PEELies 2009 General Disscussion

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Howdy folks! Welcome to the PEELies 2009! I'd like to take a moment to thank [-mArc-] for getting this board opened, especially as he opened this during the busy holiday season.


The Council has been working hard getting together the awards together this year. Expect some new awards and the return of some old favorites. The categories should be posted by the first week of the new year to allow nominating to begin soon afterward. If anybody has any last-minute suggestions for awards, post them here and we'll definitely look into them. Otherwise, sit back, relax in the holiday season, and wait for an epic PEELies.


Additionally, for those who are not aware of the procedure, the PEELies should function as they did last year, with separate nomination threads being made for the various awards and then balloting being done via e-mail. I will post an update in this thread once the length of nominating and balloting and the e-mail address for balloting have been determined.

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Neat.

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I nominate winna.

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I wininate nomma.

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Thread closed.
Nope, still open.
Uh-uh, definitely closed, m'afraid.

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Thread closed.

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I nominate m0le for best signature.

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Rach, with the recent Zhu Zhu craze, I feel like we missed a huge opportunity to get our Hamster Pants business off the ground. I blame you.

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Well, I've sent my email. I must say, I'm disappointed with the lack of candidates for some of the categories. Very few people stand above the crowd this year.

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I agree.  The only category I'm having trouble narrowing down the field for is "Most Worthless", and I don't really like participating in the negative awards.

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Yeah, Imaginary awards for real people behind avatars on a board for a cartoon series. Seems contrived. Very.

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OH MY FUCKING GOD, HE'S RIGHT!  The PEELies are a hollow lie, devoid of substance and meaning.  How did we not notice this before?

I guess we did and decided it was fun enough to keep doing it.

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If you've had fun voting on Most n00b or most worthless, or any other catagory that embarrasses people your definition of fun is far different to mine.

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I agree.  The only category I'm having trouble narrowing down the field for is "Most Worthless", and I don't really like participating in the negative awards.

As in previous years, you don't have to nominate somebody for each award. I know you know, Thunder Boy, but just a friendly reminder to those who don't know.

Yeah, Imaginary awards for real people behind avatars on a board for a cartoon series. Seems contrived. Very.

PEEL is so much more than just some "board for a cartoon series." It's a community, and some people very much enjoy and appreciate these awards. People have met their spouses on PEEL and had kids, people have met their best friends on PEEL, people have been able to relieve stress when tragedy hits them on PEEL.

If you've had fun voting on Most n00b or most worthless, or any other catagory that embarrasses people your definition of fun is far different to mine.

We've cut out a lot of "negative" awards this year. The only ones that somebody could call negative are "Least Valuable Poster" and "Most n00by". Both of these are in jest and not meant to hurt or embarrass somebody. There are "catagories" (as you would say, LM) that we could've used (and have used in the past) that would've been far more embarrassing. Does anybody remember "the Chris Hansen Award"?

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If you've had fun voting on Most n00b or most worthless, or any other catagory that embarrasses people your definition of fun is far different to mine.

I agree.  The only category I'm having trouble narrowing down the field for is "Most Worthless", and I don't really like participating in the negative awards.

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Considering that the first reaction to announcement of my mothers death was an allusion to Norman Bates, I'm sure there are a lot out there who would wish for more negative "awards".

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Oh, there are, but Dr. T is not one of them.

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May as well test my sig here.

Fail, needs editing.

Edit: That'll do.

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Yeah, Imaginary awards for real people behind avatars on a board for a cartoon series. Seems contrived. Very.

Least Valuable PEELer. Three nominations.

Considering that the first reaction to announcement of my mothers death was an allusion to Norman Bates, I'm sure there are a lot out there who would wish for more negative "awards".

To be fair, it did seem like you were joking at first. It's not that we want to label people as tossers, it's just that sometimes people are tossers, and we like to make sure that we take note of it.

Also, it's harmless fun. Lighten the fuck up and stop being such a killjoy. A "negative" award is still recognition of a sort... some people even thrive on such attention.

When you win "least valuable" and "most n00by", don't come crying. You made your own bed, and we expect you to lie in it. Probably whilst masturbating.

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Tnuk, on the other hand, is definitely one of them.

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About as much as you are.

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All right you kids; don't make me come down there & separate you two...

The PEELies catagories look to be overwhelmingly positive, so let's all just vote & not worry about it.

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Considering that the first reaction to announcement of my mothers death was an allusion to Norman Bates, I'm sure there are a lot out there who would wish for more negative "awards".

When you quote one of the most well-known lines of Psycho in an out-of-the-blue, single sentence announcement of your mother's death, follow it with a line of usually ironic emoticons and you're a three month old poster who acts like a contrived fake account, maybe there are better ways to honour her memory? All to be said on the subject from here because the comments were banished for a reason!

I'm having trouble with what posting qualities correlate with an impending apocalypse; my local religious leaders aren't taking my questions seriously again. Grow up, guys!

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This whole nomination process is very self-revelatory for me: for example, everyone I'm nominating for PEELer I'd Like to Fuck is foreign. Apparently, all you need is an accent to get me goin'. Honestly. Even if you sounded like Peter Sellers in The Pink Panther, you'd probably do the trick.

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By "have an accent," I assume you mean "spell color with a superfluous 'u'?"

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And "favorite." And, if they're feeling old school, maybe they'd go for "shoppe" instead of "shop." It's all the same to me.

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To be fair, it did seem like you were joking at first. It's not that we want to label people as tossers, it's just that sometimes people are tossers, and we like to make sure that we take note of it.

Also, it's harmless fun. Lighten the fuck up and stop being such a killjoy. A "negative" award is still recognition of a sort... some people even thrive on such attention.

When you win "least valuable" and "most n00by", don't come crying. You made your own bed, and we expect you to lie in it. Probably whilst masturbating.

So I'm supposed to care if I get these awards? Why don't you chase me around PEELland just to tell me. Because I couldn't care less. So what is it, harmless fun or a punishment for me to get me to straighten up or leave?

You must be bored to answer my posts. You said this earlier when you called me yardstick or fucktard. Really bored.

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To be fair, it did seem like you were joking at first. It's not that we want to label people as tossers, it's just that sometimes people are tossers, and we like to make sure that we take note of it.

Also, it's harmless fun. Lighten the fuck up and stop being such a killjoy. A "negative" award is still recognition of a sort... some people even thrive on such attention.

When you win "least valuable" and "most n00by", don't come crying. You made your own bed, and we expect you to lie in it. Probably whilst masturbating.

So I'm supposed to care if I get these awards? Why don't you chase me around PEELland just to tell me. Because I couldn't care less. So what is it, harmless fun or a punishment for me to get me to straighten up or leave?

What he meant was that if you continually bring up these things and start these arguments that people will have a negative opinion of you. He wasn't chasing you around PEELia just to say that, he was saying it from your hijacking of this thread.

You must be bored to answer my posts. You said this earlier when you called me yardstick or fucktard. Really bored.

I searched through all of TNUK's recent posts, and he has never called you "yardstick" or "fucktard", nor has any post in reaction to you been edited. Where did he say this? So, the question is how did you learn of yardstick, somebody who was banned long before you got here?


Also, please refrain from non-PEELies discussion. That's what we have the Test Thread in Off-Topic for. I would like you to relocate this to that thread, thank you. Now go away, or I shall fart at you a second time!

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So I'm supposed to care if I get these awards?

If you don't want to win any "negative" awards, Lobs, then you have my personal assurance that I will do everything in my power as a council member to count the nominations as they come in and then put them forward for the final vote.

If you're in the final vote somewhere, then take it as a compliment, but if, at that point, you still want yourself removed I'm sure we could work you out of it. But I would hope that you wouldn't want us to do that.

The PEELies are a bit of fun, that's all. Futurama is a bit of fun. I'm guessing that's why you called yourself LobsterMooch.

FUN!!

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We still have a chat award? Who uses that?

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All the cool people.

Also LobsterMooch, who do you think you are. Go away.

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I searched through all of TNUK's recent posts, and he has never called you "yardstick" or "fucktard", nor has any post in reaction to you been edited. Where did he say this? So, the question is how did you learn of yardstick, somebody who was banned long before you got here?


Vanguard20 vs the World Reply 549, 552 and 603. You think I make this stuff up?

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I only searched through recent posts as I thought this was a recent incident for you to have brought it up. I didn't expect you to hold a grudge against him since October. Do not take it as an assumption that you lie. You were in a politics thread. You were dicey with him, he was dicey with you. Saucier things have been said. And you obviously don't know TNUK, he was rather reserved that time. Consider yourself lucky, as I'm sure there's far more he could've said.

Now that's that for the unexpected PEELies Inquisition.* This is for general discussion of the PEELies, and this conversation has veered from being on-topic. As I said before, LobsterMooch, please relocate this to the Test thread. You may PM me if you like with further questions.


*Note: SoS, can you make a form of that logo so the hat is a more cardinal color?

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We still have a chat award? Who uses that?

This is by no means a complete list:
Aslate, totalnerduk, Bianca, Books, JoshTheater, MrMarouka, spacefan, sussb, svip, Weinage

In fact, that's who is in there right now.

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I miss MrBlonde

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He probably misses you, too. You should vote for him.

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But he doesn't miss me.

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Cool signature btw SoS.  Can I have the link to the secret council forum?

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Hmm I should definitely try nominating people for awards... later... maybe for the 2010 awards. We'll see... It's just hard to pick my favourites out of so many posters!

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Do we have to nominate people for every single category? Because I have no idea of who to nominate for most of them.