sory I didnt catch this earlier Al
but this notion of conformity and adherence you've prescribed here seems rather un-b3tan...if you will..un-QOTW OT even more so...

Thou shalt be permitted to be a member of our whacky gang of outcasts as long as thou shalt be whacky and outcast in the following whacky and outcast way.
(bazmorningstar efil4nat3b, Mon 11 Jan 2010, 15:12, 3 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

There's no reason to adhere to certain rules and regulations. Simply recognise your target audience, do some research into the kind of poster who is likely to read your drivel and then decide if you want to copy and paste an email.
You should also be prepared to take a flaming for anything that you post. This is b3ta afterall.
( fuck shit up the best you never had, Mon 11 Jan 2010, 15:15, Reply)

that's mostly fair enough
but it's still a fair amount of 'thou shalt'... folk post all sorts of stuff here and it just seemed as though the chap was taking a roasting for being a misogynist when all posts like that do is highlight the childish rubbish men get a kick out of.

As for line breaks and cut and paste and what have you, fair dues to the lad for amending as requested and fair play to the good souls of OT for shining the light to lead his way.
(bazmorningstar efil4nat3b, Mon 11 Jan 2010, 15:25, Reply)

I don't think so. Everyone on here is fair game if others dont like what is posted. There's no thou shalt about it.
It's just courtesy to not have a massive wall of text as your first post, which is why I asked (relatively) politely for him to move it instead of calling him a cunt from the outset.
( fuck shit up the best you never had, Mon 11 Jan 2010, 15:29, Reply)

fair enough!
no sympathy for n00bs, it is!
(bazmorningstar efil4nat3b, Mon 11 Jan 2010, 15:58, Reply)

That's quite alright baz
I'm not prescribing anything at all, I'm merely pointing out that this post is completely out of character for this site. B3ta is full of unpredictable and unexpected jokes, as well as some old classics, but it is not a site to find lists of crap that are found on many e-mail circulars.

I was not picking at any specific bit of the content and saying that would alienate people, I was saying that the post as a whole will make a lot of people think that the poster is an unfunny twat.
(Bazongaloid, Mon 11 Jan 2010, 15:20, Reply)

'Old classics'
Might a person not be thought wholly unreasonable for filing the posters efforts under the above heading?
(bazmorningstar efil4nat3b, Mon 11 Jan 2010, 15:27, Reply)

Confusing as your double negative is
I would say that this post does not fall in the "old classic" which is a term I really meant to apply to well known memes that tend to get people laughing when dropped back in at an opportune moment, such as "your mum" or, more recently, a picture of Sid.
(Bazongaloid, Mon 11 Jan 2010, 15:34, Reply)

as double negatives go,
I thought that was quite an elegant one.
(bazmorningstar efil4nat3b, Mon 11 Jan 2010, 15:59, Reply)

I prefer the Glaswegian, 'double positve negative'
As in: "Very good ya fanny"
or

"Aye right, so ye did"
(Cancer Joy was short lived, Mon 11 Jan 2010, 16:04, Reply)

*grins*
we do a similar thing in Dublin alright.
(bazmorningstar efil4nat3b, Mon 11 Jan 2010, 16:11, Reply)

...but are you proscribing anything?
or are you some kind of internet doctor?


As well as a cloth-eared Dia fancier...?
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 11 Jan 2010, 15:33, Reply)

A Dia fancier?

(Bazongaloid, Mon 11 Jan 2010, 15:35, Reply)

-rrhoea, sorry.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 11 Jan 2010, 15:38, Reply)

You have to remember that Al has no sense of humour
But, through trial and error, has cobbled together a set of basic rules that seem to work most of the time. Thus he must crush any non-conformists lest the style of OT change and he has to start again from scratch.
( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Mon 11 Jan 2010, 15:34, Reply)

That's just what YOUR MUM would say

(Bazongaloid, Mon 11 Jan 2010, 15:35, Reply)

Zing!

( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Mon 11 Jan 2010, 15:42, Reply)

*retreats, chastened*
*to update own set of cobbled together rules*
( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Mon 11 Jan 2010, 15:51, Reply)