This is not funny. This... this is a morality tale about the evils of sake.

Simon ,'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


Jon B. - Mar 30, 2004 12:44:34 pm PST #8218 of 10005
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!

Theresa

Porn hair! (sigh)


billytea - Mar 30, 2004 12:45:22 pm PST #8219 of 10005
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.

Wait? MM's in charge?

Yes, and you'll notice pants were his first victim.


Miracleman - Mar 30, 2004 12:46:08 pm PST #8220 of 10005
No, I don't think I will - me, quoting Captain Steve Rogers, to all of 2020

Wait? MM's in charge?

Naw, if I were the board would be nuclear-powered and you'd all be zombies.

Which would really remove the necessity for a Bureaucrazy thread.


Wolfram - Mar 30, 2004 12:48:05 pm PST #8221 of 10005
Visilurking

And BT needs to spend more time on homework. And stop chasing girls he likes with garden insects during recess.


DavidS - Mar 30, 2004 12:48:06 pm PST #8222 of 10005
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Naw, if I were the board would be nuclear-powered and you'd all be zombies.

Radioactive zombies, I warrant.

Which has an appeal.


billytea - Mar 30, 2004 12:49:04 pm PST #8223 of 10005
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.

And BT needs to spend more time on homework. And stop chasing girls he likes with garden insects during recess.

You call it ooky, I call it 'product differentiation'.


Atropa - Mar 30, 2004 12:49:14 pm PST #8224 of 10005
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.

Radioactive zombies, I warrant.

Hey, at least they you could tell they were coming for you at night by the shambling glow.


Consuela - Mar 30, 2004 12:50:24 pm PST #8225 of 10005
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

Oh, no, it's more misdirection!

t flees from thread, chased by radioactive zombies


Wolfram - Mar 30, 2004 12:50:48 pm PST #8226 of 10005
Visilurking

And he knows more big words than teacher. Must consider corporal methods.


Hil R. - Mar 30, 2004 1:00:52 pm PST #8227 of 10005
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

From way back (this wasn't the only comment like this, just the one I happen to copy):

Seriously. Why SHOULD they be stressed to tears to be heard when we are perfectly intelligent people capable of taking others wishes into account even if they DON'T post them loudly and repeatedly?

I don't post in this thread too much. I usually try to keep up with reading it, though sometimes life interferes and I don't have the time. I generally try not to post anything "loudly and repeatedly." However, when something does matter to me, I chime in. If it becomes a huge debate, and I decide, "I don't want to be part of a huge debate," then the issue couldn't have been that important to me to begin with. If someone then said, "Well, 100 posts back, Hil posted this, and she backed off because she didn't want to be part of a huge debate, but we've still got to take her into account," I'd feel extremely insulted and condescended to. If I back off of something, it's because I don't think it's important enough to be arguing about it, or at least not important enough to me for me to put my name, time, effort, or social capital into defending it, and at that point, I certainly don't want anyone else to be claiming to represent me.