A Diabolic Partner

Well, now you all have my partner on my case. He says he is sick of hearing me go on and on about my escapades (and yours) in forums (which he never reads). So he has connivingly come up with a solution. IF I post a thread, I must pay him $1000 Lindens. If I comment, then I must pay him $100 for every time I do. He knows I am compulsively honest and will pay him this money. He also knows that I can afford it but am "tight" with wasting it. So I am stumped. I will get one free day a week when I can post. He has - amazingly - altered my behaviours in real as well as in sl with this. The bu99er has sussed out what impels me to post but has worked upon my weaknesses also.
This is not a purely "me" post - but a question for you also.
Does YOUR partner impact YOUR reality - or does he/she purely influence your secondlife?
(By the way, the "Forum Jar Fine System" begins at my midnight. Not his.

You started another thread to tell us you'll be starting less threads.

I think your partner needs to up the punishment to $100,000 per thread. I also want his name so I can send him every transferable thing in my inventory as a genuine and hearty thank you.

But if he was really serious about this you wouldn't get a free day to post here. You can do a lot of damage with just one day of posting. What day will that be, BTW so I can make plans to increase my pain medication?

I thought this was "A Diabetic Partner".

It confused me for a few seconds.

You think he'd take donations?

LMAO.

Well that promise lasted all of one hour and seventeen minutes, then. Something tells me that (once your 'punishment' begins) this is going to be an expensive exercise for you.

Jig, I think you should start a jar of your own... find something he appreciates that you might have grown a bit weary of, and start billing that six days of the week

Of course, you'll have to get creative and figure out just what.

Never on a Sunday,

Des

While I definitely will not miss the condescending tone often used, I will miss much of the thought provoking that Jig inspires. Hopefully, once a week will provide enough of a fix.

Negative rewards only get you so far. Do you have any positive incentives? Say, for every day you do not post you get to bang a newbie or whatever little tidbit you like.

Or for every day she doesn't post her partner takes her dancing.

Dressed in drag.....

HA! *grins*

I'm afraid your question about partners may be drowned in the overall glee over the Professor's action, Jig. Not only does it give the forums a bit of a respite (I'm sure this policy won't last forever), but it's just plain funny.

This reminds me of the advice on getting married: Put a dollar in a jar every time you have sex for the first two years after the wedding, and take one out every time do it after the first two years - until you are sixty years old . . .

Pep ( . . . when you will be able to retire to Florida on the contents of the jar. )

PS Which day are you allowed to post, Jig?

PPS Please let it not be Friday!!!

I don't find the posts so much condescending as occasionally opinionated, but not in any direct or intentionally derogatory way to anyone.

I would not agree to such an arrangement. Call me old fashioned but I could not assess a fine on any friend of mine. He should be willing to lend a sympathetic ear to your trials and tribulations.

To answer your question - I don't have an SL partner so there is no impact on RL whatsoever other than the time I spend in world.

I hope the part where you blamed everyone else (you all) for your action (going on and on about the forums) was tongue-in-cheek! Other than that, I'm glad to hear that your partner keeps you in line. I think he should give you a good bare-ass hard spanking too. But he probably realizes you would enjoy that too much

How ironic this is! In the spirit of your recent "Wrong Uses of Second Life" threads, I was just going to post a thread about how wasteful and foolish people are who pay their SL partners when they post to the Forums!

I mean seriously, who would use SL for that? You might as well be paying for a SL wedding, Jig!

Get yourself an Alt and don't tell him! What he doesn't know won't hurt him.

You and me both. What absolutely astounds me is that Jig *has* a partner. But then considering what I've seen in SL *sighs*

My partner definitely impacts my RL and influences my SL.

Awww Czari. Don't say that.

There is someone for everyone. Nearly all people have redeeming qualities they rarely show anyone except that person close to them. I have dated some majorly hated people in SL: attacked, orbited in front of Lindens, and banned from land and events because of who I love in SL.

Jig has some nice things about her and a nice energy that i think is even reflected in SL. I am quiet positive that there are many qualities in her that someone can love her for.

We all have them....yes A.L., even you.

Unfortunately some people are just destructive no matter how nice way deep down on the inside hidden from everyone else they can be...and i do not think Jig is destructive at all which is why she has had a partner for so long.

Oh well, i am a sappy romantic anyways, so *shrug*

Yeah, he is a decent man. The Prof. But it takes a lot of patience on my part also to put up with an ancient academic (ancient in real age terms, that is).
3 years now.
Of course I am sexy and brilliant and sparkle in all weathers. His profile says sweet things about me.
But he is also able to use psychological warfare on me and so you will definitely be seeing far, far less of me in the future.
No, please ... don't clamour around me. I understand how much you will miss me.

Don't cry for me, Forumiters ...
(I'll be back next Friday)

I actually thought there would be one or two of you who would plead my case to my partner and ask for mercy for me. No, I am serious. Listen, I have been keeping you chortling for years. Losing me will be like losing a favourite sitcom or an admired commentator or intense journalist. Think of what YOU will be missing.
Remember all those days when you stamped in anger at what I said, then lingering a moment by teh kitchen sink, smiled happily to yourself at the commentaries we - WE - were making.
IM him and plead my case - but dont do it all at once, for heaven's sake otherwise all those messages will be capped. Do it over a week or so. Thanks. I'll make it worth your while and think up a post about sex in sl.

No need to get involved. You are his partner, not his slave -- and a resolute lady I would imagine.

I had mixed feelings when I read your original post. It reminded me of the other time when you left the Forum, under fire. I hope you remember that I sympathized with you then and stood up for you.

This time it's different.

I don't know why your partner wants you to stop. But if you've talked about your recent posts to him... I might be wrong, but a lot -- if not all -- your posts lately have been about how foolish the rest of us are for doing one thing or another in SL, whether it's dancing, or getting married, or having a child avatar, or I forget what else.

I'm glad you have what seems to be a healthy relationship in SL. I don't know whether you know, but there are people who think that ANY sort of relationship in SL is the height of folly and self-delusion. I don't. I think it's wonderful when two people find each other. My point is that you may laugh at us, but remember that others may be laughing in the same way at you.

You don't say why your partner wants to slow down your posting. I was going to guess, rather unkindly, that you were looking for something new to call stupid, and hit on something he enjoys. Or maybe that he was distressed by your fault finding.

I'm sorry, Jig, but I haven't been chortling. I've often been angry and hurt by your posts, and surprised at the change in you. Honestly, you and Pep seem much more alike now, animated by the same spirit. You each take a purely intellectual, artificial stance on an issue that doesn't touch you and then you scoff when people who care about that issue get emotional about it.

I don't think that any issue is above discussion, but I don't take kindly to being mocked and derided.

I don't know. I could be wrong about everything. But I'm not going to try to convince your partner to let you go on posting. That's between you two, and whatever his reasons are, they're true for him, and hopefully animated by his love for you.

/me again points to the concept of "respect" ... see, we RESPECT you and the Prof too much to believe that we know more than you do about how you should conduct your relationship.

And here's a new word: BOUNDARIES. Handy little things. I'm sure the Prof will appreciate it if we all observe them.
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