primitives discuss the cousin's nadinexception

[franksolich]

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023181405

Oh my.

First, the cousin waddles in with this crunchy news:

nadinbrzezinski (123,115 posts)  Sat Jul 6, 2013, 01:12 AM 

And in other news ...6-0 in the US Guatemala friendly

Soccer game tonight. I miss most while recording the radio material. But lord, I hope Guatemala gets at least one, consolation. Nope, it's over 6-0...

DisgustipatedinCA (6,075 posts)    Sat Jul 6, 2013, 01:17 AM

1. I think a 6-0 means Guatemala can't alert on a thread for an hour

Isn't that how it works?

SidDithers (28,056 posts)    Sat Jul 6, 2013, 11:50 AM

6. Soccer scores in GD...

Bonobo (21,097 posts)   Sat Jul 6, 2013, 12:48 PM

7. Bitter stalking in GD

bike man (563 posts)    Sat Jul 6, 2013, 12:57 PM

8. There is this--->

General Discussion (Forum): About This Forum

Statement of Purpose

Discuss politics, issues, and current events. No posts about Israel/Palestine, religion, guns, showbiz, or sports unless there is really big news. No conspiracy theories. No whining about DU.

HappyMe (13,265 posts)    Sat Jul 6, 2013, 02:48 PM

in response to the Bonobo primitive, above

22. Boot-lickers too!

bike man (563 posts)   Sat Jul 6, 2013, 01:02 PM

in response to the SidDithers primitive, above

9. If you think it's off topic, can't you do a 'host-y' lock as being such?

Bonobo (21,097 posts)    Sat Jul 6, 2013, 01:10 PM

10. If you've never alerted before, you should learn about that feature.

I warn you though, it can get addictive.

bike man (563 posts)    Sat Jul 6, 2013, 01:53 PM

13. Is there a 12-step help group? Should I ask in GD?

SidDithers (28,056 posts)   Sat Jul 6, 2013, 01:27 PM

11. Threads are only locked by consensus...

and some Hosts apparently think that a soccer score from a meaningless friendly game is considered "really big news".
 
Discuss politics, issues, and current events. No posts about Israel/Palestine, religion, guns, showbiz, or sports unless there is really big news. No conspiracy theories. No whining about DU.
 
Edit: and you should know that many of the other Hosts will intentionally ignore or vote Leave on your alerts, regardless of their merit. Some feel you abuse the alert button, and so judge those alerts not on the post, but on the alerter.
 
Case in point:

Autumn (11,931 posts)
23. Do you think someone should tell him that most

of his alerts are ignored by some hosts just because he sends them? That response by Bonobo is priceless though

bike man (563 posts)    Sat Jul 6, 2013, 01:51 PM

12. So, now we know. The SOPs for the various forums are there just to take up space,

and when an entry is in fact off-topic, personalities come into play.

Announcing the birth of a grandchild, for instance, even though it has a spot just waiting for it in the lounge, and having nothing to do with politics, issues, or current events will be left in GD because of identity of the alerter - disregarding the 'off-topic-ness' of the post.

hrmjustin (11,376 posts)    Sat Jul 6, 2013, 02:50 PM

24. That is not true, the host work very hard on alerts sent.

Hosts have discretion on certain things. Hosts do not like to hide things unless they have to.

SidDithers (28,056 posts)    Sat Jul 6, 2013, 03:02 PM

25. I think I'd say that the SOP is selectively enforced,,,

There's an SOP for most of us that doesn't apply to some other posters.

hrmjustin (11,376 posts)    Sat Jul 6, 2013, 03:16 PM

26. Some people are also very selective with their alerts.

HappyMe (13,265 posts)    Sat Jul 6, 2013, 03:20 PM

27. They aren't lucky enough to have the biggest fan club.

hrmjustin (11,376 posts)    Sat Jul 6, 2013, 03:21 PM

28. My fan club is growing.

I have 20 ignoring me now.

HappyMe (13,265 posts)    Sat Jul 6, 2013, 03:22 PM

29. I wasn't referring to your fan club.

Cali_Democrat (15,626 posts)    Sat Jul 6, 2013, 02:33 PM

16. I thought sports posts weren't allowed unless it's really big news?

hrmjustin (11,377 posts)    Sat Jul 6, 2013, 02:37 PM

17. It isn't but the hosts make that choice and judging from what I read in the host forum it is very

close call. The hosts will work this out.

Cali_Democrat (15,626 posts)    Sat Jul 6, 2013, 02:38 PM

18. I don't understand...

how can it even be a close call when the post clearly violates SOP? This is sports and it's not really big news.
 
For the people voting to leave it, what are their justifications?

HappyMe (13,265 posts)    Sat Jul 6, 2013, 02:42 PM

19. Well.

Just think about it for a minute.

hrmjustin (11,377 posts)    Sat Jul 6, 2013, 02:44 PM

20. I am saying the voting on whether to leave or lock is close.

Most hosts don't like to hide things unless they have to.

muriel_volestrangler (66,248 posts)    Sat Jul 6, 2013, 05:03 PM

37. The vote had actually been to leave it, unless someone posted to it again

because after the first few minutes, no-one was posting to it (and that is a decision that has been made for years by mods and now hosts). However, that wasn't good enough for SidDithers, so he kicked it himself, after several hours, so that a lot more DUers would see it. And the other hosts are now somewhat pissed off that he couldn't have ignored it, like the rest of DU was.
 
It seems that Sid has a need to see Nadin's threads locked, rather than just to see them sink. Sadly, Sid will be a host of GD for another 69 days, so there's a lot more of this sturm und drang to come.

Kali (34,763 posts)    Sat Jul 6, 2013, 03:40 PM

31. there seems to be a nadinexception

perhaps you have heard of the famous taterguy exception, a funny lounge/meta gag? - well the nadinexeption is not funny, just brought to you by three gd hosts who claim alerters are too selective about the poor dear, yet don't see their own bias in always defending and voting to leave any of her inane, off-topic or word-salad posts.
 
merit of alerts don't count, only the identity of the alerter, all while claiming the alerters are biased. it is a riot in the host forum when there is an alert on nadin.

hrmjustin (11,377 posts)   Sat Jul 6, 2013, 03:45 PM

32. She gets her fair share of locks.

Last week she got a lock on a weather post and there were plenty of other weather Threads that were left alone.

SidDithers (28,056 posts)    Sat Jul 6, 2013, 05:13 PM

in response to the Kali primitive, above

39. Exactly...

SOP for we but not for she.

hrmjustin (11,377 posts)    Sat Jul 6, 2013, 05:16 PM

40. She gets her share of locks. There are no special rules for anyone.

SidDithers (28,056 posts)    Sat Jul 6, 2013, 05:17 PM

41. Keep telling yourself that...

[Tess Anderson]

Response to madinmaryland (Reply #50)

Sat Jul 6, 2013, 06:27 PM

 nadinbrzezinski (123,118 posts)

51. Nope, I don't thnk so


We have a fire in the back country, bless cal fire for giving me actual land features...
 
I will be able to stay put.

that's nads there, always pushing the envelope (and the fork) just a little bit more. I think this hrmjustin has a crush on her

[obumazombie]

I predict nadin's iggy list is swelling, and that a plonking sound is echoing through the sewers of the DU

[Skul]

My mole in the hosts forum always votes to leave them.
If it voted to plonk, it would be hard to laugh at her and the following comments.

[Kimberly]

Response to madinmaryland (Reply #48)

Sat Jul 6, 2013, 06:09 PM

nadinbrzezinski (123,122 posts)

49. Good for you.

Right now stuck on serious scanner and topo map duty.

So she's marking all the calls on a map?  It's probably hanging on the wall marked with pins just like on tv crime shows.


 

[franksolich]

No way.

No ****ing way.

You gotta be kidding me.

"Map duty"?

 

One wonders what sort of uniform the cousin wears, when she's on map duty.

[Chris_]

One wonders what sort of uniform the cousin wears, when she's on map duty.

I'm imagining some sort of Boy Scout getup complete with cap.

[franksolich]

I'm imagining some sort of Boy Scout getup complete with cap.

Do you suppose the cousin has to wear sidearms too, when on map duty?

[Chris_]

I hope not.  The police scanner risks getting shot, then where would we be?

[Skul]

No way.

No ****ing way.

You gotta be kidding me.

"Map duty"?

 

One wonders what sort of uniform the cousin wears, when she's on map duty.

Khakis of course. 

[franksolich]

Khakis of course. 

Okay, I finally figured it out.

Remember that the cousin's big into fantasy games.

So she dons a uniform, slips in her sidearms, and has a map laid out flat on the dining-room table, using golf tees (upside down) to mark places where the scanner alleges there's fires.

And then she imagines she's calling the various fire stations, to assign them which fires to fight.

That's all it is, a little fantasy game, and solo too.

[GOBUCKS]

Response to madinmaryland (Reply #48)
Sat Jul 6, 2013, 06:09 PM
nadinbrzezinski (123,129 posts)

49. Good for you.
Right now stuck on serious scanner and topo map duty.

Yup, she actually wrote that. And she's not joking.

"serious scanner and topo map duty"

I think she's crossed the Rubicon again.

[JakeStyle]

I can't wait to hear her radio reports.

[franksolich]

I can't wait to hear her radio reports.

I'm wondering if anybody's ever heard her voice, and what it sounds like.

I can only imagine, but I imagine it's fast and nasal, like I imagine the Daffy the Duck cartoon character speaks,

[Skul]

I'm wondering if anybody's ever heard her voice, and what it sounds like.

I can only imagine, but I imagine it's fast and nasal, like I imagine the Daffy the Duck cartoon character speaks,

With a little Porky Pig, mixed in. 

[RobJohnson]

No way.

No ****ing way.

You gotta be kidding me.

"Map duty"?

 

One wonders what sort of uniform the cousin wears, when she's on map duty.

[/quote

Her birthday suit.

[Chris_]

It's more glottal and heavy, what with her Boris Badenov accent and the weight of 50% BMI smothering her lungs.

[Skul]

Her birthday suit.

*pant* *pant* *pant*
 

[GOBUCKS]

I would be astounded if Crazy Miriam allows nadin near a microphone.

Of course Crazy Miriam is a lunatic, but even lunatics like the DUmmies are appalled by nadin.

[JakeStyle]

I'm wondering if anybody's ever heard her voice, and what it sounds like.

I can only imagine, but I imagine it's fast and nasal, like I imagine the Daffy the Duck cartoon character speaks,

She posted a video a year or so back where she test drove a Jeep at the car show, and she did quite a bit of talking.  She has a low, deep voice with a strange sort of eastern European accent and she talks very slowly. 

[obumazombie]

nad's sidearms have the same proportions as a T-rex's.

[Big Dog]

nad's sidearms have the same proportions as a T-rex's.

gNads on the police beat:

[whiffleball]

nad's sidearms have the same proportions as a T-rex's.

When I hear 'sidearms' and Gnads in the same sentence all I can envision are dress (sweat) shields being placed inside her filthy, nasty photog vest.

[RWKindaGuy]

No way.

No ****ing way.

You gotta be kidding me.

"Map duty"?

 

One wonders what sort of uniform the cousin wears, when she's on map duty.

In my best John McEnroe voice  "You can't be serious."  I have to be honest here.  I'm ready to puke over this "I'm on scanner duty, I'm on topo duty."  Give me a freak'n break already Nads.  You aren't on any kind of duty.  You are an unpaid freak'n volunteer.  God, you are such a moron.

[JohnnyReb]

Exception...conception....damn they sound to much alike.