[Bonioners]

Welcome back. lurk.gif

[idobestbuyonlinepp]

Oh, now I realize why my friend at Yale committed suicide. Why didn't I see it before? It's just so obvious now.

[GarryPaterson]

Thanks Moby, and sorry to hear about your friend at Yale, HC. If there's anything I can do to help let me know. i know a little bit about bereavement counselling...

[ElenaEvgeevnaa]

Really? Cool. So nobody got married or anything cool like that?

[petrarkaponye]

Well, they'd have to move to Maryland.

[gniewkoit]

Oerdin doesn't do that intentionally.

[clitlyphype]

Like your caustic venom is so needed.

[twiffatticy]

Hello Ben. Welcome back.

[kuzbaslachek]

WB

[lLianneForbess]

Like your caustic venom is so needed.

It'll be needed until Ben earns himself another "vacation".

[pharweqto]

I think now would be a good time to revive my campaign for OT president given President Asher's egregious failure on national/forum security in this incident.

Herman Cain OT President 2012

[Info-phone]

I took Ben off of ignore. Please don't make me regret it.

[Drugsonl]

Hi!

[Rchzygnc]

Does anyone else get the feeling that BK had some sort of countdown clock going and was waiting down the second for the opportunity to post again?

I believe the phrase is 'desperately gagging for it, like a submariner back from a 6 month tour, in a cheap whore house in Amsterdam'.

Oh hi, Ben!

I missed you at least as much as I miss the gallstone that was removed from my common bile duct.

Hope you've been brushing up on your history revision- wouldn't want your pupils to catch you out, eh ?


This by the way is Thomas Cromwell. You confused him with Oliver Cromwell. Not easily done... at least when talking about the Dissolution of the Monasteries. Tee hee.

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[MariaBeautys]

For being such an excellent Christian that he threatened to beat up Loin repeatedly for "dissing" David Floyd, calling him an immoral racist or something equally accurate. Which, it turns out, constitutes assault and is against the law, however laughable the threat may be. So we were free for six months.

[ZwHRoTTn]

The gays were free for six months? What happened after that?

[cypedembeda]

I don't remember quite this much hate a few years ago. What did *I* miss?

Also, BK, how long were you banned for and why?

A few years ago, BK was still the polite, even likeable, poster with scary politics. Sure, he tended to ignore other whatever positions other posters made in order to make his bizarre, reactionary points, but that was all part of his charm.

In recent years, however, he has come across as increasingly bitter, making his posts (often on the exact same points as before) seem hateful rather than just out of touch with reality. This lead to the bulk of regular posters here to slide over from a "crazy, but harmless" position to the "kill it with fire" line that has held by a tiny minority (lol Asher LOL) all along.

There are still those of us, though, who still like him as a person and/or realize that the actual content of his posts hasn't changed at all since he registered, and attribute the change in tone to whatever **** he's been going through in his life outside of Poly. This group sees that, whatever BK's faults, Apolyton is worse off for not having him around, just as it is worse off without other "colourful" posters, like Ned, Fez and Agathon.

[nemoforone]

That's always been true, though. Something else has changed in the last couple of years.

[DuePew]

Oerdin doesn't have a monopoly on always-wrongness.

[Duseshoug]

Good post, Joncha.

I used to play Civ2 Succession Games with BK, back when this was a gaming site. Ben was a positive contributor to that late, lamented group (the Scouse Gits were the ringleaders). So no matter what I think of Ben's politics or opinions on football, apparently the fact that I had fun gaming with him -- back in the day, when Civ was Civ and Poly was Poly -- trumps it.