Monday Morning
102 Comments
Comment by Blizzardlane
February 25, 2008 @ 3:08 am
Happy Monday!
Get to hoppin’.
Comment by The Plague Fairy
February 25, 2008 @ 3:39 am
Good Morning, Blizz!!
*whisper*
watch out for the coffee this morning. I’m sure he thinks he’s a prince…
Comment by Fatwa Arbuckle
February 25, 2008 @ 4:13 am
Monday ayem grumble-by:
I’m sure he thinks he’s a prince…
Or “The Amphibian Formerly Known As Prince”.
[Insert Jerrieriffic© day reference here]
Comment by Blizzardlane
February 25, 2008 @ 4:21 am
Good morning, Miz Harper. Good morning, Mr. Fatwa!
La la lalala I hate Mondays and I hate NY and I have to spend Monday in NY!
Comment by Blizzardlane
February 25, 2008 @ 4:38 am
Oh yeah, and I bought Dr. Ariely’s new book. Thanks for the recommendation, Debbie!
Comment by largenfirm
February 25, 2008 @ 4:39 am
La la lalala I hate Mondays and I hate NY and I have to spend Monday in NY!
You, and Mrs. Large, both – I’m dropping her off at the airport for her flight to NYC this morning, and then I’m headed back to Bend.
She’s meeting with teh lawbaws out there, then returning to Orygun later in teh week.
Have a gerbil-riffic day, in Bountiful, and elsewhere!
If you’ll excuse me, I need to get the townhouse locked up…
Largewad
Comment by Cirrus
February 25, 2008 @ 4:42 am
Sleepy greetings, Gerbils!
Blizz, what’s the problem with NY?
Comment by Blizzardlane
February 25, 2008 @ 5:26 am
No problem with New York that a few million less people wouldn’t cure! I just don’t like tall buildings/unlevel sidewalks/pigeons/noise/rats/crowds — plus, high boss quotient here.
Love the heck out of central NJ tho! If I were wealthy I wouldn’t mind living in Princeton!
Comment by Fatwa Arbuckle
February 25, 2008 @ 5:42 am
Drive-by:
Here’s some Monday Morning Stoopid:
ON FEB. 9, Oakland police, led by state Sen. Don Perata, D-Oakland, offered to buy handguns and assault weapons for $250 each, “no questions asked, no ID required.” The “One Less Gun” buyback program attracted so many eager sellers that the money quickly ran out, but instead of closing up shop, the police handed out IOUs good for a future buyback. The Oakland police are now stuck with a bill for $170,000.
(Emphasis mine.)
Did no one running the program think to look at the price of a new gun?
In fact, the first two people in line at one of the three buyback locations were gun dealers with 60 firearms packed in the trunk of their car.
Meaning a cool $15K for those guys; bwahahahaha!.
One wonders why the police even bothered to buy the guns from Oakland residents. Why not buy directly from gun manufacturer?
Heh.
BBL.
Comment by TeX_LA_Native
February 25, 2008 @ 5:51 am
Good Morning EveryGerbillyBody!
I just don’t like tall buildings/unlevel sidewalks/pigeons/noise/rats/crowds
I didn’t think I suffered from claustrophobia until the last time I went to NYC. Yeesh! Too many people.
Associated wee-yurd story though. I flew into NYC the last time for my brother’s second wedding (I was his Best “Man”). Flying into Kennedy, we were put into a holding pattern that included flying over what felt like the same patch turbulence – over, and over, and over.
My grousing about it touched off a conversation with the gentleman in the seat in front of me. Friendly chit-chit, you know. Three days later I met him again on Madison Ave. My brother who was with me rattled for hours how that chance encounter had to MEAN something…(keep in mind, those were my brother’s Edgar Cayce years)
::shrug::
Coffee anyone?
*calling out*
Mac,
I certainly hope your muscles don’t feel like mine! Oy.
Comment by Cali-rific
February 25, 2008 @ 6:54 am
Good moaning gerbils!
The weekend is over? So soon already?
Bah!
~sip~
Comment by Grand Admiral Bilgeman
February 25, 2008 @ 7:11 am
And good morning to you all.
Okay, it’s Monday, so it’s not all that good…but it will soon be afternoon.
Comment by Grand Admiral Bilgeman
February 25, 2008 @ 7:15 am
You gotta wonder about people sometimes:
http://washingtondc.craigslist.org/mld/zip/585747753.html
42G? A “G” cup? WTF is this? A stripper on hard times?
Lord above, that poor woman! The Good BilgeWife wears DD-cups, and kvetches endlessly about her back and shoulder pain.
I can only imagine how “G” cup puppies must hurt.
Comment by Grand Admiral Bilgeman
February 25, 2008 @ 7:15 am
Spammered
Comment by Cali-rific
February 25, 2008 @ 7:16 am
Afternoon is still 5 hours away for me.
But on a good note, The storm is over and nothin but big waves and sunny skies today.
No storms on the forecast!
I declare Winter OVER!
Comment by largenfirm
February 25, 2008 @ 7:17 am
Nothing down in the bilge, Admiral.
Large
Comment by Cali-rific
February 25, 2008 @ 7:18 am
Why is Bilge shopping for bras on Craigslist?
Bwahahah..
Comment by largenfirm
February 25, 2008 @ 7:19 am
Oh, Cali, now you’ve gone and done it!
Comment by largenfirm
February 25, 2008 @ 7:20 am
I blame Rabbit!
Comment by Cali-rific
February 25, 2008 @ 7:21 am
Seen Drudge?
They got a pic of Obama in a turban.
Ha!
Comment by TeX_LA_Native
February 25, 2008 @ 7:22 am
I got him out before he fully posted “Spammered” Kirk.
The satellite is obviously humming this morning.
‘Morning Kirk, Bilge, and Cali!
Cali!
How’d the visit go?
Comment by Grand Admiral Bilgeman
February 25, 2008 @ 7:27 am
Cali:
“Why is Bilge shopping for bras on Craigslist?”
I’ll have you know, young lady, that I am absolutely addicted to Craigslist. I’ve got an entire fleet of gasoline powered yard and farm tools off of it for chump change.
And the trampoline/BilgeNeighborhoodKidTrap for measly $100.
Certain postings draw the eye and pique the interest.
“Free Bra” is certainly an intriguing ad…I couldn’t see a fellow posting “Free Jockstrap”, could you?
The fact that this bit of underwear could be used to shelter two infants or a small dog just adds to the mirth quotient.
Comment by Cali-rific
February 25, 2008 @ 7:27 am
Visit was fun..cut short by a big storm..They wanted to get home before it rolled in Saturday night so they couldnt stay long, only a few hours, but we managed to get a pool game in and a walk around the cove.
Cute kids. They loved the seals. There must have been at least 50 adults 20 tiny seal pups at Childrens beach.
Comment by machinist
February 25, 2008 @ 7:28 am
Keep laughing Cali, it may be that the next administration will decide that CAIR’s first amendment rights and the need to fight terrorism by meekly groveling as a nation require a law that you wear one of these. (For the children!)
Comment by Cali-rific
February 25, 2008 @ 7:29 am
Bilge..if you need a “Hold Harmless Disclaimer” for the kidtrap, I happen to have a nice draft of one I put together when we had a trampoline..
Even though I never made any parent actually sign one. I put a good couple of hours into drafting it up.
Comment by largenfirm
February 25, 2008 @ 7:31 am
Morning’, Tex!
Plan for the day:
Drive to Bend. Take the dogs out. Pick up youngest son from school this afternoon. Cut raspberry canes in the back 40, then prune the fruit trees (apples, plums, cherries, pears).
They have nice wireless at PDX! Free, and fast.
Large
(Finish my coffee, then go!)
Comment by Cali-rific
February 25, 2008 @ 7:34 am
Bilge..nevermind..I cant find it. Musta gotten purged from the computer. This old computer is about on its last legs. The whole harddrive is fragmented and it wont defrag. Ive deleted almost everything off of it just to keep it going, but I did get turbotax installed successfully yesterday and actually have a good chunko’change coming back from our gubermint if I did it right.
Comment by Grand Admiral Bilgeman
February 25, 2008 @ 7:35 am
Cali:
Thanks, but I’ve made it fairly well known that it’s a “Use at Own Risk” installation.
Especially when the BilgeNipper joins the fun.
Besides, when they’re all safely netted inside, then one mom/dad/stay at home parent/vacationing seaman can effectively do the supervisory task of up to eight other custodial genetic units.
We believe in effciency and productivity here at the BilgeLodge.
(And the bouncy thing keeps the little buggers away from MY gasoline-powered yard toys in The Magic BilgeShed.).
Comment by Cali-rific
February 25, 2008 @ 7:37 am
I gotta get ready for teh dreaded workplace Monday madness.
Ill be back later.
Comment by Grand Admiral Bilgeman
February 25, 2008 @ 7:39 am
Cali:
” This old computer is about on its last legs.”
Here ya go:
Comment by largenfirm
February 25, 2008 @ 7:41 am
Bilge,
that’s a pretty decent machine – take that, load OpenSuSE on it, and you’re set for a few years.
Kirk
Comment by TeX_LA_Native
February 25, 2008 @ 7:45 am
Besides, when they’re all safely netted inside
That does manage to keep the trouble all in one place, doesn’t it?
Laterz Kirk and Cali!
Comment by Grand Admiral Bilgeman
February 25, 2008 @ 7:47 am
Large:
Yeah…that would have been worth wading through some “Free Bra” ads wouldn’t it?
Tex:
“That does manage to keep the trouble all in one place, doesn’t it?”
And can be a pretty funny “theater” to watch while drinking an alcoholic beverage.
Comment by TeX_LA_Native
February 25, 2008 @ 8:13 am
It can be pretty fun theater even without the beverage.
[less chance for spewage that way when it really gets teh funnee]
Comment by Northwesterner
February 25, 2008 @ 8:26 am
Whoosh-by (I haven’t had my coffee yet):
NPR is sponsoring a caption contest for Oscar photos! Come on, gerbils! REPRESENT!
Comment by Northwesterner
February 25, 2008 @ 8:27 am
http://www.npr.org/blogs/bryantpark/
Got to scroll down a bit once you get there.
Comment by Cali-rific
February 25, 2008 @ 9:43 am
There is something so very wrong about wrapping fresh jumbo scallops in bacon on a skewer and then bbqing them until the bacon is crispy and the scallop is tender and juicy inside. Even worse if you tuck a couple of thin slivers of garlic and onion between the bacon and the scallop.
So very wrong, but I cant believe how yummy they were.
Comment by TeX_LA_Native
February 25, 2008 @ 9:47 am
::drool::
Comment by Cali-rific
February 25, 2008 @ 9:51 am
This is a very dangerous meal. Not only does your bbq flare up from the bacon grease, huge flames! (You could burn down the house)..neighbors will come over from the smell emitting from your backyard, thereby forcing you to make more..and you will become obsessingly compulsive about doing it again and again after tasting these morsels. ..Joos will be racked with guilt (even honorary ones) arteries will be clogged..mayhem..Be still my heart.
Comment by Cali-rific
February 25, 2008 @ 9:59 am
…and the worst, absolute wrong thing is that there were none left over to bring for lunch today.
NONE!
Comment by TeX_LA_Native
February 25, 2008 @ 10:00 am
and the worst, absolute wrong thing is that there were none left over to bring for lunch today.
That IS a tragedy!
Comment by Blizzardlane
February 25, 2008 @ 10:04 am
I’d consider eating an bug if you wrapped it in bacon and grilled it first.
Comment by Cali-rific
February 25, 2008 @ 10:14 am
Bugs are good!
Never tried them with bacon though.
I must think on this…
Comment by Northwesterner
February 25, 2008 @ 10:17 am
Blizz, you are teh funnee. Well, I made it to work & ate lunch at my desk. So what? I’m here, aren’t I?
What’s wrong with Photobucket today?
Comment by Cali-rific
February 25, 2008 @ 10:22 am
I’ll be ok?
I can ride my eliptical for a couple of hours tonight and then swim 2 miles on Tuesday. That should offset teh jooish guilt (honorary) and any wrongness on my part, right?
Breakfast cat..good one!
Comment by TeX_LA_Native
February 25, 2008 @ 10:39 am
It may be just me, but I think the 2-mile swim will be enough of an offset. HOURS on the elliptical are probably overkill – unless you’re having more bacon-wrapped good stuff for dinner tonight…
Comment by Cali-rific
February 25, 2008 @ 10:41 am
I
just
might
Comment by Mega Beeotch
February 25, 2008 @ 10:45 am
drive by…
from the currently sunny south… soon to be the frozen south… followed by the sunny south…
I want global warming just to even this out. plz thx…
Bilge: 42G is a most likely not a stripper-esque type woman. More like a linebacker or tackle…
On a related note, I took the younger to Vickies Secret to get a new bra and they don’t have any to fit her…. 30 D(have to find a 32 D and alter it, which they don’t stock either)…. yikes… and she weighs 92 pounds soaking wet…. her comment…
“I look like 2 coconuts on a stick”
Me..You want to see a doctor and trade down a size or two… answer “NO way in hell….”
nuff said…
Comment by TeX_LA_Native
February 25, 2008 @ 10:52 am
“I look like 2 coconuts on a stick”
~giggle~
I’m sorry, but that right there is teh funnee…
Comment by Cali-rific
February 25, 2008 @ 11:01 am
Comment by Cali-rific
February 25, 2008 @ 11:02 am
Spammy loves boobs!
Whood a’ thunk?
Comment by Blizzardlane
February 25, 2008 @ 11:36 am
Every time I need a laugh today I go look at that string of juvenile invective and vulgarity that 404 threw last night at Jerrie and imagine her saying it with all of Daffy Duck’s spittle-flinging sibilation.
Thufferin’ thuckotash!
Comment by Grand Admiral Bilgeman
February 25, 2008 @ 11:55 am
404’s new plan for attention-seeking:
A banner day for Decision Science
Comment by Grand Admiral Bilgeman
February 25, 2008 @ 11:57 am
My new shoreside gig:
“Get ‘em while she’s hot!”
Comment by Blizzardlane
February 25, 2008 @ 12:01 pm
Alcohol actually IS highly flammable.
Comment by TeX_LA_Native
February 25, 2008 @ 12:04 pm
She’s probably got enough coming out of her pores to be extremely volatile.
I think only AquaNet is slightly more flammable when exposed to air.
Comment by Fatwa Arbuckle
February 25, 2008 @ 12:04 pm
Drive-by:
…string of juvenile invective and vulgarity…
Blizz –
That it was; I’ve a thirteen-year-old cousin whose cussing is infinitely more creative. (But then, his daddy’s raising him right.)
…imagine her saying it with all of Daffy Duck’s spittle-flinging sibilation.
Hee!
Thufferin’ thuckotash!
That was actually Sylvester’s tag line. 
“Get ‘em while she’s hot!”
Bilge –
Bad Grand Admiral; bwahahahaha!
Comment by Grand Admiral Bilgeman
February 25, 2008 @ 12:05 pm
Blizz:
Ahhh, you mean she’s gonna try it from the inside out?
Man…that’s been done. “Leaving Las Vegas”.
I like the petrochemical version. It makes for better CafePress T-Shirts and Coffee Mugs.
Comment by CCL
February 25, 2008 @ 12:15 pm
just checking to see what’s rattling in the cage . . . and now I see!
How are you all this sunny Monday?
Comment by Cali-rific
February 25, 2008 @ 12:19 pm
Hi Colleen..I cant believe it either..I left them a perfectly good boob topic to talk about too!
BAH!
Comment by Cali-rific
February 25, 2008 @ 12:22 pm
Gotta go..
~~~*whipsnap~~~*
Comment by CCL
February 25, 2008 @ 12:25 pm
Cali!
I am a sniffling coughing sneezing headachey all I do is rest needs different medicine mess! yuck!
Forty-four degrees here in balmy New England . . . yeah!
Comment by Northwesterner
February 25, 2008 @ 12:35 pm
Apparently teh Jerrie attack has been redacted (unless I’m looking in teh wrong place), but I am *extremely* concerned about this latest threat of suicide by 404 and, please folks, don’t encourage her. Which one of us would stand under the building shouting “Jump! Jump!”? Not me. I think she is having a crisis & needs help *now*. Who has family ties? Can anyone send up a signal flare?
Comment by largenfirm
February 25, 2008 @ 12:53 pm
Frankly, I think 404’s just grandstanding and looking for attention. 404’s too much of a coward to actually kill herself.
Your concern speaks well of you, NW, but remember that it is one way – to 404, “you’re not human”, to use her own phrase.
If you feel the need to do something after reflecting on that, just step over to your nearest phonebooth, call the Lane County Sheriff’s non-emergency number ((541) 682-4150), explain the situation, and request a welfare check. I wouldn’t leave a name – at least, not your actual name.
AFAIK, 404’s family and former friends have written her off.
I’m not going to call, simply because 404’s stalking me, and calling would be another reason for 404 to claim I’m “harassing” her.
OTOH, if I were to see 404 in flames, I would make the effort to cross the street and attempt to douse her with whatever fluids were at hand.
As far as her postings on TSW, they’ve been moved into moderation (visible only to site moderators), and will stay there for as long as necessary.
Her “crisis” is the heaving into view of her financial end-of-rope, which she could easily remedy by getting a J-O-B.
Comment by Northwesterner
February 25, 2008 @ 1:12 pm
*And* cuttin down on the booze. Thanks, Large. I misremembered in my chat with TeX that it was Jerrie’s wife who was so slandered by 404, but of course I now remember her unacceptable insults toward “Mrs. Large.” That is the point where I knew that AutoMock had served its purpose and that she should be censored.
Welfare check; great idea. Two things: When I was suicidal, I was also too cowardly to kill myself, and I’m damn glad now. Second, when I was a teenager a man doused himself with gasoline (after asking a couple of passers-by for extra, claiming that he’d run out) and set himself on fire in a wheat field near our home. It is a terrible, terrible way to die and it leaves scars on the ground and in the minds & lives of every witness, even just to its aftermath. Just the thought is painful.
Comment by Blizzardlane
February 25, 2008 @ 1:25 pm
If she kills herself, that proves the Gerbil Nation was right about her all along. I would think that would be reason enough for her to avoid open flame. That and the flammable vapors emanating from her pores.
Comment by Northwesterner
February 25, 2008 @ 1:32 pm
the Gerbil Nation was right about her all along.
That she’s insane? That’s not rocket science, Blizz, it’s not even decision science. It’s Psych 101. People in crisis kill themselves all the time. If you ask me, the desired outcome is that the affected person gets help and lives!
Comment by Blizzardlane
February 25, 2008 @ 1:47 pm
Well, I’m virtually hollering “Don’t Jump” at her, but she needs to freaken GET SOME HELP.
Slobbering on and on in messages posted to this board about Jerrie and Jerrie’s wife, and Kirk’s wife, and Sinner’s wife, in the most perverted and puerile way possible. Does she think it’s clever or funny? It’s neither. It’s sick. It’s some kind of mental pus. She needs treatment.
Comment by Northwesterner
February 25, 2008 @ 2:00 pm
Sounds like we’ve reached our common ground again, Blizz. Look, a kitten!
Comment by Blizzardlane
February 25, 2008 @ 2:13 pm
Hah. Today I was in a “leadership” class that’s really just a lot of Jungian crap about what color my soul’s rainbow’s parachute is. Anyway, I’m a “feeling extrovert” type, which was the Sunshine Yellow team. One of this personality type’s alleged flaws is that we are easily distracted. We had to come up with a motto. My first suggestion:
Comment by TeX_LA_Native
February 25, 2008 @ 2:19 pm
We had to come up with a motto.
Dare I ask what your team ended up with?
Comment by largenfirm
February 25, 2008 @ 2:22 pm
Motto?
How about:
“Squirrel!”
That’s what I use with the Large brood whenever we’re having an ADD moment…
Comment by Blizzardlane
February 25, 2008 @ 2:25 pm
“There’s a reason Post-It Notes are yellow.”
We all discovered in our brief meeting that we send ourselves e-mails and voice-mails of great ideas, lists, what have you. That if we lost our cell phones or Crackberries we’d up serious a Class V creek. That our monitors all have Post-It borders.
Comment by Northwesterner
February 25, 2008 @ 2:27 pm
Blizz is on teh “Sunshine Yellow team!” Ha ha! Hey, Little Miss Sunshine, got any Post-Its?
Comment by largenfirm
February 25, 2008 @ 2:35 pm
I remember one of those “what’s your style” classes when I was at Sequent – we divided up into groups of Amiables, Analyticals, Expressives, and Drivers, one in each corner of the room.
Each person gets a “dominant” type, with a “modifier” type, based on testing.
I’m an “amiable driver” (”driver” being the dominant type, modified by “amiable”), if you will, while the rest of the drivers in the driver corner were all “driver drivers”. One of me, 4 of them.
They were all classic “type A” personalities, all younger than I.
As a group, we’d be the first done with all the exercises, while the other groups trailed behind.
Six years later, the “driver drivers” in that group were all dead – cancer, heart attack, rock climbing accident, and stroke, IIRC.
Even since then, I’ve been emphasizing the “amiable”, and keeping the “driver” in reserve.
Yikes.
Comment by TeX_LA_Native
February 25, 2008 @ 2:36 pm
“There’s a reason Post-It Notes are yellow.”
Me likey!
Carp! Gotta run! I’m late for the Crack House and then yoga.
BBL!
Comment by Northwesterner
February 25, 2008 @ 2:51 pm
‘Bye, TeX! I’m no golfer, Large, but aren’t you just sposed to use that driver for the tee-off? Then be amiable to the folks who wanna “play through”?
Comment by svenb0nk
February 25, 2008 @ 3:01 pm
Hi folks,
I don’t read Deb’s latest posts as some serious threat to off herself. Those posts were her usual frothy spew about nothing in particular; afterwards she posted another inane political rant on her blog followed by a couple of posts to the SJDM folks. Hardly strikes me as the actions of someone intent on suicide. The woman lies about everything-I don’t believe anything she says including her statement that she is near the end of her financial rope.
As far as keeping her posts here in the moderation queue; why bother? If you don’t want her posting at TSW, ban her and be done with it.
Sven
Comment by Northwesterner
February 25, 2008 @ 3:06 pm
I agree on teh ban, Sven, unless our admins enjoy reading her. After Fatwa’s comment on encountering her nasty “droppings,” though, that seems unlikely.
Comment by CCL
February 25, 2008 @ 3:11 pm
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Not really. I don’t know schnitt about diagnosing people.
Comment by Northwesterner
February 25, 2008 @ 3:13 pm
Hi, Colleen, how’s it going? I am having one of those *great* work days where tasks keep coming one after another, so right after I finish up one project, there is something else to attend to, but none of it is high-stress. It’s just a comfortable rhythm today, thank heaven! (I needed that.)
Comment by Cali-rific
February 25, 2008 @ 3:13 pm
!~poof~!
Comment by svenb0nk
February 25, 2008 @ 3:15 pm
Hi Colleen-Hope Dave is feeling better. And good for you, NW-idle hands and all that!
Comment by Cali-rific
February 25, 2008 @ 3:16 pm
Comment by CCL
February 25, 2008 @ 3:17 pm
hey, NW. I’m glad to hear that your day is rhythmically soothing. I love a day when I can wear my methodical hat. Today was not one for me, but — I am optimistic for tomorrow’s offering! : )
Comment by Cali-rific
February 25, 2008 @ 3:17 pm
Comment by CCL
February 25, 2008 @ 3:19 pm
hey Sven . . . David needs to see a specialist on Wednesday to check his kidney function again. This is the second time in a few months . . . but we’re pretty sure he’s fine.
Cali! Halloo!
Comment by Cali-rific
February 25, 2008 @ 3:22 pm
Comment by Cali-rific
February 25, 2008 @ 3:24 pm
I am planning to cook something so healthy I havent even figured it out yet.
Comment by CCL
February 25, 2008 @ 3:28 pm
I’m considering rice and beans with asparagus, but I may slack off and make butternut squash soup ala Campbell’s Select. I’m wiped. AND IF ONE MORE PERSON TELLS ME “EAT MEAT”!!! Whi-y I oughta . . .
I must admit, though, Cali, those scallops looked incredible.
Comment by svenb0nk
February 25, 2008 @ 3:28 pm
So how do you really feel, Cali?
In my view, either you let her filth through and let the community at TSW deal with it as it see fits, or you just don’t allow her to post here-period. Although Deb is a special case, Im not a big fan of a moderator or anyone else deciding what should or should not be posted. You can make an honest case that what Deb has posted crosses the line into child porn or some other obscene material that will not be tolerated, and if so, there’s no reason not to set that standard for her or anyone else and just ban her IP address and be done with it.
Comment by CCL
February 25, 2008 @ 3:29 pm
what do you suppose Troll Spray smells like? What’s in it? I’m sure there’s a bit o’ sage, maybe some peppermint. ??
Comment by CCL
February 25, 2008 @ 3:32 pm
Sven, I suspect some thought is being put into that decision precisely.
Comment by Northwesterner
February 25, 2008 @ 3:38 pm
I say ban her. It hurts when she disrespects teh gerbil wives. Haven’t other people been invited to leave Teh Wheel, and for far lesser grievances? I am opposed to censorship, but this is a community in which the well-established norm is an atmosphere of respect & tolerance. Disagreements abound; but personal attacks cross the line.
Comment by Cali-rific
February 25, 2008 @ 3:44 pm
I love teh wheel..
EXCEPT when it comes to the troll dominating the threads in one way or another.
At that point the threads stink weather I see the spewage or not.
It disrupts my chi.
Comment by Blizzardlane
February 25, 2008 @ 3:48 pm
It’s Sinner’s call.
“I didn’t know we had a king. I thought we were an autonomous collective.”
Comment by BrendaK
February 25, 2008 @ 3:51 pm
*** New, Shiny, HAPPY THREAD! ***
.
Currently Troll-Free
Comment by largenfirm
February 25, 2008 @ 4:01 pm
Clarification:
404’s recent posts are currently in moderation for as long as they are needed for evidence purposes, civil or criminal. Screencaps of some (not all) of these posts have been provided to law enforcement and legal representatives of libeled TSW members.
While they are in moderation, 404 cannot send them down the memory hole, as she can do when they have been posted.
Restoration of these posts to the threads is possible, if the moderators agree to do so. Given the lack of non-libelous content in 404’s postings, that seems unlikely.
404’s postings automatically go to moderation since some time last night. They will not be seen until (and if) they are approved by a moderator.
Bottom line, 404 is not “banned”, but 404 is also not allowed to post without her posts being moderated. If she wishes to further libel TSW members, she’s welcome to do it on her own blogs. If she can restrict herself to the level of “high snark” generally seen on Teh Wheel, her postings may appear.
It is unfortunate that this is necessary, but 404 leaves us little choice – one person cannot be allowed to pollute the shared resource that is Teh Wheel.
This is my viewpoint – other moderators may have other viewpoints, and I don’t speak for them.
Kirk
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