this mascot needs to be reprogramed .Scaring small children is tantimount to child abuse. It is the same as beating up a person in a wheelchair. He should be held upside down and beaten like a pinyata by these same children
In my town, Bigfoot isn't allow to go to the public pool for obvious reasons..........................................clogging the filter and taking to long with the public hairdryer.
That was alot of A&B on children, Canuck could charge him, but only if the mascot contacts them over the enternet.
Bigfoot is a life guard at the local lake in the hilltown. He give free mouth to mouth, spit,sssssssss
The alias oh it's definitely one the more interesting aspects of glumbertania, I gave life to peanut a few months ago because things were getting dull and it seemed that we had lost the ability to accept anyone who had different ideas. well peanut had different ideas, he wouldn't go away and possesed no redeeming traits. if you look at his profile page he was uniersally loathed....but he was fun..... for me... and now he has gone. banished to the most remote and inhospitable regions of glumbertania with no hope of ever returning......
it's funny though if you read the messages left in his crib, i don't think one was positive, except for qlanetint who was/is positively creepy .....
I'll miss peanuts, I have no alias, the one (backboner) was too much to handle, credit to those who could, it was nervewracking for me.
I do know of a few lets see if they come out.
I'm going to check out youtube, never been on the site, just view what you all have posted here. I like the crew and don't really care about who's who. Just keep posting, you're all my friends and it makes working bearable.
I don't like the alias thing at all, you have to be a bit bi-polar to do it, or schizophrenic, or very intelligent...take your pick, either way it I don't like dealing with someone who isn't, it's inherently deceptive behavior. To me it's as if everyone has a mask and voice changer, the human mind needs familiarity, to form allies for self preservation, be it facial recognition or just a name on a screen.
Gymygy, let me link you to Youtube, to a real nut case that makes videos and lots of them..scary there are people like this walking around!
Well, I don't really mind them either. After all, some of the people who post stuff on Glumbert aren't really expressing their true thoughts anyway.
There are some who I believe are trying to deliberately provoke a response because they find it hard to in real life. Some act dumb when they are actually pretty smart. Some who are dumb cut and paste and use a thesaurus to try to look smart.
So what?
Short of all the regular posters deciding to do the unthinkable and give personal details so they could all meet up for a "real world" Glumbert party, we're never going to know, are we? Personally, I'd love it. And it would make a great sitcom! We all must have ideas of what the other posters look like. We don't even know if the pictures they post are really them. Example - Billboat on the deck of his boat looks a great guy who I'd like to meet and get to know. No disrespect, but he might not even have a boat, although I'm pretty sure he's a genuine guy. I picture Canuck as a big guy with a big heart, bad temper and checked shirt, steam coming out of his ears when he gets going onthe keyboard. But, again, he could be a thin little wimp who wouldn't say boo to a goose and lives in mortal terror of his wife! (No disrespect again!) Backboner - are you really as homophobic as you say? Freetobe - you can't truly be as nice and unworldly as that, can you? gymyg - I see you by the side of a trout stream showing a grandchild how to cast a fly, but you could live in Detroit and be in a wheelchair! Arseface - a face like an arse, really?! DRIVEL!!! You could look like George Clooney for all we know. You could be a woman!
I think we have to ask why we're on here at all! I ask myself often why I would think anybody would be in the least bit interested in where I've been and what I've done during my travels. Basically I like shooting the breeze and passing on my experiences. I know I wouldn't be doing it if nobody else saw it.
Botom line is that Glumbert is an outlet for IDEAS, HUMOUR, CONTROVERSY, BULLSHIT AND LIGHT RELIEF!
I try not to get too hung up on it. I ask myself sometimes - is Mountainclimber actually a zealot, or is he just pulling my chain. But none of it really matters.
What matters is that being on Glumbert forces me to think in ways that everyday life doesn't. How often do you go into the corner store and meet as many different sorts of people as you do here? You don't in the one I use anyway.
I'm getting a bit of cabin fever just now and wish I was on the highway again. Not long now though.
Later.
I agree that everyone here is hidden, and that is the point. It is the hidden nature of the medium that brings out the true nature of the writer, even if it is as an alias identity.
It is a complex environment, and that in itself is interesting, and perhaps the aliases are preventing some from going nuts, like in psychotherapy.
There is the same jumble of mindsets that any town would have, but here in Glumbertland people can just start talking. These forums flourish because society no longer permits unrestrained discussion, sometimes, even with close friends there are lines that are not crossed.
podman I agree with most of what you posted except for the first part my other alias are so different and apposed to each that I would have to be schizophrenic.
I have even attacked myself and then watched how others joined in when they smelt the blood - maybe there is more in that than hiding behind an alias?
Miter are those all yours? I liked the wasp nest, and shooting down the camera was cool.
If you did that around my area you'd have homeland (local cop) Chuck on your ass. Thanks
gymyg, backbone, the rest, I've enjoyed your posts. I watch most of the vid sites and the comments here are LOL. I signed on because I wanted to comment, my friends call me mimic, I look like someone famous and once, just once I mimiked that person and they never forgot.
Miter, your vid's will land you in jail. Be careful.
Perhaps they give away personal info as a form of online currency. It has no root in reality, and the only thing of real value int a virtual world is paid through real information.
I would not do it, and I think older people value their privacy, I sure do. I guess younger folks haven't had much privacy in their lives, and perhaps it has less value to them.
Maybe some of our younger members will post explanations.
I know this, if I were rich I would not be on glumbert. I would travel as well, and if I had the money, my time would be spent on many other hobbies before this one. But I live in New England where it is dark, cold, and snowing 8 months of the year.
mimic, as odd as it sounds, I'm not doing anything illegal. Thankfully I do this craziness in the "country" and I'm fully licensed anyway, not that I need to be (for these particular "device's" shown in the videos anyway).
I'll link you to my (not so) secret supplier of explosive fun and you'll see what I mean...
Agreed Podman.
Do you think younger people - by that I mean teens and early twenties - are more comfortable with the "chatroom"/forum sort of thing than people in their thirties and upwards?
They certainly seem to give away vast amounts of information about themselves on bebo, facebook, that sort of thing. A lot of it will be bullshit I suppose, but there seems to be a fair degree of openness and honesty going on too. To be honest, that sort of exposure of self to the whole world terrifies me. I'm happy to share yarns etc, but to atually give away stuff about your psyche/feelings... is it gratuitous, a cry for help, need to impress, or is there nothing to it at all because they've simply been brought up in the info superhighway age? I find it interesting.
I have a thirty year old friend who spends all his time playing one of those dungeons and dragons type games with loads of other people. I honestly think he feels more at home and accepted online than he does in his everyday life. He een tlks about going fora drink with these "friends", but he means in some inn in the "Underworld" where they all buy each other drinks and exchange secrets on how to get to the next level. Is there something weird about that? Or have I missed the boat on this? I don't know. Obssessions are obssessions I suppose. I spend almost all the cash I earn on travelling, and that seems the most natural thing in the world to me. Other people see it as a waste of a life. I tell them it's not a dress rehearsal, but somehow they don't get it. "You need to put down roots". "You never really get to know anyone". I hear that a lot. But there are just as many who say they want to go with me! And I have to say, "Sorry, I fly solo." and they then think I'm a prick!
By the way, don't believe it when people say "It is better to travel than to arrive." It isn't. Arriving is what it's all about.
I'm rambling now - probably the coke! Ooops........
Just came out of one of those really bad friday meetings, they didn't offer lunch. I posted or will a photo taken driving in this AM when the snow just started, ck it out.
Im bored and want to go home, but my boss is still hanging in there.
Garb, I'm not in a wheel chair yet, and fishing with the grandsonS is coming, thanks.
LOL! That was a wonderful post G. The coke part at the end had me LMAO!! I say now as I have recently admitted of having 5 Aliases. That would be wrong! Its more like 8, But most of them have been around as long as I have,And when I say "I" its RF that I refer for thats the name I choose on all the other sites I partisapate
On YouTube,myspace(not so much) Party poker,Europoker,fulltilt poker,comcast MLB Forums and such! These Aliases I use have been around almost as long as my RF name, These Aliases however are never in conflict with any regulars or i should say" their internet Super Heros!! LOL!!
As far as Canuck stating that Aliases were "yellow cowards" I Know to what he was referring!! Not me, or a few others that actually try to entertain.LOL, Tho if Canuck was talking to my beloved Aliases, or me for that fact, I'd have to take a personal trip up to the Great white north and give a beat down to the whole first string of the Toronto Maple Leafs!! LOLOLOL!! Now back to renovating bathroom!
I continue to be entertained and informed by Glumbert, but seldom by its videos.
I enjoy the wit, rapport, intelligence, and humor so many posters share. I resent the gratuitous and invariably vulgar posts whose only purpose is to attempt creative ways to criticize other posts.
As for aliases...someone already said something like "inherently deceptive", and I agree with that....still, if the post is informative, amusing, and otherwise entertaining, I have no problem with the alias (but if the posts were that good, why the alias?)
Finally, I am really enjoying the newer posters who clearly are taking the time to phrase their items nicely, and who seem to like a discourse that respects all participants.
RF, miter, canuck, podman, gymyg, chuck, arse, FTB, riza .............always worth a visit here to listen to your notions (I know I have missed more than I have cited...sorry to all others)..... and now newer visitors.
...garbage - such an unfortunate id for such an intelligent poster.
...mimic - bright thoughts, fun posts.
Enough for now....look foreward to a continuation of the entertainment, if not the tiresome videos.
Re: this video....to quote the master...."drivel".
And as the clever newbie "twowords" might say, "drivel, drivel".
And I myself might say, "'twas naught with favor, thinks meself". Actually, I'd never say that, but it strikes me as funny just now.
GB That is outrageous, and probably illegal, and far more common that one could imagine. There is so much deception, fraud, abuse and disinformation concerning federal defense spending it's impossible to tell what's going on.
for example consider... the curious case of Pentagon Employee Mr. Dov Zakheim
Dov Zakheim, former Bush appointee as Pentagon Comptroller from May 4, 2001 to March 10, 2004. At that time he was unable to explain the disappearance of $1 trillion dollars. Actually, nearly three years earlier, Donald Rumsfeld announced on September 10, 2001 that an audit discovered $2.3 trillion was also missing from the Pentagon books. The two sums disappeared on Zakheim%u2019s watch."
Currently Mr Zakheim is employed by the prestigious washington law firm of Hamilton, Booze and Allen, even though he is not licensed to practice law in any of the 50 states or District of Columbia........(i don't even think he's a citizen of the United States).....Basically the whole bunch of phonies are nothing but pimps (i mean lobbyists) for foreign governments... In the case of the Boeing contract....that was worth 100 billion dollars to US workers and companies...now it's a statistic we call a "trade deficit" the macroeconomic equivalent of bone cancer...meanwhile from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, "The number of unemployed persons increased by 434,000 to 7.8 in March,"
Let me put it another way In March, the number of persons unemployed because they lost jobs increased by 300,000 to 4.2 million. Over the past 12 months, the number of unemployed increased by 914,000. Since this only reflects those who are eligible for unemployment insurance the actual number is much higher...
About aliases canuck1963 you can describe me in many ways but a yellow coward that hides in the shadows is not one of them lets remember that canuck1963, sven666, mako100 and many others attacked me first and I only defended myself.
In essence you ganged up on me WHY? I didn't attack any of you.
peanut/chucknorris (BTW are you really chuck norris texas ranger) I am not saying that you sided with me but you and even qlanettint gave me some support when I needed it you obviously saw through the tripe.
mitercut I am not bi-polar or schizophrenic although I do have a voice in my head that tells me to burn things. mitercut I have seen your great vids on youtube am I to think that you are part of a militia group. NO.
Garbage if I ever get my hands on that little homo brownlove I will rip its arm off and belt him to a red bloody pulp with it.
randalflagg 8 aliases I salute you.
gymyg you are fun - and keep your promise.
In short others have put it better than myself. (Cyber space is not real its 80% BS) unless you also believe that female porn stars enjoy having sex on camera.
I enjoy reading others posts and most have said things on glumbert that you wouldn't dare in real life remember the spanking that the religious zealots got a few videos back.
Maybe some are being a little precious about things.
podman I agree with most of what you posted except for the first part my other alias are so different and apposed to each that I would have to be schizophrenic.
I have even attacked myself and then watched how others joined in when they smelt the blood - maybe there is more in that than hiding behind an alias?
BB - Sorry dude, when you write it it is still you. Even if you attack yourself, its still you, self flagellation maybe, but still you. Not that that is a bad thing, actually playing both sides of the chess board is a hallmark of real intelligence.
One aspect of an alias is the ability for the alias to do things that the standard you cannot do. Its like the saying "What happens in Las Vegas stays in Las Vegas", people are willing to do things in an anonymous environment that they would or could not in the standard setting.
Also, an alias can seek anonymous revenge without besmirching the standard id. Or in your case it can be used to deflect possession of the attacking Id.
Further to my above-comments on the whole "alias" thingy:
Whereas I said "I honestly don't mind them anymore"...that should NOT be confused with liking or even accepting them.
See, the way I figure it is this: the predominant majority of these "aliases" did not offer anything, except for some specific traits: to be mean, nasty, malicious, downright hostile and even going so far as finding whatever means necessary to "hit below the belt", so to speak. Now, what's the point of THAT? I can understand the need provoke alternative ideas, or mirth or even humour; but considering the lengths some of these "aliases" have gone to, well, the consist/intelligent posters around here please tell ME: do ya think they've accomplished that? Are you telling me that they could not have accomplished those goals WITHOUT resorting to some of the vile crap I've seen/read them say or do? Come on. Funny? Nope. Provoked constructive dialogue/debate? Nope. Added an alternative, relative viewpoint? Nope. Jeez, for the past year, I could have assumed a gazillion different pseudonyms, to whatever end. I chose not to, because I conduct myself on here and follow the same principles I do in real life: I say what I won, and I own what I say. That's not me spinning a yarn or playing a trumpet; it's just who and what I am. Nothing more. Have I ever said something on here to piss people off? I mean, REALLY piss them off? Oh hell yeah. Have I ever engaged in mudslinging and name-calling? Unfortunately...yeah. But ya know what? "They" ALWAYS knew where the pitch was coming from. Repeat: ALWAYS. Reading the above posts, I just remembered something that stuckm out in my mind: do you guys remember a while back, Glumbert had a clip posted of teenagers performing swing dancing? And then, sometime later, they put up a clip of other teenagers doing hip-hop dancing? Well, I had made a somewhat stereotypical, off-the-cuff comment about the hip-hoppers, saying something along the lines of them being "future criminals", whilst the swing dancers were far more entertaining and likeable. Welllll, holy crap, the reaction I got! Suddenly, a lot of posters I'd NEVER even heard of before this (and never saw since, come to think of it), came out of the woodwork, and lambasted me. I'm sittin' here thinking, "Whoa!". I mean, I'm getting called "racist", "intolerant", "prejudiced", etc, etc. Do I blame them? Not at all. They reacted to what was in front of them, without the benefit of knowing me. Pure and simple. This illustrated two things for me:
1. There are a LOT of folks out there, who read what is being written by us (not just me....ALL of us) here, but for whatever reason, are content to not contribute, unless something stirs their ire. And that's cool.
2. The benefits I have reaped on these threads by not assuming an "alias" far outweigh the negatives (in terms of mutual respect/admiration/trust/overall likeability) in conversing with my fellow Glumbertarians.
Garbage:
I agree with Chaz: you're a sharp fellow, and I've also found it difficult to rencile how you "are", with your chosen handle. But if that's what turns your crank, then so be it. And by-the-by....I had to crack up at your "image" of me. LOL! Sorry to disappoint. I am six-foot-even; salt-n'-peppah moustache; 230 lbs.; short light-brown hair (with a rapidly expanding helipad on top which is currently under construction; in a few more years, you'll be able to land a Blackhawk on it); fecal-brown eyes; and a face that not only shows disenchantment with the last 22 years of my occupational career, but one in which I'm sure only a mom (or a wife) could even remotely find anything to love about. Checked shirt? Nahh. Strictly a denim or T-shirt kinda schmuck. A temper? Maybe in my young, stupid years. Now? No. Or, at least, I don't think so.
Anyways, those are my own personal expanded thoughts, on this whole "alias" business.
(and as usual, I was verbose; oh well. Somethings ya just can't change)
canuck have you considered the notion that the posters that came out of the wood work were in fact regulars that did not have the "backbone" to confront you head on?
PS: you have posted that you are six-foot-even 230 lbs. A gorilla of a man. In fact when rizamoon asked what animal you would be you stated a silver back gorilla. Interesting.
BTW - did you know that an adult male gorilla has the smallest penis to body size of all the primates?
I KNOW some regular posters have assumed "aliases"....but I think you're fishing for a lost cause here. When the "regular" posters assumed these different personas, they actually were funny and harmless, and eventually came out and feesed up to it. But the other MAJORITY who did it, were simple outright turds about it. The hardcore "regulars" you refer to here, I've found to be stand-up, intelligent, quick-witted jovial types. I don't think that they consider it complimentary to be lumped in with the same vermin you're talking about. Just an observation (plus, I'm still not entirely convinced that YOU'RE not an alias-stalker from a while back....I could be wrong...I could be right....but what the hell). As for the giorilla-penis observation you made......fill yer boots. It may be true or not true. Who knows? But saying that to the gorilla's face? That's another story.....ain't it? Sure it is.
Chuck:
I guess you and I have wildly differing ideas as to what constitutes "fun" (it being a subjective term, and all). Par for the course, I suppose.
It's almost 10pm, I've had too much or not enough vodka and it has taken 1/2 hr to read all the posts. Shit I love you guys(LOL), the sox are losing and Bstar G isn't on yet.
So(sox just lost) I'm not a computer wiz, I don't play xbox etc, I can't spelp for shit, but I've always enjoyed all of your posts, may not agree, I have a lot of whatevers but while we're kiss each other (pac this is for you) smack!
Chaz and miter Iwant you as niegbors, backbone and Id lets go for beers, Pac I want to see the naked baby photos. same with deb, canuck, I'll share my Q's with ya, randal even the yankees can't win them all, the rest that come and go add the falvor that is glum, best to you all. Oh and F*k off, LOL
The thing I like about you gymyg is that you are not pretentious you wear your heart on your sleeve with no ego (like the wacky uncle we all know and like) but jeez you are unpredictable - which is a good thing.
PS: I would love to go for some beers with you and many others from glumbert.
Got one Hell of a love fest while we're waiting for some new vids. I Stumbled onto the creation "science" vid and the started reading the posts and have spent waaaay too much time poking around the site and reading the comments. The eclectic nature of the regular posters is what really got my attention. All y'all get a pat on the back for at least saying what you think, even if some do talk outta their asses. I look forward to getting to know you folks better and seeing what the next peice of short attention span theatre is. I am headed to the local bar and will hoist a few in all your honor. (I'd get really plastered if I had one for each of you that I admire)
Thanks, Bill. I think I might've had one for each of you last night. Holy Skvirrel, was I hangin' this morning. I couldn't even log on until this late and the screen still hurts my eyes.
Jeez, must of been some drinking going on last night! I was too, man o man was I! Got real bombed and we all went down the road to the tattoo parlor...woke up this morning and can't believe the tattoo I had put on my belly...check my profile and see it...LOL!
Garbage, you cut me to the quick! I am NOT unworldly! LOL! But, yes, I am that nice. I have been told many times that I have the patience of a saint. It's really hard to piss me off. Years ago, I experienced panic and anxiety. I don't have much trouble with it now, just try to keep myself very calm and easy. It works for me. And I have a tendancy to want to help others feel that way too. I would rather smooth feathers than ruffle them.
Canuck, thanks for the visual. I think it's natural for all of us to try and create a picture of what the others look like, in our heads. I've seen an actual picture of a couple people on here, so that's easy. Most of you though, no idea. It would be interesting if everybody gave a general description, just a little bit.
Hi to all the regulars, and Welcome to the new ones!
This reminds me of a bunch of old men sitting around shitfaced and forgiving each other for passed battles.
I came on to forget about the sox game. Why the hell is america's game played up there anyway?LOL
I guess glum needs the wekend too. I'm skiing at Straton sunday and then hanging them up and facing the yard. Wish we had mexican gradeners here I could use the help. when the kids grow and move the work piles up, I was thinking of addopting a couple of,,,,,,,,,,
Sugarings about done, buds are out, blue birds are flying around looking for love, can't wait for the peepers and woodcock. Life is pretty good, 8 more months of bush, can't wait for that either.
Gymygy, I just (staggered) in from the woods near a bog, where the fog was laying thick, the peepers were deafening! I can hear three different types of calls or peeps or whatever the hell you call it, the coyotes were wailing, the stars were out, damn it's good to be alive!
M, might I be so bold as to suggest a Summer Solstice get together in your neck of the "woods". Any local Glumbetarian (a lot of us), could come, camp out, and possibly tip a drinkie or two in honour (yes, I spelled it the Canadian way), of Glumbertania, and all the zany characters it contains.
Billy B, I'd love to have EVERY ONE of you glumies over! I throw one helluva bonfire! Here's how I do it....on a summer night, get my large stone rimed bonfire pit filled 10 feet high with logs, fire up the charcoal grill, fill it with beer butt chickens, get the wine and beer flowing. While that's going on, I take people on the ATV's for a scary (for some) slow night ride on the creek trails, then fire up the 58 Ford 8N tractor (which after the rebuild is now museum quality), hook up the hay waggon and cruise out to the 60 acre "high field" where we look up at the stars, comets, meteors and northern lights (yes with more beer and wine), all while the nearby woods are alive with the sounds of owls, coons, coyotes...nothing like it, I can't wait! The more people the more fun, wish you all could be there! I've got to post a picture of that tractor, it's a beauty!
het vcanuck in 2004 the jays swept the sox at the start on the season, than what happened? The jays are a good team, but didn't have to travel 18,000 miles to play two teams.
the last of skiing for me was foggie, no sun but pretty good snow. It was the drive home that will kill ya. Left Stratton at 3pm, the hr drive? got home at 10pm, too many pubs on the way, skiing with COs and Cops is ok, it's the drive home that's tuff. Beer just kills me, I'll stay with the white sprits from now on(for getting drunk), beer's for sitting around and being with friends, vodka is for getting drunk.
Come home sox, time to change your underware.
Vy are zere no new videos? I am confined to mein sickbed und haf nozzink to amuse me. I haf tried reading, but no good books haf been written for 100 years. I haf tried masturbating, but zis I find boring. I haf even tried looking at Argentinian television, but zat makes me vont to slit mein wrists.
Interesting reading the latest self aware postings on here, where is the glumbert family heading to, is there an ultimatum due, will everyone meet one day? Or will glumbert one day disappear and noone will ever talk again!
As chuck norris has shown, once you form and articulate your personalility on glumbert it's sometimes difficult to move from your sterotypical post, hence people invent an alias. In reality an alias is not having the confidence in yourself to say what you feel in fear of upsetting others and worrying what others will say.
An alias may be your alter ego, someone you would like to be maybe, or another personality?
i have no alias, but i do hold back on what i want to really say, like in everyday conversations.
I know little of ze plans or vellbeing of Herr Glumbert. But I haf ein feeling in mein vater zat all is not vell in his vorld.
Mein instincts haf been wrong in ze past, vith disastrous results, und I hope I am wrong in zis case.
All together now, after me -
Glumbert ve adore you, Glumbert ve love you!
Vithout you ve are nozzink, vithout you ve are blue!
Keep ze videos coming, make us happy please,
Glumbert uber alles, you are ze bee's knees!
Zere, I feel a little better now. As zey say about von's vedding tackle - use it or lose it!
hereby Post first!! under article 125 section 4 paragraph 6 ! Any glumerterians failing to claim posting first after doing thereof,so gives up that post or any claim of post thereafter on the thread thus in dispute!!
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