So, who wants to start a grammar thread?
They're doing it backwards; walking up the down slide.
River ,'Ariel'
Bureaucracy 3: Oh, so now you want to be part of the SOLUTION?
A thread to discuss naming threads, board policy, new thread suggestions, and anything else that has to do with board administration and maintenance. Guaranteed to include lively debate and polls. Natter discouraged, but not deleted.
Current Stompy Feet: ita, Jon B, DXMachina, P.M. Marcontell, Liese S., amych
DXMachina - Jun 18, 2004 8:13:55 am PDT #1421 of 10001
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
DavidS - Jun 18, 2004 8:14:05 am PDT #1422 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Allyson, did you ever hear This American Life's episode titled "The Allure Of The Mean Friend"?
What is it about them, our mean friends? They treat us badly, they don't call us back, they cancel plans at the last minute, and yet we come back for more. Popular bullies exist in business, politics, everywhere. How do they stay so popular?
Prologue. We hear kids recorded at Chicago's Navy Pier and at a public swimming pool, talking about their mean friends; Ira interviews Lillie Allison, 15, about the pretty, popular girls who were her best friends – until they cast her out. (5 minutes)
Act One. Return to the Scene of the Crime. Jonathan Goldstein interrogates the girls, now grown up, who terrorized him and his classmates, years ago in school – and finds they can be just as scary as ever. Jonathan Goldstein is the author of the novel Lenny Bruce is Dead. (18 minutes)
billytea - Jun 18, 2004 8:15:51 am PDT #1423 of 10001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
BT - see me in natter. important threads are for important things. or something.
I dunno, you were looking for a flame war, I figured this was as good a topic as any.
Jesse - Jun 18, 2004 8:15:55 am PDT #1424 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
cough t /natter
Allyson - Jun 18, 2004 8:16:26 am PDT #1425 of 10001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
Never heard it. Are you saying my friends are masochists?
DavidS - Jun 18, 2004 8:20:07 am PDT #1426 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Never heard it. Are you saying my friends are masochists?
They dig your abuse! You'd like the ep (it's archived). The mean girl in Jonathan Goldstein's piece was (a) unrepetent and funny and (b) had dedicated her life to public service (she was a doctor).
t /natter-war
Nilly - Jun 20, 2004 8:27:02 am PDT #1427 of 10001
Swouncing
t sort-of peace-making in the Natter war, because sort-of on bureaucratic topic
I'm not sure what's the best way, so I'm just going to ask here, and I'm not even sure how to do it so that things wouldn't look all meMeME, and instead of getting all entangled in my sentence, I'll just ask and have it over with, OK?
I've got my interview at the USA embassy scheduled for the 12th of July, and I'm beginning to have tentative not-finite, not-commiting-to-anything plans that involve dates and places and such, and I need to discuss them with Buffistas. I need to find out when people would be in certain towns or out of towns (say, for example, there's no way I'm going to be in LA when Allyson and Kristen, who started the whole thing, aren't there). Also, and it still amazes me every time some of you mention it, so you can only imagine how overwhelming it is to type it myself, but people talked about scheduling stuff around my trip (mine! How strange is that?), so where do you think is the best thread to concentrate the conversation on the tpoic so that people who are interested may be able to follow it?
Is that the F2F thread? Natter just moves too fast, but (from the posts in "Press", at least) it seems like an on-topic discussion about the location and timing of the 2005 F2F is taking place in the F2F thread, and I wouldn't want to go all meMeME-zilla on it. And I feel already meMeME just asking about it here, but, well, I couldn't think of anywhere better for it, so here I am.
What do you think?
[Edit: 14*2=28]
DXMachina - Jun 20, 2004 8:34:53 am PDT #1428 of 10001
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
I think the F2F thread would be best.
deborah grabien - Jun 20, 2004 8:47:30 am PDT #1429 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
I think Beep Me, as well as F2F; I, for one, am currently unsubscribed to F2F, and I expect a lot of other people either are, or skim.
Maybge cross-post, one in Beep Me, one in F2F?
DXMachina - Jun 20, 2004 8:48:25 am PDT #1430 of 10001
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
Well, yes, announce in Beep Me or Press, but work out the details in F2F.