Angel: I appreciate you guys looking out for Connor all summer. It's just—he's confused. He needs time. That's all. Fred: Right. Time, and some corporal punishment with a large heavy mallet. Not that I'm bitter.

'Just Rewards (2)'


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


beekaytee - Jan 02, 2007 10:51:31 am PST #7709 of 10001
Compassionately intolerant

The hashing seems infinitely healthy to me.

A very long time ago, at a do-gooding non-profit, an employee began telling folks that she was pregnant, not in a relationship and in very bad financial straits. Everyone jumped to her aide...some of them in similar shape. Call it spidey-sense, but I had a bad feeling about the whole thing. One of my best friends in the org was appalled when I quietly expressed my concern. We had an enormous falling out that was never really healed. It came to pass that the pregnant person, 'lost the baby' and as a result got even more money, sympathy and support thrown at her. I was the only one who did not give money (that I didn't have at the moment, mind you) and was roundly spurned. Another employee went to visit the woman's mother and discovered that it was all a lie. The nearly 1k worth of merchandise given (and this was nearly 20 years ago), had been sold for shoes and manicures.

The point is, THAT community did not have an open discussion like this and long-term distrust and pain resulted.


Dana - Jan 02, 2007 10:52:05 am PST #7710 of 10001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

The girl supposedly died, because (I shit you not) she sang

Gotta sing!


Allyson - Jan 02, 2007 10:53:41 am PST #7711 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

Ah, Penlind. Good times.

So Gus was a sockpuppet? Did I skip too much?


Cashmere - Jan 02, 2007 10:54:22 am PST #7712 of 10001
Now tagless for your comfort.

The hashing seems infinitely healthy to me.

I'm a hasher.

And OUCH.

Ah. To be young again.

Oh, the innocence. And I can register everywhere with my home email address again!


Cashmere - Jan 02, 2007 10:55:52 am PST #7713 of 10001
Now tagless for your comfort.

Still unknown. Strongly suspected in some, irrelevant to others.


tommyrot - Jan 02, 2007 10:55:59 am PST #7714 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

So Gus was a sockpuppet? Did I skip too much?

Well, he doesn't exactly fit the definition, does he? A sockpuppet is a second login to a site that pretends to be some other person.


Stephanie - Jan 02, 2007 10:57:01 am PST #7715 of 10001
Trust my rage

It'sbeen so long thatI can't remember how this works. Would "kimi" need access to the e-mail she listed in her buffista registration to be able to activate her account with us?


aurelia - Jan 02, 2007 10:57:23 am PST #7716 of 10001
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.

So Gus was a sockpuppet? Did I skip too much?

Lots of questions. No answers. You should go back and read if you have a chance.


Topic!Cindy - Jan 02, 2007 10:57:29 am PST #7717 of 10001
What is even happening?

Yes! Although I think his real name was "Fictional piece of drama that I can 'kill' off to gain love."
Yes, brother of Cairo, a.k.a.:

And-he's-black-like-me and he likes-when-I-rub-a-piece-of-paper over-his-face and can-I-make-him-a-vampire and I've-written-it-down-so-he'll-live-forever

Who is, perhaps, best known as: I'm only 10 years old, don't ask why I'm posting from Ireland at what must be three in the morning, there.

Children of: Penlind, a.k.a. no-really-my-husband's-real-name-is-Riley-Finn.


Topic!Cindy - Jan 02, 2007 11:00:46 am PST #7718 of 10001
What is even happening?

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