quote:Originally posted by Louche: My husband's in it. For four seconds. Cuddling a ghostie.
A ghost carp? How heavy was it? Pretty rare - decent ghosties.
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Carved TMO on her clit just to make you feel bad
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Four pounder, the ghostie, apparently.
Second lake looking recce planned for September, H1ppy. Sadly, however, work failed to make me redundant, thus failing to constribute a sizeable wad of cash to the 'fuck off to France' fund. The bastards promoted me instead...
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DVD fisheries and crumby breasts* Whirlwind.
*I don't mean crumby as in 'shit' Once two of my friends were at my flat, one, 'dude b' with his girlfriend who the other, 'dude a' had slept with before they got together. Somehow, she managed to announce that she was worried about what they discussed between themselves in regards to their carnal knowledge of her to which 'dude a' announced 'your fanny's alright' and dude b, not missing a beat added 'yeah it's not too shabby'
Strangely, she went 'hah hah hah' as the room fell silent at this soul withering honesty.
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Presently I'm imagining you lying on your back on the floor with a gigantocast. Your husband: 'want to watch a DVD of fisheries love?' and the baby being placed on your prone torso. Uselessly Scraping one heel against the carpet, unable to turn to remove the TV away from your peripheral vision while crumbs of malt loaf rain down onto your tits and face.
quote:Originally posted by Thorn Davis: You can't have Dr Benway! He's our best one! Here: Have NWoD instead.
Either of them are welcome, really - all are welcome! - well, everyone who isn't just going to pop over to troll for outrage by being a terrible cockfarmer.
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I don't know HLAC. After seeing that hilariously pompous 'call for new posters' a few years back I'm kind of 'nah - ah' about the place. The one that was all like "blah blah we're a community of well clever bastards, we've got loads of social / media analysts [lol], but we need scientists to complete our circle of knowledge". Like the place wasn't a collection of bored underachievers wanking on about shit, but was in fact a think tank for the greater good of humanity.
It seems to me like at the moment, the place is chock full of people trying to administrate and regulate the place, like some creaky old communist regime.
Obviously this is only based on the most basic of research.
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That "call for new members" thing seems to have become quite notorious and I was never a big fan - but that was just one person, again. The connection between that and the amount of discussion about the running of the place is that the guy who set it up, Tom, doesn't take a very hands-on approach to running it (deliberately) and isn't always around. So in the meantime other people have to work out how the site should function, in a pretty decentralised way. Ironically this is more democratic than most boards but perceived as more draconian.
Watching other boards grow to certain sizes has made me think there's always a point at which something - or someone - happens that makes the regular members or a majority of people there say "hey, can we have that deleted?" - it's just a question of when, about what, and who does it.
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I don't think that's ever happened on tmo. Maybe it's never been big enough, but other than the infuriating removal of '****', I can't think of a time when somebody has called for censorship. It seems like people over there take great pleasure in wielding authority or forming ad hoc courts and committees, and that the powerplay is part of the experience.
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Yeah. I will decline too. just because although from the outset, maybe TMO looks like a hippy commune with a severe tolerance to racism and bum jokes. It's not personal, but I just feel like I would be up against some hardcore pedantry and twisting of words, when in reality, reading some pages on Barbelith are no different than any other board. I can see there are a lot of funny, interesting and well articulated posters, but with my level of lowbrow communication, it would just feel like kicking against the pricks a bit more. This is why I'd rather stoke the fires of this forum until mayhap we get an influx of newbies. Sadly, it feels like some of my favorite posters, really El Oh El funny posters, brilliant writers and amazing photographers don't contribute things because perhaps they don't actually want to anymore. I can't blame them, but it does make me sad. The site has always been chaotic in some ways, but I've read other boards. Tons of them. Everywhere I go doesn't quite have the same feel. A lot of other boards are outrageously cliquey, where it's just a load of boringly worded plums back-slapping their own hierarchal positions and smiting near brain dead contibutors, with save-the-world solutions to BBC articles. They wouldn't want me is all. I'm sure.
quote:Originally posted by New Way Of Decay: Everywhere I go doesn't quite have the same feel.
This, at least, I can appreciate. I think a lot of people find a 'home' on the web and will always stick with it no matter how annoying it might get in certain respects. There have certainly been many times I've felt like never visiting That Place again (I'm sure the relative highs and lows would seem like the opposite to some), but you always come back. It's in the timbre of your bones, or something.
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I suppose that Roygate was an example of the community coming out and judging somebody, but I feel like the overall result was that we were sorry to see Roy leave. I was weirded out by all these people who haven't posted for years all of a sudden appearing and making the judgements that caused shirtless Roy to leave. I suppose that there was suprise, but overall the 'mood' of the regulars seemed to consist of disappointment, forgiveness, and of course suspicion.
That was all quite sad, but it was an example of the community being placed in a position where a moral decision had to be reached en masse. To this day though, I don't really know what the outcome of that was.
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Fish who had been gone for YEARS before that. Was Ben a direct result of Roygate? I assumed it was a more general lack of enthusiasm as his authority waned. It was probably like, Kovacs had got in so much trouble and caused so much distrust over time that he wasn't able to interact properly here anymore. He needed to start again without the kind of taint that he had developed. As a result, norton lost interest, as he had got off on believing himself to be in some way the intellectual nemesis of kovacs, or at least, he was gratified by being around him. With norton gone, ben lost a toy, and more than that, a means of maintaining moral and intellectual leadership. And all three posters had seperate groups who only really posted when they were shielded by one corner of the triangle.
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quote:Originally posted by Dr. Benway: but overall the 'mood' of the regulars seemed to consist of disappointment, forgiveness, and of course suspicion.
The thing I don't understand was that any suspicion was treated with some kind of theatrical disgust and when I stepped in to explain, that naturally, there would be some suspicion, I felt like I was being strapped into the ducking chair into some kind of reverse witch-hunt. It was most definately otherwordly and surreal. It had a broken context that left me feeling genuinely creeped out and confused by. it was horrible to be honest. It didn't seem to have any tangible understanding, but I guess it pushed the TMO boat into a more reserved and calmer climate, so now would be the perfect time for newbies to join and get stuck in, while all is calm.
quote:Originally posted by Dr. Benway: what's a reverse witch hunt?
You know, I'm not entirely sure, but I guess I was thinking of a mob all facing a witch and yelling 'burn her' and when someone in the crowd says 'why are we burning her again?' the angry mob flings them into the fire too.
If that description isn't quite right, then well, you got me sheriff.
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Here: Have NWoD instead. 
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