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ORIGINAL: USS America

Slept in late, it's cold and rainy outside, I have completed my "honeydew" list (until my lovely bride wakes up and adds more items), I have fresh, hot coffee, and I have a turn.  Not a bad day.  [8D]

It is always a good day when you can wake up, get some things accomplished before the world grabs you, drink some coffee, and just hang for a bit.

And with that I am off to work.

ORIGINAL: AW1Steve

ORIGINAL: rtrapasso

ORIGINAL: AW1Steve




No. But someone should take a deep breath and think this through. In the unlikely event this incarnation of the Thread gets locked, whats the absolute worst that could happen? We start another. Frankly I don't think that Joe, Erik, or any one else at Matrix is that petty or anal. They are decent, down to earth , very reasonable people. I just don't see a pretty girl in a bikini as that big a deal. T's toe on the other hand should be classified as a "digit of mass destruction" and should be addressed, and banned , by the UN. [:D]

No - the worse that could happen is that the Thread gets closed permanently.

The deal was: we were allowed to have this thread/Thread to talk about stuff unrelated to gaming on this GAMING forum PROVIDED WE KEPT IT CLEAN. They were originally adverse to having this happen and we probably all remember attacks on the Thread from people not posting here how this is not related to the "core statement" of the forum... and from the responses of the forum members, it struck a nerve.

So, if someone got sufficiently annoyed, they could close the whole thing down... i am not saying that they will, but realize you are playing with fire here and you/we might get burnt.

Personally, i have no objection to scantily clad animals of any form on the Thread EXCEPT THAT IT MIGHT GET THE THREAD CLOSED DOWN.

OK, you've conviced me. We should refrain from posting anything with girls,animals,sports,politics,religion,news, or any thing of importance that might somehow offend someone, somehow ,somewhere. So lets go back to the usual mindless drivel, stay with wishing each other "good morning" or "good day" , or "How's the weather". Surely no one will be offended by that. We might even occassionally mention the game. [8|]

Easy, now, big fella! [:D]

Family friendly, Steve. That's all the forum admins asked of us. As much as I admire the cutie on the rocks (quite a bit actually) the pic is probably borderline for the family friendly guidelines.

ORIGINAL: USS America

ORIGINAL: AW1Steve

ORIGINAL: rtrapasso


No - the worse that could happen is that the Thread gets closed permanently.

The deal was: we were allowed to have this thread/Thread to talk about stuff unrelated to gaming on this GAMING forum PROVIDED WE KEPT IT CLEAN. They were originally adverse to having this happen and we probably all remember attacks on the Thread from people not posting here how this is not related to the "core statement" of the forum... and from the responses of the forum members, it struck a nerve.

So, if someone got sufficiently annoyed, they could close the whole thing down... i am not saying that they will, but realize you are playing with fire here and you/we might get burnt.

Personally, i have no objection to scantily clad animals of any form on the Thread EXCEPT THAT IT MIGHT GET THE THREAD CLOSED DOWN.

OK, you've conviced me. We should refrain from posting anything with girls,animals,sports,politics,religion,news, or any thing of importance that might somehow offend someone, somehow ,somewhere. So lets go back to the usual mindless drivel, stay with wishing each other "good morning" or "good day" , or "How's the weather". Surely no one will be offended by that. We might even occassionally mention the game. [8|]

Easy, now, big fella! [:D]

Family friendly, Steve. That's all the forum admins asked of us. As much as I admire the cutie on the rocks (quite a bit actually) the pic is probably borderline for the family friendly guidelines.

I'm not disagreeing with you Mike. [:(] But I reserve the right to lament. And complain.

Besides, who gets to pick the family? Why does it have to be the Waltons? Why not the Corleones? Or the Soprano's? Or even the Simpsons? [:D] They are families too!

Morning tithe.

ORIGINAL: AW1Steve

But I reserve the right to lament. And complain.

I thought thats what the geezer thread was for. [:'(]

Hi all,

Interesting... I knew about him before but this time more details emerge...


In Tunisia, act of one fruit vendor unleashes wave of revolution through Arab world:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/in- ... story.html


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohammed_Bouazizi


Leo "Apollo11"

ORIGINAL: AW1Steve
Or even the Simpsons? [:D] They are families too!

OMG!!! Marge in a thong? Woof!!!

Kelly Bundy, however, is a whole other matter.

ORIGINAL: AW1Steve

ORIGINAL: USS America

ORIGINAL: AW1Steve





OK, you've conviced me. We should refrain from posting anything with girls,animals,sports,politics,religion,news, or any thing of importance that might somehow offend someone, somehow ,somewhere. So lets go back to the usual mindless drivel, stay with wishing each other "good morning" or "good day" , or "How's the weather". Surely no one will be offended by that. We might even occassionally mention the game. [8|]

Easy, now, big fella! [:D]

Family friendly, Steve. That's all the forum admins asked of us. As much as I admire the cutie on the rocks (quite a bit actually) the pic is probably borderline for the family friendly guidelines.

I'm not disagreeing with you Mike. [:(] But I reserve the right to lament. And complain.

Besides, who gets to pick the family? Why does it have to be the Waltons? Why not the Corleones? Or the Soprano's? Or even the Simpsons? [:D] They are families too!

+1

IMO there's nothing wrong with that pic too make it family unfriendly, certainly no worse than some of the avatars and sig banners out there on the forums. It's another symptom of the world we live in, too worried about offending someone, somewhere. I also realise that it's not my forum and someone else makes the rules and sometimes that is going to involve some compromise on my part.

ORIGINAL: Dixie

+1

IMO there's nothing wrong with that pic too make it family unfriendly, certainly no worse than some of the avatars and sig banners out there on the forums. It's another symptom of the world we live in, too worried about offending someone, somewhere. I also realise that it's not my forum and someone else makes the rules and sometimes that is going to involve some compromise on my part.

In fact, in my opinion it show that we are in a world of hypocrisy.

We should not show a nice girl unclad. We shall not let thought about love or sexual pleasure.
We shall also not speak about politics subject.
We shall hide everything and anything.

But the entire world lie: politician lie to their people or people of others country, they sell weapons in secret, they give power to great industry to polute our world, to poison us, they admit a financial crisis that lead people to starve, to die of disease, to work for too few money, to look at their children diying of lack of food; we are in a world were a simple word about religion can kill, or where young people in gang kill to sell drugs, or kill just for the fun.
We are in a garbage world.
But we shall not show a girl in bikini.
I hate this world

ORIGINAL: gladiatt

ORIGINAL: Dixie

+1

IMO there's nothing wrong with that pic too make it family unfriendly, certainly no worse than some of the avatars and sig banners out there on the forums. It's another symptom of the world we live in, too worried about offending someone, somewhere. I also realise that it's not my forum and someone else makes the rules and sometimes that is going to involve some compromise on my part.

In fact, in my opinion it show that we are in a world of hypocrisy.

We should not show a nice girl unclad. We shall not let thought about love or sexual pleasure.
We shall also not speak about politics subject.
We shall hide everything and anything.

But the entire world lie: politician lie to their people or people of others country, they sell weapons in secret, they give power to great industry to polute our world, to poison us, they admit a financial crisis that lead people to starve, to die of disease, to work for too few money, to look at their children diying of lack of food; we are in a world were a simple word about religion can kill, or where young people in gang kill to sell drugs, or kill just for the fun.
We are in a garbage world.
But we shall not show a girl in bikini.
I hate this world

In this case Eric, you should be glad that you live in your country, where it is okay for a child to see a woman's bare breast. In the US it is okay for children to see murders and violence portrayed on their televisions, but not the beauty of the human body. [:(]

Simple fact is this:

- The picture is not offensive in any way shape or form.
- Just as important, the comments posted on the thread concerning the picture were not offensive or demeaning.
- There was essentially a few harmless comments made in a spirit of fun. Nothing for anyone to get uptight about.
- One person made an issue of it. The same person who - while deciding in his infinite wisdom that the picture of the young lady would get the thread locked - quite happily took part in a political discussion re Libya just a few days beforehand on The Thread.
- This "discussion" quickly turned nasty and that person made the following delightful post - "There's not one square centimeter of Libya that's worth one drop of European or American blood. So no, Hortlund, (you stuck-up, holier-than-thou git) I don't care."
- So political talk, abuse of another threadster for daring to have an alternative opinion, and (mild) swearing is okay but not that picture? Double standards per chance?

Anyway, I was drawn to The Thread because it was supposedly a place "where people who do not take themselves too seriously" could hang out and post whatever came to mind. There are some good guys on here, but frankly I get too much grief from one individual to make it worthwhile.

ORIGINAL: AW1Steve

ORIGINAL: rtrapasso

ORIGINAL: AW1Steve




No. But someone should take a deep breath and think this through. In the unlikely event this incarnation of the Thread gets locked, whats the absolute worst that could happen? We start another. Frankly I don't think that Joe, Erik, or any one else at Matrix is that petty or anal. They are decent, down to earth , very reasonable people. I just don't see a pretty girl in a bikini as that big a deal. T's toe on the other hand should be classified as a "digit of mass destruction" and should be addressed, and banned , by the UN. [:D]

No - the worse that could happen is that the Thread gets closed permanently.

The deal was: we were allowed to have this thread/Thread to talk about stuff unrelated to gaming on this GAMING forum PROVIDED WE KEPT IT CLEAN. They were originally adverse to having this happen and we probably all remember attacks on the Thread from people not posting here how this is not related to the "core statement" of the forum... and from the responses of the forum members, it struck a nerve.

So, if someone got sufficiently annoyed, they could close the whole thing down... i am not saying that they will, but realize you are playing with fire here and you/we might get burnt.

Personally, i have no objection to scantily clad animals of any form on the Thread EXCEPT THAT IT MIGHT GET THE THREAD CLOSED DOWN.

OK, you've conviced me. We should refrain from posting anything with girls,animals,sports,politics,religion,news, or any thing of importance that might somehow offend someone, somehow ,somewhere. So lets go back to the usual mindless drivel, stay with wishing each other "good morning" or "good day" , or "How's the weather". Surely no one will be offended by that. We might even occassionally mention the game. [8|]

Good afternoon, Steve. I hope your health is well. What's the weather like in Nebraska? Are you enjoying our 2x2 PBEM?





[;)]

ORIGINAL: AW1Steve

ORIGINAL: USS America

ORIGINAL: AW1Steve





OK, you've conviced me. We should refrain from posting anything with girls,animals,sports,politics,religion,news, or any thing of importance that might somehow offend someone, somehow ,somewhere. So lets go back to the usual mindless drivel, stay with wishing each other "good morning" or "good day" , or "How's the weather". Surely no one will be offended by that. We might even occassionally mention the game. [8|]

Easy, now, big fella! [:D]

Family friendly, Steve. That's all the forum admins asked of us. As much as I admire the cutie on the rocks (quite a bit actually) the pic is probably borderline for the family friendly guidelines.

I'm not disagreeing with you Mike. [:(] But I reserve the right to lament. And complain.

Besides, who gets to pick the family? Why does it have to be the Waltons? Why not the Corleones? Or the Soprano's? Or even the Simpsons? [:D] They are families too!

[:D][:D][:D]

ORIGINAL: warspite1
but frankly I get too much grief from one individual to make it worthwhile.

I'm sorry for giving you too much grief, dude. I'll go pick on Steve a little now. [:'(]

Matrix tithe and good day from my newly conquered based at Rabaul.

(Happily doing my part to keep the game as the focus of the Thread!!![;)])

I just learned on the Doonesbury website of all places, that the first known use of the acronym OMG was in a letter written in 1917 by Jackie Fisher to Winston Churchill.

Whoever knew that the "valley girls" were in such august company?

ORIGINAL: bradfordkay

I just learned on the Doonesbury website of all places, that the first known use of the acronym OMG was in a letter written in 1917 by Jackie Fisher to Winston Churchill.

Whoever knew that the "valley girls" were in such august company?

The OED just adopted a number of computer jargon acronyms this year. OMG was one, as was, IIRC, LOL and IMHO. No word yet on ROFLMAO or STFU. [;)]

ORIGINAL: Chickenboy

ORIGINAL: bradfordkay

I just learned on the Doonesbury website of all places, that the first known use of the acronym OMG was in a letter written in 1917 by Jackie Fisher to Winston Churchill.

Whoever knew that the "valley girls" were in such august company?

The OED just adopted a number of computer jargon acronyms this year. OMG was one, as was, IIRC, LOL and IMHO. No word yet on ROFLMAO or STFU. [;)]

Warspite1

STFU? Chickenboy do you want this thread closed down or what? [:'(]

Hi all,

Good evening...


Leo "Apollo11"