The reason people think /talk is mean and nasty
is probably something to do with the meanness and the nastiness.
( Zuowan, Tue 26 Aug 2008, 13:42, archived)

I like to think /talk tolerates less shitness than qotw

( spangolin - the odds are good but the goods are odd, Tue 26 Aug 2008, 13:43, archived)

Are you joking?

( Newington, Tue 26 Aug 2008, 13:46, archived)

I said I LIKE TO THINK.
in practice it doesn't seem to work that way :)
( spangolin - the odds are good but the goods are odd, Tue 26 Aug 2008, 13:49, archived)

Aha
"It's all very well in practice, but how does it work in theory?"
( Newington, Tue 26 Aug 2008, 13:52, archived)

It's a different kind of shiteness that is tolerated here.

( Undulating Tentacles of Love getting fun down to acceptable levels, Tue 26 Aug 2008, 13:55, archived)

Wait,
what?
( well, Tue 26 Aug 2008, 13:47, archived)