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MrsBeaky
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.....and need to ask a question but please don't take the piss out of me too much for asking it!
I've just been reading the thread in Hell about orfeo's sex life and my question is this: what is hell for? I get that it's a place to take arguments that have become personal on the other boards and I also get that it's a place to let off steam and also for the clever amongst us to exercise their humorous way with words which might be what is happening with this above mentioned thread but to me it sounds nasty and I'm now worried for orfeo!
It may well be that I am being like Margot in "The Good Life" and just not getting the joke but please set me straight.
Off now to church so I'll pray for orfeo!
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From what I gather there is only one real sin in SoF Hell; that is p---ing off a hell host/ admin. Anything else goes, so if you haven't got asbestos underpants it is best to stay away. Hell is the most restless place on a site dedicated to Christian unrest.
Going in and complaining ITTWACWS or making a fool of yourself is plain dumb. It is like going around with a T Shirt printed with "KICK ME" front and back. There is a pack of Cerberus (Cerberi?)circling.
The funny thing is once you accept it you grow to love it.
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Pooks
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quote:
Originally posted by MrsBeaky:
It may well be that I am being like Margot in "The Good Life" and just not getting the joke but please set me straight.
I don't get the joke either, (but that is not unusual), so you are not alone. The thing is, Orfeo is a Hell host, so I am assuming he can handle what's going on.
I do think the thread has raised an interesting question though, is starting a Hell thread simply because Hell is slow falls within the guideline for Hell?
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MrsBeaky
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Thanks, The Midge
I had no intention whatsoever of going in there and complaining and certainly not playing the "Christian" card: the possibility of meeting Cerberus does indeed loom large....I'm happy to lurk there and find some of the stuff really quite amusing, I guess I just fell for it and was worried for orfeo!
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Nenya
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quote:
Originally posted by The Midge:
ITTWACWS
What does that stand for, please? I used to have a link to SoF abbreviations but can't find it now.
Nen - another Hell-lurker.
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Originally posted by Nenya:
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Originally posted by The Midge:
ITTWACWS
What does that stand for, please? I used to have a link to SoF abbreviations but can't find it.
I Thought This Was A Christian Website.
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Regrettably, Pooks, your assumption is not valid.
It is not appropriate for me to say a lot about the merits of the matter, for obvious reasons. But I will say that as I am technically on leave at the moment (because of my travels and the difficulty of hosting on the move) I fully intend to not post in Hell again until I return home in August. This decision was a result of the thread.
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Nenya
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quote:
Originally posted by Firenze:
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Originally posted by Nenya:
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Originally posted by The Midge:
ITTWACWS
What does that stand for, please? I used to have a link to SoF abbreviations but can't find it.
I Thought This Was A Christian Website.
Thank you.
{{{orfeo}}} ![[Frown]](frown.gif)
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MrsBeaky
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Originally posted by orfeo:
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It is not appropriate for me to say a lot about the merits of the matter, for obvious reasons. But I will say that as I am technically on leave at the moment (because of my travels and the difficulty of hosting on the move) I fully intend to not post in Hell again until I return home in August. This decision was a result of the thread.
Oh dear, orfeo
I hope your travels go well.
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Pooks
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quote:
Originally posted by orfeo:
Regrettably, Pooks, your assumption is not valid.
It is not appropriate for me to say a lot about the merits of the matter, for obvious reasons. But I will say that as I am technically on leave at the moment (because of my travels and the difficulty of hosting on the move) I fully intend to not post in Hell again until I return home in August. This decision was a result of the thread.
I am very sorry indeed, Orfeo. Please accept my apology for getting that wrong.
I questioned the validity of the OP earlier because that's the only way that I can think of to get the admin and hosts to consider shutting it down. Now I would like to request it openly. Please, Ye gods, can we lock/remove that thread please?
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Sioni Sais
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I'm not going to comment on the merits or otherwise of the thread but I can confirm that this Hellhost has been attacked in Hell by any number of people! Sometimes it has been over hosting decisions, in which case they get diverted here, but if otherwise, they stay there and I have to deal with it.
It's fair to say however that there are areas of my life I'd rather not have discussed. Hands up all those who aren't?
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quote:
Originally posted by Nenya:
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Originally posted by The Midge:
ITTWACWS
What does that stand for, please? [...]
Nen - another Hell-lurker.
Time to get the mug (link here)? In fact, why not all of them! ![[Yipee]](graemlins/spin.gif)
I've got the whole set twice, though some went as presents! - They're very good quality and keep your tea hot or at least reasonably warm for quite a while. Plus you support the Ship. ![[Smile]](smile.gif)
Posting these to you is safe and reliable. They come in sturdy polystyrene packaging.
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Indigo
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Originally posted by Sioni Sais:
I'm not going to comment on the merits or otherwise of the thread but I can confirm that this Hellhost has been attacked in Hell by any number of people! Sometimes it has been over hosting decisions, in which case they get diverted here, but if otherwise, they stay there and I have to deal with it.
It's fair to say however that there are areas of my life I'd rather not have discussed. Hands up all those who aren't?
This thread isn't about you, but thanks for your input.
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Pooks
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Hi SS,
I am not attacking you, or any other host or Shipmate, but you are a Hell host, yes?
My question to you is: Does starting a Hell thread simply because Hell is a bit slow for one's entertainment fall within the remit of what Hell is for?
Thank you.
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Sioni Sais
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quote:
Originally posted by Pooks:
Hi SS,
I am not attacking you, or any other host or Shipmate, but you are a Hell host, yes?
That is so, and I take no offence.
I was flagging up that Hellhosts don't consider themselves invulnerable. Far from it but C6 (respect the Hosts) does apply, although only when we are acting officially.
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My question to you is: Does starting a Hell thread simply because Hell is a bit slow for one's entertainment fall within the remit of what Hell is for?
Thank you.
As for "Starting a Hell thread because Hell is a bit slow" I have to confess that this has happened and I'm sure it will happen again. Another reason is to give a tangent a home of its own. The "Calling the CofE to Hell thread" is an example.
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The Midge
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quote:
Originally posted by Wesley J:
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Originally posted by Nenya:
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Originally posted by The Midge:
ITTWACWS
What does that stand for, please? [...]
Nen - another Hell-lurker.
Time to get the mug (link here)? In fact, why not all of them!
I've got the whole set twice, though some went as presents! - They're very good quality and keep your tea hot or at least reasonably warm for quite a while. Plus you support the Ship.
Posting these to you is safe and reliable. They come in sturdy polystyrene packaging.
If they are for tea then they will have to be fine bone china. Is there a set discount?
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Pooks
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Thank you SS. I have no problem with tangents going to Hell, especially if there is a reason for the Hellishness, but I must admit that I am a little baffled that one can just pick on someone for no other reason than because Hell is slow. It seems to widen the remit of Hell considerably. Still, it's your judgement call and I will respect you and shut up.
Thank you again for all the hard work that you have put into running the Ship.
Best wishes.
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LeRoc
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The way I understand it, the TICTH thread in Hell is for short rants only. Orfeo's rant about bars in NYC started a discussion involving various replies, so I guess this is why Hell-Host comet said 'take it somewhere else'. This might be Hell-talk for 'cut it out', but of course someone had to take it literally.
If I were Orfeo, I guess I would grow uncomfortable with people discussing my sex life after a while too. I understand that things can go pretty far in Hell sometimes, but maybe we should introduce a safe-word meaning 'I don't want this to be talked about any further'.
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Organ Builder
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One very good way to keep it from going farther than you wish is not to mention the number of notches you've added to the bedpost recently.
Unfortunately, that sent mixed signals at best. It was a bit like "I'm embarrassed that this is being discussed, but I want to take the opportunity to brag about my prowess."
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Fineline
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quote:
Originally posted by Nenya:
I used to have a link to SoF abbreviations but can't find it now.
I know this is a tangent, but does anyone know if there is such a link? I don't know all the abbreviations. I'm still trying to work out what TICTH means. I've been guessing something along the lines of 'today I choose to hate', but that doesn't seem quite right, and googling for past TICTH threads hasn't enlightened me.
ETA: Ah, page 2 of the current thread has informed me what TICTH means, but a link to the list of abbreviations would still be handy if there is one.
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Wesley J
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'Today, I call to Hell'
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balaam
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Fineline
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Thanks, Balaam and Wesley - I just saw it on page 2 of the thread too. That makes a lot more sense than my speculations.
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Wesley J
Silly Shipmate
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Ah, that's balaam for the soul!
More here - scroll down, too.
NB. Found by using the Boards' search function, with 'abbreviations'.
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Lamb Chopped
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There are ways of being hellish that respect people (no matter how much you may dislike/detest/be furious with them, and then there are things that just aren't Done. We had a case a few years ago where someone duggested suicide as a plan of action. That isn't hellish, that's just plain nasty. So is picking someone's known vulnerabilities, e.g., giving them grief right at the point of a parent's death or a spouse walking out, particularly grief that relates to that bleeding wound. And then there are the chinks in the armor we all have, where well-meant teasing causes much more reaction than expected, and that's usually a signal that it's time to move on, more is going on than we realize.
Of course some people will just keep hammering away on the issue even after it becomes clear that a decent person would back off. They have that right i suppose, but the other hellions will usually pile on them to stop. Hell tends to correct itself.
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Fineline
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quote:
Originally posted by Wesley J:
More here - scroll down, too.
NB. Found by using the Boards' search function, with 'abbreviations'.
Thanks, Wesley. The link on Board Culture simply leads back to that same thread that links to it, so it's a circular endeavour, but the thread itself has some abbreviations listed on it.
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Lamb Chopped, so Hell is about decent people, backing off, being self-correcting, respecting people, and engaging in well-meant teasing?
Odd, I thought Hell was the place with no rules (except not be a racist and don't post copyright material, and sundry other of the Ship's commandments as survive in Hell, "don't be a jerk" notably not being a commandment that survives) where people could take personal conflicts to keep them off the other boards. As a consequence of the no-rules goes a lot of what is either wonderful catharsis or shitty abuse, depending on which end of the ass-kicking you're on.
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ADMINLY DISINTEGRATION RAY ARMED
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Originally posted by passer:
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Originally posted by Sioni Sais:
I'm not going to comment on the merits or otherwise of the thread but I can confirm that this Hellhost has been attacked in Hell by any number of people! Sometimes it has been over hosting decisions, in which case they get diverted here, but if otherwise, they stay there and I have to deal with it.
It's fair to say however that there are areas of my life I'd rather not have discussed. Hands up all those who aren't?
This thread isn't about you, but thanks for your input.
Passer, that is more than vaguely reminiscent of a cheap dig, personal attack or snidey insinuation against a Host. Ergo, as per this warning you are banned for a month.
For the record, the next one will be permanent. In the meantime: goodbye.
Marvin
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orfeo
Ship's Musical Counterpoint
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quote:
Originally posted by Organ Builder:
One very good way to keep it from going farther than you wish is not to mention the number of notches you've added to the bedpost recently.
Unfortunately, that sent mixed signals at best. It was a bit like "I'm embarrassed that this is being discussed, but I want to take the opportunity to brag about my prowess."
If I was calmer and wiser at the time rather than shocked and outraged, I would have been smart enough to realise that Sine wouldn't back off when I told him he was wrong. Rather he'd just pick a different tack.
So instead of suggesting I went to the bar for sex (wrong) and was upset because I had failed to get any (wrong), I got imputations that I had picked up at bars (wrong) and presumably had slept with a different person every night (wrong) and perhaps that I was just annoyed I hadnt succeeded on the particular night (wrong).
I got called a slut and, last time I could stand to glance at the thread, Sine was suggesting I was 'fucking my away across Manhattan' or something like that.
I'd be quite interested to know exactly what the criterion is for being a slut. If meeting someone you like and sleeping with them 3 times is sufficient, there are a hell of a lot of sluts in the world. And yes, I realise I'm discussing my sex life again, but I'm not really divulging any more than was already divulged except for the shocking revelation that it was 3 times with 1 person, not 1 time each with 3 different people. I still think it is occasionally worth my while to set out some actual facts rather than leave the field to smutty innuendo.
Others will have to make their own conclusions about my contribution to what went on. My own personal opinion is that such a thread should not exist in the first place and is not appropriate for Hell, but that is my personal opinion which I have not discussed with Hosts and Admins. I see Hell's function as dealing with anger, hence the existence of the Hellcall. This was not a Hellcall.
I would like to think that would be my opinion regardless of the target of the thread. I have been trying to think of any other equivalent threads, where someone is named but is not being called to Hell for the upsetting contents of their posts elsewhere, to see whether I had let such threads through myself in the past. I couldn't immediately think of any examples. You can be sure, having experienced having my name up in lights on a Hell thread that is not a Hellcall, that I will be keeping alert for any such threads in the future.
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Some of us may remember a few sad words you said many moons ago: A person should not have to wait until they are 35 to be kissed on a dance floor.
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Lamb Chopped
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Autenreith Road, my point was that there is being a shithead and then there is being a SHITHEAD with a capital SHIT. Most of us have personal standards even in Hell. To be sure, those who have none at all are going to survive longer in Hell than they would on any other board because of the greater freedom to say shitty things; but there are depths even the hardened denizens won't tolerate. Not forever.
Not that the Admins will necessarily step in; the hellions sometimes chew them up on their own.
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Well. I'm surprised to see this thread because until this moment I thought Orfeo, at most, was just mildly irritated with the Hell thread. I thought, and still feel, that it was only intended to be some friendly teasing. I don't think Sine Nomine has a mean bone in his body.
But as Orfeo is truly upset then I must apologize for my part in the thread. My posts were lame, or as Evensong said, "naff," attempts to make some sort of innuendo out of Orfeo's most recent rants in TICTH. I always enjoy his short rants there and the one about the washing machines in the hotel laundry room had tickled me. As I was viewing it the thread could have as easily been in Circus with anyone's name on it. The "game" being to make up a little story about a shipmate using information we have from recent posts.
The thing is, we weren't really laughing at your sex life, Orfeo, because, for obvious reasons we actually know nothing about it. So, unlike with IRL friends who had told us vivid details it seemed harmless to pretend a little jealousy about what might have been a wild time in Manhattan, or at least pretend that we were getting a vicarious thrill thinking about it.
For me, and I think for some others, it wasn't really about anything but our own bit of word play on a boring Sunday morning.
So I'm sorry. My posts weren't even funny and they hurt the feelings of someone I like and admire. Naff is me.
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Twilight, while I was initially as irritated with your posts as anyone else's, it didn't take me long to get past that. I actually thought the laundry one was quite funny.
Partly that's because it was a clever reference to something I said earlier. And partly because it simply didn't come across as making the same kind of insinuation as other posts. What you proposed was a situation where something happened, which was very different from suggesting I was trawling the city for sex. There was creativity and wit behind your remarks that was lacking elsewhere.
That is, of course, my personal opinion of the relative merits, but I think it's worth conveying it to you.
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I do hope my posts on the thread did not upset you. That was not my intention.
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Originally posted by orfeo:
I'd be quite interested to know exactly what the criterion is for being a slut. If meeting someone you like and sleeping with them 3 times is sufficient, there are a hell of a lot of sluts in the world.
1) irregular noun used to describe someone who is more promiscuous than the describer.
2) A woman who has sex and enjoys it.
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Sarkycow
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So many entertaining misapprehensions, so little time.
Hell's primary purpose is to contain arguments, which ensures debate can continue on the other boards.
Pretty much anything goes in Hell - barring things which get the Ship in legal hot water, nice reasonable debate, and dead horses (unless the discussion is very heated).
Sine was being mean in his teasing, but that's ok in Hell. And all the people who think he was being a big old meany can tell him that. In Hell. That's the joy of Hell - you may say what you like, and other people may also say what they like.
And Pooks (and others): You can start a thread because it's a slow day, or because you're bored, or because the weather is rubbish, or for any one of a million reasons others might not think are very good ones. That doesn't matter. In fact, you don't really need any reason to start a thread. Hell's remit is wide open in that regard.
Lamb chopped (and others): People don't have to be decent in Hell. They can carry on hammering at a weak point as long as they can stand the heat. You are right that Hell tends to correct itself, and so other denizens will often come back at somebody who is doing that and find their weak points. It's not the role of the hosts to ensure people keep to a minimum standard of morality or niceness. Hell isn't for niceness or morality.
I think I'll reiterate - everybody who is angered/saddened/whatevered by Sine's thread about orfeo is entirely free and welcome to go and tell him so on his thread. It's not the job of the hosts and admins to do so, or to close the thread to protect orfeo from Sine.
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Pooks
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Hi Sarkycow. Thank you for taking the time to clarify the remit of Hell for me. Now I do see the purpose of Hell in a very different light.
Cheers!
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Organ Builder
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It could have been a lot worse. At least no one has compared orfeo to a Jane Austen character.
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I was just wondering, apart from this specific thread about Orfeo: what if someone starts an unsollicited thread in Hell about someone's sex life, and the person in question doesn't want that? I understand that it's a bit different in this case because Orfeo has posted on this thread, but what would happen in general?
Suppose someone starts a thread on Shipmate X's sex life in Hell, with lots of people chipping in, and Shipmate X doesn't want this to be discussed. It seems that the only thing (s)he can hope for is for lots of people to pile on the thread starter.
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Pooks
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quote:
Originally posted by Organ Builder:
It could have been a lot worse. At least no one has compared orfeo to a Jane Austen character.
Yes. But then only a moron would think that a quote alone without it being apt for the situation will work. Sadly, I can remember quite a few such attempts.
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RuthW
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Originally posted by Organ Builder:
It could have been a lot worse. At least no one has compared orfeo to a Jane Austen character.
What's wrong with that?!?
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Nothing in particular, RuthW, except that I've rarely seen the degree of outrage displayed in Hell that was caused when one Shipmate comparing another to Mrs. Bennett...
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Lamb Chopped
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You know, after that crack was made about me I took it to heart and cut down my posting by about ninety percent. I've no desire to be a flaming bore. Since then it's been resurrected about six times, sometimes on threads I wasn't even participating in. I think I'd better stop inflicting myself on you. I'm with Orfeo--I'm overdue for a long, long stretch of shoreleave, possibly permanent--which will doubtless improve things no end here. I may still read since I'm a sad, sad little shit with no life and no sense of dignity. But I don't like what I see the Ship becoming.
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Er, this is what I've been up to (book).
Oh, that you would rend the heavens and come down!
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Lamb Chopped, there were very particular reasons why I referred to the incident without naming either shipmate.
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Yorick
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Don't you fucking dare leave, LC. Some of us need you to be a contributing member here.
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RuthW
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Originally posted by Organ Builder:
Nothing in particular, RuthW, except that I've rarely seen the degree of outrage displayed in Hell that was caused when one Shipmate comparing another to Mrs. Bennett...
Ah, I see -- I don't know if I missed this or have simply forgotten about it.
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Kelly Alves
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Originally posted by Sarkycow:
I think I'll reiterate - everybody who is angered/saddened/whatevered by Sine's thread about orfeo is entirely free and welcome to go and tell him so on his thread. It's not the job of the hosts and admins to do so, or to close the thread to protect orfeo from Sine.
Pretty much this.
Anybody who is angry enough to leave over this should be angry enough to compose a fantastic Hell post about the matter. Some of the best writers and most intelligent people I have ever met use these boards-- y'all need to be brave and speak up.
Yeah, people will speak back, but so what?
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Jesus loves me, this I know” of they don’t believe “Kelly loves me, this I know.”
Kelly Alves, somewhere around 2003.
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Lamb Chopped, I don't know what happened with the Jane Austen thing, but I hope you don't leave. I like seeing your posts - they contain a lot of refreshing wisdom and insight.
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mousethief
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LC you're a cherished voice of education and sanity in the ranks of Reform/Lutheran shippies. I'd be sorry to see you go.
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Gee D
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Lamb Chopped, I hope you don't leave. I've especially valued your posts in Kerygmania and look forward to more.
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