Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-14138255-20140801004849/@comment-14909251-20140804042801

It is more of a personal difference. Some people would be fine with the thing and accept it verily as a thing of endearment. Others would begrudgingly accept the thing due to their inability to stop the thing in the hope that the thing will be a minor nuisance or eventually go away. For Weiss, Its thingness being seemingly impossible to unthing may just leave her resigned to accepting the thingness of the thing. That is fine so long as the thing is limited to an occasional thing amongst friends where she can at least recognize the thing is not all she has with them. Yet, the thing expanding beyond her existing circle of friends is a sign that its thingness may have taken on a life of its own. A person can only tolerate so much of the thing before its thingness becomes suffocatingly thingy.

Now that Sun has made it a thing for him, he may expand its thingness to his circle of friends who have no reason to engage in the thing other than the mere fact of its thingness. Heaven forbid the thing also expand to the ever impressionable Penny who has an insufficient conceptualization of thingness to understand why the thing is a thing or how much the thing should be thinged in a day. At that point the thing has the potential to reach critical mass where its thingness becomes irrefutably an "I know Weiss" thing rather than an "I'm friends with Weiss" thing. Then one day the thing is being thinged multiple times in a few minutes by random people as she passes by because someone has turned it into a big public thing due to lacking appropriate discretion regarding the ethical limits of engaging in the thing only to find a big conversation all about her in which the thing is being thinged multiple times by multiple people with at least some of her friends happy to share the thing with people who have since been introduced to the thing.

Alternatively, when you are dealing with this sort of thing it can eventually become so routine a thing that people effectively compete over who can do the thing better than the rest of them. Testing the limits of acceptability for the thing is inevitable when the thing is a group thing and people are trying to best the last thinging of the thing. Eventually, someone finds that one thing that is just short of being over the limits of acceptability for the thing as the subject of the thing has become visibly distressed by the lengths to which the thing is being taken and then someone who is intent to quickly best the previous person's thinging of the thing steps boldly and irreversibly over the line of acceptability for the thing before realizing the truly horrific nature of exceeding the ethical limits of the thing.

Suffice to say, the thing can be taken too far pretty quickly when there are too many people routinely involved in the thing. This prompts a thing-induced emotional breakdown where the subject of the thing, Weiss, makes no secret of her longstanding opposition to the thingness of the thing and how she had only previously been less resistant to its thingness out of a desire to avoid unnecessary conflict over the thing. Upon realizing the level of harm caused by the thing there is a vocal utterance of error, "Uhhh, whoops", that greatly undersells the emotional damage inflicted by the thing followed by a desperate effort to undo what psychological pain the thing hath wrought.