Poll: If PJH is willing and able, would you hide him behind an ellipsis?
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You sound like a lawyer
Sir! What have I done to you that you should hurl such a vile insult at me? Would you defecate on my mother's grave while you're at it?Fortunately an entire continent and ocean separate us; otherwise, I should be forced to demand satisfaction on the field of honour. I would allow you to use your trusty 1911 .45, while I would borrow, if he's willing to lend it, @Steve_The_Cynic's pocket revolver.
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fine by me, but you will have to allow me, as @arantor's second, to borrow that gunsword you have linked to. ;-)
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you will have to allow me, as @arantor's second
You request my assistance at trial to defend your honour, but would then act as second to my opponent in a defense of my honour? My dear fox, I think you have not thought this through carefully.
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I shall act as your second, provided I am permitted to use a rifle of my choosing and be at a range of a few hundred yards.
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Let's just say that.....
Well I don't really care about the fuel to be frank.... I just want the gunsword.
:-)
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Well I don't really care about the fuel
Would that be the fuel required to get all of us in one place to fight the duel?
frank
Who's Frank, and how did he get involved in this?I just want the gunsword.
You'll have to negotiate that with @boomzilla.
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Who's Frank
Belgian Frank: name for the old coins used in Belgium before the introduction of the Euro.
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@Frank ?
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Well I don't really care about the fuel to be frank.... I just want the gunsword.
Wasn't that yours to begin with?
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Actually it is @Arantor's given that I got it from his armory.
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while I would borrow, if he's willing to lend it, @Steve_The_Cynic's pocket revolver.
Certainly, of course, and all that. I shall be honoured to provide one.
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Sir! What have I done to you that you should hurl such a vile insult at me? Would you defecate on my mother's grave while you're at it?
Fortunately an entire continent and ocean separate us; otherwise, I should be forced to demand satisfaction on the field of hono<small><small><small>u</small></small></small>r. I would allow you to use your trusty 1911 .45, while I would borrow, if he's willing to lend it, @Steve_The_Cynic's pocket revolver.
Tell you what. How about I use a remote-control gun whose controls are powered by PHP?
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for @ben_lubar
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I congratulate my esteemed competitor, @abarker, on tying the current TDWTF record for pendants received.
However, I would also file a protest with judges in this matter. While I do not wish to dispute the awarding of this particular badge to my worthy opponent, it does show an appearance of bias on the part of the judges. When one competitor receives a badge for a single sentence that is not even dickweedy, but another has, on several occasions, written multiple paragraphs of detailed pedantry without receiving a badge, it appears that the criteria are, intentionally or otherwise, not being applied evenhandedly.
As long as I'm filing a protest, I would also like to draw to the attention of the judges the criteria to be used in the awarding of another badge. The description of the "Someone didn't get the joke" badge states:
>Badge of shame when someone seriously Didn't Get The Jokeâ„¢(Emphasis added.) Several of these have been awarded recently in cases where it was disputed as to whether the person didn't get the joke, or even whether there was a joke to be gotten. In such cases, as in criminal law, the presence of reasonable doubt must result in acquittal. (This does not necessarily apply in the case of awarding pendant. "Someone didn't get the joke" is a "badge of shame," a penalty for doing something bad, while pendant badges are a reward for doing something well. The consequences of an error in the award are not the same; thus, the level of certainty in bestowing the badges need not be the same.)
In conclusion, I exhort my fellow citizens of TDWTF to do their duty to other citizens fairly. Flag for badgers evenhandedly and with due attention to criteria for the badger. The integrity of the TDWTF badgers is in your hands! Thank you.
What a dickweed. -b
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it's also been the case when @boomzilla has handed out a pendantry badge (I would cite my source but disco searching fails to find it. if @boomzilla calls shoulder aliens on this please disregard this post.) where he disagreed with the flags but awarded the badge anyway
I think it was a whoosh, where I didn't wait for the flags, because it was a mighty whoosh. Only the pendantic dickweed badge actually talks about the 3 flag requirement, though we tend to follow the same guideline. All manual badge awards, however, are subject to the discretion of the awarding mod / admin.
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I think it was a whoosh,
hmm i could have sworn it was a pedantry badge, still i trust your memory more than mine so we'll go with that. although it being a woosh rather than a pedantry could explain why my google-fu failed when attempting to find a source to cite.
subject to the discretion of the awarding mod / admin.
right, in both directions. ;-)i'm sure we've had recent posts that got 4 or more flags but no badge because the mods did not think that the badge was warranted.
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It used to be that the staff member awarding the badge had to agree with the assessment of those giving the flags. It seems that requirement has been silently stricken from the rule book. It now appears that the requirement is only that a post receive three flags to be badged.
I think that overly strict interpretations of stuff like how dickweedish a pedant is acting created a bit of a backlash in the scarcity of badges being awarded. I would say (though I'm not trying to speak for @PJH) that we're adapting to community norms.
Also, it's better to be inconsistent, because then you mugs don't know exactly what's going on in your attempts to game the system. I like to think that Muad'Dib would approve.
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I've seen a couple of whoosh posts get 4 flags and no badger.
I've seen some where the flags are for different reasons.
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hmm i could have sworn it was a pedantry badge, still i trust your memory more than mine so we'll go with that. although it being a woosh rather than a pedantry could explain why my google-fu failed when attempting to find a source to cite.
The new badges get linked to the post, so that should be easier in the future.
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I shall be honoured to provide one.
Thank you, sir. If it comes to that, I think I would need to also borrow your pocket it carry it; mine are a bit too small.
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a remote-control gun whose controls are powered by PHP
That is a rather frightening thought. One could never be quite certain who it would shoot, or when. Thus, no doubt, your desire to control it from a great distance. However, I am rather concerned that you, being a master of the black art of PHP, could make it do what you want with some degree of reliability. I do not care for this idea.
You do realize, do you not, that this whole "defending my honor" thing can be avoided if you apologize for comparing me to a
smallpox virusDenebian slime devillawyer.
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@loopback0 said:
I've seen a couple of whoosh posts get 4 flags and no badger.
I've seen some where the flags are for different reasons.
I've seen people say they've flagged in public but didn't actually bother to submit a flag.
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I've seen people say they've flagged in public but didn't actually bother to submit a flag.
FLAGGED
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I've seen people say they've flagged in public but didn't actually bother to submit a flag.
Actually, I had expected that in some cases.
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Thank you, sir. If it comes to that, I think I would need to also borrow your pocket it carry it; mine are a bit too small.
Look closely at your back pocket. You may find it necessary to acquire TARDIS trousers, although the special pocket can be fitted to make any trousers into TARDIS trousers. Such a pocket is definitely available for the recipient of the aforementioned weapon.
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Actually, I had expected that in some cases.
the only times i rememebr doing that i did nleave a hidden comment saying that i hadn't actually flagged.... but yeah i had expected that @loopback0 is nto flagging nearly as often as he says he is. :-P
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You may find it necessary to acquire TARDIS trousers
Oh no! It's the wrong trousers!
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That is a rather frightening thought. One could never be quite certain who it would shoot, or when. Thus, no doubt, your desire to control it from a great distance. However, I am rather concerned that you, being a master of the black art of PHP, could make it do what you want with some degree of reliability. I do not care for this idea.
You do realize, do you not, that this whole "defending my honor" thing can be avoided if you apologize for comparing me to a <del>smallpox virus</del><del><ins>Denebian slime devil</ins></del><ins>lawyer</ins>.
Well, technically you started it by sounding all crazy clever and awesome, like those parasites do, but were contributing something very useful and interesting to the fabric of this community.
I apologise for comparing you to a parasitic worm and bid you good day.
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I apologise for comparing you to a parasitic worm and bid you good day.
Thank you. Apology accepted. No need for armed conflict.
I, in turn, apologize to smallpox virii and Denebian slime devils for implying that they might be similar to lawyers.
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Several of these have been awarded recently in cases where it was disputed as to whether the person didn't get the joke, or even whether there was a joke to be gotten.
In this case I always assumed "seriously" was a modifier functionally identical to "really", like the No True Scotsman fallacy, sort of.
I see "seriously", whatever it means, as orthogonal to whether it's in dispute that someone actually got the joke or not. In particular, the actions taken by certain recipients of the badge, taken as a totality, strongly suggest said recipient did not, in fact, get the joke, protests to the contrary notwithstanding.
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Haven't flagged anyone yet today.
The last time I got that message for doing whatever the first time that discoday or so, it said to wait 0 seconds. That's what I call coding horror.
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Here here!
There, there, you are probably sad for spellaring "hear, hear" incorrectly.
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because then you mugs don't know exactly what's going on in your attempts to game the system.
That seems insensitive.
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I've seen people say they've flagged in public but didn't actually bother to submit a flag.
I have implied a flagging a couple of times.
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Only took 22 discohours for anyone to notice ...
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Only took 22 discohours for anyone to notice ...
Probably nobody else felt it was likely to get flagged. Sometimes one must soldier on irregardless. I wouldn't, though, at least, not irregardlessly.
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FLAGGED for spellaring.
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FLAGGED FOR FLAGGING!
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I'm flagging with all this flagging going on.
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He who controls the badges controls TDWTF.
So, who's Baron Harkonnen, who's Sting, who's Duke Leto Atreides and who's Muad'Dib (it's been a while, bear with me)?
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I don't know, but those C.H.O.A.M. backstabbers seem to congregate in the Lounge.
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Error LOUNGE_NOT_FOUND
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Error LOUNGE_NOT_FOUND
You are no longer considered sufficiently trustworthy. As active as this place has gotten, this may be difficult to remedy without resorting to trickery (i.e., using a bot to read topics on your behalf). Ironic, isn't it.