BS: Pubic information service

Subject: BS: Pubic information service
From: GUEST,Guest from the Chat Room
Date: 07 Apr 05 - 04:54 PM

Spring is in the air - the sap is rising - and the Cat Chat Room is pondering on matters of deep significance.

Apparently
"Most Aussie men are" ... "Nearly all US men are", But
some would "swear that men never compare" ... Some
have "only ever seen one in [their] life";

Equally, some knew they'd "only seen one sort, but weren't sure which it was..."
Some have conducted unsuccessful field trials to gather empirical data; and some have seen baby ones but never grown up ones ...
While others have established that all the men they've slept with were...(but: before, during, or after was not established)

Obviously, this is question is of deep and abiding cultural significance and interest - at least to a Chat room full of female catters ..

So, which are you - Roundhead or Cavalier?

(Then we went on to enigmatically discuss the efficacy of lion poo as a rodent repellent and budding daffodils - I think?)

Subject: RE: BS: Pubic information service
From: wysiwyg
Date: 07 Apr 05 - 04:58 PM

I think most people would rather their Chat chat was kept in the Chat room-- not characterized, quoted, or reacted to in the threads. Like PMs, what happens there ought really to stay there. That's why it's THERE.

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: Pubic information service
From: Uncle_DaveO
Date: 07 Apr 05 - 06:05 PM

Plus, if this thread goes on at all, it should be shoved downstairs forthwith!

Dave Oesterreich

Subject: RE: BS: Pubic information service
From: Peace
Date: 07 Apr 05 - 07:05 PM

You were not a guest. You were a memebr and part of the discussion. Too bad that many there may have considered you a friend.

Subject: RE: BS: Pubic information service
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 07 Apr 05 - 08:23 PM

1) I don't consider that EVERYTHING is sacrosanct - the basic topics discussed in the chat room MAY be grist for the mill in starting a BS thread. Some degree of discretion IS needed, though - and at least no-one was named.

2) If you are going to play as per 1) above however, pretending that you are anonymous when those who WERE in the chat can pretty well tell who you are is gutless - at least have the courage to identify yourself.

3) There are no GUESTS in the chat room - everyone is a member. I wasn't there, but I can narrow down my guesses as to who this alleged GUEST is to a handful - which may or may not be correct, and also smears all those suspects who are not guilty.

Subject: RE: BS: Pubic information service
From: GUEST,Guest from the Chat room
Date: 07 Apr 05 - 08:26 PM

Oi!

Get off your high horses - I was nominated by a (very large) majority vote in the Chat room to put this topic thread up!!

Subject: RE: BS: Pubic information service
From: GUEST,One who was there
Date: 07 Apr 05 - 08:30 PM

Shite you were. Name names then.

Subject: RE: BS: Pubic information service
From: GUEST,GFTCR
Date: 07 Apr 05 - 08:40 PM

OWWT - I don't believe you were there - because as daft (I was going to say salacious or vulgar .. but, actually, it was just a daft bit of fun!) as the discussion was ... (and especially as we all dared each other to post this thread) ... I don't believe anyone present there would be so vulgar as to start swearing at someone else ...

And on a pedantic note: I am a Guest "here" on the thread now .. and I was (then) "from" the Chatroom.

Subject: RE: BS: Pubic information service
From: wysiwyg
Date: 07 Apr 05 - 08:41 PM

If you were asked to do it, you should have said so at the outset. I hate to break it to the newer members, but there are actually a few community expectations here, and I'm sure I'm not the only one who recalls a time when most members not only knew them but respected them.

~Susan

Subject: RE: BS: Pubic information service
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 07 Apr 05 - 08:46 PM

Never can tell when yer gonna step in shit around here, huh?

Mudcat Dynamics 101: The general tone of responses to a thread topic is established by the first respondent. If the initial response is lighthearted and favorable, then subsequent responses will be likewise. If the initial response is unfavorable, then the thread-starter is automatically an outcast and a moron and the bite of that first respondent will start a feeding frenzy that makes a school of blue sharks look like a buncha pikers.

Subject: RE: BS: Pubic information service
From: GUEST,GFTCR
Date: 07 Apr 05 - 08:46 PM

Thanks WYSIWYG - I should have specified at the outset that the situation is that I was asked to do it .. I would never otherwise dream of breaking the confidences of chatroom!

Subject: RE: BS: Pubic information service
From: Peace
Date: 07 Apr 05 - 08:50 PM

Yep. Just one big happy family.

Subject: RE: BS: Pubic information service
From: GUEST,GFTCR
Date: 07 Apr 05 - 08:52 PM

Bee-dubya-ell: never a truer word spoken (not) in jest!! :(

And to think, everyone in chat gleefully anticipated a "cheeky" response from Mudcat "members"!

Subject: RE: BS: Pubic information service
From: CarolC
Date: 07 Apr 05 - 10:30 PM

I would like a definition of the terms being considered (in the big question), please.

Subject: RE: BS: Pubic information service
From: GUEST,Give us an N
Date: 07 Apr 05 - 10:40 PM

Subject: RE: BS: Pubic information service
From: MBSLynne
Date: 08 Apr 05 - 02:52 AM

Good grief!! I was one of the ones in the chat and it was all fun and a good laugh as always! When we talked about starting a thread about it, we thought that, Catters being the jolly, humorous people they are (we thought) we'd get some good witty comments. I've seen far nearer the knuckle threads than this started by some of the people who are decrying this one. It was done in a spirit of fun and I can see no reason why all you miseries are being so up your own...... Gosh GFTCR, I'm glad you did post as guest! We jokingly discussed 'outing' the person who was going to start the thread.....couldn't do it now...she might get her throat ripped out by men with no senses of humour! I'm truely disappointed in you all.

Love Lynne
PS Guest one who was there....I don't remember anyone who was there disagreeing with the idea of starting this thread.

Subject: RE: BS: Pubic information service
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 08 Apr 05 - 03:04 AM

I must confess. Although I did NOT start this thread, it is all my fault.

Whilst in the chat room last night, I was also watching a programme on TV called 'Life before birth' (sort of Womb with a View), and happened to partake a couple of choice details from the programme, in the interests of general education, on the grounds that a) a day you've learnt something new is a day not wasted and b) it might engender some amusing remarks.

It did indeed engender some amusing remarks in the chat. It also regressed back to the origins of the item discussed, which lead to the detailed and light-hearted discussion of 'roundheads or cavalliers' which was indulged in by members of both sexes who were in the chat room at the time.

I'm sorry. It's my fault.

It's also my understanding that either style makes no difference to hygiene, that entirely depends on the owner.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Pubic information service
From: catspaw49
Date: 08 Apr 05 - 03:11 AM

Friggin' amazing.................I'll grant that I'm around less than I used to be and things do change over time, but when the hell did the chat become some kindof privileged communication? Is there about to be another altercation.....this one between the chatters and non-chatters? How in the name of gawd do we take such simple and fun stuff and jam-pack it with rules?

Everybody step back a few paces and breathe deeply............Now take a good look at this thread................If you aren't now convulsed in laughter, repeat the process until you are.

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Pubic information service
From: MBSLynne
Date: 08 Apr 05 - 05:23 AM

Thanks Spaw...some sanity....

Subject: RE: BS: Pubic information service
From: robomatic
Date: 08 Apr 05 - 06:04 AM

I remember the stuff we talked about at night in the dormitory corridors was not necessarily the stuff we wanted to talk over at breakfast the next day. In fact, none of us had the bad taste to try it.
It's amazing what some people think is fun. Looks like you just had to be there.
As G,GFTCR has found out, one can't tell the difference between being nominated and being anointed, and being anonymous adds nothing to one's credibility.

"just 'armless bit o' fun....nivir mind that I've got a mask on and I'm tykin' notes!"

Subject: RE: BS: Pubic information service
From: Micca
Date: 08 Apr 05 - 06:14 AM

well, as a party to the original Chatroom discussion, and therefore a vote FOR the person above to post it.
I thought (and still think) that this thread is
1 less offensive and controversial than some threads I have seen recently
2 an amusing addition to the BS around here
3 an opportunity for the very witty and punny Mudcatters to let their imaginations run riot.
4 and after all Rule One for BS threads,
if you dont like/are offended by a thread,
DON'T POST to it or read it!!!

Subject: RE: BS: Pubic information service
From: Davetnova
Date: 08 Apr 05 - 06:19 AM

LTS - I might have known it was your fault! :-)
And in case this is a genuine survey - I'm a roundhead and am not cavalier with my affections. (I've got to be a roundhead, I haven't got enough hair to be a cavalier[and lets not bring mirkins into this])

Subject: RE: BS: Pubic information service
From: MBSLynne
Date: 08 Apr 05 - 07:16 AM

Lol Davet! That's more like it!

Subject: RE: BS: Pubic information service
From: wysiwyg
Date: 08 Apr 05 - 07:38 AM

Oh, OK, no worries then. I guess it will be OK with all past and present chatroom users if I pop in now and then to see who's getting raunchy with whom, and report that out to various spouses.... employers.... well OK then!

:~)

~Susan

Subject: RE: BS: Pubic information service
From: GUEST,GFTCR
Date: 08 Apr 05 - 07:41 AM

Think I'll just be lurkin' in the merkin for a while ....

Subject: RE: BS: Pubic information service
From: GUEST
Date: 08 Apr 05 - 07:43 AM

Oh, Susan ... only if all present take a vote on outing their spouting!

Subject: RE: BS: Pubic information service
From: wysiwyg
Date: 08 Apr 05 - 07:47 AM

If even ONE person who would object leaves Chat just before the vote, I guess that would be their problem, then? :~) Screw them, right? :~)

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: Pubic information service
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 08 Apr 05 - 07:48 AM

Bee-dubya-ell

...and you may have wondered why the Fooles jump into some threads early and babble nonsense...

Subject: RE: BS: Pubic information service
From: GUEST,GFTCR
Date: 08 Apr 05 - 08:01 AM

Perhaps you need to go and lie down in a darkened chat room?

It is/was a joke Susan: what DO you think we were voting on? To reveal the name and status of individuals' foreskins? Hardly, as it was a majority female vote from a majority female room ... in pursuit of (salacious and daft) knowledge to add to the fund of knowledge about "members" e.g. how many catters have cats/ dogs/ play cover versions/ vote Republican/ run around nekkid and howl at the full moon?

Screwing third parties was only mentioned obliquely - vis "Centres of Continuing Education" as part of the Pubic Information Service. I assume you don't mean literally?

Subject: RE: BS: Pubic information service
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 08 Apr 05 - 08:02 AM

Okay, since somebody opened the playroom window and that awful stench seems to have drifted outdoors, I'll play now.

I'm pretty sure lion poo is an excellent rodent repellent. When's the last time you saw a mouse try to crawl up a lion's ass?

Now, if someone will explain the principle question asked in the opening thread, I'll try to come up with a witty response. I'm assuming "WTF?" no longer qualifies as witty.

Subject: RE: BS: Pubic information service
From: MBSLynne
Date: 08 Apr 05 - 08:17 AM

WYZYWYG, no one who was in the chat room made any objection whatsoever. No names have been posted, though three of us have come on here under our own names and said we were there and it was all a laugh. What on earth are you going on about? It's certainly a far cry from >>popping in now and then to see who's getting raunchy with whom and report that out to various spouses...employers....>> No one has been hurt by this because no one has been mentioned. Not only that, but there is nothing in it to hurt anyone, unlike the idea of sneaking to spouses etc to report things said in the chat room. Though no one with any sense at all would say things in the chat room that their spouses would object to anyway!

Subject: RE: BS: Pubic information service
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 08 Apr 05 - 08:28 AM

Whether or not I wear a pullover is my business, but I think I look good in a pink polo neck!
G ¦¬]

Subject: RE: BS: Pubic information service
From: Alba
Date: 08 Apr 05 - 08:31 AM

Giok:>)..lol

It's a Chatroom...not a Confessional. If your going to chat about subjects that you rather other Folks won't hear about... PM (that is the confidential bit of this Forum?)or pick up the Telephone, compose an email, or write a Letter...


A chatroom is a private conversation??? eh...what's happening here on the Mudcat BS....between posters with mouths and brains like open sewers and Folks getting really pissy with each other......a lot of stuff is getting taken way too seriously and blown completely out of proportion and other things that merit an angry reaction are being ignored!!!

Is there a new rule ...Please leave your sense of Humor behind before entering the BS section or the Chatroom

(and there's me that only recently found out how to actually get into Chat... to chat, to have a friendly exchange, perchance a giggle or two.... certainly not my place of choice to hold a deeply personal, intimate, soul searching, confidential discussion!   ...$#****$$$***^^^%^%$#@!^&*)
Jude

Subject: RE: BS: Pubic information service
From: PoppaGator
Date: 08 Apr 05 - 12:47 PM

Looks like we've established, once again, that some folks around here can be real dickheads.

We're still aiting find out ~ which kind?

Subject: RE: BS: Pubic information service
From: wysiwyg
Date: 08 Apr 05 - 12:54 PM

Well, one kind is the kind who fails to realize how imitative Mudcat can be when some dickheads start trying to imitate or outdo other dickheads.... the kind who don't realize when they are at the top of a real slippery slope.... the kind who confuse intent with effect... the kind who would rather defend than think. In general I think the saddest decline of the Mudcat community has been the defensiveness-- swinging back when they perceive someone is taking them to task personally (who failed to read the puerility and actual intent of their minds).

~Susan

Subject: RE: BS: Pubic information service
From: Peace
Date: 08 Apr 05 - 12:59 PM

Here ya go.

Subject: RE: BS: Pubic information service
From: Sorcha
Date: 08 Apr 05 - 04:27 PM

Well, I was there, and it was just fun and funny. Guess you had to be there. Girls,it looks like we've stepped on one of their sacred cows. It seems to be OK for the blokes to discuss our bits (Temple of the Golden Globes) but we aren't allowed to discuss theirs.......oh well.

Subject: RE: BS: Pubic information service
From: artbrooks
Date: 08 Apr 05 - 04:34 PM

Harumph...I clearly need to spend more time in the chat room.....

Subject: RE: BS: Pubic information service
From: CarolC
Date: 08 Apr 05 - 05:09 PM

Ok, so I understand now what is being discussed. But now I want to know why the term "cavalier" for the unaltered kind?

Subject: RE: BS: Pubic information service
From: GUEST
Date: 08 Apr 05 - 05:48 PM

You may feel better when you get sober.

Subject: RE: BS: Pubic information service
From: PoppaGator
Date: 08 Apr 05 - 05:58 PM

Sorcha just said:

Girls,it looks like we've stepped on one of their sacred cows. It seems to be OK for the blokes to discuss our bits (Temple of the Golden Globes) but we aren't allowed to discuss theirs.......oh well.

I don't think anyone who objected to this discussion was male. Certainly, the single most vocal opponent was a woman, if I'm not mistaken.

Uncle DaveO's suggestion that this discussion belongs down in the BS section hardly counts. He always is quick to point out BS, and when he does so, he's almost always right ~ but he expresses no objection to continuing any discussion in the appropriate venue.

Subject: RE: BS: Pubic information service
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 08 Apr 05 - 06:10 PM

Ruff Carol?

Subject: RE: BS: Pubic information service
From: Peace
Date: 08 Apr 05 - 06:16 PM

"Girls,it looks like we've stepped on one of their sacred cows."

New name for the penis?

Subject: RE: BS: Pubic information service
From: Don(Wyziwyg)T
Date: 08 Apr 05 - 06:24 PM

Well girls, it looks like YOU'll have to wear the helmets the next time you stick your heads above the parapet.

I thought it was funny anyway.

Don T.

Subject: RE: BS: Pubic information service
From: CarolC
Date: 08 Apr 05 - 06:31 PM

So how many other cute nicnames do people have for those two particular varieties?

Subject: RE: BS: Pubic information service
From: Peace
Date: 08 Apr 05 - 06:34 PM

You'll end up asking every Tom, Dick and Harry that one. LOL

Subject: RE: BS: Pubic information service
From: Bill D
Date: 08 Apr 05 - 06:54 PM

As President of SECSE (pronounced sexy) The Society for the Elimination of Cute, Silly Euphemisms, I don't participate in polls that I barely comprehend...especially when everyone is in a tizzy about it before it has even started. ;>)

Subject: RE: BS: Pubic information service
From: Peace
Date: 08 Apr 05 - 06:57 PM

Personally, if ya know me well enough ya don't have to ask. If ya don't know me well enough, then ya shouldn't be askin'. However, people say the damnedest things.

Subject: RE: BS: Pubic information service
From: Peace
Date: 08 Apr 05 - 06:59 PM

I tell 'em the same thing on the phone when they want to know what kind of car I drive, or what kind of bread I eat. Sounds like the kinda question some cheap reporter would ask and then expect an answer to. Keriste.

Subject: RE: BS: Pubic information service
From: Bill D
Date: 08 Apr 05 - 07:06 PM

(everyone could just wait till "no pants day" and check)