So like no one from the MMA Community joined here eh?

[Masato]

Welcome back, Vutulaki, you might finally be starting to understand the value of this place...

Don't you remember the famous Jons Forsberg scandal? lol

Can I make you a new avatar?

I have no idea how to market this place anymore, really to be perfectly honest. I may be a little punchy in this way, lol... I don't like spamming and can't keep with the shoops all the time, and seem to be visiting other forums less and less... so any help is always appreciated (invites, etc) \

I bet most at the MMAC don't even know this place exists, but several would probably dig it.
More members is always so exciting here, lol

Vutu if you really do think this place is cool I hope you will not do too much to snuff it out, it really is one of the few places that we misfits and banned can feel at home. Welcome all..!

[Masato]

From Chuang Tzu:


“Once a master carpenter named Shih was travelling with his apprentice on his way to the state of Chi. When they arrived in Chu Yuan village they passed a huge old oak tree sheltering the village shrine. It was huge, large enough to fit several thousand oxen under its branches. It was 100 spans and towered over everything else in the village with its lowest branches a full 80 feet in the air. These branches were so large they could have been made into a dozen boats. Many people were standing under it, their necks craned as they tried to see the top. But the master carpenter did not even turn his head as they passed it; but walked on without stoping for a moment.


His apprentice took one look at the immense tree and ran after his master saying: “Since I first took up the ax to train with you Master, I have never seen a tree as magnificent. Yet you do not even look at it, much less stop. Why is this?”


The carpenter said, “Enough! Not another word about this tree! Its wood is useless. A boat made from its timber would sink; a coffin would rot before you could put it into the ground; any tool you made from it would snap. It has too much sap in it to make a door, and a beam made from its wood would be full of termites. Altogether it is a completely useless tree and that is why it has lived so long.”


One night, after he returned home, the ancient tree came to the carpenter in a dream and spoke to him. “What are you comparing me too,” it asked, “useful trees like cherry, apple, pear, orange, citron and all the other useful trees? Yet for these trees, as soon as the fruit is ripe they are stripped; their branches are broken and torn off. It is their usefulness that causes them so much abuse. Instead of living out the years heaven has given them they are cut off halfway through. So it is for living things. This is why I have worked so long to cultivate the spirit of uselessness. I was almost cut down several times but I have been able to attain a great level of uselessness and this has been very useful to me. If I had been more useful I would never have attained the great age that I have, and grown so large.


“The two of us are similar. We are both just beings in the world. How is it that we go about judging other beings? You, an old and worthless man, about to die, how can you judge me and call me worthless?”


Shih the carpenter awoke then and spent a long time lying in his bed trying to understand this strange dream. Later, when he shared his dream with his apprentice the young man said, “If this ancient tree is so interested in being useless why has it allowed itself to become part of the village shrine?”


His master said, “It is only pretending to be a shrine. It is its way of protecting itself. Even though its timber is useless, if it were not a shrine it would have been cut down long ago. It is totally different from other trees. You cannot hope to understand it!”

[Professor Diet Butcher]

Haha, you get banned again?

Yeah all good though I deserved it

Which thread?

Leigh says it's only for a month. Hopes you would learn, LOL

[Vutulaki]

Multiple threads tell him Im enjoying my time off and have a barrage of racism to deliver upon my reinstatement

Most of it is going to be directed at him and the rest of you orientals haha

[Som-Pong]

Lol I reckon I need a break from it. No mas. Now, would you kindly explain how the word pom is insulting? I don't fucking get it. Db is a dog eating money lending coward? Wtf is a pom. About Chiuchows.

[Canuckster]

what? he doesn't have 50 shades of gray?

[Som-Pong]

I have. Your Canada.

[Professor Diet Butcher]

pom
Either comes from 'prisoner of mother England' or pomigranite - a reddish coloured fruit that native Australians (Aboriginals) thought had a similar colour to the skin of sunburnt Brits.
Not meant to be an insult (as some English think for some reason), merely a nickname for our less-tanned former rulers. Nicknaming everything is very Australian.
Pom: 'Oi, convict, get your shit stars off our flag!'
Aussie: Fuck off pom, get your shit cricketers off our cricket ovals and give us our fucking ashes - they've been ours since 1989!'

All this time I thought it referred to Pomeranians

[Som-Pong]

never trust you round dawgs you fucking mske them look pretty that's a lot weirder than i is.

[sparkuri]

Welcome back cocksucker!