Can we talk about the 800 pound gorilla in the Lounge?

[VelmaD]

You see what this place has turned into when we don't have talking about sex as an outlet for all our pent up frustrations. People around here are being cranky and short-tempered and it seems to me the entire Lounge needs to collectively "get laid".

[SOteric]

1. You're suggesting a cyber-orgy...?

[VelmaD]

4. If that's what it takes...

Actually I'm not really. I get confused with all the names and the long strings of "ooooooooooooooooo"s and who's doing what to who.

I'm just pointing out that things haven't been the happy friendly place the admins were hoping for when they banned the sex threads.

[THUNDER HANDS]

2. speak for yourself darling

I am getting along just fine without......without........withou.....<fight it MR, fight it>....without sex threads.

:D

[VelmaD]

5. I thought we had already...

drawn you back to the Dark Side. *sigh* Guess I'll have to put the mojo on ya again. :evilgrin:

[Maple]

3. I don't care

WHAT they talk about, as long as it isn't on the main page...'Latest'

Puts newcomers right off!

[Paragon]

6. Let's not

As I remember, some people got out their pent-up frustrations out by posting some truly nasty stuff.

Skinner's right - take it elsewhere. Or here's a brilliant idea...how about ACTUALLY getting laid? :D

[VelmaD]

9. Nasty is in the eye of the beholder

:-)

And if you have someone you care about that is in the same physical location as you and you're getting laid - ducky for you. Not all of us are that lucky at the moment though. :P

I mostly posted this as a joke, but it's hard not to draw the connection. Maybe the extreme sex threads and the current nastiness are connected - it may not be cause and effect, they could both be symptoms of the same underlying problem. I just wanted to get it out here to talk about it - see if anyone had anything interesting to say. :-)

[hlthe2b]

18. Ok, Paragon...'gotta ask..

who's the guy in your sig?

[Paragon]

19. Pootie Tang!

Too cool for words.

[JanMichael]

7. I'm ok. Then again I didn't post on the <edited for content> threads.

Even before I got married.

I guess that I'm just easily amused, or perhaps have easier access to porn:shrug:

PS~ The edit is mine:-)

[VelmaD]

13. Oh, don't admit you look at porn...

the prude police will be here any minute to tell you you're a bad bad boy. ;-)

[brainshrub]

8. I think it's an improvement.

Any adolescent can make a sex thread or poll. Avoiding sex threads forces everyone to higher levels of creativity.
And about not getting laid, speak for yourself...my gf rocks my world.

[VelmaD]

11. oh yeah, we've displayed...

a really high level of creativity around here today. :eyes:

[brainshrub]

14. Read "Writing down the bones"

Natalie Goldberg.

It's not what you write...it's that you are writing.

[Blue_Chill]

22. I agree it is better

some just can't get over their immature fixations.

[liberalhistorian]

23. "Higher levels of creativity?"

All I've seen in the lounge lately is the kind of hostility and snobbishness and nastiness that I've never seen in these levels on here before. I think she may be onto something, and I don't think she's the first person here to make that connection, just the first to have the guts to bring it up! (so to speak, pun unintended)!

[hlthe2b]

10. Skinner's next five posts to the lounge:

I'm shutting down all the sex threads. (done)

I'm shutting down all the self-mutilation threads.
I'm shutting down all the consensual cannibalism threads.
I'm shutting down all the fresh or frozen(?) post mutilation threads.
I'm shutting down all the how to find a partner for mutual self-mutilation threads.
I'm shutting down all the "will you still like what is left after my self- mutilation(?" threads.

And finally:
Ahh to heck with it: I'm shutting down all Matcom, ZombyWoof, Magic Rat, Catwoman (et al) threads! :evilgrin:

[VelmaD]

12. I don't know whether to be...

honored or offended that you didn't include me on your list. :-)

[hlthe2b]

15. Brain fart..... (or mentalpause....)

Surely, you'd be on the list!
:evilgrin:

[VelmaD]

16. I'm deeply touched

Unfortunately since Skinner imposed the rule about sex threads...I can't mean that in the fun spanky way. :-(

[short bus president]

17. Can we at least get rid of the "NO MORE SEX TALK!" announcement

at the top of the Lounge? It'd be one thing if there was running commentary on the topic, but it's been there for close to 2 weeks now serving no purpose except to remind people that Skinner can make sticky threads to which nobody's allowed to respond. Enough prude-gloating already - the unholy among us are cowed. You can take down the damned untouchable sticky thread.

[VelmaD]

20. Of course not.

Cause you know as soon as he takes it down me and you will just start it up all over again. Bwahahahahahaha :evilgrin:

[BiggJawn]

21. You noticed that too, eh?

"No Sex Threads", and in a week we start tearing each other's heads off like the lounge had become one big I/P thread or the "Gungeon"...

I know I've been a little too quick on the "Hey, BITE me!" button lately...Nothing to do but tell the "resistance is FUTILE! they have TANKS!!" borgs in the martial law threads to go back and tell....Aww, forget it. This is SUPPOSED to be the lounge....

[liberalhistorian]

24. Exactly, BJ, we have, indeed,

been tearing each other apart, and not in a nice way, either.