Humor will not be tolerated!! -Portia

I can pee outside.

C is for wrote:Bacon does not go in everything. It is not even that good.

QFT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I never wear makeup.

The Happy Medium wrote:I'm making a list of reasons why it'd be cool to be a guy. This is the list so far:

• Facial hair
• Ties
• Man hairstyles

No biological clock. No pressure to change your name upon marriage.

NerdGirl wrote:I can pee outside.

Okay. Pee in relative discretion while standing up with no need for toilet paper.

bobtheenchantedone wrote:I never wear makeup.

Me neither. Also, in Colorado it seems to be a lot more common for my fellow female students not to wear makeup, compared with those at BYU.

I would just like to say that I think the board is boring lately. I've been trying to spice it up with questions that can really easily become really funny, but then either no one really responds, or someone responds by saying they're offended or something, and that they refuse to answer my question, and thus scare everyone else away from answering it, too.

For example, I asked the one about the worst excuse for going inactive. RP responded by saying "They're all just excuses." or something like that. And then refused to answer the question. The thing is, if you look at my question, I call it an excuse! That's the whole point of the question! I know it's an excuse--that's the amusing part because people are so ridiculous when trying to excuse themselves. I feel that any time anything gets asked about the Mormon culture, the writers get all up in arms, and won't even make a joke anymore.

/rant

Giovanni Schwartz wrote:I would just like to say that I think the board is boring lately. I've been trying to spice it up with questions that can really easily become really funny, but then either no one really responds, or someone responds by saying they're offended or something, and that they refuse to answer my question, and thus scare everyone else away from answering it, too.

For example, I asked the one about the worst excuse for going inactive. RP responded by saying "They're all just excuses." or something like that. And then refused to answer the question. The thing is, if you look at my question, I call it an excuse! That's the whole point of the question! I know it's an excuse--that's the amusing part because people are so ridiculous when trying to excuse themselves. I feel that any time anything gets asked about the Mormon culture, the writers get all up in arms, and won't even make a joke anymore.

/rant

Gio, come on. It's finals week. I promise to be entertaining over Christmas.

Giovanni Schwartz wrote:I asked the one about the worst excuse for going inactive. RP responded by saying "They're all just excuses." or something like that. And then refused to answer the question.

Yeah, Board policy is ask a silly question get a silly answer, which he totally violated by giving a serious answer to a silly question.

Gio, I understand where you're coming from, but when I was a writer it was comments like that that made me want to just give up on the writing altogether. They are trying; it's fine if you aren't amused right now by it, but cut them some slack.

edit: I'm not sure how "obvious" it was that your question was silly anyway. People can ask that same question in a harsher/more judgmental way. Just sayin'. Yes, I know I'm way too diplomatic.

Yeah I'll say that while you view it as satire/silly because you would never think that way, that's just within the range of a question that someone might sincerely ask.

Giovanni Schwartz wrote:I would just like to say that I think the board is boring lately.

So become a writer and make it more fun! If you are not at the BYUs, take a BYU independent study class to meet the BYU connection qualification. Take the bored out of the Board!

But the examples I gave at the end of the question!

Yeah, I was with Rating Pending, especially with his first sentence. Why would we want to list those? I'd rather not give ridiculous excuses the time of day. I understand that you knew they were excuses, so the bulk of his question might not have been directed at you. But I can't say I've ever met anyone with a ridiculous excuse to leave - most people I know who left, especially my brothers, have a long list of fundamental things they disagree with. So maybe I just can't relate to the question.

A friend recently showed this to me. Now I just need to remember to quote it regularly.

Dead Cat wrote:A friend recently showed this to me. Now I just need to remember to quote it regularly.

Oh geez! I remember watching that in my high school Latin class! Hilarious.

List of reasons it is awesome to be a woman

*We buy more books
*Guys pay for your dinner on dates
*More acceptable to be a tomboy girl than a femme boy

Looking at my list I realized that facial hair is the only thing that's not really socially acceptable for girls and I could always just wear something like this.

Or do the whole "hold your hair between your upper lip and your nose and use it as a moustache" thing.

Sometimes I wish other people did not feel so comfortable telling me all their personal business. I just spent the last hour listening to a lady tell me all about her family drama, involving ex-spouses, pregnant 14 year olds, and botched c-sections.

All I wanted was a sandwich.