It's Creepy Not To Talk

When you play an opponent in any sport or game, face to face - there is a decorum that is understood. You shake hands or bow or at least say good luck etc. Here in this arena there are too many stoic, ill-mannered if not audacious players. It takes but a second to give a pleasantry then begin. Has our civilization become such that the competitor sits at his computer like a limbless cold-blooded vertebrate and goes through the motions of trying to collect worthless points at the expense of practicality? And to add insult to injury, some will leave, even faster than they arrived as if they are Hobos gathering coins dropped on the ground by some unsuspecting passerby with a hole in his pocket. My hope is that in this age of smartphones, video games and the like (and no respect for human dignity) that there will still be those who respond to the finer points that separate us from the creatures that slither and crawl over the face of dear Mother Earth.

I see 1 or 2 of these a week. This one does achieve quite a special level of pretension and self-importance however, so congratulations on that.

Nest_Verch_Rhys: Li'l Puppet sees 96% of all players that come to the Puppet's table to be (and Li'l Puppet quotes) "like limbless cold-blooded vertebrates going through the motions of trying to collect worthless points at the expense of practicality and some sense of decorum." Li'l Puppet had generally considered the laws of etiquette as the rules of the chase, and divided them into categories: those which everyone broke, all the time; those which one could not break without being frowned at; and those which caused one to be quietly and permanently left out of every future invitation to the field.

Dude your a creep.

WansmoKi finds his mind's eye glued to Li'l Puppet's following phrase: "Has our civilization become such that the competitor sits at his computer like a limbless cold-blooded vertebrate and goes through the motions of trying to collect worthless points at the expense of practicality?", as his mind's hand indicates it would write it with an altered iota as it were. It all revolves around the word 'competitor', as used by Li'l Puppet. WansmoKi's mind's hand writes the sentence thus: "Has our civilization become such that the computer sits at his computer like a limbless cold-blooded vertebrate and goes through the motions of trying to collect worthless points at the expense of practicality?"
Furthermore, face to face amateurism seems the only way to the sportsmanship Li'l Puppet seeks. A pig is a pig is a pig, but face to face Li'l Puppet perhaps slaps one on the barby, but does not dream of ever challenging it to a game of, say, cricket, tiddlywinks or whist.

Willy_Wonka ...Not a 'Dude' first of all - and it is spelled "YOU'RE" not "your" (the possessive) and if all you can contribute to Li'l Puppet's post is a mundane insult and a total lack of understanding of the 3rd Grade grammar class from a seemingly illiterate scissorbill, Li'l Puppet prefers you crawl back under the rock from which you slithered. (To make it easy for you to understand -DON"T JOIN THIS THREAD!) And take the 3rd grade over again.

Li'l Puppet thanks Smoki for his insight.

your thread isnt worth the effort of proper grammar

Wow dont go at the puppet...

Willy_Wonka leaving his chocolate factory to uninvitedly waste time bitching like a menure loving stinkfly inside some random thread? What happened? Cat caught your chocolate willy, Willy?