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My "Fictionsuit"

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Jack Denfeld

20:16 / 08.03.06

I see that our emic realities are not in agreement over anything neither is anyone interested in leaving their rigid reality tunnels to understand what the point really is.

Less searchable M0rd4nt

20:17 / 08.03.06

Oh good grief. You know, I think I actually got the warm fuzzies for Megsie for a moment there.

I think the contrast on Barbelith must need adjusting.

Dead Megatron

20:18 / 08.03.06

Anybody else hearing the trumpets of Apocalypse there?

Ganesh

20:18 / 08.03.06

Disquieting, innit.

doglikesparky

20:20 / 08.03.06

Well over one hundred posts of no-one agreeing with you.

I was just starting to think "Oh well that's that then. There's no way SR can come back to this thread now with anything other than a total acceptance of hir mistake and a request to change the name."

I really was.

Cherielabombe

20:24 / 08.03.06

There's no way SR can come back to this thread now with anything other than a total acceptance of hir mistake and a request to change the name."

Unless he's too trapped in his rigid reality tunnel to consider another point of view himself!

Open your mind, sheeple!

Jack Denfeld

20:26 / 08.03.06

At least open your emic realities.

penitentvandal

20:26 / 08.03.06

Ah, he's read Quantum Psychology recently and is using RAWspeak at every oppo he gets. He must be, what, seventeen? Bless 'im.

Sadly, he hasn't got the point that one of the main, ah, points of that book is that when people disagree, it isn't helpful when they tell each other that they just don't know what the point is.

In fact, 'is' gets pretty roughly treated in that book full-stop, really.

miss wonderstarr

20:28 / 08.03.06

ONE of the threads on Conversation must DIE. Will it be THIS one.

gridley

20:29 / 08.03.06

See now Emic would have been a much better user name. But Real Live Tiger might be the best user name of all.

Spaniel

20:32 / 08.03.06

I appreciate that all the dog-piling might've been a little overwhelming for SR, and that the easiest reaction is to get all defensive and hostile, but bloody hell that was one childish post. I think Haus summed it up perfectly with his "I'm right you're wrong" summary.

SR, if you ever read this, please please please try and take some time to think about the issues here. The reaction to your screen name isn't simply reducible to super-sensitivity or spite or a board wide urge to dog-pile.

Less searchable M0rd4nt

20:35 / 08.03.06

Is anyone else deeeeeeply weary of the term dog-pile?

penitentvandal

20:35 / 08.03.06

Maybe we should have dogpiled him more sensitively, an' that...

Mourne Kransky

20:36 / 08.03.06

And my emic reality is entirely in agreement with his. It's his that disagrees with mine, little fucker. See my real live emu!

Cherielabombe

20:37 / 08.03.06

Is anyone else deeeeeeply weary of the term dog-pile?

Yes.

Shrug

20:37 / 08.03.06

Alternatives to dog-pile?
All I can think of is Barbekicking which is even more unhelpful.

Spaniel

20:42 / 08.03.06

Is dog-pile a useful term? I dunno. It does suggest a thoughtless let git 'im mentality and in doing so risks belittling peoples' contributions. Buuuut then I'm not entirely sure that mob mentality doesn't ever rear it's head in cyberspace and, more specifically, on Barbelith.

Less searchable M0rd4nt

20:44 / 08.03.06

"I pissed off 100+ people and all I got was this lousy attempt at self-justification"?

penitentvandal

20:48 / 08.03.06

Just whut r yew trynna say about uz an our dog-pilin', mister? Ah rekkin we ought to just go buck wild an have ourselves a lynchin'! Hooo-eee!

Ganesh

20:48 / 08.03.06

I get a bit pissed off at attempts to dismiss a mass negative response as "mob mentality" ie. the possibility that a group of posters could independently decide they feel strongly enough to respond does not compute. Nooo, it's all about teh sheeple.

Blake Head

20:56 / 08.03.06

Nothing much to add but to echo "good grief" and with regards to:

to understand what the point really is.

Which is?

eddie thirteen

21:04 / 08.03.06

"I pissed off 100+ people and all I got was this lousy attempt at self-justification"?

No, he gets a fucking tiger. That sucks. I want a tiger...

grant

21:07 / 08.03.06

I think this thread has become toxic, and am proposing a lock. I'm not sure what else can be accomplished here.

Spatula Clarke

21:08 / 08.03.06

What the hell *is* a dogpile, anyway?

Less searchable M0rd4nt

21:09 / 08.03.06

I get to vent, that's what. Sure, lock the abomination; there'll be other opportunities to call this fool on his bullshit.

Mourne Kransky

21:09 / 08.03.06

I know what you mean about the occasional bandwagon that rolls into Barbetown, Boboss, but in this case I felt it was a necessary signal to send. Normally a couple of posters would say X, Y, Z and we'd all think Well said, that's what I think, so we wouldn't post. This time it felt purposeful to add my name to the roll call.

As far as giving an effective response to SR, the overwhelming number he sought for guidance was too overwhelming for his pompous adolescent ego. It didn't really matter what any of us said. He couldn't hear it because he wasn't listening. Too busy frothing at the mouth.

Maybe this experience will bubble away on his back burner until some grown up thinking begins to percolate, wayyyy down the line.

Spaniel

21:22 / 08.03.06

Hey, I fully appreciate that people were responding to a specific request by SR, and that there is strong feeling on this subject.

For the record I don't think mob mentality is a big problem around these parts. I just wanted to point out that I don't think Barbelith is immune to it.

Mistoffelees

21:27 / 08.03.06

What the hell *is* a dogpile, anyway?

Ganesh has posted a nice picture recently.

The Falcon

21:32 / 08.03.06

For the record I don't think mob mentality is a big problem around these parts. I just wanted to point out that I don't think Barbelith is immune to it.

No, but if you'd any awareness of the people you are conversing to, and I think this is part of the problem - the utter solipsism evident; you could see the list of pollees is pretty disparate. There's plenty people here I've had vehement disagreements with on a variety of things, but this is not one.

Spatula Clarke

21:33 / 08.03.06

That looks very cosy. We should have more of them.

Spaniel

21:39 / 08.03.06

I try to have one on a daily basis.

Mourne Kransky

21:56 / 08.03.06

That one second from the camera used to star in Babycham adverts when I were a lad, I'm sure. Like this:

Wombat

22:38 / 08.03.06

Lock.

Spyder Todd 2008

00:17 / 09.03.06

If it hasn't been locked yet, I'd just like to say that I'm sorry I didn't read this thread earlier to comment, and I'm glad the barbelith immune system kicked into high gear on this one.

Aertho

00:29 / 09.03.06

Seems more like an allergic reaction to me.

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