Heh. I had to read this a couple of times through before I understood the weirdness. I grew up in Eastern Mass. and now live in Western Mass., and to me the above exchange makes perfect sense.
Yeah, I could tell it was a perfectly normal exchange to those present, which made it seem even weirder to the eavesdropper. It is odd watching the local broadcasts of games on the digital feed. You get all these localisms because the broadcast team isn't really thinking about foreigners watching their game, unlike the more polished national feed.
I was watching the A's/Jays game on the Bay Area feed last night and I was looking for Lexine, but didn't see her.
And also "boy-child"??
Yeah, that too. Who writes this stuff??
That essay was amusing, but her method of alarm would probably turn me into a true homicidal maniac. Must be awoken slowly by NPR. I dread sundays, because sunday means that when the alarm goes off, there is jazz. And I suspect it is bad jazz. It makes me very very angry. Angry in a way that Morning Edition and BBC Worldservice do not. Not even when they are interviewing pompous, holier-than-thou politicians.
Perkins is coming to the Bay Area! Yay!
That's all I got.
So I got into a stupid internet slapfight honest argument with someone online the other day. When I went back to apologize for getting too wound up, I found out that the other party had (a) sworn nastily at me and (b) deleted not only all her posts in the thread, but all of mine and another person's as well.
I was probably a bit too snarky in my dissection of their lack of logic; but isn't it a violation of netiquette to delete someone else's posts? It was a fluke of the argument that she was able to do it at all, since the disagreement showed up in the comments of a post in a meta community that she had made. If anyone else had made the original post, nobody else would have been able to make those deletions.
I'm actually more bothered by the deletions than the swearing. Okay, and the obvious dearth of logic.
How big is a 50c piece?
30.56 mm in diameter. [link]
Not, as I was going to guess, twice as big as a quarter.
Ooh, deleting someone else's posts? Cree-pee.
Half-dollar is say 50% bigger than a dollar coin.
It's the Kennedy silver dollars that are huge, I guess. That's what I was picturing when I thought "50 cent piece".
(eta: I'm having trouble getting passed the possibility of deleting someone else's posts to the ettiquette of it. Seems wrong, in any case)
