We are beneath you.
What you did to me was unbelievable, Connor. But then I got stuck in a hell dimension by my girlfriend one time for a hundred years, so three months under the ocean actually gave me perspective. Kind of a M.C. Escher perspective, but I did get time to think.
Angel ,'Conviction (1)'
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
PaulJ - Jan 18, 2003 4:13:15 pm PST #3056 of 10001
P.M. Marc - Jan 18, 2003 4:21:01 pm PST #3057 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
I'm 99.9% sure it's that way for *all* the stompy feet
Yup.
We are beneath you.
t dead serious
Nope.
Rebecca Lizard - Jan 18, 2003 4:41:37 pm PST #3058 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 could be beneath PMM if she liked.
Jon B. - Jan 18, 2003 4:49:10 pm PST #3059 of 10001
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
Especially if there's devouring involved... t /natter
Rebecca Lizard - Jan 18, 2003 4:57:23 pm PST #3060 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
More topically, we're less than 2000 posts away from a new Bitches thread, and seeing as they racked up over five hundred fucking posts in the last 24 hours (all of which I read in the last 1 hour), I was wondering if there was any thinking about names going on.
victor infante - Jan 18, 2003 5:07:25 pm PST #3061 of 10001
To understand what happened at the diner, we shall use Mr. Papaya! This is upsetting because he's the friendliest of fruits.
Do the Bitches have a preferred title?
DavidS - Jan 18, 2003 5:08:23 pm PST #3062 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Do the Bitches have a preferred title?
I don't think it's been discussed yet. I'll broach it over there and maybe we can cut down on the thread-naming chatter over here.
Anathema - Jan 18, 2003 6:06:42 pm PST #3063 of 10001
Jonathan Will Always Be My Hero
Good points, and thanks for them. I tend to be kind of snarky in general, and I know that. And I try hard to just shrug my shoulders if someone gets goofy, and then move on. I have been reading here for quite a while before delurking, so I know the drill. And I have seen people get in flame wars, and it is always to no purpose.
I need to learn to ignore posts sometimes, too. I can be too touchy when I feel a post of mine has been mischaracterized, so I need to sometimes just forget it and not respond at all. I'm a big mouth. So that's hard. I'll learn, tho.
But I still gotta say, the Six People comment was, I believe, totally fair and accurate as a hyperbolic joke on the relative smallness of Buffy's audience. Of any post I have ever made, it may have been the last one I would have believed could have been taken as an insult. So it kind of got my back up.
t Last word and all.
Thanks here for talking me down from it. :)
John H - Jan 18, 2003 6:40:43 pm PST #3064 of 10001
Schmoker, I think the principle I follow is, if anyone says they were offended by what you wrote, apologise.
Apologise, using the words "I'm sorry if what I wrote offended you", even if you think they're being absurdly literal and incredibly oversensitive.
Look at it this way -- there are only two possible situations. Either you wrote what you wrote intending to piss people off, or you didn't.
According to you, you didn't. Which is good, because that kind of thing is against the rules of the board.
So, proceeding on that assumption, here's the situation: you didn't mean to offend, but, bad luck, you accidentally did. So you're sorry, Q.E.D.
You can be sorry with gritted teeth and say under your breath "you absurdly literal, incredibly sensitive person you!" but you really should be sorry. Otherwise this isn't really the right place for you.
Rebecca Lizard - Jan 18, 2003 6:57:35 pm PST #3065 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
(John. AIM? Need to talk.)