The New And Improved Fashion Board

[Shape Shifter]

Originally posted by dtb
So why are you saying? Do you think people will stop making inside jokes now? Hasn't that been the guiding principle of this place since day one? On Yahoo?

Translation: I have old skool cred, Newber.

[ltl/fb]

Originally posted by robustpuppy
No, it's obnoxious when it's me, too. But then, I am willing to admit when I am wrong.

ETA: sanctimonious, I know.

The ROTFLMAO was obnoxious. FWIW.

Thinking back, I don't know that I was on Yahoo at all. I am Such. A. Newber.

[dtb]

Originally posted by robustpuppy
No, it's obnoxious when it's me, too. But then, I am willing to admit when I am wrong.

ETA: sanctimonious, I know.

Just now you're admitting it? That is big of you.

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
My older cousin was the closest thing I had to a brother. He died yesterday from lung cancer. He had been smoking for 30 years probably. My dad quit smoking about 20 years ago, after smoking for about that long. 5 years ago he caught pneumonia and intended up with COPD. He has to take 2 1/2 hour steroid breathing treatments a day.

When I drop my daughter at her dorm there are dozens of supposedly smart kids out front (no smoking dorm) smoking. How the fuck can someone put a cigarette in their mouth anymore?

Sorry, Hank. That's a shit sandwich. I hope he went fast and as painlessly as one can under those circumstances.

BUT, and this is a big but... I know many folks alive today who've smoked like chmineys for years. It's genetic roullette.

On one side of my family there's a liver disorder that sinks you young.* I decided a long time ago life wihtout drinks ain't worth living. I'm betting I don't have that gene.

*And alcoholism. But shit... whose family doesn't have that?

[dtb]

Originally posted by ltl/fb
I don't think it has. Maybe it has and I'm not aware of some of it, because people were more subtle about it and it was NYC-centered. I think there are a lot of jokes based on shit that happened on the board in the past, mixed in with some stuff about things that happened off the board that isn't described. I think the first is very different from the second, and the second annoys me when done in excess (like, the only posts contributed or just post after post of it). Yes, I am aware I am being a huge hypocrite because I do it sometimes too.

I'm pretty sure this has been a common subtext for a long time - something I only learned long after the fact (comments on GA get-togethers, trips etc. long before I'd ever met anyone in person). So perhaps you didn't notice it (I know I didn't). But so what?

Originally posted by ltl/fb
I am not under any illusion that me expressing a dislike of something is going to stop it from happening, particularly on the boards.

That's probably true. But what's the big deal about making inside comments? Cast the first stone, and all that (which, I realize, you admitted).

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally posted by ltl/fb
Do you really not consider total inside jokes obnoxious? Or are you being deliberately obnoxious? I guess I can get behind deliberate obnoxiousness, though I have to say I am not at all a fan of this crap. Which may not bother you at all. I'm just saying. For the record, or whatever.

They can be a bit obnoxious, but some are pretty funny. In Shifty's current predicament, I think they're pretty funny.

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally posted by Shape Shifter
Translation: I have old skool cred, Newber.

Shut up and sing, monkey.

[Shape Shifter]

Originally posted by ltl/fb
I don't think it has. Maybe it has and I'm not aware of some of it, because people were more subtle about it and it was NYC-centered. I think there are a lot of jokes based on shit that happened on the board in the past, mixed in with some stuff about things that happened off the board that isn't described. I think the first is very different from the second, and the second annoys me when done in excess (like, the only posts contributed or just post after post of it). Yes, I am aware I am being a huge hypocrite because I do it sometimes too.

I'm just saying, it's really annoying, and commenting to Shifty that on this board, the inside stuff from off the board has formed a large proportion of his posts of late.

I am not under any illusion that me expressing a dislike of something is going to stop it from happening, particularly on the boards.

I was commenting on something that happened on another board, but I am not inside enough to have read it, so I can't really be making an inside joke because I'm on the outside.

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Hank -

You looked at the girls in your daughter's dorm, right? They still walk around braless, in t shirts and low riding sweat pants?

Do you have a camera phone?

SD

[Paisley]

Originally posted by ltl/fb
Maybe it is the guy crushing on me at work. Wait. Work people aren't supposed to know about this place.

str8?

Speaking of which, are you pursuing this? I believe you should, if for nothing else than anecdotes for the board. Get on this, please.

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally posted by Shape Shifter
I was commenting on something that happened on another board, but I am not inside enough to have read it, so I can't really be making an inside joke because I'm on the outside.

That doesn't make a difference. Half the people laughing at jokes here are laughing for the wrong reasons anyway. The funniest posts are those by people who think they're laughing at an inside joke.

The comedy here is kind of backwards - its all about the disconnects instead of the usual revelatory punchlines that drive most humor.

[Paisley]

I just got off of the phone w/ someone who saw Oliver and said it was wonderful. Has stardom gone to the Gaplet's head yet?

[SlaveNoMore]

Shape Shifter
I was commenting on something that happened on another board, but I am not inside enough to have read it, so I can't really be making an inside joke because I'm on the outside.

Always a bridesmaid, never a banker.

[ltl/fb]

Originally posted by Paisley
Speaking of which, are you pursuing this? I believe you should, if for nothing else than anecdotes for the board. Get on this, please.

Will do. I don't even know what he looks like.

[Shape Shifter]

Originally posted by SlaveNoMore
Always a bridesmaid, never a banker.

Too weird. I was thinking the exact same thing when gazing at your teethmarks on my pillow last night.