Nomic rule proposal #314

News Type: Other — Wed Aug 20, 2008 8:59 PM EDT

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Djehuty

Why this photo came up I have no idea.

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The game goes on so long
It could get us all down
So we made up this song
To help you not frown

When you put up a rule
Take your time
Spin some rhymes

You won't look like a fool
Not since this
Piece of piss

Rules must be poetic
is three-fourteen proposal
If you think that is pathetic
It goes in the disposal

But we hope you agree
With Jon and with me
That rules would be sweeter
With rhyme and with meter

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Mykola Bilokonsky

haha...I'm tempted to say yes, but that would give you guys points and my policy has been to veto everything that won't directly help me win....hmmm...

Kim?

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2 votes

#1 - Thu Aug 21, 2008 8:02 AM EDT

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Djehuty

So, can the Ethical Egoist win a cooperative game? Interesting question. Here's a tip though, never let on that it's your strategy. What you do instead is to espouse the virtue of altruism far and wide, while privately behaving in a manner which the psychologists call sociopathically.

See, there's the path to the dark side right there. And at the risk of being a smartarse there's a good discussion here, pro and con.

I know that's not exactly the best argument to convince you to say "yes" though. How about this one: it's more fun this way and besides, if you show yourself cooperative over something which let's face it doesn't matter or gain anyone great advantage, then you're more likely to get a yes when you put forward your fiendish scheme ;)

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6 votes

#1.1 - Thu Aug 21, 2008 8:37 AM EDT

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Celestina

I think this is just the thing
to make the game more interesting.
As the game is sloooow
it would be best to know that at least each dose has zing.

I vote yes.

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4 votes

#1.2 - Thu Aug 21, 2008 10:42 AM EDT

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Mykola Bilokonsky

If the other teams vote no, Djehuty and Celestina's teams each lose 10 points.... c'mon, you know you wanna. ;)

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1 vote

#2 - Thu Aug 21, 2008 10:55 AM EDT

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Orlando Dozier

I vote "YES" and hopefully this puts Djehuty or Celestina's teams way ahead of Myk and Kim. Between those two, they have killed all our proposals. Besides, I tried to introduce poems a while back and it was killed by, guest who? :)

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3 votes

#3 - Thu Aug 21, 2008 1:41 PM EDT

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Mykola Bilokonsky

Is that the team's vote or your personal vote? Viki hasn't weighed in, and you're using the singular first person pronoun so I'm going to question the validity of that vote. ;)

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1 vote

#3.1 - Thu Aug 21, 2008 2:21 PM EDT

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Orlando Dozier

Personal vote precedence has already been set for this round by the lovely Celestina. Who by the way, you tried to totally discredit on the latest episode of Vinecast. Don't you have some explaining to do to a certain Red Head? :)

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3 votes

#3.2 - Fri Aug 22, 2008 12:47 AM EDT

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Viki Babbles Gonia

I vote yes anyway
Myk, me you will not sway
with goads and pushes towards voting vindictively
This game has become boring
Or maybe it started out that way

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5 votes

#3.3 - Sat Aug 23, 2008 5:39 AM EDT

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Trog-221687

I have an answer to why you chose the photo.

Akasha- "Oh a beautiful flower! And that's a bee. I'm telling you, that's a bee."

I believe it's a karma thing.

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3 votes

#4 - Sat Aug 23, 2008 1:27 AM EDT

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Djehuty

True. Or at least that's why I let it stand when flickr picked it by this article's tags.

It's a bee, see?! That's what I thought, too.

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3 votes

#4.1 - Sat Aug 23, 2008 1:34 AM EDT

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Trog-221687

A five year old proclaims a flower.
Expressing love for all to honor.
But who would think the bee's the gift?
The unknown things of which we wish?
Unknown things that haunt our lives.
Material things of which we prize.
Simple things are often lost.
On those who tend to ignore the cost.
So I would say forgo that quest.
A child's love is always best.

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3 votes

#5 - Sun Aug 24, 2008 3:33 AM EDT

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Djehuty

It's pretty, Trog :)

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1 vote

#5.1 - Tue Aug 26, 2008 3:44 AM EDT

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Trog-221687

Never written a poem in my life, but Akasha's comment made me give it a go.

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2 votes

#6 - Sun Aug 24, 2008 3:37 AM EDT

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Sedekka

Ok Dej. I wrote this little (and it's little) dittie when The Mighty Canetoads (Queensland) flogged The Cockroaches (NSW) this year in the State of Origin. It goes like this.

We are the Champions
We are the Best
We are the Legends
@!$%# all the rest!!!!

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2 votes

#7 - Tue Aug 26, 2008 1:42 AM EDT

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Djehuty

Hmmm.... I think I've heard something like that before ;)

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1 vote

#7.1 - Tue Aug 26, 2008 3:43 AM EDT

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Djehuty

Whose vote are we waiting on?

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2 votes

#8 - Tue Aug 26, 2008 3:43 AM EDT

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Celestina

Sometimes I get the feeling that only you and I are still playing...;)

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1 vote

#8.1 - Tue Aug 26, 2008 4:49 PM EDT

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