You're not friends. You'll never be friends. You'll be in love till it kills you both.

Spike ,'Sleeper'


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


John H - Dec 30, 2002 6:15:10 pm PST #1730 of 10001

I want to note that Buffistechnoogy (new name) is more of a Q&A thread than a chat thread.

It's not a thread where I'd want to discourage natter, but it ought to be a thread that anyone can go to with a question about computers or whatever, and a thread that people who can help with computers and whatever keep an eye on. I don't know what an apposite name for that kind of thread is, but it's kind of different to the other ones in my mental map.


Michele T. - Dec 30, 2002 6:28:15 pm PST #1731 of 10001
with a gleam in my eye, and an almost airtight alibi

I'm giving Victor a technoogy right now, AIFG!

Also against a music thread, for all the reasons already cited because Hayden's board (which I've forgotten the location of) is a great resource for music geeks that seemed to me in sync enough with the Buffista vibe that one could be perfectly comfortable there.


Angus G - Dec 30, 2002 6:35:13 pm PST #1732 of 10001
Roguish Laird

Also against a music thread, because everyone here except me has appalling taste in music and I would just get frustrated reading it.

(That was a joke. You all got that, right?)


P.M. Marc - Dec 30, 2002 6:43:29 pm PST #1733 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

Random thought...

Would it be in violation of our codes to autospork someone like, say Dr. Lloyd, should he have the nerve to show his face?


Allyson - Dec 30, 2002 6:51:07 pm PST #1734 of 10001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica

He's the worst. person. ever. And a bad speller, too. I don't know. I think you let someone speak, and if the speech is only (as this person is want to do) to monitor for VIP posting, then show up to attack them, then you just send 'em packing.

I hate this shit. I liked the island.


esse - Dec 30, 2002 6:56:12 pm PST #1735 of 10001
S to the A -- using they/them pronouns!

Dr Lloyd? Which thread is this? (Yes, I know my curiosity will be my doom.)


Jesse - Dec 30, 2002 7:01:23 pm PST #1736 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

I'm against a music thread, too, FWIW. Blah blah what everyone said cakes.

Hayden's music threads are on [link]


Jon B. - Dec 30, 2002 7:28:34 pm PST #1737 of 10001
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!

We have user # 600.


P.M. Marc - Dec 30, 2002 7:30:27 pm PST #1738 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

He's not here yet. Just... wondering.


Fay - Dec 30, 2002 7:31:54 pm PST #1739 of 10001
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.

Gosh. 600. No bloody wonder I can't keep up with Natter any more.

t /Natter.

....er, which sounded grumpy & unwelcoming. Because it was grumpy and unwelcoming, wasn't it? Y'all are v. welcome. Don't mind the grumpy Englishwoman - it's half past two in the morning and she's just made a supreme tit of herself elsewhere, thus the grumpiness.