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Post by **Avatar** » Thu Nov 17, 2011 4:19 am

Sheesh, that's a bit of a heavy metaphor...

--A

Post by **MsMary** » Thu Nov 17, 2011 5:13 am

I dunno, I thought it was kind of two dimensional.

Post by **Shaun das Schaf** » Thu Nov 17, 2011 5:47 am

Avatar wrote:Sheesh, that's a bit of a heavy metaphor...

--A

Lol, you should have seen some of the images my google search returned for 'squashed'

. Had I attached them, now that woulda been heavy! Also, I may have been banned. Also, you may have thrown up your breakfast. Or whatever mealtime it is where you are.

But yes, perhaps Death Row, executions and pass-the-death-parcel are a little heavy. How about a game of 'he loves me, he loves me not'. If you're still pulling petals off your flower when Foul comes, you have to go to your room without your supper! AND Mummy is twenty minutes late tucking you in.

And

MsMary

Post by **Avatar** » Thu Nov 17, 2011 5:52 am

Yeah, I just meant a locked thread was scarcely a death sentence.

--A

Post by **Shaun das Schaf** » Thu Nov 17, 2011 6:01 am

Easy for you to say. Spend a day in a thread's shoes and you might change your tune. One minute you're being fed and lots of people are coming to visit, looking at you and talking to you, then all of a sudden the lights go out and you never hear from another soul EVER again.

You must have a heart of basalt if you can't feel the thread's pain.

Post by **Savor Dam** » Thu Nov 17, 2011 6:25 am

Shaun das Schaf wrote:Who will be the one Lord Foul flattens?

As Obi-Wan's final living utterance, George Lucas wrote:If you strike me down, I shall become more powerful than you could possibly imagine.

Post by **sgt.null** » Thu Nov 17, 2011 6:43 am

Avatar wrote:

Yeah, I just meant a locked thread was scarcely a death sentence.

--A

Die schärfsten Kritiker der Elche
waren früher selber welche

Post by **Frostheart Grueburn** » Thu Nov 17, 2011 7:58 am

Shaun das Schaf wrote:Easy for you to say. Spend a day in a thread's shoes and you might change your tune.

So here we have a supposition that a thread is a vaguely human-shaped entity able to pull on footwear. However, what if we're dealing with something entirely different, like a rectangular object existing only in two dimensions? How do you then spend a day in its shoes?

Post by **Shaun das Schaf** » Thu Nov 17, 2011 8:33 am

Behold, thread shoes:

But seriously, you have raised an important philosophical question. I do hope someone answers it for you. In the meantime, more shoes!

Post by **Vraith** » Thu Nov 17, 2011 7:03 pm

Savor Dam wrote:
As Obi-Wan's final living utterance, George Lucas wrote:If you strike me down, I shall become more powerful than you could possibly imagine.

Say...isn't that just what would have happened [only the bad guy wins] if TC had struck down LF?

Post by **Avatar** » Fri Nov 18, 2011 4:23 am

Mad, you're all mad.

--A

Post by **Savor Dam** » Fri Nov 18, 2011 5:22 am

Not mad...just terribly disappointed.

Where is Chaosbad, anyway? Did we chase away another newbie?

Post by **Avatar** » Fri Nov 18, 2011 5:30 am

Quite possibly. (Where's the "looking toward the horizon" emoticon?)

--A

Post by **Shaun das Schaf** » Fri Nov 18, 2011 6:21 am

Vraith wrote:
Savor Dam wrote:
As Obi-Wan's final living utterance, George Lucas wrote:If you strike me down, I shall become more powerful than you could possibly imagine.

Say...isn't that just what would have happened [only the bad guy wins] if TC had struck down LF?

Yes and no. But mostly no because Obi-Wan wasn't the bad guy, the guy in the helmut was.

Avatar wrote:Where's the "looking toward the horizon" emoticon?

Here.

And it has the advantage that if you fall in the water while you're busy looking, you won't drown.

Post by **Frostheart Grueburn** » Fri Nov 18, 2011 7:11 am

Shaun das Schaf wrote:

#5 looks approximately like the right model. Maybe a thread can sort of roll itself up and hop in, albeit that in this case, the simile would require a singular form: "Spend a day in a thread's shoe."

Also, we're not mad here, we're analytical.

Post by **Vraith** » Fri Nov 18, 2011 4:49 pm

Shaun das Schaf wrote:
Vraith wrote:
Savor Dam wrote:
Say...isn't that just what would have happened [only the bad guy wins] if TC had struck down LF?
Yes and no. But mostly no because Obi-Wan wasn't the bad guy, the guy in the helmut was.

That's why I said "only the bad guy wins."
Obi-wan [good guy] to Helmut [bad guy] says "Kill me, I become superpowerful"
LF-[bad guy] get's struck down by TC [good guy], becomes even more superpowerful [b-bye, arch].

Next topic: BTW, a thread rolled into a cylinder still can't wear a shoe...though it could glue on a prosthetic foot and then don the shoe [if you gave it some robotic hands to do so. You could do it for it, but that's just bad thread parenting, they need to be self-sufficient.
Don't go running to comfort them every time they cry either...it'll just become another whiny, self-righteous, entitled thread like so many others.
Obviously, it is already well on the way to that anyway. Never learned to spell its own name properly. Probably some stupid molly-coddler tried using that freaking dumb-ass "Hooked on Phonics" method.

Post by **aliantha** » Fri Nov 18, 2011 6:20 pm

Vraith wrote:
Shaun das Schaf wrote:
Vraith wrote: Say...isn't that just what would have happened [only the bad guy wins] if TC had struck down LF?
Yes and no. But mostly no because Obi-Wan wasn't the bad guy, the guy in the helmut was.
That's why I said "only the bad guy wins."
Obi-wan [good guy] to Helmut [bad guy] says "Kill me, I become superpowerful"
LF-[bad guy] get's struck down by TC [good guy], becomes even more superpowerful [b-bye, arch].

Next topic: BTW, a thread rolled into a cylinder still can't wear a shoe...though it could glue on a prosthetic foot and then don the shoe [if you gave it some robotic hands to do so. You could do it for it, but that's just bad thread parenting, they need to be self-sufficient.
Don't go running to comfort them every time they cry either...it'll just become another whiny, self-righteous, entitled thread like so many others.
Obviously, it is already well on the way to that anyway. Never learned to spell its own name properly. Probably some stupid molly-coddler tried using that freaking dumb-ass "Hooked on Phonics" method.

Are we doing Watchies this year? Because this post deserves a nomination.

YouTube · Post by **Menolly** » Fri Nov 18, 2011 8:43 pm

You can always post it in the Spotlight thread for next year.

Post by **Worm of Despite** » Sun Nov 20, 2011 12:51 am

I will lock this thread. I will lock it like the Whore of Babylon it is. But I won't give you people the decency of a warning. Your lives in this topic need to be cut short and snuffed out. So I will let you build your little brick walls here, your little empires of dirt that destroy the genetic superiority of my forum.

But don't think for a moment that it will last; that I will just join in or decide it's harmless.

It's not. People are dead. Gerald R. Ford DIED. My nation's greatest head-hunter is gone and you people are gooning it up.

I WILL STRIKE BACK.

When this clock hits 12 hours everything will be gone.

Post by **sindatur** » Sun Nov 20, 2011 1:24 am

Wait... Gone?

Not just Locked?

We don't get to look at it's corpse forever more (Or until it drops off the page cliff) to remind us of what we lost and make us Despair?

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