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Adendum to the Lose your viginity thread..

 
 
Saint Keggers
02:47 / 25.09.02
Its been more than 950 posts so far and I still feel like a barb-virgin. When does one stop becoming one the the newbies and becomepart of the furniture???
 
 
The Strobe
08:02 / 25.09.02
I don't know. It just, like, happens? You seem to have been here about the same length of time as me, and believe me, I still feel like an onlooker... still hanging around the outer circle.

You just have to wait, my child. All things come with time...
 
 
illmatic
08:10 / 25.09.02
Perhaps it happens when you have drunk insensibly with several of "the brotherhood" (this includes women by the way) and can't actually really remember most of the evening. Which happened on Saturday.

Or perhaps it's when you get your confidence up a bit and start to toss out rather thoughtless comments all the time. Which happend after about my second post.
 
 
Bear
08:18 / 25.09.02
I imagine there is some sort of ritual, I've been drunk a few times with the Brotherhood and I toss out thoughtless comments all the time but I still don't feel quite right.

Maybe it only happens when you've met the full set? I'm still missing a few to complete my collection.
 
 
The Strobe
10:40 / 25.09.02
Well, to be honest, like Bear (who I may have once met but probably forgot) I have drunk relatively insensibly with various members of the brotherhood, but I find that that's in many ways an unfair way of defining an inner circle - it just defines who lives comfortably near London. I mean, I do in termtime, but not in holidays, and I can't always afford the tenquid train in termtime every time I want to get Barbepissed. And the board is an ONLINE thing, so it seems a shame to base any kind of hierarchy on offline stuff.

Gosh. I am taking this awfully seriously, aren't I?

So, Mr Illmatic, I hate to say this, but your reasoning ain't there yet. Nice one on the thoughtless comments, though - that's often the tricky barrier to get past...

And Bear: you don't need to collect the set. This isn't, like, fucking Pokemon.
 
 
illmatic
11:00 / 25.09.02
Yeah, wrong to base it offline. Perhaps, Keg. you should just try posting naked. Or thinking of us naked. Whichever you prefer.
 
 
that
11:26 / 25.09.02
Hang on, this isn't Pokemon? Why do I have a series of Barbe-people plush toys then? Anyone?

Definitely best not to base it offline - I've been to several meets, but don't drink, so if I end up under the table it's only because I've tripped. Actually, my teetotality (is that a word? If not, it should be) does make me feel a tad left out sometimes...
 
 
Tezcatlipoca
11:50 / 25.09.02
Teetotalism.

I've only been to one meet so far, and in comparison to most of you have only racked up a rather pathetic two hundred and fifty-five posts so far (including this one).

I'm not entirely sure I feel like a newbie to the board, so much as I feel a newbie in the eyes of certain posters (and, by the same definition, there are a few posters I already consider good friends despite my small involvement here).

The drinking point is a very good one though, since what we're essentially talking about is social interaction with each other, which is bound to endear - or not as the case may be - you to other people to a far greater degree than simple posting ever could.
 
 
Mazarine
11:56 / 25.09.02
I think the Late Shift thread. The more real-time conversation I'm in with other posters, the less new I feel.
 
 
that
11:56 / 25.09.02
Thanks, Tez. I knew there was a real word for it, but I liked the other too much to look...
 
 
Papess
12:27 / 25.09.02
So glad someone posted this thread. I have been wondering this myself. I guess if I have been wondering, I am not part of the furniture then but.....I am certainly no virgin here eithter.

I think this must be Barbelimbo.

Maybe a few more initiatory slaggings during some orgiastic debate and maybe "They" will allow me to wear 'Their" colours!...hmmm


~MT
 
 
Papess
12:28 / 25.09.02
Aww fuck it!

It clashes with my purse!
 
 
gridley
12:58 / 25.09.02
I started feeling like I was part of the club when people started quoting me in the Barbequotes thread. Ah, I still remember it like it was yesterday... sniff, sniff...
 
 
Tuna Ghost: Pratt knot hero
15:21 / 25.09.02
I started a thread a long time ago about what it meant to be a Barbelith veteran. I wonder if it's still around.
 
  
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