No, I said that it might be twee to believe that twee was terrifying–much like the toddler who roars like a lion when entering a room.
Umm…I’m just wondering…you’re not, by any chance, taking this…how can I put it - seriously?
Well, hell, I just learned something I didn’t want to know. I’m not sure what to do with that.
You can’t learn twee[sup]®[/sup], Nine. Either you is or you ain’t.
No more than you. (Ambiguity intentional.)
Is this a test - an initiation? Because, if so, I’m failing.
This has been a **tomndebb **(fails to pull off the circled R) welcome!!!
Man, that would’ve looked a lot cooler if I’d managed to do it.
Then again, I have yet to figure out where the NumLock key is on my laptop.
Oh, and Nine, this might help.
Or, if you’re a fucking Mac user, just hold down the goddam Option key and type “r”. Voi-fuckin’-là.
I’m not going to take this lying down. No, we Brits have more spunk than that.
First: you’re a moderator - you can chastise me (ooo - the whips), you can close the thread, you can ban me. But am I frightened of you - no! You may have the upper hand being a mod, but you don’t know what I might have up my sleeve.
Second: have I touched on a nerve here? Do you feel your tweeness is being threatened? Don’t forget, it wasn’t me that brought up the connection between tweeness and mods. As an experienced member suggested it, I thought it might be a good idea to get some.
Thirdly: what on earth is ambiguous about ‘no more than you’? (Or do we Brits not get ambiguity? (See below).
Fourthly: is this a famous example of you Yanks and your famous lack of humour and inability to grasp irony? (OK, I know that now I’m pissing off an entire nation rather than just one mod here - in for a penny, in for a pound - ducks to avoid barrage of flames).
Or, if you’re just spoiling for a fight, can I suggest wet fish at dawn. (Hang on - there’s a problem here: your dawn is never at the same time as my dawn, so we’ll never meet).
tomndebb wasn’t posting with his Moderator Underoos on, therefore you can treat him like any other poster.
There was no nerve touched on here. My take on this is that tomndebb was using the complete lack of tells available to us on this medium to play with you a little bit.
See above.
Now, that’s just funny. I might have considered Yanks humourless before coming to this site, but not any more.
Thanks for your reply, but I’m going to have ask you to explain ‘lack of tells’. :dubious:
Thanks for your concern, but please don’t worry about me - I can play with the best of them. Actually, as with most noobies (I presume), I’m more worried about breaking protocols and long-held traditions and thereby unwittingly upsetting people.
But I must say, my entire input to this thread has intended to be humourous (well, I’ve made myself laugh) and waiting to see where it would go next.
You know, tells, like in poker - when you can tell what someone else has in their hand.
Excellent. You’ll do just fine around here. The long-held traditions and protocols? I think you’ll just have to run into those as you find them. There’s too many to really go into. Actually, there’s a thread in ATMB that has a lot of good information along these lines.
Damnit! I wish I’d know about tells (I don’t play poker - oops - I’ve given something about myself away :smack: ) because I would have played along with this a lot more.
Yeeesh! And the Brits, here, are always whingeing that Yanks cannot handle irony!
My remark was posted in response to your
As posted, my statement could have had two separate meanings:
I was taking the conversation no more seriously than you were taking the conversation.
I was taking the conversation no more seriously than I was regarding you, personally.
The parenthetical remark was simply to let you know that the ambiguity was not an accident.
Now, what is all this talk of chastisement, (I take it you went to public school), closing threads, or bannings? I haven’t said a cross word to you and I have not threatened you on any occasion. I even rather politely set out our guidelines for language usage on the board. This is the Pit. If you want me to chastise you, you will have to do more than merely use a Brit expression incongruously.
I know this is not at all what you meant, but I expected your post to end with “Now go away, or I shall taunt you again! You silly English knnnnnnnnn-igggt!”
Oh stop taking it so personally.
Here’bouts, I don’ take nothin’ personally.
I’ll have to give you this: you’re amazingly perceptive. I mean - you’ve got twee, you’ve got irony and now you’ve a deep and meaningful insight into my past. Yes, I did go to public school; and I was chastised (occasionally). We had to go for runs round the grounds at 7.00am in our shorts, whatever the weather, followed by cold showers. And am I scarred for life? You decide.
I’m sorry - I didn’t mean to give the impression that you *had *chastised me: I just thought you could. Now I see you’ve taken your hat off, well, all’s fair in love and war, as they say.
I spit on your god, I will pickle your testicles (assuming you’re male. Oh what the hell - whichever you are), I despice your politics, and I can’t think of the fourth thing I was told never to bring up in polite society.
I’m just testing the water here: I can get *really *vicious when I’m riled.
I believe money is the other unspeakable.
And by-the-fucking-way, welcome Nine!
You’re absolutely right! I’ll save that for the next time.
And fucking thanks for the fucking welcome.
I believe rayh was mistaken.
I do not know whether you have what it takes to be a Mod, but you are certainly demonstrating that you are sufficiently twee.