Re: No Time Traveller Here!!!
Zech,
I mean that no-one understands what I'm saying or even what they are saying. I guess your stupid little minds don't have the capacity.
Here's the problem, my friend. That no one understands what you are saying is not a surprise. What is it that you've said so far in your dozen or so posts on this thread?
Hello I am Quintillium Zechflorum XII but you can call me Zech I am from year 7902. I need someone to tell me where I am. I am on a super computer with a psyclinder harddrive. Now, does that sound familiar to any of you? /ttiforum/images/graemlins/confused.gif
There is only one language and that is english.
No wars, and it will be a good year.
The war in Iraq is almost over. I
That's it. That is the totality of your message from 6,000 years into the future.
Every other post that you've made is in response to my having engaged you in quibbling matters And that's where you made your mistake. You come from 6,000 years into our future and all you can manage to accomplish is to get distracted into quibbling.
If you're going to post a yarn and expect to have an on-going conversation you have to do some planning, have a story ready to tell that makes some sort of sense, a story that is interesting and a story that is not a simple rehash of one or more of several dozen TT Sagas that have come before..
You have to anticipate the questions that are going to be asked. For example, the "quibble" over English as the only language that far into the future is an old hat topic - we've been there many times before. With a bit of research you could have anticipated the distraction and handled it.
With some research you could have also noticed that those folks who show some talent are better tollerated. Of course we know that you, and they, are telling a tall tale. But we can usually tell when the tall tale teller is having fun and when s/he is doing it because of an underlying belief that anyone who posts here is an imbecile such that s/he will believe anything from anyone who posts. In short, they are trying to ridicule the members in order to get some perverse form of pleasure out of their game. The tip off on the latter permutation of the TT tale teller is that it usually doesn't take very long for them to start calling people names because, apparently, it frustrates them that the would-be "imbeciles" don't bite on the bait as readily as they had originally anticipated.
This is entertainment. We get our pleasure from debating a good yarn - in some cases long after the creator has left the scene. That's a damn sure sign that the author had just a bit more talent than the average story writing bear.
Had you shown some talent, planning and preparation so that your story was at least interesting I assure you that I would have asked some interesting questions, or at least questions that would have, based on my experience, some possibility of being interesting to someone.
I guess that the bottom line is that you get what you give. Tell a mindless boring story and you get mindless boring responses.