sofaking wrote:

pALEPHx wrote:

Sigh. What's the point?

Precisely!

There is no point.

It's pointless. Like life.

And that's what makes it make us happy.

Try not to overthink it.

One could take the tack that, for some reason, I'm not posting at length because I'm trying to help. You make it pretty clear you're happy in this tiny sandbox, and that's fine, but it's not really enough for me. The look of the place is one step better than a chain email. I suppose that if you want nothing from it, then you shall receive it, in abundance.

On the other hand, I'm not sure how I feel about Ptah agreeing with me. Is he being sarcastic? I don't get that impression, but he makes a good point: We wanna stay looking like a 1996 listserv, while we try to establish a presence on far fancier and better equipped websites? Forums were at the heart of "social networking," before it took off as a niche of its own. Perhaps, no one has an interest in being competitive with our content peers, or attracting new members, but you look at the sites we're affiliated with (minus mine, if you will) and it's like going from feast to famine.

And it's obvious that you don't really think HS is a paragon of pointlessness or else you wouldn't show up here daily to contribute to it.

Pale, 

Even though I said GAYVATARS I completely think this place needs to run on vBulletin and look similar to this.

Toe,

Sorry, Cruel and HS are out of the box thinking.  We are the Never Ending Friars Roast of the World.  This is our niche.  I like your contributions to this place but you are responsible for softening the place up too much.  And that may or may not include me.

BUT, fuck Myspace, it is a dwelling space for people who enjoy the Twilight books.  They should be eradicated.

Fuck Facebook, it is a dwelling space for what used to be called yuppies.  It is the now equivalent of showing off your baubles in the 80's to declare how successful you have become.  Trouble is no one is paying any attention to each other.  The driving force behind everyone I know who checks their FB page is to see what people said about their recent status change.  Not to interact but to make sure people are still paying them attention.

And, so help me God, if anyone so much as suggests Twittering shit from this website I will quite likely snap and begin a cross country trek of murderous rampage the likes of which this world has never seen.  Fucking vikings were pussies.

MEDS!!!  Someone bring me my fucking meds!!!!

Scotty wrote:

Pale, 

Even though I said GAYVATARS I completely think this place needs to run on vBulletin and look similar to this.

Toe,

Sorry, Cruel and HS are out of the box thinking.  We are the Never Ending Friars Roast of the World.  This is our niche.  I like your contributions to this place but you are responsible for softening the place up too much.  And that may or may not include me.

BUT, fuck Myspace, it is a dwelling space for people who enjoy the Twilight books.  They should be eradicated.

Fuck Facebook, it is a dwelling space for what used to be called yuppies.  It is the now equivalent of showing off your baubles in the 80's to declare how successful you have become.  Trouble is no one is paying any attention to each other.  The driving force behind everyone I know who checks their FB page is to see what people said about their recent status change.  Not to interact but to make sure people are still paying them attention.

And, so help me God, if anyone so much as suggests Twittering shit from this website I will quite likely snap and begin a cross country trek of murderous rampage the likes of which this world has never seen.  Fucking vikings were pussies.

MEDS!!!  Someone bring me my fucking meds!!!!

amen, again and again, amen.

It ain't about "get with the times", toe. I'm not your old uncle telling you how much better the pot was "back in my day". It has nothing to do  with any of that and EVERYTHING to do with taking some place that was born in the bowels of offense and turning it into the My Little Pony appreciation page.

I can see the first time we have to "clean up this place, just a little bit" out of fear of losing our Myspace or Facebook page. yeah.

I guess I don't see the current spawn of Cruel as a "social networking site". I'm sorry. I've always seen this as a place to offend and be offended. A place to cull the piss pot of the internets so that I may share that culled fruit with others I may wish to amuse.

When we feel we NEED to become part of the Facebook/Myspace deal in order to "become more popular" is about the time we realize how pointless our little corner of the world of the bizarre has become.

I find it sad that folks want to turn this place into the internets version of my high school lunch room.

Of course, it's not my site so I don't have a say. With that being said, I have no problem with this place having avatars or changing the format. It isn't about that.

And Pale, you and I agree about a lot more than you realize, I'd wager.


Ptah   current mood- Quixotic

lulz

Last edited by ptah13 (2009-05-15 06:58:18)

Ptah, your cheapo sentimentality-because that's what it is-is way more my little pony than you know. At least Scotty has the decency to be a pedophile. There's nothing wrong with living in the past. I think I just find your stance offensive, is all. My bad.

Last edited by icangetyouatoe (2009-05-15 11:55:37)

ptah13 wrote:

I'm not your old uncle telling you how much better the pot was "back in my day". It has nothing to do  with any of that and EVERYTHING to do with taking some place that was born in the bowels of offense and turning it into the My Little Pony appreciation page.

I can see the first time we have to "clean up this place, just a little bit" out of fear of losing our Myspace or Facebook page. yeah.

That’s not going to happen Ptah.  In the unlikely event The Tom Collective were to show its face at High-Street and demand we clean up our act here in our own home in order to keep our MySpace page would be the day all out war was declared.  Many of us have enough experience with hacking to give The Tom and Fox News Corporation a case of network dysentery they would never forget.

Last edited by fnord (2009-05-16 07:12:58)

fnord wrote:

ptah13 wrote:

I'm not your old uncle telling you how much better the pot was "back in my day". It has nothing to do  with any of that and EVERYTHING to do with taking some place that was born in the bowels of offense and turning it into the My Little Pony appreciation page.

I can see the first time we have to "clean up this place, just a little bit" out of fear of losing our Myspace or Facebook page. yeah.

That’s not going to happen Ptah.  In the unlikely event The Tom Collective were to show its face at High-Street and demand we clean up our act here in our own home in order to keep our MySpace page would be the day all out war was declared.  Many of us have enough experience with hacking to give The Tom and Fox News Corporation a case of network dysentery they would never forget.

I may be mistaken but I read that as "clean up your respective look-at-me-page" and not H-S itself.

ptah13 wrote:

wordy but correct

I agree with ptah13.
      And I am not sorry.

Ptah, I knew you were a republican. I didn't know you were a fucking retard, but apparently you need some clarification and it's just hot enough outside, and I have just enough of a headache to spell it out for you with some satisfaction. Forgive me in advance for hurting your feelings, but when you misquote me, misconstrue what I'm saying, and extrapolate into the stratosphere long enough, it bugs.

We have a fucking My Space Page. The venn diagram for my space (I know, you don't know what that means, I guess you're going to have to google it) and face book are pretty much eclipses of one another, with myspace being slightly smaller than facebook. Again, I didn't come up with the idea of a myspace page, your idol Choad did (and there you have good taste, but I feel like it's a bit like the unpopular fat kid sucking up to the prom king offering to carry his football to class, it's a bit embarrassing for everyone and sad to watch)-or maybe it was RT, but whatever, someone did, not me, and there it is. I assumed there was some reason for it, and so merely suggested, since Facebook has even more users (and most of the same users from My Space, by the way) one might consider putting it on a page as well.

Several people had some very good reasons not to-not the least reason was that since, and get this, so many people here are on Facebook and wouldn't want to let their friends and families know, that it wouldn't be worth it. Gosh! You mean..yes. Apparently FB attracts some of the folk on here as well. Sure, largely people who think you're an idiot, but nevertheless, lots of folks.

End of story..until you pick up that football and start pathetically spazzing down the field with it, your little runt legs splayed out, kicking up the astroturf, screaming in your high pitched, reedy little posting voice about popularity contests, and wanting to turn this into a my little pony appreciation page, and how this is all so Awful Because Cruel Was Such A Special Place And We're All Out To Destroy It Just Like They Did When They Took The Potato Skins Off The Menu At Applebees.

And I'm somehow behind all this, in your mind.

It's amusing, really, but just annoying enough to have to write this. The decision to advertise, or whatever you want to call it, is not mine to make, I'm happy to do it or not do it on here. Who gives a fuck? But I'm not going to sit here and eulogize some bullshit website that only exists in your little brain, alongside the crappy Bruce Springsteen "Glory Days" single with accompanying soft core porn vid of your imaginary high school experiences and the memories of Brian's Song that still make you cry when you recall them.

High Street is a website. We can post here whatever we'd like. Isn't that nice? I hope it's here for a long time. I actually enjoy reading the posts here. If you'd like to change it, or rail against change, be my guest. But please, don't mention even my made up name associated with your rants, since what I was saying has about as much to do with your posts as Fnord has to do with the NAACP.

Love, and Don't Forget to Take Your Lipitor or Whatever Meds You Are On or Should Be On,

Toe

Last edited by icangetyouatoe (2009-05-18 16:08:54)

Dmtdust wrote:

Taint wrote:

icangetyouatoe wrote:

Lots of stuff that made me laugh.

Ah, Toe. If only you were a 6'2" guy with biceps, a hairy chest, and an abiding fondness for MFK Fisher...

Ah Taint... if only you were a 5'6' girl with shapely legs, sweet breast and an abiding fondness for Aleister Crowley... What am I saying?

Really? One breast? I'll never understand breeders...

Taint wrote:

Dmtdust wrote:

Taint wrote:

Ah, Toe. If only you were a 6'2" guy with biceps, a hairy chest, and an abiding fondness for MFK Fisher...

Ah Taint... if only you were a 5'6' girl with shapely legs, sweet breast and an abiding fondness for Aleister Crowley... What am I saying?

Really? One breast? I'll never understand breeders...

chest = breast.  notice both are very similar....

each end in t.

Dmtdust wrote:

Taint wrote:

Dmtdust wrote:

Ah Taint... if only you were a 5'6' girl with shapely legs, sweet breast and an abiding fondness for Aleister Crowley... What am I saying?

Really? One breast? I'll never understand breeders...

chest = breast.  notice both are very similar....

each end in t.

Ah, but the term chest refers to the upper part of the torso enclosed by the rib cage. Breasts, however, refer to the mammary glands - both developed and undeveloped. Therefore, a breast is a singular mammary gland and breasts implies there are more than one.

Sorry. I'm editing today for work and I'm just in an editing frame of mind.

Scotty wrote:

Fucking vikings were pussies.

Just the Swedish ones.

icangetyouatoe wrote:

Ptah, I knew you were a republican. I didn't know you were a fucking retard, but apparently you need some clarification and it's just hot enough outside, and I have just enough of a headache to spell it out for you with some satisfaction. Forgive me in advance for hurting your feelings, but when you misquote me, misconstrue what I'm saying, and extrapolate into the stratosphere long enough, it bugs.

We have a fucking My Space Page. The venn diagram for my space (I know, you don't know what that means, I guess you're going to have to google it) and face book are pretty much eclipses of one another, with myspace being slightly smaller than facebook. Again, I didn't come up with the idea of a myspace page, your idol Choad did (and there you have good taste, but I feel like it's a bit like the unpopular fat kid sucking up to the prom king offering to carry his football to class, it's a bit embarrassing for everyone and sad to watch)-or maybe it was RT, but whatever, someone did, not me, and there it is. I assumed there was some reason for it, and so merely suggested, since Facebook has even more users (and most of the same users from My Space, by the way) one might consider putting it on a page as well.

Several people had some very good reasons not to-not the least reason was that since, and get this, so many people here are on Facebook and wouldn't want to let their friends and families know, that it wouldn't be worth it. Gosh! You mean..yes. Apparently FB attracts some of the folk on here as well. Sure, largely people who think you're an idiot, but nevertheless, lots of folks.

End of story..until you pick up that football and start pathetically spazzing down the field with it, your little runt legs splayed out, kicking up the astroturf, screaming in your high pitched, reedy little posting voice about popularity contests, and wanting to turn this into a my little pony appreciation page, and how this is all so Awful Because Cruel Was Such A Special Place And We're All Out To Destroy It Just Like They Did When They Took The Potato Skins Off The Menu At Applebees.

And I'm somehow behind all this, in your mind.

It's amusing, really, but just annoying enough to have to write this. The decision to advertise, or whatever you want to call it, is not mine to make, I'm happy to do it or not do it on here. Who gives a fuck? But I'm not going to sit here and eulogize some bullshit website that only exists in your little brain, alongside the crappy Bruce Springsteen "Glory Days" single with accompanying soft core porn vid of your imaginary high school experiences and the memories of Brian's Song that still make you cry when you recall them.

High Street is a website. We can post here whatever we'd like. Isn't that nice? I hope it's here for a long time. I actually enjoy reading the posts here. If you'd like to change it, or rail against change, be my guest. But please, don't mention even my made up name associated with your rants, since what I was saying has about as much to do with your posts as Fnord has to do with the NAACP.

Love, and Don't Forget to Take Your Lipitor or Whatever Meds You Are On or Should Be On,

Toe

http://i39.tinypic.com/mlqkq1.jpg

Wow!!

Monthly visit come early or you got that reverse menstrual thing (where you're not a bitch for a weekend a month)?

I realize we have a myspace. I find it both ironic and sad.

I'm not sure what else you are talking about? Choad is far from my hero, sorry if that is your impression.

My point being, this place has a history of being far out of the mainstream and attracting some very strange folk. This is a point I made that you seemed to ignore. I'm not interested in those people gaining more of my personal information.

The other point I made is that someone also requested this be turned into yet another vBulletin board, which all end seemingly to attract the same sort of sad folk after awhile.

The last point I made is that I think both Myspace and Facebook are basically silly. Yeah, I have a profile in both, for reasons pointed out by others (one is to keep updated on a hobby of mine, where they use the tool to send out information, the other was made by my kids and I've been there once or twice in the past 6 months).

I notice that after getting a slew of contacts on either Facebook or Myspace, eventually SOMEBODY sends me a stupid, "are you a turtle or a grapefruit" quiz or "My IQ is 125? WHAT IS YOURS!?!?!" quiz, to imbed the answer on your page, no less?!?

Obviously I hurt your feelings and that is why you felt the need to get so personal. No big deal, it is a knee-jerk reaction and I must admit, expected.

Obviously, me poking fun at those who spend an inordinate amount of time on either myspace or facebook upsets you to the degree that you felt the need to make some lame attempt at hurting my feelings. 

I have an opinion, you have an opinion. I realize you have every right to be a superfluous bitch about your opinion, however, you must realize that I have every right to laugh at you for it and giggle that I've provoked such an disproportionate response out of you!

Last edited by ptah13 (2009-05-20 21:13:39)

jesusluvspegging wrote:

cat fight!!!

hehehehe

Yeah bitch betta rekanize.

Ma pimp hand is firm!

ptah13 wrote:

I'm confused and after several days I still can't figure out how to respond, so rather than taking the smart way out and staying silent, I'll stumble through and prove that I don't know what the fuck you actually posted.

Brilliant!

I'm totally into those Jesus baby pictures he posted on the other thread, sorry. They were so expressive.