BS: anyone seen my vagina thread ?

Subject: BS: anyone seen my vagina thread ?
From: GUEST,mystified and all innocent
Date: 18 Mar 06 - 09:52 PM

I could have sworn I left a thread here
titled "another use for vagina..." only 20 minutes ago.

make a cup of coffee, come back and its gone ?

.. the black hole of censorship works in mysterious and arbitrary ways
considering 80% of BS threads are just as complete shite
as my silly little thread..

which was intended as a riposte to all the lame space-wasting
cut 'n' paste & pun threads bloating and polluting
the bandwidth here.

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It went here. JC

Subject: RE: BS: anyone seen my vagina thread ?
From: GUEST
Date: 19 Mar 06 - 05:04 PM

Jees, From the title, I thought you were trying to repair your virginity.

Subject: RE: BS: anyone seen my vagina thread ?
From: The Shambles
Date: 19 Mar 06 - 05:28 PM

Larry David's TV wife was nervous before going on stage to perform in The Vagina Monologues.

To reassure her he told her that she was only going out to talk about it and did not have to go on stage and show hers to the audience.........

Subject: RE: BS: anyone seen my vagina thread ?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 19 Mar 06 - 05:36 PM

Yes, I saw it. Big deal. Who cares?

Subject: RE: BS: anyone seen my vagina thread ?
From: GUEST
Date: 19 Mar 06 - 06:19 PM

Isn't "vagina thread" another name for a thong bathing suit?

Subject: RE: BS: anyone seen my vagina thread ?
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 19 Mar 06 - 06:53 PM

That's this thread pretty well sewn up then.

Subject: RE: BS: anyone seen my vagina thread ?
From: Peace
Date: 19 Mar 06 - 07:10 PM

"anyone seen my vagina thread ?"

1) Lost your tampax did ya?

2) Why hasn't this been condemned as a copycat thread?

Subject: RE: BS: anyone seen my vagina thread ?
From: Peace
Date: 19 Mar 06 - 07:17 PM

Why the censorship?

Subject: RE: BS: anyone seen my vagina thread ?
From: Sorcha
Date: 19 Mar 06 - 07:30 PM

Ya, not that bad IMO....

Subject: RE: BS: anyone seen my vagina thread ?
From: Sorcha
Date: 19 Mar 06 - 07:37 PM

PS...I haven't seen mine for years....LOL

Subject: RE: BS: anyone seen my vagina thread ?
From: GUEST,I saw it, and was glad it disappeared
Date: 19 Mar 06 - 08:09 PM

Peace, the question is, why do you feel you can override the editing of those who make the decisions? Joe Offer can decide to uncensor if he agrees, but re-posting without checking is not the way it's supposed to work.

Subject: RE: BS: anyone seen my vagina thread ?
From: Sorcha
Date: 19 Mar 06 - 08:11 PM

Only a guest passing wind.....who talks to Guests???

Subject: RE: BS: anyone seen my vagina thread ?
From: GUEST,GUEST,mystified and all innocent
Date: 19 Mar 06 - 08:14 PM

is this thread closed or what !!??

can't mudcat censors make their minds up

and close down & banish with consistency..???????????


..but then again..


maybe they are open minded to the voices of reason..???


and if thats the case.. hooray!!!!!

Subject: RE: BS: anyone seen my vagina thread ?
From: Peace
Date: 19 Mar 06 - 08:30 PM

"Subject: RE: BS: anyone seen my vagina thread ?
From: GUEST,I saw it, and was glad it disappeared - PM
Date: 19 Mar 06 - 08:09 PM

Peace, the question is, why do you feel you can override the editing of those who make the decisions? Joe Offer can decide to uncensor if he agrees, but re-posting without checking is not the way it's supposed to work."

Oh.

Subject: RE: BS: anyone seen my vagina thread ?
From: Peace
Date: 19 Mar 06 - 08:31 PM

The title of this thread is more offensive than what I posted. So what's your bloody problem?

Subject: RE: BS: anyone seen my vagina thread ?
From: MaineDog
Date: 19 Mar 06 - 08:31 PM

Did it make necklaces, or what?

Subject: RE: BS: anyone seen my vagina thread ?
From: Peace
Date: 19 Mar 06 - 08:35 PM

LOL

Ya think the dexterity is there for exacting work like that?

Subject: RE: BS: anyone seen my vagina thread ?
From: Sorcha
Date: 19 Mar 06 - 09:00 PM

Probably....LOL...just grab the string and yank....hee hee! No manual dexterity required....

Subject: RE: BS: anyone seen my vagina thread ?
From: GUEST,pearl necklace
Date: 19 Mar 06 - 09:02 PM

you dirty minded folkers !

Subject: RE: BS: anyone seen my vagina thread ?
From: Peace
Date: 19 Mar 06 - 09:26 PM

www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/winrg.php

Windows users will love that site.

Subject: RE: BS: anyone seen my vagina thread ?
From: Peace
Date: 20 Mar 06 - 12:06 AM

"GUEST,I saw it, and was glad it disappeared"

Well then why don't you jus' log back in and message the clone and thank her?

Subject: RE: BS: anyone seen my vagina thread ?
From: The Shambles
Date: 20 Mar 06 - 04:03 AM

Her?

Subject: RE: BS: anyone seen my vagina thread ?
From: The Shambles
Date: 20 Mar 06 - 04:22 AM

Copycat threads?

Subject: RE: BS: anyone seen my vagina thread ?
From: The Shambles
Date: 20 Mar 06 - 04:42 AM

You may have missed this.

Generally, I move the copycats to the thread they're copying...
Didn't work on the Vagina/Viagra thread, I guess.
-Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: BS: anyone seen my vagina thread ?
From: GUEST
Date: 20 Mar 06 - 07:26 AM

Our parents restricted our freedom of speech, now here we are with supposed grown ups insisting on their "Right" to use foul language in public for what appears to be shock value with no real value.
GROW UP!

Subject: RE: BS: anyone seen my vagina thread ?
From: Wolfgang
Date: 20 Mar 06 - 08:25 AM

Has anyone missed this?

Subject: RE: BS: anyone seen my vagina thread ?
From: The Shambles - PM
Date: 20 Mar 06 - 04:03 AM

Her?


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From: The Shambles - PM
Date: 20 Mar 06 - 04:22 AM

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Subject: RE: BS: anyone seen my vagina thread ?
From: The Shambles - PM
Date: 20 Mar 06 - 04:42 AM

You may have missed this.

Generally, I move the copycats to the thread they're copying...
Didn't work on the Vagina/Viagra thread, I guess.
-Joe Offer-


Wolfgang

Subject: RE: BS: anyone seen my vagina thread ?
From: Peace
Date: 20 Mar 06 - 10:30 AM

Hymn?

Subject: RE: BS: anyone seen my vagina thread ?
From: Bill D
Date: 20 Mar 06 - 12:53 PM

It seems to be close to impossible to keep the issues straight once personal opinions kick in.

Yes, we all DO differ on taste, level of boredom, tolerance for silliness, respect for 'rules' and basic 'netiquette'. We will NOT find one set of rules that everyone is happy with, but we DO have one set of rules that are applicable.

This in Max's place, we post and the clones work, at his pleasure, under Joe Offer's direction. Editing/'censoring' is sometimes applied, and in borderline cases it will always be tricky to know what, how...or IF to delete or edit a post.

From what I have read for the 6-7 years this debate has raged, most members (I know...not Shambles) feel that there should be some limits to freedom of speech and lines that should not be crossed. Max made it clear when he gave Joe the job that 'some' control was required. I don't recall that he said anything about voting on every case, nor that when someone disagrees with Joe's rulings, that they may just stubbornly try to do whatever they want anyway.

There is an order to it all, if we pay attention to it. I have seen several final decisions *I* do not agree with, but they WERE Joe's or Max's decisions!

I note that Joe is leaving 'vagina thread' and 'tampax' jokes alone right now, though those seem to me to be pretty close to 'offensive enough to edit'...fine, it is not MY place to make that final decision! I have seen stuff before it was deleted in the past, and I also did not take it on myself to repost it from some sense of righteous indignation AT the editing. Many edited & deleted posts HAVE been restored after debate and a ruling...and that, in my not-so-humble opinion, is how it oughta work...and 5 MORE years of Shambles campaiging for NO editing is not going to change my mind.

YMMV

Subject: RE: BS: anyone seen my vagina thread ?
From: Michael
Date: 20 Mar 06 - 01:04 PM

Lost your vagina Thread?
Somebody's pulled then.

Mike

Subject: RE: BS: anyone seen my vagina thread ?
From: *Laura*
Date: 20 Mar 06 - 01:08 PM

why is 'vagina' offensive? There's been lots of threads using innuendo/slang names - why is the correct biological term offensive?

xLx

Subject: RE: BS: anyone seen my vagina thread ?
From: Peace
Date: 20 Mar 06 - 01:16 PM

My point above was that the remark I made about tampax was no more offensive than the thread title. I don't think vagina is at all offensive. It's the term fer gawd's sake.

Subject: RE: BS: anyone seen my vagina thread ?
From: Bill D
Date: 20 Mar 06 - 01:52 PM

Peace...did you post the 'tampax' reply originally? or just restore it?

I, personally, think that the **context** OF the not-so-cute reply DID make it 'more offensive' than either 'vagina' or 'tampax' as a word...see how we can differ?

It is not just a word that is in question, but how it appears. I posted a few years ago, a joke that used 'fuck' in its punch line....and the very use OF the word was the point....but I do not think fuck is therefore appropriate in each, every, and any case that someone might want to toss it in. Not on THIS site, anyway....(I've seen a couple where it is the standard)

How do we decide? As noted...thru the rules....I can't prevent people posting in ways that are not to my taste, and I can't do much about it if the executive decision is to allow it.....but I can offer my view...and I have just done that.

Subject: RE: BS: anyone seen my vagina thread ?
From: Peace
Date: 20 Mar 06 - 01:56 PM

Posted it originally.

Subject: RE: BS: anyone seen my vagina thread ?
From: Peace
Date: 20 Mar 06 - 01:59 PM

And Bill, the thread the trool was looking for was Viagra, not vagina. That said, my post was in keeping with the thread title. If there's a problem, then maybe it should have been resolved starting with the title.

Subject: RE: BS: anyone seen my vagina thread ?
From: Peace
Date: 20 Mar 06 - 02:01 PM

Looking at the thread title, would you have taken it seriously?

Subject: RE: BS: anyone seen my vagina thread ?
From: Bill D
Date: 20 Mar 06 - 02:23 PM

'seriously'? ..don't know how to answer that...I see the thread AS a reply, by 'guest mystified'(you?) to a missing thread I never did see, but then it went off in strange directions and when I read:
""anyone seen my vagina thread ?"

1) Lost your tampax did ya?"

...that just seemed to me to be a gratuitiously tasteless joke which, I gather, was deleted and then replaced. My posts then were directed to the rules, rather than debating whether it was tasteless...

Now, since the re-posting has been left alone, I take that as a management decision, even though I, personally, might have prefered to have it remain gone.

personal opinions about words are one thing, going by the rules are another...

It ain't easy to 'get at' some issues.

Subject: RE: BS: anyone seen my vagina thread ?
From: GUEST,mystified/Phil
Date: 20 Mar 06 - 02:32 PM

[QUOTE]BS: another use for vagina...

GUEST,Practical Phil 18 Mar 06 - 09:26 PM


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Subject: BS: another use for vagina...
From: GUEST,Practical Phil
Date: 18 Mar 06 - 09:26 PM

my wife is going to go beserk tomorrow morning when she wakes up sober
and realises where I've stored the wrapped up leftovers
of our after closing time kebab,
to keep it safe and warm for tomorrows breakfast.[QUOTE]

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well, for the sake of 'historical context'
that's what caused all this nonsense..

if there was ever any serious sub-text,
it was an intention to see how the thread developed,
and if it could be 'steered'into a debate on the pros/cons
of silly copycat threads.

Subject: RE: BS: anyone seen my vagina thread ?
From: Peace
Date: 20 Mar 06 - 02:34 PM

I have no idea who mystified Phil is.

Subject: RE: BS: anyone seen my vagina thread ?
From: Bill D
Date: 20 Mar 06 - 02:35 PM

*ROLLING MY EYES*...no wonder.

NOW what?

Subject: RE: BS: anyone seen my vagina thread ?
From: Peace
Date: 20 Mar 06 - 02:38 PM

Lost your marbles didja?

Subject: RE: BS: anyone seen my vagina thread ?
From: Peace
Date: 20 Mar 06 - 02:41 PM

And I have no idea who Practical Phil is either.

Hi Phil. Nice to meet you. Good luck with the burrito.

Subject: RE: BS: anyone seen my vagina thread ?
From: Bill D
Date: 20 Mar 06 - 02:55 PM

shouldn't that be "practical 'Fill'"?

Subject: RE: BS: anyone seen my vagina thread ?
From: Jeri
Date: 20 Mar 06 - 03:50 PM

Bill D, quoted Peace:
"1) Lost your tampax did ya?"
and then commented
...that just seemed to me to be a gratuitiously tasteless joke which, I gather, was deleted and then replaced. My posts then were directed to the rules, rather than debating whether it was tasteless...

Now, since the re-posting has been left alone, I take that as a management decision, even though I, personally, might have prefered to have it remain gone.

personal opinions about words are one thing, going by the rules are another...

That's it exactly. You might have preferred to have it remain gone, but it had no business being deleted. It was rude, but so what? How does this constitute a personal attack or spam? Under what criteria previously stated by Joe could the deletion be justified? It was a mistake. If it had been left alone, somebody might have commented on how disgusted they were because people do that a lot, but it wouldn't have generated an entire thread focused on bitching.

Subject: RE: BS: anyone seen my vagina thread ?
From: Peace
Date: 20 Mar 06 - 04:04 PM

As long as everyone's happy . . . . .

Subject: RE: BS: anyone seen my vagina thread ?
From: Peace
Date: 20 Mar 06 - 04:19 PM

"GUEST,I saw it, and was glad it disappeared"

I don't really care that it disappeared. I just wanted to know why.

Subject: RE: BS: anyone seen my vagina thread ?
From: Bill D
Date: 20 Mar 06 - 05:38 PM

ok, Jeri..*shrug*..I can't seem to get across the notion that even IF it were a mistaken deletion, the correction should be made by Joe,( due process & all that, rather than rebellion in the streets) not by individual posters decision.......so I will drop it.

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Subject: RE: BS: anyone seen my vagina thread ?
From: GUEST
Date: 20 Mar 06 - 08:40 PM

peace posts 17 times to this thread.....why?

Subject: RE: BS: anyone seen my vagina thread ?
From: Peace
Date: 20 Mar 06 - 08:53 PM

Who the fuck are you?

Subject: RE: BS: anyone seen my vagina thread ?
From: Peace
Date: 20 Mar 06 - 08:54 PM

Make that 19 with this one included.

Subject: RE: BS: anyone seen my vagina thread ?
From: Peace
Date: 20 Mar 06 - 08:54 PM

In fact, make it 20.