Any other alert button virgins?

I've never hit it.

I hear once you do, you can never go back. And my parents raised me to be a GOOD GIRL. O8)









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you could have at least bought me dinner first :blush:

but since becoming the target of the "Alert Mafia" i've started using it, but not as liberally as i should.

2 can play this game.

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:spank:

Thank you Sally, may I have another?

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Now i'm gonna lose my "i've never had a thread locked" virginity!

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:scared: Hoping that will leave my mind one day.

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RL

:scared: Or maybe I don't really want to know. :scared:

nor do I.

Something like dementia and drugs would be needed I think...

:scared:

RL

I did.

You copied and pasted my text and said it was your review.

:silly:

:rofl:

That's so totally hot.

I know my reviews...

RL

:spank:

:D

NEVER have I pushed that button
and if I ever do....

I WILL WEAR GLOVES!!!!!


promise



lost

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I still try to use it pretty rarely - and only then if something really blatantly nasty and in violation of the rules has been said. I've never used it in the Lounge, only in GD and GD-P.

So, it is like my sex life in that way.

:spray:

:yourock:

:hug:

That's us! A pair of quasi-virgins!

Oddly enough, it wasn't in GD or GD-P. It was in the frikkin' science forum.

That's just effed up, man!

Someone was asking how long it takes for skin tones to change to environment, and I mentioned that I'd read somewhere that there had been some fair-skinned red-headed people in egypt at one point. But there aren't anymore. I.E., the genes that were best fit to that environment survived. And they weren't the fair-skinned people. :P Apparently a bunch of white supremecist websites tried to use that fact to claim that white people had a stake in all the cool things the egyptians did. And of course, since I DON'T frequent those sites, I had no idea that they were claiming that.

I'm guessing what happened was that this person only saw me mention redheads in that area, did a google search for 'redhead' and ancient egypt and only found the first few links to white supremacist websites. Obviously he didn't read my entire comment to get the gist of it, nor did he look past the first few entries in the web search. While it wasn't common, and of course, the later on in history you got the less common it was, there were documented redheads there. (most namely a few pharos since they were the best documented people of the time. There are also a lot of mummies with red hair, but don't let that fool ya... a few thousand years drying out will take some of the pigment out of hair.)

Unfortunately it was also a fairly obscure tidbit of information, so it was rather hard to find actual information about it on the web. Best I could find online to back up my claim was an little mention of it as a side note in an article about the god Set (who had red hair) on an egyptology website that mentioned a few documented redheads in that culture. The only one I can remember offhand is Pharoh Seti the First, who was named after Set because he also had red hair. :) I'd originally gotten that information from an egyptology book, but I can't exactly hold a book up to the screen and say, "Here! Look!"

I didn't bother to also point out that my jewish great-grandfather was born in Poland, and he only missed that whole WWII mess by a few decades. Or that his son, my grandfather (100% jewish descent, although his family had converted by that time and he was raised UU. Which would have been enough to get him sent to the camps had his family stayed in Poland.), served in WWII to fight against the nazis. Or that I'm part native american on the other side of my family. I just pointed to that one link to let my statement stand on its own merits, then hit the alert button. I really don't feel the need to justify myself to someone who is incapable of finishing a coherent train of thought, and is willing to accuse someone he doesn't even know of being in cahoots with neo-nazis. Even if that fact I'd quoted was wrong, I sure as hell didn't get it from some neo-nazi progaganda.

Yeah, sounds like it wouldn't have been worth your time getting into all that... obviously whoever you were corresponding with was just being reactionary and nasty.

I should check out the science forum though -- i'm a total biology nerd, and i'd be interested in conversations like that. I got to meet Nina Jablonsky a while back, an anthropologist who studies the evolution of human skin color. A very loaded topic, but we are after all biological organisms subject to natural selection throughout our history!

Here's a pdf if you're interested: http://www.bgsu.edu/departments/chem/faculty/leontis/chem447/PDF_files/Jablonski_skin_color_2000.pdf

:hi:


p.s. I did my undergrad at Brown University, which apparently has one of the best Egyptology departments in the world... maybe they'd have some hair color resources! :shrug:

I've got the weird combination of having incredibly pale skin from my european side, but I don't burn or tan easily, which I'm assuming is from either the jewish or native american side. Also, I very definately got some of the hair growth genes from my native american side. My brother very definately didn't. He gets a 5 o'clock shadow before noon. I get mine... eh, about a week after I shave. :) The only way I can get a scraggly grunge look going is if I don't shave for about 9 days. Unfortunately, I can't continually shave 9 days ago...

At least I can say I'm still a virgin...

:(

I'm going to save my alert-button virginity until i see something like that...


:yourock:

:evilgrin:

it feelz good

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now i alert as needed

:hi:

Me.

but I will be a good boy.

No, I have never used the alert button.


As for the rest of it, well I wont get this thread locked talking about "hitting it" and "buttons" and stuff...


You're such a tease Sallymander, such a TEASE!! You torture me...

:P

thats the ONLY thing I got out at the moment...


:P

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"hittin it" emoticon?

:P

and that was for a truly disgusting, racist, mean-spirited and un-called-for post. (No, it had nothing to do with anything that went on today - this was several months ago, and I haven't seen the person post again, I don't think.) :hi: Generally, though, I don't hit it unless it's something really extreme.

It truly was vile. I don't know if that person has posted again, since I put him/her on ignore right after hitting the alert button. I usually take those names off after a week or two, but that's one poster I hope never to hear from again.

I think the number of times I've hit alert is still in the single digits. As you say, it has to be pretty extreme.

being a mod for two terms.

At first, it was cool, I would just watch the alerts come in but stay aloof from them, but slowly I was drawn into alerting on my own. I soon realized that this indeed was going to be my job as long as I remained seduced by the hot tub and other inducements of the moerators private lounge.

I learned to love alerting and became addicted to it, giving up everything, doing nothing but waiting for the next alert.

Finally, that last term ended and I can face my shame. I find it impossible to feel any pleasure in alerting now. The therapy is working slowly, but I believe it is possible to get some of my virginity back.

You are too much! :rofl:

I'm glad to hear that you are working on your alert button issues... :D

I was a Moderator!

And if I'd been an alert button virgin when I started that, I soon lost that state!

It felt damned weird the first time, and then I got used to it...

Much like the other virginity!

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:spray:


This thread is cracking me up!!! :rofl:

Granted, the way this place has gown down today, you'd think someone telling other DUers that someone is enabling pedophiles would be enough to silence a multiple offender running around with the same meme.

I am not a big alerter! :shrug:

I have no shame. :evilgrin:

Best response yet!!! :rofl:

And not necessarily the one who hits alert

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