Discussion thread for the "Polls only" thread (Part 3)

Yes. And my niece does that, but her house (my brother’s) her rules. :wink:

I also check the SDMB quite a bit from my bedside tablet (10") at night but I’m rarely signed in. I’m terrible with responding via touch screen. On at least one occasion, I’ve gotten out of bed and gone downstairs to my desktop to handle a flag.

I do have a compact wireless keyboard I use with some of my tablets, but it’s NOT on the bedstand. (Tablet, fan, light and 5" Echo Show take up a good bit of space!).

Thank you for your service.

LOL, that wasn’t a complaint about you guys, just a nasty little troll that someone else would have got in the morning.

And I hope I didn’t appear snarky. We really do appreciate the efforts put in by the mods.

Nope, I got it as intended, it was just an offhand comment about screen reading the board and didn’t want you to think that was anything close to a regular issue!

It’s how I and everyone I know plays the game, and it’s almost certainly stemmed from a misreading or misunderstanding of the original rules.

What? I’ve never heard of this before.

I know the game and have never played it.

Add me to the “never heard of that variant” list. All the cards listed are playable as I understand the rules.

In my view it’s BAFTA that managed this poorly, particularly if the claim by Jordan and Lindo that no one from BAFTA spoke to them afterwards is true (and I have no reason to assume otherwise).

Wouldn’t a big mallet be better than a keyboard for a good game of Whack-a-Troll?

No mallet, but I do have a few swords from Museum Replicas… naaaah, not worth the effort of cleaning them afterword. There’s already plenty of cleaning up to do.

Cleaning the sword is easy; disposing of the body is more effort, but I have a good method of doing that & haven’t gotten caught ye…

Oh, @#$%&, I’m not supposed to talk about that here Look over there - SQUIRREL!!!

What is the state of the world today, where a superhero has to explain the importance of destroying evidence?

You know he is coming up, why not put that on tape delay? Or have someone accept the awards for him. I think they wanted the controvesy, as the BAFTA awards are not big news.

Can’t you see, he’s an imposter! The hero is Spider-Man

You are mistaken. Harvey J. Spiderman is the secret identity of EMS-Man.[1]


  1. Footnotes=I think I’m remembering @Spiderman’s vocation dorrectly. ↩︎

FG Superman is, in reality, Bicycle Repairman!

Oh it’s worse than that, volunteer EMS. I didn’t earn any moolah from it. That’s why I had to turn to wrestling!


  1. Footnotes=I think I’m remembering @Spiderman’s vocation dorrectly. ↩︎

How was the match against Bonesaw?

And back to recent polls, I admit I’m pretty much a very close match for my father and mother, but in very different ways. My wife describes me as having all my father’s irritating traits: I argue both sides of a position (adversarial), I can be charming but selfish, and I always want to win, and I’m rare to admit I’m wrong. But that I have them at about 70% of the power. Still not good, but much mitigated!

I get most of my empathy, and a good bit of soft-heartedness from my mother, along with a massive love of language and literature. She’s the one who makes me move from the Lawful Evil attitude of my father (how can I work the system to get ahead) to Lawful Neutral, because She’s Neutral Good, she wants the most good for the most people, though she won’t go out of her way on breaking the system to do so.

But both are very pro-intellectual, education, evaluating situations rationally (even if being overwhelmed emotionally), and taking care of those you love.

Just a lot of overlap, so 4/5 for both, though mom is a round up from a 3.5. I’d be a slightly better person if I took more after my mom, but dad’s aggressive pragmatism tends to show through more.