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Actual Play: Mage: the Awakening - At the Edge of All Things
That's dangerous, Winky. Who knows how mentally unstable this group can be.
Yeah but making fun of them makes them the butt of a joke! And no one wants to be that!
edit: Stephen Colbert does it to people all the time.
If you are actually offended due to the shock images, e-mail the appropriate people at your university, ccing it to your tutor, head of department and members of the Executive and possibly the Student Union if they have any power, making clear that you are offended because of the images, not that you're denying their right to free speech or whatever. Trolling them really isn't going to achieve anything.
This isn't a little thing, it's a big organized effort. The posters look professionally made. As it is, their damage has already been done. Luckily I saw a lot of students walking away angry and laughing out loud at the posters. What I want to do is make them look as ridiculous as possible.
These people were at my undergrad every year. We called them the McDonald's Abortion people. We basically ignored them because any attention given was basically legitimizing them.
Do what Bob suggested.
That reminds me of a dream I had the other night.
Not long after I got married an ex basically flat out propositioned me because, according to her, she and her husband hadn't made it since they conceived their child. Who is four.
So in my dream I dreamt that I, I guess, took her up on her proposition and when I opened the door to... somewhere her husband comes flying out of no where and beats me up because every punch I throw at him just slides right off his face.
legitimizing them
they are being seen be many many people whether you 'legitimize them' or not...
Edit:Will, that sounds like a bit of a shitty situation re the cleaning. Hope it gets sorted.
I mean, I'm not interested in making them go away. They'll be gone by tomorrow I'm sure, there's no way they could get away with it two days in a row.
I just want to make them as angry as I am
They certainly wouldn't be wearing that in my house.
yeah it's lame
last time i brought it up she was like "look you're home all day you should be doing this stuff what else are you spending your time doing?"
For evidence!
By lashing out it feeds their thought process they are fighting the "right" fight. People see their stuff but if you ignore them their message makes no effect.
Its like the preacher who came every year to my college and did hellfire and brimstone sermons because people would screen at him and make him feel like he was doing something.
Though really classic hellfire and brimstones are something to be heard.
It is telling that this is how I read it initially.
Can you find a sign large enough to legibly write "I HAVE A MORE NUANCED AND SOPHISTICATED OPINION REGARDING THIS INCREDIBLY COMPLEX EMOTIONAL, POLITICAL, SOCIAL, ECONOMIC, AND MORAL ISSUE THAN YOU DO." on it?
In that case I really do think your best course of action is to ignore them. It's not going to really accomplish anything if you piss them off.
Damn, Will D:
it's a pain. she kept an immaculate house and saved a lot of money while i was in greenland, i guess since she had to take care of herself. i guess she is one of those people who kind of instinctively steps up only when it's absolutely necessary.
If its the ones I am thinking of, they will be there all week Winky. They get permission and a permit from the college before setting up.
so you think they don't already believe really strongly in what they're doing?
I'd say they believe it as absolutely as possible
you are in your thirties, right feral?
how do you manage the kind of libido that is required to be constantly thinking about this kind of thing?
I'm not going to argue with them, I'm going to troll them.
Like I said, stand next to them with a "FREE ABORTIONS" poster.
Or I could go another way and stand next to them with just completely ridiculous claims that "agree" with them. Like "Jesus Christ was a fetus once. Do YOU want to prevent the Second Coming?"
I like this one.
Not an entirely inaccurate reading.
I wasn't poor, but if aim able, I am like this. I have literally cried every time we moved house and my stuff has either been thrown away (my parents used to do this when I was younger) or I've been told I have to clear space.
Yeah. Once you're born then the price tag on life is zero for them. Some have no problem with murder.