So exactly how many forums do you guys post in?

[adidasss]

I think there's a few very intelligent people here too, I think it's just that the nature of discussions and opinions here is fairly mainstream in comparison to that forum. :\

[TheBig3]

***.hr you mean?

Is it a general discussions forum?

[right-track]

Originally Posted by TheBig3KilledMyRainDog

***.hr you mean?

Is it a general discussions forum?

Try and imagine a forum full of Bitch Box threads. :fake wink smiley:

[Seltzer]

Originally Posted by NumberNineDream

When I was 13 I used to post very frequently in 4 local forums. And was a moderator in 3 of them.

-A political one, I was quite the activist. (mod in that one).
-A religious one, it seemed fun to rant the "believers".
-A none themed one, that introduced me to Pink Floyd and the Beatles, and somehow ignited my love to music. (mod in that one).
-A forum for for fans of one of the local artists. (mod in that one).

Then I stopped my forum activity, till last year, when I joined MB ...and only posted in here ever since.

How did you have time to sleep?!? I don't think I really discovered forums until I was at least 15.

Originally Posted by Violent & Funky

Do you think this is a coincidence? I don't.

By the way, MB is the least strict message board I've ever seen. Maybe baseball forums are just way too uptight, but I think this site is perfectly moderated...

[NumberNineDream]

Originally Posted by Seltzer

How did you have time to sleep?!? I don't think I really discovered forums until I was at least 15.

I think since I discovered forums, my sleeping routine has been progressively vanishing.

I discovered "forums" after my elder brother began spending most of his times on them ...and thus we began to roam the nights. The closest I got to having a "sleeping routine", is with sleeping at 10 A.M and waking up at 2 P.M. However, I can't say it's not healthy. To each his rythm.

[Dr.Seussicide]

Originally Posted by TheBig3KilledMyRainDog

***.hr you mean?

Is it a general discussions forum?

I just think I'd feel a tad uncomfortable bookmarking it.

[adidasss]

Originally Posted by TheBig3KilledMyRainDog

***.hr you mean?

Is it a general discussions forum?

Yes, it has about 20 subforums, some of which are: daily thoughts, love and sex, lifestyle, flora and fauna, sport and recreation, health, film and tv, music, culture and arts, technology, science and education, travel and tourism, spirituality and religion etc.

To illustrate why I like that place, here's a wonderful post from one of my favorite members from a topic called "why do you read?"

"To put it crudely (but most accurately) - sense of adventure. Every unopened book is magic just waiting to happen, an endless world of endless possibilities, and that sense that a story can truly be about anything - about things I did yesterday as well as about things only a writer could think of - makes my head spin like nothing else in the world. A voyage without limits from which you always return a little different and a little wiser, this is what reading is.

The discovery of a great life truth first bemused me when I was nearly 4 years old, when my father read Vasilisa the Wise (which I to this day claim to be the best fairy tale in the world), because that was when I first realized that a story which begins with "there once lived a mouse and a sparrow in great harmony" can lead to talking eagles and magic castles and evil witches and sea monsters and epic battles and terrible trickery and true love with a happy end and and and...O. My. God.

So, I read maniacally because I want to know everything there is to know and then some, all the thoughts and ideas all the experiences all the viewpoints all the crazy ideas all the impossible situations, all all all, and because I love to get inside people's heads and lives, and because the written word is the only corner of the universe which still holds some surprise and fairy dust..."

Isn't that fucking great?

[mr dave]

Originally Posted by adidasss

Isn't that fucking great?

if by great you mean long winded and pretentious then absolutely. if you want to pretend that it's reflective of hyper intelligence because it's unnecessarily wordy that's up to you.

[adidasss]

I didn't think it was pretentious at all, it's simple yet eloquent and true. I think every passionate reader can attest to that.

And your post is very symptomatic of this forum in general. Whenever someone writes a thought out post they're dismissed as pretentious, long winded and boring. God forbid anyone should write anything the least bit challenging.

Edit: Incidentally, I translated that post from Croatian so the style may have been altered a bit.

[TheBig3]

Originally Posted by mr dave

if by great you mean long winded and pretentious then absolutely. if you want to pretend that it's reflective of hyper intelligence because it's unnecessarily wordy that's up to you.

I won't be this ruthless, but let me say directly but diplomatically, we don't find the same things great.

I don't dislike it because of what he said, but how he's pitching it. I think its a very important thing for people to read and selling it like that is equivelent (in my mind) to telling kids drugs are bad. They are going to try it, not see what you're talking about, and give up on everything you said.

Now I'll grant you that this is a person speaking to other people already invested in the activity (in this case reading) so it should be judged differently.

I know we're prone to battles Marizpan, so let me say that I'm only writing this much to say "I didn't like it, but i'm not trying to be a **** this time."

If you like the forum, man, I'm happy for you.

edit: Also, that sounds like his father was reading him the child friendly version of the Odyssey. Are children allowed to be children in the eastern bloc? You will read this epic poem and you will love it!!!!

Edit edit: And while I don't think Mr. Dave is the culprit, this forum can drive me nuts in that threads that took a lot of time and labor lose out to threads that are so half-witted and ridiuclous that I have to take breaks to ease my fury off.