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Closed for Business Time
12:00 / 04.10.07
I might have overstated the banhammer thing in the interest of rhetoric, but the point is that he's most often there when shit hits the fan, sorting the wheat from the chaff and helping to settle debates and decisions. Thus severe in the sense of incisive and decisive. Which is what I should have said. And, of course, this goes for many other posters as well, like Olulabelle, XK, alas, Honolulu Randy etc who post some of the best stuff on the site while also shaping the implicit and explicit norms of conduct.
 
 
ONLY NICE THINGS
23:10 / 04.10.07
see the Daily Mail thread for an example of me making a flail at being decent, but spiralling into incoherency (and even being hailed as the Bad Analogy Poster Boy by Haus in a screen-long retread of a post from four months ago).


Ulp. Sorry. I thought that your being decent was very decent. I actually felt a bit bad when I realised that my example was going to involve you. So, you know, sorry about that. It certainly wasnt intended to detract from your contribution to the thread on the Daily Mail.
 
 
Papess
01:20 / 05.10.07
Fine. I am annoyed. Maybe I am just getting tired.

People are more apt to argue than to try and understand.

Because "critical thinking" always means arguing, right?
 
 
Tuna Ghost: Pratt knot hero
02:42 / 05.10.07
Yeah, what a bunch of cads for assuming you meant what you wrote. The cheek of it!
 
 
Papess
03:48 / 05.10.07
Wrong thread, Tuna.

I meant what I wrote. I am just going to have to deal with people who can't see the point I am making and the virtue of it. Just when I think that I am being very clear, oh well.

Too tired to argue this also.
 
 
illmatic
06:21 / 05.10.07
I really am hating that pyrite thread right now. 3 pages of discussion, very little of interest.
 
 
Papess
11:09 / 05.10.07
Yeah, I think I was irrated at the inability to make a point and just have no one seem to understand it. I am also equally annoyed that I cannot describe things any better.

The Pyrite thread is just silly. We have been through this a thousand times on Barbelith. People are just at different places of understanding. I have to understand that.
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
11:38 / 05.10.07
People filling up threads with meaningless shite in a forum we're actually trying to improve, then getting abusive when called on it, and then trying to tell us there's no point in having a discussion because the thing we're discussing hasn't been released yet and we may as well just have posts counting down the hours instead, and then not discussing it anyway when it actually IS released...

...that's a little annoying.

As it is when people go to the Policy to make a big deal out of tiny things which only affect them, and even then barely, while at the same time not bothering to contribute to any of the Policy threads that actually matter...

Grumpy. Need more cigarettes to get back to my usual cheery Barbe-self.
 
 
My Mom Thinks I'm Cool
12:33 / 05.10.07
I really am hating that pyrite thread right now.

I apologize. I believe most of the posters had the right idea and I was having a problem more with tone or choice of words than anything. I overreacted.

I, too, am frustrated by my apparent inability to communicate. I hope to be a little more productive and positive today.
 
 
Less searchable M0rd4nt
13:28 / 05.10.07
I really am hating that pyrite thread right now.

Me too. OP has rectocranial inversion syndrome.
 
 
Katherine
13:30 / 05.10.07
I'm hating the fact the author of said thread is back and backslapping himself on it.
 
 
MattShepherd: I WEDDED KALI!
13:41 / 05.10.07
I'm admiring the calm restraint of the other posters in the thread.

I would have resorted to suggesting innovative locations to store the lump of pyrite, most involving magyckalle places where the sun shineth not, ages ago.
 
 
ONLY NICE THINGS
13:42 / 05.10.07
He's got 99 problems but pyrites ain't one.
 
 
petunia
16:52 / 05.10.07
Medulla, i'm sorry if you feel annoyed at my, or other people's discussion of Gurus. I'm not sure what has really annoyed you about our discussion, but i hope it doesn't feel that i am trying to get to you.
 
 
Mon Oncle Ignatius
19:04 / 05.10.07
Must resist.... must resist.. uh...

..at least it hasn't turned into a revision of the pyrites vs. ninjas malarkey yet.

Sorry. I couldn't resist, after all.
 
 
Papess
20:58 / 05.10.07
Medulla, i'm sorry if you feel annoyed at my, or other people's discussion of Gurus. I'm not sure what has really annoyed you about our discussion, but i hope it doesn't feel that i am trying to get to you.

Thanks Petunia.

Sometimes I am not so sure if I am just unable to express my thoughts well. Sometimes I wonder why discussion tends to nearly always lean toward disagreement and rarely ever picking up on the agreeable points too. Sometimes I just have difficulty because I am constantly surrounded by criticism at home. I get very sad, and I know I cannot have a discussion anymore without becoming tangled. I just have to step back and do some self-care.

It really means lot that you checked in with me, Petunia. Thanks again.
 
 
MattShepherd: I WEDDED KALI!
20:28 / 08.10.07
I have done something helpful because I am here to help!



Apologies for a graphic that overwides the thread flow, but I don't want to minimize for reasons of clarity and accuracy!
 
 
MattShepherd: I WEDDED KALI!
08:46 / 12.10.07
Dudes I have totally got spices in my kitchen so I'm going to post a list and you can put the effort into discussing them so I don't have to okay? This is totally like the wave of the future!

Cardamom
Oregano
Spanish Paprika
Regular Paprika
Montreal Steak Spice
Basil
Coreander
Cumin
Flax Seed
Fennel
Tumeric
Saffron
Curry (yellow)
Curry (kinda brownish)
Chili powder
Tarragon
Parsley
Sage
Celery salt
Garlic salt
Onion salt
Rosemary
Thyme
Cloves
Allspice
Nutmeg
Ginger
Ground ginger
Alum
Bay leaves
Cayenne pepper
Garlic powder
Onion powder
Sesame seeds
Chives
Lemon pepper
Dill
Cinnamon
Poultry seasoning
Sea salt

Wow! So like feel free to add spices and even herbs if you want!

Dudes spices are awsome!
 
 
Mysterious Transfer Student
09:09 / 12.10.07
What is it with all the hate against cumin these days? It's my favourite spice and I will never understand why people need to put it down. I've enjoyed flavouring my meals with it for over twenty years.

(Not a dig at Mistoffelees, honest, reely.)
 
 
Less searchable M0rd4nt
09:14 / 12.10.07
MattShepherd: It's the response you have to love.

I dare any one of you to google any band you don't know on the list, I'm sure they all have a myspace or a site with samples to check out.

Yes! I dare you! I DARE YOU to use Google!

Or does that run counter to Barbelith? No diving into adventure allowed? Did I miss something? Or is every here just grumpy?

Because threads that start with vacuous list-posts, no linkage, no discussion, no "and this is why I like this band!" are surely the best way to encourage diving into adventure. In zedoktar's mind, the only possible reason for being pissed off with a foot-long list in the Music forum is that we haven't heard of the bands.

And then there's a big picture of a grumpy Care Bear. Which is US.
 
 
Closed for Business Time
09:17 / 12.10.07
MS, I think, no, I noes yous meant to say, spices R awzums!!!!!!!!!!.

And o yeah, cumin is ace for meatballs when you need some of the kebabish feelink!
 
 
Mistoffelees
09:26 / 12.10.07
What is it with all the hate against cumin these days? It's my favourite spice and I will never understand why people need to put it down. I've enjoyed flavouring my meals with it for over twenty years.

(Not a dig at Mistoffelees, honest, reely.)


Some people are cuminheads, some arenĀ“t.
 
 
Less searchable M0rd4nt
12:27 / 12.10.07
Oh, and just in case you need a previously on Barbelith for this guy: zedoktar is the same person who was roasted for letting his pets get into his stash (but hey, it's okay, folks! Acid supercharges cats' souls!). Oh, and he started that bloody "baby butter" thread in the Temple even though the topic merited a couple of paragraphs in the Stupid Q's thread, max. And his introduction made me want to weep bitter tears of despair.

I realise the last one is more of a personal than a mod issue; I include it for completeness' sake.
 
 
My Mom Thinks I'm Cool
16:42 / 12.10.07
Its like judging my tastes in literature based on my shoes and my having once kicked a dog with said shoes.

maybe I'm just a grumpy care bear, but I think I really would be less likely to assign any value to someone's post about literature after reading their post about kicking a dog, yes.
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
17:46 / 12.10.07
OK, I liked MattShepherd a lot already, but for that illustration I absolutely fucking adore the guy.

(Should probably have gone in Barbadore or Crushes, but I didn't want to quote the whole picture and break the frame again. But YES YES YES. Fucking top man).
 
 
Less searchable M0rd4nt
22:41 / 12.10.07
Nggggggggh.
 
 
Saint Keggers
22:53 / 12.10.07
so where do we stand or pyrite... is it a spice or not?
 
 
Less searchable M0rd4nt
22:56 / 12.10.07
It's a mammal.
 
 
Essential Dazzler
23:49 / 12.10.07
I engaged, I tried hard not to post "Fuck You". Twice.

Now I wish I'd just told Zedoktar to Fuck Himself.

Fuck You, Zedoktar.
 
 
HCE
01:32 / 13.10.07
lol u guys r so uptite lol
 
 
Less searchable M0rd4nt
08:58 / 13.10.07
And he came for the Temple. Why do the ALWAYS come for the Temple?
 
 
Quantum
11:59 / 13.10.07
First they came for the Temple, and we said nothing...
 
 
HCE
14:37 / 13.10.07
The only thing worse would be if he came for the Head Shop.
 
 
Less searchable M0rd4nt
15:33 / 13.10.07
It's just that over the years, I've expended a lot of energy and reams of text trying to defend the Temple from accusations of a lack of rigour and standards and of generally being the downstairs loo with the window that doen't shut properly through which miscreants can enter and write rude words on the rest of the board, and increasingly I wonder why I fucking bother when yeah actually it kind of is.
 
 
Hallo, Paper Spaceboy
18:10 / 13.10.07
Well, as long as the toilet flushes properly...
 
  

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