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Broken Face
-= Forum Pistolero =-
USA
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 Posted - 07/04/2005 : 20:32:25
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my 2 cents:
everybody cool out
i'm staying out of the real arguments here. but i will say this: respect noisy. free floop. love everyone.
-Brian
If you move I shoots!
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kathryn
~ Selkie Bride ~
Belgium
15320 Posts |
Posted - 07/04/2005 : 21:37:43
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IJWGA
IJWGA
IJWGA
Sometimes, no matter how shitty things get, you have to just do a little dance. - Frank
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billgoodman
>> Denizen of the Citizens Band <<
Netherlands
6213 Posts |
Posted - 07/04/2005 : 21:48:00
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I just wasn't made for these times?
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billgoodman
>> Denizen of the Citizens Band <<
Netherlands
6213 Posts |
Posted - 07/04/2005 : 21:48:58
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ohh wait
it's
I just want to get along
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kathryn
~ Selkie Bride ~
Belgium
15320 Posts |
Posted - 07/04/2005 : 21:55:04
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You got it, Jop!
Sometimes, no matter how shitty things get, you have to just do a little dance. - Frank
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gauth
- FB Fan -
USA
74 Posts |
Posted - 07/04/2005 : 22:25:48
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| This forum and site is Dave's. I respect his decisions. The topic was lame anyway. Every topic with more than 10 pages should be deleted so we can move on to other stuff. |
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billgoodman
>> Denizen of the Citizens Band <<
Netherlands
6213 Posts |
Posted - 07/05/2005 : 03:24:14
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that's how you got 48 posts, gauth?
just kidding
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IceCream
= Quote Accumulator =
USA
1850 Posts |
Posted - 07/05/2005 : 03:34:46
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| Jop, that was perfect. |
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Homers_pet_monkey
= Official forum monkey =
United Kingdom
17125 Posts |
Posted - 07/05/2005 : 06:24:33
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Originally posted by Blaspheme Quarantine
Great god in a bottle, I was thinking about starting to contribute to this forum until I saw this. If the thread was generally within the rules, surely it would have been a more sensible and mature moderating decision to either delete or at least edit the posts with problem content?
Deleteing such a massive thread is of course akin to cracking a walnut with nuclear missile. And not one of the old ones either... a proper Trident jobbie.
So really, what it comes down to is a moderator with the "shining knight" complex deciding he's arbiter of what represents decent moral values, when his job should in fact be to enforce the actual rules of the board. Absolutely disgusting. What's even worse is the condescending attitude he's handed out here, and the maintaining of the "beautiful men" thread.
Or maybe he just loves the cock, I dunno.
Thought I'd just wade in here and say what I thought. I guess I ought to add in that I've read a fair bit of feminist literature, and I ran for head girl at school (despite being a boy), so I understand exactly what it feels like to be sexually discriminated against.
I'll go burn my Pixies albums now, because they're morally bankrupt. After all, one of them has some bird with her boobs out on the front cover. Shocking really.
edit - actually, I've decided that the mod doesn't love the cock. I bet he's too much of an emotional ascetic to love anything. Doesn't even masturbate like us dirty earthbound maggots.
OK, which one of you is this?
Don't believe the type!
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gauth
- FB Fan -
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Posted - 07/05/2005 : 08:42:30
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Originally posted by billgoodman
that's how you got 48 posts, gauth?
just kidding
I post once a month 
That's also because I have no interest in the general discussion. The only reason I come here is for FB infos. And also to check how my "money" is doing. I think i invested $10 in this site. hehehe |
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zub_the_goat
= Cult of Ray =
United Kingdom
639 Posts |
Posted - 07/05/2005 : 10:06:40
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Originally posted by Homers_pet_monkey
quote:
Originally posted by Blaspheme Quarantine
Great god in a bottle, I was thinking about starting to contribute to this forum until I saw this. If the thread was generally within the rules, surely it would have been a more sensible and mature moderating decision to either delete or at least edit the posts with problem content?
Deleteing such a massive thread is of course akin to cracking a walnut with nuclear missile. And not one of the old ones either... a proper Trident jobbie.
So really, what it comes down to is a moderator with the "shining knight" complex deciding he's arbiter of what represents decent moral values, when his job should in fact be to enforce the actual rules of the board. Absolutely disgusting. What's even worse is the condescending attitude he's handed out here, and the maintaining of the "beautiful men" thread.
Or maybe he just loves the cock, I dunno.
Thought I'd just wade in here and say what I thought. I guess I ought to add in that I've read a fair bit of feminist literature, and I ran for head girl at school (despite being a boy), so I understand exactly what it feels like to be sexually discriminated against.
I'll go burn my Pixies albums now, because they're morally bankrupt. After all, one of them has some bird with her boobs out on the front cover. Shocking really.
edit - actually, I've decided that the mod doesn't love the cock. I bet he's too much of an emotional ascetic to love anything. Doesn't even masturbate like us dirty earthbound maggots.
OK, which one of you is this?
Don't believe the type!
It is a genuine newbie i promise! im force feeding a friend pixies and frank black, in an attempt to make him see the light, and part of the process was to make him look at the site a while ago |
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kathryn
~ Selkie Bride ~
Belgium
15320 Posts |
Posted - 07/05/2005 : 10:11:25
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For real, that's a friend of yours, Zub?
Sometimes, no matter how shitty things get, you have to just do a little dance. - Frank
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zub_the_goat
= Cult of Ray =
United Kingdom
639 Posts |
Posted - 07/05/2005 : 10:55:58
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| yeah it is......not one of those 'my FRIEND has an embarresing medical condition' types, he really exists |
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kathryn
~ Selkie Bride ~
Belgium
15320 Posts |
Posted - 07/05/2005 : 11:12:00
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I did a thread about embarrassing medical conditions! It was great. All sorts of things were
divulged.
Sometimes, no matter how shitty things get, you have to just do a little dance. - Frank
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Homers_pet_monkey
= Official forum monkey =
United Kingdom
17125 Posts |
Posted - 07/05/2005 : 14:24:21
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Originally posted by zub_the_goat
quote:
Originally posted by Homers_pet_monkey
quote:
Originally posted by Blaspheme Quarantine
Great god in a bottle, I was thinking about starting to contribute to this forum until I saw this. If the thread was generally within the rules, surely it would have been a more sensible and mature moderating decision to either delete or at least edit the posts with problem content?
Deleteing such a massive thread is of course akin to cracking a walnut with nuclear missile. And not one of the old ones either... a proper Trident jobbie.
So really, what it comes down to is a moderator with the "shining knight" complex deciding he's arbiter of what represents decent moral values, when his job should in fact be to enforce the actual rules of the board. Absolutely disgusting. What's even worse is the condescending attitude he's handed out here, and the maintaining of the "beautiful men" thread.
Or maybe he just loves the cock, I dunno.
Thought I'd just wade in here and say what I thought. I guess I ought to add in that I've read a fair bit of feminist literature, and I ran for head girl at school (despite being a boy), so I understand exactly what it feels like to be sexually discriminated against.
I'll go burn my Pixies albums now, because they're morally bankrupt. After all, one of them has some bird with her boobs out on the front cover. Shocking really.
edit - actually, I've decided that the mod doesn't love the cock. I bet he's too much of an emotional ascetic to love anything. Doesn't even masturbate like us dirty earthbound maggots.
OK, which one of you is this?
Don't believe the type!
It is a genuine newbie i promise! im force feeding a friend pixies and frank black, in an attempt to make him see the light, and part of the process was to make him look at the site a while ago
Hehe, well he may not last too long here now. This may have put him off Frank forever, though if it has then he is mad.
Hi to Zub's friend.
Don't believe the type!
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mun chien andalusia
= Quote Accumulator =
Italy
2139 Posts |
Posted - 07/05/2005 : 14:45:48
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the sexist\objectifying debate is such a loss of time. men like women and the other way around. that's it. personally i don't know anyone that wants a clone of angelina jolie so much to cause complexes on his partner and neither i know any women that send their boyfriends to the gym hoping for a brad pitt-like partner. we all like to watch perfection (and do silly comments or bash it) but most of us realize that perfection isn't the rule nor is required in order to achieve happiness. objectifying celebrities is just another harmless passtime since celebrities do not exist in real life. few of us know personally famous people so bashing britney or talking about angelina jolie's attributes is like talking about sports or the weather. nothing really personal.
people who actually have problems with themselves, the way they look etc, need help. this forum isn't what caused their trouble and it will not help them in whatever way. same thing for sexists-mysoginists or racists in general. they will not change opinion by locking a thread.
said that i hate the politically correct. they are the worst thing that ever happened to the progressist\liberal way of thinking. they pretend to eliminate every kind of disparity and racism by simply eliminating everything that is above average, by degrading the excellence to a forced mediocrity and by giving complex names to simple concepts. you cannot eliminate anorexia nervosa by eliminating hollywood actresses and by boosting new bad looking(ergo "normal" ergo "less threatening")celebrities or by making a myth out of the "average" man or woman. it's your family and school and social ambient that should teach you that in the world exists variety and in that variety you must fit by simply accepting that you are perfect and unique in your personal way. society standards come and go. there were always and there will always be, pretty much as people who feel that they don't fit in their context. censhorship and forced studies never resolved the problem.
i don't want to attack personally anyone but it seems to me that a stupid yet harmless thread became an excuse for a stupid and counter productive display of useless politically correctness. someone made a brilliant comment about how the general chat is kind of a virtual pub were people ,maybe drunk or tipsy, have fun. no harm intended and no police oppression required. or the bar will be populated by obnoxious and boring lawyers which instead of having a good pint and a healthy fight get their diet sodas in a strictly non smoking ambient talking about yoga, the weather, dow jones and how today's youngsters are disrespectfull, good for nothing misfits.
if talking liberally is reason for ban around here, then ban me too. what gives me the creeps is that banning comes in the name of protecting a non better identified right to be normal as if someone questioned such right. i promise that if you ban me i'll burn a few bras before returning.
PS: i hate those who patronize people. i can assure everybody in this forum that i've done my homework on civil rights and the such. having an open mind and sense of humour doesn't make you a world hating troll.
PS2: i prefer 1000 times people like mad dawg and the swimmer who add controversy and stimulate a debate to subttle nazi mentality that tries to force feed me a mary poppins perfectionist attitude. nobody's perfect and everyone has a right to say his own. if this forum is about private property ala "this place is mine, i make the rules, love it or leave it" it's fine with me. i don't gatecrash other people's parties.
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Carolynanna
>> Denizen of the Citizens Band <<
Canada
6556 Posts |
Posted - 07/05/2005 : 15:53:37
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Originally posted by mun chien andalusia
we all like to watch perfection (and do silly comments or bash it) but most of us realize that perfection isn't the rule nor is required in order to achieve happiness.
Conciously we might be all be able to say that, but tell this to all the people going to plastic surgeons and all the people with eating disorders and the young girls in elementary school going on diets etc and so on
they are the worst thing that ever happened to the progressist\liberal way of thinking. they pretend to eliminate every kind of disparity and racism by simply eliminating everything that is above average, by degrading the excellence to a forced mediocrity
The vast majority of us are not "above average" looking.
you cannot eliminate anorexia nervosa by eliminating hollywood actresses and by boosting new bad looking(ergo "normal" ergo "less threatening")celebrities or by making a myth out of the "average" man or woman. it's your family and school and social ambient that should teach you that in the world exists variety and in that variety you must fit by simply accepting that you are perfect and unique in your personal way.
It should be, but is it really? You can't say that the media coverage of Hollywood et al has no effect on people's psyches. Cripes look at all the people that try to dress like the celebs.
Though I don't really agree with the banning due to the inconsistency of it among other things.
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Chris Knight
= Cult of Ray =
USA
899 Posts |
Posted - 07/05/2005 : 16:04:10
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Again its not sexist its objectifying.
But I admit that it is a fine line between admiring the female form and objectification. And the line is often in the eye of the beholder.
It can be argued that objectification occurs with the creation of a picture and not the viewing thereof, since a picture IS an object. Most people (other than chauvinists, sex criminals, etc.) are very cognizant of the essential difference between a picture and the human being in the picture.
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OldManInaCoffeeCan
* Dog in the Sand *
USA
1467 Posts |
Posted - 07/05/2005 : 16:09:18
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"this place just isn't the same without him."
I briefly attempted to get up to speed concerning Dave the Moderator, the deleted thread, and Floop's temp/perm ban, but shit, the reading involved is similar in quantity to a Motion for Summary Judgment, and the rationale of the different positions (not just plaintiff and defendant, but this case is filled with Amicus Curiae briefs) is too many and too complex for me right now.
So, without taking the time that is needed to adequately formulate an opinion, my statement of the case is as follows:
FREE FLOOP!
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Dave Noisy
Minister of Chaos
Canada
4496 Posts |
Posted - 07/05/2005 : 16:16:42
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Did someone suggest i'm cocky?
 "Live life like you're gonna die...because you are." - William Shatner, You'll Have Time / Has Been |
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mun chien andalusia
= Quote Accumulator =
Italy
2139 Posts |
Posted - 07/05/2005 : 16:30:26
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[quote]Originally posted by Carolynanna
[quote]Originally posted by mun chien andalusia
we all like to watch perfection (and do silly comments or bash it) but most of us realize that perfection isn't the rule nor is required in order to achieve happiness.
Conciously we might be all be able to say that, but tell this to all the people going to plastic surgeons and all the people with eating disorders and the young girls in elementary school going on diets etc and so on
i totally agree. but those who make of fashion a major issue that ends conditioning their life (medicine defines psychic disorders as: mental conditions that comprimise a patient's emotional and social life), need help. professional medical help that is. plastic surgery is a major issue but unfortunately before such an operation the law should demand a psicologist\psychiatrist's opinion. my comment was on the fact that this forum and that thread in particular was nothing particularly different than an average pub debate like "who's breasts are better", absolutely far from a thread like "all fat women suck" kind of behaviour
they are the worst thing that ever happened to the progressist\liberal way of thinking. they pretend to eliminate every kind of disparity and racism by simply eliminating everything that is above average, by degrading the excellence to a forced mediocrity
The vast majority of us are not "above average" looking.
i agree with that too. you think that i give a f*** about my gf's cellulite? on the contrary i keep pushing her away of stupide diets 'cause i think that a happy and relaxed person is far sexier than the hotest hollywood star. tho' i may appreciate beauty i don't consider it a must. on the other hand i don't demonize it for being the source of all evil. some people are more beautiful than others but that doesn't mean that i want to have anything to do with them or that i'm unhappy cause i can't be one or be with one.
you cannot eliminate anorexia nervosa by eliminating hollywood actresses and by boosting new bad looking(ergo "normal" ergo "less threatening")celebrities or by making a myth out of the "average" man or woman. it's your family and school and social ambient that should teach you that in the world exists variety and in that variety you must fit by simply accepting that you are perfect and unique in your personal way.
It should be, but is it really? You can't say that the media coverage of Hollywood et al has no effect on people's psyches. Cripes look at all the people that try to dress like the celebs.
agree with that one too. you add nothing new. but as i said those people (and fortunately they are a minority) cannot be helped by a mere puritan censhorship or with hypocrisy transforming a good looks thread in an interior values against looks thread . i dare anyone in this forum to admit that he or she fancied a partner based solely on his character or intelligence. the eye must have it's part, even if this part lies on personal taste. feeling inadeguate is nothing new. and feeling pathologically inadeguate isn't new either. criminalizing people who appreciate a nice looking body isn't the answer. it's not my (tho' i never read a single post on that thread) or floop's fault.
my humble opinion is that if such a thread offended a moderator's sensibility it should be discussed, because such serious matters generate strong opinions and censorship or bullying do not help. if this was actually about sensibility and not about bragging around about who's more educated and subtle accuses of ignorance. just because it happens that i have to do everyday with cases of stressed teenagers due to studies and work i don't take lightly this argument. sterilising their world isn't he answer. believe me.
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gauth
- FB Fan -
USA
74 Posts |
Posted - 07/05/2005 : 18:12:22
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Blaspheme Quarantine
- FB Fan -
United Kingdom
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Posted - 07/05/2005 : 18:51:08
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Originally posted by Dave Noisy
Did someone suggest i'm cocky?
"Live life like you're gonna die...because you are." - William Shatner, You'll Have Time / Has Been
Nah, I said you loved "the cock" due to the continued existance of the beautiful men thread. Just so you know ('cos you're either being deliberately obtuse or you're none too quick on the uptake), I made this insult because you're the most piss-poor admin I think I've ever seen. But enough about you, ya 'lil spazzeroid, you... **patronising nudge on cheek**
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To all the people worrying about the objectification of women, you're kind of trying to deny what's more or less hard-wired into our psyches. We're built from the ground up to ensure the survival of the human race, and that generally includes a fantastic little subsection devoted to analysing partners for suitability.
Now, I don't know about you, but I've spent so many lazy days in the summer slobbing around fantasising about being a mighty stegosaurus. Think about it... you get walk about, find things and decide if I can eat them or if I can shag them. Or occasionally have to swipe my mighty caudal club at them.
Brilliant, and when it boils down to it, it's what we do as people.
We simply do not have time in our lives to get to know each and every person in the world. We'd never get through it! Even if we take the immediate step of taking all the ugly people off the list, we're left with an insurmountable task!
To get around this limitation, we judge people on looks and physical characteristics... and these characteristics are vitally important, as they're the first thing people see. And I don't care how much of a goddam metacognitive ninja you are, you're going to make choices about people.
Personally, I don't have an issue with women finding me utterly gorgeous, and then going home to masturbate about me, even if they don't know much about who I am, and about all the fantastic things I've done in my life. Granted, it doesn't happen very often, but if it does I'm not going to kick down their bedroom door at 3 in the morning, drag their stinky pinkes from between their legs, and delete that thread metaphorically speaking.
Blah.
What a billious bag of barnacle bait this is.
Wanting men to stop looking at womens tits for the sake of looking at tits is about the same as asking them to stop their own heart beating by force of will.
Unless you're going to cut their nuts off pre-puberty, but that would make you an evil testicle collecting (and possibly snorting) paedophile, and I don't deal with people like you.
Me FTW.
I'm outta this thread!
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Carolynanna
>> Denizen of the Citizens Band <<
Canada
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Posted - 07/06/2005 : 00:18:44
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quote:
Originally posted by Blaspheme Quarantine
To all the people worrying about the objectification of women, you're kind of trying to deny what's more or less hard-wired into our psyches. We're built from the ground up to ensure the survival of the human race, and that generally includes a fantastic little subsection devoted to analysing partners for suitability.
Of course.
We all can admire someone we find attractive.
Its human nature.
And I'm as human as anyone else, trust me on that one;)
But its about a balance.
There's more to life than procreation.
(Quite funny coming from me at this moment...;)
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Llamadance
> Teenager of the Year <
United Kingdom
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Posted - 07/06/2005 : 00:47:55
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Blaspheme Quarantine - "metacognitive ninja" is my new favourite phrase, and there's not enough Tintin references used on this forum.
On the topic at hand, the other board I post on has this tagline from the moderators:
"The mods have a simple message to all who enter. Every culture has its distinctive and normal system of government. Yours is democracy, moderated by corruption. Ours is totalitarianism, moderated by assassination. You have been warned."
..which kind of fits here now. I think it's time to put all this behind us, release the prisoners, and apply the forum rules equally and fairly. (I'm not saying they're not at the moment, but some people feel that.) I think that this has caused a lot of confusion which need clarification.:)
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mun chien andalusia
= Quote Accumulator =
Italy
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Posted - 07/06/2005 : 05:06:07
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back to topic:
Zen fascists will control you,100% natural,You will jog for the master race |
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Homers_pet_monkey
= Official forum monkey =
United Kingdom
17125 Posts |
Posted - 07/06/2005 : 06:34:06
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quote:
Originally posted by Carolynanna
quote:
Originally posted by Blaspheme Quarantine
To all the people worrying about the objectification of women, you're kind of trying to deny what's more or less hard-wired into our psyches. We're built from the ground up to ensure the survival of the human race, and that generally includes a fantastic little subsection devoted to analysing partners for suitability.
There's more to life than procreation.
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Don't believe the hype.
Ice cream and penguins?
Don't believe the type!
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Carolynanna
>> Denizen of the Citizens Band <<
Canada
6556 Posts |
Posted - 07/06/2005 : 06:37:54
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Exactly! :)
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mun chien andalusia
= Quote Accumulator =
Italy
2139 Posts |
Posted - 07/06/2005 : 06:46:20
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are you suggesting to have sex with icecream filled penguins in order to avoid procreation? that's sillier than the having sex with a mule method of contraception. what happened to condoms and the pill?
Zen fascists will control you,100% natural,You will jog for the master race |
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Carolynanna
>> Denizen of the Citizens Band <<
Canada
6556 Posts |
Posted - 07/06/2005 : 06:50:07
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Not 100% effective like the penguins and ice cream.
I can vouch, have you seen my latest pic?
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mun chien andalusia
= Quote Accumulator =
Italy
2139 Posts |
Posted - 07/06/2005 : 07:07:50
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the marple syrup one? is it about another kinky sex practice? i don't even know what marple syrup is btw. hopefully nothing disgusting as peanut butter.
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Carolynanna
>> Denizen of the Citizens Band <<
Canada
6556 Posts |
Posted - 07/06/2005 : 07:11:16
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You don't know what maple syrup is?!
Let me just say that Canadian maple syrup is where its at...
Nope, just a very pregnant pic of me.
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mun chien andalusia
= Quote Accumulator =
Italy
2139 Posts |
Posted - 07/06/2005 : 07:19:34
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oh yes. now i remember. well you should be happy. the penguines and mules are happy for sure :-)
Zen fascists will control you,100% natural |
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Hatchetman
- FB Fan -
United Kingdom
234 Posts |
Posted - 07/07/2005 : 15:15:55
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While I found the pictures of beautiful women thread reasonably boring for essentially a music fan site, I am pretty amazed that it's been banned. I understand the reason why, but I don't agree with it. So what was the catalyst?
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Monsieur
* Dog in the Sand *
France
1688 Posts |
Posted - 07/08/2005 : 03:00:17
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What happened to floop?
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'pictures' of beautiful women thread
