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Things that make you go "hmmmm...."; Barbelactions that set off your spider-sense.

 
  

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Rage
16:01 / 08.08.02
50) Ierne
 
 
Less searchable M0rd4nt
17:47 / 08.08.02
Rage, honey: given that she's voluntarily stopped posting here, that's a trifle redundant, no?
 
 
Tuna Ghost: Pratt knot hero
18:22 / 08.08.02
She what? Why? I liked her.

Re-reading this, I realize that it really doesn't take much at all to piss us off.
 
 
pacha perplexa
21:12 / 08.08.02
Ierne's out?? Why? How? Who?
Sorry, I guess I should just ask her meself.

51) Number 50. I don't know what caused this post, but this nickname-citing in accusatory manner (unless it's a troll) annoys me anyway.
 
 
Less searchable M0rd4nt
21:52 / 08.08.02
Off-topic, but... Why do I keep getting the feeling that I'm reading a completely different board to almost everybody else?
 
 
pacha perplexa
07:47 / 09.08.02
(If it's because of the "why's Ierne out?", the reason is that I didn't have enough time to read and write on the board in the last six weeks. So the plot is lost, even though I've looked for some light at the Policy. If not, sorry about the defensiveness )
 
 
Spatula Clarke
08:16 / 09.08.02
52)Breaking the fourth wall in Creation. It's been done. Stop it.
 
 
Ariadne
08:29 / 09.08.02
Pacha - I didn't know that either. It's a shame, I like Ierne.

Anyway ... 53)Posts that are too 'look at me, I'm craaaazy'.
 
 
Saveloy
08:31 / 09.08.02
E. Randy Dupre>

What is the fourth wall? Are you talking about the cheeky wink pomo type stuff?
 
 
Sax
09:39 / 09.08.02
Nah, he means Morrison-esque (but by no means exclusively Grant) inserting yourself into the narrative, or having the characters realise they're in a fictional reality. Which, to be honest, was last done well in Illuminatus and should have been left in Robert Anton Wilson's toilet when he flushed out the remains of whatever crap he was on when he wrote the damned thing.
 
 
Saveloy
09:48 / 09.08.02
Thanks, Sax. That's actually what I meant by cheeky wink pomo stuff, I was just too lazy to explain it properly.
 
 
Jack The Bodiless
11:52 / 09.08.02
54) "That's actually what I meant by [INSERT QUOTE FROM LAST POST], I was just too lazy/drunk/in a hurry/tired/coming up on mushrooms."

55) Threads in the Conversation about 'observed Barbephenomena' that exist purely to indulge in 25, 27 or 39.
 
 
Goodness Gracious Meme
12:28 / 09.08.02
56)self-mythologising/grandstanding. quit it.
 
 
Jack Fear
12:36 / 09.08.02
But... but... I am the Daddy! And I do so have a throne of skulls, and bestride the board like unto a colossus, and... and...

*sniff* Damn you, Plums... I justed wanted to be somebody! Is that so wrong?!?
 
 
Saveloy
13:31 / 09.08.02
Jack, you were mythologised by everyone else first and are therefore excused.
 
 
Regrettable Juvenilia
16:29 / 11.08.02
Can I just say that there is no way in hell I'm giving up any of the following: 13, 18, 25, 35, 55, or 56... They're too much fun.
 
 
pointless and uncalled for
16:50 / 11.08.02
57) slyly referencing previous posts on this thread as a witty clause for their own items. This may have something with me not wanting to major referential searches to get the joke.

Upon review of this list I can see that I am clearly the devil and should be banished for a very long time.
 
 
Trijhaos
18:11 / 11.08.02
58) Extremely long user names. A recent example of such being "modthree marks the spot with a dead parrot stapled to his shoulder while chortling "yoho" slugging rum from the bottle".
 
 
Spatula Clarke
20:00 / 11.08.02
Indeed
 
 
6opow
16:49 / 12.08.02
59) People that get all worked up over things that appear to have no bearing on much of anything. Some examples are (6), (28), and (58).
 
 
ONLY NICE THINGS
19:01 / 12.08.02
60) People who miss the point that this is not a metathread because they are getting a red mist at having been criticised in it, and yet sufficiently passive aggressive to use their other suit to go metathready.
 
 
6opow
20:21 / 12.08.02
61) People who think they've got other people's motivations figured out when really they don't have a clue as to why someone took the actions they did.
 
 
gridley
21:03 / 12.08.02
GDG: "61) People who think they've got other people's motivations figured out when really they don't have a clue as to why someone took the actions they did."

Yeah, well I think we all know why you of all people would be saying that...
 
 
6opow
21:20 / 12.08.02
62) People who don't understand how to use the Private Message function to express their grievances with a particular poster who instead choose to make a public pronouncement that, more often than not, only serves to start a messy conflict.

63) People who use words such as "we" and "all" to make a lazy generalization over a whole group when in fact they are merely expressing their own opinions.

64) People who don't follow the guidelines of a thread's abstract.
 
 
ONLY NICE THINGS
21:34 / 12.08.02
65) Lengthy sentences without punctuation. Because, ladies and gentlemen, there ain't no sanity clause.
 
 
Rage
01:19 / 13.08.02
66) People who don't like me and are super-mean about it. (which is why I don't like them, and post their names in threads like this one)
 
 
Justin Brief
10:28 / 13.08.02
67) Inconsequential and meandering threads analysing what's wrong with the 'Lith, or debating in a very haughty manner what new procedures moderators should follow in order to minimise Troll damage, that inevitably turn into aggressive egohisskickspats. And long sentences. And made up words that aren't cromulent.
 
 
ONLY NICE THINGS
10:59 / 13.08.02
68) (Dragging things back from the brink)

Utterly hopeless misunderstandings, often as a result either of transatlantic cultural differences ("What do you mean, do I fancy a fag? Hatemonger!") or impenetrable in-jokes ("Glass Grant Morrison's cat? But....I *am* Grant Morrison's Cat?"), leading to escalating and threadd-rotting catfests where a number of posters benignly but distractingly counsel the uninjured party (who will NOT BE SILENCED), to stay hir wrath. USually involves a crazy quilt of previous.

There's probably one earlier just like that, so (69) will be "repetition".
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
10:59 / 13.08.02
68) Threads that, right from the start, though you're pretty sure that wasn't the original intention, you just know are gonna get ugly.

I'll hold everyone's coats, if you like.
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
11:00 / 13.08.02
70) People like that stoatie bastard who post simultaneously with others, thus fucking up the numbering.
 
 
Regrettable Juvenilia
11:07 / 13.08.02
71) People who are largely responsible for driving cool and intelligent people who had something to say off the board, and then wonder why everyone with a brain who was there at the time holds a grudge.
 
 
Jack The Bodiless
11:24 / 13.08.02
72) People being unable to let any disagreement, minor or major, past or present, lie, and so perpetuate the bad vibes surrounding the disagreement.

73) People doing 72) while making a point of cussing others for doing 72).

74) People doing either 72) or 73) who really should know better.
 
 
gridley
12:36 / 13.08.02
75) People who don't get a joke even when it's totally obvious, then proceed to make a fuss about it. See points 62, 63, and 64.
 
 
Saveloy
12:53 / 13.08.02
76) Gordon F***ing Bennett.
 
 
ONLY NICE THINGS
13:01 / 13.08.02
77) When allusive comments are made which simultaneously aspire to a generality but seem to be targeting a single person or finite group of persons. The natural condition of the Barbeloid being neurotic and somewhat self-absorbed, usually a good dozen people to sideswipe whom the original monition never intended are cut to the quick.

Ergo, at least ten people all go all "Do they mean me? They surely do!", leading to a Charybdis of recrimination, correction, accidental flaming, various leapings to various defences, various bolsterings of various attacks, many of which may not in fact exist, and ultimately a chandelier falling on Prince John's guards, the counterweight acting to pull Robin to safety.
 
  

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