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The Jawsus of the Blue Lagoon

22:49 / 15.02.06

Hey, guess what, I'm new too!

Ah, my first post, it feels like being on crack all over again.

BlueThunderArmy

00:01 / 16.02.06

Here I thought I would be the only new guy. *Sigh* I'm never as special as I want to be.

Hi to all, anyway!

Squire

00:01 / 16.02.06

Hello chaps and chapesses. I'm new here as well. It looks like they did a batch job. Hope you're all tickety boo and I look forward to chipping in.

glitch

02:43 / 16.02.06

Hi all,

The gates are still open and I snuck back too. And I'm happy to be here.

alas

04:04 / 16.02.06

Welcome all you cute new 'lithers. Did you bring your milk money?

(And don't believe rumors that you've escaped the ass-candling. There's no statute of limitations on these things. There's a whole lot of new asses to candle....)

Happy Hazing!

(The last Haze here was Dolores, by the way. I think she had a great time.)

Tryphena Absent

14:10 / 16.02.06

Hello chaps and chapesses. I'm new here as well. It looks like they did a batch job. Hope you're all tickety boo and I look forward to chipping in.

Your username is unacceptable.

cube needs to get out more

14:37 / 16.02.06

I think someone had better clarify that before things get nasty. Round these parts, using "chav" and "pikey" or "council" are regarded as unacceptable epithets akin to "n****r" and many others. If, however, your surname truly is pike (we can check this) or you can prove a deep affinity with the fish (they're bastards, so I doubt it) or you are involved in civil war reinactments (in which case pikeman/woman might have fitted better), that's an understandable oversight. To avoid turning this fluffy thread into a flamewar I suggest clicking on you username and changing it to something else.
This thread might be helpful.

Tryphena Absent

14:50 / 16.02.06

Thank you cube, I am completely monosyllabic today and you have saved me. (This isn't meant to be sarcastic. My monosyllabicness is making me incapable of even posting thank you properly.)

Squire

15:08 / 16.02.06

Sorry for any offence. The name actually comes from the name of a road I lived on, West DeKalb Pike, Pennsylvania. I've used it for years on another site without incident. I even gave this 'pikey' board identity as evidence of non-troll web presence to the chap(ess) who approved my application to Barbelith. However, I can see how its tone might be misconstrued in this, more refined, atmosphere.

I come in peace. I'll change it.

Sniv

15:11 / 16.02.06

Lol at Cube and Nina, I saw that name too and nearly spat out my tea. Let's hope it changes soon, shall we?

Btw, what if said user is a card-carrying (ie, has lots of tracksuits/lives in a caravan) pikey/chav? Should they not be allowed to broadcast their self-identifification? ahahaha, this flame-proof suit is a bit warm... btw, I'm being very facetious (spelling?) here, please do not take me seriously.

Also Nina, I'm very impressed of your usage of monosyllabicness on this one-chunk-word-esque day.

Sniv

15:13 / 16.02.06

pikester - howzabout DeKalby? Shit, even Pikester ain't as bad. One language divided by an ocean, eh?

cube needs to get out more

15:13 / 16.02.06

That's cool, thanks. Even if it does have an innocent derivation, you'd probably have ended up having to defend it every week or so, so you're saving yourself quite a lot of work.

A Haus of Minions
(prev. Jenna Elfman's Hollywood Haus)

15:15 / 16.02.06

Why not read the thread, John? It's very interesting, and among other things contains a number of ways to approach your question.

Sniv

15:16 / 16.02.06

Haus - which thread, this one? Read it. Which question also?

Squire

15:19 / 16.02.06

I am English and I must confess I was aware of the multi-faceted nature of the word. I just didn't realise you chaps and chapesses had already come to a conclusion on such matters.

No fuss, though, really. Hope you're not all too grumpy.

iamus

15:24 / 16.02.06

Hi all!
Who wants one of my "special" huggles?

Don't worry about that.... just a grease stain is all.

Scrambled Password Bogus Email

15:54 / 16.02.06

This whole 'your ficsuit is unacceptable' directive is...fascinating.

Since the suit in question claims to have a perfectly valid reason for it, based on nothing so much as geographical location, why is it 'unacceptable'?

It's probably easier on them that they have changed it, and they may well have been pulled on it, frequently, but what other suits are unacceptable based on this premise that the term is offensive to some of the board's memebrs? I ask because it came up before in another thread...Policy thread, maybe?

Sniv

16:01 / 16.02.06

I think it's because pretty much every 'right-on' user that comes across the pikester is liable to pull them up on it. Not everyone is going to read this thread, so it'd probably be best to nip it in the bud now. I guess it'd be a bit like someone calling themselves Darkie after their cat, and not thinking about what other meanings it has. It's everyone else that finds the problem with the name, not the user, but they can still cahnge it to stop others from getting on their case.

Btw, now it's explained, I don't really mind it, but Barb is bigger than a few people, we have an internet presence/search-engines combing us. Do you want Barb to be one of the highest hits for Pikey?

Y SO ALT?

16:01 / 16.02.06

Since the suit in question claims to have a perfectly valid reason for it, based on nothing so much as geographical location, why is it 'unacceptable'?

Um, well that explanation was proferred after Nina's post, and also after Nina had said that what she intended to say was better expressed by cube (whose post explains the issues, as well reasons for giving some benefit of the doubt, very well). So nobody is maintaining that the name is unacceptable given the reason for it.

A Haus of Minions
(prev. Jenna Elfman's Hollywood Haus)

16:30 / 16.02.06

Well, nobody is saying that the user is unacceptable for choosing that name for the reasons he gave, more exactly. I think the name itself would still be a bit of a problem, so bravo to squire for very obligingly changing it.

John - the question is the question you asked. The thread was the thread which Cube linked to above, although this one is also quite useful. The simple answer to your question is that, since there is no way of checking people's ethnic and cultural bona fides on t'Internet, it's a bit tricky to negotiate privileged usage. Mind you, if you think somebody calling their cat "Darkie" who isn't actually Guy Gibson is OK, you probably ought to get out more.

Smoothly

16:41 / 16.02.06

Whenever someone slips up in a small way, and respond to this being pointed out to them by apologising and doing what they can to undo it rather than getting all shouty about their Rights, I fall in love with them a little.

Sniv

16:52 / 16.02.06

Haus - sorry old bean, I missed that link there. I thought you were talking about this thread and I was like... hmmm, you guys talk abou Yogi Bear for a page... how important is this? I can, of course see the validity in the linked threads, and please accept my original post on the spirit it was offered - throwaway silliness. Also, the Darkie thing is an Invisibles reference (as if I had to say it), and was a point about names that one person may think innoffensive while everyone else recoils (I think Brodie mentions his cat before he kidnaps King Mob, but you know this already). Sorry for any offence.

A Haus of Minions
(prev. Jenna Elfman's Hollywood Haus)

16:53 / 16.02.06

No probs, John. And Smoothly, I'm with you. It's so nice, isn't it?

Tryphena Absent

17:30 / 16.02.06

Squire, I also like you.

cube needs to get out more

19:42 / 16.02.06

Yay! Back to the fluffy! Who's next?

johngault22

19:51 / 16.02.06

Just have to say about my username, It has nothing to do with Ayn Rand, it is my real name with the digits of the title of my favourite book, "Catch-22" but it also happened to be my age at the time of donning said fiction suit(I hope I used that term right).

I just like the idea of being the same person in the offline and online worlds.

Boboss

19:55 / 16.02.06

You filthy Ayn Rand fanatic, you.

johngault22

20:01 / 16.02.06

I've lost count of the number of times somebody in a chat room has asked who I am?

I did try reading Atlas once but got bored after chapter 3.

Smoothly

20:06 / 16.02.06

In my atlas that's Canada. What are you saying? Eh?

Ganesh

20:19 / 16.02.06

alas

21:15 / 16.02.06

(I wish I had said that Dolores Haze had a very awful time. Because it's true.)

But welcome. And I like you too, Squire.

Mist, the devil´s avocado
(prev. Mistelheim)

21:26 / 16.02.06

Maybe we could explain, why/how we chose our suit names, maybe in this thread? As a way to possibly avoid further misunderstandings and because it´s interesting to know, how and why people choose their www handles.

Jack Denfeld

04:11 / 17.02.06

Hello new members. I will buy you an ice cream.

08:19 / 17.02.06

No he won't. Don't get into his car. It's a frozen yogurt and tastes a bit rubbish after "the favor."

Boboss

14:51 / 17.02.06

How dare you.

You're speaking to our sovereign - show some deference

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