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as near as I can tell, this thread was precisely a reaction to activity on Barbelith, in which, not in text speak and not larded with these obvious tics (Flyboy's post used LOL once; no riddling),
You're right of course. There was a "haha" which might have confused me.
attempts to put non-standard readings on, for example, 300 and the Comic Relief single were being decried as people making up conspiracy theories or looking for "offence".
Ah, well I didn't realise it had that kind of satirical intent, and just joined it for the pleasure of "writing a character" I suppose.
Therapy threads for the rough boys we secretly wanted to like us having been mean to us at school have their place, although ideally that place is LiveJournal, where live action scally-fantasy sex play might also be best placed. This, however, is a thread for Normal Blokes.
I take your point, but surely there are a lot of threads on Conversation that don't stay on-topic (I had some idea that on-topic rules were waived for Conversation, in fact) and involve light role-play (the Barbarian thread) or just aimless chat (Late Shift, etc).
It's true that if someone started being a Bloke on the Barbarian thread, that wouldn't be appropriate. But a thread can be allowed to evolve on this specific board, I think, and doesn't necessarily have to stick to its original remit ~ I also have a bit of a problem with the fact that I was out of the loop of the original satire, and I don't know if that's my fault for not realising what exact Barbelith behaviour Flyboy was parodying (I have been reading the boards, but the target of this thread still wasn't obvious to me). If the "point" of a thread isn't obvious (and is perhaps deliberately obscure to an extent, for the purposes of veiled parody ~ that is, Flyboy didn't say "I'm taking the piss particularly out of THIS and THIS", because that would have destroyed the point) can people be more readily excused for making their own purposes out of it? |
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