What? She killed 'em with mathematics. What else could it have been?

Jayne ,'Objects In Space'


Bureaucracy 2: Like Sartre, Only Longer  

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


Steph L. - Apr 15, 2003 12:11:35 am PDT #131 of 10005
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe

I'd like a retroactive apology for Glory.


Kat - Apr 15, 2003 12:12:36 am PDT #132 of 10005
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

oooh... this is making me laugh. I want an apology request thread. Maybe we can reopen the end of the year thread and use that. Sort of like a Brown Wrapper, DEMAND AN APOLOGY HERE deal.


bitterchick - Apr 15, 2003 12:12:39 am PDT #133 of 10005

The Initiative.


Susan W. - Apr 15, 2003 12:12:50 am PDT #134 of 10005
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights

I tend to use the term subhuman mainly to describe my brother, and also a couple of bands.

I don't have any more negative crap attached to it than I do to, say, dumbfuck, dipshit, asswipe, or fartknocker.

Ah. Herein lies the disconnect. For me, the term takes me back to various primary source material I read for one class or another re: white views of African slaves, English views of the Irish around the time of the Famine, etc.


§ ita § - Apr 15, 2003 12:12:51 am PDT #135 of 10005
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Can we get an apology from FBC for cancelling Firefly? I'm still suffering over here.


P.M. Marc - Apr 15, 2003 12:12:55 am PDT #136 of 10005
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear

Can I get a retroactive apology for Dad? Please?

Files and Records can deliver it to me, nekkid.


Steph L. - Apr 15, 2003 12:14:04 am PDT #137 of 10005
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe

I tend to use the term subhuman mainly to describe my brother, and also a couple of bands.

I don't have any more negative crap attached to it than I do to, say, dumbfuck, dipshit, asswipe, or fartknocker.

Ah. Herein lies the disconnect. For me, the term takes me back to various primary source material I read for one class or another re: white views of African slaves, English views of the Irish around the time of the Famine, etc.

I had the same problem in Natter the other day, with the word "schmoopy." Seriously.


Lee - Apr 15, 2003 12:14:30 am PDT #138 of 10005
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.

I think Tim should retroactively apologize for the numerous layers of clothing Gunn is always wearing.

and show he's really sorry by never making Gunn wear a shirt again.


bitterchick - Apr 15, 2003 12:14:51 am PDT #139 of 10005

I want an apology request thread.

Thread proliferation! Thread proliferation!

Hey, someone had to do it.

And you know, we were making a joke at dinner the other night that for the series finale, we should do an ad "from the writers" apologizing for these things. Many of the ones mentioned above were discussed.


Maysa - Apr 15, 2003 12:17:02 am PDT #140 of 10005

B4: Not like Orwell at all...seriously...it's not like Orwell