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  1. Rolig Loon wrote:

    It's silly to put off buying things because SL2 (or the Afterlife) is coming. First of all, it's not coming for at least a year. Then, when it does come it will not replace SL, but exist as a new alternative to SL.If you don't want to use it, you can stay right here. Lots of people will, especially those who have many years and a lot of L$ invested in this world. 

    Of course there will still be some recalcitrants in SL.

    Teri

    (There are still Wordstar users on CP/M machines, right.)


  2. Theresa Tennyson wrote:


    MissTeriMahn wrote:


    Theresa Tennyson wrote:


    MissTeriMahn wrote:

    Diffferently.

    Teri

    ((I would have been concerned about the German Secret Police breaking down my doors and aresting me, since Nazi paraphernalia and indeed the swastika is illegal there, an as SL is a global platform you would have been breaching their laws by allowing the character to wear his cotume.))

    (((In fact, LL would potentially be liable in a German court for allowing it.)))

    Which is an interesting observation considering that the OP mentioned it
    didn't
    have a swastika, O Prince/ss of Reading Comprension...

    Where in my post did I say it was being worn?

    Teri

    ((I won't offer to call you a Princess of Reading Comprehension, because my sarcasm doesn't stretch that far.))

    The German law involves certain specific
    symbols
    - the swastika being one, with the others most familiar from World War II being the runic lightning-bolt
    SS
    and the
    totenkopf
    death's head emblem of the
    Schutzstaffel
    ("SS"). The basic uniforms themselves aren't part of the law. Interestingly enough, some of the banned symbols appear to be neo-Nazi associated and aren't familiar to most people outside of Germany. In fact, one of them is a fairly commonly used decoration in SL.

    In SL,
    Luftwaffe
    planes and
    Wehrmacht
    uniforms are common; however, the planes don't have the swastika on the vertical stabilizer, which was the one place the Luftwaffe planes had swastikas.

    So, basically, you are agreeing I am right.

    Teri

    ((While ignoring your own miscomprehension.))

  3. Why are you allowing these things to bother you? This is not the real world. Feelings are irrelevant. Everybody is lying here, as soon as they choose a  name that isn't theirs and an avatar that is fantasy character, even (or more especially) those who claim not to be; they are generally lying to themselves primarily!

    Don't trust anyone, and if you don't feel comfortable, exit. That doesn't mean that you have to quit SL, or even logoff, just make sure you have a default tp spot you can make your escape to. Mute those who annoy you, ignore those who pester you, and leave groups as soon as you have got the joining benefits and before you get overwhelmed by spam.

    Don't buy anything. It will all be useless when SL V2 comes along, and the bs that people give you about needing a cool avatar and an extensive wardrobe is just because they want to sell you something, or feel insecure about their own self-image.

    Make lots of alts, each with their own email address. That helps you hide, double deal and hurt less when you have to abandon an identity because the heat's on.

    Teri

    ((And wear sunscreen.))


  4. Theresa Tennyson wrote:


    MissTeriMahn wrote:

    Diffferently.

    Teri

    ((I would have been concerned about the German Secret Police breaking down my doors and aresting me, since Nazi paraphernalia and indeed the swastika is illegal there, an as SL is a global platform you would have been breaching their laws by allowing the character to wear his cotume.))

    (((In fact, LL would potentially be liable in a German court for allowing it.)))

    Which is an interesting observation considering that the OP mentioned it
    didn't
    have a swastika, O Prince/ss of Reading Comprension...

    Where in my post did I say it was being worn?

    Teri

    ((I won't offer to call you a Princess of Reading Comprehension, because my sarcasm doesn't stretch that far.))


  5. Laurin Sorbet wrote:


    Cinnamon Mistwood wrote:

    I had nearly forgotten how uncensored the old forums were.  Quite unlike the very sanitized version we have now.

    Unfortunate, really.  I always enjoyed a good tussle and/or flight of fancy.

    Hey girls, I'm trying!

    Teri

    ((Very trying.))


  6. Alwin Alcott wrote:

    i don't know you nor the one you blame to be the bad one, but be carefull you could become the one getting some AR filed on your name if you proceed this way.

    Keep things from the past for yourself, you seem to have made a new start, let others do the same, live and let live, don't cross paths.

    Thanks for your advice, Alwin.

    Teri

    ((I shall ignore it as I ignore most of your content-free and clumsy posts.))

    (((Are you practising to be a moderator? You really didn't have to have the lobotomy . . . yet.)))

  7. Diffferently.

    Teri

    ((I would have been concerned about the German Secret Police breaking down my doors and aresting me, since Nazi paraphernalia and indeed the swastika is illegal there, an as SL is a global platform you would have been breaching their laws by allowing the character to wear his cotume.))

    (((In fact, LL would potentially be liable in a German court for allowing it.)))


  8. Kascha Matova wrote:

    I can think of a word used in Britain to describe a "jerk" which is typically, again in Britain, used by a man talking to another man which if used in America in the presence of a woman will have her and many around hopping mad.

    I can think of lots of innocuous words which get the notoriously hypersensitive majority of rose-tint-bespectacled women (American or otherwise) hopping mad on a semi-continuous basis.

    Teri

    ((And I take great joy in persisting in using them.))


  9. Kascha Matova wrote:


    ZoeTick wrote:


    Alwin Alcott wrote:

    i won't say it's a open invitation, but going afk on a sexbed is a bit ...  ehm ...
    dumb
    .. there is no privacy on sl, everybody who sees it can join. Simply log off if you can't keep an eye on your avi.

    Reported for insensitivity to those SL participants who are actually unable to speak.

    I suggest you choose your words more carefully. There are plenty of synonyms for stupid which are not gratuitously offensive, like idiotic, moronic, unintelligent, ignorant, dense, foolish, slow, simpleminded, vacuous, vapid, imbecilic, obtuse, doltish, thick, dim, half-witted, daft, dozy, cretinous, all of which you might wish to use to describe the OP's "friend" without insulting the vocally impaired.

     

     

     

     
     
     

    Wow. That's a whole lot of stuff there. While we're on the subject of foreknowledge or preconsideration of the background of other forum members, perhaps a look at the definition of the word "dumb" right underneath the version you've chosen to highlight is in order. Particular attention shoud be paid to the region in which this definition is a longstanding commonality.

    Considering the number of words used in other regions which have completely different meanings and intensities in America that are almost never accounted for, I would hope that this tendency to demand such nitpicking lest ye be tattled on is an exception rather than a rule. I can think of a word used in Britain to describe a "jerk" which is typically, again in Britain, used by a man talking to another man which if used in America in the presence of a woman will have her and many around hopping mad. I doubt I have to spell it out, but when the average English guy gets checked on that faux pas the reaction that I've gotten many times was for that very same word to be directed AT ME in the very American definition of itself.

    And, as alluded to earlier, I am in those instances indeed hopping mad.

     
    dumb
    dəm
    /
    adjective
    adjective:
    dumb
    ; comparative adjective:
    dumber
    ; superlative adjective:
    dumbest
    1. 1
      .
      offensive
      (of a person) unable to speak, most typically because of congenital deafness.
      "he was born deaf, dumb, and blind"
      synonyms:
      ,
      ,
      ,
      ,
      at a loss for words
      ;
      More
      informal
      "she stood dumb while he shouted"
    2. 2
      .
      North American
      informal
      stupid.
      "a dumb question"

    And what makes you think that the 50% of forum participants who are not North American would not be insulted by the use of an inappropriate and minority-abusive pejorative?

    You might also want to ask the wonderful Treasure and her friends here in SL what the North American element of VirtualAbility think of such language.

    Teri

    ((Or do you think that the rest of the world doesn't matter?))

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