An Ode to the Forum

[PimpYourAFV]

Turn on the song "Signs signs everywhere a sign" by the Five Man Electrical Band to fully enjoy this song based on it.

Rants

V1
And the sign said high IQ creative people need not apply
So I tucked my ideas up under my hat and I went in to ask them why
They said you look like a fine upstanding young man, you should f*ck off
So I spoke of my new ideas and I said imagine that, huh, me talking to you

woah!

Chorus:

Rant rant everywhere a rant
Blocking out the scenery breaking my mind
Do this, don't do that, can't you read the rant

V2
And the rant said anybody caught with fresh ideas would be shot on sight
So I jumped on the fence and yelled at the forum grumps, Hey! what gives you the right
To put up a fence to keep me out or to keep your boredom in
If God was here, he'd tell you to your face, man you're some kinda sinner

Repeat Chorus:

Bridge:

Now, hey you Mister! can't you read, you got to have a hate problem to get a seat
You can't even watch, no you can't eat, you ain't suppose to be here
Rant said you got to have a low IQ to get inside Uh!

V3
And the sign said everybody welcome, come in, kneel down and rant
But when they passed around the mike at the end of it all,
I didn't have a rage to rant, so I got me a pen and a paper and I made up my own little sign
I said thank you Lord for thinking about me, I'm alive and doing fine

Repeat Chorus
Repeat Chorus

***************************************
I'd like to give a special thanks to the following hatemongers and trolls for inspiring this song...

KG Erwin, FlashfyreSP, JEB Davis, chief, BulletMagnet (aka EnemyMagnet), azraelck, Ruin T, Orzel Bialy, Swamprat, m10bob, Einar Fridgeirs, IBTirade, omegaall, TulliusDetritus.

Sayonara a$$holes

[:D]

[Warrior]

ORIGINAL: TokyoBoyTensai

Turn on the song "Signs signs everywhere a sign" by the Five Man Electrical Band to fully enjoy this song based on it.

Rants

V1
And the sign said high IQ creative people need not apply
So I tucked my ideas up under my hat and I went in to ask them why
They said you look like a fine upstanding young man, you should f*ck off
So I spoke of my new ideas and I said imagine that, huh, me talking to you

woah!

Chorus:

Rant rant everywhere a rant
Blocking out the scenery breaking my mind
Do this, don't do that, can't you read the rant

V2
And the rant said anybody caught with fresh ideas would be shot on sight
So I jumped on the fence and yelled at the forum grumps, Hey! what gives you the right
To put up a fence to keep me out or to keep your boredom in
If God was here, he'd tell you to your face, man you're some kinda sinner

Repeat Chorus:

Bridge:

Now, hey you Mister! can't you read, you got to have a hate problem to get a seat
You can't even watch, no you can't eat, you ain't suppose to be here
Rant said you got to have a low IQ to get inside Uh!

V3
And the sign said everybody welcome, come in, kneel down and rant
But when they passed around the mike at the end of it all,
I didn't have a rage to rant, so I got me a pen and a paper and I made up my own little sign
I said thank you Lord for thinking about me, I'm alive and doing fine

Repeat Chorus
Repeat Chorus

***************************************
I'd like to give a special thanks to the following individuals for inspiring this song...

BulletMagnet (aka EnemyMagnet), azraelck, Ruin T, Orzel Bialy, Swamprat, m10bob, Einar Fridgeirs, IBTirade, omegaall... and my deepest apologies for those I can't recall at the moment.

And lets give it up for Korpraali V for needing to cheat on the very first PBEM game I ever played. Woohoo!!

Sayonara a$$holes

[:D]

Must be some kind of Japanese hippie to be familiar with the original song.

[Major Destruction]

LOL

In 1917 Lloyd George, Prime Minister of Great Britain announced that the surest method to win the War would be to convince Haig to join the Germans.

[sabrejack]

ORIGINAL: TokyoBoyTensai

***************************************
I'd like to give a special thanks to the following individuals for inspiring this song...

BulletMagnet (aka EnemyMagnet), azraelck, Ruin T, Orzel Bialy, Swamprat, m10bob, Einar Fridgeirs, IBTirade, omegaall... and my deepest apologies for those I can't recall at the moment.

And lets give it up for Korpraali V for needing to cheat on the very first PBEM game I ever played. Woohoo!!

Sayonara a$$holes

[:D]

TokyoBoy,

I haven't been involved in the arguments that have been going on between yourself and a number of other members, so please understand that I am not trying to antagonise you, but I do take offense at one sentence in this last post:

ORIGINAL: TokyoBoyTensai

And lets give it up for Korpraali V for needing to cheat on the very first PBEM game I ever played. Woohoo!!

There was a misunderstanding between Korpraali and yourself, and you decided to call off the game, but it was sorted out through discussion on this forum. Korpraali did not 'cheat', he explained the misunderstanding clearly, and you appeared to accept his apology for the miscommunication. To come out now and abuse him in this way is rather rude in my opinion.

[Korpraali V]

And lets give it up for Korpraali V for needing to cheat on the very first PBEM game I ever played. Woohoo!!

You still need to insult others to feel yourself better? I’m in no need to insult others, nor I’m not in any need to cheat anyone. This is game, winning or losing in it won’t do anything to my ego - I have life, the real one. Tell me, how did I cheat you? I’m interested to know that. I really am.

- Was I reloading the files? Then why my only tank loss in the game came during my turn? And why most of your losses came in your turns?
- Did I know the places of your forces well? After few PBEMs (or reading some tactics) you’d quess as well as I did: First come scouts and the main force soon after them --> Barrages right behind the scouts.
- Was it the map? I already told that it was the first that AI picked. Why didn’t you say anything? I could have well picked the other one.
- Was it the visibility? You suggested low visibility. After that I suggested 2 and got no replay. Why?
- Was it because I renamed all my engineers to vampires? Again, you said nothing.
- Was it because you were losing? Then you should have told that you want to win and can’t stand surprises.

And in those few turns we played why didn’t you tell anything to me? No face-to-face between men like I’ve been grown up to behave. Instead you tried to place knife in my back in the public forums. Then I tried to tell you my part, what I knew and thought. And asked apologies if I’d insulted you somehow. I got no answer at all, only personal insult again. You really need that to keep your ego up? Where’s your honor? I can see only shame in you.

[KG Erwin]

The line about "new ideas" just about made me spit out my drink.

Tokyo Boy, deep down, you ARE a Samurai. You cannot and will not accept modern ideas, and you will go down fighting while defending your antiquated notions of honor.

I respect that, but you are doomed to getting your butt kicked in every PBEM game you play.

Just for your pig-headed stubborness, I gotta give you a [&o] , but you are an anachronism, and I fully believe that you revel in it.

[JediMessiah]

tbt, youre the one who has to relax.


noone here is persecuting you, and noone insulted you until you started with the condescending comments yourself.

now people at this forum have gone above and beyond trying to accomadate you, but you insist that you are right and everyone else must be wrong, take a look at your rant song, you are living it

samurai? not likely

paranoid is what you are

id just as soon put all this bs behind us, hope you can too


-jedi

[KG Erwin]

On the flipside:

How many of you guys have seen "Lion of the Desert"? This movie was based on the exploits of Omar Mukhtar, a Libyan rebel who fought against Italian invaders in the early 20th century. Mukhtar's guerrilla forces were composed primarily of light cavalry, and conducted raids against Italian supply lines, causing much damage and hindering Italian efforts to quickly subjugate the region. Mukhtar was ultimately captured and executed, but he did succeed in postponing the inevitable.

OOps- don't intend to encourage TBT's delusions, but examples of lost causes like this abound in history.

[JediMessiah]

but you see kg, thats where tbt has it wrong, noone is attacking him, or even his precious haig tactics.


they were only defending themselves from his condescension.

he cries about shutting out his ideas or any new ideas, but that exactly what hes done, go back and reread his posts

i believe there is a time and a place for all units and tactics, especially against an intelligent enemy

this is absurd really, noone attacked tbt, yet he wants to think the world is against him.

tbt, im not full of hate, but your are most certainly full of loneliness, or will be, with the way you enjoy alienating people.

i dont know who hurt you in the past, or what happened to you, but this (and the depot) are the most welcoming communities on the net, especially to new people. if you feel isolated, thats because your words and attitude leave no room for anyone to discuss or get close to you

where is YOUR love man?


i feel sorry for you, but would be your friend if only youd let us

-jedi

[Orzel Bialy]

First of all...I hope TBT didn't strain himself too much while he was climbing up on that cross for this pompus act of self-crucifixion. [8|]

Second of all....Korpraali V I hope you sincerely didn't feel the need to explain anything to anyone here. I doubt there is a soul on this forum that believed TBT's accusation for a second, escpecially since his credibility around here is far from stellar.

As for making it onto the top ten list of inspiring people...glad to have been of service. [:)] Amazing all the company I piled up with in such a short period of time...what an evil band of people we were to have repeatedly insulted such a genius. [:'(]

Best wishes TBT. Hope you can lick those inner demons and control that urge to spread so much despair on a public forum. [:D]

***Sorry Jedi...now he can say he was insulted by me...and be correct for once.***

[forgorin]

Friend?[&:]

FRIEND!!

[azraelck]

At least I got a mention.

Anyone got some popcorn?

[Alby]

ORIGINAL: Warrior

ORIGINAL: TokyoBoyTensai

Turn on the song "Signs signs everywhere a sign" by the Five Man Electrical Band to fully enjoy this "song based on it.

Rants

V1
And the sign said high IQ creative people need not apply
So I tucked my ideas up under my hat and I went in to ask them why
They said you look like a fine upstanding young man, you should f*ck off
So I spoke of my new ideas and I said imagine that, huh, me talking to you

woah!

Chorus:

Rant rant everywhere a rant
Blocking out the scenery breaking my mind
Do this, don't do that, can't you read the rant

V2
And the rant said anybody caught with fresh ideas would be shot on sight
So I jumped on the fence and yelled at the forum grumps, Hey! what gives you the right
To put up a fence to keep me out or to keep your boredom in
If God was here, he'd tell you to your face, man you're some kinda sinner

Repeat Chorus:

Bridge:

Now, hey you Mister! can't you read, you got to have a hate problem to get a seat
You can't even watch, no you can't eat, you ain't suppose to be here
Rant said you got to have a low IQ to get inside Uh!

V3
And the sign said everybody welcome, come in, kneel down and rant
But when they passed around the mike at the end of it all,
I didn't have a rage to rant, so I got me a pen and a paper and I made up my own little sign
I said thank you Lord for thinking about me, I'm alive and doing fine

Repeat Chorus
Repeat Chorus

***************************************
I'd like to give a special thanks to the following individuals for inspiring this song...

BulletMagnet (aka EnemyMagnet), azraelck, Ruin T, Orzel Bialy, Swamprat, m10bob, Einar Fridgeirs, IBTirade, omegaall... and my deepest apologies for those I can't recall at the moment.

And lets give it up for Korpraali V for needing to cheat on the very first PBEM game I ever played. Woohoo!!

Sayonara a$$holes

[:D]

Must be some kind of Japanese hippie to be familiar with the original song.

Except the Title is
"SIGNS"
not signs signs everywhere a sign

[Wild Bill]

Me? Playing is my game. Win, maybe! Have fun, definitely! Let's have fun!..WB

[Zardoz]

Bah......

forget all this stupid discussion about a PBEM match. I think , I can understand Tokioboy very well. I have also the impression that PBEM matches are very often very gamey. I have made similar experiences... an oppenent buying units from many different nations, an oppent who immediately asked for restart a new game as his glider landed more or less on top of my tanks....always those engineers in advance situation where in reality never engineers would have been used... etc..

It was the typical situation of having different views and not clearly talking about it. I am a lawyer and , therefore, I accepted these things as we had not set up rules which were hit. Ok...I thought, next time I have to discuss it or do something else but I could not blame someone for the fact that my intention was not fully reached.

So...."Über Gräber voran !!!" (Advance over the graves)

[Puukkoo]

Oh, God.

Well, it was good to see one living as he preached.

[FlashfyreSP]

Damn...I'm disappointed that my name wasn't mentioned, since I challenged him early on about his fascination with his 'Haig tactics'. Not even an Honorable Mention...

[Mau Fox]

ORIGINAL: KG Erwin

On the flipside:

How many of you guys have seen "Lion of the Desert"?

Hey Gunny!

I am surprised that you saw that movie! [:)]
Actually it is a good one although not a box office succes.

Did you know that the director of this film Moustapha Akkad was also the producer of the famous "Halloween" series?
And, sadly, he died 11th november 2005 after suffering injuries from the hotel bombing in Jordan.

About the "Lion of the desert" we have to know that the movie was funded by Muammar al-Gadhafi, and he demanded that the movie include a scene that was not historically accurate in order to make the Sanusi family in Libya look bad.

Ciao!

Mau Fox. [:)]

[Swamprat]

Just another Troll then.

Trolls seem to be an increasing phenomenom on public forums. He must enjoy the fact that this forum is unmoderated. On other forums he would have been thrown out pretty quickly.

What's a troll, for those who ask? A troll is an individual whose whole reason for being on the forum is to antagonise other individuals, (see his profile). Often it's not even out of any ill feeling. Guys like TokyoChild just get a kick out of provoking a reaction from people - it's just something he likes to do. The way he does it doesn't matter - the haig tactics business for instance wasn't really all that heartfelt to him, if he even believed it at all.

But on a forum like this he does trade on the goodwill of others, who defend him without realising his real intent. I've fallen for it myself several times on other forums.

So bye bye TokyoChild. Your wargaming is about as skilfull as your song writing.
Except of course I bet it's not really goodbye is it? No, you'll be looking in as usual, getting your kick out of the responses in this thread. Soon you won't be able to wait any longer; then you'll jump in again. What's Japanese for "I see you're back again then."

Oh, and Bill, before you get onto me again with 'hey where do you come from with an attitude like that' or 'lets have intelligent responses only please', please please remember that I haven't actually insulted him - not like he's insulted others in a rather more direct and crude manner. I'm no public enemy Bill. I care too.

[omegaall]

Anyone ever really thought that the guy was just pushing "his" Haig thing to get nothing more than a bite (or is that byte) ..

Just tread carefully next time..