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.
Faith: A kid. Angel's got a kid. Wesley: Connor. Faith: A teenage kid born last year. Wesley: I told you, he grew up in a hell dimension. Faith: Right. And what, Cordelia spent her last summer as… Wesley: A divine being. Faith: Uh-huh. Can I just ask--What the hell are you people doing?
'Why We Fight'
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
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
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.)
Beverly - Jan 02, 2003 11:34:11 pm PST #2404 of 10001
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
So Dick Cheney joins the board...
And we politely share our opinions with him. Of him. Politely.
We can do that.
billytea - Jan 02, 2003 11:36:30 pm PST #2405 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.
And we politely share our opinions with him. Of him. Politely.
Though offering him cheese fries has the potential for misunderstanding.
Typo Boy - Jan 02, 2003 11:46:10 pm PST #2406 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.
Hmm do we? It would not be polite to tell Julia Roberts she is a bad actress. (I personally don't think it is true, but that is another issue.) Is there a polite way to tell Dick Cheney he is destroying the American constitution and turning the U.S. into a police state?
I keep thinking about Harold Pinter and his conversation with a Turkish Ambassador, a few blocks from where Turkish prisoners were being tortured. And the Ambassador finally said "well everyone has a right to his opinions." And Pinter replied somethiing along the lines of "Not the guy with an electrode on his genitals." And some people criticized Pinter for rudeness. But really could he have said less? Of course we are using absurd examples. Dick Cheny is not going to show up. If Julia Roberts showed up, the most likely problem would be excessive fanboyishness and fangirlishness, not deliberate rudeness.