I'm scratching my head as to what's all the kerfuffle. In almost 15 years of trolling the intarwebs, I've seen quite a few flame wars, one of them, on a topic so trivial I'm even ashamed to mention it, resulted in a phone call to my employer who had no idea what the fuck was going on.

Compared to the average flamefestival on DK (or anywhere else for that matter) in any I/P thread, this place is a monastery, even at its worst.

I will just say this: on every discussion site/group, there will be bloodflames at some point. Usually it's no big deal. Cost of doing business.

A 'centrist' is someone who's neither on the left, nor on the left.

by nicta (nico@altiva․fr) on Fri Feb 20th, 2009 at 06:17:53 PM EST
ET is a place of wonderful subtlety. Even our flamewars are complicated,
by Colman (colman at eurotrib.com) on Fri Feb 20th, 2009 at 06:19:49 PM EST
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nicta:
this place is a monastery, even at its worst.

 aaah, some perspective...

the night of the long rubber knives!

~"When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate." Karl Jung~

by melo (melometa4(at)gmail.com) on Fri Feb 20th, 2009 at 07:41:28 PM EST
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However, "There's no fight like a church fight." So comparing ET to a monastary might be a case of damning by faint praise...
by asdf on Fri Feb 20th, 2009 at 11:43:28 PM EST
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"Dieu se rit des hommes qui se plaignent des conséquences alors qu'ils en chérissent les causes" Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet
by Melanchthon on Fri Feb 20th, 2009 at 11:55:27 PM EST
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Commenting on an ongoing disfunctional situation on the Arkansas Martin Luther King Commission, a state representative said: "Biggest bunch of not-get-along people I've seen---aside from my own little Baptist Chruch!"

As the Dutch said while fighting the Spanish: "It is not necessary to have hope in order to persevere."
by ARGeezer (ARGeezer a in a circle eurotrib daught com) on Sat Feb 21st, 2009 at 12:37:52 AM EST
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hah, if ET is a church, what is our credo?

seriously, it is because we love it that we care so much. (sometimes not so skilfully)

~"When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate." Karl Jung~

by melo (melometa4(at)gmail.com) on Sat Feb 21st, 2009 at 06:02:43 AM EST
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melo!

Not the c..... word, please.

Don't you know what happens when people do that....

"Any economic unit can emit money. The serious problem is to get it accepted" Hyman Minsky

by ChrisCook (cojockathotmaildotcom) on Sat Feb 21st, 2009 at 06:31:12 AM EST
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oops, senior moment!

~"When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate." Karl Jung~
by melo (melometa4(at)gmail.com) on Sat Feb 21st, 2009 at 07:23:52 AM EST
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Hortus conclusus I'd say...
by de Gondi (publiobestia aaaatttthotmaildaughtusual) on Sat Feb 21st, 2009 at 06:01:23 PM EST
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i have heard that paradise in arabic is a walled garden.

~"When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate." Karl Jung~
by melo (melometa4(at)gmail.com) on Sat Feb 21st, 2009 at 08:21:18 PM EST
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