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Originally Posted by dillerX View Post
Did someone say Aria?
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This thread is regaining some glory.

To add to its glory, I submit The Bikerfox Movie
( Last edited by boots; Jan 11, 2008 at 09:20 AM. )

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^ you are not the only one.
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Originally Posted by boots View Post
This thread is regaining some glory.

To add to its glory, I submit The Bikerfox Movie
That vid takes the L out of Glory.
( Last edited by chris v; Jan 11, 2008 at 01:21 PM. Reason: stupid typo, noted REPEATEDLY below, by my harshest critics.)

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Originally Posted by boots View Post
This thread is regaining some glory.

To add to its glory, I submit The Bikerfox Movie
I felt the need to take a shower in holy water after watching that.
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Jan 11, 2008, 12:42 PM
 
I would melt.
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Jan 11, 2008, 12:46 PM
 
Originally Posted by chris v View Post
That vid tales the L out of Glory.
Do you know how long it took me to figure out that that's a typo?

I kept thinking, "Well, here's the story of an L. It's a sad tale, and it's a funny one, too..." in the voice of the Big Lebowski voice-over narrator.
     
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Jan 11, 2008, 12:48 PM
 
well obviously it takes the L out of "glory" and puts it in "take". L's have to go somewhere!
     
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Originally Posted by andi*pandi View Post
well obviously it takes the L out of "glory" and puts it in "take". L's have to go somewhere!
Ok, but where did the 'k' go, hotshot?
     
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Jan 11, 2008, 01:01 PM
 
Originally Posted by boots View Post
This thread is regaining some glory.

To add to its glory, I submit The Bikerfox Movie
Wow. Almost makes me miss living in Tulsa.
     
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Jan 11, 2008, 01:19 PM
 
Originally Posted by analogika View Post
Do you know how long it took me to figure out that that's a typo?

I kept thinking, "Well, here's the story of an L. It's a sad tale, and it's a funny one, too..." in the voice of the Big Lebowski voice-over narrator.
It's okay, the dude abides.

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Jan 11, 2008, 02:48 PM
 
Originally Posted by Dakar the Fourth View Post
Ok, but where did the 'k' go, hotshot?
I don'k know.
     
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...
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...now where did the 't' go?!
     
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Jan 11, 2008, 02:57 PM
 
that's creepy. how'd you guys do that?
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I am so confused. It's almost like we are back on track. :tear:
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Oh, hay, we've gone all retro-Lebowski with our sigs!

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Jan 11, 2008, 03:02 PM
 
How the hell do you people keep all that stuff around? I can't even find **** I put together yesterday.
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Jan 11, 2008, 07:28 PM
 
<snip>Inappropriate Image (the picture was fine but the text that's part of it wasn't)<snip>

added by dan-
*NSFW CRUDE LANGUAGE* link to dillz's lebowski sig *NSFW CRUDE LANGUAGE*

and, i'm in on this.
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Jan 12, 2008, 02:57 AM
 
So I guess reposting the Tooki/crack picture would be bad?

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Jan 12, 2008, 06:39 AM
 
Wow - even language that's starredout is now worth modding out!

When did the Puritan takeover happen?

And how did the board survive the MONTHS when everybody had a Lebowski sig?

And will I get reported by some anal ****wit for saying ****, you ****ing ****s?

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Jan 12, 2008, 08:22 AM
 
Originally Posted by analogika View Post
And how did the board survive the MONTHS when everybody had a Lebowski sig?
If I'd seen the text in that sig picture before, I'd have done something about it before. I don't recall ever seeing a post by dillerX before yesterday, so the fact that his sig had inappropriate language in the picture was not something I even had an opportunity to notice.

We're trying to balance between adults acting like adults and keeping out of trouble with the parents of the (numerous) underage members of our forums. And I think one reason The Big Lebowski was rated R was the kind of language that was quoted in the picture. I think the term "explicit" applies here?

How is it that crude words and explicit language are "fun" and their lack isn't? Isn't there anything else to talk about?

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Originally Posted by ghporter View Post
If I'd seen the text in that sig picture before, I'd have done something about it before. I don't recall ever seeing a post by dillerX before yesterday
Odd, considering he's been around longer than YOU have.

But he's one of the people I mentioned above, who just stopped posting here a few years ago.
     
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Originally Posted by ghporter View Post
How is it that crude words and explicit language are "fun" and their lack isn't? Isn't there anything else to talk about?
It's Lebowski, dude.

Sheesh.



Edit: I'm also not sure how on earth you'd consider a series of asterisks a "crude word" or "explicit language". I mean, that would completely invalidate this forum's censorship approach, right? Oh ****.
     
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Jan 12, 2008, 09:10 AM
 
The fact that one word was asterisked out did not in any way change the "adult" nature of the wording. In this case, the entire sentence was unacceptably explicit.

I'm not knocking Lebowski at all, by the way. Just the use of that sort of quote in a signature-or a post for that matter.

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Jan 12, 2008, 10:18 AM
 
I request locking of the Hot Babes thread, and deletion of Doofy's sig and that one with the sexy tummies, as well as a temporary warning ban for the both of them, and an infraction for everyone who posted in the Babes thread.

I thank you for your understanding.
     
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Jan 12, 2008, 10:33 AM
 
The thread now reads like the Cliff Notes for the last 7 years of the Lounge. It has everything, including the splitting of hairs with mods. Only last time it was about picture size.

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Jan 12, 2008, 11:00 AM
 
Originally Posted by Dakar the Fourth View Post
So... how long did it take for you to come up with that laundry list?
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Originally Posted by boots View Post
The thread now reads like the Cliff Notes for the last 7 years of the Lounge. It has everything, including the splitting of hairs with mods. Only last time it was about picture size.
I got Tookinated over 10 pixels, one time.

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Originally Posted by analogika View Post
I request locking of the Hot Babes thread, and deletion of Doofy's sig and that one with the sexy tummies, as well as a temporary warning ban for the both of them, and an infraction for everyone who posted in the Babes thread.

I thank you for your understanding.
That's silly. You're doing what the "anti-porn" crusaders do-equating (typically feminine) nudity with sex. Not the same thing at all. It's simply not appropriate for the kind of language in that picture to be in our forums. That's a completely different thing from showing a little skin.

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Jan 12, 2008, 01:03 PM
 
And starring out a word with asterisks is "completely different" from letting it stand - as per the apparent guidelines of this forum.

Unless you somehow get it into that head of yours that it isn't simply because some morality freak decides he needs to complain about it.


And of course, my righteous indignation over the Hot Babes Picturefest has *nothing* to do with pornography. It's just terribly denigrating to women. Or something, I don't care. I'll complain anyway, just because I know it'll have to result in some infractions or CONSEQUENCES. Yes. Consequences. Mmmmm...
     
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Jan 12, 2008, 01:24 PM
 
This is silly. ghporter's a good guy and beating up on him will not bring back the lounge fun.

As I recall, what was fun about the lounge was the zany energy and creativity of it. Not high holy stands about freedom of speech on the one hand or community standards on the other hand. High, positive energy -- not this finger-pointing.

Hot babes picturefest isn't offensive to me because of the images (although their unrelenting one-after-the-other hotness underscores for me just how constructed most of the pictures are and how far away that world is from most of us, if not whether that world really exists at all). No, what sucks about that thread is the constant "dude, I would not hit that" or "dude, her ass is too small/large/brown/old" worldplay that thinks it's witty but is just really trite, tired and offensive in its core banality.

It's boring. Picturefest is strange because if you want porn, it's out there, so why bother in here?

I could go on. Lounge threads really become interesting when people bring something to the table. Same with Pol/War threads. Bring something interesting.

People ought to be banned not for language, but for being unrelentingly boring and trite.
     
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Jan 12, 2008, 01:26 PM
 
And now, back to our former glory.
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Originally Posted by Timo View Post
This is silly. ghporter's a good guy and beating up on him will not bring back the lounge fun.

As I recall, what was fun about the lounge was the zany energy and creativity of it. Not high holy stands about freedom of speech on the one hand or community standards on the other hand. High, positive energy -- not this finger-pointing.
My apologies.

The Lebowski phase was about just that, though.

Censoring that image above was just *stupid*, in the light of that.

And for the record - I really don't care for or about the Picturefest, either way.
     
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Jan 12, 2008, 02:01 PM
 
^^^ The smack hath been laid down.

What I find interesting is that in American culture, at least, female sex (or the titillation thereof) is fine. When it's male, it is obscene. Women making out with each other is hot, but guys kissing each other is gross. This includes language too. We have socially acceptable (almost) words for female anatomy, but male anatomy is either obscene or clinical (or both, to some).

Not to play the feminist card, but I suspect it has to do with the social power structure. A structure that has only just begun to change in the last 100 or so years.

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Originally Posted by boots View Post
^^^ The smack hath been laid down.

What I find interesting is that in American culture, at least, female sex (or the titillation thereof) is fine. When it's male, it is obscene. Women making out with each other is hot, but guys kissing each other is gross. This includes language too. We have socially acceptable (almost) words for female anatomy, but male anatomy is either obscene or clinical (or both, to some).

Not to play the feminist card, but I suspect it has to do with the social power structure. A structure that has only just begun to change in the last 100 or so years.
A lot of men are hypocrites; they find women intriguing and seeing two women together very attractive, but many men feel threatened by even the suggestion of two men being together. Why, I don't know. I know myself pretty well, and I don't see a problem with other males doing whatever. I may not want to watch, but I don't see a problem with anyone expressing affection publicly (within limits-full blown making out on the street kind of bothers me, no matter who's doing it). And of course the power structure our society grew out of has everything to do with it. I can't think of a single factor in history that isn't at least somewhat influenced by who decides who can have sex with whom. Really, it all boils down to that.

I should also note that plenty of people have complained about the few male pictures posted in the "Hot Babes" thread. Isn't Orlando Bloom recognized as being very attractive? Why should people complain? My thought is that maybe they just don't want to consider the flip side of their fascination with female glamor (or lesser) pictures. You know, equal time and all that...

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Jan 12, 2008, 02:17 PM
 
I reported the image because it was inappropriate. It's one thing to have a couple words asterisked-out, but quite another when the entire sentence is inappropriate and vulgar, despite four asterisks to hide a profanity. It is clear and obvious when an entire sentence is out of line, whether it's filled up with asterisks or not. The sentence, despite a missing word, is similar to seeing a hardcore porn picture of it with the genitals covered by a black circle — it doesn't make it appropriate for this community.

That's my take and I am not speaking for anyone else.
     
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Jan 12, 2008, 02:47 PM
 
But nudity, with the areola covered by a tiny black piece of cloth, is apparently appropriate.

Sorry for being a bit of an ass, but your post strikes me as entirely hypocritical.

I'll just drop it here, though, even though you're not a Lounge mod.
     
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Call me whatever names you like, but I find nothing hypocritical about differentiating between a vulgar sentence and a bathing suit.
     
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Jan 12, 2008, 03:07 PM
 
Personally, i find a lot of the pictures in the Babefest thread at least as inappropriate as the content of that sig. I like them, mind you, but I find them just as inappropriate. I find it interesting that you get legalistic about what constitutes an appropriate swimsuit (i.e you will follow the letter of the posting rules) but you get offended when someone doesn't break the letter (spirit, sure, but not the letter) of the verbal posting rules.

Justice Potter Stewart nailed it when, in an obscenity case in Ohio, he said
I shall not today attempt further to define the kinds of material I understand to be embraced within that shorthand description; and perhaps I could never succeed in intelligibly doing so. But I know it when I see it, and the motion picture involved in this case is not that.

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Jan 12, 2008, 03:26 PM
 
Let's not split hairs here about the appropriateness of the image or the corrective action taken...

Our opinions of what are appropriate or inappropriate are subjective, a MacNN mod made a decision based on his subjective opinion(s), which he is entitled to do as a representative on a commercial forum where freedom of speech is not guaranteed.

Are you arguing for the image out of principal or because it is really important that it remain visible?



That being said, my subjective opinion is that the babe forum objectifies woman in an often offensive way.
     
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Jan 12, 2008, 03:29 PM
 
I'm not actually arguing for or against the images. I'm not even dissing on ColdWarrior. (At least that's not the intent.) I just find the different reactions interesting.

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Originally Posted by ghporter View Post
A lot of men are hypocrites; they find women intriguing and seeing two women together very attractive, but many men feel threatened by even the suggestion of two men being together.
I don't think being straight is hypocritical. Personally, there are some people that I really don't want to think about doing the nasty, and I don't feel like a hypocrite for thinking that. I take that view with all unattractive people equally.
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Very few people actually feel hypocritical when they are being hypocrites.
     
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They might if they thought about it. Can you explain how standards are being applied inconsistently there?
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(do not want!)

Anyway.
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Jan 12, 2008, 04:50 PM
 
Hmm. So it sounds like the problem isn't profanity, or nudity, but simply the existence of children participating in this forum. Can't we just ban them?

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Originally Posted by ghporter View Post
That's silly. You're doing what the "anti-porn" crusaders do-equating (typically feminine) nudity with sex. Not the same thing at all. It's simply not appropriate for the kind of language in that picture to be in our forums. That's a completely different thing from showing a little skin.
I call bullshit.
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Originally Posted by d4nth3m4n View Post
<snip>Inappropriate Image (the picture was fine but the text that's part of it wasn't)<snip>

added by dan-
*NSFW CRUDE LANGUAGE* link to dillz's lebowski sig *NSFW CRUDE LANGUAGE*

and, i'm in on this.
Oh, BTW. Thank you.
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Originally Posted by ghporter View Post
That's silly. You're doing what the "anti-porn" crusaders do-equating (typically feminine) nudity with sex. Not the same thing at all. It's simply not appropriate for the kind of language in that picture to be in our forums. That's a completely different thing from showing a little skin.
I have to completely and utterly disagree with that. By far the majority of the pictures in the babe thread are not about “showing a little skin”. They’re purposely sexualised images of naked or semi-naked women in overtly pornographic poses.

If the fact that the word in Diller’s signature image that actually went against forum policy was asterisked out was not enough to prevent the sentence as a whole from being inappropriate, then the fact that genitals and nipples are carefully concealed in the babe thread images is certainly not enough from making the images themselves and what they insinuate—no, scratch that: what they scream to high heavens—any less inappropriate.

Personally, I don’t think either of them are inappropriate; but if the line is that ‘coarse language’ is inappropriate for these forums, then I can’t see any justification whatsoever for claiming that pictures that are intentionally pornographic in what they insinuate and evoke are not.
     
 
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