So exactly how many forums do you guys post in?

[Guybrush]

I guess unless moderated well, forums dedicated to one artist like Britney Spears will also get infested with trolls.

[Dr.Seussicide]

Originally Posted by adidasss

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?

This is actually nice post. Didn't even really come off as pretentious to me in any way at all really. It just seemed quite genuine, and passionate.

[adidasss]

Exactly, thank you...(:

[nasa]

yea this is my first and only(hopefully) it gets addicting...

[downwardspiral]

Two. Occasionally 3, the occasional one being drownedinsound if I can be bothered with the pretentious cretins that tend to post on there.

[Perfect Insanity]

Starting to get lose interest in the other forums. Too many know it alls.

[Dr.Seussicide]

Originally Posted by Perfect Insanity

Starting to get lose interest in the other forums. Too many know it alls.

Then you've come to the right place

[mr dave]

so am i missing some sort of pop-culture reference with the whole 'in a van down by the river' thing? that's two people in a row with that 'location' and i seem to remember a few others with a similar entry on this site and others.

[Janszoon]

Originally Posted by mr dave

so am i missing some sort of pop-culture reference with the whole 'in a van down by the river' thing? that's two people in a row with that 'location' and i seem to remember a few others with a similar entry on this site and others.

It's from a famous SNL skit with Chris Farley playing a motivational speaker who keeps telling people that they don't want to end up like him, living in a van down by the river.

[mr dave]

^ oh yeah.... i remember that one hahaha though my favourite Farley skit was the time he was a 'regular Joe' meeting Bush Sr. and he gets offered $100 to be ridden like a horse