Classic Posts ★★★★★

Fox · October 15, 2005, 8:59am

Definitely a classic Mucha Man. Had me laughing all over again. Blueface made a fortune out of that scam, mostly from sandman.

sandman · October 16, 2005, 8:46am

Yeah, he saw me coming and no mistake. Fucking “Toothbrush of Frank” indeed! In fact it belonged to some guy named Kenneth. Almost totally worthless. :fume:

Yellow_Cartman · October 17, 2005, 3:25pm

Read a Beware 'steve in taiwan' - #8 by seeker4 today by seeker4. It’s stuff like this that keeps me trolling the boards. Too few and far between these days.

bobepine · October 17, 2005, 4:11pm

I also truly liked this post. They are fewer appart partly because you haven’t been posting much Sir.

bobepine

bob · October 18, 2005, 7:11pm

Here’s one from Tom Hill

The behaviour of the local ladies is diverse, but by all accounts, common threads seem to run through them all. Family, personal desires, strength of character look like the top three.

Family. Lets face it, there are a lot of adult males who are pigs. Worldwide. MrsHill’s father is a pig, for example. He is racist, unpolite, unbending, and generally lords it over everyone. Why? Cos he struck it rich, despite his tendency to be piggish. New pig money. Yuk. And there are many many men like this. I must always remember that this man educated my partner. His money paid for her education and also her slavery. Many girls, or so it seems, are loyally devoted to their families, but deep deep down they wish they weren’t. This brings me nicely to part 2.
Personal desires. Common pastimes seem shallow to the ‘cultured’ foreigner, who conveniently forgets they are addicted to drugs to get through their lives. (booze, fags, puff, pills, Canadian bacon.) My partner may be moody from time to time, but that is because she denies herself the sweet sweet pleasure of total annihilation, on a weekly/daily basis. Hats off to her. So maybe she likes shopping, or drinking tea. Maybe she hasn’t ridden a mountain bike. Drag her kicking and screaming from the sofa and force her to look at God’s magnificence. She will see it, just as you do.

Strength of character. This is where we all, to a man, fail. I am weak, she is weak. Her family and mine too: weak. Mothers display emotional shallowness, Fathers display emotional detatchment. Your girl will have to stand in the middle of all this, and deal with our whining “I wanna go live in X where the grass is greener, and the trolls are smaller, and I can earn a decent crust.” Poor cow. To whom should she show her loyalty? To ma and pa who raised her and taught her her values. To herself: who tells her 'things ain’t right, you want something else." Or to Whitey, who tells her, “we’d be happier off if x,y and z didnt exist.”

All in all I’d say as noodle scratchers go this is a dilly of a pickle. Hats off to all who stay sane. Hts off to the local ladies who are brave enough to take another path. Forewarned is never forearmed!

Jive_Turkey · October 21, 2005, 2:01pm

If this gem first written in these pages by Comrade Stalin and repeated often by many others is not a classic, then I don’t know what is.

maoman · October 21, 2005, 2:20pm

Definitely. I’ve got a few additions I’ll make when I’ve got the time, and the above is definitely a Forumosa classic. It should probably go on the back of a t-shirt.

bobepine · February 20, 2006, 1:39pm

This one is in my opinion a true classic. I’m sure Forumosa is proud to have posters from all walks of life and for good reasons I think. It makes this site simply interesting.

For this classic, I suggest the following title: ImaniOU’s Rant

bobepine

GooseEgg · February 21, 2006, 1:14am

Thanks for the recommendation. I’ll add this to the Classic Post list once I have a look at the post (I checked, it’s a long one) or if a moderator tells me they agree with you to add it on

Cheers

bobepine · February 26, 2006, 3:25am

Thanks Gus.

I see that the post hasn’t been made a classic yet and I’m thinking the same as my last recommendation, it will not happen. What does it take to be a classic? You’ve got a handful of classic posts and thousands of archived posts.

There’s been a lot of talk about racism on Forumosa and sometimes it creates tensions as you know unless a post is written in good spirit. I think that the above mentioned post is a classic and I hope someone can acknowledge that and do something about it or else that’s the last time I’ll participate in this thread and recommend a post to be made a classic. Not a big loss to anyone I guess.

My last recommendation was for one of Sandman’s hilarious post and that was overlooked as well. Why would I bother with this Classic Posts idea?

I appreciate your response but maybe next time you could take the time to read the proposed posts before you reply in this thread.

Cheers!

bobepine

bob · February 26, 2006, 4:36am

I’ll chirp in since this was my idea…

Some time ago it became apparent to some of us that a lot of really inspired, wise, witty stuff was being buried in an avalanche of the mundane; hence was born the classic posts thread.

Since then though it has become obvious that classic to me or you might not be classic to the other guy, or vice versa. For example quite a few people thought that the pictures of “gems” stolen from Iraq was a classic. To me it was a repetition of the same joke over and over again.

Truth is it could take us a year to come up with a definition of classic and in the meantime the classic thread will become just like any other.

I’m going to get slaughtered for this but I think the classic thread needs a single moderator who can be trusted to recognize quality. If that moderator was me I’d probably delete half of what is in here now and replace it with posts like this (from Imaniou)…

As far as environment, it’s a known fact that most cushy teaching jobs (those in well-off schools and school districts with lots of resources) go to tenured, experienced teachers. Teaching jobs in impoverished schools and school districts often go to inexperienced teachers or teachers who are not dedicated to their work. As a reward for becoming better teachers, those who make improvements go on to the nicer schools where parents are more dedicated to their children’s education, the students all have goals that usually include tertiary education or trade schools, and the community has the money to provide the school with the resources it needs to produce the programs it wants.

Meanwhile those kids attending school in the more impoverish districts keep teachers that no one else wants and the teachers who don’t know what they are doing, using what little resources the district can afford to give them. Can you imagine feeling motivated to learn and pursue higher learning when all the teachers you get don’t want to be at your school, could care less whether or not you learn, and live for the weekend? What kind of message would you get about your self-worth when your own parents (or rather parent) doesn’t or can’t support you in your learning and your teacher would just as soon have you drop out so her class can go from 30 students to a slightly more manageable 29?

All of us on this website are lucky that we had someone out there who cared enough for us to inspire us to learn. I cannot say there is anyone here who did not have at least one really good teacher. And even if your home environment was not perfect, you still had someone in your life who believed in you. Not many of these kids get that. And if your life is devoid of hope, of the idea that you can escape the misery around you, then why bother getting better if becoming a part of that negativity is inevitable (or so you are led to believe)?

I am one who believes that genetics has nothing to do with how successful one’s life can be. Environment plays a big role in who we are. If we are taught that XYZ people are inferior to us, then until some opportunity comes along to show us something different, we will continue to believe that XYZ people are inferior to us. If we live in an environment where we are treated as if we are animals incapable of achievement, then if no one comes along to tell us otherwise, we will continue to follow the path we think we are meant to follow. Many people in the US (and our other home countries) believe that life outside of their own community/country is not safe or is too difficult to survive in. They never leave their home country. I think that idea is similar to what impoverished people, who are never told that they don’t have to live in poverty and can choose to improve their lives, go through. Granted, I was a linguistics major and not a sociology one, but I think it’s self-evident:

If you don’t teach a child to be respectful at home, most of them won’t learn it on their own, ignoring the fact that they do learn something through school culture and outside of the home.

If you don’t teach your child how to delay gratification, chances are they won’t be able to do it on their own.

If you don’t teach a child that they are worthy of success and capable of achievement or push them to do their best, you cannot expect that they will do these things on their own.

Let’s face it, it’s much easier to be disrespectful, get what we want immediately, and be lazy than to be respectful, patient, and hard-working. But it takes discipline and love to help us understand why it’s worth having the latter characteristics. Unfortunately, not everyone gets this discipline and love. Especially in impoverished urban environments.

I’d probably fill it with a lot of extreme silliness as well since that is what I happen to like and so do quite a few other people apparently.

Anyway I suppose what it will take to make this thing work is enough commitment to make it an actual forum rather than just a thread and then appoint a moderator. Sandman is probably the best qualified.

GooseEgg · February 26, 2006, 6:06am

bobepine:

Thanks Gus.

I see that the post hasn’t been made a classic yet and I’m thinking the same as my last recommendation, it will not happen. What does it take to be a classic? You’ve got a handful of classic posts and thousands of archived posts.

There’s been a lot of talk about racism on Forumosa and sometimes it creates tensions as you know unless a post is written in good spirit. I think that the above mentioned post is a classic and I hope someone can acknowledge that and do something about it or else that’s the last time I’ll participate in this thread and recommend a post to be made a classic. Not a big loss to anyone I guess.

My last recommendation was for one of Sandman’s hilarious post and that was overlooked as well. Why would I bother with this Classic Posts idea?

I appreciate your response but maybe next time you could take the time to read the proposed posts before you reply in this thread.

Cheers!

bobepine

Thanks for the recommendation. I’ll add this to the Classic Post list once I have a look at the post (I checked, it’s a long one) or if a moderator tells me they agree with you to add it on

Hi bobpine

I recognize your frustration, and I apologize for it. I have only excuses to explain why I haven’t taken the time to review the post and then decide whether to add it to the list.

The problem has to do with time (or lack of it). In about an hour I meet Maoman for an Admin’s meeting, and addressing this lack of time is the primary purpose of our agenda.

I hope you will not stop recommending Classic Posts. Frankly, I count on you, bob, and the ‘regular Forumosan regulars’ to bring these to our attention. Half of the Classic Posts listed were recommended by people who were not moderators or admins.

It seems natural that advocacy from a moderator or admin be required before a Classic Post is recognized. But what happens when the 30-odd people who watch over the forums do not have the time to champion a Classic Post submission?

bob, your idea for a Forum for Classic Posts would make more sense to me if it did not mean “removing” the posts from their home forums. “Moved:” discussion links do not record post and view numbers in the original forum, so I would discourage playing around with this.

Since the Classic Posts page actually resides in our blog, we can assign writer status to someone who is interested in building and maintaining that page. This means a separate login ID for that person.

A part from assigning a Classic Posts archivist, are there any other suggestions for how to recognize cool threads in Forumosa? You can post here, PM me or send me e-mail at gus @ forumosa.com

GooseEgg · February 26, 2006, 6:21am

bobepine, I’ve read the post already and I’ll add it to the Classic Posts page. Thank you for the recommendation

Look out for it in a few hours - I must prepare for my meeting with Maoman and still have a full schedule ahead today. Cheers, g.

bob · February 26, 2006, 10:26am

Wow am I a freaking airhead! You and maoman are basically moderating the blog already. In honour of my lastest brain fart I recommend the following as a classic post.

forumosa.com/taiwan/viewtopi … highlight=

It doesn’t really get rolling till about page two or so but when it does… well, even then it is kind of scattered, but I like it anywho.

bobepine · March 17, 2006, 3:27am

Here’s one from bismark, other posters nominated the post and I agree.

forumosa.com/taiwan/viewtopic.ph … &&start=30

While I’m here, this one is also a classic IMO(Actually three posts in this thread are classics but they could be linked together in the blog as they are in the same thread.)

And this one from trapjaw is without a doubt a classic.

bobepine

Gao_Bohan · March 17, 2006, 6:59pm

I second the nomination for bismarck’s post.

maoman · March 18, 2006, 3:14am

Thanks, bobepine. I’ll try to archive them tonight or tomorrow!

Dragonbones · April 7, 2006, 11:53am

I nominate this one from Tash:

:beatnik:

puiwaihin · April 7, 2006, 3:28pm

I nominate Miltownkid’s post from
Lockem’ All Up
(how do you link directly to a specific post if it’s no the first one?)

Thanks DB!

Dragonbones · April 7, 2006, 3:36pm

Click the small white page document to the left of the “Posted: date/time/ Post subject:”; that will refresh the page but at the same time change the address in your browser to contain the specific post link.