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Inara ,'Serenity'


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


Deena - Mar 14, 2003 10:43:22 pm PST #7644 of 10001
How are you me? You need to stop that. Only I can be me. ~Kara

When he was directly asked, and thought he'd be kicked out anyway, he categorically denied it with bluster and heated commentary.

eta: I'm shutting up. It's over. Sorry.


§ ita § - Mar 14, 2003 10:46:21 pm PST #7645 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Because when he was directly asked I don't believe he admitted it.

Not the first time. He did this last time.


Gandalfe - Mar 14, 2003 10:50:25 pm PST #7646 of 10001
The generation that could change the world is still looking for its car keys.

Hmmmmmmm . . . . He seemed to be a fairly reasonable person in this incarnation - never ran into him earlier, of course. It showed a lot of class to just say, "Busted!" and walk away from it, tho.

Wait a minute - he's really Steve Amasfer, isn't he?


DavidS - Mar 14, 2003 10:56:43 pm PST #7647 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

He seemed to be a fairly reasonable person in this incarnation

He was. In this incarnation.

When he was directly asked, and thought he'd be kicked out anyway, he categorically denied it with bluster and heated commentary.

But this is what he did the first time.

It makes me feel some rue. Like...we did the best we could and gave him chances. It's his fuck-up, but it doesn't make me feel good. Like to handle it even better next time.


John H - Mar 14, 2003 11:18:04 pm PST #7648 of 10001

When he was directly asked, and thought he'd be kicked out anyway, he categorically denied it with bluster and heated commentary.

I don't get the "and thought he'd be kicked out anyway" part of that.


Deena - Mar 14, 2003 11:26:41 pm PST #7649 of 10001
How are you me? You need to stop that. Only I can be me. ~Kara

John, after it was suggested that you e-mail him, and then you came back and asked what to do if you got no clear response, he came in to this thread with a lot of bluster -- saying he thought he was going to be kicked out because he had offended a stompy, but that he wanted to state anyway that he was not this person. I'm paraphrasing madly, but, that's the gist, I think.


Rebecca Lizard - Mar 14, 2003 11:33:16 pm PST #7650 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

Be he's gone. And he's not coming back.

(If he comes back, of course, I'll lose any tiny shred of respect I had for him, and will probably throw large paragraphs at his head. But he's not. I believe that.)

And it's possible (probable, I think, from what I know of his personality; but I don't know, of course) that he is reading this right now.

So I say, with greatest respect to you: maybe we could let go of talking about the specifics of the mieskie/Schmoker/Anathema situation. We do have some things to say about trolls, I think, most of which I'll want to talk about too, in the morning, but retreading the details of this particular over-now situation is... not going to accomplish anything. I think. I think.


Deena - Mar 14, 2003 11:34:32 pm PST #7651 of 10001
How are you me? You need to stop that. Only I can be me. ~Kara

Sorry, I was just trying to clarify my earlier, ill-advised post.


DavidS - Mar 14, 2003 11:35:57 pm PST #7652 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

but retreading the details of this particular over-now situation is... not going to accomplish anything.

Not in relation to this particular incident. But I did have issues with how the original suspension happened. I think it could have been more fair, a more measured response.


John H - Mar 14, 2003 11:38:24 pm PST #7653 of 10001

he thought he was going to be kicked out because he had offended a stompy, but that he wanted to state anyway that he was not this person

OK, fair enough. But if he really thought he was going to be kicked out anyway, why not tell the truth? The two things kind of contradict each other.

...and this is why miss Lizard is right.