I’d heard of him but didn’t know anything about him, so I looked him up in wikipedia. Then I saw he was a fantasy writer and when I finished laughing I had lost interest.
Because engaging in utterly straight-faced hyperbole for no particular reason is fun?
I think you were sorta whooshed by the original thread. Miller has it exactly right. I didn’t particpate in the thread either, but it seemed to me like people just poking fun at some of the board’s sacred cows.
And for what it’s worth, I don’t like Terry Pratchett either. I think that the problem is that I haven’t read enough of the genre that he’s parodying to really “get” him.
You really need to work on your self-esteem, dear.
what do you suggest
Well, I’m bored, so I’ll ask about this again.
Since I wouldn’t say I like all three of those members, but I do enjoy them here. What does this mean?
He wants you to show us your tits.
oh well that I CAN do. Four years living in New Orleans and I’m a pro.
To many of my generation, Buffy died of an overdose a long time ago. I think you can still buy a Mrs. Beasley doll though.
Sometimes I will form a general profile of a Doper based on two or three posts and just be completely wrong! I must be losing my touch.
Well, the linked thread is silly and not in need of a pitting, but the OP here is valid. We’re very hipster-ish that way here.
I’m still waiting for tits.
I can understand not liking something. I’ve been guilty of that myself. But proudly announcing you have no interest in liking something makes you sound like a small minded doofus, IMHO.
word!
I’ve noticed that lots of people want to make sure everyone knows just how much they’re suffering, like teenagers who have the most HORRIBLE parents in the WHOLE WORLD! Part of that (the most annoying part) is how everyone scrambles over each other to show off just how much their opinions are oppressed.
The liberals and christians and gays and minorities and gun owners and fucking EVERYONE ELSE all seem to think that they’re the most oppressed people in the world. Guys, kindly shut the fuck up. There are wars happening right now. People are ACTUALLY SUFFERING in the world, and there’s a decent chance we’re all going to be dead before most of us are old enough to get altzheimers. Don’t patronize the real suffering in the world by pretending that you’re some kind of unfairly ostracized social martyr because you voted a certain way, or you like music nobody has ever heard of.
To sum up: good post Max.
Ooh, my first (indirect) pitting. I don’t have much to say except, congratulations. You have successfully pitted a joke. I know that MPSIMS is only meant for completely serious replies, but I don’t think that me or many other people in the thread seriously expect to be called out on noncontroversial opinions. It’s just that Pratchett happens to be very popular on here, and I’d say at least a half dozen dopers have names derived from his books. I would tell you to save your ire for people who make jokes in GQ or GD or something, but really this is just funny.
These any good?>>>>>>>> ()()
Also, here is an arse>>>>>>> (.) before a curry
and after>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>(o)
Say that bolded word out loud. I don’t know if maybe I’m not saying it correctly, but it seems to me to be impossible to pronounce. Unless the ‘y’ makes the long ‘i’ sound, but I don’t think that’s right…
parody-ing
pair’-uh-dee-ing
I’m still wondering what horrors can overcome anyone on a message board. I suppose banning would be a horror of some kind (I’d have to clean my house since I’d have time on my hands), but what evil fate can befall you here? embarassement? Humiliation? You’re not in public about to be publicly stripped of all human dignity and forced off to Lesser Human Jail.
That said, I like that thread. I think it’s funny. There are any number of sacred cows here and it’s fun to poke at them. YMMV.
No, no, no. That is not acceptable. We need BOOBIES!