I think 'herding cats' was always going to prove difficult - if not impossible.
Joke thread commentary, criticism and explanations.....
- Thread starter DrPhill
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The trouble is that talking to one another between jokes breeds more interaction.
This is either good or bad.
It can cause a negative or positive reaction.
If its positive over time you sort of feel you know that person and start supporting their arguments and views.
Eventually you start talking about that interaction to the wife, who on numerous occasions reminds you its just not real. An extention of your made up illusion of a fictitious character that calls himself, Donny26431.
You then start personal messaging. First every couple of weeks. Eventually daily, and then every hour.
You decide to meet up over a coffee. Even putting your new shirt on with the psychedelic swirls.
Ultimately you hit it off, divorce the wife and move in together.
Thats the good outcome.
The bad outcome happens when during the initial interaction you tell them to water off get banned, and ten years later someone asks whatever happened to Hank8974?
Thats why discussions should not be allowed during the joke thread.
It ruins lives.
This is either good or bad.
It can cause a negative or positive reaction.
If its positive over time you sort of feel you know that person and start supporting their arguments and views.
Eventually you start talking about that interaction to the wife, who on numerous occasions reminds you its just not real. An extention of your made up illusion of a fictitious character that calls himself, Donny26431.
You then start personal messaging. First every couple of weeks. Eventually daily, and then every hour.
You decide to meet up over a coffee. Even putting your new shirt on with the psychedelic swirls.
Ultimately you hit it off, divorce the wife and move in together.
Thats the good outcome.
The bad outcome happens when during the initial interaction you tell them to water off get banned, and ten years later someone asks whatever happened to Hank8974?
Thats why discussions should not be allowed during the joke thread.
It ruins lives.
Why should only the joke thread be sacrosanct? Surely any diversion into politics, on any thread should be stopped as well? .............. Or maybe we just have to accept that all human interactions can be messy and unpredictable - as well as pleasant and life affirming. Perhaps we should " go with the flow" rather than succumb to the need, that we all seem to have, ( myself included), to "tidy things up".
Politics is a part of everyone's life, however much they might rather it wasn't; it's an essential part of civilisation. Small wonder that it often creeps into other tpoics of conversation.Why should only the joke thread be sacrosanct? Surely any diversion into politics, on any thread should be stopped as well? .............. Or maybe we just have to accept that all human interactions can be messy and unpredictable - as well as pleasant and life affirming. Perhaps we should " go with the flow" rather than succumb to the need, that we all seem to have, ( myself included), to "tidy things up".
What probably causes the annoyance is not politics per se but the facile assumptions made by folks who think that their, often simplistic, notions about what's right trump the lived reality and experiences of people who've been subjected to the "Utopia" they naively believe in.
I say................ that's a rather 'spicy' take
