Analysis Snark amnesty

[Vedder]

Stick to your guns jmac70 this is what it’s all about.

Snark and no snark living in harmony

We all know that people are the same wherever you go, there is good and bad in everyone but we learn to live, we learn to give each other what we need to survive, together alive

Snark and non snark living together in perfect harmony, side by side on our keyboards, oh lord why dont we


* the above inspired, rightfully or wrongfully, from the morning after effects of a couple of bottles of red's from our esteemed sponsors Cellarmasters, wish i never read that email, and the Collingwood Reds selection

 

[noideaatall]

And TGG comes running through the pack to deliver a decent shirt front and a clean hip and shoulder. Living up to namesake.

 

[Finnishpie]

Let me preface this by admitting that I can snark as well as anyone. For the good of the board and our own mental health, I am proposing a snark amnesty. Sign up to the anti snark movement, and let’s have respectful debate of the issues facing our club over the coming months.

Names below:
jmac70

Jmac, you're a voice of reason and sanity. The problem is, what happens when people write odious comments attacking players unfairly, or about other opinions? How to reply without snark to the snark-monsters who will ignore this entreaty?

 

[jmac70]

No you're not. Besides even if you were trying to be better, it would not be long before you were trying to be worse. Or you'll throw a tanty, announce your retirement, and take your bat and ball and go home for a while, though despite assurances to the contrary, you'll be back. You are at least consistent in your inconsistency. Next year you may even rediscover your Buckley dislike and fix your sights on ridding the club of him again. And you have snarked in threads other than this since you created the OP. Anyway I prefer you as you are not as you're pretending you wished you were.

I’d like to apologise to you for my snarking in the Fas thread. It was unnecessary.
I enjoy reading your elegant prose, and hope we can turn over a new leaf.

 

[jmac70]

Jmac, you're a voice of reason and sanity. The problem is, what happens when people write odious comments attacking players unfairly, or about other opinions? How to reply without snark to the snark-monsters who will ignore this entreaty?

Thanks for your kind words. I think it’s still ok to disagree with other posters, as long as we avoid the personal stuff.

 

[Robroy22]

I'll join the campaign, is this the only thread it applies to though?

 

[loki04]

Ok so we are trying to eradicate the negative nancy’s?
Yes I think that would be great, at least when the season starts

 

[neilk]

Where do I hand in my snark and is there any reimbursement?

 

[WalterBlaknWhte]

Where do I hand in my snark and is there any reimbursement?

This is Australia.

Your Snark will be sent to a re-education facility in Nauru.

The Commonwealth Government will have a 2-year Snark Levy of 0.5% to fund relocation.

There will be no reimbursement. Snarken-up.

 

[TheGreatGrundy]

There should be more threads like this during the dull months when leather balls laced with nylon lie dormant in cupboards big and small throughout the nation. Perhaps there should be increased negative activity on this board so that threads can be opened to rail against these anti-social practices. It's more fun even than making up yet another best 22 for 2019, or pontificating over the position best suited to Sier should he ever actually make himself available for selection. I commend jmac for baring his soul to fellow posters in the name of harmony and fraternity. Very noble and somewhat timely in a country in which there is nothing of worth actually currently happening.

 

[Saintly Viewed]

I commend jmac for baring his soul to fellow posters in the name of harmony and fraternity. Very noble and somewhat timely in a country in which there is nothing of worth actually currently happening.

Ahem, so the gay marriage thing is not worth anything? Didn't this currently just happen in our country?

 

[TheGreatGrundy]

Ahem, so the gay marriage thing is not worth anything? Didn't this currently just happen in our country?

It just happened rather than is currently just happening, but it was hardly something which was capable of providing hours of personal entertainment. Not for me anyway. All it required was a few words on a piece of paper then the effort of inserting it in an envelope and posting it. There were of course hours of endless debate to be watched, listened to and read in the media, but there are those of us who believe these were debates that were not required had parliament done what it is elected to do in the first place.

 

[Demonalke]

I find a bit more physical activity, whether that be walking, stretching, running or doing housework keeps me busy when I get a bit down and feel like posting stuff that I look back at later and regret. Which is strange because I love nothing more than sitting around doing nothing...

That's just me and people can do whatever works for them I guess.

 

[TheGreatGrundy]

I find a bit more physical activity, whether that be walking, stretching, running or doing housework keeps me busy when I get a bit down and feel like posting stuff that I look back at later and regret. Which is strange because I love nothing more than sitting around doing nothing...

That's just me and people can do whatever works for them I guess.

At least while you are doing something physical, you are not banging away at the keyboard. And if you do happen to post something you regret, you can always be assured that when you try to delete it, someone has already quoted you and blocked that option! Then you can only console yourself with the immortal words of Omar Khayyam:

“The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ,
Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit
Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line,
Nor all thy Tears wash out a Word of it.”

 

[Finnishpie]

Thanks for your kind words. I think it’s still ok to disagree with other posters, as long as we avoid the personal stuff.

Mind you, you should have titled this thread ‘The hunting of the snark”.

 

[Timmy from Thomastown]

Snark - a combination of snide and sarcastic remarks.

So facts are ok then?

Eg Collingwood traded down from a second round to a third for Murray?

 

[si tacuisses]

So facts are ok then?

Eg Collingwood traded down from a second round to a third for Murray?

The place in which you deploy a fact matters.

e.g. it may be a fact that your best mate hooked up with his fiancée's sister a few months before he started dating his fiancée, but if you announce that fact in your speech at their wedding you might be in for some (justified) flak.

 

[Timmy from Thomastown]

I'll take that as a yes. Given I'm not at a wedding and only repeating publicly known facts.

 

[Vicky Park]

So facts are ok then?

Eg Collingwood traded down from a second round to a third for Murray?

Just citing the defintion provided by Chief, when he highlighted the issue of snark on BF in August last year, as per this thread.

 

[Timmy from Thomastown]

Just citing the defintion provided by Chief, when he highlighted the issue of snark on BF in August last year, as per this thread.

I'll take that as a yes as well!!!

Facts are still good. As long as they are not sarcastic or snide facts....

 

[loki04]

So facts are ok then?

Eg Collingwood traded down from a second round to a third for Murray?

Yes, we no longer have a pick in the 2nd round of the 2018 Draft.

 

[magpie_marty]

Let me preface this by admitting that I can snark as well as anyone. For the good of the board and our own mental health, I am proposing a snark amnesty. Sign up to the anti snark movement, and let’s have respectful debate of the issues facing our club over the coming months.

Names below:
jmac70

jmac70
I admire your post and wish you well in your new change.

 

[WalterBlaknWhte]

f***ck you

Was purchasing bread and eggplant dip from Erciyes Turkish restaurant in Surry Hills today.

The young Turk behind the counter is new to Australia. Because the bread was straight from the oven he cautioned me not to place it in a plastic bag. He then asked me how to distinguish between the words 'sweat', 'sodden', and 'soggy' with respect to bagged bread. He has a keen interest to master the nuances of English.

And then we have you, you great goat...

 

[ottoman]

Was purchasing bread and eggplant dip from Erciyes Turkish restaurant in Surry Hills today.

The young Turk behind the counter is new to Australia. Because the bread was straight from the oven he cautioned me not to place it in a plastic bag. He then asked me how to distinguish between the words 'sweat', 'sodden', and 'soggy' with respect to bagged bread. He has a keen interest to master the nuances of English.

And then we have you, you great goat...

I hope you told him to go f**k himself.
You went there to buy bread not give an English lesson.
F****en nerve of these people.

 

[PieNSauce]

Imo they should leave the sharks alone.

I suggest you may have jumped the snark. In any case, there have been numerous snark sightings off the WA coast recently and I think they are mostly being left alone.