Return of the son of GOOD or BAD

[coalescent]

Yes, it's a quiet Friday again, and a young man's mind turns to thoughts of GOOD or BAD. For those who haven't played before: below the cut is a poll, listing various things. Some of them matter, some of them really don't. All you have to do is decide whether each one is GOOD or BAD. There's no half-way house. This is what happened last time.

Ready to be mindlessly reductive? Go!

[Poll #493069]

EDIT: So far we have determined that Trig has no soul and that Mattia likes some weird things. Also, has anyone actually seen the black and white smarties in the wild? I know they're meant to exist, but I haven't been able to find them.

Comments

[chance88088.livejournal.com]

hee. I had forgotten about comments I kept deleting :)

[coalescent.livejournal.com]

But this time you're concentrating, right?

[mattia.livejournal.com]

Re: American-style mustard, there's a caveat. It's the Best Mustard EVAR for hot dogs, decent on burgers, and absolutely useless for EVERYTHING ELSE.

[coalescent.livejournal.com]

You have a point about the hot dogs, but this does not outweigh its extreme wrongness in all other cases.

[truecatachresis.livejournal.com]

Agreed, hence my GOOD.

[bugshaw.livejournal.com]

And surprisingly nice on pizza.

[sbisson.livejournal.com]

To the lunchroom, for great justice!

(You reading PS238 yet?)

[coalescent.livejournal.com]

Not knowing what PS238 is, I'm going to have to go with 'nope'.

[pikelet.livejournal.com]

Got the postcard today. It was not the pig I was looking for.

Cheers, dude :)

Cheered me up before I went into a meeting to discuss my failure to pass any mock exams and the potential deferral of the real things, anyway.

[coalescent.livejournal.com]

*manly hugs*

[ninebelow.livejournal.com]

Some kind of hypothetical 'Year's Best Writing About SF' book of essays, reviews, comment etc

So I'm not alone in having that thought.

[coalescent.livejournal.com]

I certainly can't claim credit - Mr Strahan mooted the idea on his blog. But it's a notion I like a lot. No idea how to make it happen, though.

[despotliz.livejournal.com]

Badness of X-Box design is mainly due to a) the controllers look to be Teh Suck and b) I saw a picture of the supposed design of the Nintendo Revolution and it looks to be kickass.

I have no idea what "The Inside" is, and American mustard is good only on burgers. Hot dogs are an abomination unto man.

[coalescent.livejournal.com]

Badness of X-Box design is mainly due to a) the controllers look to be Teh Suck

Doesn't everyone but me think that about the current controllers?

I have no idea what "The Inside" is

!

Tim Minear's new show? Airs June 8th? Features Jane Espenson and David Fury on the writing staff and Adam Baldwin among the cast?

and American mustard is good only on burgers. Hot dogs are an abomination unto man.

So wrong!

[fba.livejournal.com]

I saw a picture of the supposed design of the Nintendo Revolution and it looks to be kickass.

A little Google around makes me feel very happy.

Do you think the 'portable gamecube' pictures are real or fake? Given how small the 'cube discs are I would say making a portable one is perfectly feasible.

Black & White Smarties

[dev-iant.livejournal.com]

Newcastle United coloured Smarties? Cool :-)

Re: Black & White Smarties

[dev-iant.livejournal.com]

Not to mention Opus-coloured ;-)

[chance88088.livejournal.com]

ack! threaded comments.

threaded comments bad!

[coalescent.livejournal.com]

I'll put that one in next time I do the poll, but I think I can confidently predict that you will be found WRONG. Threaded comments good! It's LJ's one big advantage over every other blogging platform.

[fba.livejournal.com]

??

How the hell can you follow what is going on if they *aren't* threaded? Comments in Niall's journal would make less sense than normal if they weren't threaded...

[hawleygriffen.livejournal.com]

Totally agree. The collapsed comments = BAD.

[hawleygriffen.livejournal.com]

Black and white smarties sound so cool, but I have never seen them.

Iron council BAD because I don't care as I haven't read it. ;p

Voted the election as BAD because as preferable to the Tories as Labour are, I just can't call 'em GOOD.

How can anyone say GOOD or BAD is BAD? Wrong!

[ajr.livejournal.com]

Until I read the comments, I thought "The Inside" was basically being inside a building as opposed to being outside. Whoops.

[iainjclark.livejournal.com]

The best way to approach GOOD or BAD is a state of zenlike ignorance of the actual subject matter. :-)

[jtoomey.livejournal.com]

American mustard : mustard :: fashion eyewear : gerunds

...or something like that.

In unrelated news, I like yellow mustard, but for different purposes than I like unamerican mmustard, if you'll allow the terminology.

In unrelated news, for the most part, ".* mustard" == GOOD.

In unrelated news, unrelated news in not as unrelated as some might purport.

In related news, I didn't know what a lot of those things were.