I am reconsidering this forum's existence

[Mr. Perfect]

[Demon of Undoing]

Mr P knows conservative strategy at the most pointed and effective. If I viewed him/his memes as an enemy, I would watch for nuances. Like Patton said in N Africa," I read your book!".

It's one subforum. I learn things there ,too. I think this is as great place to digitally ruminate on the Apocalypse as I am going to get. I can even post pictures and videos with farts in them. There are no downsides.

[skyhook77sfg]

now now mr pee

it is perfect idiocy to first point blank call a man crazy ...

then give him advice on how he should spend his money and time.

you need to get a better shtick before you take your show to the big tent.

will you be speaking at the libertine or pubic convention or both?

[rednblacklumberjack]

My $.02 are as follows:

This forum has made me more curious, induced more critical thinking, more revision and a strengthening - through affirmation and challenge both - of what I would profess to believe. It has introduced me to countless authors and subjects and eras, and I've only had the time to delve into a handful. If I could, I'd at least send everyone Christmas cards. I'm more a lurker than anything, but what I have learned here is invaluable. I don't know who any of you are - or how you made yourselves, how and why you tick etc - but there is zero equivalent out there. I've lost track of all the quiet crises that's been spurred by something surprising or insightful that I've only read here. It's like there are observations available here that are a coup de grace for the general source material one comes across from being semi-versed in generic periodicals.

I would say this: many of the forums' topics are clever and broad categories. I think these serve as great repositories for the deluge of news that's always available. But they do (IMO) stifle the creation of a new discussion because one worries that it's already been covered or would be better exposed to sharper regulars if you posted it in place X rather than Y.

I'd also like to submit that media is so crappy right now - (I mean, granted we all get by but...) - that even a derivative version of what Tinker created would be welcome.

Colonel Sun also hit the nail on the head: I can't talk to co-workers or peers about the stuff on here. I mean, for me to reference something on here, I have to be a bit wasted and fired up to start in on RAW vs ISI or something.

[Mr. Perfect]

I like this forum. I like the people here. I wouldn't come here if I didn't. I get a lot out of it.

[Tinker]

[skyhook77sfg]

TINKER

your virtual offspring here has some of the fervent ferment that must have permeated the Cafe Central in turn of the century Vienna...

even pedestrian Wikipedia captures some of the atmosphere my sniffer detects here:


Café Central (German: das Café Central) is a coffeehouse in Vienna. It is located in the Innere Stadt district at Herrengasse 14 in the former Bank and Stockmarket Building (Bank- und Börsengebäude), today called the Palais Ferstel after its architect Heinrich von Ferstel.

The café was opened in 1876, and in the late 19th century it became a key meeting place of the Viennese intellectual scene. Key regulars included: Peter Altenberg, Theodor Herzl, Alfred Adler, Egon Friedell, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Anton Kuh, Adolf Loos, Leo Perutz, Alfred Polgar and Leon Trotsky. In January 1913 alone, Josip Broz Tito, Sigmund Freud, Adolf Hitler, Vladimir Lenin, and Leon Trotsky (the latter two being regulars) were patrons of the establishment.

Until 1938 the café was called the "Chess school" (Die Schachhochschule) because of the presence of many chess players. Ernst Mach's Vienna Circle of logical positivists held many meetings here before and after World War I.

A well known story is that when Victor Adler objected to Count Berchtold, foreign minister of Austria-Hungary, that war would provoke revolution in Russia, even if not in the Habsburg monarchy, he replied: "And who will lead this revolution? Perhaps Mr. Bronstein (Leon Trotsky) sitting over there?

youve done us all a great favor with your digital cafe central....

sit back a bit from your mothering urge

and enjoy some of the unusual fare....

as the Vieneese would say...

Leckerbissen...

mit Schlag

[Tinker]

If only I had the money to build a cafe of that nature in the real world. I have the connections to do it, but not the capital. Its really easy to make politicians regulars at your spot, just work with them for political fundraisers.

[crashtech]

You got a good thing going here, Tinker. I'm sure we would all love to figure out a way to get Mr. P out from under your skin, but any attempt to do so would probably compromise some intangible that makes this forum what it is. So I hope you can learn to live with the burr in your saddle.

[Colonel Sun]

[rednblacklumberjack]

[Hoosiernorm]

We could make Mr P the moderator at the Political desk and then invite a bunch of "Democracy Now" types in for a few weeks. I'm just say'n...

[rednblacklumberjack]

[Endovelico]

[YMix]

I did notice it. The question is: who will volunteer?

Insert C:\SoundFX\cricketschirpinginthesilentnight.wav

[Endovelico]

[YMix]

Hmmm, I'm not sure about this. The most likely result will be "The Complete and Unabridged Persian* Wisdom of AzariLoveIran".

*

[AzariLoveIran]

[YMix]

[skyhook77sfg]

delightful dialog

complete with SFX

cue richochets

fade in theme from

good bad ugly

fade to black

[Sparky]

[Ibrahim]

Tinker,

If your problem is with a certain individual, then consider that their entire goal is to perform a repetitive and false act in a deliberate effort to destroy the forum. Don't succumb to this obvious and cretinous approach. At best, ignore (and not with a software function, but with the insight that everything said by that individual is calculated worthless trash). At worst, remove the individual in question. A drunken, pissing, spitting bum thrown out of a restaurant has not had his basic rights and freedoms violated.


My conception of this forum has always been to continue conversations between certain former members of SpengFor who were driven away by that forums moderation policies and content, and I think judged along those lines it has been an outstanding success.


Uche, if you are lurking here please post more often!

[AzariLoveIran]

[skyhook77sfg]

AZARI

bet our paths must have crossed somewhere...

have also spent time, money and youth with glee in charmante wienerin

but now that the odometer registers seven zero or thereabouts

and i have my very own classic maedel/model of Austrian birth

Salzburg is our preferred city for both style(mozartfest) and substance (mozartkugeln)

and have like you been "saessig" in Zuerich (and Berne) long enough to master Schwyzerdeitsch

well enough to startle a gaggle of UBS private bankers talking privately in public in NY


have lived in Kitzbuehl Berlin Muenchen Naples and the Dalmatian islands also

[Tertulian]