FloatingFatMan

I would provisionally accept that it MAY be, pending evidence.

However, I wouldn't accept that it was sufficiently offensive for someone who has HAD that name since Dec 2007 without ANY complaints, to now have to change it just because a few folks have a thin skin.

Note: I would be of exactly the same opinion were the situations reversed. Our communities have merged, so each side is going to have to learn that some things that may be offensive to one side, are not so to the other, and therefore should just be ignored.

You can't really use celebs as a guide as there's just no way of telling how much of their behaviour is part of their act or not.

TBH, he's SO flamboyantly gay, that I really don't see how it can't NOT be more act than anything.

Are you using the uk.boards.cityofheroes.com url? If so, remove the UK part and it seems to fix most of the problems people are having.

Unless more people actually made complaints to the mods than didn't (which would require more than 50% of the ENTIRE forum population to make a complaint about it, then claiming it's offensive to the majority is nothing but hyperbole.

Unless, of course, you have evidence of that?

It's a pretty common phrase that I've come across literally hundreds of times in the 25 years I've been online, though it's often used in more scientific parlance. Generally, it gets used when someone is presenting something as unequivocal proof, when all they have is either opinion, or anecdotal evidence.

Clearly you've never heard that phrase before. It's satirical, don'tchaknow.

Apologies, I blame that _NA at the end of your name.

I treat all posts as opinions, even when they're claiming facts. Facts require proof, and proof is for alcohol and mathematics.

But none of those terms are particularly offensive here. "Rubber Johnny" is a rather old fashioned, somewhat quaint, and a little bit of a funny name for a condom, not offensive at all. And "spunky", well, that's far more an American word than an English one...

Such a name is FAR more likely to illicit no more than a chuckle from any of the English folks *I* know...

ALL posts just be taken as being "IMO", from ALL posters, everywhere. Some of us are just a wee bit louder at expressing our opinions. Especially me, I have a big gob.

You might find it less amusing if you had a "States-man", a "Stateman" and a "Statesman" to keep track of!


Or just another typical "We're the greatest!" Hollywood movie, who couldn't get history right if their lives depended on it.

I wonder when they'll turn the Falklands War into a movie. And which US movie star will be the Hero of Port Stanley.

I think he's been feeling kinda unwell and out of sorts...

She refuses to believe that "happened", and thinks Twilight's Son is off his gourd. He won't even assume his native form! Just sits there, pretending to be a squid!

Damn right!

To paraphrase Dr Peter Venkman...

"Don't mess with me, man! I'm a roleplayer!"

Pff. Ellie's already a maverick and doesn't take any notice of Sunstorm any more. They've done enough to her in the last 4 years that she can't STAND a large number of them.

So the chances of her listening to that, especially when she's not exactly "pure" anyway, are zero.

That's a more logical and acceptible reason. Any IC reason isn't as I can think my way around it in a hot second, or a cold one.

Hopefully, that is just a side effect of the temporary EU/NA name suffixes, and will be resolved shortly, to everyone's satisfaction.

Though it would be nice if they actually told us what they plan to do with that.

It's an incredibly lame name that does nothing but confuse everyone thanks to the stupid One, 1 and -1 thing.

Mind you, it's kinda amusing that our guy gives his life to save others in the ultimate noble sacrifice, and your guy screws up and splatters 1000's of folks in the richest part of your city by dropping a UFO on top of them

At my work we have a gay acting gay guy. We just call him Gary, because that's his name.

Same here, which is why I'm so incensed over it. It's NOT on! People on BOTH sides need to realise that there ARE going to be differences, some of those differences MIGHT be offensive to you, but you have NO RIGHT to expect them to comply with your sensibilities.

Otherwise I'll just start demanding that Ms Liberty surrender Excalibur as she has no right to it, and that WarWitch's name be changed as it's unfair to Wiccan's to relate their relgion to war!

Well, we could always go out shooting Dragons, but then the BBC might have a bit of trouble making the next series of Dragon's Den.

Well, you have MY full support mate, even if you don't want it!

I'd rather us go back to 2 seperated communities than one member from EITHER side have to change their names because the other side doesn't like it.

How about.. Steve, or Joe, or Mary, or Helen, or whatever else their names happen to be?

How about "GrinningSpade"? It keeps the card theme, and the gentleman theme, and isn't offensive to anyone in the EU where he plays.

Perhaps locking it down so that names created prior to the merger come under the rules present prior to the merger (and GrinningSpade was FINE for over 18 months on the EU forums), and any new ones created after the merger come under the new rules.

That's the only fair way to handle it, IMO.

And if that's the case, then I say seperate the boards again, immediately. Our community was just as rich and vibrant as yours, and there's no way we should have to lose our identity in face of the merger.