My friend the communist is a hypoallergenic dog

I think one of the devotee hobbyists should set up a survey to help debunk the myth of monoculture and illuminate some potentially-depressing patterns that may live in the cracks between tribalist boundaries.

I suggest something like this list of hostile acts.

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[   ] 1: Alice makes fun of Wally for writing terribly broken patches (to his face)
[   ] 2: Wally makes fun of Alice for writing useless bug reports (behind her back)
[   ] 3: Alice sucker-punches Wally in the gut.
[   ] 4: Wally calls Alice a useless, scabies-infested neo-conservative
[   ] 5: Alice calls Wally a retarded troll version of Michael Milken
[   ] 6: Wally tells lies about Alice to everyone, pitting them against her
[   ] 7: Alice emails Wally some questions, with M-F-T and Reply-To set to Wally
[   ] 8: Wally willfully ignores all communication from Alice
[   ] 9: Further disthrustion
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One could do all kinds of fun stuff with this, adding and removing context for actions, since that type of thing matters to some people, even some of those fine people in the audience with some sort of borderline personality disorder.

I might rank number 8 as “most epicly-proportioned hostility” and number 3 as “least epicly-proportioned hostility”, whereas my friend Alpesh, who claims to be a pacifist, but refuses to acknowledge that verbal abuse is violence, might do the exact opposite.

Posted on 2006-03-10
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