That Moment...

Oh, dang. What chance do you, or any other mortal soul, stand against that face?

Also... Mac!

 

She got the last of my lunch A very yummy fresh ham roll. Those damn eyes.

Yeah I have a Mac now. Well I actually always did I just had windows installed on it, and got a new one, but I converted because I found out I can have MS word on the Mac now.

 

TMW your cat turns into a lemur. This isn't my cat, but it looks just like him and my Charlie has pulled this move.

 

TMW...

You see in another forum you're on a thread where people have spent 14 pages questioning the forum mods' decision to close a section of the forum down for a few weeks. Um, yeah, I'm pretty sure that wouldn't fly in this forum. Weird that they let it happen there...

 

TMW, though you yourself as a mod would not do such a thing, you totally understand why another mod somewhere else might take this action.

Also, it's ambiguous if mean that we wouldn't close a section here or that there would be a thread discussing the propriety of such an action by the mods. Which one is it, yo?

 

It was the Current Events section. Apparently the mods wanted a break from dealing with the various flame wars that broke out between the members who saw things as only black and white. Specifically that they were right and true, and the other side was 100% wrong on all levels and there's no room for compromise.

I honestly wouldn't blame them if they shut that section off for good, but as said before, there are a few people who take issue to that decision because they feel the mods are punishing everyone, including those who actually were cordial and polite (if not firm) with their debates.

...Wait, were you asking me that, or were you asking me if it were ambiguous if you'd allow us to discuss mod decisions for fourteen pages. That, my friend, is entirely up to you and your fellow mods.

 

This. In most forums, the mods would shut a thread like that down. We would not. It would not be comfortable to deal with as a mod, but we would rather talk it out than summarily shut everyone up. There was a thread a while back concerning us having banned someone, which is also traditionally the kind of thread mods shut down, but we let it ride, and not for random reasons. We have a thought process behind allowing that kind of discussion, even though veterans of forumming have been culturally trained to find it unseemly. (Yes, forums have cultures)

 

I have to admit that I have regularly looked at the Debate Room subforum and had this image pass through my mind...

 

TMW... you read the last word on the last page in the last book of the best novel series you've ever read, and then turn the page just to find out that the authors are writing a sequel series.

 

What series?

 

The Caster Chronicles by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl.

 

Thanks. Always on the lookout for something good to read.

 

That moment when you realize that you didn't use your emergency brake after you parked your car that's at the edge of a steep hill.

 

That moment when, after your third attempt to pick a t-shirt up off the floor, you finally realize you're standing on it.

 

That moment you search "2015 calendrier" from Amazon.fr and the first hits are basically calenders of naked chicks, kittens and naked dudes. In that order.

I guess that sums up the top 3 things we humans like.

 

I think that should be "the French". (Only fancy pictures and children's calendars on amazon.co.uk, )

In the case of America it seems that "Underwater puppies" is the meaning of life.

 

TMW...

You sit down with a cup of coffee and a book in the wee hours of the afternoon.

It's heaven!

 

TMW you come back from a year-plus long hiatus of a (different) forum you used to visit almost daily, and in which you were a very active member of a tight-knit community, and find that not only are most of the people you knew gone, but the entire tone and attitude of the place has somehow morphed into a loosey-goosey, do-whatever-the-hell-you-want-as-long-as-you-are-having-fun ideology.

 

This forum? Another writing forum?

 

A different forum. I used to be really into RP but took a break to try to improve my writing in other ways. I was thinking about going back to my usual forum recently but when I checked it out, everything had changed. Before, most of the members weren't overly strict about their RP threads (though some were, admittedly) but there was a kind of general consensus to make realistic (within the bounds of the stories) characters and to make your best effort to use proper grammar and spelling. Now I go back and its all cat-girls possessed by demons or invincible half vampire-half dragons, huge walls of text, and enough grammar atrocities to make my eyes bleed. Instead of collaborating and concentrating on making interesting stories people just seem to want to write the "coolest" author-avatars they can and then run off crying about squashing their creativity and ruining their fun when someone tries to call them on their BS. An actual quote from someone "advising" a new member, "It doesn't matter if your character is bad as long as you are having fun with it."

 

That moment when you go to a job interview, thinking it's about working in a store with suits and dresses, but when you get there you are introduced with a maschine that supposedly prevents bronchitis and your job is to go from door to door trying to sell this machine. And there I was in my best suit... Wtf?
Sometimes you even have seminars about this machine.

And I wasn't the only candidate thinking it's about clothes.

 

That moment when a supposedly supporting character suddenly overtakes and dominates the whole plot of your story and you're left wondering, 'What just happened?' and 'This really seems to fit the story better...'

 

TMW ... you've sat for over an hour trying to think up a text reply for one of your characters and your hubs comes up with the answer in under ten seconds.

 

Yup, I see that kind of thing in most writing forums, including this one, though to a much lesser extent here than most others. I'm not sure what leads so many beginning writers to medieval-style fantasy with dragons and stuff, but if that's what they're into, that's OK. It's the insistence that the rules of grammar, usage and spelling and character development don't matter that drives me batshit.

 

Amen!

TMW - a newbie realises that grammar and punctuation does matter!