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Posted by BYuCnslr (Member # 1857) on :
 
Because I'm too disaffected to find the old one, and I need one really bad. And I'm not the only one, you know who you are.
Satyagraha
 

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Posted by wieczorek (Member # 5565) on :
 
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Posted by Shan (Member # 4550) on :
 
HUGS TO ALL!!!!!
 

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Posted by Zevlag (Member # 1405) on :
 
{{{Bernard}}}

Some of you know the story of my last day....
 

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Posted by Emp (Member # 5955) on :
 
The title of this hug thread is a more user-friendly than the last.

(((Bro)))
 

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Posted by Raia (Member # 4700) on :
 
(((((Bernard)))))

(((((The other mysterious people mentioned in this thread)))))
 

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Posted by ana kata (Member # 5666) on :
 
<<<<<<khe khe>>>>>>>

<<<<<whoever you are>>>>>>
 

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Posted by Eruve Nandiriel (Member # 5677) on :
 
so now we have 2 hug threads?
 

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Posted by MaydayDesiax (Member # 5012) on :
 
((((Zelvag)))) Hope your server gets back up!
((((ana kata)))) Get better!
((((Raia))))
(((((Bernard)))))

[ December 12, 2003, 11:31 PM: Message edited by: MaydayDesiax ]
 

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Posted by Marek (Member # 5404) on :
 
link to other hug thread

Just because I felt there should be a link to it here.

(((((satyagraha)))))

(((((Eruve Nandiriel))))) actually there are still a few more, several intended for hugging one person specifically,this one , the one I put a link to a minute ago , one for anna , the pay per hug thread , Homestar runner , Anna Kate , Belle , Apostle Radio , T_Smith , Shira

((((((Belle)))))) ((((((T_Smith)))))) ((((((Shira)))))) ((((((Anna)))))) ((((((Anna Kate)))))) (((((Apostle Radio))))) ((((((Homestar Runner)))))) I hope things have improved for each of you

(((((Bernard))))) (this is BYu Cnslr, right?)

(((((MaydayDesiax)))))

(((((zevlag)))))

(((((ana kata)))))

(((((Shan)))))

(((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((Raia)))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))
 

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Posted by ana kata (Member # 5666) on :
 
Hey Marek! Thanks for linking to the old hug thread for me. I had forgotten about it. Things do get better, don't they?

<<<<<<<everybody>>>>>>>>>
 

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Posted by Jenny Gardener (Member # 903) on :
 
I am a very selfish person, lazy, and narcissistic. I'm not liking myself much lately. Still want to hug me?
 

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Posted by ana kata (Member # 5666) on :
 
<<<<<<<<Jenny Gardener>>>>>>>>>>>
 

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Posted by ana kata (Member # 5666) on :
 
I know my name is confusing, so I periodically try to clear up the confusion. It's Anne Kate, ak, aka, or ana kata. Though I am flattered if ever confused with any of the Annas, I'm not called Anna Kate, even though it's easier to say and would make a cool name for somebody.

Just trying to clear that up before it spreads. I spent a long time being called Anne, which really isn't me, simply because I was too timid to correct people. <laughs>
 

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Posted by BYuCnslr (Member # 1857) on :
 
:: hugs Jenny ::
Everybody is a smidgen selfish every once in a while.
Stayagraha
 

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Posted by Jenny Gardener (Member # 903) on :
 
This is kinda off-topic, but I'm really afraid to post on the other hug thread. Does anybody else think that this: (()) is reminiscent of something not brought up in polite conversation?
I'm very disturbed whenever I see the name of that thread, and have to look elsewhere.

(edited to remove potentially offensive scientific term)

[ December 14, 2003, 11:09 AM: Message edited by: Jenny Gardener ]
 

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Posted by Frisco (Member # 3765) on :
 
WARNING!!! This post contains stick-figure violence and the scientific name for a reproductive organ!

How to properly refuse a hug. [disclaimer for fugu:it's only a water gun]

And, oh yes...(())(())(())(())(())(())(())(())(())

Vulvae for everyone!

[vulva: The orifice of the oviduct of an insect or other invertebrate. Apologies to the dirty minded souls who assumed I meant the other usage.]

[edit: I'm not so good at irregular pluralization]

[ December 14, 2003, 05:18 AM: Message edited by: Frisco ]
 

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Posted by mackillian (Member # 586) on :
 
uh...
 

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Posted by mackillian (Member # 586) on :
 
That was way, way over the line.
 

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Posted by TomDavidson (Member # 124) on :
 
In all fairness, I don't see how it's any more inappropriate than the original observation. Is it that he enjoyed it more?
 

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Posted by pooka (Member # 5003) on :
 
(((Satyagraha))) It's a rough day when you misspell your own name. That's why I don't usually even try to put mine.

Vulva is not slang. It's the medical Latin. Though any word referring to a specifically female item (or person) becomes derogatory over time. The usage here is gross, but I'm discussing the overall problem that you practically have to be a doctor to use that word without people thinking you are gross.

By the way, does anyone else find it odd that the Volvo logo is a Mars (male) symbol? Is that supposed to be overcompensation or what?
 

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Posted by fugu13 (Member # 2859) on :
 
Check the link, Tom. Also, his post in the hug thread was similarly inappropriate.

Frisco, you know better.
 

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Posted by Frisco (Member # 3765) on :
 
Actually, I don't.

That link is the same drawing I've been using since it was inspired by the original hug thread. It may be tired and boring, but come on...

I see David's and Eddie's posts going unchecked, "s***" and "a**" going unnoticed, butts, boobs, and middle fingers getting encouraged...and I'm supposed to refrain from making a comment that's been made a number of times, without opposition, over the course of three or four threads including this one?

Please...

I will admit that my post in the other hug thread was pretty bad, though.

*slaps own wrist*
 

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Posted by fugu13 (Member # 2859) on :
 
I guess I didn't see and click on the link earlier, because I would've commented negatively on that drawing at any time. Its in poor taste.
 

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Posted by Frisco (Member # 3765) on :
 
How about this link?
 

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Posted by fugu13 (Member # 2859) on :
 
There's humor and there's crude humor. The link isn't even particularly funny; there's much better crude humor out there. But even if it were funny it would still be inappropriate for this board.
 

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Posted by Frisco (Member # 3765) on :
 
Then I don't think you'd know funny if it took the form of a rake lying in your yard, and you stepped on the business end and the handle came up and whapped you in the forehead.
 

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Posted by fugu13 (Member # 2859) on :
 
*nods judiciously*

You're improving a little bit, but still a preference for rather bland humor. You just described something that could happen, very literally, and its only humorous if you think its going to be humorous in advance, or if given visual indicators. You'd be decent on something like SNL which relies on visual and aural clues to cue the audience to laugh, but your jokes don't have sufficient substance to go beyond that hack market.


 

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Posted by Frisco (Member # 3765) on :
 
psst! fugu!





[whisper] Your transference is showing. [/whisper]
 

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Posted by Frisco (Member # 3765) on :
 
It has come to my attention that fugu (and possibly mack and Ela) interpreted my "How to properly refuse a hug" sketch as (using the words of an anonymous AIM buddy whom we'll refer to as "gufu") "a forced sexual encounter leading to violence".

My reaction(paraphrased):

I think you might have the Eddies confused.

[ December 14, 2003, 06:48 AM: Message edited by: Frisco ]
 

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Posted by Richard Berg (Member # 133) on :
 
Not knowing that it was about hugs, and accounting for my habitually dirty mind, that looks like the scene from a bad soap opera:

"the long-lost couple greets each other"
"they kiss"
"they get to 3rd base"
"they get kinky"
"person #2 says, 'I'm really your husband's best friend in disguise'"
"'you bastard!'"

An overdramatized Cosí Fan Tutte, if you will.

Nevertheless, relax -- this is a hug thread, after all. It's not like he posted tubgirl or anything.

[ December 14, 2003, 07:15 AM: Message edited by: Richard Berg ]
 

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Posted by Primal Curve (Member # 3587) on :
 
pooka,

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By the way, does anyone else find it odd that the Volvo logo is a Mars (male) symbol? Is that supposed to be overcompensation or what?

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No one drives a Volvo who's overcompensating. I think you can make a very good argument for the opposite in fact.

Volvos have always been considered "practical" cars. If you drive a Volvo for a million miles, you get a free car.

Volvos are driven by men who wear "Spectacles" and eat government cheese.
 

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Posted by Richard Berg (Member # 133) on :
 
I must be practical. (Well, actually not news to me). If my primary car wasn't a VW it would definitely be a Volvo.
 

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Posted by Ralphie (Member # 1565) on :
 
Good grief. The stick figure is ducking to avoid a hug, not going down on the other stick figure.

And I get pegged for having a dirty mind.
 

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Posted by Jenny Gardener (Member # 903) on :
 
I certainly didn't mean to offend. I find the "bird" symbol that some people are using is bothersome, too. Personally, I don't understand why "vulva" must be an offensive word or concept. I thought it was the scientific term, and that other terms would be rude to use. I didn't click on Frisco's link, so I have no clue what all the ruckus is about.

I just wanted to bring up an awareness that certain symbols can be unsettling to readers of this forum, and perhaps influence their creators to use them less. An empty "hug" looks like something not usually brought up in polite company. Perhaps that's how I should have broached the subject.
 

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Posted by Jenny Gardener (Member # 903) on :
 
Actually, the breathing orifices on an insect are called something else. I'll edit this post after I look it up. And the empty hug does look like the breathing orifices of an insect, or stomata on a leaf. Forgive my unimaginative interpretation above.
 

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Posted by pooka (Member # 5003) on :
 
Spiracle, Jenny

Thanks for repeating the statement Frisco was asked to remove, Ela.

I've seen the hug avoiding cartoon before, it's stick figures, right? I didn't see anything sexual about it, and I have diagnosed Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. So some of you people are really gone. I guess I have to pass the "most uptight Hatracker" trophy on to another.

[ December 14, 2003, 11:24 AM: Message edited by: pooka ]
 

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Posted by Jenny Gardener (Member # 903) on :
 
Thank you! Spiracles.
 

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Posted by mackillian (Member # 586) on :
 
Fine. I won't use that symbol anymore. Or any other offensive ones.

Okay?

And I'm apolgize for thinking of Frisco's usage vulva was offensive.
 

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Posted by Ralphie (Member # 1565) on :
 

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Sorry you think some people have dirty minds.

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Ela, this would not be an insult coming from me.

I do find it funny that the first time I heard someone take offense at it I had to stare at the pic for, like, ten minutes to figure out why.
 

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Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
 
{{{{{Bernard}}}}}
{{{{{Zevlag}}}}}
{{{{{Shan}}}}}
{{{{{Emp}}}}}
{{{{{Raia}}}}}
{{{{{ak}}}}}
{{{{{Eruve}}}}} The more the merrier?
{{{{{Mayday}}}}}
{{{{{Marek}}}}}
{{{{{Jenny}}}}} Yes.
 

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Posted by mackillian (Member # 586) on :
 
It wasn't the pic, it was the word usage.
 

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Posted by Ralphie (Member # 1565) on :
 
OH YOU'D LIKE TO THINK THAT WOULDN'T YOU
 

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Posted by Anna (Member # 2582) on :
 
Marek, I’m very touched that you did put a link here to the thread in which I told about my problems with my sister. Some of you have probably noticed that I was in a horrible mood the last two weeks.
Well, I had a lot of problems in the same time, let’s tell the most important:
The father of my father died.
My father’s dog, who was still mine, died too.
And my driving school stole me money.
About my grand father I don’t know what to tell. He was a horrible man, I haven’t seen him since ten years, he basically tortured my father in his childhood, with his wife (my father’s mother), and had inexcusable attitudes toward my mother and my sisters and me. So we’ve been forced to cut all contacts since a long time, but my father saw them from time to time since my mother’s death (can you believe it, them going back, ready to “forgive” my father, when my mother just died???). I know my father is very sad, because even if his father was horrible, he still wanted in a little part of his heart getting better with him, and now it’s impossible. I think that’s what hurts him most. And since the dog just died he’s all alone in the house, and I’m worrying a lot. I asked him to go and spend a few days with him, but he didn’t want me to. So we just ate together, my father, Vincent and me, Saturday. I’m trying to feel better.
About my sister, she’s still crazy (no, really, she is… About a cousin who’s going to marry a guy whose parents are dead , she told “well, she should be happy, she won’t have in-laws to see every week-end !” and that’s just an example and not the most shocking…) but I had a very long explanation with her and she seems to have forgiven me (but I didn’t apologize, because I felt in my rights. It’s better than what I do usually…).
The driving school… That’s just a money thing, but very irritating.
Thank you Hatrack for being there, I don’t know if I could have support all this without you.
(((((Everyone)))))
And don’t worry for me; I’m fine, sort of. This could be far worse, and I always try to put a smile on my face and face the life with a song in my heart.

EDIT : I typed this online because it took some time. I didn't know that the hug thread would have derivated this way.

[ December 15, 2003, 07:51 AM: Message edited by: Anna ]
 

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Posted by Lalo (Member # 3772) on :
 

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It has come to my attention that fugu (and possibly mack and Ela) interpreted my "How to properly refuse a hug" sketch as (using the words of an anonymous AIM buddy whom we'll refer to as "gufu") "a forced sexual encounter leading to violence".

My reaction(paraphrased):

I think you might have the Eddies confused.

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Uh. I'm a rapist?
 

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Posted by Frisco (Member # 3765) on :
 


*sigh* Yes, Eddie. Either that, or between the two of us, you are more likely to post sex-based stick figure sketches.

'Tis the season to look for a reason to get pissed off, I guess.

Anyone else I've offended? Anyone get offended by my rake humor? My psychology reference? My use of the word "orifice? Don't be shy. Let it all out.

I'd give you all a big --l-- (which, by the way, means "f*** you"), but apparently using the word "vulva" is more offensive.

VULVA VULVA VULVA! PENIS PENIS SCROTUM!

gah.
 

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Posted by Frisco (Member # 3765) on :
 
Heh. That last post was a typo. It was supposed to read, "No, Eddie. I'm sorry for the confusion."
 

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Posted by Lalo (Member # 3772) on :
 

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*sigh* Yes, Eddie. Either that, or between the two of us, you are more likely to post sex-based stick figure sketches.

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It has come to my attention that fugu (and possibly mack and Ela) interpreted my "How to properly refuse a hug" sketch as (using the words of an anonymous AIM buddy whom we'll refer to as "gufu") "a forced sexual encounter leading to violence".

My reaction(paraphrased):

I think you might have the Eddies confused.

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I venture to guess that you're the only one who read that as an accusation of you being into rape drawings.

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Oh, my mistake. I must have misinterpreted your claim that of the two of us, Fugu's charge of drawing "a forced sexual encounter leading to violence" would better fit me than you.

Of course that doesn't suggest that I'm into rape drawings, only that I'm more likely to draw them than you are.
 

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Posted by Anna (Member # 2582) on :
 
*cough*
Could we go back to the hug thread please ? I mean, if you want to fight, there are others area for that.
(I hope I'm not being offensive saying that.)
 

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Posted by Frisco (Member # 3765) on :
 
I suppose if you dishonestly and deliberately take it out of context like that, sure.

But if you put it back in line with the preceeding five or six posts of mine, you'll realize that I wasn't being at all serious at the time. Would you like me to put a smilie in the post so you know when I'm kidding?
 

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Posted by Anna (Member # 2582) on :
 
*big cough*
DOES SOMEONE HEAR ME?
 

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Posted by Frisco (Member # 3765) on :
 
Anna, for some reason, Eddie and I only fight in the forum. We're really friends, but if we don't keep up the façade, people will start rumors concerning the intimacy of our friendship.
 

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Posted by Anna (Member # 2582) on :
 
I don't care about you fighting, I care about you fighting here. Why don't you do a fighting thread ?
 

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Posted by Anna (Member # 2582) on :
 
Hey, I've past my 1000th post and didn't notice !
Wow...
 

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Posted by Lalo (Member # 3772) on :
 

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I suppose if you dishonestly and deliberately take it out of context like that, sure.

But if you put it back in line with the preceeding five or six posts of mine, you'll realize that I wasn't being at all serious at the time. Would you like me to put a smilie in the post so you know when I'm kidding?

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• Your post before that was to remind Fugu that his transference was showing.
• Your post before that was to remind Fugu that he doesn't know what humor is, even if it came in the form of a rake.
• Your post before that was to suggest an E-Bay purchase of a hypnosis CD.
• Your post before that was to complain that you "see David's and Eddie's posts going unchecked," another charge at which I take offense. I may be a jackass on days that end with y, but I'm at least a charming one. And I like to believe I'm more intellectually honest and open that Bowles has been for the past year or two. Of course, you told me in AIM that you didn't mean to compare me to Bowles, only to Odouls -- my sense of offense is not relieved.
• Your post before that was the thread Ela and Mac were complaining about.

Now, I realize you were making a Funny with your original post, and I think Mack and Ela's complaints are more than a little ridiculous -- not to mention indicative of their own dirty minds.
Dirty dirty dirty! I'd suggest they need a spanking for being bad girls, but then, I don't want to give you any more ideas of my supposed sexual deviance.

I know you're joking, especially in this thread, but other people may not. Is it to much to ask that you clarify to our less intelligent viewers that, despite initial impressions, I'm not a sexual deviant or abuser of women?

By the way, Mac, Ela, Fugu -- really, jesus, get your minds out of the gutter. Heh. I mean, finding dirtiness in that innocent cartoon really stretches (pun intended) the definition of dirty.
 

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Posted by Lalo (Member # 3772) on :
 
I think we did do a fighting thread.

I won.

I also kicked Toni's ass.

(The key is to suggest they all have small penii. Toni's especially enraged by suggestions that her manhood's less impressive than her husband's.)
 

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Posted by Theca (Member # 1629) on :
 
I don't believe it was the cartoon they were bothered by. It's been shown here before, I think.

Now, congratulations, Anna!

That deserves a hug.

{{Anna}}
 

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Posted by Lalo (Member # 3772) on :
 
Pff. Were they bothered by vulva? I mean, there are so many other words Frisco could have used in its place if he really meant to offend -- not to mention, it's actually a pretty clever reference back to Jenny Gardener's thread complaining how vulva is a less acceptable word than penis.

If it takes that little to get these people's dander up, I can't imagine how they'd survive in the modern world.
 

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Posted by Theca (Member # 1629) on :
 
Jenny's thread was a direct response to THIS thread. Actually.
 

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Posted by Lalo (Member # 3772) on :
 
And wasn't her thread complaining about the ridiculousness of taking offense at the word vulva?

I remain curiously unmoved for poor Fugu, Mac, and Ela's plights.
 

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Posted by mackillian (Member # 586) on :
 
It isn't plight. I was objecting to the use of the word vulva accompanied by the ASCII art. No one has yet to provide ASCII art depicting a penis. I suppose we're allowed to, then. It's like the difference between an R movie and an NC-17 movie. Nudity above the waist=R. Nudity on the backside=R. Nudity in the front, below the waist=NC-17. Bums and breasts=R. Penises and vulvas=NC-17. I might be wrong about how they're categorized.

I do not object to the use of scientific words used in the proper context. I mean, come ON. There's a difference between explaining why someone would have an inverted penis over shouting "PENIS!" in a crowded area. One is considered normal context, the other is rude.

And I wasn't objecting to the pic. That was funny.
 

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Posted by Richard Berg (Member # 133) on :
 

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VULVA VULVA VULVA! PENIS PENIS SCROTUM!

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code:

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while(1) {
  for(1 to 3) {
    for(1 to 12) {
      penis;
    }
    SCRO-TUM;  SCRO-TUM;
  }
  for(1 to 12) {
    penis;
  }
  argh it's a mons!  mons!  mooons!  oh, it's a mons!;
}

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[ December 15, 2003, 11:11 AM: Message edited by: Richard Berg ]
 

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Posted by MaydayDesiax (Member # 5012) on :
 
Befor I start, I know I'll probably offend some people: I'm sorry, I just need to get this out of my mind, and posting is the only way I can see how to do it.

Bernard posted this new hug thread because he was very stressed out about finals and needed a hug badly, but due to time constraints, he did not have time to find the hug thread, which at that time had fallen back a few pages. Unfortunately, it has taken quite a turn for the worse, and is no longer a hug thread, but something else entirely.

Personally, I do not have a problem with someone posting/saying his/her opinion on Hatrack or in the chats. However, I think some of the things said on this hug thread were inappropriate, and it has upset both Bernard and I greatly to see how much something that started out innocently has deteriorated. This discussion should have taken place on a diffrent thread, or in the chats.

Compared to most of you who have posted here, I am relatively new, and I don't post near as often as y'all do. However, I do know this: When a hug thread can no longer function as such, it is very sad indeed.
 

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Posted by Anna (Member # 2582) on :
 
MaydayDesiax, I totally agree with you. I find pathetic the way the HUG thread turned. I know it's very egoistic, but I'm having a rough time too (read page one) and these little fights don't amuse me.
Plus, this is a familial board, isn't it?
 

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Posted by TomDavidson (Member # 124) on :
 
"When a hug thread can no longer function as such, it is very sad indeed."

Um....Okay.
I'm just going to bite my tongue and nod.
 

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Posted by BYuCnslr (Member # 1857) on :
 
Tom: I like you and I respect you a lot, but if you don't have something constructive, please don't say it.
Satyagraha
 

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Posted by pooka (Member # 5003) on :
 
Anna, are you going to do separate landmark? You could just move your post over to that. I'm sorry for the part I played in the weirdness of this thread. So I hope this doesn't sound like I'm saying you should just move your post. I'm trying to say this thread isn't worthy of your post.

Mack, didn't you read This town ain't big enough....

[ December 15, 2003, 12:37 PM: Message edited by: pooka ]
 

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Posted by TomDavidson (Member # 124) on :
 
Well, okay, my constructive thing to say is this:

It's one thing to need an imaginary hug; I can understand and respect that need, and have created a few threads myself in the past when I've needed sympathy. It's another thing to expect that your need for an imaginary hug -- especially once it's apparently been satisfied by a whole page of parentheses and brackets -- can determine the behavior of other people on this forum who do not share your reference for the parenthesis.

I do not venerate hug threads. Frankly, I find them pointless, and the idea of a hug thread which "does not function as such" is in fact a thought I find cheerful and uplifting.

I respect the fact that other people DO think of hug threads as a form of personal validation, and for this reason generally refrain from criticizing them (or posting in 'em), but do not believe that merely identifying a thread as a "hug thread" somehow entitles the creator to dictate the terms of his thread for perpetuity.

Seriously, Bernard, I'm glad you asked for hugs when you needed them, and I'm glad you got 'em back.
 

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Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
 
(((((Mayday))))) (((((Anna))))) (((((Bernard)))))
I totally agree! If this were a thread I had started, I would be sorely tempted to delete it.

Tom, the beauty of biting one's tongue is that one CANNOT SPEAK while doing so.
 

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Posted by Richard Berg (Member # 133) on :
 
I'll be constructive in Tom's place: in most places and most times, I'd rather have a badger than a hug. Unless the hugger is particularly soft and cuddly. Like a badger.

Edit: great, beaten to the punch. Anna, what fights?

[ December 15, 2003, 12:44 PM: Message edited by: Richard Berg ]
 

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Posted by Anna (Member # 2582) on :
 
I pasted-copied my post on the other hug thread.
I don't blame anyone, I'm just feeling sad, because of all these fights and vulgarity on a thread which should be constructed by love. But Tom is right, I cannot force anyone to stop walking on my feelings or coming in a place to say things that are not appropriated in this place.

[ December 15, 2003, 12:44 PM: Message edited by: Anna ]
 

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Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
 
Richard, out of curiosity, do you also like you hugs to have sharp teeth and nasty breath?
 

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Posted by Ayelar (Member # 183) on :
 
I think people are taking the sanctity of "hug" threads way too seriously. Threads get derailed all the time at Hatrack, and this was at least an interesting, coherent derailment on a thread that had ceased to serve any purpose.

And for the love of PETE, how many of these hug threads to we really need? Can we try to fit five more on the first page?
 

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Posted by Anna (Member # 2582) on :
 
We could have just one hug thread if some people were'nt fighting in the one I chose
 

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Posted by Richard Berg (Member # 133) on :
 
I intentionally draw the line before kisses.

(in case people still have no idea what my last 3 posts have been about)
 

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Posted by katharina (Member # 827) on :
 
Oh, for crying out loud.

The avoid-a-hug sketch is funny. The gratuitous use of biological terms is tacky. The over-sensitivity is ubiquitous.

Edit: Oops. I didn't see the second page. This is in response to Frisco's last post.

Bernard, I'm glad you got a hug. They can be wonderful.

I think the thread derailment is par for Hatrack, and no thread is sacred, except for landmarks.

[ December 15, 2003, 12:59 PM: Message edited by: katharina ]
 

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Posted by Anna (Member # 2582) on :
 
Maybe I'm over-sensitive (and at this time I know I am but I have good reasons for that) but to me the hug threads are like a game with simple rules : if you're here, you need comfort or you want to give some. If you're out of the rules, you should be out of the thread. It's easy, isn't it ?
 

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Posted by katharina (Member # 827) on :
 
Anna, there's the main hug thread for that. The other, extra ones are part of the Hatrack conversation and subject to derailment.
 

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Posted by Jenny Gardener (Member # 903) on :
 
((poor misunderstood words))

((female anatomy))

((silly people))

((people who take themselves so seriously))

((Tom, who managed to escape getting hugged even after entering a hug thread))
 

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Posted by TomDavidson (Member # 124) on :
 
Which parts of the female anatomy are you hugging up there, Jenny?
 

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Posted by Anna (Member # 2582) on :
 

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Anna, there's the main hug thread for that.

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Since the main hug thread was on the second or third page, I though this was the new official hug thread. My mistake.
 

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Posted by Jenny Gardener (Member # 903) on :
 
Oops! Didn't think about how that could be taken out of context!

I meant the whole concept in general, since the poor parts are so unlovely in conversation. Even the mention in scientific terms is enough to offend some people. It's like being the ugliest person in the room. People stop and stare, blush or giggle, and then shun you. So I was trying to send some love to the general idea of vulva and so on.

But I'm weird that way. I always root for the underdog.
 

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Posted by TomDavidson (Member # 124) on :
 
You know, I was going to make a joke about "sending love to the vulva," but realized that it didn't actually need to be made.
 

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Posted by BYuCnslr (Member # 1857) on :
 
Thank you, Tom,
I actually have more respect for when you give your opinion like that than just a "bite my tongue" post, which to me, seems uncooth. I completely respect your opinion, and I see how you can feel the way you do, but for me a :: hugs :: is real, perhaps its because I have a better imagination, or I am better able to put the emotion of a physical hug into a digital one, maybe that's what allows me to keep the same emotional attachments to my friends here, as well as Mayday even though we're physically apart.
Satyagraha
 

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