I realized that it would have to be an entire thread full of whitefont. Music, unlike movies, doesn't have a plot to get spoiled. If you're in the LOTR thread, then you're there to talk about at least the first two LOTR films, and if you don't want to be spoiled, you don't go there. But -- as your surprise, ita, at getting spoiled for Love Story in I think it was the Angel thread reminded me -- there will always be someone who hasn't seen the movie under discussion in a General Movies thread, and so you're limited to reviews of new films and whitefont for everything else.
Xander, don't speak Latin in front of the books!
Giles ,'Lies My Parents Told Me'
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
Michele T. - Jan 02, 2003 11:01:18 pm PST #2394 of 10001
with a gleam in my eye, and an almost airtight alibi
Allyson - Jan 02, 2003 11:02:51 pm PST #2395 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
Typo Boy, I feel as though it's like being a columnist, or satire cartoonist at a newspaper. You can talk trash about everyone and everything...except your fellow columists.
You don't shit where you eat.
§ ita § - Jan 02, 2003 11:05:09 pm PST #2396 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Not at all, Michele. I've participated in movie threads before, and there was no problem. Hell, I get spoiled all the time in Natter.
Note, I don't want a movie thread. But the mechanisms are simple enough that people with less organisation than us do it right.
Rebecca Lizard - Jan 02, 2003 11:09:25 pm PST #2397 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
I realized that it would have to be an entire thread full of whitefont.
This is a very, very good point.
Or so it would seem to me.
Typo Boy - Jan 02, 2003 11:13:34 pm PST #2398 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.
Typo Boy, I feel as though it's like being a columnist, or satire cartoonist at a newspaper. You can talk trash about everyone and everything...except your fellow columists.
Do you mean fellow columnists at that Newspaper? You can still trash the columnist for the NY Times as long as the NY Times is not the paper you are a satirist at?
Allyson - Jan 02, 2003 11:15:22 pm PST #2399 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
You can still trash the columnist for the NY Times as long as the NY Times is not the paper you are a satirist at?
Yup. That's how I feel about it.
bon bon - Jan 02, 2003 11:16:49 pm PST #2400 of 10001
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
My personal objection to a movie thread is that I'd either not be able to subscribe or it'd be something else keeping me from work.
My ideological objection is that I don't think movies are underserved by natter, as people were arguing that music is. Only an event film with special interest for a large group of Buffistas is a poor fit with that thread.
Typo Boy - Jan 02, 2003 11:25:45 pm PST #2401 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.
Alright that makes sense. I had accepted the rule, but it is easier to understand if you think of it as a "don't shit where you eat" thing. So if Julia Roberts ever joins the board, we all have to be polite to her...
Actually no problem for me; I never felt the Julia Roberts hate anyway.
billytea - Jan 02, 2003 11:28:52 pm PST #2402 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.
Actually no problem for me; I never felt the Julia Roberts hate anyway.
So Dick Cheney joins the board...
Typo Boy - Jan 02, 2003 11:34:06 pm PST #2403 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.
We have to be polite to him. Or else not let him join the club. (Always an option - if there is someone we feel we absolutely cannot abide being polite to.)