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
Some things just get under your skin. I mean, my own brother votes Republican. My baby brother! So not an evil person! And--hang onto your Region 3 DVDs--Republicans may lurk HERE AMONG US!!
Y'know, I'm the only member of my immediate blood-related family who's not a Republican, and almost the only one of my college friends. I love these people--I'm seriously considering giving half of my liver to one of them, should she require a new one--but their political beliefs mystify me. All of which is to say, I've expressed my contempt for the present administration so strongly in Natter precisely because it's such a relief to feel like I'm mostly among people who agree with me for a change, and because I am so genuinely puzzled and frustrated by the fact that half the country voted for Dubya and even more than that seem to approve of the job he's doing. Girl's gotta vent sometimes. Anyway, I apologize if I've inadvertantly offended anyone with the vehemence of my views, and will try to save my more angry forms of venting for times I know I'm among friends.
Too bad the trustiest fellow Democrat among my RL friends is one of the pastors at our church. I can't swear as much around her, and she'd probably feel obligated to talk me into a more forgiving and less bitter stance even while agreeing with all my views on public policy.
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Polite request that this get taken to Natter. (Also, umm... please no comments about Turkish Ambassadors, because then we get into friend-of-a-friend territory which I'm honestly not especially comfortable about.)
Did we decide on a Music thread title? Are we starting it now, or waiting until tomorrow?
Do we have a slug for it? We also need a slug.
an entire thread full of whitefont.
We could use a thread like this. Maybe billytea's thread for putting trolls on trial. You could page past 10 pages of blank and think, "Whew! Glad I missed that argument." And the White Font Thread would be totally easy to catch up in.
But I wonder why it needs to be a vote. In the past people have asked for new threads to address a particular interest (like TTT or Farscape). If enough people were interested to sustain such a thread it was made. It wasn't a majority vote.
We did put "When come back, bring tape" up for opposition. I argued that it wasn't necessary, but it's worked out just fine.
Trying to Nilly the post in which my spelling and grammar were so fucking atrocious. I know Nilly. I am no Nilly.
[three minutes later]
Allyson, Allyson "Firefly 2: You Can't Take the Sky From Me." Dec 19, 2002 10:05:22 am EST.
Nilly has the power to create links to any bit of web-based information, and the ability to hear cries for help from any thread, any time. She's either an Internet superhero (with a mild-mannered secret identity) or a scary cyborg network creature lulling us into absolute reliance on her memory.
I'm glad I finally know how to pronounce "mieskie," "mie" as in "michael." I'd sometimes said it as "meeskee" and thought it was like an Eskimo word, sometimes "myeh-skyeh." But can I just say... if "DNFtEC" is our policy, we suck at it.
Susan W. I hope you know you are among friends here. And there is nothing you can say that won't offend someone. If you are attacking politicians or a political party, than anyone who takes offense at that can - go drink a martini and cool off. Because expressing a point of view someone does not agree with is not a personal attack against them. Vehemently disagreeing with a political party is not a personal attack on every member of that political party. Expressing disgust with a politician is not an attack on those who admire that politician. And if someone tries to make you feel like those things are personal attacks, tries to make you feel guilty for expressing a legitmate point of view - shame on them.
OK above posted before PMMs reminder we are not in the Natter thread. Future posts on this subject in Natter.
Slug . . . is that the description?
(Sheesh . . . you go AWOL for a bit, you miss a lot.)
