I need to get this off my womanly breasts

[Commodore]

As a mod I hereby dub this thread:

[Mooseka]

MY MILKSHAKE BRINGS ALL THE BOYS TO THE YARD AND THEY'RE LIKE, IT'S BETTER THAN YOURS, DAMN RIGHT IT'S BETTER THAN YOURS I CAN TEACH YOU BUT I HAVE TO CHARGE

[Stak]

sumo susan

THAT'S THE BEST THING EVER

<3

[superbowl shuffle]

Once I had a half-dream about some strange little worm-shaped creature being thrown into a bowl of white creamy shit

That is true. The whole game is Freudian!

[zamros]

and that's why the community is gay

[598]

wow zamros, o-space seems a whole lot better now.

[7]

you fucking faggots

the whole milkshake thing was old in november.

[53]

thats a wonderful pict of a WHITE BLANK WINDOW

[48]

i fail to see how i'm 'playing mod'.

Let's explore!

Firstly, there's the fact that your "suggestion" was unprompted; if one of the mods or admins had asked whether the topic should be locked there wouldn't be a problem with you giving your opinon. Instead, you bring it out of nowhere, just forty minutes after the last post. It's not even like this is an unpopular thread!

There's also the structure: as you say, it's a suggestion - but it should be a request. You SHOULD be asking politely for the thread to be locked, not making an unasked-for suggestion.

The fact that you're posting in the thread at all is telling too - the recommended procedure is to contact a mod or admin about a thread that's bothering you, not say it in the thread. So why do it? Perhaps it's because you secretly have a desire to appear influential in the ZZT commune.

Let's look more closely at the text:

i'm thinking this topic's outlived its usefulness.

The line "I'm thinking" implies that your opinions actually have some sway on the board's functioning; it places you in control, makes people look at you as the One With An Opinion. Indeed, there is a subtle implication - subconscious, perhaps, but still there - that you may have the ability to lock the topic yourself (we will come back to this later).

Also, note the phrase "usefulness" which immediately implies that there are set rules about the relevance of topics, and that you are the one who decides which ones are "useful" and which ones are not. It's also a really lame reason to want a thread locked. It's not doing you any harm is it? Or at least wasn't at the time. So why ask for it to be locked at all? Perhaps, again, because you wish - subconsciously or consciously - to appear in control?

if somebody begs to differ, please do so, though.

"If somebody begs to differ" - here you're implying that your decision about the thread's uselessness is the definitive one and that anyone who disagrees with it must appeal TO YOU for clemency. This isn't a suggestion, it's a veiled command with implications of an authority that you do not have.

So basically, SHUT YO MOUTH AND CUT OFF YO FINGERS.

I WIN! THE WINNER IS ME!

[Commodore]

Well congratu-fucking-lations.

[superbowl shuffle]

"I say lucky because many who earlier had attained the highest limit of education available to them for years had no idea what to do with their knowledge and wandered around uselessly, with the most splendid architectural plans in their heads, and a great many of them just went downhill from there."

[Dr. Dos]

Funk is a master psychologist.

[Zenith Nadir]

[nps]

ok so it's been deleted off geocities

But never fear! I made a copy.

[Zenith Nadir]

joy!