Humanity, Sexuality & ?
 

Since it's part of our title, why do you think this forum is shrinking?

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I'm too lazy to muse upon and think contextually enough to create some topics I've had on hold for years now?
(topics such as my "Scales of Good & Evil" idea, originally though up in May-Sept of '07.)

It's not just Philosophy, though; our entire community has shrunk considerably over the years, and I've come to notice only the same few several dozen names here and about, chatting. We've grown stale.

you've put it in a nutshell,
becoming stale unless it's cracking,
from the outside or the in.

I don't know, I've only been here since last winter but it does seem like even in that short amount of time the number of posters and threads has dwindled considerably. I guess there is only so many times we can discuss why somebodies relationship fell apart or how come that experiment with anal sex went wrong...especially when each poster has probably written the same thing nearly word for word every time a new thread pops up. In turn it seems like the action here seems to have switched to a balance between more topical subjects (new conversations) and just hanging out with friends made here over the years. Its not a bad thing, but it sounds like this place has been around for a long time and probably just going through the normal evolution of a community. Old married couple syndrome.

Anyway the Internet is just changing, like Craven wrote above people are spending their online time at places like facebook. Message boards just don't seem to have the same attraction they did even a few years ago.

I don't use Facebook or any social sites, so I come here for my internet discussion.

I've been signed up on this site for a couple years, but I was lurking for a good while before I posted anything. I don't know why I just put that, I saw someone else give their story so why not me. I'm a follower.

Anyways, I've noticed this board moving towards politics and that type of thing and moving away from lesser subjects. Politics are king.

Don't worry, Pearl Trade. Guys like me will keep TFP well rooted in proletariat topics like failed relationships and anal sex.

You melt at the sight of cute kittens & give sensible gun totin' advice, too.

More topics like these two and TFP could make a come back. especially the anal one :thumbsup:

I'm no Atlas, but I'll accept your challenge, sir. Now... lemme dig up a willing female candidate.

The first step is the conversation. The second step is the test activity. The third step is documentation.

I'll like the test activity part. Word on the street is that TFP likes the documentation part.

/lurid non-Plan9-esque conversation

You're totally ruining my dumb-yet-tries-to-be-tough-yet-scrawny persona, Ring.

And it's been made clear several times don't know jack about cats or firearms.

It's easy to see the guys that actually know about guns on the board keep it to themselves.

They're quiet professionals; I'm just an outspoken moron that edits his posts a dozen times.

So more posts about anal sex then? Throw in a few about crack, hookers and falling in love with and being rejected by crack smoking anal sexing hookers and this place is back in business! :thumbsup:

Surely somebody 'round here has a question that fits the above criteria? No?

What? Can't have any posts about hookers without some good recommendation on knives , piano wire and lime. Then the chef should arise to cook the threads up even more ;)

That could also spawn a thread about the Oedipus complex and it's influence on our impulses and lack of remorse when strangling crack smoking anal sexing motherly hookers that reject you - and BAM! Right on track with Humanity, Sexuality and Philosophy

Personally? I'm waiting for the anal sex fad to end. I want the armpit sex fad to start up.

Interesting. Just what would you like me to do to your armpit?:confused:

Lindy

Oh, come on.

Do I really have to draw a crude MS Paint picture of a cartoon man pumping his cock in a cartoon woman's armpit? Because I will. I've got free time.

My jokes just keep getting worse. Hell, people aren't getting them anymore. Eventually I'll get banned. Then I'll have even more free time. Ooo, this isn't good.

I'm on it.

I've tried it a few times as part of a bedroom playtime joke and it actually isn't too bad. If you wanna get really kinky, you can hit it from behind.

Hey lets be honest, if you can lube it up its fair game. Underside of chins (the more chins the better here), elbow joints, the back of her knee...

...maybe I shouldn't have shared that.

You try it out the first time as a joke, then you realize it's pretty good, so you ask the girl if you want to do it again.

John: You wanna do that armpit thing again?
Jane: Haha, you're funny.
John: I wasn't joking.
Jane: Oh...I'd rather not...

Elbow joint sex or knee joint sex anyone?

Damnit, Mantooth, you made your post before mine about elbows and knees.

You act like this is completely implausible. But it's not. It happens all the time. How do you think some guy convinced his girl to tunnel her boobs around his wang so he could play oil derrick with her chest? And how do you think the whole "alternate love canal" thing got started? Awkward suggestions.

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We're so off topic right now. I feel horrible. I need to redeem myself by somehow turning all this around and putting it in the philosophy direction.

Call me old fashioned, but the way I do it is: I get it wet, put it in, and try to think of other stuff so I don't cum to quick.

Here's a philosophy debate, "is it ever alright to have sex with animals?" On a more serious note, "is it possible to become a genius with enough practice or is the only way to become a genius through birth?" Took care of it for you, Plan9.

Well I'll raise my hand and take responsibility for going off topic, I had a stupid attack and thought this was about the board in general and not just philosophy...I didn't realize that until I started being careless with all that anal sex.

On the plus side this might be the most active topic on this board in sometime...that's good right?

Errrr yeah I think this particular board is dying because there just aren't enough people posting new topics...yeah I gots nothin'.

I would post a philosophy thread but that Mojo Pei (?) guy would come and trample it with posts longer and more complex than the GWoT.

Or that one guy who spilled his BS all over the place, he liked to say The Fuck. I think he got the ban bomb though, so the coast is clear.

Unlike crystal, but I love what you guys have done with the place. Bare your pits!

I can braid my arm-pit hairs. That might cause some chafing.

Less so than stubble I would imagine.

I'm curious as to what a Goo'g images search for "armpit sex" will reveal. I certainly hope something juicy.

I don't look at Web porn anymore so I'll leave it to another one of my TFP counterparts that has no such qualms.

You fucking paranoid Fed Wannabe.;)

Peach pits are juicy. That would be a safe search.

Don't say that. Nobody really wants that job.

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I changed my masturbatory fuel format after realizing that no woman on Earth can not turn on my laptop, open the desktop 'PORN' folder, and be shocked that the contents is, in fact, pornography. My new philosophy is to grease up the leather sectional and, well, you get the idea.

In order to satisfy my prurient cravings, I have switched alternative practices such as armpit sex.

I agree. Pardon my hubris.
I successively played crazy when they came a courtin' me.

So what's our philosophical angsty question for today?

Besides the anticipation of someone scratching your hide-sit-place?

I recently found that there is a word for that 9either the practice of the "love" of it (maybe - philia) but I didn't bother to remember it.


The word this thread title is missing is Philanthropy. (whatever that means)

May we all bask in a beneficent paradise, enthralled with Phil & tropical.

Phil with one L.

errr...your own armpit 9er?

[need to get this mental picture of 9er doubling over and throwing his armpit over his schlong]

It's not a sport for one, Dlish. Do the math.

Humanity, Sexuality & philasophomorical.

Is sex a sport? Is golf?

here i was thinking thats why your neighbours were complaining..

thanks for the disclaimer.

This thread makes me miss the Shoutbox.

No, my neighbors complain because I'm watching The Jetson's at 3 AM and we share a wall.

Say, is armpit sex allowed in Dubai? If I end up at Bubbles I wanna ask for "the special."

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Also: Where the fuck is World's King? Since he got all "married" I haven't been the victim of a tasteless hooker joke onslaught in weeks.

Belatedly...
Plan9, it is not like you to let sarcasm go over your head. Of course I knew what you meant. My response was a sarcastic parry to the male-centric idea that sex is always something the male does to his partner. And not something your partner might want to do to you.
//Sarcasm again// How would you like to try some anal with me? Grab your ankles, I've got the dildo.

Lindy

Yeah, yeah, yeah... you missed my double sarcasm, lady. I'm never serious.

The Jazz actually fines me $25 every time I'm serious in a thread.

*notices his account just lost $25*

Sonuvabitch.

anything's allowed if its not in public or public knowledge. Regard that as Gold. I dont want you strewn all over the front pages of News of the World one day because you didnt heed my advice to keep your armpit fetish private.

..ohh, and if you ask for 'the special', a young white american dude, you're looking at paying a premium. I can see if i can haggle for you, but chinese and kazakhi isnt my first language.

If you find the hookers tasteless, I would recommend sprinkling them with some
Mrs. Dash.

But it always looks like Mr. Dash sprinkled them first.

Even when he is serious, "I'm never serious" still applies. It's quite magical. :eek:

That smiley is supposed to be a blow up doll face.

Are you serious?

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-+-{Important TFP Staff Message}-+- Dear Plan9 Thank you for your donation/contribution of __$25__. We appreciate your efforts to keep TFP shout box-free. The Staff

I probably shouldn't misuse the Staff Message option for evil rather than good, but that wouldn't be living up to being the embodiment of "almost-but-not-quite-an-asshole".

Hey, I saw it before you edited it to include your silly commentary and nearly had a heart attack laughing. You guys are so good to me.

We don't always think in words, you know, but oftentimes more viscerally.

:):thumbsup:

Que pasa, OCM?

I like Oreos as much as the next guy, but, what?

Free association, Pearl. Trade me a little.

Freedom is just another word for nothing left to lose.

Glad I didn't use it. Would this discussion progress if I quoted my younger son's script:

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_9VGZjBQHr0...-pattie-lg.jpg

"I don't care who gets it first, I'm hungry..."

Humanity, Sexuality & Insults.
Just reread this entire thread and you'll probably get the answer about why this place is shrinking (and beyond stale).

I know why this thread went bankrupt. It was hardly due to the original question, hunnychile. I consider it's important for us to think about why we think what we think.

Sexuality's pleasurable secondary.

Humanity comes first.

You're right, of course. Care to answer more broadly?

There used to be many more interesting people ready to discuss several broad subjects (I hate to use that term, it'll probably become a lead-in for more nastiness)..but it certainly does feel like many more of us ladies have been disappearing. It's as if a few folks always "threadjack". Then it does down hill (fast)from there.

For me personally, I don't have the time to research articles & link them here, so I'm as guilty as anyone else. Let me think upon this issue & get back to you at some point.

Thanks for responding, though, that's positive - at least. Perhaps I've been here too long and overstayed the "interest & learning curve".

If a positive response
is not becoming what you're seeking
people here do still love us.

Considering that I occupy a good amount of page inches in this thread, I'll assume that your comments are directed toward me. I would like to respond with some broad, self-centered thoughts on the subject. I realize that you and I have had many differing opinions in the past but hear me out.

Within reason I've done as much as I can to support TFP. I've donated several paltry sums of my college-kid blood money. I've brought at least two active users to the board directly and numerous ones indirectly through posting excerpts of Google-able conversations and links to TFP on other sites. I encourage all my friends to join but they're not forum people. Short of making TFP t-shirts and tagging freeway overpasses with our beloved acronym, I've done what I can to encourage new blood. I like the TFP and find it to be unique among the Intarwebz. It's not Fark, it's not SAwful, it's not Reddit.

I've also attempted to be thoughtful in posts when it matters. When people are dealing with relationships issues, sex problems, etc., I always attempt to address the issue first before I start in with the one-liners and .JPG sight gags. I realize that my initial comments in this thread were not helpful. I think I posted what I did in response to the feeling that someone who doesn't post a whole lot was bitching about how "things have gone to shit." If you want to affect change here at TFP, you have to show up, stand and deliver... otherwise you get threads filled with my tiring, useless comments.

As little as I bring to the table with my several thousand posts, at least I bring something. All this bitching about an Internet forum not providing some level of intellectual exchange is a little funny when you can't get the users who are complaining to actively engage in the conversations. I'll be the first to admit that my comments turn juvenile in discussions where it's the same six people twiddling their verbal thumbs. If it's not deep, why be serious?

Any time that anybody has bitched about TFP changing or being stagnant or whatever the jerkoff Original Staff (TM) complaint is... I just do a little self-inventory and see if I've done anything I listed in the first paragraph recently and, if not, I make it happen. That's the best you can do, right? Or you can be Those Guys who just show up to post snarky bullshit every three years about how nothing has changed... which is confusing.

To those that say that TFP has/hasn't changed, just consider the people at the board. I'm going to be the same dickhead two decades from now, guys. I'm prosaic. I'm never going to be as good a writer as Baraka or as M.C. Escher'd as Roachboy. I'm not into marriage and kids but enjoy firearms and wild sex. That's who I am. If you're tired of that personality and the predictable-after-three-years responses, I don't know what to tell ya.

As annoying as World's King's dead hooker jokes are... I recognize them as a part of his personality and I'm glad he's at the board to supply them.

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But, yeah, I can only comment on what I do to help the forum because I'm not aware of what the rest of you do. I can only assume it is similar.

All you & I can do is to try to help each other. Those few who seem to want to otherwise, I feel free to disrespect, but not publicly. What's the difference? Vented anger works for all. What I hear that I don't like is probably more useful, right?

What the fuck are we talking about?

Damnit, Plan9, I came here to talk about dick and fart jokes, but you had to take it to a whole 'nother level of serious.

Baraka is to intellect as Plan9 is to comedic relief. And, OCM, sexuality created the human which created the humanity. Don't ask me about that, it just sounded interesting. I'm too boring.

Bore the fuck away...I think you're pretty!

I am both the problem, the solution and the apathy, all combined.

http://i919.photobucket.com/albums/a...owski_0071.jpg

Shut the fuck up, Donny. You're out of your element.

So what I donated $20 like 8 years ago, haven't started a thread in ages and hardly contribute anything but snarkasm. At least I offer my urban chillbro perspective.

Way to call me out, cromp.

http://thechive.files.wordpress.com/...pg?w=499&h=302

back to a couple of basics here - sorry it's not TOGTFO, but still . . .

I like the sine wave discussion takes in this thread - maybe the rise and fall can develop a whip-crack velocity and pop something right the hell out into space :thumbsup:

Dude, if I wanted to call you out, I have Photoshop w/ the text box feature and some of the self portraits you've posted.

But, yeah, I miss you and need your love to be a complete human being. So feel free to stop being such a stealth choad.

I've got no worries, @ this point...:thumbsup: