I would just like to mention that I have no official position whatsoever on either the next new Quotables title, or announcements in Press.
Travers: Perhaps you'll favor us with a demonstration while we're here. Buffy: You mean, like, right now? 'Cause, already had my recommended daily dose of fights tonight.
'Potential'
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
Sean K - Feb 25, 2004 10:25:53 am PST #6895 of 10005
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
Astarte - Feb 25, 2004 10:26:59 am PST #6896 of 10005
Not having has never been the thing I've regretted most in my life. Not trying is.
Calling someone a retard, NSM with the inoffensive.
I'm not that fond of "spaz" myself, and part of that's because I did have a friend with CP in school. Using that term as a noun does set my teeth on edge. As a verb, less so.
JenP - Feb 25, 2004 10:28:41 am PST #6897 of 10005
Calling someone a retard, NSM with the inoffensive.
Yep, I don't think anyone here would argue otherwise. I sure hope.
Lyra Jane - Feb 25, 2004 10:34:13 am PST #6898 of 10005
Up with the sun
I personally find "spazz" inoffensive -- I think of it as a mild insult on about a level with dweeb or dork. That said, if it is offensive in the U.K., I would rather have a different tile for the thread. I don't think the spazz/spazzed distinction would hold much weight with someone who *was* genuinely offended by the thread title, so I'd just as soon not go there.
Wolfram - Feb 25, 2004 10:35:24 am PST #6899 of 10005
Visilurking
I think a couple of people would but they're just retamorons.
JenP - Feb 25, 2004 10:36:24 am PST #6900 of 10005
Oh never mind -- this post = not as funny as I thought.
Liese S. - Feb 25, 2004 11:38:06 am PST #6901 of 10005
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
I'm all in the hey, let's err on the side of not offensive, shall we?
Which is to say, that it's one of the few terms remaining in my lexicon with offensive origin that I'm still trying to exclude. So, guilty in this corner. And hey, let's err on the side of not offensive!
How's about just 'Istanbul!'?
Wolfram - Feb 25, 2004 11:42:09 am PST #6902 of 10005
Visilurking
not Constantinople?
Aims - Feb 25, 2004 11:43:29 am PST #6903 of 10005
Shit's all sorts of different now.
It really doesn't matter to the Turks.
DebetEsse - Feb 25, 2004 11:47:47 am PST #6904 of 10005
Woe to the fucking wicked.
Hmmm
"One Quote in all the World", maybe?
Or something less heavy-handed. Hmmm