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Posted: Sat Sep 22, 2007 3:24 am

I have not been feeling too hot as of late. My aggresion is being fired, with all guns blazing at the garbage I receive in my catcher account. First E mails are met with a greeting from me that would scare a rabid bear off. Question. I feel I might be turning off potential goatscum. Should I take a break, until I feel better? My temper is quite short right now due to this sinus thing. I'm guessing I should lay low a bit.

Posted: Sat Sep 22, 2007 3:35 am

Joe...take a break! We (and the lads) will be here when you get back.

Master Baiter Joined: 20 Aug 2005 Posts: 187

I don't see any harm in sending off some "challenging" replies. A lad is like a bus; if you don't board one, there'll be another along in 30 minutes or so.

Posted: Sat Sep 22, 2007 7:23 am

^^^^

@GG.

I'm with you there, I got some garbage from one of those "Christian" dating agencies.

Seeing as how I'm agnostic & that I hate spammers almost as much as lads. And given that they weren't lads so I couldn't bait them, I told them (In very large, bold italics):-

I'm a Satanist, now FOXTROT OSCAR.

(edit) (Only I didn't exactly use Foxtrot Oscar).

Chin chin

Gussie
Laughing

Posted: Sat Sep 22, 2007 9:11 am

Hey Joe. [I love saying that!]

Venting your spleen at the lads will make you feel better and not upset anybody in RL, apart from the lads that is...which is nice. When I've had a crappy day, which is quite often, the lads get it.

Posted: Sat Sep 22, 2007 10:09 am

Tommo: How about "Venting at lads is like making love to a beautiful woman... it lasts for 30 seconds but makes you feel so much better" Shocked

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The Man wrote:

Tommo: How about "Venting at lads is like making love to a beautiful woman... it lasts for 30 seconds but makes you feel so much better" Shocked

lmao you almost made me spit a mouth full of mountain dew onto my screen Laughing

I say let the lads have it...ramm it hard...no lube, in fact use sand Twisted Evil

they need it sometimes Twisted Evil

think of them like punching bags with ears.

Posted: Sat Sep 22, 2007 10:59 am

Far be it for me to hijack JT's thread, but sinus problems are very much like making love to a beautiful woman...if you are not careful they get right up your nose, make your eyes water and at the end of the day the medication dulls the pain of the experience.

Posted: Sat Sep 22, 2007 11:36 am

Tommo: This is why you are the master!

JT: Sorry about the sinus pain! Anything the doc's can do for you?

When I have a bad day I am going to go into the lotto lad mass bait forum, grab a ton of addies and just abuse the shit out of them from now on Smile

Master Baiter Joined: 20 Aug 2005 Posts: 187

@Fink-Nottle,

I saw you on TV last night...drunk and insulting Wooster.

Posted: Sat Sep 22, 2007 8:03 pm

^^^^^

@GG.

This is a base canard, I only ever drink orange juice & I never insult Bertie.
(well, apart from that one time).

Pip pip

Gussie

edit: PS - Do you know of a good home for some newts, mine are breeding frightfully well & it's getting jolly crowded around here.

Posted: Sat Sep 22, 2007 8:11 pm

JoeTam wrote:

Grouch mode.

Oops, I thought you said "Groucho mode."

Posted: Sat Sep 22, 2007 8:22 pm

I was going to post about this earlier in fact. I had developed a bad case of "baiter burnout", where I got sick of opening my catcher account. I was dead tired of looking at all the spam (and it all is), tired of reading through penis-enlargment subjects and even tired of "urgent reply" messages. And I was at the point where one more "contact my lawyer" message was going to push me right over the falls. Having a physical affliction at the time just made things worse.

What I did was vent my problems to our loving mods (thanks Lotta and Nurse Nasty for getting me through that slump BTW.), take a week or two off completely from baiting and get myself back together. A trip to somewhere that has girls in bikinis helped too, but that might just be me.

Crazily enough, I came back into it fully recharged and ready to rumble. I went to my catcher account and just deleted everything - totally clean slate, then started anew. Sure I dropped a number of lads in mid-bait. So what? Lads are expendable and always have been. Let them wonder.

So my advice is to do the same. Nobody held it against me that I was gone for a while, same old crowd when I got back. And bring a few bikini pics back too, eh! Very Happy

Posted: Sun Sep 23, 2007 1:04 am

Hey Joe,

Take a break. Everyone needs one once in a while. I've taken a few weeks off on a few different occasions. It works wonders. You come back refreshed and ready to deliver more pain to the lads.

Posted: Sun Sep 23, 2007 1:18 am

I suggest spending some time in the mass insult thread.

That's a great way to let off steam:
http://forum.419eater.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=118139&start=75

Posted: Sun Sep 23, 2007 6:49 am

Arrrrgh! I be spending some late night time in pain with old south of the boarder B movies this Saturday eve. Sleep please. Please?

Posted: Sun Sep 23, 2007 11:18 am

Know what the sinus thing is like - been on drugs, prescription and otherwise, for that for nearly two years now. Sometimes I have to get my friend Jack Daniels out of the cupboard to help me sleep. Don't know if that would help you (apart from the obvious danger to the kidneys and liver!) Confused

Nothing wrong with venting at the lads - I do it when I have PMS, and there are always more to take their place...

Posted: Sun Sep 23, 2007 1:35 pm

I'm a long term sinus sufferer too.

In the UK there's a product called Sinutab I use which will head off an attack whenever I feel the tell tale signs of it coming on. It's a non-prescription medicine. It appears to have the effect of opening everything up and allowing the bad stuff and, more importantly, the pain to melt away easily.

Active ingedients - Paracetamol and Pseudoephedrine hydrochloride - a decongestant. I had tried other decongestants without success, but for some unknown reason this one worked.

http://www.tiscali.co.uk/lifestyle/healthfitness/health_advice/netdoctor/archive/100003928.html

Drink plenty of water too, which I think someone mentioned previously in another thread. I developed a water craving (how sad is that ?) and found I never had any sinus trouble during that time.

Posted: Sun Sep 23, 2007 2:41 pm

When I get pissed at the lads and can't be bothered to vent, I write the most venomous letter that I can think of and just copy and paste it out to every lad who comes into my inboxes that week.

Writing the letter in the first place can be very cathartic and sending it out to the lads dulls the pain even more.

As for any bait that I'm running at the time? Bugger them. Those lads can wait - that's if I don't send them the letter as well. Twisted Evil