Sorry about spouting episode numbers at you, Julie, but they're what's on the tapes and I didn't have time to head off to an episode guide.

Re Firefly: our tapes were supposed to be heading off to Australia at some point (John H., to be precise), so perhaps we can work something out. Judging by my recent reliability at posting stuff, though, I'd better not promise anything.

Caroma, I'd disagree that the nature and actions of the man who represents what is arguably the most powerful country on the Earth, isn't my problem.

Especially as that country seems increasingly keen to ignore many of the international institutions and treaties which are supposed to apply to all.

Judging by my recent reliability at posting stuff, though, I'd better not promise anything.

YOUR reliability?!!!!? GLad you're enjoying the tapes, though.

Buffy, Angel & co are behind the board, not other stuff

Let me opine that just because I meet someone through a shared interest in a TV show or two (or the martial arts, or computers, or whatever) doesn't mean that it's not possible to have an intense and serious conversation about something else.

I don't understand the proposition that because it started with the Jossverse, everything should be taken lightly or flippantly.

A serious conversation is a serious conversation, period.

Yes. This board has def. evolved from being a lighthearted TV-based discussion board, through to being a much stronger and deeper community - it happened during our time at WX.

the inhabitants of the other country get arsey.

Can I mention, this is such a wonderfully Jim-ish thing to say? I completely unedrstand what he means when he says it, and it sums up an entire phase of imperial power, and I can't imagine trying to translate the expression to somebody else without pages and pages of explanation.

Skimming a bit, to say:

Moonlit! Be not afraid of the COMM, for 'tis a wondrous thing!

And Julie! Yay for being "in the pot". Er. I hope when you used that phrase it meant what it seemed like. :) Glad you're around.

Well, what if you don't *want* to take it very seriously? There's a FIAWOL and FIJAGH split starting here that might get tricky. I just don't have the time and inclination to tell a lot about myself here. Do you have to be a psychobabbler to post regularly? I hope not.

BTW, I spent half the day hitting myself on the forehead after realizing that I was saying that I reserved the right to be broad and use hyperbole and then saying that I was upset because people were making broad statements and using hyperbole! D'oh!

(delete) Wrong thread. Sorry. I blame the booze. Or society.

Practicing the art of the random meara:

it's because, all our lives, we've seen the constitution, the bill of rights, all that Enlightenment stuff, as the real moral strength of the USA.

Same goes for many of us Americans as well.

I feel weird posting something serious there sometimes

This sounds odd coming from someone who consistently waves off the criticism of others by claiming she wasn’t being serious.

but towards the end there I was ready to trade BtVS and Angel for more Firefly.

Hey, I’m still there. Firefly was brilliant. Sigh.