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Cottonsworth
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Jun 18, 2009, 12:16 PM
 
I haven't been on here for a few months and there seems to be a lot less people on this forum now. Did something happen? Where did everyone go?
     
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Jun 18, 2009, 12:19 PM
 
It's Summer. All the sensible folks are sunning themselves on the beach in St Tropez.
Been inclined to wander... off the beaten track.
That's where there's thunder... and the wind shouts back.
     
Laminar
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Jun 18, 2009, 01:19 PM
 
The lounge was only really staying afloat on the irony of the deluge of threads complaining about how colloquy in the lounge was dying.

Also, I barely post in here anymore.
     
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Jun 18, 2009, 01:25 PM
 
I suspect that many members sold their internets for crack. For shame.
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Laminar
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Jun 18, 2009, 01:37 PM
 
Originally Posted by Dakar V View Post
The lounge was only really staying afloat on the irony of the deluge of threads complaining about how colloquy in the lounge was dying.

Also, I barely post in here anymore.
     
Dakar V
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Jun 18, 2009, 01:39 PM
 
Get a 360, cheap-ass.
     
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Jun 18, 2009, 01:41 PM
 
See- then you wonder why people stop coming here.
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Jun 18, 2009, 01:46 PM
 
Reported.
     
Cottonsworth  (op)
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Jun 18, 2009, 01:49 PM
 
I'm not only talking about the lounge but the notebook area and marketplace area. There use to be a lot more activity.
     
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Jun 18, 2009, 01:50 PM
 
Perhaps adding some lens flare would help. Maybe a little more red as well.
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Jun 18, 2009, 01:51 PM
 
Well, there's a peak in popularity with the iPhone - that forum is swarmed.
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Jun 18, 2009, 01:54 PM
 
Originally Posted by Cottonsworth View Post
I'm not only talking about the lounge but the notebook area and marketplace area. There use to be a lot more activity.
Gentlemen, we've been pwned.
     
Laminar
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Jun 18, 2009, 02:08 PM
 
Originally Posted by Dakar V View Post
Get a 360, cheap-ass.
I tried to register for one at Target on Monday, but I was thwarted. I did manage to sneak a package of cookies and a pair of ridiculous women's sunglasses onto our registry though.
     
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Jun 18, 2009, 02:16 PM
 
Originally Posted by Cottonsworth View Post
There use to be a lot more activity.
Yeah, well, MACs are a dead end. No future, and everyone just realised it. I think it must be that Windows 7 thingy.
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My stupid iPhone game: Nesen Probe, it's rather old, annoying and pointless, but it's free.
Was free. Now it's gone. Never to be seen again.
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keep up with the ever updating iOS. RIP Nesen Probe.
     
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Jun 18, 2009, 03:29 PM
 
Originally Posted by Laminar View Post
I tried to register for one at Target on Monday, but I was thwarted. I did manage to sneak a package of cookies and a pair of ridiculous women's sunglasses onto our registry though.
I expect you to update the "Pics of yourself" thread soon then.
     
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Jun 18, 2009, 03:46 PM
 
I blame gorickey® for all.
     
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Jun 18, 2009, 04:13 PM
 
I blame the lack of money in this place.
     
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Jun 18, 2009, 05:08 PM
 
I blame Lieutenant Sulu.

     
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Jun 18, 2009, 05:35 PM
 
The internet is soooo 2006.
     
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Jun 18, 2009, 09:28 PM
 
I hate to say I told you so…

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Erik: do Australians know about Sulu?
     
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Jun 18, 2009, 09:32 PM
 
Originally Posted by besson3c View Post
Erik: do Australians know about Sulu?

[ fb ] [ flickr ] [] [scl] [ last ] [ plaxo ]
     
Laminar
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Jun 19, 2009, 12:40 AM
 
Oh, is this the new besson forced meme?
     
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Jun 19, 2009, 12:51 AM
 
There used to be six of me.
     
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Jun 19, 2009, 12:56 AM
 
I only count 5 in that list
     
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Jun 19, 2009, 12:59 AM
 
Tomayto-tomahto.
     
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Jun 19, 2009, 01:14 AM
 
WTB: a MikeM32 prostitution thread...or maybe a thread about Ayn Rand cruising around in a neon
     
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Jun 19, 2009, 01:44 AM
 
Originally Posted by Laminar View Post
Oh, is this the new besson forced meme?
How many posts are needed before something becomes a meme?
     
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Originally Posted by ringo View Post
WTB: a MikeM32 prostitution thread...
Those were the days.
     
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Originally Posted by besson3c View Post
How many posts are needed before something becomes a meme?
ONE!

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Originally Posted by Laminar View Post
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Reason number 1.
     
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Jun 19, 2009, 06:03 AM
 
Originally Posted by Dakar V View Post
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Reason number 2.
     
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Jun 19, 2009, 07:10 AM
 
^ Let me guess, that makes either me or sek Reason number 3?

Originally Posted by Doofy View Post
It's Summer. All the sensible folks are sunning themselves on the beach in St Tropez.
Are you suggesting that anyone who willingly goes to St. Tropez in summer is sane or sensible?

You must be mad. Do you consider people who spend their holiday driving a campervan from Gibraltar to Kirkenes ‘sensible’, too?
     
Doofy
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Jun 19, 2009, 07:41 AM
 
Originally Posted by Oisín View Post
Are you suggesting that anyone who willingly goes to St. Tropez in summer is sane or sensible?

You must be mad.
...Or straight.
Been inclined to wander... off the beaten track.
That's where there's thunder... and the wind shouts back.
     
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Jun 19, 2009, 09:35 AM
 
Originally Posted by RhymesWithOrange View Post
Reason number 1.
Originally Posted by RhymesWithOrange View Post
Reason number 2.
Originally Posted by Oisín View Post
^ Let me guess, that makes either me or sek Reason number 3?
Frankly, I'd be insulted that I'm Number 2 behind Laminar (Obviously this guy has no sense of history, or present, really, since I barely post in the Lounge), though with a join date of Dec 2008 and this kind of outspoken behavior, its more likely he's either a former member or an fool. Probably both.
     
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Jun 19, 2009, 09:38 AM
 
I just want to tell you both good luck. We're all counting on you.
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Laminar
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Jun 19, 2009, 09:44 AM
 
Originally Posted by Dakar V View Post
its more likely he's either a former member or an fool.
Maybe he should become an hero.
     
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Jun 19, 2009, 09:45 AM
 
You're the reason no one posts here.
     
Laminar
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Jun 19, 2009, 11:23 AM
 
I prefer the South West of France to the South. And although the picture may be appealing to some,



I have first hand experience of the traffic jams and road rage that happens during the summer months around St. Tropez. It isn't fun.
     
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Jun 19, 2009, 01:43 PM
 
Originally Posted by Dakar V View Post
Also, I barely post in here anymore.
Your reasons, pray.

Surely not the sordid but picayune turtle-Dakar beef.
     
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Jun 19, 2009, 01:45 PM
 
No, my posting slowed well before that. The slowdown occurred during the Fourth account, if you really care to know.
     
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Originally Posted by mattyb View Post
Muscular legs make me happy.

Remember the femme fatale from that old Bond movie who crushed men to death between her gloriously muscular legs?
     
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Jun 19, 2009, 01:49 PM
 
Xenia Onatopp - Famke Janssen

Edit: Spellcheck did not enjoy this post at all.
     
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Originally Posted by mattyb View Post
I prefer the South West of France to the South. And although the picture may be appealing to some,



I have first hand experience of the traffic jams and road rage that happens during the summer months around St. Tropez. It isn't fun.
The string bikini craze of the late '70s and early '80s was responsible for improving the traffic along the beach in Biloxi, Mississippi. Not speeding it up, to be sure! But since "Bobbie's Bikinis" used bikini models as sales people, (good ones, at that) they garnered a LOT of attention, which was enhanced by drivers slowing WAY down to get a better, longer look. Of course the "good, upstanding citizens" of the area were shocked, shocked I say, about all that skin being shown commercially, so Bobbie had to give up selling on the beach. And traffic sped up. And accidents increased a lot.

Moral: slower traffic - and bikini models - are not in and of themselves bad things.

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I have first hand experience of the traffic jams and road rage that happens during the summer months around St. Tropez. It isn't fun.
This, as well as a general dislike for places that try to cram more than 15 tourists into each square metre, is exactly why I don’t believe anyone sane would subject themselves to St. Tropez in summer.
     
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Jun 19, 2009, 11:07 PM
 
Originally Posted by ringo View Post
WTB: a MikeM32 prostitution thread...or maybe a thread about Ayn Rand cruising around in a neon
OMG I completely forgot about that.

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Jun 20, 2009, 12:14 AM
 
^
Hahaha. MikeM32 was a special dude. We really don't have folks like that around these parts anymore.
     
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^ and that's why there are less people around now.
     
 
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