Oh no, please let's not. She gets to tell us. This isn't a drama series with a plot and an arc; it's a game show.

Wrod. Give me a break.

Um . . . wow. That's . . . incredibly rude. Because, you know, this site isn't about a game show, with real people and unscripted excitement; it's about a drama series.

I said not one thing about not wanting to know of a Buffista's appearance on a game show. Yes, tell, absolutely, I will set five different VCRs to tape it and put a TiVo on layaway. But I want to cheer them on! and I can't do that when I know they're gonna lose.

(None of this, by the way, should be interpreted as being upset with Jen for sharing the information. She, obviously, was there already, and would share little of my incentive. Which is why I merely sighed, rather than asked for a FAQ addition or something.)

I am sorry you do not watch game shows for the drama. I do (among other things). Now, let's let sleeping dogs lie down with fleas, or something.

seareel: I abuse a certain filler phrase . . . or something.

I am sorry you do not watch game shows for the drama. I do (among other things).

Jeopardy is on 5 nights a week, 52 weeks a year. That gives you 259 other episodes to watch for the drama.

Oh no, please let's not. She gets to tell us. This isn't a drama series with a plot and an arc; it's a game show.

Wrod. Give me a break.

Um . . . wow. That's . . . incredibly rude. Because, you know, this site isn't about a game show, with real people and unscripted excitement; it's about a drama series.

I said not one thing about not wanting to know of a Buffista's appearance on a game show. Yes, tell, absolutely, I will set five different VCRs to tape it and put a TiVo on layaway. But I want to cheer them on! and I can't do that when I know they're gonna lose.

(None of this, by the way, should be interpreted as being upset with Jen for sharing the information. She, obviously, was there already, and would share little of my incentive. Which is why I merely sighed, rather than asked for a FAQ addition or something.)

I am sorry you do not watch game shows for the drama. I do (among other things). Now, let's let sleeping dogs lie down with fleas, or something.

I did not intend to be rude in my original post (which is the first half of what you quoted). I can't help but laugh at your pronouncement that I (or we) was (or were) rude though, as I was always taught it was extremely rude to say, "That was rude." I'm done playing on the who's rude merry-go-round, so now, I'm just going to be blunt.

t blunt

I was concerned that your complaint was going to cause a spoiler kerfluffle. I was afraid of another one, over Jeopardy, which I see mentioned here far less often than duct tape (which--SPOILER--is sticky).

Since we're apparently offering assessments, I found your post petty in both content and delivery. You were complaining about being spoiled for 22 minutes of a game show, as if that 22 minutes of lost suspense somehow trumps someone else's right to share her actual life experience with her friends.

It would have been more constructive to have actually asked for a clarification of board policy for shows we don't typically discuss, than to sigh at someone, and be specific enough about it, to note you weren't doing so with a wink.

t /blunt and probably rude as well

Jeopardy is on 5 nights a week, 52 weeks a year. That gives you 259 other episodes to watch for the drama.

Jeopardy! is in reruns eight weeks a year, so it's actually 219 other episodes per year. Of course, this is still a much larger number than 21 or 25 (out of 22 or 26), so the justification for your rudeness is still secure.

so the justification for your rudeness is still secure.

If you think it's rude for me to agree with someone who doesn't want to get into a spoiler discussion about a game show -- and given how often Buffistas are on game shows, I think your spoiler purity is 99% intact -- then that's your prerogative. Because I still agree.

I'll also note you didn't congratulate Jengod on something exciting that happened in her real life (and of course it's your prerogative not to), but took the opportunity to whine that 22 minutes of your TV viewing was spoiled.

I'm thinkin' years old reruns wouldn't fall under any spoiler policy anyways, so that fact is not exactly relevant to this conversation..

I can't help but laugh at your pronouncement that I (or we) was (or were) rude though, as I was always taught it was extremely rude to say, "That was rude."

Sorry. I tend to say things like that when I feel I'm being ridiculed out of the blue.

Since we're apparently offering assessments, I found your post petty in both content and delivery. You were complaining about being spoiled for 22 minutes of a game show, as if that 22 minutes of lost suspense somehow trumps someone else's right to share her actual life experience with her friends.

I was expressing regret over being spoiled, and, while having no problem with the sharing of life experience, was wishing there'd been a little warning for the crazy game show watcher sitting over here.

It would have been more constructive to have actually asked for a clarification of board policy for shows we don't typically discuss, than to sigh at someone, and be specific enough about it, to note you weren't doing so with a wink.

I wasn't trying to form or discover board policy, and I most certainly was not sighing at anyone.

</blunt and probably rude as well>

No, I'd much rather know all that, as what I had before was nothing but utter bewilderment.

Which reminds me that my layabout cousin steve watches the Game Show network reruns excessively.

t /natter

If you think it's rude for me to agree with someone who doesn't want to get into a spoiler discussion about a game show -- and given how often Buffistas are on game shows, I think your spoiler purity is 99% intact -- then that's your prerogative. Because I still agree.

Again, wasn't trying to get into a spoiler discussion. I'll take back my "rude" comment if you'll be willing to back off of that assumption.

Still amazed at the "1% spoiled so it doesn't count" argument. I don't think that'd fly too well if someone spoiled 1% of the current season of Angel.

I'll also note you didn't congratulate Jengod on something exciting that happened in her real life (and of course it's your prerogative not to), but took the opportunity to whine that 22 minutes of your TV viewing was spoiled.

The appropriate place to do so is Natter, yes? I'm not currently reading Natter, plus, 36 hours late. I will congratulate her here and now, as I do think it's a wonderful thing that she got to be on a game show (and, I'm jealous).

With the responses I'm getting, though, I'd be afraid that someone would manage to determine that I was whining in my congratulations, as well.