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Beware: Chuck Kimmel, Critterkeeper & Critical Bill

FunkyRes said:
That's why some people are tempted to use alternics to speak their mind.
Speak your mind as the person whom you really are, and you get insulted and falsely accused of using alternics in a cowardly smear campaign and stalked in several threads.

I still don't agree with what Mike did - but I certainly can understand it.

I think it is clear who is the real disease on this board.


I speak my mind constantly here on fauna. No qualms about it, dont like it... well, sorry thats just too bad. But im not also, rubbing it in anyones face on how i feel about whatever situations. I feel like others should do the same, but they can do whatever the heck they wanna do.

I dont think mike is scum for making other names and not having the guts to say the things he did as himself, i find it cowardly, but not scum of the earth, burn in hell, Chris Johnson-like. Thats how i feel, if chuck were to dislike me for that, well, thats not MY problem cause i like chuck. Just cause he might have a different perspective ( being on the receiving end of some not so nice words) dosnt mean his opinion is wrong. I am not the kind of person who stops being friends with someone, because they are friends with someone i dont like. I never have been, and i certainly hope i never will be.
 
Mooing Tricycle said:
Sheesh Chuck Chuck... Youve always been nice to me!! ( amazing where a few manners on my end can get me!) Someday when we meet, Ill buy ya a drink ( whatever your fancy is at that time!!)

Cheers!

Thank you darling!
 
Mooing Tricycle said:
I am not the kind of person who stops being friends with someone, because they are friends with someone i dont like. I never have been, and i certainly hope i never will be.


and im not the kind of person who dosnt like someone, because they have a different opinion than me. Thats just plain childish.
 
Un-freaking-believeable.

I honestly can't believe that some folks don't have anything better to do than drag up old threads like this.....grow up, man. Most of us got over doing petty things like this in jr high.

Whether or not you agree with Bill.......whether or not it hurts your feelings that he calls it like he sees it, sometimes a bit more colorfully than perhaps necessary, lol, he's as honest as they come. I'd do business with Bill...or just call on him as a friend, without ever a hesitation.

You, on the other hand, Rob.....have only shown up for the most part to tell us how you've had good deals with folks that are the dredges of the industry, and to keep up your petty little pissing matches.

That would be the difference between the two of you. See how that works?
 
FunkyRes said:
That's why some people are tempted to use alternics to speak their mind.
Speak your mind as the person whom you really are, and you get insulted and falsely accused of using alternics in a cowardly smear campaign and stalked in several threads.

I still don't agree with what Mike did - but I certainly can understand it.

I think it is clear who is the real disease on this board.

Its really not a smear campaign aimed at you. I think my accusation that you and Robert are the same person or two people in cahoots with each other is very justified. Just look at the situation. I say something about you and then Robert posts complaining that I said it about him and using it as justification to reopen long dead threads about me. Its odd because I very rarely type the sort of abbreviation. Odd enough for me to recognize the slip-up.

Whats not odd is that you seem pretty desperate to convince everyone that my hunch is wrong. If it isn't the truth then Robert can easily post the thread where I told him to STFU. Like I said, if he can then no harm no foul. But if he cant then it really makes you two suspect.

"I still don't agree with what Mike did - but I certainly can understand it."

Uh oh! Is this a confession?
 
Cat_72 said:
Un-freaking-believeable.

I honestly can't believe that some folks don't have anything better to do than drag up old threads like this.....grow up, man. Most of us got over doing petty things like this in jr high.

Is it honest for him to repeatedly imply that I am some other guy in several different threads?
Is it honest for him to say he left the 12 year old girl alone once he knew her age when he is directly quoted telling her that the lawyer bills will cause her parents to slap her quite a bit?
Is it honest for him to threaten legal action that he knows would get laughed out of court because no money changed hands and it was a minor?
Is it honest for him to blatantly lie about correcting me on Easter when he in fact did not, with my post clear as daylight for everyone to see?

I think you need think about how you define honest.
 
Cat_72 said:
Whether or not you agree with Bill.......whether or not it hurts your feelings that he calls it like he sees it, sometimes a bit more colorfully than perhaps necessary, lol, he's as honest as they come. I'd do business with Bill...or just call on him as a friend, without ever a hesitation.

Thank you Cat. I appreciate the kind words.
 
FunkyRes said:
Is it honest for him to repeatedly imply that I am some other guy in several different threads?
Is it honest for him to say he left the 12 year old girl alone once he knew her age when he is directly quoted telling her that the lawyer bills will cause her parents to slap her quite a bit?
Is it honest for him to threaten legal action that he knows would get laughed out of court because no money changed hands and it was a minor?
Is it honest for him to blatantly lie about correcting me on Easter when he in fact did not, with my post clear as daylight for everyone to see?

I think you need think about how you define honest.

I think you need to get over calling someone "dishonest" over things like "correcting you on Easter"......and if he voices his OPINION on something, whether or not you agre with it, there is no honest/dishonest to it. He THINKS that you may be working together with someone else, or may be that poster. How is that being dishonest? I've thought things before too, and have been both proven right or wrong in the end.....until proof either way is given, who's to say?

Cripes man, there are a lot more grown-up things to worry about. :rolleyes:
 
FunkyRes said:
Is it honest for him to repeatedly imply that I am some other guy in several different threads?
Is it honest for him to say he left the 12 year old girl alone once he knew her age when he is directly quoted telling her that the lawyer bills will cause her parents to slap her quite a bit?
Is it honest for him to threaten legal action that he knows would get laughed out of court because no money changed hands and it was a minor?
Is it honest for him to blatantly lie about correcting me on Easter when he in fact did not, with my post clear as daylight for everyone to see?

I think you need think about how you define honest.

There is a huge difference between trying to scare a 12 year old kid with legal action and posting repeated profanity for kids to read. There is a huge difference between what I thought was right 4 years ago to do and have since apologized for and the profanity you posted earlier and have since not apologized for. At least I admitted to my mistake. Sadly you cant see the example I've set because you just want to be right all the time. Maybe we should all just go away and stop posting so your opinion on everything is always the right one. You are a very selfish person.

Now I have corrected you three times! You are a habitual dum dum.
 
critical bill said:
Its really not a smear campaign aimed at you. I think my accusation that you and Robert are the same person or two people in cahoots with each other is very justified. Just look at the situation. I say something about you and then Robert posts complaining that I said it about him and using it as justification to reopen long dead threads about me. Its odd because I very rarely type the sort of abbreviation. Odd enough for me to recognize the slip-up.

You also did not use the quote function when you typed it, and since your information did not disagree with mine in the slightest, I didn't think you were referring to me until you stated that the post was referring to me. Notice that none of my responses to your post came until AFTER you stated it was directed at me. I didn't think the post was directed at me, so I could easily see how Robert might have thought it was directed at him.

Note that my activity here was nada until someone posted in a thread I had started causing a notification to be sent to me (the mike greathouse BOI thread about the Okeetee I bought from him). Notice that I have been inactive for quite some time before that.

Notice the person you accused me of being regularly posts about boids - I don't, I'm into colubrids - kings and corns and pits.

Note that many of his posts are Florida specific and many of my posts are California specific.

Just the tiniest bit of looking on your part would have completely avoided your completely baseless accusation.

Whats not odd is that you seem pretty desperate to convince everyone that my hunch is wrong. If it isn't the truth then Robert can easily post the thread where I told him to STFU. Like I said, if he can then no harm no foul. But if he cant then it really makes you two suspect.

"I still don't agree with what Mike did - but I certainly can understand it."

Uh oh! Is this a confession?

It's not odd at all. I have very recently posted that I disagree with Mike using alternics and that I think that is perfectly valid reason for rich to want him off this site. Then you accuse me of the same thing.

I'm done with you.
No more responding to your flame bait.
Someone with the power to look at IP address can clear this up if they want to. I have zero objections to my IP being posted. I also have zero objections to the mods noting that the only PM I have sent in the last month was a response to an old PM sitting in my inbox regarding alligator lizards.

You are barking up the wrong tree - and I believe you know it, and knew it all along.
 
FunkyRes said:
Note that my activity here was nada until someone posted in a thread I had started causing a notification to be sent to me (the mike greathouse BOI thread about the Okeetee I bought from him). Notice that I have been inactive for quite some time before that.


Sounds eerily similar to something Robert said about bumping a thread and sending notifications. I'll find the quote, if you want.
 
snake5007 said:
Sounds eerily similar to something Robert said about bumping a thread and sending notifications. I'll find the quote, if you want.

In the future please do so before making a comment about them being eerily similar.
Thank you.

I don't see how the hell it could be eerily similar seeing as I said squat about bumping threads.
 
FunkyRes said:
You also did not use the quote function when you typed it, and since your information did not disagree with mine in the slightest, I didn't think you were referring to me until you stated that the post was referring to me. Notice that none of my responses to your post came until AFTER you stated it was directed at me. I didn't think the post was directed at me, so I could easily see how Robert might have thought it was directed at him.

Note that my activity here was nada until someone posted in a thread I had started causing a notification to be sent to me (the mike greathouse BOI thread about the Okeetee I bought from him). Notice that I have been inactive for quite some time before that.

Notice the person you accused me of being regularly posts about boids - I don't, I'm into colubrids - kings and corns and pits.

Note that many of his posts are Florida specific and many of my posts are California specific.

Just the tiniest bit of looking on your part would have completely avoided your completely baseless accusation.



It's not odd at all. I have very recently posted that I disagree with Mike using alternics and that I think that is perfectly valid reason for rich to want him off this site. Then you accuse me of the same thing.

I'm done with you.

My accusation is really not baseless at all. It is based on you/robert slipping up. I don't believe your theory that it was a simple goof as to who my post was directed at.

Take care now robert...errrr....I mean Mike.
 
snake5007 said:
Sounds eerily similar to something Robert said about bumping a thread and sending notifications. I'll find the quote, if you want.

At least I'm not the only one seeing some eerily similar connections between the two of them.
 
FunkyRes said:
In the future please do so before making a comment about them being eerily similar.
Thank you.

You're a real control freak, aren't you? You got some real crappy qualities about you. I don't think you or your buddy are gonna last long around here. You might want to save some face and walk away before you get turned away. There are plenty of other good forums where you can register both your accounts and alternately use them when you're in disagreement and under fire.
 
Golden Gate Geckos said:
WTF??????

I have actually done business with Chuck Kimmel. His communication was excellent, he paid as agreed and on time, he called me promptly to let me know what he bought arrived safely and he was happy with the transaction. He even gave positive feedback. So, from a business standpoint, Chuck Kimmel is a "Good Guy", IMO.

Is Chuck Kimmel rude, crude, and over the top at times? Well.... yes! I feel like slapping the snot out of him and washing his mouth out with soap for some of the stuff he posts here on Fauna. Does this make him a Bad Guy that warrants a Bad Guy thread on the BOI? Nope. Just because he rubs someone the wrong way or has a potty mouth does NOT warrant a thread like this one.

Get over it.
Golden Gate Geckos said:
What a bunch of sophomoric crap. There's a few of you that we can always count on to provide us with this kind of pathetic BS that brings down the integrity of the BOI.

What a waste of cyberspace.
varnyard said:
You are quite the judge, do pray for us all Marcia..... :rolleyes:
KelliH said:
That right there was completely uncalled for Bobby, and that's exactly the kind of snide remark that is so NOT necessary on the BOI. I think that several of you guys need to stop acting like adolescent boys and instead act like grown ups. This whole thing is utterly ridiculous.
cyberfrog said:
I'm with Kelli on this deal. This kind of stuff takes this whole BOI down a notch in respectability because even the so called "Good guys" make asses of themselves on a regular basis. Why in the hell would anyone want to buy from any of you the way you act towards each other?? If a potential customer of any of yours saw this and wondered what would happen if a problem arose with their purchase, would this guy bash me all over the internet?
varnyard said:
Really Kelli? I am not the one the claims to be a preacher, but then says WTF, and BS, as well as sets on Fauna like the ones that do no wrong and judges others. I mean Marcia does claim to be preacher, correct? Or is that only when she chooses to be such?
Bobby, this thread is NOT about me. It sounds like you are the one that is passing judgment here. If you want to start your own BOI thread about me, have at it!

I have NEVER claimed to be a 'Preacher'. I am not a Preacher, or a Pastor. I do not have my own Church, nor to I preach sermons. I am a Unitarian Minister, and have recently received my Doctorate of Divinity from the Unitarian Seminary here in Berkeley. I am a Hospital Chaplain, working with patients and their families who are dealing with terminal health situations and deaths. I also perform wedding ceremonies! www.marriagesbymarcia.com

There is NOTHING anywhere that says a Minister can't use terms like WTF or BS. I use those terms when it's appropriate. So what??? So with that said, I am going to say only one more thing to you, Bobby... STFU.
 
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Originally Posted by Golden Gate Geckos
WTF??????

I have actually done business with Chuck Kimmel. His communication was excellent, he paid as agreed and on time, he called me promptly to let me know what he bought arrived safely and he was happy with the transaction. He even gave positive feedback. So, from a business standpoint, Chuck Kimmel is a "Good Guy", IMO.

Is Chuck Kimmel rude, crude, and over the top at times? Well.... yes! I feel like slapping the snot out of him and washing his mouth out with soap for some of the stuff he posts here on Fauna. Does this make him a Bad Guy that warrants a Bad Guy thread on the BOI? Nope. Just because he rubs someone the wrong way or has a potty mouth does NOT warrant a thread like this one.

Get over it.

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ROTFLMAO. That was really funny and I know she would whoop my ass in a heart beat. I wouldn't know where the slaps were coming from before I was holding my nose with a tissue trying to stop the blood.

Thank you for the kind and truthful words, Marcia.
 
Golden Gate Geckos said:
Bobby, this thread is NOT about me. It sounds like you are the one that is passing judgment here. If you want to start your own BOI thread about me, have at it!

I have NEVER claimed to be a 'Preacher'. I am not a Preacher, or a Pastor. I do not have my own Church, nor to I preach sermons. I am a Unitarian Minister, and have recently received my Doctorate of Divinity from the Unitarian Seminary here in Berkeley. I am a Hospital Chaplain, working with patients and their families who are dealing with terminal health situations and deaths. I also perform wedding ceremonies! www.marriagesbymarcia.com

There is NOTHING anywhere that says a Minister can't use terms like WTF or BS. I use those terms when it's appropriate. So what??? So with that said, I am going to say only one more thing to you, Bobby... STFU.

Now see, I can respect that a little, now you are letting a few of them true colors show. I find it funny about the comment about if your children talked like me, that you would wash their mouth out with soap, and if they talked like you, what then?? Death by hanging, horse whip, or even abandonment? Yes, quite the colors indeed.

And you are a Minister, a Minister of what, the dark side? I mean true Ministers of God at heart try to conform from such evil words and thoughts, they even stray from backbiting, hypocrisy, as well as judging others. So please tell me what religion you are a Minister of, and I will be sure to stay far from that type. Hell, I did not even know there was such a religion that supports Ministers with potty mouths and thoughts.
 
ROTFLMAO. That was really funny and I know she would whoop my ass in a heart beat. I wouldn't know where the slaps were coming from before I was holding my nose with a tissue trying to stop the blood.

Thank you for the kind and truthful words, Marcia.
You know I love 'ya, Chuck! I'd do business with you in a heartbeat. (If I slapped the snot out of you, I promise you'd like it.... AND! I have vodka flavored soap!)
 
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