I just posted a story using two initials instead of two names, but I agree… more than that is unwieldy. I was trying to maintain some anonymity, but I couldn’t think of two other names that would have the same relationship.
Oh sweet Jesus, this just fucks me off. Take post six in this current thread for example
Oh, so those twenty films are all the best film of the seventies are they? My, we do have a retarded idea of what “the best” means dont we.
You will often see this in Cafe society. “Lets talk about films where blah does wurble”, followed by post after post of idiots just listing names of films. What the fuck is the point of this? Its just a page with loads of names of films! Say something about them for chrissakes, dont just make a list.
It really bugs me when the thread is supposed to be about the best, or your favourite, or whatever. The obvious examples get used quickly, then a pile of people just start throwing out names.
“How about …”
What the fuck? You posted about a different film on the last page, now you want to list this film as well? Was the last one you listed your favourite film, or is it this newest one? Or will it be the next stupid fucking film you decide to list for whatever goddamn reason I cannot fathom.
Grrr.
Precisely. If I wanted to read a list with no context, I’d go to Amazon… except people there tend to provide context.
Ok, so if I understand this right, some Doper, we’ll call him A, posts something about a topic we’ll call B, and he refers to a couple of other people we could call C and D, and you want him to do what? See if A really though the names of C and D were germane to B, A would just have used their names, or referred to his relationship to them in the first place. We could even call those relationships AC and AD, or if they are just related to the topic call them BC and BD. So if I have this right, you object to A referring to B, C, and D, and their varying relationship like AD, or even BCD. Is that correct?
I was just complaining about this to my friend’s cousin’s neighbor’s hairdresser, let’s call her 100001011100111011110001010100001100.
That’s a good point, too - unless we NEED to know it’s your cousin’s doctor’s sister’s monkey (but really, how often does that happen?). My sister is terrible with telling anecdotes for this reason - she gives us all the names and histories of everyone involved in the story when “a guy I used to work with” would suffice.
Seconded. I also would like to subscribe to your mailing list.
But don’t confuse her with my cousin’s friend’s manicurist, 100001010100111011111000010100001100
Upon reading the OP, I thought “God, this annoys me. No…I’m going to tough this out. OK, let’s see what’s going on here.” Then shortly thereafter was like “…the fuck is a college professor doing talking to a boyfriend of a student he’s fueding with?! That’s out of line.”
I think the convention should be “this guy”, “this other guy”, “his girlfriend”, and “her boyfriend’s cousin - no, the other one”. Much less confusing.
What does PSA mean?
Sorry, I’ve tried to figure it out, even asked my neighbour, B and her cousin Z.
It’s even worse in person, when the story teller delays the story to try to remember the unimportant details.
Story Teller: “One of my friends…wait…I’ll remember which one…that was at some bar…”
Me: Does it matter who it is for the story?
Story Teller: Of course not! But I want to make it accurate!
Me: sigh
-D/a
No. Even two initials is a pain to read. You really couldn’t think of two names? Bob, Mary. There you go. You can use them forever.
Ack! I totally hate this, too! Was going to post something similar, but thought I was being picky or that it was just me. I just can’t follow the A, B, C stuff. Names, yes. Initials, no.
Public service announcement.
Thank you. At first I thought it was a post directed to a member whose name was PSA :o
Now I feel like a right pillock.
We’ve seen this one before.
IIRC, C lives next to the man in the red house who smokes Marlboros.
I wouldn’t have known it off the top of my head except that it came up here at home recently. You might not call the same thing down under there. It’s what we call the anti-smoking or anti-drinking-and-driving type of commercials.
Was C the neighbour who was being done while the husband was at work?
You’re thinking of Joe’s wife. The punchline to that one is Joe saying “Oh, Good. He borrowed $500 from me and said he was going to drop by and leave it with you this afternoon.”