Originally Posted by Trollheart

Jesus man! Half of that stuff is what you do a lot of (and so do I) and it's kind of the lifeblood of the community here. If we were all super-serious and afraid to say anything for fear of being banned or infracted, there'd be little enjoyment here. To return to my office analogy (though tore does not like it I think it's valid) it would be like those offices where you can't even smile at a member of the opposite sex or ask them how their weekend was without being pulled up by HR! Sod that. I would not want to be part of any environment that promoted, encouraged or fostered that kind of atmosphere.

Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien

There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.