You mean, there really IS a feud between GD and the Lounge?

[Zenlitened]

Deep wells of resentment filling up day-by-day? Accusations of DU-unworthiness being exchanged with taunts of freeperhood? Dire predictions about the future of the Democratic party and the personality-types needed to sustain it?

:wow:

I thought it was just a sort of running gag.

But... I have an idea. I think Skinner should separate GD and the Lounge into two separate forums, where you'd have to click on a separate link to reach either one, so people can choose which sort of environment they prefer when they visit DU.

Isn't that a great idea? It would solve the whole problem!

Please feel free to post replies, admiring my brilliance and thanking me for playing the role of sage and diplomat, as usual.

:hi:

[jobycom]

1. I feel free to post such a reply

Just not motivated...
:-)

[terrya]

2. OR.....

maybe people who never venture out of the Lounge could pop into the other forums now and then. DU is more than the Lounge. :shrug:

[GalleryGod]

9. I proposed to Skinner to disable the Lounge for 30 days...

Just to see the REmix:crazy: of "the community" if any...a little overdue "shake-up" if you will...he never bothered to reply.

This proposal was about 4-5 months ago.

[crispini]

11. Good gad, why would we want to do that?

What a horrid idea.

[GalleryGod]

13. Because there was a time.......

ahhhhhhh, it doesn't matter any more does it:smoke: ?

[CaliforniaPeggy]

12. Oh nooooo.....

Please do NOT disable the Lounge....I would DIE without it!

This is my haven...my refuge...my sanctuary!

Are you trying to make me crazier than I already am?

My dear Gallery God....say it ain't so!

:scared:

[GalleryGod]

16. Not to worry Lady from the Beach of Too many Tourists

I never received a response.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

20. Thank goodness for that, my dear GalleryGod.....

BTW, there's yet another beach volleyball or some such tournament happening this weekend down there....

And I have to shop for dinner....my favorite little meat mkt. is there...

Parking will be impossible, or worse....

ACK! :scared:

[matcom]

17. OR....

maybe a few more GDers need to get over themselves and try out the lounge for a while before they all have strokes? :shrug:

as someone who posts all over this board THAT would be MY recommend

[terrya]

34. Yeah. That too.

My point is that...aren't we all supposed to be on the same side here? Philosophically? And here we are talking about feuds here at DU. It's a trifle...weird. The enemy is out there...not in here.

Democratic Underground was started and is essentially a political web site. And while I agree that some GD regulars might want to see what the Lounge is all about and introduce themselves....I don't think Skinner, EarlG and elad created DU just for the Lounge...you know?

[matcom]

40. didn't you hear?

this is the year of the 'Lance Wars' :eyes:

sometimes i SWEAR the Lounge is a MUCH more important forum than GD

really.

[blondeatlast]

49. Indeed. This is the sanity corner, even if it does seem a contradiction. n

[BikeWriter]

24. DU is more than the Lounge?

:shrug:

[Crazy Guggenheim]

25. Yeah but we are the center of the Universe.

:popcorn:

[BikeWriter]

31. True dat.

[khashka]

29. We do...

I spend a lot of time in the GLBT forum. I rarely post, but I read a lot. And it fuckin' depresses me. And why is it the GLBT forum rather than the LGBT forum? We don't give a fuck about women?

I hang out here and post here because it doesn't depress me. Because I've met lots of interesting and wonderful and special people here.

You wanna fight about the Lounge? You just picked the wrong fight!


Khash.

[tjwmason]

47. I think that you may be reading a tad too much into the title

Not trying to pick a fight with one of my most favouritest men - but it's got to be one of the other, and I don't think that it indicates not giving a f*** about women putting the G first.

I tend to put the L first - but that's only really habit, at university (where I first encountered the abbreviation) it was always L.G.B. (I would note that G.L.B. sounds far worse the L.G.B.); then part way through my course a T was added, by then I was used to starting with L. Does that mean that I don't give a f*** about men? surely not.

[RC]

3. I am motivated

But words fail me.

[MissMarple]

4. Very funny.

:rofl:

[In_The_Wind]

5. Nah, I don't believe that rumor!

THIS lounge lizard recently felt the same way while posting in LBN

[WCGreen]

10. Now why would they go and do that....

This Lounge Lizard has always felt that way.....

But this here room, off the beaten path, makes the whole DU experience Worthwhile.....

[In_The_Wind]

33. Maybe this will explain ...

www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x3892529

Yep, kick back, put your feet up, laugh, share the company of good friends ...

Those ARE a few of the things that makes LIFE Worthwhile.....

[Rabrrrrrr]

6. No, I think it just makes more sense for people to continue to go

into the store marked "Deli" and raise holy hell because they don't sell leather sofas, and refuse to leave until the store stops being a deli and becomes a leather sofa store, at which point they will ask for a sandwich and stomp out in anger because they can't get one.

[crispini]

8. heh heh heh heh heh

good one! :thumbsup:

[Zenlitened]

19. Hmmm... so you're saying we need to move to the center ("sofa")...

... and reduce the visibility of the more radical constituencies ("deli meats") in order to transform the voters' perception of the party vis a vis the retail milieu in which we operate?

Well, I disagree with your analysis, and have prepared a ten-point deconstruction of the paradigm with which you...

Oh, wait -- which forum am I in again? :shrug:



:D

[BikeWriter]

26. Would you show us what you have in leather sofas, please?

[Old_Fart]

27. "Great analogy"

:thumbsup:

[WCGreen]

7. We let Vegans in here.....

[Crazy Guggenheim]

21. lol. I'm surprise a flame fest didn't start on that one.

[yewberry]

22. We save our ammunition for the "plants feel pain" silliness

...plus, I think he was referring to Vegans (those from Vega) and not veg*ns. Important distinction. :o

[Crazy Guggenheim]

23. Oh ok. ............

[BikeWriter]

32. I hear those poor carrots squealing "Help me!"

:(

[yewberry]

37. Taa-Daaah!

Well, I guess it was inevitable.

Here is your prize--->:dunce:

...poor carrots squealing, indeed...

[BikeWriter]

42. Lol! I'm not wearing that. Maybe a screaming carrot.

[BikeWriter]

30. What? There are vegans here?

[dajoki]

14. i visit most forums...

no big deal:shrug:

[progmom]

15. did i miss a thread?

i've been looking all over, trying to find the source of this renewed Lounge/GD conflict. :shrug:

[tjdee]

35. Me too.

:shrug:

[auntAgonist]

38. I missed it too I guess (?)

I'm just NOT in the loop at all. :sigh:

[progmom]

44. i guess we're out of the loop together

:pals:

[Crazy Guggenheim]

18. Hey everybody let's kick his ass.

:popcorn: :woohoo:

[BikeWriter]

36. Okay, that sounds like fun.

[Clintmax]

28. I post in both the Lounge and GD...

mostly in the lounge though. The discussions in GD sometimes get a little...intense. Every time I'm there, I read a post from someone that that just royally pisses me off. After a while of THAT, I gotta get away and come back to the lounge where people are more relaxed and friends are here to talk.

[tjwmason]

45. I think that this happens a lot

We Lizzards tend to be people who view the world with a dash of levity - this doesn't mean that we're less sincere, or less committed to our aims; but we can laugh at the same time as pursue them.

Somebody potters over to put a little toe into G.D. - posts something that they think is totally innocuous and gets a thousand responses hurled back accusing them of every possible evil under the sun.

For the record - I do venture out of here. I use the L.G.B.T. forum, the U.K., Religion, Catholic Group, and Classical Music Group (not that discussion goes very swiftly over there).

[HEyHEY]

39. Go ahead and hate your neighbour, go ahead and cheat a friend...

[underpants]

41. Do you know WHY it is called "GD"?

Because half of the time after you read something there you say out loud "God DAMN!!!!?!!?!?!"

[LaurenG]

43. I didn't notice any trouble either

I just thought everyone in the lounge was crazy and at some point everyone fits here perfectly. Besides I have tried to post things in GD they just keep putting them back in the lounge. "this post has been moved. click here to go to the original post".

Plus, where else are we going to get drinks on Fridays (Mr. Scorpio) and donuts on Saturdays (Crazy Guggenheim)?

The lounge may take some fitting into but it's perfect if you want to misbehave a bit. :hi:

[JVS]

46. GD needs to be medicated

The lounge already pre-emptively medicates itself recreationally.

[blondeatlast]

48. Some of us see no feud at all. I post in both, am welcomed (and often

slammed) in both.

If the Loungies don't like the GDs, so we make the Lounge go away--we become the "site that mustn't be named."

No thanks.