Buddhist Civilians

[iamkyon]

Mentioning the name alone is enough to make me combust spontaneously with joy.

[Gauddlike]

Plenty of new people on the forum as well.

This Xenonauts fever is spreading like wildfire.

[GoodGuyEddy]

Just...just this :

[Gauddlike]

Time to put this thread on the back burner I reckon.

[Dix]

Hey, hey folks, no need to get hot under the collar. Clearly, these civiliians simply follow the ancient and honorable Python school of philisophy:

[Kimberly]

I'm a fan of the Python movies, myself. Especially the gay innuendo; I don't know if it's their British-ness, but some of the characters are just flaming.

(Too far-fetched?)

[Dix]

...I know you're just fanning the conversational flames, but I don't think that was what was meant by plasma cannon.

(too too? )

Edited May 28, 2012 by Dix

[Gauddlike]

At least you didn't say some of the Python team in frocks were hot.

Edited May 29, 2012 by Gauddlike

[thothkins]

Oh, I don't know. Some them were pretty smokin'

[Gauddlike]

We should probably end this thread now.

It is dead and should be cremated.

[thothkins]

I saw one of those silly polls that had Monty python as the second best British movie in six decades. It was behind trainspotting, but ahead of Clockwork Orange and 2001.

as for the thread, I'm shocked that you could cull it so easily. Sure, posts may dwindle away, but there should surely always be one of us here to keep the home fires burning in case it picks up again.

[Gauddlike]

Well it just seems like the thread has no running theme like some of the other ones we have participated in.

It doesn't hold a candle to those great examples of internet prose.

[thothkins]

Good point Gauddlike. As someone who values sticking rigidly to a topic, I wonder sometimes if newcomers feel that their points aren't being taken as seriously as they feel they should be. We might have read similar ideas before, and so we go off on tangents to really mine into them.

That's OK for us, as we've been round the forum long enough to have more than a few irons in the fire, but spare a thought for the OP and stick firmly to the topic. That's going to be my motto from now......until now. Whew, that was hard.

[Kimberly]

I think a little topic derailment might be a good lesson for newcomers, showing them the way we do things around here. They need to stay steady under fire, after all.

[thothkins]

Gee, I don't know how I'll be able to just go off at a tangent, derailing threads. it'll be tough. But no newcomer to the forums should have to go through a baptism of fire, just to feel that they belong.

Not sticking to a topic. That's my motto from now... oh, it probably already was my motto.

[Gauddlike]

Yeah you have already been branded with that one.

You just seem to have a burning desire to fit as many different topics into a single thread as possible.

[thothkins]

yeah, there's no use me pretending I don't. There's no smoke without fire after all.

[Gorlom]

Oh my you are still beating that dead horse after 4 whole pages?

You are going to have a barbeque later aren't you?

[Dix]

Sathra should have killed this thread when it was still young, just a quick cut and then cauterise the wound. Now it's taken on a life of it's own. And it's eating Tothkin's well-toasted horse.

[thothkins]

wow! BBQ a whole horse? the fat will literally be in the fire then.

[Gauddlike]

Ah with the weather we have been having over the last few days here I am loving the BBQ idea.

Burgers, sausages, chicken wings...

My mind is aflame with the possibilities.

[thothkins]

yeah, it's been lovely here too. One of the few occasions in life I like to add fuel to a fire is at an extra long BBQ.

[Kimberly]

I don't like barbecue anymore, after listening to a Christian vegan for too long. It was always fire and brimstone with her.

[thothkins]

That's a shame. There are a lot of people who just can't reason properly aren't there?

They simply can't hold a normal conversation, without droning on about their 'special' point of >yawn< view.

While it's all too easy to just nod and accept such things, I often try to very calmly and briefly let them know what they sound like. Then move on. The worst thing to is to descend to their level and try and reason it out.

They aren't going to listen and before you know it you're fighting fire with fire. It's just a waste really.

[Dix]

It's always difficult when you are caught up in one of those conversations, particularly with people you know and/or respect. You try to pour oil on troubled waters, but you just end up enflaming things even further.

So you try to take a step back for some perspective, hoping to bring a fresh point of view, and instead you're just out of the frying pan and into the fire.

All right, you say, no problem, I can take the heat. I will extinguish this strife, and bring cooling balm to the fevered brows of my fellow humans, with my logic and reason. Instead, you find using logic and reason has simply added fuel to the conversation, and that being resonable has simply fanned the flames of your impassioned compatriats.

...this isn't working, you think. Ok, let me brainstorm, find a new way. Wait, I said brainstorm - not lightning storm, NOT LIGHT-.

...

dammit. So, my bright idea just made me a bright spark, and sparks in a volatile scenario, well, fwoosh is the word.

You know what? (You think to yourself in resignation) just pass me the marshmallows.