Discussion (60)¬

1. Chris says:

   September 8, 2009 at 10:22 pm

   Spoing should apologise.
2. spoing says:

   September 9, 2009 at 11:23 am

   @chris – careful inspection will reveal that I already did. That REALLY got things started. Hell hath no fury I suppose.
   Anyway, I’m sure Ophelia & I are both happy to pass the limelight back to who it belongs – J&M.
3. author says:

   September 9, 2009 at 12:16 pm

   @spoing – it was a bullshit apology, and you know it.
4. spoing says:

   September 9, 2009 at 12:59 pm

   @Author, not so. I sincerely meant what I said about being sorry to have caused offence. Though some of my protagonist’s comments offended me, which is what I was trying to get across to her.

   For the record – @Ophelia: I’m sorry – shall we bury the hatchet … anywhere but preferably not in my sexist head
5. John Moore says:

   September 9, 2009 at 1:44 pm

   @Author-Maybe we need a written code of ethics for this site. I am thinking of a neat list of, oh I don’t know, say ten things we should NOT do while we are being entertained by the great J&M??
6. MyCatIsGod says:

   September 9, 2009 at 2:15 pm

   I think John Moore is on to something there… I’ve honestly found some of the comments over the last few months to be truly, unashamedly racist. Making fun of foolish beliefs is one thing (which I support). But the amount of Arab-bashing (for example) that goes on in the comments section is (a) a huge turn off for me, and (b) absolutely detrimental, I’m sure, to how many casual visitors would view this site.

   I am also a bit sick of the pondering about Barmaid’s level of attractiveness, and do worry that this also could lend the site a rather juvenile (at best) and sexist (at worst) quality, especially to the uninitiated.

   Both of which are a terrible shame, because the strip itself is always fantastic, and I used to enjoy the quite high-brow discussions that went on (not that I understood all the big words, but at least it was educational). I also liked the fact that all views were tolerated, and that one could be sure that there wouldn’t be a rant-y backlash to anything that wasn’t pulled straight out of the God Delusion (the Atheist’s Bible, perhaps..? Slightly ironic, really…)

   It’s sad that some of the old hands who used to comment all the time appear to have moved on, or decided to keep quiet. Not heard from Poor Richard for a while, sigh…

   Just my deux centimes.
7. kiyaroru says:

   September 9, 2009 at 3:13 pm

   St. Author
   onegaishimasu
   you know
   if you just do a new J&M all the kids will get distracted by the shiny new thing and then we can all move on
8. Stephen Turner says:

   September 9, 2009 at 3:44 pm

   Perhaps Author could find Ten Things We Should Not Do carved on tablets of stone up some local mountain.

   Obviously the list should include Exodus 23:19:
   “Thou shalt not boil a kid in the milk of his dam.”
9. Ophelia Benson says:

   September 9, 2009 at 6:43 pm

   Thanks author.

   “Both of which are a terrible shame, because the strip itself is always fantastic”

   Exactly. Hence my tendency to bore for Britain on the subject of “huh huh huh the barmaid is hawt huh huh huh huh” – I think that stuff detracts from the strip itself, and could repel people who would otherwise like it. I was on the point of abandoning it myself. The strip deserves much better than to be sabotaged by its own fans.
10. LLH says:

    September 14, 2009 at 7:55 pm

    @spoing

    The Christian who argued to me that Einstein believed in God backed down immediately after I mentioned what TGD said about him. (Before he criticised me for using the Argument from Authority, of course…)

    It made me realize Christians can easily be dishonest if defending their religion. There’s a reason there something called Lying for Jesus, isn’t there?