A Mod's Rant From Another Board: Texans!
Ran across this one this morning - thought NUNN would get a kick out of it (seriously).
Here's MY disclaimer before *I* get flamed all to hell - my wife and her people are ALL fourth generation Texans - one of my very favorite people in the world is a daughter in law who is a Texan - she and her family are absolutely delightful folks. Two of my very good friends are Texans who still live in Texas - enuff said!
The angry Mod wrote:
I've got to vent.
As some here may know I've been a moderator and now staff at BEEP for the last eight years. I was a member from the very first day. I was one of the General Discussion (also known as the sewer) moderators from 1999 forward and the senior moderator from about 2002 onward. I've seen it all - 9-11 and the s'fest that followed - all of it.
I've jumped into likely a thousand arguments and settled down those engaged. I've locked probably several hundred treads and warned as many posters as to their indiscretion.
CAN ANYONE TELL ME WHY? WHY ARE THE ONLY FIVE - YES JUST FIVE - POSTERS WHO GOT IN A B'FEST WITH ME ALL - ALL - EVERYONE OF THEM FROM TEXAS?
I had one Nazi in Ohio flip out and another in Washington State do the same but they were there simply to do that - throw a bomb, get caught, and then b' and moan as long as they could. I actually understand where they're coming from - sick and demanded I understand. But the pure attitude that is a Texass poster is not to be matched by anyone - even at the smallest degree.
I can't give names/dates/posts/details but a typical thread lock goes like this. Post in violation of the conduct code, someone reports it or I stumble upon it and lock it. IM is sent to the poster "your post "how to knock out an M1 Abraham Tank" is in violation of the conduct code. Please explain why you posted such a violation. Do not do so in the future. Thanks" to which to I'd get a reply like "sorry won't happen again", "I didn't know that was a violation, sorry" etcetera.
But if the member is Texass I'll get two bitching IM's even before I'm done typing the warning to the poster. Once he (OR SHE! I swear) gets the warning the real gutter language comes out. I get called everything but late for dinner.
For the years when I was a moderator I had a couple of "godfather's" in staff who would back me - and spoke of the Texass BEEP "mafia". Apparently I locked one or two posts from their members because I would sneak into the Texass web site (I got busted and banned from not knowing anyone face-to-face under my account name when they went restricted) and read the bashing I would take for enforcing the conduct code upon them. My very own fan club.
How dare a non-Texan!
I even had a couple of Texans reviewing each post I made every night and making all sorts of twisted readings as to how they were violations of the rules. My very own stalkers.
Every single one of the heated arguments has been with a Texan - is it their personality or their hatred of all things Californian? What? I assume since they are number two in every thing - size, population ... that they've got the typical small man hate of everyone - especially of those that are bigger then them. (that's us) ... That was MY favorite part!
In the service I found that the biggest liars and braggarts were always from Texas. I had one kid bragging about how everything was bigger in Texans - I told him to put up or shut up. I told him we're both put in $100 into a pot and hire an "independent businesses woman of the night" to one-at-a-time see all things were bigger in Texas or in Illinois (my home state) if you get what I mean. The winner got to keep the purchase and what was left in the pot - Tex shut up. The whole shop of 8 guys laughed and anytime Tex would start to run his mouth they'd start making who's got $100 jokes.
I really don't like Texans must at all but keep looking to move there to retire. I can sell my 4/2.5/2300 on 7500 sq.ft. and move into a 4/2.5/5000 on 15 acres with a 3000 sq.ft. work shop, running water, oaks, screen porches ... do ya' here where I'm coming from?
Can I get an amen?
Though you'd get a chuckle out of this!
[:D]
Here's MY disclaimer before *I* get flamed all to hell - my wife and her people are ALL fourth generation Texans - one of my very favorite people in the world is a daughter in law who is a Texan - she and her family are absolutely delightful folks. Two of my very good friends are Texans who still live in Texas - enuff said!
The angry Mod wrote:
I've got to vent.
As some here may know I've been a moderator and now staff at BEEP for the last eight years. I was a member from the very first day. I was one of the General Discussion (also known as the sewer) moderators from 1999 forward and the senior moderator from about 2002 onward. I've seen it all - 9-11 and the s'fest that followed - all of it.
I've jumped into likely a thousand arguments and settled down those engaged. I've locked probably several hundred treads and warned as many posters as to their indiscretion.
CAN ANYONE TELL ME WHY? WHY ARE THE ONLY FIVE - YES JUST FIVE - POSTERS WHO GOT IN A B'FEST WITH ME ALL - ALL - EVERYONE OF THEM FROM TEXAS?
I had one Nazi in Ohio flip out and another in Washington State do the same but they were there simply to do that - throw a bomb, get caught, and then b' and moan as long as they could. I actually understand where they're coming from - sick and demanded I understand. But the pure attitude that is a Texass poster is not to be matched by anyone - even at the smallest degree.
I can't give names/dates/posts/details but a typical thread lock goes like this. Post in violation of the conduct code, someone reports it or I stumble upon it and lock it. IM is sent to the poster "your post "how to knock out an M1 Abraham Tank" is in violation of the conduct code. Please explain why you posted such a violation. Do not do so in the future. Thanks" to which to I'd get a reply like "sorry won't happen again", "I didn't know that was a violation, sorry" etcetera.
But if the member is Texass I'll get two bitching IM's even before I'm done typing the warning to the poster. Once he (OR SHE! I swear) gets the warning the real gutter language comes out. I get called everything but late for dinner.
For the years when I was a moderator I had a couple of "godfather's" in staff who would back me - and spoke of the Texass BEEP "mafia". Apparently I locked one or two posts from their members because I would sneak into the Texass web site (I got busted and banned from not knowing anyone face-to-face under my account name when they went restricted) and read the bashing I would take for enforcing the conduct code upon them. My very own fan club.
How dare a non-Texan!
I even had a couple of Texans reviewing each post I made every night and making all sorts of twisted readings as to how they were violations of the rules. My very own stalkers.
Every single one of the heated arguments has been with a Texan - is it their personality or their hatred of all things Californian? What? I assume since they are number two in every thing - size, population ... that they've got the typical small man hate of everyone - especially of those that are bigger then them. (that's us) ... That was MY favorite part!
In the service I found that the biggest liars and braggarts were always from Texas. I had one kid bragging about how everything was bigger in Texans - I told him to put up or shut up. I told him we're both put in $100 into a pot and hire an "independent businesses woman of the night" to one-at-a-time see all things were bigger in Texas or in Illinois (my home state) if you get what I mean. The winner got to keep the purchase and what was left in the pot - Tex shut up. The whole shop of 8 guys laughed and anytime Tex would start to run his mouth they'd start making who's got $100 jokes.
I really don't like Texans must at all but keep looking to move there to retire. I can sell my 4/2.5/2300 on 7500 sq.ft. and move into a 4/2.5/5000 on 15 acres with a 3000 sq.ft. work shop, running water, oaks, screen porches ... do ya' here where I'm coming from?
Can I get an amen?
Though you'd get a chuckle out of this!
[:D]
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quote:Originally posted by BlackRoses
In all honesty I have never never met a texan who was straight forward and blunt..
That's because you meet them in other states. That should tell you something. We ran them out of Texas, now they're just misfits![}:)]0 -
Texas & Texans arent as bad as that.Its a big state with alot of good folks.Florida on the otherhand is America's p-trap. When the s**t get flushed sometimes the big ones get jammed up on their way out and they usually end up somewhere on that peninsula. 0 -
I been there 5 years, and being in a new environment, I was paying attention.
seems like 1/3 are straight shootin' good folk, 1/3 are damn liars, and the rest are somewhere in between.0 -
I hope he doesn't move here. If he doesn't like us he can stay put. I'm sick of people moving here from other states and b*tching and whining about something here. 0 -
quote:buschmaster:
seems like 1/3 are straight shootin' good folk, 1/3 are damn liars, and the rest are somewhere in between.
Oh, no - THAT won't stir the pot!
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quote:Originally posted by buschmaster
seems like 1/3 are straight shootin' good folk, 1/3 are damn liars, and the rest are somewhere in between.
Just like CA-
quote:the rest are somewhere in between.
That would be the illegals.[:D]0 -
quote:Originally posted by sierrasam
Texas & Texans arent as bad as that.Its a big state with alot of good folks.Florida on the otherhand is America's p-trap. When the s**t get flushed sometimes the big ones get jammed up on their way out and they usually end up somewhere on that peninsula.
BS, florida is great. I would much rather be in florida than texas.0 -
texans are allright I was born in texas but raised all over the world
(dad was on offshore rigs)some are good folks that will give the shirt off thire back while others you dont want to turn your back on [V] just like any other place iv been [B)]0 -
quote:Originally posted by buschmaster
I been there 5 years, and being in a new environment, I was paying attention.
seems like 1/3 are straight shootin' good folk, 1/3 are damn liars, and the rest are somewhere in between.
Well see, Texas got corrupted.Staring back in the 1970's when we had virtual INVASION of yankee's. I'd bet that's where most of the liars came from.0 -
nooo, I don't think so. it is true that the few ppl I met most full of BS were in Texas. I just figured they were on the extreme end of the BS spectrum.
BS artists can thrive in Texas because so much goes on there and anything can happen there, you see it all. you can say anything and it could be true. so some of them take advantage of that. I don't see how that makes the rest of the ppl there look bad. just, there's all kinds of people there and it goes to the extremes.0 -
quote:Originally posted by Ox190
I hope he doesn't move here. If he doesn't like us he can stay put. I'm sick of people moving here from other states and b*tching and whining about something here.
Amen, if where they came from was so great why did they leave? I wish Texas was a dump, then us real Texans could have it all to ourselves and not have to deal with the subdivisions and mini malls popping up literally every hundered yards. I will say it again, at our current pace Texas will be like California in 10-15 years[V].............0 -
quote:Originally posted by HeavyBarrel
quote:Originally posted by Ox190
I hope he doesn't move here. If he doesn't like us he can stay put. I'm sick of people moving here from other states and b*tching and whining about something here.
Amen, if where they came from was so great why did they leave? I wish Texas was a dump, then us real Texans could have it all to ourselves and not have to deal with the subdivisions and mini malls popping up literally every hundered yards. I will say it again, at our current pace Texas will be like California in 10-15 years[V].............
That wouldn't hurt my feelings. With more people come higher housing prices and I can sell my house and retire off in the woods up north. [:D]0 -
Zip - that is an interesting post. Intersting, in that a guy with that mentality would be a moderator somewhere. Guess you really can find anything on the web. Let me know which site it is and i will avoid it, as I can't stand an idiot.... 0 -
Couldn't agree with the rant any more. And I certainly, "beg to differ" with anyone who disagrees. In all the 50+ years that I've been collecting guns, I've only been ripped off three times and every time the jerk who ripped me off was from Texas. I know the old saying about "fool me once...." but I just can't see killing somebody over such a relatively small amount. Consequently, the more reasonable alternative is the resolution that I WILL NOT DO BUSINESS WITH ANYONE FROM TEXAS.
PS. Hey, Kodiakk, I'm surprised that some one of your intelligence and ancestry could use a big word like "conspiracy," much less know what it means. No, it's not a "conspiracy," and no I don't "hate" Texans; it's just a pattern. When every contact you have with a group of people indicates that they are lying, thieving, low-lifes, as Kodiakk has confirmed once again with his behavior, the rational conclusion is simply to avoid that group of people.0 -
quote:texaswildman:
Zip - that is an interesting post. Intersting, in that a guy with that mentality would be a moderator somewhere. Guess you really can find anything on the web. Let me know which site it is and i will avoid it, as I can't stand an idiot....
Oh, I know the site but I covered it because it doesn't directly relate to us - it's a regional gun site. If you were a member there you'd know about it already - it's a big site.
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quote:Originally posted by drsck
Couldn't agree with the rant any more. And I certainly, "bet to differ" with anyone who disagrees. In all the 50+ years that I've been collecting guns, I've only been ripped off three times and every time the jerk who ripped me off was from Texas. I know the old saying about "fool me once...." but I just can't see killing somebody over such a relatively small amount. Consequently, the more reasonable alternative is the resolution that I WILL NOT DO BUSINESS WITH ANYONE FROM TEXAS.
It's a conspiracy. We Texans are plotting to rip you off in a joint effort. Seriously you need to get a clue. [|)]0 -
quote:Originally posted by drsck
Couldn't agree with the rant any more. And I certainly, "bet to differ" with anyone who disagrees. In all the 50+ years that I've been collecting guns, I've only been ripped off three times and every time the jerk who ripped me off was from Texas. I know the old saying about "fool me once...." but I just can't see killing somebody over such a relatively small amount. Consequently, the more reasonable alternative is the resolution that I WILL NOT DO BUSINESS WITH ANYONE FROM TEXAS.
I wasn't aware so many people hated me. What an enlightening thread....0 -
quote:Originally posted by drsck
Couldn't agree with the rant any more. And I certainly, "beg to differ" with anyone who disagrees. In all the 50+ years that I've been collecting guns, I've only been ripped off three times and every time the jerk who ripped me off was from Texas. I know the old saying about "fool me once...." but I just can't see killing somebody over such a relatively small amount. Consequently, the more reasonable alternative is the resolution that I WILL NOT DO BUSINESS WITH ANYONE FROM TEXAS.
PS. Hey, Kodiakk, I'm surprised that some one of your intelligence and ancestry could use a big word like "conspiracy," much less know what it means. No, it's not a "conspiracy," and no I don't "hate" Texans; it's just a pattern. When every contact you have with a group of people indicates that they are lying, thieving, low-lifes, as Kodiakk has confirmed once again with his behavior, the rational conclusion is simply to avoid that group of people.
Does that mean that you're not going to Krogers anymore?[:D]0 -
quote:Originally posted by drsck
Couldn't agree with the rant any more. And I certainly, "beg to differ" with anyone who disagrees. In all the 50+ years that I've been collecting guns, I've only been ripped off three times and every time the jerk who ripped me off was from Texas.
... No, it's not a "conspiracy," and no I don't "hate" Texans; it's just a pattern. When every contact you have with a group of people indicates that
The population of Texas is about 23.5 million. 3 isn't a very large sample size. Your p value isn't too high on that doc....0 -
Being from Texas - which does not really matter - but, most of the people I know from there know their manners and show respect when they are supposed to. It restores my faith a bit when I see my 17 year old hold a door for an elderly couple or even his Mom, and knows to say "Yes Mam" and "Yes Sir" when he should. That came from Texas - Not up here in the North West. 0 -
quote:Originally posted by texaswildman
Zip - that is an interesting post. Intersting, in that a guy with that mentality would be a moderator somewhere. Guess you really can find anything on the web. Let me know which site it is and i will avoid it, as I can't stand an idiot....
Are you the original letter from the mod isn't copyrighted?0 -
I was not born in Texas ---- But I got here as soon as I could. I love Texas and Texans. Sure there are a few a-holes here --- like any other place, but Texans, in general, are friendly honest truthful persons. Neighboring states do not like us (I am originally from one of them), except when we travel over there to spend money. They would rather that we just mail it to them. But without the influx of $$$ from Texas, NM would be even poorer.
Texans, at least those outside the big cities, generally are more like southern folks. Hospitable, careful with their words, unlikely to offend with offhanded comments, respectful ---- But willing to stand up for what they believe.
I am proud to be a Texan. Have a good friend from Ohio who says, "you d### Texans think you need a passport just to cross the state line." My response is, "Why would you want to cross the state line, everything is here."0
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