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Mentzer in a micro-bikini to the rescue!
And you just happen to have that pic on your hard drive? Maybe in a folder called Dice Bears? Or Pictures of Dorky-N-Gray?
Ok now this place is starting to sound like my 12 year old playgroup. My inner 12 year old is giggling but my 48 year old is thinking oh this is not a good look.
Best done with two girls, so I'm told.You guys know some fancy positions. I never heard of any of them! America's cup sounds painful.
Was the song not enough of a clue? They come from a land down under. Look on the back of the map.
Strange how the map has South Sudan, but only half of New Guinea.
For a bit of context, maps that leave New Zealand off became a bit of a meme at one point, and there was a news article about somebody from New Zealand that had trouble at a border post somewhere because the post's map didn't have New Zealand on it, and the guards didn't believe that New Zealand existed.Strange how the map has South Sudan, but only half of New Guinea.
No, they just flogged it all off.Didn’t they tear New Zealand down after filming the LotR movies?
Damn straight. The whole Australia thing is a myth. I'm not too sure about Austria or Austin either.I was just reminded across this bit of news from a couple of years ago ...
This Student Failed Her Assignment Because Her Professor Said "Australia Isn't A Country"
I mean, seriously - meat pie floaters? They had me going until they took the joke too far.Damn straight. The whole Australia thing is a myth. I'm not too sure about Austria or Austin either.
I appreciate that. To be clear, I'm definitely not suggesting a change in moderation. This is more of a call for good-faith posting ...I know that all three of us do notice that. As far as motivations go, I feel like most of the time it's because people go out of their way to say they are avoiding politics even though they are pointing at that "man behind the curtain". A select few times I do feel like it is blatantly violating the rule here. Most of the mod stuff we do here is behind the scenes and we have talked to a few folks about breaking the rules even though they are well aware of it. Thank you for bringing it up, Theo!
I would support that wholeheartedlyThis is more of a call for good-faith posting ...
No need for thatI'll shut up now.
On the more serious topic of rules discussions ... I feel like there's a bit too much passive-aggressive politics-not-politics posting here sometimes. You know the posts I'm talking about: "I'm not going to mention politics BUT ... " where the implication, given the context, is perfectly clear.
I wasn't thinking of you.I don't know if you're specifically talking about me, but I feel as if you could be. I hope I don't come across that smug, because... well, when I say something like that, I am attempting to convey where I stand, by implication-- but I'm not trying to win the argument by hiding behind the mods' skirts, either. I'm trying to confirm what the other person has probably already guessed about where I stand while conceding that I can't press the argument and thus, well, I can't press the argument.
It's agreeing to disagree with the acknowledgment that I don't think either of us is doing so willingly.
I wasn't thinking of you.
However, my intention in posting was not to call anyone specific out (much less report anyone), so I don't want to start answering a chain of these "Was it me?" questions from everyone, because the answer will eventually be "Yes: it was you" and that will get awkward.
I have done that twice myself, but I meant it purely as a "this innocuous seeming topic is in fact political here" as I think people looking up ancient history and myth can not realise how political those topics can get in most European countries and hence how that affects sources etc.
I will say that sometimes I think some of us aren't sure where the line is exactly. Like when I tried to avoid posting the name of the game book Can You Brexit without breaking Britain?. I genuinely didn't think it was allowed, people told me to anyway and there seemed to be no issue when I did. (Although that might be that Brit politics are less of a hot potato on here).It's not something I associate with you in particular FaerieGodfather, a lot of posters occassionally do this - "I can't talk about this because politics, but" - dance and it does drive us Mods nuts, because we're like "then don't mention it then", mainly because it often seems like bait, or a way to express political views on a subject anyways. I don't think we need to call anyone out on it, we just wish that people wouldn't do that.