Boo!

[Phlegethon]

I have been asked to introduce myself.

Well, I am Phleg the peg with an extra leg: a claustrophile, misogynist, bibliophile, anachorete, aphorist and political deviant. Many of you know me already, the rest will get to know me quickly.

I am terminally ill with a couple years left to kill, have a crap job and little money. Optimists and happy people make me sick and I have a reputation of being a party pooper and a killjoy.

I have been trained to kill people with bare hands but so far have not put that to the test in a real life situation. I soon may, though.

OK, now you cannot tell that you haven't been warned.

[Beorn]

Greetings Phleg the peg with the extra strap on leg.

http://www.ali-und-floz.de/dontmention2.jpg

We all love eccentrics. :D

[Brynhild]

This is going to be interesting! :D

[Absinthe]

Well, for one thing, I am very very ashamed that I haven't reciprocated your heart-warming gesture yet... :.... I have been extra-stressed with things, plus I am generally notorious in postponing things especially when it comes to greek post services :( But I can tell you the music was excellent!! :)

(the music I have managed to listen to so far because the list seems to be endless... :o)

Hope you're well...I missed you :)

[Lady L]

I have to Welcome you because I want to. :) Even tho sometimes I hope you choke :p and even tho I am from America ;) I still got respects for you ...somehow...:rolleyes::p

[Phlegethon]

I still got respects for you ...somehow...:rolleyes::p

That can be fixed. ;)

[Vulpix]

Greetings :wave! I had lost hope in seeing an introduction from you :p. I had a few laughs already :thumb001:.

[Loki]

Welcome Phlegethon.

I've just been thinking today ... one of the things that makes me appreciate this forum community so much, is the incredible diversity (oh that's an ugly word eh? :rolleyes: ) of members here. And it's not just quantity. We have so many unique characters with strong personalities here, who have been around for a long time in the online Matrix of forums.

Your arrival here makes us richer, in the sense that you are a strong individualist who holds his own, regardless of opposition or perceived effect on popularity. Your posts will be interesting to read and never boring, that is for sure. So, have fun dude. ;)

[Lady L]

That can be fixed. ;)

:rolleyes: Don't ruin it for me! Oh and I forgot ...Boo!

http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e219/sickstringer/6577dc39.jpg

[Vulpix]

Oh btw, I found a pic of Phleg on Google...

http://icanhascheezburger.files.wordpress.com/2007/06/boo-did-i-skeerd-u.jpg

:p

[Skandi]

Hi Phleg, I like your posts, even when they make me wince! I especially like some of the replies you get.
:p

[anonymaus]

I have been asked to introduce myself.

Well, I am Phleg the peg with an extra leg: a claustrophile, misogynist, bibliophile, anachorete, aphorist and political deviant. Many of you know me already, the rest will get to know me quickly.

I am terminally ill with a couple years left to kill, have a crap job and little money. Optimists and happy people make me sick and I have a reputation of being a party pooper and a killjoy.

I have been trained to kill people with bare hands but so far have not put that to the test in a real life situation. I soon may, though.

OK, now you cannot tell that you haven't been warned.


Well put. (http://www.theapricity.com/forum/showpost.php?p=50762&postcount=25)

[Treffie]

Where's the popcorn? :D

[Aemma]

Boo!

Right back at ya, Slick! :D


I have been asked to introduce myself.

Well I'm glad to see that my attempts at muscle-flexing haven't all been in vain. ;) :D Thank you for posting an intro Phlegethon. I do appreciate it. It's nice to formally meet you. :)


Well, I am Phleg the peg with an extra leg: a claustrophile, misogynist, bibliophile, anachorete, aphorist and political deviant. Many of you know me already, the rest will get to know me quickly.

I am terminally ill with a couple years left to kill, have a crap job and little money. Optimists and happy people make me sick and I have a reputation of being a party pooper and a killjoy.

I have been trained to kill people with bare hands but so far have not put that to the test in a real life situation. I soon may, though.

OK, now you cannot tell that you haven't been warned.

As for being a misogynist, well my experience has been that those that self-describe as such usually aren't, whereas those that cannot identify that tendency within themselves usually are. :)

As for the happy people...well other than my monthly episodes of supreme bitchiness which do find their way on the forum, I am usually one of those Polyanna types. The word that many people use to describe me is "sweet". :D Get the picture? ;) You too have been forewarned. :D

All said though we'll just see how much of a big old bear you really are...you might be more teddy than grizzly methinks. ;)

But I am glad that you are here Phlegethon. You'll add another dimension to the debate for sure. :)

Please do enjoy your stay here. :)

Cheers for now!...Aemma

[The Lawspeaker]

Welcome home, Phleg. It has been a while has it ?

[Phlegethon]

As for being a misogynist, well my experience has been that those that self-describe as such usually aren't, whereas those that cannot identify that tendency within themselves usually are. :)

Everyone can (and should) dislike females, but misogyny is a deep and elaborate philosophy that evolved through Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, Weininger and others.


I am usually one of those Polyanna types. The word that many people use to describe me is "sweet". :D Get the picture? ;) You too have been forewarned. :D

I can fix that. 15 minutes suffice and I can turn every childlike naive optimist into a shivering, teeth-gnashing wreck that is afraid of its own shadow.


All said though we'll just see how much of a big old bear you really are...you might be more teddy than grizzly methinks. ;)

I have always seen myself more as a modern day Moby Dick. Grizzlies love honey and steal their food out of tourist cars and trash cans. That's not the Phlegethonian way.

[Treffie]

I have always seen myself more as a modern day Moby Dick. Grizzlies love honey and steal their food out of tourist cars and trash cans. That's not the Phlegethonian way.

Really?

[Phlegethon]

Yep. Be afraid of the whale tail! Cuz it ain't no frail tail! ;)

[Aemma]

Everyone can (and should) dislike females, but misogyny is a deep and elaborate philosophy that evolved through Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, Weininger and others.

Well then you'll have to elucidate this point for me sometime, which I'm sure in due time you will.:)


I can fix that. 15 minutes suffice and I can turn every childlike naive optimist into a shivering, teeth-gnashing wreck that is afraid of its own shadow.

Do I hear a challenge in them thar words, dear Sir? Give it your best shot! ;)



I have always seen myself more as a modern day Moby Dick. Grizzlies love honey and steal their food out of tourist cars and trash cans. That's not the Phlegethonian way.

Is Moby Dick the de facto 'teddy' then? I seem to recall only having presented two types of bears: teddy or grizzly. :confused:

Well let us see what this Phlegethonian Way is shall we? In turn, I shall show you the Aemmaesque Way. :)

[Bloodeagle]

Howdy Doody, Phleg the peg with an extra leg.
http://www.museum.tv/archives/etv/H/htmlH/howdydoodys/howdydoodysIMAGE/howdydoodys.jpg

[Phlegethon]

I am not sure that non-Aussies know the background (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jake_the_Peg) of that alliteration.

[Treffie]

I am not sure that non-Aussies know the background (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jake_the_Peg) of that alliteration.

Rolf Harris was also part Island Ape, as you put it.

[Ulf]

Looks like fun. :thumbs up

[Psychonaut]

Howdy :wave:

[Phlegethon]

Rolf Harris was also part Island Ape, as you put it.

Still is, as he is still alive. And part offspring of criminals and prostitutes. ;)

Tie me kangaroo down, sport.

[Inese]

The first German here after Sigurd yay!!! :thumb001::thumb001: :D

Ich bin Lettin aber durch meinen Grossvater 25% deutsch!! Spreche Deutsch fliessend und vielleicht kommen wir einmal ins Gespräch okay?? Tschüss!!

[Aemma]

The first German here after Sigurd yay!!! :thumb001::thumb001: :D

Ich bin Lettin aber durch meinen Grossvater 25% deutsch!! Spreche Deutsch fliessend und vielleicht kommen wir einmal ins Gespräch okay?? Tschüss!!

But Siggy is Austrian! :confused:

[National_Nord]

Welkome to The Apricity Forum!

[The Lawspeaker]

But Siggy is Austrian! :confused:
A Jerry is a Jerry. :D And Austrians are Germans.

[Aemma]

A Jerry is a Jerry. :D And Austrians are Germans.

Perhaps, but I was always under the impression that Austrians were proud enough of their own people to call themselves Austrians first and Germans second. :confused:

[Inese]

But Siggy is Austrian! :confused:
On the paper but Sigurds heart is German because Austrian are German also !!! :) But i got a reputation remark i was a little bit wrong: Phlegeton is not the second German after Sigurd ------ i forgot Zyklop!! Sorry Zyklop!! :D :coffee:

[The Lawspeaker]

Perhaps, but I was always under the impression that Austrians were proud enough of their own people to call themselves Austrians first and Germans second. :confused:
You can ask Siggy. Austrians are German-speakers with a German culture. It is as much a made up nationality as for instance Czechoslovaks, Yugoslavs, Kosovars or Belgians with the only difference that the Austrians are homogeneous.

[Phlegethon]

Phlegeton is not the second German after Sigurd ------

Exactly, as Phlegethon is second to none. ;)

[Phlegethon]

A Jerry is a Jerry. :D


I am more of a Hun. With a capital H, of course.

http://www.historygallery.com/worldwar1/BeatBackTheHunMED.jpg

[The Lawspeaker]

I am more of a Hun. With a capital H, of course.

http://www.historygallery.com/worldwar1/BeatBackTheHunMED.jpg

I knew it :D It takes a Dutchman or a German to understand the nature of Dutch-German relationships without taking offense to the humorous context of the nickname.

[Zyklop]

Exactly, as Phlegethon is second to none. ;)Stimmt, Alter vor Schönheit. http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y161/Zyklop/Smilies/zykl.gif

;)

[Phlegethon]

Aber ich bin doch alt und schön. ;)

[Inese]

Hm ich bin zumindest jünger als Phlegethon aber das Alter von zyklop weiss ich nicht! :wink

[Phlegethon]

Egal, er ist ein Einauge und ich bin ein Vierauge. Also gewinne ich, denn vier gewinnt. ;)

[Zyklop]

Aber ich bin doch alt und schön. ;)

Oxymoron? :confused:

[Phlegethon]

Oxycodon wär mir lieber. ;)

[Ulex]

I have been trained to kill people with bare hands .
We will just need to wear gloves then! :lightbul:
Welcome!

[Aemma]

On the paper but Sigurds heart is German because Austrian are German also !!! :) But i got a reputation remark i was a little bit wrong: Phlegeton is not the second German after Sigurd ------ i forgot Zyklop!! Sorry Zyklop!! :D :coffee:


I'm sorry but this makes absolutely no sense to me.

Culturally Sigurd might be "German" (as I am "French, English, Irish and Scottish"), but I'm pretty damn sure that his passport is Austrian.

Makes him pretty much an Austrian to me.

[Phlegethon]

To me that makes him a passport Austrian. Every Ugandan immigrant can be one, as long as he has some track and field training. ;)

[Loki]

I'm sorry but this makes absolutely no sense to me.

Culturally Sigurd might be "German" (as I am "French, English, Irish and Scottish"), but I'm pretty damn sure that his passport is Austrian.

Makes him pretty much an Austrian to me.

Austrians are ethnic Germans. Ethnically speaking, Austrians and Bavarians from southern Germany have more in common than Bavarians would have in common with Northern Germans. :) The national borders are more superficial as far as ethnic belonging and allegiance is concerned -- especially since the two countries were one after the Anschluss. It was only separated by force by the Allied victors of WW2.

[SouthernBoy]

How have you been? :)

[Amarantine]

Austrians are ethnic Germans. Ethnically speaking, Austrians and Bavarians from southern Germany have more in common than Bavarians would have in common with Northern Germans. :) The national borders are more superficial as far as ethnic belonging and allegiance is concerned -- especially since the two countries were one after the Anschluss. It was only separated by force by the Allied victors of WW2.


Sorry off topic. Austrians don't like to be equilized with Germans, but they are quite ok with Bavarians, as I understood them. They usually constantly repeated me"we are not Germans"...Could someone explain me in more details this? It was for me quite unculturel to ask them more info.

[Zyklop]

Sorry off topic. Austrians don't like to be equilized with Germans, but they are quite ok with Bavarians, as I understood them. They usually constantly repeated me"we are not Germans"...Could someone explain me in more details this? It was for me quite unculturel to ask them more info.Post WW2 re-education and petty local-patriotism.

[Loki]

Post WW2 re-education and petty local-patriotism.

Provincialism, yes. Having said that, Austria had a long history of separation from the rest of Germany pre-WW2 as well. And its own Austro-Hungarian empire. Closer to Hungary than Germany in that sense?

[Aemma]

Sorry off topic. Austrians don't like to be equilized with Germans, but they are quite ok with Bavarians, as I understood them. They usually constantly repeated me"we are not Germans"...Could someone explain me in more details this? It was for me quite unculturel to ask them more info.

Precisely! That's been my impression and experience too!

[Amarantine]

Provincialism, yes. Having said that, Austria had a long history of separation from the rest of Germany pre-WW2 as well. And its own Austro-Hungarian empire. Closer to Hungary than Germany in that sense?


Not just to Hungary, but to Czech Rep. and Slovakia, also, to Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina (partially of course).

Germany was with many small dukes (as I remember, sorry if I am ignorant here), except the Prussia.

[Æmeric]

http://i249.photobucket.com/albums/gg201/Aemeric/HelloSmiley444.gif

[Phlegethon]

OK folks, I guess I am outta here again. As a German, Prussian and Catholic I hardly find anything worthwhile on here. The few years I still have left on this earth I won't be going to waste on discussing which yankee or Canuck can swim and why, which colour their socks are or what they had had for breakfast.

[The Lawspeaker]

Auf wiederschnitzel, Phleg ! :thumb001:

[Loki]

OK folks, I guess I am outta here again. As a German, Prussian and Catholic I hardly find anything worthwhile on here. The few years I still have left on this earth I won't be going to waste on discussing which yankee or Canuck can swim and why, which colour their socks are or what they had had for breakfast.

Request denied. ;)

[Absinthe]

Well...I hate to see you go, but then again, we'll keep in touch like we always do :)

Oh, and I can swim, I had a tyropita (cheese pie) for breakfast and I am not wearing socks today because it is too hot :D

[Allenson]

Crankypants.

Here's a pair: ;)

http://www.totsnob.com/images2007/crankypants.jpg

[Vulpix]

You're not going anywhere!

[Absinthe]

http://awards.frankdecaro.com/images/winners/squidward_tentacles.jpg

[Lady L]

OK folks, I guess I am outta here again. As a German, Prussian and Catholic I hardly find anything worthwhile on here. The few years I still have left on this earth I won't be going to waste on discussing which yankee or Canuck can swim and why, which colour their socks are or what they had had for breakfast.

I don't believe this considering you made 182 posts in such a short time! ;)

Where's the what color sock thread btw..? :tongue

[Æmeric]

OK folks, I guess I am outta here again. As a German, Prussian and Catholic I hardly find anything worthwhile on here. The few years I still have left on this earth I won't be going to waste on discussing which yankee or Canuck can swim and why, which colour their socks are or what they had had for breakfast.I was looking forward to some interesting exchanges with you. Besides where will you go? Haven't you been banned from most internet racialist fora?;)

If you don't like the current topics being discussed start some new threads on subjects that interest you.

[Aemma]

OK folks, I guess I am outta here again. As a German, Prussian and Catholic I hardly find anything worthwhile on here. The few years I still have left on this earth I won't be going to waste on discussing which yankee or Canuck can swim and why, which colour their socks are or what they had had for breakfast.

Wow, too bad Phleg but you know, as Æmeric said, there's nothing stopping you from starting posts that are to your own liking. I once asked you to stick around saying that you might find the place refreshing, well literally (for those of us that swim) and figuratively I suppose. But like any other place, it is what you make it as well.

So the door's open whenever you want to come back and say Boo!

What can I say, Man? Too bad. I would have liked to have gotten to know you better. Ahh well...


Cheers!...Aemma :)