So since my sense of humor doesn't match everyone's

[TZ]

Should I stop posting here? I wouldn't want to offend anyone with my inane and pointless sense of humor. After all we all know I never have anything funny or meaningful to say. And worst yet, I have a dirty sense of humor. Wouldn't want that here either God knows that everyone should be exactly the same, have the same sense of humor, like the same things, and parse all topics to meet the group approval.
After all the Lounge should be only for serious, meaningful topics and people like me that joke around with DU friends should take my silliness elsewhere right?:sarcasm:
Rant off. Feel free to put me on ignore if my brainless tripe clogs up your important day.

[ThomCat]

1. I love your sense of humor!

:hug:

[TZ]

3. Thank you, Thom

I'm just tired of people complaining that this that and the other isn't funny, when to some of us it is. Somehow, I did not expect to find this kind of intolerance of others here.:hug:

[quip]

2. wtf? Source of poopyheadness, please....

:grr:

[TZ]

5. self -delete

[Dr. Strange]

25. Or PM us.

[TZ]

28. I did temeah

Ask him.

[Dr. Strange]

31. Never mind.

I found the thread.

Ho boy.

[SPKrazy]

4. Oh say Yumbo La La's to the naysayers

you have the right to post whatever the hell you want to here regardless of someone's longing for a nostalgic yesteryear that was never as cool as it really was. Yanno what I mean?

Keep posting, people can hide your threads if they don't like it, and if they don't want to post here because it isn't up to their standards (whatever) then they can use ignore like you said

:hug:

[GOPisEvil]

6. What he said.

As long as you stay within the rules, post whatever you like. Those that don't want to participate don't have to.

Edit: he, she - tomato, tomahto...

[SPKrazy]

9. He said

I'm not Sylvia Plath :P

:hi:

[GOPisEvil]

10. Sorry about that. I read your user name incorrectly.

I will correct my egregious error.

I like the Sylvia Plath line. :)

[SPKrazy]

18. hey it's okay

it is a little off putting to see a female avatar maybe? :rofl:

I like Sylvia

[CreekDog]

12. What?

Sylvia Plath was a laugh-riot.

[Ptah]

7. are you calling out to someone?

:shrug:

[TZ]

11. I'm trying to make a point

There have been a few posts in the last few weeks that have gotten my dander up and I decided it was time to make a statement about how they can come off. I normally don't like to cause trouble but I'm just tired of the "holier than thou" attitude I see sometimes.

[Ptah]

14. I think you should ignore them.

[TZ]

16. Oh yeah

That's so done. I really never thought I'd have to do that in the lounge.x(

[Ptah]

17. You thought you would like everyone here?

or did you think everyone here would like you?

[TZ]

19. No.

But I'm a bit of an idealist I suppose. I figured that most people could at least tolerate each other.
Guess I'm pretty naive.

[Ptah]

You suggest others ignore you if they don't like what you post.

I suggest you ignore those you don't enjoy.

[lightningandsnow]

8. Your sense of humor is actually awesome.

:hug:

[CreekDog]

13. I caught you laughing at the Wilford Brimley thing.

naughty naughty! :spank:

[leeroysphitz]

15. The only problem I Have is with the naked yoga pics...

Not enough yoga, not enough naked...
:evilgrin:

[KitchenWitch]

20. Holy crap. I missed whatever this is about, but you stay put there, Missy!

:D

[SPKrazy]

21. well

whether it was or not

it's now about gumbo ya ya's

[KitchenWitch]

27. Sometimes you just gotta say, "What the fuck"

:D

[LeftyFingerPop]

22. Join the club!! KEEP POSTING!!!!! n/t

[SPKrazy]

24. you on the other hand

are a ya ya

get yer ya ya's out!!!!


:rofl:

[SOteric]

23. I really don't think Forrest was pointing his commentary specifically at you.

:shrug:

[TZ]

Oh boy

Yes he was...as it seems I was one of his ignorami (his term, and insulting as all hell IMHO), apparantly...:grr:

[Ptah]

29. good point.

:thumbsup:

[TZ]

30. ..

read his response to my comment in his thread. I can't show you since I have no put that person on ignore.

[Ptah]

38. I think you should put that person on ignore.

[TZ]

39. I did

Love that pic by the way.

[Ptah]

49. You can put people on ignore without starting a thread about it.

[TZ]

52. ..

Actually I started this thread, to make a point about something in general, not to attack a particular poster. I actually used ignore after I read a particular insulting response and it was made clear that the original post was to see which "ignorami" showed up. I'm not trying to attack that poster, but to make a point in general. IMHO, the first post was very much flamebait.

[Lars39]

55. I think you have misunderstood something...

ForrestGump didn't write the OP to see if any "ignored" posters would show up...an "ignored" poster showed up and he then turned off the ignore feature so he could see who posted in his thread. Big difference.

[Ptah]

56. So this thread is response to someone that is ignoring you.

[TZ]

59. I told you it was aimed in general

and not in response to that one person.
I wanted to make a commentary in general that not everyone sees things the same way, not start a flame war.I am NOT a deliberate shit stirrer. However when I see something that strikes me as BS I have a hard time not commenting.I hate being censored or advocating censoring as well, which is why I hate putting people on ignore. Also I have this funny thing as a scientist about being labelled as an Ignorami.

[Ptah]

69. So this thread is response to someone that is ignoring you.

[Shakespeare]

94. Agreed. n/t

[DarkTirade]

26. Eh, yours is okay.

:P

I keed, I keed.

[flvegan]

32. What in the hell are you talking about?

I MUST have missed something.

[TZ]

34. ..

Apparantly the total inanity of the Lounge is driving someone away. And that person said so. And i have evidence I am one of "the inane posters" that is part of the problem.

[flvegan]

35. Guess I have to ask...

who is the poster and why are you "one of the inane posters" involved in driving that poster away?

I'm sure I'll get a cryptic response, but I still have to ask.

Oh, and btw, if the "total inanity of the Lounge" sends someone away, then...well, consider what you're thinking right now about that.

[DarkTirade]

37. Yeah, I was 'bout to say...

isn't half the purpose of the lounge to relax and be inane? :P

[flvegan]

43. Egg-zactly.

Relax should be a DU link much like the "Recommend" deal-eeeeo.

[alarimer]

33. You're cool

yeah, things get kind of stupid around here but it IS the LOUNGE after all, not GD:P, where they just fling poop at each other like a bunch of crazed chimpanzees.

[TZ]

36. To all my friends on this thread thank you.

But I'm in a real crappy mood and need to sleep. This is the first time I've really gotten upset with something in the Lounge. But I do appreciate the support I've gotten here.
Night y'all.

[KitchenWitch]

44. Check your PM when you get a chance.

:hi:

[Dr. Strange]

40. I am reminded of this quote.

You know something, there's nothing wrong with a culture where everybody has a different idea of what's humorous. The last time I can remember an entire nation being on the same page, it was Germany in the late thirties and it didn't really turn out that funny.

It pisses me off to have to (a) quote Dennis Miller and (b) violate Godwin's Law so early in the game. But the quote seems pertinent.

[Generic Brad]

41. Someone says we have to be serious in the Lounge now?

I think they may have wandered into the wrong yard. Make them go back to their own property.

[Dr. Strange]

53. No, I believe we now have to be funny in the "right way."

Like it was back in the day. When the Lounge was appropriately funny.

[Generic Brad]

54. I get it. Like before I showed up!

I am a bad influence wherever I go.;-)

[Dr. Strange]

57. Before a lot of us showed up.

We really ruined things.

[geardaddy]

98. Apparently...

it's if you showed up in 2005 or after.

[Shakespeare]

96. Nope. That's not what they were saying at ALL.

I assume you'll be able to find the referred-to (um...called-out) thread with little difficulty.

[siligut]

42. I don’t know when this started.

I think you are funny and sexy and smart. Don’t let disrupters disrupt. Sometimes with all the teasing that goes on here, some things are taken wrong. Anyone who would diss you for real here, they can just fuck themselves, this is not the place.

[Dr. Strange]

63. I agree.

She is very funny and sexist and smart.

And she gets a fat paycheck! If I can just cure her of her Rush-hatred, she could be the next Lounge empress.

[TZ]

65. Thanks but you want to the know the truth about Rush

I honestly don't think I've listened to them enough to know if they really are good or bad...;-)

[Dr. Strange]

66. I will turn you to the dark side.

Mark my words, young turtle. You will join us...or be ignored.

[TZ]

67. ...

Oh well, I'm getting used to being ignored.
Can someone tell me why endlessly quoting MP is "mature" while copycats or naughty threads are "juvenile"? I haven't figured that one out yet

[Dr. Strange]

77. Because it's funny to them.

And the copycats aren't. And since they're right and everyone else is wrong, somebody's got to change.

It's the Lounge version of Hillary vs Obama. With Carrot Top as Jeremiah Wright.

[siligut]

85. Truer words have not been spoken.

Imagine going into a lounge IRL and announcing what sort of behavior was permissible and then insulting people. You would get raspberried at the very least.

[Dr. Strange]

89. Or promoted to manager.

[Dr. Strange]

90. Hey wait, you skimmed over my typo!

She is very funny and sexist and smart.

I put that in there just for you, turtlensue!

[IndianaJones]

45. ignore, nt

[TZ]

47. What, someone say something?:)

[IndianaJones]

50. I can't see your posts. Ha ha. nt.

[JVS]

46. Dammit, we've got meetings to attend, subordinates to boss around, secretaries to yell at,...

other drivers to give the finger to. Our fast-paced lives don't have time for your interruptions!

[TZ]

51. PFFT!

You sir, are not funny---;-)

[Mojambo]

48. If they don't like it, fuck em.

That's the attitude I try and take.

[puerco-bellies]

58. Everything and every one with a grain of salt..

At the worst it will merely lead to kidney failure. At best you won't be annoyed by 99.9999% of mankind.

[Twillig]

60. Feh.

People have become so goddamn self-important on message boards they are calling themselves out now.

[Connonym]

61. Oh man I've got over 5k of inane and pointless posts

with the occasional pitiful woe is me tossed in for good measure and they haven't gotten rid of me yet! Your posts are fine Turtlensue, just be yourself and know that you can never make everyone happy but that doesn't mean that a lot of people don't enjoy your posts. If we were all exact same we'd be republicans, nobody wants THAT!

[Withywindle]

62. Don't you worry!

You're not inane.

And even when you are, that's what the Lounge is for. To feel free to be inane. To ENJOY being inane.

To have a certain smiling, self-loving self-awareness about our inanity, as opposed to GD:P (and can I say how much I love that coding glitch that makes the stick-out-tongue smilie appear every time), where inanity reaches red alert levels when people THINK they're being deep and relevant.

[Orrex]

64. Who are you, again?

The name sounds familiar, but...

[TZ]

68. Nobody

but an unfunny trouble making shit stirrer with a "juevenile" sense of humor.;-)

[Orrex]

70. Oh, now I remember

Aren't you a doctor of BS, too?

[TZ]

71. yep

as I think many here would attest to...:crazy:

[RainDog]

72. Get your mind out of the gutter, dammit!

You're blocking my view.

what hap? will you grace me with a pm with said issue?

sometimes I hide a lot of threads b/c, unlike the last few days, most times I'm not here a lot and it's not meant to be mean... it's just that it makes it faster for me to read The Lounge... click/hide.

or, if a person doesn't like copycat thread stuff, they can ignore the ppl who do them.

there are so many....people here now who go beserk over cigs or breastfeeding or whatever. Life is way too short. Don't worry about it. This board or forum doesn't belong to anyone - well, except the people it belongs to.

[DS1]

73. No. You shouldn't stop posting

The post you're taking offense to was a post about actually "trying" to be funny, as in "put some effort" into being funny. You weren't being singled out, but you felt like you were being singled out, so perhaps the post in question applies.

Yeah, so maybe I do come off as one of those curmudgeonly old farts telling you to get off our lawn, oh well. Guess what, that copycat shit isn't funny, or amusing, or clever, and if people would actually put some of the aforementioned effort into being funny into their posts, this entire lounge would get back to being funny.

Frankly speaking, and this isn't directed towards you personally turtlensue, if copycats is all you have offer as a contributor to "The Lounge", fuck off and leave it to the people who can be funny.

[TZ]

74. As I told someone else

I view copycatting the way I view scrabble as a challenge to try to work playing with words and phrases. I understand why some people don't see it that way. But I also don't understand why people get so worked up over something which frankly seems harmless. I would take the worst copycat over most of the shit in GD-P anyday.
And yes, I do have other things to contribute to the Lounge. Lots of kitteh threads anyway.

[DS1]

75. then play scrabble in the original thread

[LeftyFingerPop]

76. Ummm

Do you own this place? Is there a "rule" she is breaking? It's a fucking message board fer christ sake.

[DS1]

79. No, of course I don't own this place

There's no rule she's breaking, there's just a lot of people disregarding common sense.

Copycat bullshit is copycat bullshit, no matter which light you shine on it.

It
Wit
Shit
Bit
Lit
Fit
Kit
Sit
Tit
Git

[LeftyFingerPop]

80. What if I told you that I like it? (sometimes based on my mood)

Does that mean that my taste should be discounted because some others may not like it?

I just posted in another thread...I will always bitch about 1) gang attacks and 2) Making light of an illness.

I think that generally, people would accept this as "wrong".

But copycat threads? There are people that come in here to relax. People with horrible problems. Drunk people. Stoned people.

Maybe the mindless copycats are just what they need?

[Oeditpus Rex]

82. It's not about common sense

The paradigm is shifting, and there are more people behind it, pushing, than pushing from the other end.

The thing is, I don't think most of the pushers really want to push. Rather, they see more people on that end, so that's where they go.

Of course, the few pushing from the other end might just be pushing because they don't want anyone to see the oil stain on the driveway.







Fuck, I love metaphors.

[DS1]

86. Tis true

Just as the Flying Circus eventually gave way to the crap fest that is the current SNL, everything progresses.

[quip]

78. On the outside chance that you can even read this, I'll say this:

A while ago someone said that you hated copycats. Probably because you said it somewhere along the line. So just to tweak you (and I don't really even know you, but for fun nonetheless), I compiled a screenshot just for you:



I thought of it as a sort of performance piece, the final work being the screenshot itself. Funny? Maybe not. Oh well.

What bothers me is that people are getting so worked up over the littlest things-- things that will change tomorrow, or in a week, or whatever. But in the meantime and in the process, that lathering is affecting the enjoyment of others' lounge experience.

The ignore button is such a great tool for those who simply can't tolerate certain things-- I for the life of me don't understand why people just don't use it and simply live and let live.

Mini rant off.

[RainDog]

81. omg. Jesus has a screen shot that has my post about penis spam

which, thankfully, no one used as a copycat...

I really have no idea about so many of the dynamics here. maybe that's a good thing. I thought you and DS1 were friends and the copycat things were just teasing.

:shrug:

[quip]

83. I don't know DS1, copycatting WAS just teasing. And yeah, there are a few dynamics

going on, but not really a big deal. I just want everyone to get along and enjoy themselves here in the lounge, that's all.

And if I never copycat another thread, I'm pretty sure I'll live. If that is what it would take to instill some harmony, I can handle that.

[DS1]

88. copycat another thread

but for fuck's sake, put some effort into it! that's the entire point of ForrestGump's post.

and with that, i'm going to bed.

[laconicsax]

84. Wow, I must have been arguing with Rabrrrrrr about punctuation for longer than I thought.

Sounds like I missed something big.

[Swede]

87. Keep on posting T.

I like your brainless tripe.

[NJmaverick]

Who complained about you and your humor?

I have always enjoyed your posts, and your nice pictures of yourself.;-)

[NJmaverick]

91. Who complained about you and your humor?

I have always enjoyed your posts, and your nice pictures of yourself.;-)

[DeposeTheBoyKing]

92. Don't be crazy - I think you rock!!!

Something must have happened to make you take it personally - I've been there myself. I love your sense of humor too - don't leave!

[LSK]

93. this sort of thing flares up here every few months, just ignore it and keep posting

[youthere]

95. That's it...BE FUNNIER DAMMIT.

Fuck them ALL and keep posting...DUstrange is still holding out for nekkid yoda pics...you can't leave and disappoint him. Gumbo ya ya is actually Gumbo yadda yadda yadda.

[Dr. Strange]

97. You make a good point.

[Bake]

99. What's your problem, Your Poopiheadedness?

You know we luv ya!!

Bake