But please avoid giving the impression that your method for trying to have the last word is to discourage others from replying to you.

Ah, what a wonderfully long way of saying "No" Caroma's post was. Fair play to her.

edited for needless pettiness.

I'd pay folding money to see Fay do that

(Hey, for folding money I'll include tassels. In new places.)

Perhaps a rousing chorus of "It's a small world after all", whilst clad in a quaint National costume of some sort

I'd pay folding money to see Fay do that. I'm just sayin'

Damn. You beat me to it. Tricksey antipodeans, starting the day almost a whole (or half or some other portion of the) day ahead of decent, wholesome types.

(Tassels, she said breathlessly.)

Tassels!! Whoo!!

I shall strive for more brevity and less seriousness in the future.

Fay, I hope you'll remember that your posts may have been inspired (or provoked ;) by Caroma, but their quality and depth was appreciated by a cast of thousands hundreds dozens. (But dozens of Buffistas. Which is like two, three hundred regular people, right?)

Perhaps that's just one of the downsides of posting boards. You get to hear the voices raised to heckle or question, but you don't see the sea of heads bobbing up and down in agreement. Or those faces with the furrowed brows of concentration and blank stares of deep thought you provoke. (Or on occasion, the little fist o' me-me-me, pumping the air and saying "Go Fah-hay, Go Fah-hay!")

Posting to change someone's mind is pretty much a pointless (and definitely a thankless) activity. But posting to share your thoughts, to work through your opinions, to participate in your community? Is an end unto itself. The outcome, or the reaction of an individual, should have little effect on that.

Curse you, wee tricky strike tag

Tricksey antipodeans

I believe you mean Trixie. Ahh.. a Belden joke. I crack me up.

t could be time for bed

That's all I meant by "groupthink". And that's why I find it so hard to discuss things here. I always hear the same things from the same people.

Well, yes. The really talkative people on Buffistas do share a lot of opinions. "Groupthink" implies an intent that I don't think exists here, though. I've seen quite a lot of common-ground-finding here as opposed to homogenity-making (and it's a fine line, admittedly).

I know I'm one of the more conservative people here, but I'm also one of the less confrontational. Still, the few times that I've questioned things that Buffistas hold dear (like the definition of "slashy") I didn't get shot down. They explained themselves. And if I still disagree, then I still disagree and that's fine.

Maybe I just don't feel a need to get the last word in. I'm not used to winning arguments.

And instead of being a bunch of people who are hanging around the water cooler chatting, it's becoming a bunch of people who feel required to do extensive research before they venture an opinion.

Which is part of why I trust them to hash out a voting system that will probably be more fair and accomodating than I will think it needs to be. If it makes them happy, no harm done.

And I like extensive research, personally. Non-inquisitve people need not apply for membership here. (I think I'm safe saying that...)

Julie ...

marry me!

edited because I wanted it smaller and more cow-bell goddamnit!

their quality and depth was appreciated by a cast of thousands hundreds dozens.

Bwah! Thank you. That's very kind.

t chuffed

Properly shamed?

A national dress for Fay?

Snerk!

BTW, I see that a certain person was so incensed by my recent Nigel Havers diss that she mentioned it in her LiveJournal! This amuses me vastly.

Is it just me, or does this pic bear a remarkable resemblance to a certain Miss?

Could it be there is more to Fay than meets the eye?