Goofs and Grumbles

[Chicklet]

A lot of serious questions or sincere posts, on all the boards, get flipped off topic by conversation. I personally don't have a problem with it, but sometimes I feel bad for the threads author.

What are your thoughts on these threads? What do you think when you open up a thread about grammar and see two people bantering or arguing back and forth? Should conversation be saved for specific threads or should it be like real conversation, in any thread it pleases?

Feel free to grumble or gossip or goof in this thread, I won't mind = )

 

[openthighs_sarah]

A lot of serious questions or sincere posts, on all the boards, get flipped off topic by conversation. I personally don't have a problem with it, but sometimes I feel bad for the threads author.

What are your thoughts on these threads? What do you think when you open up a thread about grammar and see two people bantering or arguing back and forth? Should conversation be saved for specific threads or should it be like real conversation, in any thread it pleases?

Feel free to grumble or gossip or goof in this thread, I won't mind = )

I think it's terrible the way people get off subject. For instance, the other day I was taking my dog for a walk, and I looked up and there was a beautiful sunset. I like sunsets! And walking on the beach (preferably under the moonlight). As long as there's a John Tesh CD playing somewhere, though, I always feel like I'm at the beach. (Buried under the sand, hopefully.)

I usually try to answer a question honestly (or semi-honestly) before being a goof. As long as the posts are in the right spirit (and the thread starter isn't being intentionally thwarted or frustrated), I think it's okay.

 

[openthighs_sarah]

I personally don't have a problem with it, but sometimes I feel bad for the threads author.

I'm sorry. This was a test, wasn't it?

 

[violent intimacy]

Re: Re: Goofs and Grumbles

I'm sorry. This was a test, wasn't it?

And you failed! Ok, not really.

I don't really mind sifting through conversation in threads, but sometimes it does get out of hand. I usually try to include at least one "obligatory on topic" sentence". That was a habit picked up from when I used to post in the newsgroups, where off-topic posters were strung up by their fingernails and flogged with garden stakes until they promised never ever ever ever ever to post anything 100% off topic again.

 

[Pookie]

Who thinks DurtGirl is really that du... errr ... umm... unlettered?


Did I pass the test???


Pookie

 

[oggbashan]

Boring people

There are boring people like me who are too serious.

If the topic is worth discussing, someone will bring the thread back to the theme. Some threads are answered in the first couple of replies. If the thread continues beyond that, anything goes.

I'd far rather talk about DurtGurl's masterpieces; the mating habits of marmots; or whether Marmite and Vegemite are actually edible.

Og

 

[pop_54]

Hello

Hi anybody seen durt girl about anywhere? Oops sorry failed didn't I.

Chicklet love, serious, as long as the original question is answered in some way I see no real harm in a bit of banter between friends.
Or even a minor dispute, as long as it doesn't degenerate to general board level.

pops........

 

[TheEarl]

If we all just talked about what the opening question was, it'd get boring. I don't come on here to talk solely about literature. I like knowing BK's bra size, MG's height, what people think about Marmite, what you'd have to eat to produce 4ft of turd a day, etc.

Sometimes I feel sorry for people who don't get to learn this kind of stuff.

The Earl

 

[DurtGurl]

Goophing and grummbeling

I think it's terrible the way people get off subject. For instance, the other day I was taking my dog for a walk, and I looked up and there was a beautiful sunset. I like sunsets! And walking on the beach (preferably under the moonlight). As long as there's a John Tesh CD playing somewhere, though, I always feel like I'm at the beach. (Buried under the sand, hopefully.)

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I couldn't agree more with you Sarah. Its' terrible about the way people not nameine names of course get off the subject. I like sunsets too and, I have a dog whose named Howard. Hes' nootered. It was aweful but I just had to have the vet go snip snip because Howard was always getting into trouble. Now poor Howards' just mostly fat and lazy which is a lot like the way I am too. Id like to be berried in the sand too just like you Sarah. Preferably at the beach of course.DG
Oh, PeeS. Dear Pukey, why do you think I'm unlettered. Heck I know them all watch" abcdefghijklmnopqustuvwxyz1234567890Ha betcha didn't think I could do it. Ha ha


PEss. Hi Pop, Your' very nice unlike not a lot of those british persons not mentioning names of coarse. Sure Il'l try your fairy tail although its' on a diferent thread. Is it about gay guys?

PeePEss. Dear Chicklet, you sure have a nice bottom I bet all the guys love to look at that the way they do mine sometimes but not all that often.

 

[DarlingNikki]

When I open a thread because I am interested in the original topic and find that it's turned into chat, I feel too intimidated to attempt to respond to the original subject. It seems like serious time is over and I'll ruin everyone's fun by starting to talk about semicolons or character development.

I don't get upset or anything, I don't really care what people do, I'm just trying to answer your question, Chicklet.

 

[Dirt Man]

Oh, PeeS. Dear Pukey, why do you think I'm unlettered. Heck I know them all watch" abcdefghijklmnopqustuvwxyz1234567890Ha betcha didn't think I could do it.

Ummm... isn't there supposed to be an r in there somewhere?


DM

 

[DurtGurl]

Imperfection

Ummm... isn't there supposed to be an r in there somewhere?
DM

Hiya, Dirtie, we missed you. Okay, okay I left out the "are." Just wanted to see if anybody was paying attention.
DG

 

[Dirt Man]

Life sucks sometimes...

Hiya, Dirtie, we missed you.

I'm having real problems with my computer. That dang blue screen keeps coming up, and I keep getting a Windows protection stopped the computer from coming on. Restart your computer.

Then I get the stupid SAFE MODE thingie, and it can take hours to get back on just shutting down, and turning the damn computer back on. Oh well, such is life.

DM

 

[Dirt Man]

Sorry to get off topic, but....

Chicklet

What happened to the results for the Critic's choice Awards?

DM

 

[pop_54]

Re: Goophing and grummbeling

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PEss. Hi Pop, Your' very nice unlike not a lot of those british persons not mentioning names of coarse. Sure Il'l try your fairy tail although its' on a diferent thread. Is it about gay guys?

.

OK DG darling I'll send it to you somehow, maybe post it on the other thread, and it's not directly about queers, I mean gays, bloody PC brigade will be after me, but you can make them bang each other up the durt box if you want.

pops...........

 

[MathGirl]

Re: Re: Goophing and grummbeling

OK DG darling I'll send it to you somehow, maybe post it on the other thread, and it's not directly about queers, I mean gays, bloody PC brigade will be after me, but you can make them bang each other up the durt box if you want.
pops...........

Oh, boy! I .... I mean she ...... can hardly wait.
MG

Ps. Hey, Dirtie. Better get that computer fixed. DG's stories must be served, and I feel a visitation from my moose coming on.

 

[Rumple Foreskin]

A lot of serious questions or sincere posts, on all the boards, get flipped off topic by conversation.

Oh, it really can be a problem, and so confusing.

Like the time someone asked why fire trucks are red and somebody said it was because newspapers are read too, and that two and two make four, and four and four make eight, and eight and four make twelve, and there are twelve inches in a ruler, and Queen Mary was a ruler, and Queen Mary was a ship too, and ships sail on the oceans, and oceans have fish, and fish have fins, and the Fins fought the Russians, and Russians are red, and fire trucks are always rushing, so that's why fire trucks are red.

You see what I mean?

Rumple Foreskin

 

[jfinn]

A lot of serious questions or sincere posts, on all the boards, get flipped off topic by conversation. I personally don't have a problem with it, but sometimes I feel bad for the threads author.

What are your thoughts on these threads? What do you think when you open up a thread about grammar and see two people bantering or arguing back and forth? Should conversation be saved for specific threads or should it be like real conversation, in any thread it pleases?

Feel free to grumble or gossip or goof in this thread, I won't mind = )

It can be disapointing, particularly if the topic is something I'm interested in knowing more about, but I can't say it actually annoys me or anything. Especially since sometimes the hijack is better than the thread, LOL.

Like Violent Intimacy though, I try to at least stay on topic for my first post to a thread. I also think when the original poster comes back one or more times and asks people to stay on topic that it's only common courtesy to honor their request. After all there are already plenty of threads out there where we can talk trash and nobody minds a bit.

Jayne

 

[openthighs_sarah]

Like the time someone asked why fire trucks are red and somebody said it was because newspapers are read too, and that two and two make four, and four and four make eight, and eight and four make twelve, and there are twelve inches in a ruler, and Queen Mary was a ruler, and Queen Mary was a ship too, and ships sail on the oceans, and oceans have fish, and fish have fins, and the Fins fought the Russians, and Russians are red, and fire trucks are always rushing, so that's why fire trucks are red.

But that seemed to work out pretty well, didn't it?

 

[Guest]

If we all just talked about what the opening question was, it'd get boring. I don't come on here to talk solely about literature. I like knowing BK's bra size, MG's height, what people think about Marmite, what you'd have to eat to produce 4ft of turd a day, etc.

Sometimes I feel sorry for people who don't get to learn this kind of stuff.

The Earl

Earl-

Did I actually post my bra size? Sheesh! What was I thinking? And I don't know how I feel about my bra size and the production of 4 foot turds being on the same list.

Chicklet...

I think that it is important that the person who started the thread be a pseudo moderator with a sense of humor and a strong will. I have yet to have someone object to me pulling a thread back to where it belonged... and I think I am a fairly nice person (here on the board, at least).

There are some threads that have been hostile to people who posted on topic. I think this is poor form. I know that sometimes it is done in jest, but to a new person it comes across as cliqueish (sp?).

b

 

[reohoko]

ROFL

you know, these boards might pull me right out of EQ, much much funnier than argueing over who was the biggest dolt to every walk the lands of Norrath and who was the latest so and so to do such and such....

topics that change from the posters intent...
I have been to many boards.. posted many times (usually hugs spams, Reohoko is nothing if she is not annoying first)....A fast hard lesson to boards read by many people....

If no one knows the "right answer" they will goof off...if no one wants to be the first to give a "right answer" they will goof off... if the discussion turns to a disagreement of what is the "right answer", the mud slinging shall begin. -straight from the Wisdoms of not playing on Moonlit Boards. *giggle

HUGS HUGS HUGS
Reo

 

[Chicklet]

... I like knowing BK's bra size, MG's height...

you don't care what my height or bra size are <sob>

 

[Chicklet]

When I open a thread because I am interested in the original topic and find that it's turned into chat, I feel too intimidated to attempt to respond to the original subject. It seems like serious time is over and I'll ruin everyone's fun by starting to talk about semicolons or character development.

I feel that way, too. I don't mind the chatter, but I feel intimidated and I don't want to get involved. One thing I find myself doing is looking for threads with only two or three responses, not twenty or thirty.

 

[openthighs_sarah]

I feel that way, too. I don't mind the chatter, but I feel intimidated and I don't want to get involved. One thing I find myself doing is looking for threads with only two or three responses, not twenty or thirty.

I guess I do feel that way sometimes, too -- especially on the GB. If a thread really does seem interesting, though, or if I know and/or like the people who have posted, I will stick my head in and yell.

 

[MathGirl]

you don't care what my height or bra size are <sob>

Dear Chickie,
Anyone with a bottom like yours need not feel inadequate.
MG