MicroWiki Shireroth entry

[Scott of Hyperborea]

Microwiki's gotten pretty popular and important recently, so I updated and added to Shireroth's last week. Take a look, find any mistakes, and add whatever needs adding.

http://micronations.wikia.com/wiki/Shireroth

[Jonas]

Well-written.

[Erik Mortis]

When did we decide on those bizarre denominations? I always thought we just did 1, 5, 10, 20, 50, 100. like in the US. Actaully.. I never even assumed that. I've only ever seen a 1erb note.

[Scott of Hyperborea]

It was the best kind of decision - a unilateral decision!
http://shireroth.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=8967

[Erik Mortis]

You picked what must be the worst picture of Nick .... hehe

[Jonas]

Most recently, a debate between traditionalists and liberals flared up in a battle over Shireroth's beloved but graphically questionable flag that led to founder Erik Mortis taking an indefinite leave of absence. Some worry that the country has grown too big and complex to stay together as an effective community, while others celebrate its continued growth and prosperity.

Liberals? WHAT THE HECK?!

[Kaiser Malarbor I]

A funny way of saying "progressive"?

[Jonas]

A funny way of saying "progressive"?

PROGRESSIVE?!

[Kaiser Malarbor I]

Well, you *can* kind of place some Shirithians on some sort of a continuum of how conservative or progressive they are. I already mentioned this in some thread having to do with the flag thing, but I'm just gonna say it again because of how much it amuses me: People like Erik and Greg tend to fall pretty squarely into the conservative end of things (though of course not entirely one-dimensionally so), whereas Scott and me tend to want to change things every time we see something that could serve as a vague improvement, no matter what we're throwing away.

The reason that amuses me, of course, that the four of us are pretty much the only currently active (ish) Shirithians who can be (reasonably uncontroversially) placed at the endpoints like that. It seems everyone who came in later or has been around less considers change in a far more situational manner. Maybe long-term exposure to Shireroth just causes polarisation of political opinions

[Aurangzeb Khan]

Maybe long-term exposure to Shireroth just causes polarisation of political opinions

The only polarisation Shireroth causes is of the bipolar variety...

[Icebreaker]

Maybe long-term exposure to Shireroth just causes polarisation of political opinions

The only polarisation Shireroth causes is of the bipolar variety...

I ENJOY IT EVERY TIME YOU POP IN JUST TO MAKE FUN OF MICRONATIONLISTS, IT REMINDS ME I'M NOT THE ONLY SANE PERSON IN THE WORLD.

KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK!

[Jacobus Loki]

They changed the freaking FLAG? Oh, yeah, I'm in a delirious coma. THAAAAT explains it. I'll wake up. and it will be all better.......

[Erik Mortis]

Scott et al changed the flag. Yes.

[Scott of Hyperborea]

For values of "et al" meaning "along with two thirds of the rest of the country", yes.

[Erik Mortis]

You were the driving force and there was multiple involved.. thus.. "Scott et al"

[Harvey Steffke]

Bill was also a major part of the et al before he went crazy and left.

[Scott of Hyperborea]

Poor Bill. I miss him.

[Harvey Steffke]

You say that only because he wasn't criticizing every aspect of your life constantly around the clock for little to no reason.

[Erik Mortis]

It bugs me to no end that he had such an active roll in such an important decision and then just left. I knew he would. Just another reason I question the legitimacy of the entire thing.

[Aurangzeb Khan]

Are we allowed to place bets on how depressingly likely it is that your first act as Kaiser will be to change the flag back to that crappy number you have on your signature block.

[Jacobus Loki]

Are we allowed to place bets on how depressingly likely it is that your first act as Kaiser will be to change the flag back to that crappy number you have on your signature block.

I certainly hope so!

[Allot]

Are we allowed to place bets on how depressingly likely it is that your first act as Kaiser will be to change the flag back to that crappy number you have on your signature block.

One thousand Ankh-Morpork dollars.

[CJ Miller]

Are we allowed to place bets on how depressingly likely it is that your first act as Kaiser will be to change the flag back to that crappy number you have on your signature block.

^ This

[Ryan]

It bugs me to no end that he had such an active roll in such an important decision and then just left. I knew he would. Just another reason I question the legitimacy of the entire thing.

This is somehow surprising given he's done this how many umpteenth times?!

[Aurangzeb Khan]

Incidentally it seems the muppets on the wiki are slowly groping their way towards accidentally inventing recwar. May many hilarious calamities befall them. All we need do now is wait for the ones who take this too seriously to start calling the war crazed thirteen year olds "bug-nations" (which they nearly have done) and the circular recurring nature of dysfunctional behaviour in the community will have been established beyond all doubt.

[Ryan]

I was waiting for someone to bring up the Austenasian civil war. It's all rather absurd, even if it does mirror what we ourselves did a few years back, several times over actually... Hmmm, maybe I shant mention this again...

[Andreas the Wise]

Yeah, I was wondering if we should perhaps have a word with them, in a kindly big brother sort of way, and say "Hey, if you want to fight a war, we know how to do it in an organised way ...." And, at the same time, hint that maybe the MCS is the place to be for anglophone nations etc ...