>>he DOESN'T CARE if people hate this idea, because others think it cool I should clarify: It doesn't matter who thinks it's cool. I, for one, do not appreciate waking up one morning to find that, without any sort of prior warning, I've been entered in a popularity contest against both friends and people I've never met. If I may break down into parts the miscellany of Things That Are Wrong with This Contest, let me begin: -- Popularity contests are lame. I have my own feelings in this area, which I will leave aside for purposes of this paragraph, but it suffices to say that clique/no clique litmus tests such as is presented here are one of my favorite reasons for finishing high school and distancing myself from that kind of juvenile shoulder-pad banter. -- Being forced into a popularity contest is even lamer. I don't *want* to compete like this against friends, loved ones, and colleagues. I don't want to win this contest. I don't want to lose this contest. I don't even want to be *in* this contest. Yet, without anything even vaguely resembling consent, I'm railroaded into this ridiculous contest. I'm generally accessible. I don't see any barrier whatsoever that would have prevented you from asking my permission. -- You're not up for review. Honestly, Andy. You had enough nerve to throw this ego orgy together, but you didn't manage to scrounge together the backbone to let yourself be treated on the same level as the rest of us poor puppets of your whim -- and therefore guaranteed for yourself, incidentally, that you wouldn't lose. Pitiful, pitiful, pitiful. You deserved the stuffing the "unstuffable" ballot box has received. You deserve the ire cast at you for this cockamamie notion. I've stuck up for you in the past, Andy -- but not for this one. Edmund
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