Wrenching us back on-track as I catch up in Bitches:
connie:
I've seen people get freaked by Ouija boards, but 99.9 percent of the time it was subconscious expression of their own weird issues. I don't like them because people let the things have too much power over them.
Emily:
I do that with online personality quizzes.
Aimee:
I don't like them because I've heard too many stories about furniture turning upside down, stoves rising an inch off the floor and them showing back up after they have been thrown away.
Emily:
I read that first as that the stoves show back up after they've been thrown away. Which was an extremely interesting image. Sort of like The Amazing Journey, but with appliances instead of a dog, a cat, and a hamster. No. Wait. What was it again?
[Emily's post slightly cropped for archiving smoothness. Hit me if you wanted it full in there.]
moonlit in Kafka: Well after reading the couple of hundred messages attempting to formulate the perfect polling process all I can say is, "Don't you wish you'd given them a politics thread?"
Bureaucracy discussion starts to go all meta:
billytea:
Vote early; vote often. Vote monkey.
ita:
Tangentially, but on the topic of poor ballot design, I discovered that my company gave out a culture satisfaction test (easy on the yoghurt jokes, folks) where you could rate statements about the company from 1 to 5. 5 was "strongly agree" and 1 was "slightly agree".
There's representation for you.
Kristen:
if I were coming in to vote now, I'd be more tempted to vote against further voting than I would have been yesterday.
You read my mind. Plus it would kind of make me want to go back and change my vote.
Laura :
So you managed to put another 150 posts here while I did away from computer stuff! Do I need to threadsuck the whole thing, or can someone summarize what we are deciding.
As the Palm Beach County Florida Buffista I declare myself resident expert on poor ballot design.
Wolfram:
Maybe we should discuss voting on the moratorium. Shutting up now.
Sue :
I was thinking Bureaucracy 2: Kafka's Nightmare
Typo Boy:
Bureaucracy 2: Kafka had it easy
Kristen:
Bureaucracy 2: Kafka's Glad He's Dead
Cindy:
We killed Kafka - and We'd Do It Again!
DavidS:
Bureaucracy 2: Other People Are Hell. Come talk to them about deciding how to decide.
Hec in Natter, on tagging:
Is it really necessary to ask somebody's permission to tag them?
Let me use two scenarios to illustrate my point. Imagine both of these within the context of our virtual cocktail party.
Scenario #1
Jesse: Betsy, said the amusing jape the other day. She said, "blah blah blah blah Jane Austen with a bullwhip."
Assembled Buffistadom: BWAH! Ha ha heee! Hooo ha! heh.
msbelle: Truly Betsy's wit is beyond compare. Let us praise and extoll her virtues.
Rio: THAT'S RIGHT, FUCKOS! PRAISE HER!
Scenario #2
Kat: Betsy's ribaldry is without peer. Why only yesterday... Wait. I'd better check first. Betsy! May I share your bon mot with the Buffistas?
Betsy: I beg of you, no, dear Kat. Though I posted those words on a public board, it would damage them irreparably to have them repeated. Besides, it may lead to the praising and extolling of my virtues.
Sean: You know she really does have a very nice rump.
Betsy: See?!? [runs from the room tearfully]
Rio: YOU FUCKOS!
Now I'm trying to figure out which of those scenarios is supposed to be preferable.
Spoilery of the most spoilery kind for S7 Buffy from Spoilers, so don't read it unless you are a complete spoiler ho. Do come back and read it after the season is over because I haven't laughed so loud in years.
Le Nubian : According to TV Tome, Sisqo is cast to play Caleb in several eps of 'Buffy.'"
Will I be able to cease screaming?
DavidS: He's going to put out Xander's eye with a thong.
It's amazing how well Hec has rendered my voice. It's like Plei's Wesley. Or Herself's Spike.
t /Natter
