I'm going to go out on a limb and state that when *I* post about "ignoring disturbing political talk", it's almost always out of concern that things are getting too heated. YIDPTMV
Mal: And I never back down from a fight. Inara: Yes, you do! You do all the time!
'Shindig'
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
P.M. Marc - Sep 19, 2002 3:49:53 pm PDT #96 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
billytea - Sep 19, 2002 3:51:19 pm PDT #97 of 10001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
I'm going to go out on a limb and state that when *I* post about "ignoring disturbing political talk", it's almost always out of concern that things are getting too heated. YIDPTMV
Yeah. Or if it's detoured into Nixon/Kissinger slash.
Jen - Sep 19, 2002 3:52:08 pm PDT #98 of 10001
love's a dream you enter though I shake and shake and shake you
Aaaarrggh! My eyes!
DXMachina - Sep 19, 2002 10:13:46 pm PDT #99 of 10001
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
Yeah. Or if it's detoured into Nixon/Kissinger slash.
Don't we have a policy of no real person slash, 'cause that would take of it, right?
Elena - Sep 19, 2002 10:58:59 pm PDT #100 of 10001
Thanks for all the fish.
§ ita § - Sep 19, 2002 11:00:09 pm PDT #101 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
billytea - Sep 19, 2002 11:02:59 pm PDT #102 of 10001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
Trudy Booth - Sep 19, 2002 11:41:32 pm PDT #103 of 10001
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
I'd imagine we could walk the line between "Henry Kissinger is a war criminal" and " YOU are a war criminal".
billytea - Sep 19, 2002 11:49:32 pm PDT #104 of 10001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
I'd imagine we could walk the line between "Henry Kissinger is a war criminal" and "YOU are a war criminal".
Hmmm. If Henry Kissinger himself starts posting on these boards, that could leave us in a quandary.
Getting back to the original suggestion, how much support is currently there for a separate Politics thread? For my part, I wouldn't treat a separate thread much differently from such a discussion in an existing thread, so I wouldn't see much personal advantage. (Plus, TBH, from experience on other boards I am a little leery of a separate politics section.)
Typo Boy - Sep 20, 2002 1:57:34 am PDT #105 of 10001
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
Well most of the people who would participate in the poltics thread are happy to discuss politics in Natter. Many of the people who are happy to discuss politics in natter would not participate if they were in a seperate thread. So it seems that there is no real advantage in having a seperate thread. ...
I knoiw it was my idea - but there are only about three people who want to talk politics in a politics thread who see any advantage over natter.