Where are MrFun and monkspider?

[molly bloom]

Weren't they recently married by an expatriate gay Filipino National People's Army minister in front of a congregation of gay German penguins ?

I believe Pekka (a.k.a. Raj Pekkish, world's first Indo-Finnish restaurateur, reindeer masala a speciality) did the catering.

[Kidlicious]

Originally posted by Ming


Around the time when posters started acting like complete idiots and jerks

We don't have a king. We are an autonomous collection of free individuals.

[Ming]

Originally posted by Kidicious
We don't have a king.

No... but we do have dictators... The owners can make whatever rules they like. Their site, their rules. Deal with it

We are an autonomous collection of free individuals.

Yep... free to stay or leave... as you wish.

[Ogie Oglethorpe]

Originally posted by Kidicious


We don't have a king. We are an autonomous collection of free individuals.

OK Dennis.

Scene 3

[clop clop]
ARTHUR: Old woman!
DENNIS: Man!
ARTHUR: Man, sorry. What knight lives in that castle over there?
DENNIS: I'm thirty seven.
ARTHUR: What?
DENNIS: I'm thirty seven -- I'm not old!
ARTHUR: Well, I can't just call you `Man'.
DENNIS: Well, you could say `Dennis'.
ARTHUR: Well, I didn't know you were called `Dennis.'
DENNIS: Well, you didn't bother to find out, did you?
ARTHUR: I did say sorry about the `old woman,' but from the
behind you looked--
DENNIS: What I object to is you automatically treat me like an
inferior!
ARTHUR: Well, I AM king...
DENNIS: Oh king, eh, very nice. An' how'd you get that, eh? By
exploitin' the workers -- by 'angin' on to our outdated imperialist
dogma which perpetuates the economic an' social differences in our
society! If there's ever going to be any progress--
WOMAN: Dennis, there's some lovely filth down here. Oh -- how
d'you do?
ARTHUR: How do you do, good lady. I am Arthur, King of the
Britons. Who's castle is that?
WOMAN: King of the who?
ARTHUR: The Britons.
WOMAN: Who are the Britons?
ARTHUR: Well, we all are. we're all Britons and I am your king.
WOMAN: I didn't know we had a king. I thought we were an
autonomous collective.
DENNIS: You're fooling yourself. We're living in a dictatorship.
A self-perpetuating autocracy in which the working classes--
WOMAN: Oh there you go, bringing class into it again.
DENNIS: That's what it's all about if only people would--
ARTHUR: Please, please good people. I am in haste. Who lives
in that castle?
WOMAN: No one live there.
ARTHUR: Then who is your lord?
WOMAN: We don't have a lord.
ARTHUR: What?
DENNIS: I told you. We're an anarcho-syndicalist commune. We
take it in turns to act as a sort of executive officer for the
week.
ARTHUR: Yes.
DENNIS: But all the decisions of that officer have to be ratified
at a special biweekly meeting.
ARTHUR: Yes, I see.
DENNIS: By a simple majority in the case of purely internal
affairs,--
ARTHUR: Be quiet!
DENNIS: --but by a two-thirds majority in the case of more--
ARTHUR: Be quiet! I order you to be quiet!
WOMAN: Order, eh -- who does he think he is?
ARTHUR: I am your king!
WOMAN: Well, I didn't vote for you.
ARTHUR: You don't vote for kings.
WOMAN: Well, 'ow did you become king then?
ARTHUR: The Lady of the Lake, [angels sing] her arm clad in the
purest shimmering samite, held aloft Excalibur from the bosom of
the water signifying by Divine Providence that I, Arthur, was to
carry Excalibur. [singing stops] That is why I am your king!
DENNIS: Listen -- strange women lying in ponds distributing
swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive
power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some
farcical aquatic ceremony.
ARTHUR: Be quiet!
DENNIS: Well you can't expect to wield supreme executive power
just 'cause some watery tart threw a sword at you!
ARTHUR: Shut up!
DENNIS: I mean, if I went around sayin' I was an empereror just
because some moistened bint had lobbed a scimitar at me they'd
put me away!
ARTHUR: Shut up! Will you shut up!
DENNIS: Ah, now we see the violence inherent in the system.
ARTHUR: Shut up!
DENNIS: Oh! Come and see the violence inherent in the system!
HELP! HELP! I'm being repressed!
ARTHUR: Bloody peasant!
DENNIS: Oh, what a give away. Did you here that, did you here
that, eh? That's what I'm on about -- did you see him repressing
me, you saw it didn't you?

[Winston]

[Jaguar]

Originally posted by Ming


No... but we do have dictators... The owners can make whatever rules they like. Their site, their rules. Deal with it



Yep... free to stay or leave... as you wish.

Oh my ****ing god, this is a police state! This makes me genuinely angry!

[DaShi]

Originally posted by Ming


Around the time when posters started acting like complete idiots and jerks

Hey!

[mindseye]

Where's MtG?

[Japher]

he's becoming an expert at lurking?

[Ming]

Originally posted by Jaguar

Oh my ****ing god, this is a police state! This makes me genuinely angry!

Whatever...

Consider it a Private Site... or a persons Home. The owners get to set the rules, and if you wish to partake of their hospitality, you must follow them.

Unlike a police state, where you might not have the option to "easily" leave... here you do. Nobody is making you stay... but if you do, their site, their rules.

We don't think that's asking too much considering all the time and effort they have put in to make this place a free community for gamers

[Kuciwalker]

I think that was a joke

[Ming]

Whether it was a joke or not... the answer is always the same. It's a privately owned site... and that's a fact

[Jaguar]

I triggered a Mingspeech.

[Kidlicious]

Ah, now we see the violence inherent in the system.

I love that bit. I have to rent it again.

[The Emperor Fabulous]

Originally posted by Ming
It's a privately owned site... and that's a fact

...with outside contributions by certain members of the site...

Though I assume the same rules still apply to them...

Sorry...just its just felt like the right time for Moderately Contradicting the Moderator (tm)