Posts by Sarah Bee

Re: @Tom Maddox

'Pet peeve' is a specific irritant of mine.

Re: So this is IT related how?

It's in bloody Bootnotes for chrissakes, it's not supposed to be IT-related. Have a nice day.

link

Fixed now. Aren't you happy?

Re: To Lu

It's not a blog. It's an online news service.

Re: Moderation policy here?

Obviously we had to be very wary with comments on a story like this as I'm sure you can surmise, so your knickers should remain untwisted.

Re: @JWS

It never ceases to amaze me how het up you lot can get about this. God help us if you ever get on to which team is the bestest and fastest ever.

Take some deep breaths and remember it's only the internet.

Re: @ BlueGreen

Please allow me in turn to question your assertion that gay women "seem to be man-haters for the most part". I mean, I can't speak for them, but I don't think you can either.

Re: Not 'careened'...

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/careen

Re: I hate

You think it's one (ONE!), Runcible? One is only representative of a legion. I was referring to everyone who has ever whined about the lack of IT angle, and believe me there are a bunch of 'em. (Or was I referring to the commentards in general, at least the irritating/whiny/repetitious/belligerent/condescending ones? Who can say?)

I believe the substitution of a part for the whole, or vice versa, is in fact a synecdoche. It's so legit it has its own big word. So there.

The enervation has accumulated, Mouse, it's built up steadily over the last 18 months or so. And it did have a fairly good base even before that.

Anyway, never mind, this story is officially the greatest story of all time. OF ALL TIME.

Re: @lukewarmdog

See, I do not approve of such noxious pedantry on the whole but - heh.

Some days you just have your misery hat on.

Re: @By Joefish

By the fuck, any thread on here can turn into a handbag-smashing melee, can't it?

Can we not call each other 'fuckface', lovely a swear though it is? And keep a civil tongue and all that? Thank you boys.

Re: Do you get to move the cameras?

Try it. I'm sure my dog will be very happy. He could do with the savaging practice.

Re: Harman

>It gets on my tits all this bollox about women being exploited. If anyone is, it is us blokes that have to pay £50 odd a go. When you walk out of the place with an empty sack and an empty wallet it sure don't feel like the whore that is being exploited...

Real classy, Ian.

Re: Re: Where the hell are the IRA when you need them?

Alright, let me put it another way - OP, don't be an internet tough guy and start smugly throwing around suggestions about offing politicians, no matter how odious. It makes you sound like a nutcase. I'm not having that any more than I'm having hilarious prison rape quips in the threads.

So think on.

Re: ya can't

Monroe could have pulled it off. She *was* part hick, part sophisticate. And she was a good actress. Still, you can't imagine it with anyone but Hepburn now.

Re: Band on the run

Before anyone leaps on that AC, he appears to be a bloke, not an embittered woman misandrist feminazi, 'kay? 'Kay.

Re: impressive

Crack makes users super-horny though, doesn't it?

Being on drugs, as far as I know, is not just like being drunk only more so. And they do tend to vary quite a lot. Some make you sleepy. Some make you crazy. Some make you want to give everyone a great big cuddle. And some make you want to say hi to your monster at inappropriate moments.

Re: @Dale 3

Easy now, Spleen - I don't think anyone's suggesting it wasn't a very big deal, it's just that it's not quite relevant here.

If I can get through today without having to moderate a great big scrap I will be very happy.

Re: @Sarah Bee

You know perfectly well that it's used as a pejorative, AC, and I'm moderating them out because most of the posts using it in this context are not going to be very edifying. Besides, it's rhyming slang for another term people find insulting, so you don't get out of it that way.

Let me get that coat for you. Is this your umbrella here too?

Re: Huh?

It's not a 'brown trousers moment'. It's just that the reporter decided to wear brown trousers, and put it on Twitter because you tell Twitter what trousers you are wearing because that is the nature of Twitter.

Bee: Sitting at my desk drinking water. I think I'll put the fan on.

And so forth.

Re: Time to rise up or leave, or both

Christ, you know it's come to something when people are celebrating China as a beacon of personal freedom.

Re: @windywoo

See, this is the moderator's conundrum - how to allow people to respond fairly to others but not let it descend into girlie fisticuffs.

Less of the direct insults, please?

Macs *are* expensive. I have no particular loyalty, and would probably get a Mac if I could afford one. But I can't. Anyway, as you were.

Re: @AC 18th September 2009 10:16 GMT

Boys, boys, boys.

Chill.

Re: Scam

"Quietly edited"? Yes. Should I have done it loudly?

I had to moderate approximately 60 comments this morning pointing out that one snafu. It was fun to read all the variations, until I became aware of the sound of someone sobbing with a strange animal tone, and then realised it was me.

Interestingly, at least ten of these leapt to the conclusion it was a deliberate dick move on the part of Microsoft to make it difficult for UK students to get the discount.

Re: The reason is obvious

Don't you ever read the Guardian, Neil?

Re: The thing about not having comments is...

You could email. There is always email.

And it has to be said, heretic as it may be... people don't always necessarily care what you think. It's true. I'm sorry.

Re: Boris for PM?

Listen, you, whatever shortcomings Brown has I don't think any of them pertain to his visual disabilities. So leave it out. Thanks.

Re: @Sarah

Great. But I can 'get them' to do nothing. They outrank me, silly.

Re: Maiden for the cup!

I didn't mean it about Maiden. They are about as appropriate for a Bond theme as, I dunno, Shania Twain?

Also, I yield to no one in my admiration of Meg White, but she's not a very good singer.

That's quite enough of that

Right. I'm moderating what's left in the queue and then you can go and vent spleen on other issues. I don't think there's anything else left to do here, do you?

Re: Haines, I'm not the only one who has you...!

Woohoo! It's a conspiracy!

Also, that Kanye West thing was totally a stunt and everyone involved is a brilliant actor.

(Look, the moderatrix is trying to cover for Haines... that CONFIRMS it!)

Re: "Facebook acquires 300 millionth user"

Yeah, Winkypop, but aren't you kind of glad you've got something to use as evidence that you are better than 300 million other people?

Re: boing

That wouldn't be grammatically correct. It's fine as it is.

Why am I responding to commentards on the finer points of editing? I've got editing to do. Eeesh.

Re: Re: Ok, let's get this straight.

Well, there's a very simple solution to that.

Seriously, if I moderated out a load more stuff than I do, I'd spend half my day moderating out the irate/crestfallen/paranoid "why have you censored my comment" comments.