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STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

11:59 / 18.07.06

A thread to make it easy for people who haven't logged in in a while to judge the prevailing mood.

(Note- it's not designed for arguing, so let's try to restrain from specifics and making judgments. We have the Barbannoy thread for that).

Today? Barbelith seems a little spiky to me at the moment, and has done for a few days. Not fightyfighty, just a little tense.

JOY NO WRY

12:15 / 18.07.06

Well, from the POV of a lurker like myself, everything seems pretty standard at the moment. I don't think I've ever seem the board completely relaxed, but this level of calm wariness might be the closest it gets. Some trolls, some snapping maybe, but that's perhaps the best it can be. A little bit of friction has to arise when everybody is constantly watching themselves and each other to make sure nobody slips.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

12:19 / 18.07.06

Oh yes, it's not a warzone or anything. I'm just finding myself stepping a tiny bit more carefully than usual, as it currently seems to be easier to inadvertently piss people off.

Might just be me, though.

Spaniel

12:20 / 18.07.06

I don't see any trolls.

JOY NO WRY

12:29 / 18.07.06

I don't see any trolls.

You just have to believe.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

12:31 / 18.07.06

At the penis museum in Iceland, the guy had a jar of formaldehyde which he claimed contained a troll's nob. I couldn't see it- apparently men can't. Mono claimed she could see it, but may have been winding me up. Still, you can't be too careful.

Olulabelle

12:50 / 18.07.06

There is a museum of penises in Iceland? Why? Are theirs a little bit more special?

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

12:52 / 18.07.06

There sure is.

And by crikey, whales have massive cocks.

Ticker

13:25 / 18.07.06

hahahahaha!
oh my inner 10 year old thinks that's the funniest thing evah!

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

13:30 / 18.07.06

Okay, perhaps it's not fighting weather anymore. It's TALKING ABOUT WILLIES WEATHER!!!

ONLY NICE THINGS

13:38 / 18.07.06

But if boys can't see troll willies... what about boy trolls? How do they have willie battles after rugby?

Is that why they have to turn up on message boards and make cocks of themselves? Nothing else visible to make a cock of?

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

13:40 / 18.07.06

I seem to remember he also had a stone cock, which he said was from a troll that had stayed out until sunrise...

The guy is exactly who I'd cast if I was making a movie about an eccentric museum curator.

We should organise a Barbevoyage to the museum. It's not in Reykjavik anymore, it's moved, but I'm sure we could find it.

JOY NO WRY

14:07 / 18.07.06

Or if not, there are always the innumerable hihokan in Japan, where carved, pickled and dried phalluses from various species are an integral part if the museum experience.

Not in the Face

14:12 / 18.07.06

We should organise a Barbevoyage to the museum. It's not in Reykjavik anymore, it's moved, but I'm sure we could find it.

Perhaps its mass of troll penises (penii surely?) is such now that only female-identifying Barbeloids could find it?

Quantum

14:27 / 18.07.06

Barometer- quieter than usual due to heat. More people out in the sun=less posting=less fighting. It feels like people are taking time out from the spiky to get tanned, hopefully the next phase is the great big hugglefest when everyone gets back.

paranoidwriter waves hello

14:34 / 18.07.06

Yeah, and conversely you can blame the heat for why I'm posting so much of late: I melt in the sun, so I feel almost trapped inside.

Quantum

14:50 / 18.07.06

I notice there's only really action in the Policy and some headshop at the moment, which is usually a sign of trouble.
(I too am hiding from the heat.)

captain piss

15:43 / 18.07.06

ahh, buffeted by the psychic winds of social uncertainty.. i haven't really been posting of late, but meaning to get back into it. This heat's certainly leaveing me feeling slightly befuddled

Quantum

16:00 / 18.07.06

More than usual? I reckon you should post some more, barbelith needs you just some guy!

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