Comments on: Comments on the comments on comments about comments http://www.tefl.net/alexcase/tesol/comments-on-the-comments-on-comments-about-comments/ Mon, 13 Feb 2012 09:48:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Alex Case http://www.tefl.net/alexcase/tesol/comments-on-the-comments-on-comments-about-comments/comment-page-1/#comment-454 Alex Case Mon, 27 Aug 2007 04:06:27 +0000 http://www.tefl.net/alexcase/archives/248#comment-454 Chris, stop making me laugh out loud in the teachers room! Not sure much physical violence is needed, at school we always found flicking wet chewed up paper (what was the word for that again?) at these kinds was enough to reduce them to tears. We could try a variation on the Japanese yakuza gangster shareholders meeting blackmail scheme though. If they dont shut up and/ or pay up we send an intellectual heavy into their lectures to ask difficult questions. Or (simpler) just send in a real heavy to ask them what they had been posting in the Metropolis relationships forum recently in front of their students. (To those that cannot follow irony without heavy winks to help them, these are jokes! At least mine are, dont know about Chris...) Chris, stop making me laugh out loud in the teachers room! Not sure much physical violence is needed, at school we always found flicking wet chewed up paper (what was the word for that again?) at these kinds was enough to reduce them to tears.

We could try a variation on the Japanese yakuza gangster shareholders meeting blackmail scheme though. If they dont shut up and/ or pay up we send an intellectual heavy into their lectures to ask difficult questions. Or (simpler) just send in a real heavy to ask them what they had been posting in the Metropolis relationships forum recently in front of their students.

(To those that cannot follow irony without heavy winks to help them, these are jokes! At least mine are, dont know about Chris…)

]]> By: chris http://www.tefl.net/alexcase/tesol/comments-on-the-comments-on-comments-about-comments/comment-page-1/#comment-453 chris Mon, 27 Aug 2007 02:29:17 +0000 http://www.tefl.net/alexcase/archives/248#comment-453 Alex, the post about censorship was interesting. Your analogy -..... "Let’s say you are the landlord of a pub and one of your customers comes in and argues with every little thing you say night after night after night after night (inevitably using the phrases “I have as much right as anyone…” and/ or “It’s a free country”). The landlord gets tired of it, the other customers get tired of it, and sooner or later the argumentative person gets barred." ....... This is an excellent analogy, and one that I would like to extend. In the pubs in South East London where I was living, the irksome customer would probably have been beaten to pulp on his very first visit, making the world a happier place. Could this model be applied to your blog? The set up costs would be minimal, a pachinko parlour owner with a penchant for extortion from society's more vulnerable would be delighted to receive even a blog pseudonym as a starting point for a new business adventure. What with all those give-away letters after their name, tracking them down would prove easier than with someone with no ego. It's a win-win situation. Alex, the post about censorship was interesting. Your analogy -….. “Let’s say you are the landlord of a pub and one of your customers comes in and argues with every little thing you say night after night after night after night (inevitably using the phrases “I have as much right as anyone…” and/ or “It’s a free country”). The landlord gets tired of it, the other customers get tired of it, and sooner or later the argumentative person gets barred.”
……. This is an excellent analogy, and one that I would like to extend. In the pubs in South East London where I was living, the irksome customer would probably have been beaten to pulp on his very first visit, making the world a happier place. Could this model be applied to your blog? The set up costs would be minimal, a pachinko parlour owner with a penchant for extortion from society’s more vulnerable would be delighted to receive even a blog pseudonym as a starting point for a new business adventure. What with all those give-away letters after their name, tracking them down would prove easier than with someone with no ego. It’s a win-win situation.

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