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@cobaltasaurus You are allowed to tell your doctor 'No.'

That's a really nice image. And it's canon so who am I to argue.

I used to watch WKRP all the time. The Thanksgiving turkey episode still cracks me up.

ETA: For you kids.

@silverfox You didn't give any of them ringworm. You just got caught unaware by it. Not your fault.

I am definitely not going to click that link. No way in hell. But I'll just say that torturing animals is a benchmark for sociopaths on their way to humans.

@Three-Eyed-Crow said:

Harrison Ford is in bizarro good shape for a man his age, which I guess comes from doing volunteer aviation search-and-rescue of hikers. So it's not fair to compare him to normal old humans.

You know who's is amazing shape? Dick Van Dyke. The guy is 90 and I just saw him dance a soft shoe. Not the most strenuous dance but he didn't move stiffly.

I've never liked Deadpool.

This movie (very possibly solely because of Ryan Reynolds) is making me reconsider that opinion.

@Ninjakitten said in RL Anger:

@ThatOneDude

They make you wear a nametag because at some point someone presumably decided this was friendlier, same as they somehow decided calling customers by (first!) name made them feel valued. First-name exchanges between people who are essentially strangers always feel awkward and over-familiar to me and I avoid them as much as I can.

Oh, I hate being on a first name basis with employees. Maybe it's because I'm old and was raised when that was not the norm. In fact, it would have been considered disrespectful. Use my first name? No. You can call me Mister.

We should start a new one for 2017 and retired this permanently. In fact, retire it, burn it and scatter the ashes.

It reminds me of Bob Dobbs and the Church of the Subgenius.

@kk said in The Work Thread:

I feel bad for my patients for leaving...

There are almost no guarantees in life but I can guarantee this: as a nurse, you will find patients elsewhere who need you just as much.

The lack of staff alt transparency bugs me. Refusal to have any is often a sign of issues that have come up plenty of times here.

They're not new but published in the 80s they're might be old enough to be new to her. In any case, I liked a bunch of Tamora Pierce's YA books. She's till writing I think so could have new stuff.

We really need that ignore function.

@auspice said in RL Anger:

Sounds like new doctor time to me.

Sounds like a complaint to the AMA to me.

I'm giving it a shot. I'm not big on playing sixteen but Riverdale meets Buffy meets It is just too tempting as a change from supers and isn't WoD.

@kumakun Regardless of what you do, one thing is absolutely vital: well written, WELL ORGANIZED, help files. Nothing turns me off more than not being able to find what I need to find in order to do something.

A long, long time ago in the same galaxy we're in now, I played on Crucible City. This was an original M&M 1E game and was probably one of my favorite Mu*s I've ever played on due to the player base and the staff.

The main plot runner was Magik and she had no qualms at all about having us lose if the situation warranted it. I loved losing, actually. It made the eventual success that much more fun and there was always an opportunity to get our revenge. It wasn't always the very next scene she ran; sometimes they were long term plots so could take a while. Good times.

Old news but I never bought another of his books after discovering just how big a bigot (among other things) Orson Scott Card is.

Working under the assumption that the moderation here is still struggling to reach equilibrium, understandably so given it's been almost, but not quite, anything goes, I'll note a few things as to why that should never have been a moderator post so we can hopefully avoid such things in the future.

As is obvious merely from reading the threads here, there is no such formal plot or conspiracy to bring down that game nor any game. One can assume that the proponents of the game interpret saying bad things about it to be the so-called plot but that's their problems. So a moderator post was made to the entire board to not do something that's not being done. Unnecessary.

But let's assume, for the sake of argument, that one or even a few people have 'plotted' to take the game down. They're obviously not doing so publicly here. Will the moderators, if they have suspicions of who might be doing so, start reading their private chats? Set them whatever the forum equivalent of 'suspect' is, if one exists? Let's say it goes beyond suspicions. Let's say it's confirmed that these people are trying, on their own, to bring the game down. And? Will they be banned from MSB for actions they take off the forum?

All of these hypothetical responses are starting to sound rather familiar aren't they? You don't pull your gun unless you are prepared to use it, they say. At least on tv.