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Tim Tempest
17:25 / 04.11.05
I was sitting here when suddenly I was struck with hunger, like a yardstick on misbehaving child. I decided to quench that hunger with a delicious sandwich, and I wanted more of it. I wanted it like a cat in heat wants…well, you know.

I then got to thinking: Barbelith discusses almost everything about human culture…we read, we listen to music, we watch movies, keep up in the news, scientific discoveries, gaming, writing, and no doubt a billion other things I have forgotten. But the one thing that we don’t talk about is something that we all need: Food.

I am proposing that we start a new forum about Food. I’m talking Fine Dining, what wines go with specific meals, recipes, little twists on food that you have created, your favorite restaurants, food prices, what you like to eat and how you like to eat it…anything.

I love food, you love food, we all need food. Let’s talk about food.

So, who thinks that this is a good idea for a new forum? Who thinks that this is a bad idea? Let’s hear some input.
 
 
Spatula Clarke
18:08 / 04.11.05
Conversation and Gathering already provide more than enough areas for any food-related threads that could ever pop up.
 
 
Loomis
18:16 / 04.11.05
Jesus, Oddman. Don't you get enough challenges to your self esteem in real life that you need to come looking for them here? Don't get me wrong - if you want to be ridiculed, we'll do it for you. But let's just be clear from the outset. Is that what you want?
 
 
Alex's Grandma
18:24 / 04.11.05
I love food, you love food, we all need food. Let's talk about food

I like the idea, but I can't help feeling that it might be more instructive if the word 'food' was replaced by the words 'chronic masturbation.'
 
 
Proinsias
19:37 / 04.11.05
Perhaps a forum dedicated to that all important task of breathing - how deep do you breathe, how long do you hold it for, ribcage or diaphragm etc..
 
 
miss wonderstarr
19:46 / 04.11.05
To be fair, a number of other fora do have food and drink sub-boards, so it isn't a ridiculous idea. However, I have no interest in foodies' discussions personally -- I always find myself irritated by the fact that this is one area where people are apparently allowed to be as smug and boastful as they like -- and am quite glad such a thing doesn't exist on Barbelith.

Anyone who wants to see a food forum or post on one could start

here

here
 
 
Smoothly
20:13 / 04.11.05
Give Oddman a break. We wouldn't have a Games forum if it wasn't for people making suggestions like this.

Not sure if I'd put a food forum at the top of my list, but I find myself in partial agreement with Alex's Grandma and, to an extent, Proinsias; I still think the Body Shop forum could be a good thing. The more I look at the Conversation with that discussion in mind, the more I think, 'The body clock thread could go there... The organ donation thread should have somewhere better... The one about alternative medicine would fit... Ganesh's tongue thread could be the start of something beautiful...'
Shame that discussion fizzled out, I think.
 
 
Spatula Clarke
20:16 / 04.11.05
That strikes me as the sort of thing that, with a little rejig of the forum description, be put into the Lab without having any negative effects on the rest of the threads in there.
 
 
Ganesh
20:23 / 04.11.05
Could we have a forum on balloons? I really like balloons.
 
 
Smoothly
20:31 / 04.11.05
And a forum on comics! Comics are aces.
 
 
Ganesh
20:44 / 04.11.05
They're a bit more limited than balloons, I think you'll find.
 
 
Mourne Kransky
20:52 / 04.11.05
I don't think we need a Food Forum but only because we've already had so many satisfyingly foodie threads in The Conversdation Forum - about sausages, cheese, sandwiches, restaurants, puddings, sweeties, cheap eats, etc. etc. etc. And, given that this is so, I think it's not an unreasonable suggestion. It is possible to have high-minded, high-brow discussions about low-brow subjects. And I like to post stuff about pizza. But we can do it in The Conversation.
 
 
Tim Tempest
20:54 / 04.11.05
Guys...this thread is called New Forum Proposal. Just IDEAS about new forums. Nothing set in stone, nothing intended to offend, just IDEAS. I suggested Food, because I thought it might be a good idea, but I guess it's not to some of your liking. Oh well, big deal, no harm done.

The Body Modification Forum sounds like a good idea though.

So, make better use of the thread, and maybe propose some new forum ideas of your own.

Lets try to put an emphasis on constructive criticisms rather than just criticisms

And Loomis, my self-esteem is just fine, thankyouverymuch.
 
 
Smoothly
20:59 / 04.11.05
I suggest you amend the abstract, Oddman.
 
 
Tim Tempest
21:04 / 04.11.05
Indeed.
 
 
All Acting Regiment
21:05 / 04.11.05
Isn't it a bit rich to sit around talking about a food forum, which implies that we have some form of choice over food that warrants such a discussion in the first place- I mean that choice is something most of the world doesn't have, which is the sort of thing most of us here are concerned about- which in turn might make a perfectly good Headshop discussion but in my opinion doesn't warrant a whole forum.

I can still see the Body forum being worth a try, though- it's the same as the sex and health and personal life forum we discussed a while ago, yes?
 
 
Smoothly
21:33 / 04.11.05
Legba, with the greatest respect, that's a bit harsh. Or are you being ironic? - objecting to a Food forum on those grounds while supporting a forum for literally contemplating our navels.
 
 
Mourne Kransky
22:16 / 04.11.05
I mean that choice is something most of the world doesn't have

Legba, just about everything we privileged middle class western world wankers talk about on this board is hopelessly redolent of our undeserved excess and assumptions of entitlement.

Besides, this argument, and many other similar, could very well belong and be had on the forum Oddman proposes.
 
 
Eloi Tsabaoth
23:07 / 04.11.05
What about a Forum Without Portfolio? We could decide a different theme each month. Like the theme room in popular nineties children's show Finders Keepers.
 
 
Smoothly
23:20 / 04.11.05
Perhaps that could be combined with the sand-box area talked about here.
Dunno.
 
 
All Acting Regiment
00:18 / 05.11.05
Oh dear. Yes, I was over the top there. I've been a bit post button-happy recently.
 
 
ONLY NICE THINGS
00:38 / 05.11.05
But we do talk about food - there are recipe threads in the Conversation, along with discussion of what people had for breakfast, comfort food &c. My question would be whether there is enough interest in _talking about_ food to justify a forum. I suspect that there isn't, buy could be wrong.
 
 
Smoothly
00:45 / 05.11.05
And of course Bed Head bundled the Gastronomicon threads together in the wiki.
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
05:34 / 05.11.05
Bizunth- it could be like Tchibo!
 
 
Our Lady Has Left the Building
05:45 / 05.11.05
I agree with E. Randius, body related threads would fit quite nicely into The Lab, I could start proposing stuff be moved over there if people wanted.

I'm not sure a seperate forum for food is necessary, but then I didn't believe that G&G was needed and that's not done badly.
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
06:27 / 05.11.05
I guess it depends on the thread, Lady- the tongue one, for example, seems to have quite a fun level of banter which wouldn't really be appropriate for the Lab but which isn't destroying the thread.
 
 
Seth
08:51 / 05.11.05
I've long thought that we need a weapons forum. Maybe called The Armoury. Anything from how to make them, where to procure them, how do get them without conspicious things like serial numbers, techniques for using them... perhaps even a swap shop. What do you guys think?
 
 
Loomis
09:13 / 05.11.05
Just for the record Oddman, it's not simply that I disagree with creating a food forum. What annoys me is that if you'd taken a few minutes to familiarise yourself with the board a bit more, and especially read through some of the Policy threads, I find it extremely unlikely that you would have started this thread. What I'm asking for is a bit of courtesy to the place. Read some old threads, think about what's good and bad about the place.

I don't care that you blunder into lots of other threads with a total unwillingness to take the time to work out what Barbelith is about (have you forgotten your ill-informed attack on Haus in that Grant Morrison thread?), but when you do it in the Policy with no evidence of having even read the other threads in the forum, then I think it's rude and that's why I jumped on you.

In any case, I'm still not convinced that you're not a joke suit. But if you're not and you have the tiniest level of self-awareness, the fact that some posters think you are a jokesuit should give you pause for thought as regards your posting style. That's up to you of course.
 
 
ONLY NICE THINGS
09:43 / 05.11.05
Dude, give him a break. If he isn't a joke suit, and I don't think he is, he's a very young man without a lot of life experience. If we've let him in, we probably ought to cut him a bit of slack before hounding him out again.
 
 
Alex's Grandma
10:57 / 05.11.05
The SZA;

I wholeheartedly agree. Something that I've found a bit dispiriting about this board is that everyone talks about making some changes to the system, but that no one's really prepared, in the final analysis, to go that extra mile.

A Weapons forum would, I think, at least go some way towards addresssing this issue.

It's easy enough to talk about Tony Blair's ugly behaviour, for example, but so much harder to actually shoot him, in the balls (Or is it... this would be one of the many, many beautiful subjects we could discuss, seriously, ie, not in a lightweight convo way, if we had a Weapons forum. Though the details, I suppose, would have to be thrashed out via PM)
 
 
w1rebaby
11:22 / 05.11.05
But as usual whenever anybody brings up a new idea for a forum it seems to me that they are already catered for quite adequately. Discussions regarding muzzle energy, stopping power and the effects of shock from being shot in the balls can go in the Lab. Questions as to the most effective use of firearms politically speaking can go in the Switchboard. Shooting parties and acts of mass resistance can go in the Gathering. Anecdotes regarding a funny chap you met at the gun fair last week can go in the Convo. All you have to do is use a bit of imagination. I really don't see how the existing forums are inadequate here.

Perhaps some of the proponents of this new forum could give an example of a thread topic which *couldn't* quite easily be accommodated?

Oh, and to whoever said a comics forum - that's a shit idea.
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
21:38 / 05.11.05
Shooting is the balls in a cop-out. If you don't think you can hit the cock, don't try for it. Nobody will think the less of you. Just don't pretend you were aiming for the testes in a dumb attempt to save face, is all.
 
 
Mourne Kransky
01:09 / 06.11.05
See now, a thread on Prairie Oysters in the putative new Foodie Forum could go on for page after page about Tony Blair's shot-peppered balls. Actually, we don't really want to discuss that, pleasant as the actuality might be. I'm probably going to prison now for ninety days under the Look, Terrorists Are Really Bad Act, 2005. I shall spend the cell-time working on my dance routines.

I think, by and large, we can fit almost everything we want to into the forums we already have. I wouldn't have proposed a separate Games Forum though, so what do I know? Lots of happy little bunnies down there typing away now.
 
 
Unconditional Love
22:22 / 06.11.05
Food and Sex.
 
 
Cat Chant
12:06 / 07.11.05
What happened to the Fucking Shit Up forum?
 
  

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