Barbe-crush 2006

15:17 / 02.09.06

(waits for the chorus of "GOD NO!!!"s)

It's none of my business, of course, to stand in the way of true love, but what if DM turned out to be a dangerous lunatic? What then? Would you still adore him, him and his porn star sun specs?

15:17 / 02.09.06

An astute observer as always, Stoatie.

15:20 / 02.09.06

It's none of my business, of course, to stand in the way of true love, but what if DM turned out to be a dangerous lunatic? What then? Would you still adore him, him and his porn star sun specs?

Well, I do have this Laura Palmer obsession. It might still work out.

And people, it isn't as though I've got a bloody plane ticket in hand.

15:21 / 02.09.06

Stoat;

You've just made an old woman, how can I put this, 'put herself to sleep.'

15:21 / 02.09.06

I want to start shopping for a het.

15:27 / 02.09.06

Quite frankly, the sooner Auntie gets it on with paranoidwriter the sooner I can start shopping for a hat.

That is what we're talking about, isn't it?

Damn right. "Step Inside Love", Cilla.

And don't sleep Alex's Great Aunt, my sweet. "Do you want me to lapdance for you?

Tryphena Absent

15:31 / 02.09.06

I think I actually fucking hate this place.

15:31 / 02.09.06

PW, my eyes. Oh good god, my eyes.

Dead Megatron

15:35 / 02.09.06

what if DM turned out to be a dangerous lunatic?

Lunatic? Sure. Dangerous? Nah, I'm a puppy

[looks around as if hearing disembodied voice]

Shut up! I'm talking to real internet people here! Geez...

15:36 / 02.09.06

I'm sure you're actually hate-crushing Barbelith, Nina.

15:36 / 02.09.06

Oh, you have voices in your head too?

No wonder this will work out so well.

15:42 / 02.09.06

Nadezhda Krupskaya, I like you and I don't want to piss you off, but out of curiousity: what exactly don't you like about these posts/threads? Is there anything "wrong" with them? And why can't you just ignore these offending threads if you hate them so much? Why not go and read, contribute towards, and bump another threads that you do like, or maybe give this place a bit of a break?

Personally, I try to be a lover not a hater. Well, unless you're Tony Blair, then...well...

15:48 / 02.09.06

I'm actually so frightened by the implication that on whatever deranged level I want to have sex with PW, that it now seems best if I leave this board. Although I'm sure that PW's basically a fairly handsome guy.

I have a barbe-crush on ... on nobody. Well apart from everyone I've met over the last few years - it was great, it was even beautiful at times, but now it feels as if someone have done a toilet in my mind, and that, accordingly, I have to go.

15:50 / 02.09.06

I'm sorry, Alex's Great Aunt, but why do you feel like that?

15:53 / 02.09.06

I feel guilty now. But I don't know why.

Our Lady Has Left the Building

15:53 / 02.09.06

Suddenly, this thread has gotten confusing.

15:54 / 02.09.06

There is something about Kali/DM flirting that makes me want to Barbecrush dead people, at least they'll respect me in the morning.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

15:55 / 02.09.06

Has Barbelith ever been responsible for two people getting together?

If not, what's so wrong about it? It would make for a helluva story.

15:55 / 02.09.06

Wow. It's like pw's doing the Walk Of Shame already.

Crazy kids. Crazy.

Tryphena Absent

15:57 / 02.09.06

Yeah there's something wrong with it, it's bullshit. I'm totally not down with people purely defining themselves through sex and flirting and making it the dominant discourse of their lives. But you know if you want to do that online you don't have to make it something that everyone's a party to because like their are chatrooms, emails, all kinds of shit. So you know for me inhabiting that definition on a message board is really about showing off and show offs have always just fucked me off.

By the way from now on if I don't feel like hearing it I'm just totally going to whack you on ignore. It's an experience.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

15:57 / 02.09.06

15:59 / 02.09.06

Yeah, chill, guys. I can't afford two hats.

Tryphena Absent

16:01 / 02.09.06

So buy a headband instead, a tennis headband with a green stripe.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

16:03 / 02.09.06

I think I'd look pretty darn nifty in one of those.

16:03 / 02.09.06

I suppose, Kali, it's about balance. On the one hand people getting together can be beautiful but on the other hand, this isn't a dating board.

I guess people get pissed off when it becomes to overt, graphic, and prominant. I mean, this is a public space, non?

Point taken. But while the flirting has been risque, I hardly think it's become graphic.

I know this isn't a dating board. I've never dated anybody on this board; that isn't what I come here for, but I am pleased when I do get a chance to flirt with someone here as I would in real life.

Regrettable Juvenilia

16:04 / 02.09.06

Kali, I think the issue here is that over the past 12 months Dead Megatron has estalished himself as someone who really shouldn't be given the kind of encouragement and validation which you are currently giving him.

16:06 / 02.09.06

Oh Good God, Flyboy, what do you think DM has done?

16:07 / 02.09.06

I'm totally not down with people purely defining themselves through sex and flirting and making it the dominant discourse of their lives.

Not being privy to the larger part of these people's lives, I'm personally somewhat reluctant to make assumptions about their "dominant discourse" based on a few posts of jokey flirting on an online message board. Yes, it's bullshit (although probably not completely); yes, it's arguably showy-offy.

And? I'm not really seeing where the harm lies.

But, as you say, you dislike what you dislike, and you have the option to avoid threads by these people, or even avoid their posting altogether. Avoiding assumptions about the basis on which they live their lives would be good too.

16:09 / 02.09.06

I think the issue here is that over the past 12 months Dead Megatron has estalished himself as someone who really shouldn't be given the kind of encouragement and validation which you are currently giving him.

In your opinion, perhaps. I'd disagree.

Regrettable Juvenilia

16:12 / 02.09.06

Well, if Kali ever talked about anything else on the board, that would be easy, but she expresses her preferences in relation to television and music strictly within the confines of references to fancying people, feeling a bit naughty, also. So it's not that easy to know which threads to avoid, nor should it necessarily be the responsibility of the people who find the incessant nature of it a little... too much. However, that's not really the issue here. The issue isn't that people shouldn't flirt, it's that they shouldn't flirt with Dead Megatron, the wankstain who types like a man (barely).

16:12 / 02.09.06

Hey Stoat, I just found the perfect solution: a multi-hat. I reckon we could buy the patent and make a killing on Dragon's Den...and...and...

Back on topic: I crush Haus. I don't always agree with the old brain in a jar or his methodologies, but he always makes me think and definitely raises my game (so to speak).

There are others, but you'd only take it the wrong way.

16:16 / 02.09.06

I'm also not sure this is really the thread for talking about why we feel certain people don't deserve positive attention from other people. Perhaps a separate I Hate You So Much Right Now - Because... thread could be started by those sufficiently keen to take this particular tack?

And back with the on-topic love, I crush the Fool. Because I've looked at his lovely lovely artwork again, and it's reminded me of his talenty gorgeousness.