April 17, 2008
daily UTC chat log for Anywherebb (Postline 6.1.30)

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18:56, Cryoburner> I tend to stay away from Walmart, so...
20:13, Deanfrz> It's Satan, and not even in disguise!
20:14, Deanfrz> Wont it be sweet when the North West passage opens up for summertime traffic and China will be able to ship direct to Europe, cutting the Americas out of the market?
20:15, Deanfrz> Imagine it, in just a few short years, the face of the economic globe will change in a way anticipated for half a millenium!
23:50, Magnulus> Wow, it would have been so awesome if we could just ignore the Americas.
23:50, Magnulus> ^_^
23:51, Magnulus> No, wait. I take that back. I do love bananas.
00:09, Cryoburner> What if the Americas didn't exist, and Columbus actually landed in Asia?
00:37, Tom> Europe would have cheap spices, and the last five hundred years would be drastically different...
00:37, Tom> maybe Africa would take the place of America in terms of colonization and all the rest...that would be interesting.
00:58, Raptorjedi> I've always wondered what the world would be like if we simply never discovered the Americas.
01:00, Raptorjedi> Or if the Native Americans kicked ass here instead of losing.
01:03, Cryoburner> Or if Asia did largescale colonization of the Americas in place of Europe.
01:04, Raptorjedi> Or the Vikings.
01:06, Raptorjedi> Since they were there first, but they didn't seem to do well :P
01:06, Cryoburner> Or the ancient Egyptians.
01:07, Raptorjedi> Thats a bit of a stretch there Cryo :P
01:07, Raptorjedi> But there was a Sliders episode about it :P
01:10, Cryoburner> How about the ancient Antarcticans?
01:10, Raptorjedi> The dinosaurs? :P
01:16, Cryoburner> Jellyfish?
01:17, Raptorjedi> Jellysaurs!
01:21, Cryoburner> Mmm... Jellysaurs...
01:45, Xenomorph> Jelly babies? :P
02:03, Raptorjedi> No, not your nasty jelly babies... :P
02:09, Hello! :)> Belly Jelly Babies?
10:19, Duskesko> ¯\_/¯\_/¯\_/¯\_/¯\_/¯ Jelly beans suck unless they're really fruity.
10:20, Starchaser> like those natural ones?
10:20, Duskesko> i mean like the starburst ones or jolly rancher ones
10:20, Starchaser> ohhhh. yea they are allright
10:21, Duskesko> you can't get very natural in the jelly bean department without it just being a piece of fruit
10:22, Duskesko> "Oh my, natural jelly beans!" "Those are grappes." -_-
10:22, Duskesko> and by grappes i mean grapes
10:22, Starchaser> indeed
10:26, Duskesko> we're approaching another milestone "Messages posted: 95012"
10:26, Starchaser> today or since the new site?
10:27, Duskesko> ??? I'm just looking at the board statistics.
10:28, Duskesko> "Threads started: 3958"
10:30, Starchaser> 849 actual members
10:30, Duskesko> and where these members are, we shall never know.
10:31, Duskesko meant: may never know.
10:32, Starchaser> mmm... i say we purge the unworthy :P
10:32, Duskesko> i say we design a button to purge the unworthy and fashion it in the likeness of a toilet handle.
10:33, Duskesko> THEN we do the actual purging.
10:34, Starchaser> lol
10:34, Duskesko> I'm not sure what defines "worthy" though. This is what worries me.
10:34, Starchaser> a member that is online more than once a month?
10:34, Duskesko> If it bases things on actual contructive benefits to the human race, I might be flushing myself.
10:35, Duskesko> Ahh, but see, Alex is definetly worthy. So is someone who comes and goes and yet makes constructive comments.
10:35, Starchaser> yes that thought only just came to mind
10:36, Duskesko> I feel we lack the ability to judge ourselves.
10:37, Starchaser> maybe the unworthy are the true worthy?
10:37, Duskesko> Now you're just confusing me.
10:38, Starchaser> oh yay i'm good at that
10:40, Duskesko> adj. 1. Having worth, merit, or value; useful or valuable.
10:41, Duskesko> We must establish what is useful or valuable to this community.
10:41, Starchaser> maybe only the worthy can tell the other worthy apart from the unworthy. therfore Alex must decide who will survive the purging
10:41, Duskesko> That's it!
10:41, Duskesko> We must all cry to Alex to solve our problems.
10:42, Duskesko> I mean, really, OBVIOUSLY. We should have seen this coming.
10:43, Starchaser> seen what coming?
10:44, Duskesko> The fact that something (our membership) is broken (full of unworthy) and can only be fixed by him.
10:44, Duskesko> It's a recurring scenario around here, it seems.
10:44, Starchaser> ahhh yes. maybe there should be an "initiation" site
10:45, Duskesko> In other words, were just finding more problems to make him fix. Perhaps we should stop.
10:46, Starchaser> yea. if we give him anymore things to fix NIV woun't be out till 2020
10:47, Starchaser meant: NV
10:47, Duskesko> I was thinking that the whole "expecting someone to finish a game" was along the same lines.
10:48, Duskesko> I mean, a curse had to be concocted just to shush the masses who believe one man has some sort of responsibility to them.
10:50, Starchaser> I have no reason to belive Alex has anyresponsability to us. others may think differntly...