Ukraine and the Russian invasion, 2022-24

[TopCat]

The worst part for any eventual clean-up is that both sides have been using the banned "butterfly" AP mines, that are notoriously difficult to get rid of after the fact.

PFM-1 mine - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Are they largely plastic?

 

[andysays]

I'd like Russia to withdraw immediately. Don't you?

I too would like Russia to withdraw immediately, but you and I wanting it and repeatedly posting how much we want it doesn't actually bring it any further forward.

After a while, posting that we want it and especially demanding that others confirm that they want it too, seems to me to serve little purpose other than virtue signaling.

 

[Silas Loom]

I too would like Russia to withdraw immediately, but you and I wanting it and repeatedly posting how much we want it doesn't actually bring it any further forward.

After a while, posting that we want it and especially demanding that others confirm that they want it too, seems to me to serve little purpose other than virtue signaling.

When posters appear to be celebrating Russian triumphs and denigrating the Ukrainian leadership, it’s always going to be worth asking them for that confirmation.

 

[andysays]

When posters appear to be celebrating Russian triumphs and denigrating the Ukrainian leadership, it’s always going to be worth asking them for that confirmation.

"appear" is the operative word here.

 

[editor]

"appear" is the operative word here.

Try asking those people to outrightly condemn Russia's illegal invasion and continuing war crimes and see how you get along.

 

[TopCat]

It might be better to focus on discussing the war on this thread rather than displaying a laughable lack of knowledge and doing pisspoor imitations of the witch finder general.

 

[Pickman's model]

That's a total lie, but let's make it official then. We're now both on mutual ignore. Bye!

Anyone who wants to find out which of us is a pathological liar need only search for posts by editor mentioning Pickmans.

 

[TopCat]

Anyone with wants to find out which of us is a pathological liar need only search for posts by editor mentioning Pickmans.

It’s a remarkable assertion from them given how straightforward it is to see the truth.

 

[Pickman's model]

It’s a remarkable assertion from them given how straightforward it is to see the truth.

I'd like to properly reply to that but I've just received a warning point for my last post.

 

[editor]

MODERATOR NOTICE

A reminder of the board rules:

Enforced mutual ignore is a last, desperate admin measure to stop long-standing personal conflicts continuing to disrupt threads.

This means that that those put on mutual ignore DO NOT respond, quote, comment or make any reference the other person in their posts, and continuing to do so will result in a warning, eventually leading to an automatic temp ban if they accrue enough warning posts.

It is very much a reluctant measure, but it is taken in the interests of the boards overall, and is only ever introduced after every other admin measure has failed to stop the personal digs and general unpleasantness.

 

[Pickman's model]

As we've seen on a number of occasions that's not true either.

 

[TopCat]

Well if mutual ignore puts a stop to the endless smearing attacks from him it has to be good. I can’t see him sticking to it though as a simple search has shown.

 

[TopCat]

Will he warn himself when he inevitably contravenes his own rule?

 

[andysays]

Try asking those people to outrightly condemn Russia's illegal invasion and continuing war crimes and see how you get along.

As I've already said, I really don't see any point in demanding that anyone condemn anything.

 

[TopCat]

I'd like to properly reply to that but I've just received a warning point for my last post.

How did he know what your post said if he is ignoring your posts?

 

[Pickman's model]

How did he know what your post said if he is ignoring your posts?

It just gets worse and worse

 

[TopCat]

As I've already said, I really don't see any point in demanding that anyone condemn anything.

It says more about the person demanding than anything else.

 

[Pickman's model]

As I've already said, I really don't see any point in demanding that anyone condemn anything.

Back in the day virtue signalling wasn't mandatory on urban

 

[andysays]

As editor now has Pickman's model on ignore, I'm curious how another moderator is apparently aware that PM has replied to one of ed's posts and has issued a warning within 5 minutes of the reply

 

[TopCat]

As editor now has Pickman's model on ignore, I'm curious how another moderator is apparently aware that PM has replied to one of ed's posts and has issued a warning within 5 minutes of the reply

Perhaps take it to the feedback forum for a sarcastic non response and a pronto locked thread?

 

[andysays]

Perhaps take it to the feedback forum for a sarcastic non response and a pronto locked thread?

I demand that the moderators condemn this outrage

 

[Pickman's model]

As editor now has Pickman's model on ignore, I'm curious how another moderator is apparently aware that PM has replied to one of ed's posts and has issued a warning within 5 minutes of the reply

There is no functioning mi function on the boards. No posts have been hidden from me. It's a sort of pretend ignore thing which is hidden behind a er lie that some technical thing's been done and its purpose, as Spymaster can aver, is to allow warning points to be added for temp bans.

 

[Pickman's model]

But enough of the war, let's return to discussing ukraine

 

[emanymton]

If you all hate it here so much, feel free to leave.

 

[andysays]

There is no functioning mi function on the boards. No posts have been hidden from me. It's a sort of pretend ignore thing which is hidden behind a er lie that some technical thing's been done and its purpose, as Spymaster can aver, is to allow warning points to be added for temp bans.

OK, never having been involved in a mutual ignore myself, I assumed that something similar happened to when I choose to use the ignore function, ie the posts disappear but can still be read by clinking on "show ignored content".

 

[andysays]

If you all hate it here so much, feel free to leave.

"if you like Russia so much, why not go and live there..."

 

[TopCat]

"if you like Russia so much, why not go and live there..."

I haven’t met anyone thick enough to say that to me since the 80’s.

 

[TopCat]

If you all hate it here so much, feel free to leave.

Boiling your piss every day is worthwhile.

 

[krtek a houby]

Thread be, like, bursting with testosterone

 

[TopCat]

OK, never having been involved in a mutual ignore myself, I assumed that something similar happened to when I choose to use the ignore function, ie the posts disappear but can still be read by clinking on "show ignored content".

I asked about mutual ignore when I was stalked here by an ex gf. Essentially told by that man that no such facility existed. I won’t post the PM concerned as against another rule.