Should Idiots and Socks be Banned from Eplaya?

theCryptofishist · Post by **theCryptofishist** » Wed Aug 19, 2009 3:25 pm

Cause, ya know, I don't want to share bandwidth with just anyone.

Ugly Dougly · Post by **Ugly Dougly** » Wed Aug 19, 2009 3:38 pm

Hey, yeah, sure.

A little busy right now, don't you know.

Post by **AntiM** » Wed Aug 19, 2009 3:49 pm

I'd have to find a different thing to volunteer for.

But I wouldn't have the urge to smash my screen as often.

Artemis · Post by **Artemis** » Wed Aug 19, 2009 3:50 pm

I will comply if it's the consensus.

H.G.Crosby · Post by **H.G.Crosby** » Wed Aug 19, 2009 3:54 pm

i like compliant....it's better than complaint.

Da Mule · Post by **Da Mule** » Wed Aug 19, 2009 3:58 pm

But I'm SOOO CUTE!

I promise to be a good mule in the bar from now on.

goathead · Post by **goathead** » Wed Aug 19, 2009 4:18 pm

wondering if I should make a sock so I can be banned?

next it will be all non-human life forms...

then we will all have to post our mundane names, addresses...

when will it stop?

Ugly Dougly · Post by **Ugly Dougly** » Wed Aug 19, 2009 4:37 pm

You can make a sock and make your regular account into your sock.

That'll fry them.

ygmir · Post by **ygmir** » Wed Aug 19, 2009 4:39 pm

*notes Fishy's enforcer pic on wall*

Post by **AntiM** » Wed Aug 19, 2009 6:04 pm

H.G.Crosby wrote:i like compliant....it's better than complaint.

Ooooh, snark. You clever man, you.

I have a sock, but I screwed up the registration. I should ask Dork to fix me up.

oneeyeddick · Post by **oneeyeddick** » Wed Aug 19, 2009 6:22 pm

Fishy, I undesrtand your harted of socks, but what choo got against us idoits ?

Post by **Sham** » Wed Aug 19, 2009 6:23 pm

I have 8 votes that say we should not ban idiots and socks!

Post by **AntiM** » Wed Aug 19, 2009 6:25 pm

Where's our fucking poll?

MikeVDS · Post by **MikeVDS** » Wed Aug 19, 2009 6:27 pm

Socky says, "Please don't ban meeeee!"

Post by **Sham** » Wed Aug 19, 2009 6:29 pm

AntiM wrote:Where's our fucking poll?

It was just here 2 minutes prior to your post. I saw it when I did my post. That's creepy!

Simon of the Playa · Post by **Simon of the Playa** » Wed Aug 19, 2009 6:30 pm

this morning i shot an elephant in my socks.

what he was doing in my socks, i'll never know.

Post by **AntiM** » Wed Aug 19, 2009 6:35 pm

*bangs head against screen*

That would work better if I were playing something besides Domo Arigato Mr. Roboto.

goathead · Post by **goathead** » Wed Aug 19, 2009 6:56 pm

someone call for a pole?

ygmir · Post by **ygmir** » Wed Aug 19, 2009 6:59 pm

goathead · Post by **goathead** » Wed Aug 19, 2009 7:06 pm

I can think of worse things to share bandwidth with then socks.

Shorts with skid marks for example...

I mean really, wipe people....

Oldguy · Post by **Oldguy** » Wed Aug 19, 2009 7:34 pm

Even Sadam Hussein had new underwear and socks in that spiderhole. Remember him?

Nobody doesn't like socks, even dictators. This is a politics thread after all.

Simon of the Playa · Post by **Simon of the Playa** » Wed Aug 19, 2009 7:50 pm

i believe if you count the number of socks i have you'll see it's just right for the whole week.

a freshie a day keeps playa foot away.

there is NOTHING like breaking out a pair of virgin socks, fresh from the package and starting the day right with happy happy feet.

there is no argument against this true principle.

Deb Prothero · Post by **Deb Prothero** » Wed Aug 19, 2009 7:55 pm

Since it's a political thread, I'll add a little story from yesterday's news.

Our Canadian Prime Minister, Steven Harper, made a presentation in our most northerly city, Iqaluit yesterday. His office issued a press release but they spelled Iqaluit incorrectly. They spelled it Iqualuit.

From the Inuktitut language (Eskimo or Inuit folks), Iqaluit means: many fish

However, the meaning changes to : people with unwiped bums
when the extra 'u' is added.

The entire far north exploded with anger with a bit of tittering too.

I expect that PM Harper would dearly like to be a sock today.

wedeliver · Post by **wedeliver** » Wed Aug 19, 2009 8:15 pm

ADOPT A SOCK! thats the solution!

Deb, thats really funny, if you notice this is a thread about idiots and socks, the forum is politics and philosophy of Burning Man, the "open Discussion" thread is for world or Canadian politics.

Deb Prothero wrote:Since it's a political thread, I'll add a little story from yesterday's news.

Our Canadian Prime Minister, Steven Harper, made a presentation in our most northerly city, Iqaluit yesterday. His office issued a press release but they spelled Iqaluit incorrectly. They spelled it Iqualuit.

From the Inuktitut language (Eskimo or Inuit folks), Iqaluit means: many fish

However, the meaning changes to : people with unwiped bums
when the extra 'u' is added.

The entire far north exploded with anger with a bit of tittering too.

I expect that PM Harper would dearly like to be a sock today.

I don't understand how we can wipe the bums. They have rights also. I have tried to get them help a few times.

Our bums here in the states are not wipeable I don't think, except for the vets, you know the one's who like animals.

oneeyeddick · Post by **oneeyeddick** » Wed Aug 19, 2009 8:17 pm

This is not a political thread, nor do we care about Canada.

We already know you guys don't wipe your asses properly.

Deb Prothero · Post by **Deb Prothero** » Wed Aug 19, 2009 8:19 pm

OED;

That's because the stores actually carry environmentally friendly one ply tissue!

Remember when I said that's what you're getting for Christmas instead of coal.

wedeliver · Post by **wedeliver** » Wed Aug 19, 2009 8:22 pm

oneeyeddick wrote:This is not a political thread, nor do we care about Canada.

We already know you guys don't wipe your asses properly.

where did it say ass's?? it said bums.

History of homelessness

Great Depression: man lying down on pier, New York City docks, 1935.
[edit] Great Britain and the USA

[edit] Early history through the 1800s
Following the Peasants' Revolt, British constables were authorised under a 1383 statute to collar vagabonds and force them to show their means of support; if they could not, the penalty was gaol.[5] Under a 1495 statute, vagabonds could be sentenced to the stocks for three days and nights; in 1530, whipping was added. The presumption was that vagabonds were unlicensed beggars.[5] In 1547, a bill was passed that subjected vagrants to some of the more extreme provisions of the criminal law, namely two years servitude and branding with a "V" as the penalty for the first offense and death for the second. One arriving in the American colonies in the 18th century were transported convicts. Large numbers of vagabonds were transported along with ordinary criminals.[6]

In the 16th century in England, the state first tried to give housing to vagrants instead of punishing them, by introducing bridewells to take vagrants and train them for a profession. In the 17th and 18th centuries, these were replaced by workhouses but these were intended to discourage too much reliance on state help.

In 1848 Lord Ashley referred to more than 30,000 'naked, filthy, roaming lawless and deserted children', in and around London.[7]

Although not specifically about the homeless, Jacob Riis wrote about, documented, and photographed the poor and destitute in New York City tenements in the late 1800s. He also wrote a ground-breaking book including such material in How the Other Half Lives in 1890.

(shit ya gotta be quick around here)

Deb Prothero · Post by **Deb Prothero** » Wed Aug 19, 2009 8:29 pm

wedeliver wrote:ADOPT A SOCK! thats the solution!

And what shall we do with the idjuts.

Deb, thats really funny, if you notice this is a thread about idiots and socks, the forum is politics and philosophy of Burning Man, the "open Discussion" thread is for world or Canadian politics.

Sad to say, every time I bring up Canadian politics over in Open Discussion, I get 86'd from the bar!

I don't understand how we can wipe the bums. They have rights also. I have tried to get them help a few times.

Our bums here in the states are not wipeable I don't think, except for the vets, you know the one's who like animals.

Why do vets like animals?

wedeliver · Post by **wedeliver** » Wed Aug 19, 2009 8:45 pm

Deb Prothero wrote:
wedeliver wrote:ADOPT A SOCK! thats the solution!
And what shall we do with the idjuts.

Deb, thats really funny, if you notice this is a thread about idiots and socks, the forum is politics and philosophy of Burning Man, the "open Discussion" thread is for world or Canadian politics.
Sad to say, every time I bring up Canadian politics over in Open Discussion, I get 86'd from the bar!

I don't understand how we can wipe the bums. They have rights also. I have tried to get them help a few times.

Our bums here in the states are not wipeable I don't think, except for the vets, you know the one's who like animals.
Why do vets like animals?

I understand, this is theatre!... ok..idjuts? what ja askin' me for? What do I look like...??

I thought vets liked animals and thats why they took that job. You don't think they are just washouts that couldn't become real doctors???

Now back to our bums and your bums, you know it could be bad karma to wipe the bums.

(deb you are fun, I can't wait to meat you at the bacon on the playa)

Deb Prothero · Post by **Deb Prothero** » Wed Aug 19, 2009 9:07 pm

wedeliver wrote: I understand, this is theatre!... ok..idjuts? what ja askin' me for? What do I look like...??

You're asking me what you look like?

I thought vets liked animals and thats why they took that job. You don't think they are just washouts that couldn't become real doctors???

My oh my, you are brave to say that out loud. Better hope there's not to many socks that are vets.

Now back to our bums and your bums, you know it could be bad karma to wipe the bums.

I've worked in a homeless shelter, wedeliver. And it ain't pretty.

(deb you are fun, I can't wait to meat you at the bacon on the playa)

Meat? Am I being barbequed?

Look forward to meeting you too. Actually really looking forward to meeting all of you. Thursday 6PM at the Barbie Death Village

PS - I'll be late getting to the party. Caleb's memorial is scheduled for the same time (not a time of my choosing). It breaks my heart to have to choose. If you folks can keep the party going for awhile, I'll come over for a drink after the memorial. Methinks that will be a good idea.