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Signing posts - an irrational irritation

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The Return Of Rothkoid

11:16 / 13.05.02

i agree. *i* can hardly 'shortfatdyke' in and out of a thread.

SFD, that would be the most rockin' superpower-sounding arrival noise ever. I am, on the whole, though, against sigs and such. For they are the works of the Evil One.

As for the umbrella thing: it's not the height of the holder, it's - uh - the size of the weathershield. Fuckers who walk along Oxford Street with golf umbrellas should be disembowelled. And left in the rain, afterwards.

11:16 / 13.05.02

Ive always liked the "zoom". persistent little bugger, our zoom is

I hate people who dont signal a turn or change. I hate people who have to come to a complete stop to make a turn. and I utterly despise people who cannot merge.

11:18 / 13.05.02

Doesn't anyone else around here find them a little bit fucking embarrassing?

I dont enjoy them, but I assumed I was biased because I dont drink at all. I just avoid them like I avoid the "what kind of ___ am I?" test threads.

The Natural Way

11:32 / 13.05.02

My profound dislike of them's got nothing to do w/ my alcohol consumption, just their all round, complete and utter naffness. Basically, they're a bit like Queen. I always imagine the people who're into them being the kind of dicks who say things like "I'm craaaazy, I am!" or "I'm just maaad!" Y'know, really boring people w/ no sense of humour, but a desperate, pathetic desire to be wacky and individual.

So it kind of depresses me when bar threads turn up on barbelith. Because I want to like everyone here and not HATE THEM, KICK THEM, AND FEED THEM ON CHUM, LIKE THE DOGS THEY ARE! God, if I see another "TOTAL NOB orders a few pints of stella for his chums and then....whoops! sorry barman! You know hat I'm like....(etc., general arsetalk)" I'll spill everyone's pints. permanently.

Still. Marry me, Mordant.

Purge over.

Less searchable M0rd4nt

11:38 / 13.05.02

Is that a good marry me or a bad marry me?

The Natural Way

11:42 / 13.05.02

It was a cheekywinking one.

At least yr last bar thread was kinda funny, but, I'm sorry to say, it was the catalyst for my little rant.

Colour me irrational.

Regrettable Juvenilia

12:35 / 13.05.02

No, you're quite right.

And I'm for zero tolerance on sigs. Zoom's 'Zoom's just make me picture him with a blanket tied round his neck to serve as a cape, and a colander on his head as a 'helmet', like little Tommy Tomorrow.

12:39 / 13.05.02

sfd - Rothkoid said exactly what I was thinking. I'd *love* to see you "shortfatdyke" in and out of threads... very cool.

Signature files *are* evil. But signing off doesn't really bother me. Unless it's done with kisses (on message boards). Sorry, anyone...

12:40 / 13.05.02

And Zoom is cute.

12:57 / 13.05.02

actually i was thinking i could just SMASH! my way in and out....

13:00 / 13.05.02

Zoom's 'Zoom's just make me picture him with a blanket tied round his neck to serve as a cape, and a colander on his head as a 'helmet', like little Tommy Tomorrow

see, this is also my vision. which I find quite charming

of course, Ive been known to zoom around in this manner, complete with purple animal-head-hooded towels

Less searchable M0rd4nt

16:27 / 13.05.02

My thread bally well was not a bar thread. It was a gentleman's club thread, a let's-all-talk-like-Bertie-Wooster-and-shoot-peasants thread. Any drink references were purely incidental to the main action.

You try to raise the tone of the place and look what happens.

16:43 / 13.05.02

Too true, Mordy old boy!

And BK, I have the pictures. Oh yes.

Z..Z...Zoom.

16:49 / 13.05.02

sillyass zoom, you cant bribe me with proof of something I've readily revealed!

you aren't too good at this evil business...

20:52 / 13.05.02

Tom, does your loathing come more from the fact that it breaks up the flow when you’re reading, or that it’s taking up space on the board ? If the latter, then ahhhh (nods)…

Yeah - personally I think that when you're reading a thread - particularly one of the more densely argued ones, you lose the flow of the discussion. It just seems really odd to me. Like if you were down the pub with someone, or having a heated debate with them, and they just kept repeating their name at the end of everything they said. You'd be like, 'YOU'RE NUTS'.

I suppose it's a question of how people are relating to the board in terms of space. When I think of this place I think of a conversation or discussion forum - I don't think of it in terms of sending in a message I think of it in terms of talking. Which is clearly untrue as it's a bit of both and bit of something else as well... But you see what I mean. It drives me mad - even when Zoom and Arthur do it. (but I forgive them because they often write classy stuff) But the point being, I suppose, that it's not really UP to me how people do it or if people do it. As long as it doesn't screw up all the debate it's none of my business...

02:55 / 14.05.02

you know, i'm really coming around to fascism. tom, your whole "i don't like it but it's not up to me" is sweet and noble, and insofar as it results in your lessening of personal headaches i'm all for it... but if you ever decide to be a complete warren ellisesque nazi and rule with an iron fist, i'll be the first in line to clack my heels together and hand you a bundle of sticks. i'm totally over the endless irrelevant discussions of "free speech and revolution" on the board; the more laws you give us, the less superficial crap there is to discuss and the more time we have to talk about... uh... what kind of smurf i am.

00:14 / 16.05.02

Uh, what kind of smurf ARE you?

10:55 / 16.05.02

Since you asked: according to the Smurf Name Generator, Mystery Gypt is "Stoner Smurf."

You, Nightguard, are Cleft Palate Smurf. And I am The Real Slim Smurfy.

ONLY NICE THINGS

11:29 / 16.05.02

On the bright side, if a thread is being densely argued, you can pretty much discard as unprofitable anything contributed by somebody who signs their posts...

Murray Hamhandler

19:50 / 16.05.02

Nice blanket generalization there, Haus. And so, so true.
Arthur Sudnam, II

20:00 / 16.05.02

i'm totally over the endless irrelevant discussions of "free speech and revolution" on the board... – Mystery Gypt

I seem to recall that the last time I kvetched about the "Free Speech, MAAAAAAAAAAN!" inanity on B'lith, I got dissed! No fair!

Less searchable M0rd4nt

20:55 / 16.05.02

Litigious? Whyfor am I Litigious?

solid~liquid onwards

21:17 / 16.05.02

i cant be bothred reading all this thread cos i need a shower

Smarter Than The Average Bear

06:07 / 22.05.02

i just felt like being curmudgeonly and say that really, really long screen names with lots of punctuation, especially ones that are a complete sentence, are almost as irritating to me. anyone else?

12:55 / 22.05.02

What he said, 100%

13:10 / 22.05.02

So I guess this would be a bad moment for me to ask Mr. Coates to hook me up with that cool Dire Straights signature I've been fancying, eh?

--grid

hehe... it is kind of fun, I guess....

16:04 / 22.05.02

Yeah - I'm down with the 'stop bloody having huge bloody user name' posse.

uncle retrospective

23:21 / 22.05.02

Jee...
Your no fun any more Tom.

01:06 / 23.05.02

I wish to join this posse against long usernames. How do I join? Do you provide weapons or should I bring my own?

Come on people, keep it simple.

We're The Great Old Ones Now

07:35 / 23.05.02

You have to hunt and kill an old IBM 'dedicated processor' machine as it lumbers, room-sized, through the remotest stretches of some eighties retro-swamp. Then you bring lots of vodka and sit at the feet of the Loa Co-ates.

08:16 / 23.05.02

no, you join by saying, "hey people cut it the fuck out, it's giving me a headache and it makes your posts look too retarded to read."

join me now... "hey people..."

told you i was curmodgeon-for-a-face.

16:54 / 01.06.05

I just thought I'd bump this topic back up. Oh, no, no reason at all. Its not driving me nuts or anything.

Ta

19:17 / 01.06.05

[Yes, I'm replying to a three-year-old post.]

Tom: I suppose it's a question of how people are relating to the board in terms of space. When I think of this place I think of a conversation or discussion forum - I don't think of it in terms of sending in a message I think of it in terms of talking. Which is clearly untrue as it's a bit of both and bit of something else as well... But you see what I mean.

I do see what [Tom] means, but I find that my perception of "space" can vary from thread to thread. Many threads (like this one) do feel conversationy, and clearly (as noted many times above) it is not at all necessary to sign posts. A thread like the annual "Black & Orange" threads in the Temple, though, feels much more like a "leave a message for the others" kind of thread, and I tended to sign those off with a full sig' and usually a quote or lyrics relevant to the day's working. It was just that kind of thread (and I hope nobody tore their hair out over it).

19:40 / 01.06.05

Yeah, this thread is a little outdated. I've seen a more recent one, and I mistook this for it. My mistake.

Please excuse bith that and my original irritation. I can deal with it.

ONLY NICE THINGS

11:08 / 02.06.05

So, question - does the presence or absence of a sig make one question the value of a comment? Theoretically, since it occurs at the end of a comment, it shouldn't, but I find it does through recurrence in the same page - the "endlessly repeating own name in conversation" effect.

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