Profile for Talent in a Previous Life
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| Member number | 3098 |
| Title | This Side Towards Enemy |
| Postcount | 961 |
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| Registered | Thursday, June 12 2003 07:00 |
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This Side Towards Enemy
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written Tuesday, June 21 2005 23:41
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Is it really necessary to expend so much effort in being bland? For certain members, unfavourably comparing Bush to dictators is entirely par for the course and not even Ben is still likely to get terribly offended. That's not to say that I particularly want this to disintegrate into Recriminations 101, but doesn't it seem somewhat hypocritical to try to start arguments over feuds everyone assumed had long ago died the death yet to have a pathological phobia of controversy at ever other turn? -------------------- Voice of Reasonable Morality Posts: 961 | Registered: Thursday, June 12 2003 07:00 |
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written Tuesday, June 21 2005 23:28
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I fail to see that the since largely resolved disagreements that TM and Alec had several years ago, let alone the role of Scorpius, who hasn't been an active member for some time, have any major relevance. Misc was a completely different forum. We did things differently there, in that virtually every post was either irritating or truculent. Whilst I wouldn't advise you to vote for Alec because of the FILTHY CRIMES he is prone to committing with PROCESSED MEATS, he doesn't tend to behave in that way any more and I can't see that he'll start just because he'd have a moderatorial position, because he still wouldn't get away with it. General is not Misc, it's not RWG and it's not Desperance. And it's not 2002. Alec has grown up a little bit, threat to our way of life though he undoubtedly is. You're quite capable of doing things other than producing scaremongering sanctimonious drivel. Feel like starting? I'd also note that MM's comment about not being a member of Desperance or Polaris is somewhat irrelevant. Both of them have for some time been largely independent of these boards and the nearest we come to arguments these days is Djur making an attempt to wind them up. It's a non-issue on a massive scale. I'm all in favour of negative campaigning, but would it kill you to produce some relevant stuff instead? -------------------- Voice of Reasonable Morality Posts: 961 | Registered: Thursday, June 12 2003 07:00 |
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written Tuesday, June 21 2005 22:24
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This is the RWG forum, you illiterate fool. Why would anybody ever want to stop that type of spam? -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: Never Proved to Be a Contributory Factor to Stomach Cancer Posts: 961 | Registered: Thursday, June 12 2003 07:00 |
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written Tuesday, June 21 2005 22:12
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I can't offer a unique position, nor am I particularly good at coming up with a great sound byte to get you to vote for me. I've been a member for some years, so I know how the boards work and why they stop doing so. I know who the likely troublemakers are, but I'm unbiased. I don't really dislike them any more or less than you. Except for bloody Thuryl, obviously. About the only vaguely unique standpoint I have is that if I am elected moderator, I will declare all Wednesdays to be Arbitrary Guidelines Days. Any posts not matching up to a set of essentially random pre-arranged demands (must be in Haiku format, must contain a picture of a fish, must be a translation of the entire Aeneid, that kind of thing) can expected to be edited out of existence. If stifling any worthwhile debate becomes an official moderatorial policy, we might actually get some worthwhile discussions that last for more than two days on a semi-regular basis. Also, I believe that knowledge is power, so as a special favour to Ben, bestiality. -------------------- Voice of Reasonable Morality Posts: 961 | Registered: Thursday, June 12 2003 07:00 |
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written Tuesday, June 21 2005 21:58
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Be nice, Sara. Kel's never really got over being jilted by his mouse. Allow the man to maintain his illusions. -------------------- Voice of Reasonable Morality Posts: 961 | Registered: Thursday, June 12 2003 07:00 |
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written Tuesday, June 21 2005 21:54
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Avernum. It might not utilise the technology, but it's about 5 years closer to a time when we'll be able to give massive electric shocks to idiots over the internet. -------------------- Voice of Reasonable Morality Posts: 961 | Registered: Thursday, June 12 2003 07:00 |
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written Tuesday, June 21 2005 21:46
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Why? What would Jeff provide? -------------------- Voice of Reasonable Morality Posts: 961 | Registered: Thursday, June 12 2003 07:00 |
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written Tuesday, June 21 2005 04:47
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I believe somebody in my year was planning to make some mild contact explosives (I forget the chemical name) for our year's last school day. Luckily, it fell through, since I think they realised that being expelled and prevented from sitting their A-levels might have an adverse effect on their future career prospects. As it was, we didn't do terribly well for pranks. We removed one of the whiteboards and about 30 people signed behind it and we stole the dummy skeleton from the biology department. We then tried to hang it from a tree, but it caught on a branch and I had to climb up the tree to sort it out whilst hoping no teachers wandered by and noticed. Having sorted out the rope, we lifted it up and the rope, having undergone a lot of friction when I climbed up to sort it out, immediately broke. We then had to grab the pieces of the skeleton and hurriedly take it inside to reassemble. -------------------- Voice of Reasonable Morality Posts: 961 | Registered: Thursday, June 12 2003 07:00 |
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written Monday, June 20 2005 14:11
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I'm not really sure whether UA's giving those links as examples of good or bad works, but I've never yet had good cause to overestimate his intelligence, and the list includes Dilbert and User Friendly, so I'll assume he's a fan of them. I shouldn't need to point out how this tears his own argument apart, but in addition the argument that indifferent or bad art makes a good comic strip is of exactly the calibre that I expect UA to produce. If this is your internet, UA, then you have a lot to answer for. -------------------- Voice of Reasonable Morality Posts: 961 | Registered: Thursday, June 12 2003 07:00 |
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written Monday, June 20 2005 12:13
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Which weapon do you fence with Nicothodes? I'm a sabreur, although I don't lay claim to any great aptitude for it. -------------------- Voice of Reasonable Morality Posts: 961 | Registered: Thursday, June 12 2003 07:00 |
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written Monday, June 20 2005 12:11
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It says a lot about you, TM, that you even have to ask that question. You have too high an opinion of yourself relative to others, for a start :P -------------------- Voice of Reasonable Morality Posts: 961 | Registered: Thursday, June 12 2003 07:00 |
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written Monday, June 20 2005 07:27
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Year 11 lunchtime during the Autumn term. We staged a Western in the form room. We got to the water pistol shoot-out at the end, before the teacher shouted "Out, freaks!" I think it was the proudest moment of our lives for every one of us who was involved in it. -------------------- Voice of Reasonable Morality Posts: 961 | Registered: Thursday, June 12 2003 07:00 |
| Elections: The Candidacy Thread in General | |
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written Monday, June 20 2005 07:19
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quote:Alec was the motive force behind these elections and he wanted to run. You connect the dots together. -------------------- Voice of Reasonable Morality Posts: 961 | Registered: Thursday, June 12 2003 07:00 |
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written Monday, June 20 2005 07:14
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I don't intend to buy the book, since there are plenty of better authors I could spend my money on and I'm now getting to the stage where the battle for shelf space is long gone and I'm beginning to run out of floorspace for books too. That said, I'm relatively sure my parents will buy it and since I'll be sitting at home with nothing to do, I should think I'll read it fairly quickly. With the Harry Potter books you at least know what you're getting beforehand. -------------------- Voice of Reasonable Morality Posts: 961 | Registered: Thursday, June 12 2003 07:00 |
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written Monday, June 20 2005 07:03
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If you don't have much in the way of music, that's not a reason to get an iPod Mini. Save your money and buy a CD or cassette player. -------------------- Voice of Reasonable Morality Posts: 961 | Registered: Thursday, June 12 2003 07:00 |
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written Sunday, June 19 2005 12:57
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It only gets worse. Then again, exams were the only thing soul-destroying enough to cause me to return to these boards. -------------------- Voice of Reasonable Morality Posts: 961 | Registered: Thursday, June 12 2003 07:00 |
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written Sunday, June 19 2005 03:54
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I may as well put my name forward. -------------------- Voice of Reasonable Morality Posts: 961 | Registered: Thursday, June 12 2003 07:00 |
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written Sunday, June 19 2005 03:49
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It is every voter's democratic right to spoil both the ballot and any nearby soft furnishings. -------------------- Voice of Reasonable Morality Posts: 961 | Registered: Thursday, June 12 2003 07:00 |
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written Saturday, June 18 2005 10:04
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The same reasons you've always been appalling, dearie. -------------------- Voice of Reasonable Morality Posts: 961 | Registered: Thursday, June 12 2003 07:00 |
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written Saturday, June 18 2005 09:53
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Skulking -------------------- Voice of Reasonable Morality Posts: 961 | Registered: Thursday, June 12 2003 07:00 |
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written Saturday, June 18 2005 08:48
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I think he's a fan of Ayn Rand. I'm content to dismiss such people as fruitcakes, but I'm in suburban England, where she's virtually unread outside the young Turks of the Tory party, and my understanding is that it's a little more mainstream in America. He's not exactly dribbling blood all over the place and bellowing "imperialism!" at the top of his voice, but you can tell he's considerably to the right of centre. -------------------- Voice of Reasonable Morality Posts: 961 | Registered: Thursday, June 12 2003 07:00 |
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written Saturday, June 18 2005 08:41
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Do EU animal cruelty laws not cover the flogging of dead horses? How about basic decency? -------------------- Voice of Reasonable Morality Posts: 961 | Registered: Thursday, June 12 2003 07:00 |
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written Saturday, June 18 2005 08:23
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Since I have been here since way back when, I'm not about to miss my chance to point out that MM was an utterly appalling mod. Perhaps not the worst, but not even TM was that bad. So when Drakey says that there may be an election, but its results may not be honoured, does he mean that a new mod will be appointed only if a) an old mod steps down and b) nobody absurd gets elected? Or does he just mean that the result has no chance of being acted upon. -------------------- Voice of Reasonable Morality Posts: 961 | Registered: Thursday, June 12 2003 07:00 |
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written Wednesday, June 15 2005 01:18
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You can form a first impression, it's just that you're a moron if you expect things always to be as you assume without any other evidence. People are rather more complicated than that. -------------------- Voice of Reasonable Morality Posts: 961 | Registered: Thursday, June 12 2003 07:00 |
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written Wednesday, June 15 2005 01:11
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I actually think that the LOTR films were an improvement on the books. Obviously I think some things worked better in the book, because I'll always have a gripe, but I would rate the film higher. Troy, on the other hand, was a disaster. Not just because it had almost nothing to do with the epic cycle (the Iliad only covers a very short part of the siege of Troy, after all,) but because it was terrible. As to how we know Homer was blind - we don't, and given that Iliad, Odyssey and the other lost epics were developed over centuries and only codified about 700 years after Troy might have been besieged by a Mycenean king exercising a osrt of overlordship over Greece, it's unlikely that everybody who played a role in making the Iliad and Odyssey lacked sight. It's mostly due to long tradition (although if you asked any classical author who Homer was, they'd tell you a different shaggy-dog story they heard off a man in a pub) and the Phaecian poet in the Odyssey, who's blind. I've never seen a Harry Potter film. However I can agree that Order of the Phoenix was pretty irritating. My major problem was with Harry's characterisation, which basically stretched to "Harry was very angry. He didn't know why." -------------------- Voice of Reasonable Morality Posts: 961 | Registered: Thursday, June 12 2003 07:00 |