# Mafia REUNION observation and comments ie the FORBIDDEN THREAD **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [January 6, 2017, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-reunion-observation-and-comments-ie-the-forbidden-thread/776439 "2017-01-06T02:30:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 27
**Author:** ![Astral\_Rejection](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/258eb7/32.png) [@Astral\_Rejection](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Astral_Rejection)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2017, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-reunion-observation-and-comments-ie-the-forbidden-thread/776439/27 "2017-01-10T18:10:56Z")
> [@Mafia Reunion - Day One](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-reunion-day-one/776577/327): > > I don’t really get the wagon on **septimus.** The timing and rationale for his leap off the **Colby** wagon are certainly weird…possibly even TSTBS? (Too Scummy To Be Scummy) Seems like a scum needing to get off his buddy’s wagon would be more likely to find another wagon and focus on the new candidate rather than simply unvoting. But more to the point, **septimus’** unvote is only scummy if he is **Colby’s** scum teammate…so why are people voting for him now, while \*\*Colby’s \*\* status is still unresolved? Now I find this one suspicious. If Septimus was scum (which I’m now doubting), he could be unvoting for any number of reasons. Thing Fish’s conclusions are way too simplistic and narrow-focused, and he’s trying to have it both ways: he doesn’t get the wagon, AND it’s so scummy it’s maybe TOO scummy, and Septimus’s vote doesn’t make sense, AND we should stay with it because Colby’s status is unresolved. That’s where my vote would go now. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-reunion-observation-and-comments-ie-the-forbidden-thread/776439)._