Unrestricted free speech isn't a good thing you know.
This is true. For every step of progress enabled by freedom of speech, there's going to be the tail end charlies pushing right back. However, while unrestricted free speech isn't all it sounds to be, its alternatives -- all of them -- are at best unacceptable and mostly tyrannical.
Admittedly I don't think Lumine should have said what he did, I probably should have said that earlier. There's BeeTLs (I think that's what they called themselves at last check) here too.
The potshot at BTL is not what I had a problem with. I mean, I was the guy who wrote a 5 paragraph essay criticizing the current discussion style on BTL at the time. Or hell, some of the PMs I've sent JHM and WerewolfMilitia on the subject have not been glowing recommendations of the place. My beef was something else entirely, but I wasn't and am still not sure I can say what's on my mind without being at total jackass.
I sometimes get the impression that a lot of TVT's critics believe they have a more objective understanding than they actually have.
I find this kind of funny, because Meeble said something similar on BTL 2.0 about a month and 1/2 ago.
Unrestricted free speech isn't a good thing you know.
This is true. For every step of progress enabled by freedom of speech, there's going to be the tail end charlies pushing right back. However, while unrestricted free speech isn't all it sounds to be, its alternatives -- all of them -- are at best unacceptable and mostly tyrannical.
In a governmental context, sure. A private corporation or similar entity has the right to limit its own speech, though. You can't just deface somebody else's private property and call that "free speech". The circumstances that were under discussion definitely fell within those bounds.
Nonsense is the default here, outside of focused talk threads, but sometimes people want to talk about other things without being insulted for it, and that doesn't make them stupid, or humourless, or mean.
Sorry if I've missed your point, but if so, what are you getting at?
I had thought that the "four houses" was just a Harry Potter thing. I have just learned that schools in the United Kingdom having four houses is a common thing...? Is this true?
i get so angry sometimes i just punch plankton --Klinotaxis
I'm unfamiliar with Harry Potter and the "four horses". Could you be more specific. "Four Horses" has been a thing since Revelations, and that was penned around 1st century C.E.
i get so angry sometimes i just punch plankton --Klinotaxis
Also to contribute to the meta BTL conversation: I think the discussion was mostly OK, but possibly started to go awry towards the end, but those involved managed to stop thing before they got out of hand.
Obviously, we don't want this board to become a place devoted to people to discuss the other semi-related communities and their problems, but I think it's fine if people discuss there personal misgivings every once in a while. Just avoid the generalizations and be wary of that importing drama rule.
...And I know how much you guys love to apologize when I go off like this. It's not necessarily at the moment as I'm not really annoyed with anyone's conduct, no one really did anything thing that warrants actions by the staff. Hell, the party-house is quite...
Except for the staff-only rave that happens everyday, all the time.
i get so angry sometimes i just punch plankton --Klinotaxis
^^We well celebrate by setting fire to the night itself, as is our custom.
I also just bought a 12 pack (that's a 10 pack as of last night,very early this morning) of a Sam Adam's sampler. I also have a tall-boy of Steal Reserve.
Hopefully I can drink enough that I'm still inebriated come 7 AM the next morning when I have to be on call with HP reps about how to perform an upgrade.Maybe I can be drunk enough to ask why the bleeding FUCK a huge company like HP is wasting my god damn time over something so fucking simple when they should HAVE people who know this given there size and the importance of knowing THE LATEST RELEASE OF SQL SERVER, YOU DENSE MOTHER FUCKERS. WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU?!
I went to one (grammar) school which had four very old houses that practically nobody cared about anymore but which still technically existed, and one (comprehensive) school where five houses were sprung on us one year, I think in an attempt to get people to care about sports more, and a lot of people got really into it. Although my house was mostly really apathetic and boring and lame, sadly.
We didn't have common rooms, only form rooms, because neither of them was a boarding school. Both of them had house points and a house cup though.
Remember back in the 50s when they'd record like Elvis singing YOU AIN'T NOTHIN BUT A HOUND DOG and then they'd turn the record over and reverse it and it was all NYERP NYERP NYERP NYERP NYERP and people were all like, "That is actually the voice of Satan coming from that song."
It sounds to me like there's a greater variety of intramural sports in most real-life schools that have houses. Are there any other wizarding sports besides Quidditch and its relatives in the Harry Potter universe?
i get so angry sometimes i just punch plankton --Klinotaxis
I also have a tall-boy of Steal Reserve.
I'd poke fun at you for that, but I drink Steel Reserve too on occasion. Great beer for getting drunk, but not much else.
It's a bit of a guilty pleasure of mine, I actually think it tastes OK. But it definitely has a not so great after-taste that's only made up for for it's high alcohol content.
Remember back in the 50s when they'd record like Elvis singing YOU AIN'T NOTHIN BUT A HOUND DOG and then they'd turn the record over and reverse it and it was all NYERP NYERP NYERP NYERP NYERP and people were all like, "That is actually the voice of Satan coming from that song."
Lumine: Huh, I hadn't considered dueling as a sport. That actually makes a lot of sense.
I have actually been wondering how Exploding Snap works aside from the relatively vague descriptions we get in the books. We know it involves Chocolate Frog cards and explosions, at least. Though I'm sure it's on a Harry Potter wiki somewhere.
Remember back in the 50s when they'd record like Elvis singing YOU AIN'T NOTHIN BUT A HOUND DOG and then they'd turn the record over and reverse it and it was all NYERP NYERP NYERP NYERP NYERP and people were all like, "That is actually the voice of Satan coming from that song."
Oh. Heh, I seem to remember reading somewhere that it was basically Slapjack/Egyptian Rat Screw with magic and explosions. I guess I just forgot.
Though I couldn't help but laugh at the German translation originally being "Exploding Snape."
There's also Quodpot, which is mentioned in Quidditch Through the Ages and was presumably meant as a nod to differences between American and British sporting interests.
There is an American Quidditch team, but Quodpot is the more popular broomstick sport in America. It's basically "pass the exploding Quaffle".
There. That is your piece of obscure Potter trivia for today.
Remember back in the 50s when they'd record like Elvis singing YOU AIN'T NOTHIN BUT A HOUND DOG and then they'd turn the record over and reverse it and it was all NYERP NYERP NYERP NYERP NYERP and people were all like, "That is actually the voice of Satan coming from that song."
Quodpot was actually what I was thinking of when I said "Quidditch's relatives." Though to be completely fair, it's kind of a distant relative.
I also remember that one ancient sport where you tied a cauldron to your head to collect falling rocks but usually ended up fatally injuring yourself in the process.
I'd poke fun at you for that, but I drink Steel Reserve too on occasion. Great beer for getting drunk, but not much else.
It's a bit of a guilty pleasure of mine, I actually think it tastes OK. But it definitely has a not so great after-taste that's only made up for for it's high alcohol content.
I'd have to agree with that. The main taste is mediocre at best, but I will agree with the aftertaste part. Though I do like the Black can more than the silver one. Also, Steel Reserve won the Gold medal in the category of 'American-Style Premium Lager or Specialty Lager' at the World Beer Cup in 2012. Never would have guessed that.
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I remember Quodpot raising a lot of questions for me when I read Quidditch Through the Ages. I hadn't really put much thought into wizards in North America up to that point, and I kinda wondered how their schools differ from Hogwarts and the other European schools described in the books...I mean, we don't really have big old castles or anything here. Does the US even have any buildings that could come off as equally mystical and foreboding?
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Sorry if I've missed your point, but if so, what are you getting at?
It's...a thing.
i get so angry sometimes i just punch plankton --Klinotaxis
Apocalypse on the brain
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Happy Yank Day!
i get so angry sometimes i just punch plankton --Klinotaxis
We didn't have common rooms, only form rooms, because neither of them was a boarding school. Both of them had house points and a house cup though.
i get so angry sometimes i just punch plankton --Klinotaxis
There is an American Quidditch team, but Quodpot is the more popular broomstick sport in America. It's basically "pass the exploding Quaffle".
There. That is your piece of obscure Potter trivia for today.
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In unrelated news, whooooo Andy Murray! :D
Ferrer played very well.