Avatars

[gohnjotti]

No one else is as worried as I am about there potentially being a mole? You know, I think we all made our point as far as where we stand on this issue. But more so concerning is the fact that someone, has exposed, these boards to left wing communists.

No one else thinks it’s strange how all of sudden things that were seemingly fine for years here, are now suddenly being deemed controversial? At a time where, there are mass protests, police departments being defunded, shill movements setting up autonomous zones, where the President is considered a Nazi, and you aren’t black enough unless you vote for Joe Biden, and we just so happen to be a forum where a majority of it’s members don’t agree with all of that sorry shit. A board where, instead of just accepting the narrative, we effectively pick the bullshit apart and exposing the truth. Like George Soros funding BLM and Antifa, or how Floyd was part of a money laundering and counterfeiting operation and was killed as part of a hit. I been around this block FAR TOO MANY TIMES to just accept that this is merely a coincidence.

Plus, since when do multiple people complain about the same thing on these forums? I haven’t been a member here for nearly as long as just about all of you. But I been here long enough to see, that when typically someone here as an issue old or new, they have NO PROBLEM posting their issue about whoever or whatever it is in the thread where they started having the problem. This is just sneaky, and fucking screams ulterior motive and agenda fulfillment to me, and after really thinking about it my red flag has been raised.

WHERE THE FUCK IS GROUCHY SINATRA? MY WIZARDLY INTUITION IS TINGLING AND I CAN’T HELP BUT FEEL LIKE HE’S INVOLVED. HE JUST CONVENIENTLY DISAPPEARED RIGHT AS THE CIVIL UNREST WAS BEGINNING. HOW MUCH ARE THEY PAYING HIM? WILL THE CHARADE EVER END?

I don’t know how much of this is genuine or not but it’s hilarious either way. The mind of a conspiracy theorist.

[Peppermint]

No one else is as worried as I am about there potentially being a mole? You know, I think we all made our point as far as where we stand on this issue. But more so concerning is the fact that someone, has exposed, these boards to left wing communists.

No one else thinks it’s strange how all of sudden things that were seemingly fine for years here, are now suddenly being deemed controversial? At a time where, there are mass protests, police departments being defunded, shill movements setting up autonomous zones, where the President is considered a Nazi, and you aren’t black enough unless you vote for Joe Biden, and we just so happen to be a forum where a majority of it’s members don’t agree with all of that sorry shit. A board where, instead of just accepting the narrative, we effectively pick the bullshit apart and exposing the truth. Like George Soros funding BLM and Antifa, or how Floyd was part of a money laundering and counterfeiting operation and was killed as part of a hit. I been around this block FAR TOO MANY TIMES to just accept that this is merely a coincidence.

Plus, since when do multiple people complain about the same thing on these forums? I haven’t been a member here for nearly as long as just about all of you. But I been here long enough to see, that when typically someone here as an issue old or new, they have NO PROBLEM posting their issue about whoever or whatever it is in the thread where they started having the problem. This is just sneaky, and fucking screams ulterior motive and agenda fulfillment to me, and after really thinking about it my red flag has been raised.

WHERE THE FUCK IS GROUCHY SINATRA? MY WIZARDLY INTUITION IS TINGLING AND I CAN’T HELP BUT FEEL LIKE HE’S INVOLVED. HE JUST CONVENIENTLY DISAPPEARED RIGHT AS THE CIVIL UNREST WAS BEGINNING. HOW MUCH ARE THEY PAYING HIM? WILL THE CHARADE EVER END?

I don’t know how much of this is genuine or not but it’s hilarious either way. The mind of a conspiracy theorist.

The Grouchy part is mostly a joke because he’s a pompous and smug, socialist dick that is probably loving everything that’s been happening. I also just wouldn’t be surprised if he’s a paid shill, or has something to do with all these unknown communists reporting things that were otherwise not a prior issue. It’s suspicious to me as well that he’s just gone, from posting like 10 or more times a day, to just being completely gone, and his lack of activity lines up with around the time all this chaos started. I’m also only half joking when I say I’m going to end up getting strangled, and tied to a door knob with a scarf. Sometimes I am genuinely concerned about that happening to me, because I’m not joking at all what so ever when I say I been gangstalked before after talking about conspiracies, and Illuminati shit, particularly when I speak about my family’s Masonic history. Which in light of all this, I don’t think it’s safe for me to continue talking about anymore here, usually by now I’ve been long shadow banned and unable to access whatever website I was using to discuss these things so I thought it was ok here since it has happened yet, BUT NOT ANYMORE.

Everything else I’m pretty serious about, this is all very unusual to me. This doesn’t strike me at all as the usual behavior of these boards, everyone is pretty open about their problems with one another when pertaining to these forums. The timing is strange, like I said a time where the nation is practically under attack by left wing extremists and shills, we suddenly have a group of anonymous members complaining about “politically incorrect” things? Complaining about those things on a forum where a majority of the members don’t consider them so or don’t care that they are. The same members that are mostly aligned with the right, and don’t accept the liberal narratives they’re forcing upon the nation at the moment. Members who often go out of their way, to instead of discussing the mafia pick apart the liberal agenda and expose it for what it really is. Seriously, why now of all times is such a thing happening to these forums now? If these were people that were genuinely offended by the Confederate flag or whatever, where were these complaints years ago? Where were the complaints over just about every politically incorrect thing Pogo or Confederate has ever said over the years between each other? Completely nonexistent problems, until all of a sudden, when freedom of expression is under attack as a whole by phony movements they suddenly become under attack now here, and become a problem too?

None of that is suspicious to you? I mean think about it, these are pretty exclusive forums. You need to not only have your email verified but you need to be approved by the administrator, after being approved you need a certain amount of posts to even access a majority of the boards all the while you have practically every veteran member suspicious of you, always assuming you’re someone under an alternative account trying to cause trouble. Anyone that would have an actual issue with anything Pogo or Confederate posts, or any other member’s content, would have long been either confronted about it or confronted one of us about it. Not only that, but there exists a report button every thread, on every reply, normal people that use forums that see a post they feel is either offensive or violates the rule will use that function. I know a lot of people are all thumbs when it comes to using forums, but that’s as basic as quoting and I’m sure most people have accidentally clicked report instead of quote so they know it exists. That being said, considering the above, all the mods yourself included, would receive the reports it wouldn’t just be Soliai. So why is that these unknown communists are personally private messaging the Administrator specifically? Why aren’t they private messaging any of the moderators? Am I incorrect to assume that you have the authority here to curb what would normally (I say normally because what’s happening here isn’t normal) be considered offensive content? I know if I had a problem, that I didn’t want to address to the entire board I would probably message you, or any of the other mods before going straight to the admin first. Because I’m a genuine person, with genuine problems, I don’t go straight to the owner like a sneaky shill that’s trying to push forward my agenda, because the admin isn’t the only one who can handle problems you guys are clearly “caporegimes” for a reason and I’ve seen threads where you guys have “laid down the law” so to speak. What would make any of this any different? Because these aren’t genuine people with genuine concerns, these are shills that are trying to bring swift social justice to conform us into accepting their crazy narratives. I feel almost partly responsible, but this was probably inevitable regardless considering how many other social platforms there are with a majority of right wing users that are under constant attack by communist shills. I’m a member of a few of these websites myself, part of the reason why I say I’ve seen this rodeo one too many times before. Just take all of this into consideration before just assuming I’m nuts, Villain found it rather interesting to say the least but I can tell he’s like minded.

I think it’s seriously important that the people complaining, their handles are revealed to all of us. That way we can begin to deduct whether or not these are people who are genuinely offended who have been long time members (active or not), or if they’re a bunch of newly registered accounts because if they’re newly registered then they’re most likely shills under dumby accounts, and I can then maybe stop thinking about it and sleep at night.

[mafiastudent]

No one else is as worried as I am about there potentially being a mole? You know, I think we all made our point as far as where we stand on this issue. But more so concerning is the fact that someone, has exposed, these boards to left wing communists.

No one else thinks it’s strange how all of sudden things that were seemingly fine for years here, are now suddenly being deemed controversial? At a time where, there are mass protests, police departments being defunded, shill movements setting up autonomous zones, where the President is considered a Nazi, and you aren’t black enough unless you vote for Joe Biden, and we just so happen to be a forum where a majority of it’s members don’t agree with all of that sorry shit. A board where, instead of just accepting the narrative, we effectively pick the bullshit apart and exposing the truth. Like George Soros funding BLM and Antifa, or how Floyd was part of a money laundering and counterfeiting operation and was killed as part of a hit. I been around this block FAR TOO MANY TIMES to just accept that this is merely a coincidence.

Plus, since when do multiple people complain about the same thing on these forums? I haven’t been a member here for nearly as long as just about all of you. But I been here long enough to see, that when typically someone here as an issue old or new, they have NO PROBLEM posting their issue about whoever or whatever it is in the thread where they started having the problem. This is just sneaky, and fucking screams ulterior motive and agenda fulfillment to me, and after really thinking about it my red flag has been raised.

WHERE THE FUCK IS GROUCHY SINATRA? MY WIZARDLY INTUITION IS TINGLING AND I CAN’T HELP BUT FEEL LIKE HE’S INVOLVED. HE JUST CONVENIENTLY DISAPPEARED RIGHT AS THE CIVIL UNREST WAS BEGINNING. HOW MUCH ARE THEY PAYING HIM? WILL THE CHARADE EVER END?

I don’t know how much of this is genuine or not but it’s hilarious either way. The mind of a conspiracy theorist.

The Grouchy part is mostly a joke because he’s a pompous and smug, socialist dick that is probably loving everything that’s been happening. I also just wouldn’t be surprised if he’s a paid shill, or has something to do with all these unknown communists reporting things that were otherwise not a prior issue. It’s suspicious to me as well that he’s just gone, from posting like 10 or more times a day, to just being completely gone, and his lack of activity lines up with around the time all this chaos started. I’m also only half joking when I say I’m going to end up getting strangled, and tied to a door knob with a scarf. Sometimes I am genuinely concerned about that happening to me, because I’m not joking at all what so ever when I say I been gangstalked before after talking about conspiracies, and Illuminati shit, particularly when I speak about my family’s Masonic history. Which in light of all this, I don’t think it’s safe for me to continue talking about anymore here, usually by now I’ve been long shadow banned and unable to access whatever website I was using to discuss these things so I thought it was ok here since it has happened yet, BUT NOT ANYMORE.

Everything else I’m pretty serious about, this is all very unusual to me. This doesn’t strike me at all as the usual behavior of these boards, everyone is pretty open about their problems with one another when pertaining to these forums. The timing is strange, like I said a time where the nation is practically under attack by left wing extremists and shills, we suddenly have a group of anonymous members complaining about “politically incorrect” things? Complaining about those things on a forum where a majority of the members don’t consider them so or don’t care that they are. The same members that are mostly aligned with the right, and don’t accept the liberal narratives they’re forcing upon the nation at the moment. Members who often go out of their way, to instead of discussing the mafia pick apart the liberal agenda and expose it for what it really is. Seriously, why now of all times is such a thing happening to these forums now? If these were people that were genuinely offended by the Confederate flag or whatever, where were these complaints years ago? Where were the complaints over just about every politically incorrect thing Pogo or Confederate has ever said over the years between each other? Completely nonexistent problems, until all of a sudden, when freedom of expression is under attack as a whole by phony movements they suddenly become under attack now here, and become a problem too?

None of that is suspicious to you? I mean think about it, these are pretty exclusive forums. You need to not only have your email verified but you need to be approved by the administrator, after being approved you need a certain amount of posts to even access a majority of the boards all the while you have practically every veteran member suspicious of you, always assuming you’re someone under an alternative account trying to cause trouble. Anyone that would have an actual issue with anything Pogo or Confederate posts, or any other member’s content, would have long been either confronted about it or confronted one of us about it. Not only that, but there exists a report button every thread, on every reply, normal people that use forums that see a post they feel is either offensive or violates the rule will use that function. I know a lot of people are all thumbs when it comes to using forums, but that’s as basic as quoting and I’m sure most people have accidentally clicked report instead of quote so they know it exists. That being said, considering the above, all the mods yourself included, would receive the reports it wouldn’t just be Soliai. So why is that these unknown communists are personally private messaging the Administrator specifically? Why aren’t they private messaging any of the moderators? Am I incorrect to assume that you have the authority here to curb what would normally (I say normally because what’s happening here isn’t normal) be considered offensive content? I know if I had a problem, that I didn’t want to address to the entire board I would probably message you, or any of the other mods before going straight to the admin first. Because I’m a genuine person, with genuine problems, I don’t go straight to the owner like a sneaky shill that’s trying to push forward my agenda, because the admin isn’t the only one who can handle problems you guys are clearly “caporegimes” for a reason and I’ve seen threads where you guys have “laid down the law” so to speak. What would make any of this any different? Because these aren’t genuine people with genuine concerns, these are shills that are trying to bring swift social justice to conform us into accepting their crazy narratives. I feel almost partly responsible, but this was probably inevitable regardless considering how many other social platforms there are with a majority of right wing users that are under constant attack by communist shills. I’m a member of a few of these websites myself, part of the reason why I say I’ve seen this rodeo one too many times before. Just take all of this into consideration before just assuming I’m nuts, Villain found it rather interesting to say the least but I can tell he’s like minded.

I think it’s seriously important that the people complaining, their handles are revealed to all of us. That way we can begin to deduct whether or not these are people who are genuinely offended who have been long time members (active or not), or if they’re a bunch of newly registered accounts because if they’re newly registered then they’re most likely shills under dumby accounts, and I can then maybe stop thinking about it and sleep at night.

Peppermint, I think you need a hobby. I have a lot of research that need to be done, you're looking for something to do....lol.

[Pogo The Clown]

The Grouchy part is mostly a joke because he’s a pompous and smug, socialist dick that is probably loving everything that’s been happening. I also just wouldn’t be surprised if he’s a paid shill, or has something to do with all these unknown communists reporting things that were otherwise not a prior issue. It’s suspicious to me as well that he’s just gone, from posting like 10 or more times a day, to just being completely gone, and his lack of activity lines up with around the time all this chaos started.

It is strange that he hadn't made a single post since May 10th but then posted on June 10th (the same day Soliai made this ruling). Though it could just be a coincidence since he often takes breaks from posting.


Pogo

[Peppermint]

To be entirely honest I hope I’m wrong about the things I’m correlating here, and that in reality we’re just dealing with a bunch of sensitives that can’t handle the fact people believe in different ideologies or have different views from their own, and that not everywhere can be a “politically correct” safe space for them.

Frankly, I wouldn’t be reacting like this if it wasn’t for the insane deja-vu I’m experiencing. Too many things happening in too much of a timely and consistent fashion, for me to just brush it off as a series of coincidences. Also the fact that I’ve been a part of quite a few websites that have been thrown through this kind of shill filled ringer. I just refuse to accept it’s anything other than suspicious until I’m proven otherwise that it’s just a coincidence.

[JohnnyS]

Peppermint, If you're being serious here seek help immediately.

As for the topic, I see no problems with the avatars. There's been nothing too nasty or extreme from what I've seen. My two cents is if you're going to go down this path just get rid of avatars all together but hey my opinion is worth shit. It's Soliai's call at the end of the day. I'm good either way.

[Confederate]

Well, the "Confederate Flag" means to millions of White Southerners the same thing as "Black Lives Matter" means to some black people. If the same BLM people are allowed to riot, loot & actually destroy part of America which you are seeing right before your eyes, then the Confederate Flag STAYS right where it is as my Avatar. The Confederate Flag is NOT rioting, looting & trying to destroy America from how we know it. To me, the Confederate Flag means Southern Pride & honors the brave men who fought the Northern Aggression against tremendous odds of (3 to 1). My wife & my Ancestors proudly fought for the Confederacy in North Carolina & Northern Florida (the panhandle) in the Civil War.

To me, The Flag also represents my fellow White Southerners in parts of Mississippi & Georgia, who to this day, are still recovering from the horrible thing called "Sherman's March to the Sea" which the North had to finally do after 4 years of a long struggle to finally end the War. In the process of his March, he destroyed, looted, burned down & raped innocent White people who have still not fully recovered from it. When people laugh & say Mississippi is the poorest State in the Nation, it's not because of any laziness or asking for welfare checks, it's because those people never received proper restorations from the Government after the War. However, you would never see White Southerners marching in the street about it. They are too proud with honor.

If my avatar was okay for almost 3 years & almost 3,000 posts, then it is okay right now. I don't have multiple accounts & I have not violated any rules of the Forum. I'm not changing anything. If Soliai wants to ban me, then he can go ahead & ban me. I'm almost 52 years old & do this as a hobby. However, as some of the younger posters will realize when they are older, like my ancestors before me, some things are worth fighting for & even dying for IMO.

Soliai is not going to reveal who complained. He's too much of a man of honor to do it. That's one of the reasons why he is a great Administrator.
IF I come on here one morning & find out I was banned, it's okay with me. I would personally like to thank Soliai for allowing me to share my contributions to this great Forum & for freedom of expression for almost 3 years. I do appreciate it.

Sincerely, Confederate

[mafiastudent]

Well, the "Confederate Flag" means to millions of White Southerners the same thing as "Black Lives Matter" means to some black people. If the same BLM people are allowed to riot, loot & actually destroy part of America which you are seeing right before your eyes, then the Confederate Flag STAYS right where it is as my Avatar. The Confederate Flag is NOT rioting, looting & trying to destroy America from how we know it. To me, the Confederate Flag means Southern Pride & honors the brave men who fought the Northern Aggression against tremendous odds of (3 to 1). My wife & my Ancestors proudly fought for the Confederacy in North Carolina & Northern Florida (the panhandle) in the Civil War.

To me, The Flag also represents my fellow White Southerners in parts of Mississippi & Georgia, who to this day, are still recovering from the horrible thing called "Sherman's March to the Sea" which the North had to finally do after 4 years of a long struggle to finally end the War. In the process of his March, he destroyed, looted, burned down & raped innocent White people who have still not fully recovered from it. When people laugh & say Mississippi is the poorest State in the Nation, it's not because of any laziness or asking for welfare checks, it's because those people never received proper restorations from the Government after the War. However, you would never see White Southerners marching in the street about it. They are too proud with honor.

If my avatar was okay for almost 3 years & almost 3,000 posts, then it is okay right now. I don't have multiple accounts & I have not violated any rules of the Forum. I'm not changing anything. If Soliai wants to ban me, then he can go ahead & ban me. I'm almost 52 years old & do this as a hobby. However, as some of the younger posters will realize when they are older, like my ancestors before me, some things are worth fighting for & even dying for IMO.

Soliai is not going to reveal who complained. He's too much of a man of honor to do it. That's one of the reasons why he is a great Administrator.
IF I come on here one morning & find out I was banned, it's okay with me. I would personally like to thank Soliai for allowing me to share my contributions to this great Forum & for freedom of expression for almost 3 years. I do appreciate it.

Sincerely, Confederate

Dear God. Confederate and I are almost the same age....lol. I hope you don't get banned. Who the hell am I going to argue with???

[Sol]

This is my final word on this. Here is the deal. There will not be any more controversial Avatars. What is my meaning of controversial, to me controversial is a picture of a bad cop who killed a man when he didn't have to be killed. Or a picture of osama bin laden a week after he mastered mind the take down of twin towers. If anyone would have used Osama bin Laden picture for an Avatar after 911 I would have banned him/her the first day they did it, no and ifs or buts about it. And 99% of all of you who are against me on this, would have supported me on banning that individual who used Osama bin laden for an Avatar, and rightly so. So what is controversial? Again, I will use my best judgement, and everyone is just going to have to trust me. I have been fair with all of you for the most part. Sonny I should have banned you a long time ago, but yet you're still here, what does that say about me, I don't take things personally, and I'm fair. As for confederate and the confederate flag Avatar. I will allow you to use the real/original confederate flag only, but the battle flag goes. I'm a firm believer in free speech, I believe in it through and though. But I'm also a firm believer in "too much of anything is bad", I don't care how good it is, if it's used or done excessively, it becomes bad. Moderation in all things is a great practice, we should all try it (Right Wiseguy?) . Confederate, Ill give you 24 hrs to make the change, and if you choose not, I get it, but on my word, I will put you on the shelf till you do. Like Michael told Sonny, "It's not personal confederate, it's strictly business" .......Soliai

[Confederate]

This is my final word on this. Here is the deal. There will not be any more controversial Avatars. What is my meaning of controversial, to me controversial is a picture of a bad cop who killed a man when he didn't have to be killed. Or a picture of osama bin laden a week after he mastered mind the take down of twin towers. If anyone would have used Osama bin Laden picture for an Avatar after 911 I would have banned him/her the first day they did it, no and ifs or buts about it. And 99% of all of you who are against me on this, would have supported me on banning that individual who used Osama bin laden for an Avatar, and rightly so. So what is controversial? Again, I will use my best judgement, and everyone is just going to have to trust me. I have been fair with all of you for the most part. Sonny I should have banned you a long time ago, but yet you're still here, what does that say about me, I don't take things personally, and I'm fair. As for confederate and the confederate flag Avatar. I will allow you to use the real/original confederate flag only, but the battle flag goes. I'm a firm believer in free speech, I believe in it through and though. But I'm also a firm believer in "too much of anything is bad", I don't care how good it is, if it's used or done excessively, it becomes bad. Moderation in all things is a great practice, we should all try it (Right Wiseguy?) . Confederate, Ill give you 24 hrs to make the change, and if you choose not, I get it, but on my word, I will put you on the shelf till you do. Like Michael told Sonny, "It's not personal confederate, it's strictly business" .......Soliai

Sonny also said to Tom "Tell the Families to hand over Sollozzo (in this case the snitch) or it's all out War". I do love the Godfather quotes.

Anyway, here's my answer that I will relate to my favorite original Star Trek Episode:
In the Episode, an alien takes over the mind & body of Captain Kirk. Everyone sees the difference in behavior but no one knows why? Mr. Spock (Soliai) says to them "He is NOT the Captain". When they go out in the hall to vote on removing Kirk from being the Captain, Bones very quietly says to Scotty "How are you going to vote in removing the Captain"? Scotty replies " I don't understand it but if Spock says he's NOT the Captain, then IT MUST BE LOGICAL".

I don't understand the change, but if you are asking me to trust you on it, then IT MUST BE LOGICAL. Therefore, I accept your compromise & will make the change sometime later this evening.

[SonnyBlackstein]

This is my final word on this. Here is the deal. There will not be any more controversial Avatars. What is my meaning of controversial, to me controversial is a picture of a bad cop who killed a man when he didn't have to be killed. Or a picture of osama bin laden a week after he mastered mind the take down of twin towers. If anyone would have used Osama bin Laden picture for an Avatar after 911 I would have banned him/her the first day they did it, no and ifs or buts about it. And 99% of all of you who are against me on this, would have supported me on banning that individual who used Osama bin laden for an Avatar, and rightly so. So what is controversial? Again, I will use my best judgement, and everyone is just going to have to trust me. I have been fair with all of you for the most part. Sonny I should have banned you a long time ago, but yet you're still here, what does that say about me, I don't take things personally, and I'm fair. As for confederate and the confederate flag Avatar. I will allow you to use the real/original confederate flag only, but the battle flag goes. I'm a firm believer in free speech, I believe in it through and though. But I'm also a firm believer in "too much of anything is bad", I don't care how good it is, if it's used or done excessively, it becomes bad. Moderation in all things is a great practice, we should all try it (Right Wiseguy?) . Confederate, Ill give you 24 hrs to make the change, and if you choose not, I get it, but on my word, I will put you on the shelf till you do. Like Michael told Sonny, "It's not personal confederate, it's strictly business" .......Soliai

Sonny also said to Tom "Tell the Families to hand over Sollozzo (in this case the snitch) or it's all out War". I do love the Godfather quotes.

Anyway, here's my answer that I will relate to my favorite original Star Trek Episode:
In the Episode, an alien takes over the mind & body of Captain Kirk. Everyone sees the difference in behavior but no one knows why? Mr. Spock (Soliai) says to them "He is NOT the Captain". When they go out in the hall to vote on removing Kirk from being the Captain, Bones very quietly says to Scotty "How are you going to vote in removing the Captain"? Scotty replies " I don't understand it but if Spock says he's NOT the Captain, then IT MUST BE LOGICAL".

I don't understand the change, but if you are asking me to trust you on it, then IT MUST BE LOGICAL. Therefore, I accept your compromise & will make the change sometime later this evening.

Class act, Confed.

All Class mate.

[Confederate]

This is my final word on this. Here is the deal. There will not be any more controversial Avatars. What is my meaning of controversial, to me controversial is a picture of a bad cop who killed a man when he didn't have to be killed. Or a picture of osama bin laden a week after he mastered mind the take down of twin towers. If anyone would have used Osama bin Laden picture for an Avatar after 911 I would have banned him/her the first day they did it, no and ifs or buts about it. And 99% of all of you who are against me on this, would have supported me on banning that individual who used Osama bin laden for an Avatar, and rightly so. So what is controversial? Again, I will use my best judgement, and everyone is just going to have to trust me. I have been fair with all of you for the most part. Sonny I should have banned you a long time ago, but yet you're still here, what does that say about me, I don't take things personally, and I'm fair. As for confederate and the confederate flag Avatar. I will allow you to use the real/original confederate flag only, but the battle flag goes. I'm a firm believer in free speech, I believe in it through and though. But I'm also a firm believer in "too much of anything is bad", I don't care how good it is, if it's used or done excessively, it becomes bad. Moderation in all things is a great practice, we should all try it (Right Wiseguy?) . Confederate, Ill give you 24 hrs to make the change, and if you choose not, I get it, but on my word, I will put you on the shelf till you do. Like Michael told Sonny, "It's not personal confederate, it's strictly business" .......Soliai

Sonny also said to Tom "Tell the Families to hand over Sollozzo (in this case the snitch) or it's all out War". I do love the Godfather quotes.

Anyway, here's my answer that I will relate to my favorite original Star Trek Episode:
In the Episode, an alien takes over the mind & body of Captain Kirk. Everyone sees the difference in behavior but no one knows why? Mr. Spock (Soliai) says to them "He is NOT the Captain". When they go out in the hall to vote on removing Kirk from being the Captain, Bones very quietly says to Scotty "How are you going to vote in removing the Captain"? Scotty replies " I don't understand it but if Spock says he's NOT the Captain, then IT MUST BE LOGICAL".

I don't understand the change, but if you are asking me to trust you on it, then IT MUST BE LOGICAL. Therefore, I accept your compromise & will make the change sometime later this evening.

The change has been made as promised.
Here is one of the original Confederate Flags which has 13 stars representing the final 13 States that wanted to secede from the Union.
The original 11 (not in any particular order) were as follows:
1). Virginia
2). North Carolina
3). South Carolina
4). Georgia
5). Alabama
6). Mississippi
7). Florida
8). Arkansas
9). Tennessee
10). Louisiana
11).Texas
Later, two border States were added:
12). Kentucky, mainly because of Southern Kentucky
13). Missouri, mainly because of Southern Missouri

[mafiastudent]

This is my final word on this. Here is the deal. There will not be any more controversial Avatars. What is my meaning of controversial, to me controversial is a picture of a bad cop who killed a man when he didn't have to be killed. Or a picture of osama bin laden a week after he mastered mind the take down of twin towers. If anyone would have used Osama bin Laden picture for an Avatar after 911 I would have banned him/her the first day they did it, no and ifs or buts about it. And 99% of all of you who are against me on this, would have supported me on banning that individual who used Osama bin laden for an Avatar, and rightly so. So what is controversial? Again, I will use my best judgement, and everyone is just going to have to trust me. I have been fair with all of you for the most part. Sonny I should have banned you a long time ago, but yet you're still here, what does that say about me, I don't take things personally, and I'm fair. As for confederate and the confederate flag Avatar. I will allow you to use the real/original confederate flag only, but the battle flag goes. I'm a firm believer in free speech, I believe in it through and though. But I'm also a firm believer in "too much of anything is bad", I don't care how good it is, if it's used or done excessively, it becomes bad. Moderation in all things is a great practice, we should all try it (Right Wiseguy?) . Confederate, Ill give you 24 hrs to make the change, and if you choose not, I get it, but on my word, I will put you on the shelf till you do. Like Michael told Sonny, "It's not personal confederate, it's strictly business" .......Soliai

Sonny also said to Tom "Tell the Families to hand over Sollozzo (in this case the snitch) or it's all out War". I do love the Godfather quotes.

Anyway, here's my answer that I will relate to my favorite original Star Trek Episode:
In the Episode, an alien takes over the mind & body of Captain Kirk. Everyone sees the difference in behavior but no one knows why? Mr. Spock (Soliai) says to them "He is NOT the Captain". When they go out in the hall to vote on removing Kirk from being the Captain, Bones very quietly says to Scotty "How are you going to vote in removing the Captain"? Scotty replies " I don't understand it but if Spock says he's NOT the Captain, then IT MUST BE LOGICAL".

I don't understand the change, but if you are asking me to trust you on it, then IT MUST BE LOGICAL. Therefore, I accept your compromise & will make the change sometime later this evening.

The change has been made as promised.
Here is one of the original Confederate Flags which has 13 stars representing the final 13 States that wanted to secede from the Union.
The original 11 (not in any particular order) were as follows:
1). Virginia
2). North Carolina
3). South Carolina
4). Georgia
5). Alabama
6). Mississippi
7). Florida
8). Arkansas
9). Tennessee
10). Louisiana
11).Texas
Later, two border States were added:
12). Kentucky, mainly because of Southern Kentucky
13). Missouri, mainly because of Southern Missouri

Nice mini history lesson. Thanks, Confederate.

[Villain]

Since this thread is finished and now its completely irrelevant, can some1 please lock it since i dont want to say anything else for which later i might regret about it

[FriendofFamily]

CONFIRMED LOCKED!