It's like, in the middle of all this, I'm paranoid that you'll think I don't like poetry.
Buffy ,'Empty Places'
Natter 68: Bork Bork Bork
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
sumi - Aug 03, 2011 6:22:28 am PDT #19090 of 30001
Art Crawl!!!
billytea - Aug 03, 2011 6:27:07 am PDT #19091 of 30001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
I think it might be Rio's coinage.
That should probably be a kerFUCKOfle, then.
Consuela - Aug 03, 2011 6:35:43 am PDT #19092 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
I wrote them a longish email about how I thought pseudos isn't the problem, but that lack of community and ineffective moderation WAS the problem.
Indeed. The whole Google+ name debate has resulted in a lot of blogging about this issue. In fact, the other day a flist member linked to a comment by Kathy Sierra, where she said exactly what you said, and that she wished she's used a pseud from the beginning, not for herself, but for her family and friends who ended up taking a lot of damage as well.
The best semi-political blog comments section I know is Ta-Nehisi Coates' blog, and because it's moderated and there's a community built up, it doesn't matter what name I post under, so long as it's consistent. Whereas most other political blogs, the comments are unmoderated and it's a swamp of unpleasantness. And that's got nothing to do with real names.
The worst-behaved person I know on the internet, someone who appears to be having a slow psychological breakdown and who exhibits seriously threatening/stalkery behavior to a number of women he's fixated on, is a man posting and commenting under his legal name.
§ ita § - Aug 03, 2011 6:36:06 am PDT #19093 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
The cafe downstairs sells a cranberry flaxseed bagel. What is that, even? And no poppyseed.
Tom Scola - Aug 03, 2011 6:38:30 am PDT #19094 of 30001
hwæt
What is that, even?
That's no bagel.
P.M. Marc - Aug 03, 2011 6:40:17 am PDT #19095 of 30001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
There's a word for this in English: Kerfauxfle.
'Course, that's a marriage of a Scots word and a French one, so not really English, so much.
billytea - Aug 03, 2011 6:40:34 am PDT #19096 of 30001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
That's no bagel.
It is the thing that wears a bagel like a cloak.
Consuela - Aug 03, 2011 6:42:17 am PDT #19097 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
That's no bagel.
I see this, and I hear it in Harrison Ford's voice: That's no asteroid...
shrift - Aug 03, 2011 6:48:40 am PDT #19098 of 30001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
I suspect that getting past the Secret Service this evening will be a pain in the ass.
le nubian - Aug 03, 2011 6:48:46 am PDT #19099 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Consuela,
I used TNC as an example in my email, but I also used TWOP. TWOP is not without its faults, but they certainly manage their business.