Bathrooms, ghosts
Sep. 22nd, 2007 02:26 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sniffnoyCan't anyone get it right?
It's very simple. O-week, the bathrooms are coed, as a "trial period". Then there's the house meeting first week, where we decide on it by secret ballot, but if anyone objects to it, we don't do coed bathrooms. The RHs draw up some ridiculous compromise. Then everyone completely ignores the rules and uses whichever bathroom they want, until people forget there might ever have officially been a rule against such.
This is what I'm told happens pretty much every year in Tufts House. And yet, the only time I actually saw this happen was first year, under Bill and Fiona.
Bill and Dave cut things short, simply saying, "OK, it's coed bathrooms... noone objects, do they?", and noone did. One of the few things they did right, even if it didn't follow the rules.
Jack and Sarah, the new RHs, have taken things in the other direction. Apparently the meeting happened early - during O-week. And they have drawn up their compromise. Huh? To find out: Was the trial period cut short, or did it not exist at all? This is bad either way. They need to get used to how things are going to be. Well, I suppose it hardly matters as before long people will be ignoring the rules out of convenience. Of course, unlike Bill and Fiona, Jack and Sarah have actually put up signs on the bathroom detailing the compromise. I guess someone'll tear 'em down eventually.
And, OK, have not really met the new RHs at all, they seem nice, but I have to say they're acting kind of hostile towards the house. Maybe not deliberately, but it's the effect. They have withheld the list of the house members' email addresses (though I think this should be pretty easy to determine anyway) so that Sean doesn't go and add them to yobohost. Huh? What beef do they have against yobohost? It'll happen eventually anyway. I thought of just sending out an email on tufts-house telling them to join yobohost, but I realized that wouldn't sound right - "All you guys, join yobohost, just not you, Blake, Jack, and Sarah".
Completely unrelatedly, Grant points out: In Starcraft, the ghosts are all supposed to have psionic powers. But nothing they do in game uses this. They use cloaking technology, and they use rocket launchers, and they use laser pointers. Where's the psychicness?
-Harry
It's very simple. O-week, the bathrooms are coed, as a "trial period". Then there's the house meeting first week, where we decide on it by secret ballot, but if anyone objects to it, we don't do coed bathrooms. The RHs draw up some ridiculous compromise. Then everyone completely ignores the rules and uses whichever bathroom they want, until people forget there might ever have officially been a rule against such.
This is what I'm told happens pretty much every year in Tufts House. And yet, the only time I actually saw this happen was first year, under Bill and Fiona.
Bill and Dave cut things short, simply saying, "OK, it's coed bathrooms... noone objects, do they?", and noone did. One of the few things they did right, even if it didn't follow the rules.
Jack and Sarah, the new RHs, have taken things in the other direction. Apparently the meeting happened early - during O-week. And they have drawn up their compromise. Huh? To find out: Was the trial period cut short, or did it not exist at all? This is bad either way. They need to get used to how things are going to be. Well, I suppose it hardly matters as before long people will be ignoring the rules out of convenience. Of course, unlike Bill and Fiona, Jack and Sarah have actually put up signs on the bathroom detailing the compromise. I guess someone'll tear 'em down eventually.
And, OK, have not really met the new RHs at all, they seem nice, but I have to say they're acting kind of hostile towards the house. Maybe not deliberately, but it's the effect. They have withheld the list of the house members' email addresses (though I think this should be pretty easy to determine anyway) so that Sean doesn't go and add them to yobohost. Huh? What beef do they have against yobohost? It'll happen eventually anyway. I thought of just sending out an email on tufts-house telling them to join yobohost, but I realized that wouldn't sound right - "All you guys, join yobohost, just not you, Blake, Jack, and Sarah".
Completely unrelatedly, Grant points out: In Starcraft, the ghosts are all supposed to have psionic powers. But nothing they do in game uses this. They use cloaking technology, and they use rocket launchers, and they use laser pointers. Where's the psychicness?
-Harry
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