Yes.
Jinx? If you and Dreg have been using my moisturizer again I'm going to have to rip off your scaly- hey, what's the deal with your face?
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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
Miracleman - Jan 20, 2003 5:39:09 pm PST #3387 of 10001
No, I don't think I will - me, quoting Captain Steve Rogers, to all of 2020
Miracleman - Jan 20, 2003 5:40:05 pm PST #3388 of 10001
No, I don't think I will - me, quoting Captain Steve Rogers, to all of 2020
If you don't want to get bitch-slapped, don't be a wiseass.
Ah. Well, then, there goes most of my conversation.
Or most of the conversation in Natter.
Or 80% or so of the conversation in the show threads.
Jessica - Jan 20, 2003 5:40:31 pm PST #3389 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
MM, the "clumsily worded but inoffensive remark" was on the heels of a long series of "people who don't like the kind of tv I do are stupid" posts that I, personally, found to be quite offensive. In all three show threads. So while, yes, the specific remark he brought up here may have been relatively innocuous on its own, iin context it was just one more obnoxious remark from someone who had been pissing me off all week.
Miracleman - Jan 20, 2003 5:42:13 pm PST #3390 of 10001
No, I don't think I will - me, quoting Captain Steve Rogers, to all of 2020
So it's the "straw that broke the camel's back" argument?
I don't see how his poor timing warranted the treatment he received.
§ ita § - Jan 20, 2003 5:43:58 pm PST #3391 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Yikes. I guess the divide is wider than I thought.
My read was that people disagreed with the characterisation (to which I'm sure unfamiliarity contributed). In my eyes (as you can tell by the fact I spoke up) one went over the line.
What continued in here was the "But no one should have been offended! How could anyone have been offended! Your feelings sure get easily bruised!"
That's what I thought got the avalanche rolling, up to and including accusing Shawn of lying.
Lee - Jan 20, 2003 5:44:36 pm PST #3392 of 10001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
I think it was also the "don't get your panties in a bunch" statement and the conversation that followed that got more people upset.
eta or what ita said.
brenda m - Jan 20, 2003 5:44:55 pm PST #3393 of 10001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
I don't see how his poor timing warranted the treatment he received.
I don't think that's what she was saying. It's a legitimate point that when you make 6 obnoxious statements in a row, people react more strongly to the 7th.
Jessica - Jan 20, 2003 5:45:48 pm PST #3394 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I don't think that's what she was saying. It's a legitimate point that when you make 6 obnoxious statements in a row, people react more strongly to the 7th.
Thank you, Brenda -- that's what I was trying to get across.
Wolfram - Jan 20, 2003 5:47:00 pm PST #3395 of 10001
Visilurking
Ah. Well, then, there goes most of my conversation.
slap, slap
MM, admit it, you like the bitch-slapping. At least a little.
I don't see how his poor timing warranted the treatment he received.
It was poor timing coupled with his inability to quit beating his dead horse. And his poor timing.
P.M. Marc - Jan 20, 2003 5:47:16 pm PST #3396 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 don't see how his poor timing warranted the treatment he received.
WTH?
Rob was told to cool it. (S. came here and asked someone to tell Rob to cool it. Which, YMMV, I personally think was kind of theatrical overkill, but which isn't the point, just my opinion--I'd rather it all been handled in thread) Mixed in with all this is the whole is-he-or-isn't-he-debate (S as M), when M had been banned.
You want to sort through this all and tell me how it could have gone differently?