I think it might be Rio's coinage.
That should probably be a kerFUCKOfle, then.
What should I do, then? Send her a gift? Sacrifice? … Unholy fruit basket?
Angel ,'Just Rewards (2)'
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.
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.
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.
Consuela - Aug 03, 2011 6:52:47 am PDT #19100 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
TWOP is not without its faults, but they certainly manage their business.
Indeed.
I'm all pissed off at ThinkProgress for switching to the Facebook comments, because my work disables Disqus and now with the FB comments, I can't comment at Alyssa Rosenberg's blog. Like you, I won't comment on politics (or really anything) using my real name.
I'm reduced to hunching over my smartphone during lunch to read the discussion at TNC's place, it's such a hassle. Don't the IT guys know I need my Horde?
On a related topic: EFF has a nice post on the hazards of insisting on legal names: [link]