Oh, and - bullshit.
When it’s the government saying “you must file your taxes by April 15th”, that’s a rule.
When a business says “The price is $n.nn if you purchase before mm/dd/yyyy” that’s an advertisement.
If the IRS man comes to your home to haul you away on april 14th for not filing your taxes then a trust is broken and a rule not paid attention to.
If a business says “We’ll give you a little more time to get in on the $n.nn price” it’s a new advertisement.
Can you see a difference there?
And while I suppose the person(s) who extended the deadline might also perform the duties of an administrator I suspect that most of our busy admins here had little or no say in the change so regardless of whether you view it as a rule change or not you are still painting with an awfully broad brush.
You had gold? All we had was tin and zinc, and we had to mush it together so it’d stay in lumps we could hang around our necks.
You had necks? We were invertebrate.
What are these ‘metals’ of which you speak? What are they worth, in , say, bone?
I consider myself lucky then. Growing up in a hut where my uncle (the alchemist) lived with us there was always plenty of gold.
Anything to help a fellow kiwi doper. Shoot me an email with your details and I’ll get you signed up before ANZAC day.
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I can, sadly enough. But then I usually only use one or two names atta time.
Forget the $4.95…I just hoped that we’d be free of the cheap theatrics from those tortured souls who are leaving.
You had bone? All we had was cartilage. Although our snobby rich cousins in the other pond claimed they had exoskeletons.
This is the only legitimate gripe in this thread. I too am tired of all the “This is my last post EVER on the SDMB” threads. Now we have to wait until Monday to see those go away.
If you’re staying, cool. If not, shut the fuck up and go away. I don’t care.
Shit, when I was a boy we didn’t have any of these fancy schmancy Playstations or Gamecubes. All we had was this thing called Atari, and it was made out of wood. My brothers and I spent many happy hours playing Splinter Games on our Atari. Basically, you just rub your hand around and around on it and the first person to get a splinter and yell “Ouch!” lost.
You had brothers? We used to reproduce asexually by cell division!
Cells! Pah! The whole thing started to go to hell after the whole phospholipid bilayer thing came into fashion!
Yes. If we can’t arbitrarily exclude others, then then the sanctity of Charter Membership is lost. 
You had phospholipids?!? :eek: All we had were carbon and hydrogen atoms, and we had to walk ten miles uphill – both ways – just to get a little oxygen.
I think we should call 'em Civil Union Dopers. I don’t feel comfortable calling them “Charter Members”. It kinda violates the sanctity of being the first to buy.
Originally posted by EddyTeddyFreddy
You have hills? …
Not to detract from the “You had…?” antics, but I’m glad the deadline was extended. Namely because I’ve been on sabbatical and last logged on back in January. I did get the e-mail but didn’t really think much of it at the time. Had I not logged in today to check something on the SD main site, I’d have… umm… had to pay an extra $10 next time it occured to me to post.
You had different heights? We had exactly one number and had to use it for heights, gradients, everything!