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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


jengod - Mar 12, 2003 8:20:15 pm PST #7353 of 10001

Well, you all have about 50 posts to decide. You got anything?

:)


bitterchick - Mar 12, 2003 8:23:19 pm PST #7354 of 10001

Someone had suggested X-treme Natter! We're trying this at home! which I and some others liked. But I also saw some posts for Natter xXx.


P.M. Marc - Mar 12, 2003 8:23:32 pm PST #7355 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

Natter X-Treme: We're Trying This at Home was in the lead last I checked.


bon bon - Mar 12, 2003 8:27:21 pm PST #7356 of 10001
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.

Well, xXx can be saved for thirty. A year from now...


brenda m - Mar 12, 2003 8:27:55 pm PST #7357 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

X-treme Natter! We're trying this at home!

I'll add another vote to this one.


Jessica - Mar 12, 2003 8:44:39 pm PST #7358 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

Jessica, I know you are unhappy that people have decided to vote on things because you keep mentioning it. I'm not sure what can be done at this point to make you feel better about the fact that people were displeased with how decisions were made previously.

I don't need to be made to feel better. I just want to point out that the people who were using the phrase "bullshit consensus" before need to realize that complaining about the phrase "Gang of 14" now is more than a little hypocritical.

And no, I didn't want a Movies thread particularly. I've been anti-thread-proliferation since it's been an issue. But since I have always been a loud participant in this thread, yes I did feel singled out by those accusations.


Java cat - Mar 12, 2003 8:51:01 pm PST #7359 of 10001
Not javachik

These have been mentioned, here and in Natter:

X-treme Natter! We're trying this at home!

Natter xXx.

Natter: X Marks The Spork

Natter X: it's UNIX based


Daisy Jane - Mar 12, 2003 8:53:33 pm PST #7360 of 10001
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."

I like the first one.


Java cat - Mar 12, 2003 9:02:38 pm PST #7361 of 10001
Not javachik

I like the Spork.


John H - Mar 12, 2003 9:15:03 pm PST #7362 of 10001

the people who were using the phrase "bullshit consensus" before need to realize that complaining about the phrase "Gang of 14" now is more than a little hypocritical

The phrase "bullshit consensus" applied to people doing things which they wanted, which the majority of the buffistas probably didn't want. It contained the implication that people were arriving at a "consensus" of a few likeminded people, as few as five or six, and taking action, while people were looking the other way, whether deliberate or not.

The phrase "Gang of Fourteen", which doesn't bug me in the least, applied to people doing something which an overwhelming majority of Buffistas voted for: setting up a voting system. And doing it in public. And doing it slowly. And doing it in great and very careful detail. And listening to each other.

That's why it's not, as far as I can see, hypocritical to complain about one, then complain about the other.