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pink -> a changed place? (Aug. 17 2014 22:18:33)

Interesting to see how the foro has changed over the last couple of months since the ''POLL'' or ''CULL'', as I prefer to call it.
Whilst the forum has retained some great content ,it , in my opinion has also lost a great deal. Everything seems to be clad in a polite ball and chain and is lacking the emotion which drew me to it in the first place.
There are a lot of great contributors here , but an awful lot of the regular posters have stopped. I don't know if this is coincidental or if the magic stopped ,for those whose absence is so glaring to me ,since the ''POLL''
Don't know what you all think? I reckon there is room here for everyone.....hope the missing return.....I for one miss them, whatever their angle.




machopicasso -> RE: a changed place? (Aug. 18 2014 9:08:32)

Some people may just be taking a break. Give it some time.

Meanwhile, the best way to make the foro a better place is to 1) engage other posters constructively; and 2) post substantive questions and comments which advance discussion about the art form that brought us here in the first place.




Ruphus -> RE: a changed place? (Aug. 18 2014 10:24:40)

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ORIGINAL: machopicasso

Some people may just be taking a break. Give it some time.

Meanwhile, the best way to make the foro a better place is to 1) engage other posters constructively; and 2) post substantive questions and comments which advance discussion about the art form that brought us here in the first place.


beep ... beep ... beep ...
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From "They Live":

Graffiti:
"They live, we sleep"

Subliminal Messages on Billboards and Magazines:
"OBEY“, "MARRY AND REPRODUCE“, "NO INDEPENDENT THOUGHT", "CONSUME“, "CONFORM", "SUBMIT", "STAY ASLEEP", "BUY", "WATCH TV", "NO IMAGINATION", "DO NOT QUESTION AUTHORITY"

Anonymous RX [8D]




tele -> RE: a changed place? (Aug. 18 2014 14:23:00)

I think in the summer people have more things to do than sit in front of computer[;)]




Ricardo -> RE: a changed place? (Aug. 18 2014 15:51:27)

quote:

ORIGINAL: Ruphus

quote:

ORIGINAL: machopicasso

Some people may just be taking a break. Give it some time.

Meanwhile, the best way to make the foro a better place is to 1) engage other posters constructively; and 2) post substantive questions and comments which advance discussion about the art form that brought us here in the first place.


beep ... beep ... beep ...
-

From "They Live":

Graffiti:
"They live, we sleep"

Subliminal Messages on Billboards and Magazines:
"OBEY“, "MARRY AND REPRODUCE“, "NO INDEPENDENT THOUGHT", "CONSUME“, "CONFORM", "SUBMIT", "STAY ASLEEP", "BUY", "WATCH TV", "NO IMAGINATION", "DO NOT QUESTION AUTHORITY"

Anonymous RX [8D]


"Put the glasses ON!!!" [:D]




akatune -> RE: a changed place? (Aug. 18 2014 16:08:23)

It gets slow every summer.




Grisha -> RE: a changed place? (Aug. 18 2014 16:19:19)

I don't remember it being slow with Florian around. What happened to that guy?




gerundino63 -> RE: a changed place? (Aug. 18 2014 16:40:29)

I like it this way......nice and polite......no unneccesary off topic posts, political essays, opinions, opinions, and more opinions.....
Ahhh.....just like an holliday.
[:)]




Escribano -> RE: a changed place? (Aug. 18 2014 17:05:47)

quote:

I don't remember it being slow with Florian around. What happened to that guy?


He got married [;)]




Miguel de Maria -> RE: a changed place? (Aug. 18 2014 17:44:32)

36 posts today.

But I do agree, without farewell posts, and thank you posts, and pro-feminism posts, and anti-feminism posts, and poll posts, and "this place has changed posts", the pickings would be slim indeed.




pink -> RE: a changed place? (Aug. 18 2014 20:34:25)

Erik van Goch
Guitarbuddha
Arash
Florian....as already mentioned
Bursche
Doitsujin
Mark Indigo
Elie
Flamencito
BritGuy
FredGuitarrOle

Just a few of the absent.




aeolus -> RE: a changed place? (Aug. 18 2014 20:52:50)

I was thinking about Arash but checking he was active in May so it hasn't been that long. Also the buddha active mid July. Britguy posted not too long ago. Don't know about van Goch.




estebanana -> RE: a changed place? (Aug. 19 2014 3:32:13)

People talk about civility and the Foro is reminds of a scene from the Oliver Stone the movie "Platoon".

It's the scene where some newbie soldier starts flossing on about about wanting kill some Viet cong. Then Willem Dafoe who plays the seasoned 'Elias' our anti hero, comes over and says: "You want to know about killing?"

or this scene:





estebanana -> RE: a changed place? (Aug. 19 2014 3:36:24)

Then there's this, it reminds me of a Woody Allen movie:





machopicasso -> RE: a changed place? (Aug. 19 2014 6:41:42)

quote:


beep ... beep ... beep ...
-

From "They Live":

Graffiti:
"They live, we sleep"

Subliminal Messages on Billboards and Magazines:
"OBEY“, "MARRY AND REPRODUCE“, "NO INDEPENDENT THOUGHT", "CONSUME“, "CONFORM", "SUBMIT", "STAY ASLEEP", "BUY", "WATCH TV", "NO IMAGINATION", "DO NOT QUESTION AUTHORITY"

Anonymous RX


???

Sorry. I don't get it.




Ruphus -> RE: a changed place? (Aug. 19 2014 12:10:00)

Never mind.

Last night I had quite the opposite of a sterile tranquilizer snore.

After over 2,5 years of terror against my dogs ( who have been turned from robust and super friendly into completely freaking psychos who now panik from everyone except me [:@] [:@][:@] ) I had such a, though very humble yet satisfactory, revanche last night.

Standing in the dark and watering the trees in my yard, the common kind of molesters drove by, halting a fully taken car right before my lot. Me stopped the hose then, so that the trash may not hear me, while me was hardly visible behind the tree.

Then the cars doors opened and one young guy with a walking gesture of dauntlessness before his chaps came towards me in that sadist anticipation of the freaking dogs ( who were about to start the hysteric alarm already). When there were maybe 2 meters of distance left I stepped sideways from behind the tree and opened the hose through the grating.
Hit him full power into the face and soaked him from head to toes, and when he turned around running the beam followed him on his back straight into the car.


That seemed like passionate communication, and it was such a blast to witness that I am still enjoying the image in mind. How this guy morphed from hulk into a wet pinscher was so funny to watch! [:D]

Let´s live in style. ;O)
- And keep hose in store for berserks.

Ruphus




estebanana -> RE: a changed place? (Aug. 19 2014 12:30:16)

The talk about civility is baffling to me. Honestly.

What is civility really? Is it being polite? Or is it something else?

Politeness is fine with me, I like polite, but polite does not always mean civil. What about all the rudeness and aggression hidden in politeness? It's not civil. There's a polite way to bait someone and ther epolite way to insult someone, neither are civil. It's just aggression clothed in a veneer that looks and talks pretty.

Me, I'd rather have have aggression up front so we can get on with being truly civil. I'll give an example of civil. I used fight with Estela a lot and sometimes she would fight back with me and others on the old flamenco list. It was not polite. Well there was one particular person who too rudeness to a new level, but he is not around any longer. Now when I see Estela posting some thing about Paco de Lucia stamp I think wow that is really great news. and I congratulate her on having done something good in flamenco.

I think that is civil, knowing you had a beef with someone and when they do a good flamenco thing you give them an ole' - Do you have to be shallow a polite, no, but us it civil to recognize that person and give them their due? Yes.

If someone walked up to me in a bar and I was talking to my friend about say Star Trek or Scuba gear and some guy gets in my face and says Capt. Picard was a Nazi and he the reason China invaded Tibet. I would say well that's not polite, not polite at all. And would ask them to please leave me and my friend alone. If they did it again the next night, it would become tiresome, and if it happened one more time on the third night you might be frustrated enough to call them a name and say get the blankety blank out of my face you blankety blank.

That is not polite, but it is civil.

People get polite and civil confused; If someone is in your face and they keep bugging you, you can ask them in a polite way to cease bothering you. If they continue to bother you, it's civil to protect your space and your right to your unobstructed conversations with your chosen companions. You may need to be rude and tell them in no uncertain terms to get our of your face. If they don't get out of your face you can tell the bartender, but if they continue and the bartender shrugs his shoulders and does you go to another bar.

Some bars are polite and some are civilized.

In polite bars people sip drinks and make crooked real estate deals or plan a telemarketing scam in which they rip off your grandmas life savings. Because sipping drinks polite.

In bars with civility, a fight breaks out near the pool table, some F words are exchanged, the bartender kicks a few guys out for the night and that is that. The next night the same characters go to the bar and tell the bartender: See that old bastard over there who I was fighting with last night? Yeah buy that bloke a beer on me.

Cheers ya old fighting bastard, that is civil.

Polite? Check it at the door and be a human being.




gj Michelob -> RE: a changed place? (Aug. 19 2014 14:32:52)

As the ancient wisdom would simply suggest:

"Diliges proximum tuum sicut te ipsum"




gerundino63 -> RE: a changed place? (Aug. 19 2014 15:53:48)

quote:


"Diliges proximum tuum sicut te ipsum"


Amen![:D]




keith -> RE: a changed place? (Aug. 19 2014 18:07:03)

ditto horretan




aloysius -> RE: a changed place? (Aug. 20 2014 12:07:58)

Florian's doing well from what I've heard - I haven't caught up for a while as he lives the other side of town. Adelaide stretches a long way north and south sandwiched by hills and ocean, so if you live at one end the other is a big drive. As stated he got married, and they have bought some land together and are getting a house built. He's got a day job at the airport but still plays guitar.




Guest -> RE: a changed place? (Aug. 20 2014 13:51:47)

There was an ultrasound posted on Facebook
So looks like either another florian or Chelsea on its way
We'll be sharing the same zip/postcode once his house is done

quote:

"Diliges proximum tuum sicut te ipsum"

Nae




Miguel de Maria -> RE: a changed place? (Aug. 20 2014 15:59:19)

It's all Simon's fault that Florian got a day job and married!




tele -> RE: a changed place? (Aug. 20 2014 16:30:09)

quote:

ORIGINAL: gj Michelob

As the ancient wisdom would simply suggest:

"Diliges proximum tuum sicut te ipsum"


Diligently proximate to sickest opossum?[8D]




Arash -> RE: a changed place? (Aug. 23 2014 18:29:27)

Hey guys,,,,,hope you are all doin fine.

Well the main reason why I was not so active online is this german beauty [;)]




Pgh_flamenco -> RE: a changed place? (Aug. 23 2014 20:17:32)

quote:

Hey guys,,,,,hope you are all doin fine.

Well the main reason why I was not so active online is this german beauty


Ok Arash, you are forgiven. Now ask Simon how to take a proper selfie.




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pink -> RE: a changed place? (Aug. 23 2014 22:07:40)

quote:

ORIGINAL: Arash

Hey guys,,,,,hope you are all doin fine.

Well the main reason why I was not so active online is this german beauty [;)]






Pretty good reason!! You are obviously well.....life can be sweet!!
[;)]

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Escribano -> RE: a changed place? (Aug. 24 2014 9:21:47)

That makes sense [8|] I don't do selfies but there is nothing wrong with these, a very handsome couple.




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