What is your vision of what the Lounge should be?

[NJmaverick]

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.

[arcadian]

1. Honeycakes and 72 virgins.

n/t

[Creideiki]

105. I like the honeycakes

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

[redqueen]

2. A place to not overthink every damn thing.

[NJmaverick]

5. That's not an option for me

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.

[redqueen]

10. Hahahaha... you don't say!

:rofl:

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

[NJmaverick]

14. Yeah as a kid I used to take all my toys apart, trying to figure out how they work

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

[IndianaJones]

7. heh. nt.

[mcctatas]

3. Why do I always miss the drama?

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

[Zomby Woof]

4. I am not concerned with a 'vision' of the Lounge

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.

[TZ]

12. .

:thumbsup:

[Midlodemocrat]

6. I envision red velvet couches and a place where DS1 and I can continue

to make basement cheese. :thumbsup:

Anything else is just silly.

[arcadian]

13. "make basement cheese"?

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

[Dr. Strange]

17. WTF is basement cheese?

[TZ]

21. you know.....

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

[flvegan]

23. Ever see that movie "Ghost"? You know the scene where they make pottery?

That, only cheese.

*Cue music*

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

[motely36]

8. I think it is all of those and more

long live the lougne!

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

[Ptah]

9. In my world there's ponies and they eat rainbows and poop butterflies.

[kayakjohnny]

146. Well, thank goodness they're only ponies then.

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

[NYC_SKP]

11. Agree, it's all these things and more, a place, too, of refuge.

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.

[NJmaverick]

19. Yes! I forgot that important one. A refugee of the intense debate/arguments

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.

[NYC_SKP]

37. Oh yes, that one was thoroughly enjoyable.

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...

[Bake]

58. I did that and found no drama ...

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

[Iggo]

15. 1 THRU 11...

...AND SO MUCH MORE.

[LaraMN]

16. 12) A Snorks orgy.

Whatever. You're all thinking it, too.

[Guava Jelly]

18. I'm with the group of people that I like.

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.

[flvegan]

20. I see us as I want to see us... In the simplest terms, in the most convenient definitions

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.

[TZ]

24. so what country are you a princess in?

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

[Dr. Strange]

25. Your soundtrack:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBytH7ljp3c

[NJmaverick]

26. John Hughes called for you. He left a message, he wants you to call him back

something about copyright infringemet or something.B-)

[Guava Jelly]

27. ..

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

[TK421]

29. "You mess with the bull, young man and you're gonna get the horns"!

love that movie

[AlCzervik]

52. The kids haven’t changed. You have.

[Iggo]

61. And these children that you spit on...

...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.

[libnnc]

148. I love you. n/t

[DS1]

22. I need a brazillian more oversensitive people to prey upon

:crazy:

[Dr. Strange]

30. Dude!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topics&forum=125

[DS1]

31. What?

[Dr. Strange]

32. PANTS TENT?!

:rofl:

Impeachment is now on the table!

[TZ]

33. oh man...

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

[redqueen]

36. Hahahahahahahaha

:D

[Shakespeare]

41. right click/save

and sending to CA. That's beautiful.

[racaulk]

113. OMG, that's hilarious!!!

:rofl:

[Inchworm]

115. Oh shit!

:rofl:

Thanks for the laugh!

:rofl:

[Inchworm]

28. 1 - 2 - 3 - 6 - 10

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:

[KamaAina]

34. A haven for free-form repuke-bashing

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

[harmonicon]

35. 1, 2, 3, 6, 10

Mostly 10.

[NYC_SKP]

39. 2, 4, 6, 8...

Who DU we appreciate?

[KitchenWitch]

66. 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, 89, 144, 233, 377 ...

[TZ]

67. *snort*

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

[KitchenWitch]

68. ...

Fibonacci numbers...:D

[TZ]

69. uh uh

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

[Dr. Strange]

72. Nice post, Binet.

[Inchworm]

73. She's hawt!

:hi:

[Dr. Strange]

84. Wait, who's hawt?

I missed hawtness?

[Inchworm]

88. I studied my response

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:

[TZ]

75. Thanks DuStrange...

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

[Dr. Strange]

78. Haha!

turtlensue has Krebs!

[KitchenWitch]

82. Can you explain magnetic flux to me?

[Dr. Strange]

103. No.

But I'll post this:

[TZ]

111. on behalf of biologists everywhere....

PFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFT!!!

[KitchenWitch]

156. Yup!

:rofl:

[Tommy_Carcetti]

38. I believe it was something like this:

[NJmaverick]

40. I guess I am a geek, I thought that picture was really cool

[Dr. Strange]

42. You need something referencing Blade Runner there.

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

[Gormy Cuss]

43. Your eleven groups don't speak for me

yet I'm here.

Personally I think the lounge is a lounge.

[jobycom]

44. Ain't no vision. The Lounge abides, man.

[Dr. Strange]

45. Crap.

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

[jobycom]

47. Just fight the urge

to micturate on the Lounge rug.

[KitchenWitch]

46. trying to control what people post again?

:eyes:

[NJmaverick]

48. Are you the post police?

sorry this post doesn't meet your approval.

[KitchenWitch]

49. No, but you seem to want the job.

[NJmaverick]

50. It looks like you already appointed yourself

:eyes:

[KitchenWitch]

53. Did I make the exhaustive list of lounge topics like you did in the OP?

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

[NJmaverick]

54. You simply appointed yourself the post police and tried to tell me what I can and can't post

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.

[KitchenWitch]

55. Look in the mirror.

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...

[NJmaverick]

56. "look in the mirror"?!?!? That's your great come back

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:

[KitchenWitch]

64. Thank you!

[BarenakedLady]

51. You are all my minions.

[Iggo]

62. Yeah, but do we get dental?

[NJmaverick]

63. and a retirement plan?

[Inchworm]

65. French benifits?

:yoiks:

[Shell Beau]

57. I don't care what it is or was or what it will be. I still post here.

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.

[NJmaverick]

59. I suspect that's how it's always going to be.

[KitchenWitch]

74. Acceptance is the key...

[MineralMan]

60. The Longue iz a palce where no1 corekts ur

mispelings.

[Vanje]

70. The Lounge is where you can go with unusual questions.....

Like:


What IS a choad?

[billyskank]

71. Whatever, so long as my whining ass isn't here I'm sure it'll be fine.

[BarenakedLady]

80. ?

:hug:

[billyskank]

91. Thanks.

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

[BarenakedLady]

98. I'm always whining.

:shrug:

[billyskank]

101. And that's okay.

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

[SOteric]

76. I think the Lounge should be

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

[NJmaverick]

93. I think my arteries hardened a bit just reading this post

[BeachBaby]

77. Sometimes I wanna go, where everybody knows my name.

And they're always glad I came.

That's the lounge, to me.

[KitchenWitch]

79. NORM!

:P

[BeachBaby]

83. Nope - I'm Rebecca in this scenario.

:P :hug:

[KitchenWitch]

85. Can I be Carla?

[BeachBaby]

86. ABSOFUCKINLUTELY!!!!!

:toast: :pals:

[TZ]

87. Does that make DuStrange Cliff Claven?

:)

[BeachBaby]

89. Hmmmmm. Or is he Sam?

:rofl: Bwhahahahahahahaha.

[TZ]

92. Maybe....

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

[KitchenWitch]

90. Who else could he be?

But who is Sam Malone?

[BeachBaby]

94. Flannibal could play the part to perfection, no doubt.

What say you? :rofl:

[KitchenWitch]

97. Flannibal is PERFECT!

:rofl:

[Dr. Strange]

104. It's a little-known fact...

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

[NJmaverick]

81. Jersey Girl!!!!

:hi: :beer:

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

[BeachBaby]

100. Yo, babe!

:toast:

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

[NJmaverick]

108. Mine as well, I love the full version of the song

[Wetzelbill]

95. A place to see how edgy yet apathetic I am

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.

[Runcible Spoon]

96. You already stink up GD and GD:P.

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

[madinmaryland]

99. I could think of a brazillion reasons!!1!!

[TZ]

102. Well you better hurry up!

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

[sniffa]

106. Where's the "Happy Days" option?

[Guava Jelly]

107. Aaaaaaaaaaaay

:thumbsup:

[sniffa]

109. Sit on it

[AlCzervik]

110. i liked Arnold, hated Al.

too bad about Chuck getting killed in Korea.

[sniffa]

112. Wait, which one was Mr. Miagi?

I liked the next one better.

[AlCzervik]

114. Al was too tall so they went with Arnold.

[sniffa]

119. Ok, I liked Al then

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

[AlCzervik]

120. Joanie, if she was killed in Korea instead of Chuck it would have been a better show.

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

[sniffa]

126. Oh that's awesome news!!

:woohoo:

:bounce:

:loveya:

[AlCzervik]

127. and it was totally unexpected! I am feeling relieved and i hope he's not going back.

[Guava Jelly]

117. Don't piss off the big Ragu!

[sniffa]

132. Whatever happened to his spin-off show?

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

[Guava Jelly]

142. I don't know.

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

[JVS]

152. Eeeeeyyyyyyyyyy, sit on it!

[Shakespeare]

116. There has always been lounge drama. There will always BE lounge drama.

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.

[Zomby Woof]

121. Well, if anyone would know drama

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

[Shakespeare]

124. Ha! And YOU were around for that first drama, weren't you?

Good times, good times... :rofl:

[Zomby Woof]

128. I lurked back then

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

[merh]

125. if we gather round the flaming thread

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:

[Shakespeare]

133. Meh. I just get cracked up at the "OMG, what will we do about all the DRAMA?!" threads.

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:

[merh]

145. what's that old saying

the more things change the more they stay the same

it's all part of the drama :applause:


:hi: :hug:

[SarahB]

159. That's it.

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!

[Xipe Totec]

118. It's all about the virgins...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vt_tv7t79WY

[bridgit]

122. Easiest Q I've answered all day ~

[MrCoffee]

123. You know what's funny?

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.

[Dr. Strange]

130. Laugh all you want...

MrCoffee is right.

[TZ]

131. yep

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:

[Dr. Strange]

143. Aw, shucks.

That was sad, though. :cry:

[KitchenWitch]

157. +1

[tigereye]

129. comedy, music, absurdity, chat... bad puns

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

[TK421]

134. I just have a song....I'm no songwriter, but this IS my first attempt

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!!!!

[TZ]

135. thats not bad, not at all...

Me likey!

[TK421]

137. Thank you!

:D

[Wapsie B]

136. All of them are true at one time or another.

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

[Ikonoklast]

138. Personal Combat

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

[LSdemocrat]

139. I'd separate humor/ pop culture/ light-hearted fare from relationships/ friendships/ personal issues

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.

[madinmaryland]

140. No LOST or Rush threads. A waste of bandwidth!

:hide:

[TZ]

141. *cough*

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

[bridgit]

150. and somewhere a graywarrior's tear is fallen

:cry:

[kentauros]

144. Why not a "traditional" lounge?

:D

Mr. Suave's Mod Mod World

Plan59 - Decor

[kayakjohnny]

147. Here's one vision...

[bridgit]

149. Nice, looks like our little hideaway in union square but I've seen this place on the odd days

[kayakjohnny]

151. Uh....

(Post withdrawn by order of Kayakjohnny, Inc.)

[bridgit]

155. Make that *re*drawn and we can do some business

[Mutley]

153. Whatever you want it to be?

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

[TZ]

154. mutley!

Long time no see! :hi:

[Mutley]

158. Hey!

How are you? :hug: