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I'm not so pessimistic. But I think it's important because if an unwillingness to condemn is for relgious reasons, i.e. If some Islamic cleric believe...

I don't agree. An artist was stabbed in the face because of an official decree of a leading cleric of a major branch of a world religion. There's a lo...

Sorry, but we've already taken action against Miss Click. That stain will forever be on your conscience.

https://youtu.be/xP-3MiUTal0

Maybe he was drunk/stressed/hacked or maybe a mad scientist put a microchip in his brain to make him say bad things or maybe he's just exactly what he...

Oh, the irony...

Thanks for setting up the FB page. There is no reason whatsoever I am aware of that this should be in any way controversial. At the time it was set up...

It doesn't have to be interpreted as a negative take or mod judgement on the subject. E.g. We could say it's more convenient and efficient to have eve...

This discussion was merged into Life Sucks: (General Anti-Life Thread)

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“The greatest trick the collective ever pulled was making you think it’s not you” McStalin Biology > Hey, my body is different to yours (yay!/we're al...

@"Tate" Yes, we need to be careful about moderating stuff we're involved in. I haven't been perfect in that area either. But the consensus seems to be...

I do... ? No. I accept the reason given that it was due to them being off-topic. If another mod deems this worthy of further investigation, I have no ...

I checked and the deleted post was a PM telling you that further off-topic posts in the climate thread would be deleted. If a mod PMs you something eg...

For as long as it took to write those posts and then I wasn't. I may have showed up online because the tab is open, but it pretty much always is. Onli...

For informational purposes.

I didn't mod the thread. I'm just trying to clarify what being 'on topic' means. There's some flexibility there but that's the general thrust of it.

For example, I could start an OP asking if Napoleon's invasion of Russia was his greatest strategic blunder. If you answer with general information ab...

Were you addressing the focus of the OP? Because it is an argumentative OP that is specifically focused on the question I mentioned. Did you attempt t...

The topic is not just the general subject but the focus of the OP. The topic question concerns whether it is too late to stop climate change. If you'r...

@"Tate" This is not a feedback thread. Feedback comments deleted. You can PM one of us or start a feedback thread if you need to.

A budding David Lynch there :lol: . I'll take it over the walnut surgery anyhow.

That's probably the stupidest thing I've ever seen. Today. Go eat some wild almonds.

I don't know, I'm quite happy to hear nice things about my story any time or place. :halo:

Sounds good. Unfortunately, we'd have to move all the story discussions into the front page area to do that, so it's a bit impractical.

The massive object is a cockroach? Maybe cancelling my holiday to NYC. :scream:

Work that into a story about a cockroach, please. You got 280 characters.

Yours has a bit more bite. :lol:

Ok, here's a more interesting way to pass the time. Tweet length short stories. Must be exactly 280 characters. I'll go first: It's nuts how patient h...

I wish. :fire:

It is currently 63 here. :sad:

Welcome, bruv!

70 is our warm wave. :chin:

Ireland doesn't get heatwaves, but we had a warm wave. For one day. Now it's cold again.

Looks like the comments on the stories are coming to a conclusion and I'll unpin this discussion soon. Just want to thank my collaborators @"Caldwell"...

@"180 Proof" Gut punch of a story. Like others, for me, the intricacies of dialogue didn't seem foregrounded as much as the mood of menace which your ...

I think you should experiment with it. I find that I tend to write more naturally this way. And thank you again for the original image without which t...

Thanks for this, well made points there and I'm glad you got something from the story. I have my own voices for the characters but this is something t...

Damn! Welcome back!

It's an Anglo-Irish setting but not anywhere particular. At least one of the characters is a Londoner, others are Irish. And characters are allowed re...

Stories now attributed and open.

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I'll open everything up some time today anyway.

Keep posting tidbits here anyway, mate. :up:

Ouch. No coincidence. I used the idea as a prompt and ran with it. Thank you for the inspiration!

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I guess I'll feel a bit more comfortable talking about the stories when we're all on an equal footing re knowing who wrote what. I'm probably not goin...

I DO NOT ENDORSE THIS MESSAGE. :lol:

Just to let everyone know: After we guess who wrote what, I'm going to open the stories again and attribute each of them to their respective authors. ...

And since everyone seems to know already, yes, I wrote "The Frame". No hiding here, is there?