and occasionally bitch about it at my own site. So whatever those people say about "appreciating opposing opinions and not silencing people, blah fucking blah" is bullshit. They silenced me. For nothing. I was not even fairly warned and my offense was minor. Simultaneously, they allow and even condone people like Tinseltrasher, MGM and others to be downright malicious, much as the custodians of that website choose to deny it. The simple fact that those people I named and others are still allowed to post there, and I am not, is evidence of the inequities in LisaS's supposed monitoring criteria.

Well helllooo Maria...go ahead and just slap me...I should have quit that site while I was ahead, but no had to be a pussy about it...I agreed to go back and nothing changed...I got some nasty emails in my box and told them Bye for the last time and now I hear they have closed down the comment section. It is probably for the best..

Yes. The comments feature has been discontinued, effectively making BH the most boring site ever. Karma. It's a bitch. Maybe if they would have managed the comment section equitably to begin with, this wouldn't have happened. TOO BAD, SO SAD.

*cries 'cuz he can't beat Roggy with a telephone pole anymore*

Oh, well, guess I'll just sit and stare at the walls again...:(

*looks up*

I'm a 'type'?

*peers suspiciously at maria*

Ok, I'll bite....what type am I?

*braces himself*

You will never, ever know, Chose, just how much willpower it took for me to be...um...'polite' to TT after I saw his website....it didn't take him long to bleed over onto BH either.

Cripes.

Yup. His website is a "site" to behold all right.

Well. Looks like ol' BH has just become a place for the few to promote their own agenda with no threat of contradiction or accountability.

Actually, I'm surprised at LisaS and Reilly's decision to shut down the posting sector. Reilly put up that thread so we could "work through" what had transpired... then he castigated us for doing same.. Odd no?

I maintain that I well NEVER understand why they allowed TT's 'dual personality' posting to remain there and not ban his IP... I swear somthin's up with that.

Who IS this 'GREG QUINN' anyway???

So many others were blasted into orbit for a fraction of the offense.

Maria?

Your sympathing is UNDERwhelming. ;-)

I am actually kind of sad because the only thing I enjoyed about that site was the comment madness even when it drove me to distraction that I couldn't put in my two cents occasionally - I think it was better that way. Now it's just...tired. I do derive some perverted pleasure from the idea of BH going down the toilet, I'll admit it.

evilmike, I once had an english teacher who pretended to be grumpy every single day. I was the only one who ever had the guts to poke fun at him because I had a feeling that he was only acting grumpy. I poked enough that I would get a sideways smile out of him every once and awhile. I think maybe you are kind of like that? Pretending to be evil because it fulfills your little boyish need to rebel and torment. That's cool. I can dig it. I like to think I have a sense of humor... ;)

'Pretending to be evil.....'

Unfortunately, no pretense required. But I try to keep my sense of humor and objectivity intact.

I didn't 'pick' my nickname...got chosen for me by my peers while in Lebanon. And no, you truly DON'T want to know why. Trust me on this.

All that can be said is that hey, it's their site, they can run it the way they see fit. Nobody MADE anybody go there. But a consistent policy would've been nice to see.

Hell, I had a pool going on when they would ban ME.

You said it, if I was banned, you definitely should have been banned! LOL! I won't ask where you got the nickname. You're probably a fucking cannibal or something. >:oP

Anyway. I don't know how the hell it is possible, but a comment I made to the Ollie North thread on BH this morning, miraculously slipped through! That's the first post I've been able to make in weeks. So weird. I wonder if they will delete it...

Probably happened seconds before they shut down the comment feature. And I doubt they'll bother....so there's your fame...you were probably the Last Post They Ever Had..:)

Looks like Lisa and the gang over at BH are going to give the comments thing another try....have a more 'professional' looking BBS, it appears.

Best of luck, says I.