I'd imagine we could walk the line between "Henry Kissinger is a war criminal" and " YOU are a war criminal".
Lydia: Its removal from Burma is a felony and when triggered it has the power to melt human eyeballs.
Giles: In that case I've severely underpriced it.
'Potential'
Bureaucracy 1: Like Kafka, Only Funnier
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
Trudy Booth - Sep 19, 2002 11:41:32 pm PDT #103 of 10001
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
billytea - Sep 19, 2002 11:49:32 pm PDT #104 of 10001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
I'd imagine we could walk the line between "Henry Kissinger is a war criminal" and "YOU are a war criminal".
Hmmm. If Henry Kissinger himself starts posting on these boards, that could leave us in a quandary.
Getting back to the original suggestion, how much support is currently there for a separate Politics thread? For my part, I wouldn't treat a separate thread much differently from such a discussion in an existing thread, so I wouldn't see much personal advantage. (Plus, TBH, from experience on other boards I am a little leery of a separate politics section.)
Typo Boy - Sep 20, 2002 1:57:34 am PDT #105 of 10001
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
Well most of the people who would participate in the poltics thread are happy to discuss politics in Natter. Many of the people who are happy to discuss politics in natter would not participate if they were in a seperate thread. So it seems that there is no real advantage in having a seperate thread. ...
I knoiw it was my idea - but there are only about three people who want to talk politics in a politics thread who see any advantage over natter.
P.M. Marc - Sep 20, 2002 2:22:35 am PDT #106 of 10001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Jon, done.
Rebecca Lizard - Sep 20, 2002 8:45:58 am PDT #107 of 10001
You sip / say it's your crazy / straw say it's you're crazy / as you bicycle your soul / with beauty in your basket
When there *is* a new thread added, what's the policy on letting people know about it? I know it'll be announced in Press, but I also kind of like the idea of automatically subscribing everybody to it, and then the first time they see it they can unsub if they... wait, sorry, this isn't TT, we don't have unsub buttons in the thread itself. Carry on.
evil jimi - Sep 20, 2002 2:01:53 pm PDT #108 of 10001
Lurching from one disaster to the next.
DXMachina - Sep 20, 2002 2:26:31 pm PDT #109 of 10001
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
They weren't talking about Kissinger, though. They were talking about Spiro Agnew, IIRC. Still, I could be led to believe that everyone in the Nixon Whitehouse was some kind of demon. t Idly ponders whether Gerald Ford was of the same demon species as Clem...
edit in answer to Ple's following post: Sorry lost track of the thread. Sure this Read New button is convenient and all, but at what price? Now there's Natter in Bureaucracy.
P.M. Marc - Sep 20, 2002 2:37:32 pm PDT #110 of 10001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
cough... Natter?
jengod - Sep 20, 2002 3:27:24 pm PDT #111 of 10001
I crush you all! Why? I am a Stompy Foot. Take complaints to, um, Bureaucracy.
DavidS - Sep 20, 2002 4:24:46 pm PDT #112 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Heh. jengod deleted ita. She's crazy with the power! Uh, think of something quick and bureaucratic so she doesn't delete this...this goes back to our earlier discussion of how we think of this community. Is it a community primarily focused on the Jossiverse shows, or has it already expanded into something which (like Literary Buffistas) wants to discuss other topics within this community. So a political thread would support the second notion. Long term, do we expect there to be a Movie discussion here as well? Or are people happy with Ovies? Do we want a Farscape thread? Or is Smallville the lone non-Joss show representative?