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PC GONE MAAAAD DODGEBALL GAME

16:19 / 09.04.07

Okay, here are the rules of Politically Correct Dodgeball. Choose a target. Say something kind and supportive to or about them, and then lob a cute, fluffy, round thing in their general direction. Repeat.

The dodging comes in when the playground bullies get here and try to hit us with accusations of being "too PC." Avoid the accusations, say superficially kind but fundamentally reproachful things about the bullies, and lob a cute, fluffy thing in their general direction.

Extra points for use of Non-Violent Communication™, "I feel" statements, "energy"/"vibrations", or misuse of any of the above.

I'll start:

Justrix, I'm really appreciating your clarity about your needs and desires for Barbelith. When you expressed regret about not being able to play Dodgeball in Policy, I was inspired to create something new, and that makes me feel good. Here:

Have a kittenball!

*fling* Mew!

Lama glama

16:54 / 09.04.07

XK, for being such a forgiving and patient person, even when arsehatted comments are thrown in your general direction.

Have a rotund, ball-like baby seal:

Ticker

16:55 / 09.04.07

id, as always I'm inspired & uplifted by your insightful yet firm replies in challenging threads. I feel refreshed and enlivened by your unique wisdom.

*WIFFLE HEDGEHOG GENTLY LOBBED*

17:04 / 09.04.07

Thank you, XK. I appreciate your kindness and good intentions towards me, while happening to be allergic to hedgehogs.

Okay, upping my game:

Flyboy, I appreciate your continuing engagement with the board, even while I hear that you often feel angry about the shortcomings you see in the board and in the people who post here. When you continue to return to make new and fresh acerbic comments, I feel hopeful that we have not yet all failed you completely. It encourages me to think of Barbelith as an institution that will continue to muddle onward for awhile yet.

Here:

Not one, but TWO! ball-like little owlets!

The Ghost of Tom Winter

17:28 / 09.04.07

idThank you for making barbelith a wonderful place to be and all around giving positive energy to the community

Here is a sloth wrapped up and ready to be tossed at your direction.

18:33 / 09.04.07

Hooray! Thank you, Tom Winter's Ghost.

Anyone else? Anyone? Okay...

Haus, I am continually in huggle with you—not only for your formidable intellect, but for your continuing commitment to place your intellect at the service of the community. I always admire you for it, but I don't always appreciate it enough.

Here:

Have a little blueberry dwarf hamster! *toss* eep!

Sibelian 2.0

20:31 / 09.04.07

id, though in other contexts I might be saying this sarcastically, in this context I am not: I feel, in some peculiar, indirect fashion, personally validated by your starting this thread. I mean this wholeheartedly.

Please accept this badly overphotoshopped french bicycle speedometer as a token of my esteem!

punt

Okay, it's not very fluffy, but it *is* French, you can see it says "Made in France" on it. And it's very round! Well, oval.

Is this threadrot?

Sibelian 2.0

20:50 / 09.04.07

And, um, just in case it is, here's a squirrel what my boyfriend fed a walnut to this very day...

21:01 / 09.04.07

Wow! Cuteness and beauty! Sibelian, I am overwhelmed. Thank you.

Sibelian 2.0

12:00 / 10.04.07

Talks to Strangers you are someone who cares deeply about what ze says and tries hard to understand the consequences of everything that you do. You are a boon to the human race!

Have another squirrel:

Tryphena Absent

12:41 / 10.04.07

Why can't you be like REAL MEN? This level of political correctness makes me feel SICK.

Alex's Grandma

13:15 / 10.04.07

Yes. Plus, it seems to glorifying the abuse of animals.

Accordingly, id, I'm throwing a gaffa-taped wolverine in your general direction. A gaffa-taped wolverine, that is, which was far too angry to pose for the photo.

14:24 / 10.04.07

Nina and Alex's Grandma, I hear and appreciate the concern you are showing both for us and for the animals that we appear to you to be lobbing indiscriminately about without regard to their rights. I understand that this practice, founded in ancient indigenous lifeways of oneness with nature and respect for each other and for ourselves, may look to you like barbarism or silliness. I respect your rights to your own opinions, even as I acknowledge the incompleteness of your awareness of my perspective.

Please accept this cute Tasmanian devil as a sign of my goodwill towards you:

Papess

14:27 / 10.04.07

Oh my. I hadn't log into Barbelith for a few hours and suddenly people are throwing compliments, kinda user-friendly wolverines, and kittenballs around. Some of them were at me!

Thems fightin' words id! I'll see your kittenball...

id: For your exemplary ethical insight and precision posting with a dash style which never clouds the issues you are addressing. Darn you and your precision..! *toss*

And you XK, yeah YOU!: The way you seek to create harmony in every situation and show the utmost poise and grace even in the most deviant circumstances and difficult situations.*toss*

Mordant: You don't get out of this, nope. *TAKE THIS!* For your uncompromising ideals and aspirations are tempered only by your...*AND THIS!*...sound ethics and unflinching self-evaluation!*toss*

CHAAAARRRRRRRGE! A HERD OF FLUFFBALLS!

Yes. They are coming for you! ALL OF YOU DARN LOVELY PEOPLE...!

BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Did I really say kittenballs?

Kirin? Who the heck?

17:57 / 10.04.07

Richard Lindon, seen here with his revolutionary rubber-bladder kittenballs.

(Sources here, here and here.)

Feverfew

18:08 / 10.04.07

That's worryingly brilliant.

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