The "I Didn't Comment in Another Thread" Thread

[payn]

I approve the new fashionable trend of peoples photos on their profiles.

A+

You asked for it.

 

[Snarf Zagyg]

I approve the new fashionable trend of peoples photos on their profiles.

A+

I prefer the newer and even more fashionable trend of having your photo on people's profiles.

A++.

 

[BookTenTiger]

I'd love to explain it to you, but the problem with his writing is really obvious. I'd spend a lot of time explaining to you, with a long story and lots of "just so" anecdotes, this really obvious problem.

Unfortunately, I'd explain it to you by simplifying the actual problem and then giving you a snappy, yet incorrect, understanding of what the problem with Gladwell's writing is.

But you'd feel good about yourself because you think you understand the problem with Gladwell's writing! And you'd go around and tell everybody about this understanding, because you feel smarter for having understood it. And it's really cool, because then you'd totally get this obvious thing, and be able to explain to other people (albeit incorrectly) the secrets behind the obvious thing.

Except that I didn't explain why Gladwell's writing is the ranch dressing of modern writing. I just kind of told you a story and strung you along and made you think that you understood the problem with his writing .... but I never really did, did I?

So I'll have to pass.

Oh, I get it now!

 

[darjr]

I prefer the newer and even more fashionable trend of having your photo on people's profiles.

A++.

I tried this. I got dizzy.

 

[Umbran]

My favorite dips for French fries are: mashed potatoes and gravy....

What this potato really needs is... more potato!

 

[Umbran]

I prefer the newer and even more fashionable trend of having your photo on people's profiles.

There was a time when moderators and admins could, in fact, change someone's profile pic. This is, in fact, how I got mine - one of the mods assigned it to me before I was a moderator. And, the realization that it was fitting may have been a reason why I got invited to be a moderator.

 

[Gradine]

I mean, let's be real. If you don't have a frosty to dip your fries in, it's a sad state

 

[Snarf Zagyg]

There was a time when moderators and admins could, in fact, change someone's profile pic. This is, in fact, how I got mine - one of the mods assigned it to me before I was a moderator. And, the realization that it was fitting may have been a reason why I got invited to be a moderator.

That would be an entertaining game!

Have people assign avatars to each other.

....maybe for a very loose definition of entertaining.

 

[BookTenTiger]

That would be an entertaining game!

Have people assign avatars to each other.

....maybe for a very loose definition of entertaining.

Back in the Nutkinland days I remember a lot of avatar changes and swapping. Someone (maybe Bugaboo?) started with a fetus and then grew up a few years every month or so. At one point I had one of my eyes as an avatar, and someone else has the other. Oh, back in ye olde days!

 

[RealAlHazred]

And I'm just sitting here with the same avatar I have used since, er, 1996, I think?

I do miss the animated avatars, since the original form was a television filled with static that moved. It's, uh, evolved since then.