Surprised me, but never offended. But then, I wasn't offended by He Who Shall Not Be Named.
Home schooling? You know, it's not just for scary religious people anymore.
Buffy ,'Beneath You'
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
Connie Neil - Dec 26, 2002 6:16:15 pm PST #1427 of 10001
brillig
Fay - Dec 26, 2002 6:23:00 pm PST #1428 of 10001
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
Cheers, ita. You rule.
And thanks, folks - love you guys. Really glad I haven't been offending you madly. Think I may just try to shut up, though (although God knows how successful I'll be) because I'm not feeling good about this, and I don't think I've been helping the situation.
John H - Dec 26, 2002 6:27:25 pm PST #1429 of 10001
I'm not feeling good about this, and I don't think I've been helping the situation
Please don't feel bad about it -- the guy just picked on you as the nearest person who'd used crude language or made crude jokes -- like I said to him, he's offended the community, and he can tell that because the community is writing to him "we're offended". This is not true of you. QED.
§ ita § - Dec 26, 2002 6:34:17 pm PST #1430 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Policy question -- should Joe Random be allowed to register as, say, Dave Fury? Even (or especially) if the Mustard Man himself is already registered as David Fury, or whatever?
And if the answer is no (which I think it should be), we need to state that clearly.
Betsy HP - Dec 26, 2002 6:35:36 pm PST #1431 of 10001
If I only had a brain...
I think an appropriate policy would be "If you claim to be somebody famous, we'll ask you to prove it."
§ ita § - Dec 26, 2002 6:36:18 pm PST #1432 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
What if it's ... David Furious, or Joss Sweden, or say (and this is where we leave the realm of hypothesis) Tim Minaer?
Betsy HP - Dec 26, 2002 6:36:45 pm PST #1433 of 10001
If I only had a brain...
ahhh. Sigh.
I'll be over here in the bunker, whimpering.
John H - Dec 26, 2002 6:37:24 pm PST #1434 of 10001
David Furious, or Joss Sweden, or [...] Tim Minaer?
The first two are funny.
Betsy HP - Dec 26, 2002 6:37:37 pm PST #1435 of 10001
If I only had a brain...
"Parodying other people's names (whether real or adopted) is tacky. We ask that you don't do it."
Connie Neil - Dec 26, 2002 6:37:40 pm PST #1436 of 10001
brillig
Welcome to the real world, folks. Possibly a statement of "We suspect you're not who you're almost pretending to be, so we may mock your efforts to look important."