Hi all,
After some internal discussion, we have decided that user titles are subject to the same rules as sig lines. So please don't put political messages or statements in your user title.
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Hi all,
After some internal discussion, we have decided that user titles are subject to the same rules as sig lines. So please don't put political messages or statements in your user title.
I have no objection to this, and think that it makes perfect sense, but I had not even noticed that it had become an issue.
It feems fair to all of uf. Af it were...
Is it O.K. if I put ;
"Hirlau The Magnificent" under my user title,, also an image of a tiny Knight slaying a really big Dragon ? :shrug:
Makes perfect sense to me. Hopefully this is fair warning and not because people can't figure this out on their own.
Clearly the rule would not have come up if people could figure it out on their own.
Reminds me of a variation of an often heard question back in the Navy...Quote:
Originally Posted by Utopian
Nub: Why do we have such idiotic rules about (insert topic).
Chief: Because someone, somewhere, did exactly what it tells you not to do.
The on going joke was that NOTHING was sailor proof.
Slaying that giant with a bottle of lilac vegetal !!!!! Tc
That reminds me of a pair of bridges in Iowa City. They form a "V" across the river. Each bridge is for one direction of traffic and they can be seen HERE. The bridges on the side of the river with the bars are merged together, but as a drunk college student staggers across that bridge, he (of course it is always "he") notices through his blurry gaze that the gap between the bridges gets increasingly wider as he heads closer to his dorm. Now the obvious thing to do upon noticing this gap is to declare, "Hey, I can jump across that! Hold my beer!" Conveniently, there is a small dam immediately downstream of the bridges (it is visible in the link) and so when the honor student fails to make jump, his body rolls around under the dam for several hours until divers can retrieve it.Quote:
Originally Posted by MattCB
There was a public uproar about it in the 90s after yet another students body was recovered and the city engineer said the perfect, though politically incorrect thing. "We can put up signs, we can put up fences, but we cannot engineer away stupid."
I love that! You can't protect stupid people from making poor choices with signs and warning labels. My personal favorite warning label was on the lawn mower I bought last year:
Warning: do not lift to lawnmower up and use it to trim hedges or any other greenery.
Owners manual for Mercury outboards that I once had. It is unsafe to run over people while they are in the water, it could cause harm, injury and even death.
Really, I'm pretty sure they could have followed that with and if you could not have figured that out on your own please return this outboards to the dealer, clearly you are not smart enough to have an outboard.
As long as it isn't one of those dragons off Game of Thrones...They're kinda cute...Quote:
Originally Posted by Hirlau
How about "Hirlau the diminutive"
As is often the case, we never explicitly put it in the rules because it's one of those things that should be obvious. And then someone didn't think it was obvious. And took it badly.
The thing is, your user title is like a sig line. It is visible everywhere in the forum. Political statements have no place in the general forum.
All this is making me want to do a headstand in a 5 gallon bucket of water.
For how long?Quote:
Originally Posted by WW243
Just to make sure I know what Sig Lines are... That would be, "Senior Member", "Admin & Forum Fixer", " Seeking Shaving Zen", etc?
Just want to make sure I know exactly what is being described.
Signature lines are at the bottom of the user's post. Look up at the bottom of Ed's post. "bread and..." is his sig line.
"Senior Member,..." is what Bruno called the user title.
You know Ed, now that I am drinking tea as my first hot beverage of the day (dropping first thing coffee after about 46 years), 'bread and water can so easily become tea and toast' is grossly misleading.
It is the tea part...first off, who actually lives where tea grows? Then there is the pesky brewing process, boiling, steeping, etc. And finally there is that pinky hanging out in space, ugh. That is not as easy as it looks.
Would 'Swollen Member' be an inappropriate user title?
Not for me, I was thinking of someone else.
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Originally Posted by edhewitt
Are you retaining water Bill?Quote:
Originally Posted by WW243
Took it badly?:rofl2:Quote:
Originally Posted by Bruno
That picture and foul language laden message he posted right after this thread was posted clearly indicated he was rather, how shall we say, "miffed"?:shrug:
Well to at least some level I have to agree, if I indeed had to actually sow, grow, harvest and process the tea it would be very time consuming, though not necessarily difficult. I would need to look into the process. Most young children can not kill a plant with a bit of guidance, picking leaves is a task I honestly believe almost anyone would be capable of. After that the leaves are just left out and bashed up a bit before being rolled and dried (again doesn't sound too difficult). So whilst the final cuppa might look and taste horrible actually turning the water into tea is easy. With regards to the pinky, I have a set of bolt cutters that you can borrow for the cost of return postage :)Quote:
Originally Posted by WW243