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I think his next petition will be a global lottery to give away one of the Hawaiian Islands.
I'm predicting he'll want to turn the Great Lakes into a series of waterfalls to provide hydroelectric power.
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Prevent silly peti-wait, that's way wrong.
His next petition should be to replace baseball with Cricket.
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Dude. Nobody cares about baseball either.
People still play baseball?
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Replace the expensive NSA program with more accurate magic 8 balls.
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Make yellow dingos an endangered species.
Unfortunately, those less educated on these boards may misunderstand his meaning and enthusiastically support the movement.
Populate Montana with kangaroos!
What about having Tesla devlop ships for NASA?
Electric rockets are where it's at, man. Don't you judge me. :)
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A petion to lower the number of signatures you need to get a goverment response to one.
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Lottery for a mango smoothie, blended by a wind turbine.
A petition to drain the Mediterranean, set up a hydroelectric dam in the Strait of Gibraltar to run a desalination project, and then irrigate the Sahara.
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A petition to send a rocket to the moon, hook it up, and drag it back down to Earth in order to provide a lifetime supply of cheese for all of humanity.
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A petition to stop the breeding of cross-breed abominations, like Snickerpoodles.
It's nice to see that Yellow Dingo is what passes for a troll on these boards. Time and time again I have to marvel at how awesome this community is.
Believe me, YD is one of the lighter ones. Hang out in other parts of the forums or find yourself a political argument to look in on to see some real trolling.
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A petition to stop the breeding of cross-breed abominations, like Snickerpoodles.
I might even sign that one.
... tell me more.
more
Oh you're a funny guy. I like funny guys. Come on, let's hear ya laugh.
Is it appropriate to start a thread to mock one particular poster?
That's pretty much how a lot of the old cult threads got started, actually. I miss those days. Back when there was a bit of a sense of humor about that kind of thing.
Old Cults eh?
>.>
What about having Tesla devlop ships for NASA?
Only if they can convince me they don't have Edison on ice somewhere.
Or if they do that he'll stay there.
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That's Disney on Ice, not Edison on Ice.
That's pretty much how a lot of the old cult threads got started, actually. I miss those days. Back when there was a bit of a sense of humor about that kind of thing.
That lack of a sense of humor is the only reason I haven't started a thread to mock myself.
A petition to stop the breeding of cross-breed abominations, like Snickerpoodles.
I'd sign that one.
Free money for everyone.
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Is it appropriate to start a thread to mock one particular poster?
There's a fine line between laughing with and laughing at.
In this case, it's probably up to yellowdingo to tell us when he feels that we've zipped right over it, and gone from having fun with his penchant for petitions (and the occasionally lively discussions they can sometimes provoke), to belittling or deriding him.
This sort of thread does definitely ride right on the line, 'though, and one humorless prat mistaking it for a 'take free shots at another poster!' thread and posting something obnoxious could bollix it all up and get it shut down. Being the internet, that's probably inevitable, sooner, rather than later...
(Like the chuckleheads posting parting shots at SKR in the thread about him leaving. So classy.)
So YD, can we vote on these? Because I'd like to see the cheese one happen.
A petition to send a rocket to the moon, hook it up, and drag it back down to Earth in order to provide a lifetime supply of cheese for all of humanity.
Come now, Yellowdingo doesn't do petitions for realistic projects.
(Like the chuckleheads posting parting shots at SKR in the thread about him leaving. So classy.)What?
There has had to be LOTS of intervention by Paizo's staff in the "Sean is leaving" thread, deleting insulting or rude posts - probably by people taking potshots at Sean due to their dislike of his blunt and unrelenting stances on rules and such.
They've always been deleted before I could get there to actually see one.
I've flagged a few. They were ridiculous.
So I guess if people would actually vote for the anti-snickerpoodle act, this could not in fact be a YD petition...
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Is it appropriate to start a thread to mock one particular poster?There's a fine line between laughing with and laughing at.
In this case, it's probably up to yellowdingo to tell us when he feels that we've zipped right over it, and gone from having fun with his penchant for petitions (and the occasionally lively discussions they can sometimes provoke), to belittling or deriding him.
This sort of thread does definitely ride right on the line, 'though, and one humorless prat mistaking it for a 'take free shots at another poster!' thread and posting something obnoxious could bollix it all up and get it shut down. Being the internet, that's probably inevitable, sooner, rather than later...
(Like the chuckleheads posting parting shots at SKR in the thread about him leaving. So classy.)
I find a number of the suggestions entertaining. The moon cheese will only work if we can switch the U.S. Economy over to cracker production. Unfortunatly Canadian crackers taste better on account of the use of maple syrup over corn fructose.
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A petition to send a rocket to the moon, hook it up, and drag it back down to Earth in order to provide a lifetime supply of cheese for all of humanity.Come now, Yellowdingo doesn't do petitions for realistic projects.
Damn right...its all about the dream of building something awesome. Unfortunatly a city for a billion women along with automatic us citizenship to destabilize nations where women are third class citizens and a massive windfarm investment so NASA can have a trillion dollars a year budget aint all that popular a dream.
So we move on...turn the space station into a giant three-dee printer. Yay, nay.
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where women are third class citizens
For the record, it goes:
1st: Purveyors of baked goods (mmm, donuts)
2nd: Polar bears (you don't really want to argue this with a polar bear)
3rd: Women (ditto)
4th: Very tiny rocks
5th: Men
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Unfortunately a city for a billion women along with automatic us citizenship to destabilize nations where women are third class citizens and a massive windfarm investment so NASA can have a trillion dollars a year budget aint all that popular a dream.
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Watching Star Trek, I always wondered why the Starfleet Academy wasn't *teeming* with Klingon and Ferengi women, since they would have it so much better in the Federation than in their home regimes. Entire ships could end up crewed with them in a generation or so.It'd be a huge investment in the future of any nation to openly recruit women from countries that treat them as the property of their fathers / husbands, give them a public education and add them to the work force. Add appropriate vocational training (what nation couldn't use more technically trained people, or, particularly, nurses?), and plant them in areas that are already under-served or have shortages in those fields.
Ah, from the 'War on X' to the 'War to Steal all Your Women!' That would make the host nation *tons* of friends on the international stage, I'm so sure. :)
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