*ducks from the smitage that is sure to follow*

I was under the impression that posts meant to piss people off were SUPPOSED to be on the flameboard.....

Perhaps i'm wrong? ...

I agree with Jay... (I think)

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27 days and counting........
*HUGE EFFING BIGASS GRIN*
"Never underestimate the light side .......... ...... of duct tape."

And here I was thinking that we should keep personal matters between the people concerned and blow our mouths off about ideology, crap books (new frontier) and camels, preferably of the arabian type.

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there's a bird in the chimney,and a stone in my bed
when the road's washed out,they pass the bottle around
and wait in the arms,of the cold cold ground

You.. person who likes things I don't.

Ideology: Let those who agree with me, follow me. Let those who oppose me, DIE!

Crap Books: Dreadnought! and similar "Mary Sue" novels.

Camels: Bactrian.

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You're just JEALOUS because the little voices talk to ME!

Basically, if you wish to start a thread on a subject that you suspect might elicit some harsh responses or start a heated argument, then do it here.

However, I found T_T gentle reminders that the Lounge *waves at Sol* is next door to be rather amusing. If the posts seemed pernicious to one but T_T, well then....

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We sell forbidden objects from places men fear to tread.
We also sell frozen yogurt, which I call "Frogurt"!

Drag me into an argument, that's easy. Just spout off about Creationism or some such junk, or say something completely vapid. (Or, on the other hand, you could say something I agree with, and watch me jump in when someone else says otherwise.)

But do I get pissed off about that stuff? NAAH! 'S pretty pointless to get pissed at someone whos face you'll never be able to sneer at. Nothing anybody says here has any real effect on me (except some of the things Jube says, but that's entirely different) , so why bother?

I never even got that mad during the thing with DT a while back. Close, but not quite. Although, persistent displays of illogic can have a very irritating effect, you generally have to do or say something incredibly stupid right in FRONT of me to get me ticked. And even then, the response I'm most likely to give is "You, sir, are a complete, utter, and total idiot, and should do the gene pool a favor by jumping off the nearest cliff." And then walk away.

To get me fighting mad? You'd have to physically attack me, someone important to me, or someone much smaller and/or weaker than yourself.
Or hit a woman.
Or a kid who isn't being a total brat.

Then, you die.

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You're just JEALOUS because the little voices talk to ME!

There's a pretty obvious difference between this place and the Officer's Lounge... Lemme review... this place is for discussion of:

A) Current Political/Social issues enshrouded in controversy

B) Personal Experiences leading to some sort of theses, eg "I met these skinheads by the shopping mall" leading to "There are far too many bigotted people in the US for it to ever considered some sort of cultural mosaic"

C) Discussion of smaller current events, esp. those on the internet surrounding the people here without degenerating into personal attacks. If a certain fast particle slighted someone and someone took revenge, opinions are to brought up civilly and with due concern to both party's privacy.

(Any more)

In short, it's got to be firey stuff. Now I'm not going to scour the board and lock all the OT threads, cuz all of us, including myself, are guilty of them. Indeed, my "online waves" post was originally intended to be a flame of all these hyper-Christians who hate Trek until I found out on an unlinked root page that the author was intending the section as a joke and edited the post.

Just use common sense in the future. A statement about the weather or dentistry (however painful it may have been) or another CC-related thread obviously does not fit into the above categories.

TIA

Your evil control-freak moderator,
T_T

Now, just to clarify what I meant as users pissing each other off. Let me use the example of my pal DT. Say First and DT are going hammer and tongs about something or the other. The last thing we'd want (not that I am saying it would happen, but a certain Chief Admins post above does open the door) is for the two of them to take it to the Flameboard as a persoal sulgging match. (Though I admit it would be damn funny!).

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there's a bird in the chimney,and a stone in my bed
when the road's washed out,they pass the bottle around
and wait in the arms,of the cold cold ground

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You're just JEALOUS because the little voices talk to ME!