Don't worry, I was just doing a catch-all in case the idea started spreading that we'd start banning the usage of a common internet term. Remember, the whole "stop calling people trolls" thing was big here not too long ago.

Well fair enough, I honestly agree with you on all points then.

To clarify: I don't think hand-holding is going to help anyone and will just seem superficial and ridiculous. In fact, I haven't suggested any sort of solution because I don't know what that could be, I've just been explaining my reasoning and dropping my evidence and Trollheart thought that was worth starting a massive argument over for some reason.

You're just so full of it aren't you? And you still ignore the journals thing: what? Can't you explain why you brought that into the equation?

Please try to understand this, if you only understand one thing in all my posts: the reason, as I have already said, I made "a big thing about it" is that you put words in my mouth and said I was takign a stance I was not. You ignored virtually everything else I said, so I won't be surprised if you ignore all this too.

Hmm. Ignore. Not a bad idea.

Also, you're now backtracking on noob. You told us you find it offensive and now you're trying to pretend it's no big thing after you had pretty heated discussions --- or at least deep discussions --- with several people here, even going so far as to call people ignorant because they didn't agree with you. Make up your mind: if it's an offensive term then it's an important issue for you. If not, why bring it up in the first place? Another example of your framing the argument to suit your logic.

Now, you're on Ignore, so bye bye. I won't have to listen to your drivel any more.

And Neapolitan, I stand by my view on "Abacab", though you are of course entitled to yours but what it has to do with this I have absolutely no idea....

Trollheart, our protagonist, is frustrated that someone "put words in [his] mouth," which I admittedly did but have since apologized for but that's neither here nor there. Trollheart continues, however, and then places words in someone else's mouth! "Also, you're now backtracking on noob. You told us you find it offensive..." BAM! Here is everything I said the entire time based on the word:

Never once did I say it was offensive to me, and I even specified that I don't find it offensive!! The hypocrisy is so strong that I can almost taste it on my tongue. Too bad I'm apparently ignored so he'll never know that he's a hypocrite which is pretty much the worst personality trait in existence.

That's pretty much how I feel too. He basically made a spectacle of himself here, I've never had an opinion on someone go from so high to so low in such a short period of time.

I'm still confused how one can "despise" a word and find it "inherently derogatory" yet not find it offensive. I don't really need an explanation though, I prefer the mystery of it all.

Same way I can "despise" words like "fag" and "retard", which are certainly "inherently derogatory," but not offensive to me because they don't apply to me at all.

I'm sorry for ending the mystery for you though.

Thanks for keeping it a mystery.

Am I missing something??