Whighlander Posts Off Topic A Lot, or: Briv is a Jerk (from the Greenway Thread)

blade_bltz said:
Can someone explain how Whiglander came to be called 'Westy' by many members of the forum? Is there some cultural reference I'm not getting? I thought I was around when he first showed up a few years back.
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West Highland Terrier = "Westy" =
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I have one named Brussels, best breed hands down.
 
Plus whighlander has signed his posts with "Westy" a bunch before.
 
vanshnookenraggen said:
There is always going to be a person or two that will piss you off and post things you think are stupid (lord knows I've had my problems with people in the past and others with me).

There is a line between being an annoying poster and being a troll. I don't find whig or Rifleman to be trolls and while I disagree with them most of the time I think this place is better for having that side of the argument (or at least their opinion).
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Gee, Thanks I'm not a troll and my thoughts matter. Thank god for this site my shrink recommended it

:D
 
I'll say this: I stopped coming (often) when we stopped discussing architecture and planning and ideas (part of this is due to the economy, the other seems to be a dearth of imaginative posts) and started bitching about politics, Menino, and the BRA. I don't live in Boston for ten months of the year; I simply don't have time to educate myself about the issues and form an opinion, much less care about anyone else's.

Really, I just want ablarc to come back and do some photo essays. I might have learned more about architecture from that guy than any class I've taken so far.
 
In a feeble effort to keep the Boston Built Environment threads on topic about the actual built environment, I'll reply to this here.

whighlander said:
Sidewalkr -- the major magnet to the druggies and such is the Paul Rudolph monstrosity a few blocks away -- that service should move to Roxburry -- the building should be imploded and a super tall built on the site
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Yes, let's corral all the undesirables into one small section section of the city so we don't have to, eww, see them or even think about them. That way we can safely ignore the problem rather than having to actually deal with it.
 
statler said:
Yes, let's corral all the undesirables into one small section section of the city so we don't have to, eww, see them or even think about them. That way we can safely ignore the problem rather than having to actually deal with it.
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We have harbor islands for that! For all the praise of Victorian Boston we must remember where all the undesirables were being shipped off to at the time.
 
statler said:
In a feeble effort to keep the Boston Built Environment threads on topic about the actual built environment, I'll reply to this here.
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Since you have mod status, don't you have the ability to make more than a feeble attempt? Why not just move the whole discussion here?

I understand that no one will cry if I stop posting here, but watching every thread turn to shit because this pompous blowhard cannot stay on topic is going to start driving people away if it hasn't already. At a time when projects are beginning to pop up left and right again, that is especially sad.
 
I actually don't have the ability to move posts. My mod powers are somewhat limited. (To the joy of many, I assume)

Lurker made an interesting point about not letting this place become like railroad.net. I can see his point, it can be a fine line.

I have my own feelings on the matter but it's not really my call to make.

The best we can do is try to drown out to political talk with the type of discussion we'd like to see. Easier said than done though.
 
The 'pompous blowhard' brings a lot of useful historical perspective to this forum. He's been around here longer than any of the rest of us, I think. Leave him alone.
 
Reading his posts takes more mental energy than most but since they are usually on topic and have something to offer (arguably) I see no issue.

If you don't want to read his posts the forum does have a "block user" button.
 
Where is this button? It is not labelled in any way obvious to me.
 
Re: Trans National Place (Winthrop Square) Part 2

I can't wait to read WHIGHLANDER THESIS on the entire orgins around Trans-National Place later tonight. That should waste a couple hours of my personal life.
 
Re: Trans National Place (Winthrop Square) Part 2

TheRifleman said:
I can't wait to read WHIGHLANDER THESIS on the entire orgins around Trans-National Place later tonight. That should waste a couple hours of my personal life.
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It takes you a couple hours to read what usually amounts to just a few pages?
 
Re: Trans National Place (Winthrop Square) Part 2

kmp1284 said:
It takes you a couple hours to read what usually amounts to just a few pages?
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That's how long it takes for him to fully understand it. I am ok with mysteries, but rifleman really wants to get to the crux of what whighlander is trying to say. That's the true challenge, and most of us are not big enough men for such an undertaking.
 
Re: Trans National Place (Winthrop Square) Part 2

Yet another thread goes down the same old rabbit hole.....
 
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