Green Room - Week 13 - Day 1

[clauderainsrm]

We have the usual Day 1 recap of the previous evenings events!

There were results - but no eliminations. Instead, there were two people selected to receive special powers. http://therealljidol.livejournal.com/751106.html

Both of them have contacted me now - and I can tell you that

mistearyusdiva2

Comments

[millysdaughter]

I thought that these days only Gary could form lynch mobs, and they were only to be used for kicking hippies?

[clauderainsrm]

I prefer to think of them as "droogs"

[roina_arwen]

The Hippies say: You got first!

[millysdaughter]

Yay!

[roina_arwen]

Just to clarify, does mistearyusdiva2 have two extra byes or two extra immunities? The original post says Immunities, here it says Byes.

It's so easy to believe everything one reads on the internet as being true, isn't it?

[mistearyusdiva2]

roina_arwen Gary has clarified it is a bye .... My thoughts were on immunity too at decision making time :)

[roina_arwen]

Well, the post *did* originally say Immunity! An immunity and a Bye are two different things, so I figured I'd ask. :)

[mistearyusdiva2]

I got whatever Gary intended to give .... guess it wasn't what I had thought I would get initially ... but then I aint complaining .... so I am happy with what I have been given .... well I could relax on one of those extremely tiring real life weeks ..

[hosticle_fifer]

I didn't hear about the Texas one, but it sounds like an America-flavored version of all those stories from the UK, where various folks were forced to remove St George's Cross flags as offensive to Muslims.

At least that makes some sort of thousand-years-out-of-date sense, as the SGC was a Crusade flag. For a given value of "sense".

[hosticle_fifer]

OK, I just read the story, and it looks like management backpedaled to say it was a problem only because its location broke their ordinances. And they have a flag flying out front, so the original statement about it being "threatening" makes no sense.

All-in-all it's a rabble-rouser but otherwise a total non-story.

[millysdaughter]

I suspect it might have been an overzealous condo association that prohibits hanging any flags or any banners - I have heard of many people having battles with those self-important petty bureaucrats over the years.
Which is why **I** could never live in an area with an "association" telling me what I can or can not or "must" do with my own property. (says the house that practices extreme holiday decorating)

[reborn_spirit]

There's a horror author named Bentley Little who wrote a book called The Association. Kind of interesting. I personally like some of his other books better (The House, The Town, The Haunted) but this comment made me think of the book.

[reborn_spirit]

"Personally, I think there are people who miss the ideas of lynch mobs, and anything they can use as an excuse to go after someone, they will latch onto
it."

Couldn't agree more.

[kandigurl]

I suspect it has a lot to do with the fact that thinking outside of the way you see the world is very difficult and requires some humility, so it's easier to fall into the "this is the way the world is and THIS CONFIRMS IT" way of thinking.

[impoetry]

Good call.