Hi guys!

3 Rookery-related threads out of 25 leads to 12%, or almost an eighth of all threads. Virtually all other threads are one-offs; in other words, 4%. (We are, for the moment, excluding the Stickied threads.) It's significantly more.

How significantly more? Well, that's a 200% more Rookery threads, if I've done my math right, than each one-off regular thread. 3 times as many.

And that's on the first page.

Sure, bring the math. There's always a way to make it look bad.

Lies. The more hostile it gets, the funnier and funner it is.

I think your numbers are off. If it's 5 pages, and we presume 25 per page, 48 + 9 = 57, which doesn't work.

We should be trying to figure out the number out of 125.

If we're talking about just the two you counted, pages 1 and 4, that should be 50 threads: 7 out of 50 is what you had, which is still a relatively high 14%.

Actually, I think the biggest irony is that the people complaining about the Rookery are having fun. In their own thread. And you're the ones trying to limit their fun by coming in and argue with them.

And the funny thing is, that's probably heightening their enjoyment, just like how hearing the whinging of humans always makes releasing the neurotoxic gas into the labs that much more fun.

Not quite. You're the one in here trying to shut them up, so it's not like you're on the high horse here.

You could, after all, ignore what you view as irritating, offensive junk.

Thanks for playing though.[/QUOTE]

I would disagree.

There have been times when it looked like an actual conversation was starting in a Rookery thread... only to have it rollover to the next day, and the thread wither and die.

And even if the thread is repeated daily, tabula rasa, everybody in it already seems to know each other, so it's more difficult to get into the natural rhythms and patterns.

There have been examples when new posts have been completely ignored, because the thread has already started blowing, as clouds do, in another direction, and there's little effort made to reconnect with previous threads.

Convenience and organization, perhaps. I don't see the inclusiveness.

This is why I <3 Ely, even if we have that legitimate beef over the Medic badge.

I still need to up my post count and pretend to reply when I know nobody will respond.

Wouldn't that be a Haet crime?

The new goal of this post is to get you to 8,000 posts.


GO!

Ok, not really.

Well, according to my reputation ticker, I'm apparently, even after all these years, missing the point.

Which is quite true, I wasn't aware this thread had a point.

Also, that's a really big gun. It's almost like I'm compensating for something.

I would! I love that guy! Without him and his homemade sandwich boards, I'd have no way to keep up with developments in communist weather/mind/salad/whatever control technology. In fact, he's a central member of the Chicago Crazy Pantheon, right up there with the Hi Guy, the Scammist*, the Redliner*, and Dr. Cranium*.



*Yeah, that's right: I make up names for the crazy people I run across on a regular basis. I lie awake at night worrying that this makes me part of the Chicago Crazy Pantheon.


Edit: Huh. So that's where that exclamation point went...

There was a guy on the 55 Garfield bus, back when I rode it from the Red Line to home in Hyde Park, who would repeatedly try to sell everyone products with this line: "I got CDs, DVDs, Pornos, CDs, Pornos, Pornos, Pornos, Pornos..."

I'm surprised he didn't sell LPs, because he skipped like they did at certain points.

Also, I'm glad I don't live in Uptown anymore. I only found out after I moved there that there used to be a mental hospital in the area that closed down. And no, I don't like that Billy Joel song.

You must be familiar with this guy, too:

I must admit, I do not share the lame bile that the micro-trolls here have, but...

How do you Misrepresent Stupidity?

Do you behave intelligent?

Brilliant.

I think they've blocked your hotlinking.

This is the link to the image: http://eatliver.com/img/2007/2128.jpg

Edit: Ah, how crude, it checks the referrer.
Edit edit: egads, now it shows. One would think they'd be better at this...

But I don't recognize the location in Chicago.

Address bar? Well, unless you're in Firefox 3.5, where they call it the "Awesome Bar", even though some of its functionality appeared previously in other browsers.

Familiar with? I carpool with that guy! He and I often talk about the third guy in the pool, Steve, who's a total nutjob.

I don't know why it says you're not applicable, but at least so far I'm the only one with a "b".

Sigh, even now, I disappoint my parents. "Why isn't that an 'A'? Your friend got an A! She works harder than you. All you do is play Tetris and read book, never study!"