[LMB] ListBiz was: little boys in women's bathrooms

[Azalais Aranxta]

On Wed, 23 Aug 2006, Eli Toft wrote:

> > quietann at gmail.com
>
> Quiet?

How fortunate for you that you feel comfortable using your real
name on the internet.  Not everyone does, but it does mean that
if harassing people about their usernames becomes popular on the
list, it'll be your real name people make fun of, so kindly
desist from this behaviour.

> This list is a new place for me.  Are folks here always so
> obsessed with sexual manipulations and mutilations, tampons,
> body parts, and brain farts?

This list is one of the few places men and women and parents and
non-parents can discuss pretty much anything (except US politics,
guns and ab*rtion) without things degenerating into a flame fest.
As such, all the topics you're not supposed to raise at dinner
parties do tend make an appearance from time to time.

Grit your teeth, delete the threads that don't interest you (you
can ignore/save for later all OT: threads by instructing your
email program to either delete or put into a separate folder
anything marked OT: if you so desire), and if an off-topic thread
that is irritating you has gone on longer than three days, you
may invoke OT3 and ask that it be dropped so long as you don't
use that to try and make a parting shot that no-one else is
allowed to return.

> These discussion topics are something of a surprise to me on a
> list dedicated to the person and work of Lois Bujold.  I always
> suspected she was human, but I generally don't think of her as
> being fixated on parts.

She isn't, but a close read of her books will reveal that while
she's not fixated on them, she doesn't shrink from discussing
them when there is important information to be conveyed.

Everyone's idea of important information differs.  Some people's
ideas are so far off from your own that it may seem safer to
killfile their posts--there are at least a couple folks on the
list I don't read and I suspect there are more than a few who
don't read me.  Which is fine.  Just, you know, don't go on and
ON about it where everyone else has to hear and be made
uncomfortable by your mutual disadmiration society.

And cheer up.  Eventually we'll move from this grotty topic to
another grotty topic, and you'll eventually be interested in
something.  I am as disinclined to public discussion of numbers
one and two as you are, but the information is occasionally
useful.

~malfoy

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sacred somewhere.  There's a deity out there who digs it.  You can respect
and love your darkest side, disposing only of what is obsolete or
impractical.  It's all about giving yourself permission." --Jack Darkhand

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