What is your vision of what the Lounge should be?

what groups do you agree with?

1) Those that think it's a place to share the trivial happenings in their lives.

2) Those looking for emotional support and sympathy

3) Those looking for and sharing advice on various issues

4) Those that want to relive their junior high school popularity based culture

5) Those that think it's a comedy forum and should be all about jokes and running gags

6) Those that think it's a catch all for things like sports and non-important current events

7) Those that think it's a forum for pop culture

8) Those that think it's a music forum

9) Those that think it's a forum for exchanging pictures

10) Those that think it's a forum just to chat and BS

11) Those that think it's a forum for pev threads and seeing how far the envelope can be pushed before the modes close threads for sexual content.

Personally I think it's all the competing visions of what the Lounge should and shouldn't be, that is the underlying issue behind the latest drama.

n/t

but I'd prefer someone that knows he's doing.

I have often been accused of over thinking things. I find it just is how I am. I constantly take things apart, mentally, trying to figure out how and why it works or is the way it is.

:rofl:

(That is kind of why I said that... cause your OP is... oh forget it! :P)

shame I wasn't nearly as good at putting them back together.:9

and I think it is all of those things at different times and I am personally glad of it. :shrug:

As long as I have 'ignore' and 'hide thread', I can bring it a little closer to what I want it to be (however loosely defined) without imposing on others and their freedom to use the Lounge as they see fit.

:thumbsup:

to make basement cheese. :thumbsup:

Anything else is just silly.

Is that what the kids are calling it these days? :rofl:

Playing innocent doesn't quite work for you in ANY circumstance..:rofl:

That, only cheese.

*Cue music*

Oh...my love, my darling, I've hungered for your touch...

long live the lougne!

Of course, I have no clue what all the drama is about. :shrug:

Cause if we're talking Clydesdales, then ... oh nevermind. The imagery is too horrific.

I felt pretty safe asking KitchenWitch about a burning question and wasn't flamed, too much.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x8404389#8404413

:toast:

NOW, what is this latest drama to which you refer? :freak:

PS, recommended.

of the GD and GDP.

As for the drama, Reorder your threads by number of responses (click on the response header) and look for a locked one.

I bookmarked it for future reference, I'm glad it was open long enough to get plenty of replies.

That it "became a trainwreck" befits a Lounge thread.

In many ways "disorder" defines the place.

And disorder is a really important feature for health and growth and development of systems and organic things...

Just a couple of pev threads that got locked ... the one about a woman with a can of hairspray up the bum, and the one about "doing it every day in January." No drama though.

What'd I miss?

Bake

...AND SO MUCH MORE.

Whatever. You're all thinking it, too.

Those who come here to have fun and not overly spam the lounge with crap.
This section of du is sort of a catch all to me.

But what we found out is that each one of us is a brain...

...and an athlete...

...and a basket case...

...a princess...

...and a criminal...

Does that answer your question?... Sincerely yours, the Breakfast Club.

Princess Flannibal..I like it..:rofl:

something about copyright infringemet or something.B-)

:applause:
...what if your dope was on fire?
BENDER Impossible, sir...It's in Johnson's underwear...

love that movie

...as they try to change their worlds

Are immune to your consultations.

They're quite aware of what they're going through.

Ch-ch-ch-ch- Yeah, you knew where I was going with that, huh.

:crazy:

:rofl:

Impeachment is now on the table!

I almost wet myself thinking about that being posted in the 9/11 forum....:rofl:

:D

and sending to CA. That's beautiful.

:rofl:

:rofl:

Thanks for the laugh!

:rofl:

Is my opinion

7, 8, 9, and 11 are part of 1 and 10.

5 is also part of 1 and 10 so long as running gags brought on by 4 aren't involved.

skr00 high sckool. I can't sell ya'll weed to pay my light bills :P

:hi:

there are some things that are just too snarky and sardonic even for GD. :evilgrin:

Mostly 10.

Who DU we appreciate?

yer funny..oh and I sense being a math geek too....crap, I can't figure out the pattern...:)

Fibonacci numbers...:D

I have NO idea what those are...:blush:
(DuStrange is gonna have a field day with this)

:hi:

I missed hawtness?

and for some reason I thought this woman's name was Binet for some reason.



I really have no clue what the other Binet looks like :D

:crazy:

I'm having flashbacks to Calculus class...Why do you hate me..:grr:
I should post the Krebs Cycle to get back at you...

turtlensue has Krebs!

But I'll post this:

PFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFT!!!

:rofl:

The "Deckard is a replicant" flamewar is trademark Lounge.

yet I'm here.

Personally I think the lounge is a lounge.

Now I've got the hankering for a white russian.

to micturate on the Lounge rug.

:eyes:

sorry this post doesn't meet your approval.

:eyes:

You must get dizzy the way you believe the world revolves around you.

You don't really do good when you attack a person all by yourself, do you? Hell you don't even make any sense. You know bitterness and nastiness make a poor substitutes for brains and thoughtfulness.

You made the list, I was just pointing out that you are trying to control again. That worked out so well the last time for you...

are you shitting me?:wtf:


I'm sorry but I can feel IQ points slipping away the longer I interact with you. I am going to have to say good-bye and put you on my ignore list.:hi:

:yoiks:

I will probably continue to do so.


I don't see much of a difference from when I started. Except minus a few great posters and plus some great posters.

mispelings.

Like:


What IS a choad?

:hug:

I figured if I can't say anything except whine then it will be better not to say anything at all.

:shrug:

I'm fed up with reading my own whingeing, but not anybody else's. I think most people stopped reading mine long ago anyway.

wrapped in bacon and dipped in a cognac-butter sauce. But that's just me. Your mileage may vary.

And they're always glad I came.

That's the lounge, to me.

:P

:P :hug:

:toast: :pals:

:)

:rofl: Bwhahahahahahahaha.

But that would make me.....Diane...:scared:

But who is Sam Malone?

What say you? :rofl:

:rofl:

that a Freudian slip is saying one thing and meaning a mother.

:hi: :beer:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BdJYIXMe1M

:toast:

One of my all-time favorite songs! :hug:

Like I'm cool, hip and smart, but also, I don't want you all to know that I know that you know, and I don't want anybody to know that I care so I pretty that I don't. When really, I am just waiting for somebody to give me a hug because I am a sad lonely soul.

No surprise you come into the Lounge with something completely BORING and humorless. :yawn:

You only have 8 more days to use them! :hi:

:thumbsup:

too bad about Chuck getting killed in Korea.

I liked the next one better.

But why did Joanie Loves Chachi only last 2 seasons? Even Seinfeld sucked in its first 2 seasons. x(

Oh hey i got a call from my bil, my nephew is on his way home from Iraq.

:woohoo:

:bounce:

:loveya:

It had such potential. I mean, Carmine on Broadway living his dream? That's pure gold.

I'm still curious about the Juan Epstein's Welcome Back Kotter spin off show..Now that had tons of potential.

The first great Lounge Drama happened way back in May-ish of 2001, when somebody betrayed the privacy that used to be the super-secret underground forum (the Proto Lounge).

I've lost count of how many Major Lounge Dramas we've had since then, but they're as predictable as the sunrise, and occasionally entertaining.

It would be someone named Shakespeare. :P :hide: ;-)

Good times, good times... :rofl:

I didn't dip my toes into this um, pool, until October of '01. But I had been lurking since May or June, when a friend emailed me a link to the Top 10 List. The rest, as they say, is a long and tortuous history. :hurts:

The TNT Network has their slogan wrong. It's "The DU Lounge KNOWS Drama". :D

will you tell us of the early days, the lounge drama when drama meant something?

how about ghosts stories of the tombstoned DUers?







I'll bring the marsh mellows :silly:









j/k :hide:

Short memories some folks have. And the handwringing--oh, the handwringing!--over the deterioration of all things warm and lovely in the lounge. :7 :hi:

the more things change the more they stay the same

it's all part of the drama :applause:


:hi: :hug:

There has been so much for so many years. Everything from stupid fights to relationships and marriages ending. We're human. Maybe just the ones that have been around for years have already had so much drama that all that is left is the current "bad joke drama". :shrug:

Somebody have an affair again for crying out loud!

The very idea that I should give half a shit about what anyone else thinks the Lounge should be.

Hide threads, alert the mods, put people on ignore, or even better, don't bother reading what they write if you don't like it.


Unitl they ban me, I'll post whatever the fuck I want and let the mods sort it out. I follow the forum rules, everything else is somebody else's problem.

MrCoffee is right.

btw, in the wake of the sad announcement about no more DUzy's I thought you should know that I sent something of yours in this week...
You'll always be a DUzy winner to me...:pals:

That was sad, though. :cry:

I could live without the hundred thousandth version of the B joke, though.

Imagine there's no corn-flakes....cooked up with chick-an....
No Olive Garden to dine in....no smoking bans......

Imagine all the Loungers...bored out of their mindssssssss ay-ay-indddsss

Imagine there's no Chuggo...or crazy Rabrrrrrr threads...
No breastfeeding in public....no GD exploding heads....

Imagine all the Loungers....bored out of their mindsssssss ay-ay-indddsss

You may say I'm a Freeper....but that would just be out of fun....

I hope someday, you will ban me (SKINNER TOMBSTONE ME NOW) then my pizza-will-be-done!!!!

Me likey!

:D

But #4 seems to me to be the most prevalent most of the time.

Two Men Enter, One Man Leaves. That Is The Law.

But the separation would likely be messier and take more effort than its worth. So as disconcerting as I find it to see a thread about a loved one dying intermingled with copycat threads and juvenile humor, let's just keep the lounge as is.

:hide:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=105&topic_id=8405657&mesg_id=8406632
:rofl:

:cry:

:D

Mr. Suave's Mod Mod World

Plan59 - Decor

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Read what you like, ignore the rest, and the rest of us will do the same. The Lounge Experience just became so much better.

Long time no see! :hi:

How are you? :hug: