Do you find posts in The Lounge "meaningless"?

[JackBeck]

I don't! I love it here.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=1849928&mesg_id=1850146

[Shell Beau]

1. Some people hate the lounge. There are lots of meaningful

discussions that go on in here. Lots of stupid, pointless, and silly ones too!! But I prefer it any day to any other place!!

[JackBeck]

3. Me, too.

I just thought it odd that The Lounge was singled out. As I said in the GD post, you can post thousands of meaningless crap anywhere on DU. Why single out The Lounge?

[Shell Beau]

4. The lounge is always singled out!!

:shrug:

[MissHoneychurch]

6. They are jealous

because we have fun here

[Shell Beau]

9. Damn straight!

:P

[Nicole]

12. The lounge is singled out even in the lounge

What is meaningless crap to some is the usual drivel to others. :rofl:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=105&topic_id=5473330&mesg_id=5474068

[MissHoneychurch]

2. What is meaningless for some

is very important to others. We do have fun here and have our silly times, but we also have serious conversations and people look for advice on topics that aren't meaningless at all.

[ohiosmith]

5. Yes. Mine.

[JackBeck]

7. Well, I have to jump on the subway in a few, so by the time I get home

find something meaningful to say...

:toast: :pals:

[idgiehkt]

8. I can't handle reality right now.

I am on zero. I have about $30 dollars left to my name. I am having trouble with phobia stuff, which is interfering with my ability to get a job. I'm not taking a side, but I just need to laugh right now, and this is the place for that. All the forums are different.

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

10. Some are, but so are some of the posts in GD.

Like posting a thread to tell us that DU is unreadable.

I had to let my snark out over in that thread for calling the lounge meaningless.

[Misunderestimator]

11. I only find them meaningless if they flatter Joe Lieberman...

[Fox Mulder]

13. Some, yes.

But there are some posts in EVERY forum that are meaningless.

Not just the lounge.

[AirmensMom]

14. Having fun with friends

is never meaningless. :grouphug:

[Guy Fawkes]

15. Consider the posts in GD...

It's just 'Hate, Hate, Hate' over there all the time. And every other thread ends in a flamewar because half the people who post there can't argue without calling each other names or are too close minded to do anything but read their own 'talking points'.

[flvegan]

16. Please, sing along with me..."Every Post Is Sacred"

With apologies to Monty Python...

DAD:
There are Jews in the world.
There are Buddhists.
There are Hindus and Mormons, and then
There are those that follow Mohammed, but
I've never been one of them.

I'm a DU member,
And have been since before this post was born,
And the one thing they say about DUers is:
They'll take you as soon as you're warm.

You don't have to be a six-footer.
You don't have to have a great brain.
You don't have to have any clothes on. You're
A DUer when you got your screen name,

Because

Every post is sacred.
Every post is great.
If a post is wasted,
God gets quite irate.

CHILDREN:
Every post is sacred.
Every post is great.
If a post is wasted,
God gets quite irate.

GIRL:
Let the heathen type theirs
On the dusty ground.
God shall make them pay for
Each post that can't be found.

CHILDREN:
Every post is wanted.
Every post is good.
Every post is needed
In the DU neighbourhood.

MUM:
Hindu, Taoist, Mormon,
Type theirs just anywhere,
But God loves those who treat their
Threads with more care.

MEN:
Every post is sacred.
Every post is great.
WOMEN:
If a post is wasted,...
CHILDREN:
...God get quite irate.

PRIEST:
Every post is sacred.
BRIDE and GROOM:
Every post is good.
NANNIES:
Every post is needed...
CARDINALS:
...In the DU neighbourhood!

CHILDREN:
Every post is useful.
Every post is fine.
FUNERAL CORTEGE:
God needs everybody's.
MOURNER #1:
Mine!
MOURNER #2:
And mine!
CORPSE:
And mine!

NUN:
Let the Pagan post theirs
O'er mountain, hill, and plain.
HOLY STATUES:
God shall strike them down for
Each post that's typed in vain.

EVERYONE:
Every post is sacred.
Every post is good.
Every post is needed
In your neighbourhood.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

45. My dear flvegan!

How perfectly marvelous! I think anyone who loves Monty Python would be ecstatic about your work!

I loved it



:rofl:

[LostinVA]

17. I consider all non-reality show posts meaningless

Unless I started the threads. Or post in them. Or laugh at something in them.

That thread in DU is tres funny -- very Lounge-like....

[xmas74]

19. Big Boy like this thread!`

Big Boy post in it!

(just to stay on the reality tv line of thought. Howie is such a goofball.)

[LostinVA]

20. hehehe -- I'm psyched for Rockstar: Supernova

I'm in lust with Storm... plus, I like her singing.

Hell's Kitchen was also most satisfactory last night...

[xmas74]

21. I haven't watched much of Rockstar.

I'm usually getting ready for work at that time.

You do know that we missed the deadline for our apps for TAR, don't you?

Bad TAR partner!:spank:

[LostinVA]

24. *gasp*

When's the next one?!

on edit: I KNEW you wanted to spank me...

[xmas74]

26. I think they're picking right now for the spring edition.

And I knew you'd love the spanking.

On the TAR thread at Sucks someone posted something about how they read at a political site about two women, one a lesbian and one straight, never met before, etc. that have been talking about sending in a video application of the two of them as a team! She wanted to "beat them to the punch" and find someone over there to do this w/.

I so wanted to call her out but then I'd blow my cover. I have a different nic over there.

[LostinVA]

27. NOOOOOO

That was OUR FRICKING' IDEA MONTHS AGO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[xmas74]

28. She said a political site.

I bet she's stealing it from us.

I spoke to a couple of regulars and they flamed her ass.

(Man-feeds are getting good! Do you want the spoilers in ref to Janie/Kay/CT?)

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

22. I'm watching "Workout" on Bravo now.

I think I only like it because I think Jackie Warner is hott.

[LostinVA]

23. Mimi is a FREAK

I kinda think Erika is yummy... Rebecca from Amazing Race looks great, but is a semi-freak....

Jillian Michaels from The Biggest Loser is Jackie's business partner.

[xmas74]

30. just sent you a pm about Big Brother.

Hurricane Howie is on the horizon!

[LostinVA]

35. OOOH! I just read it!!!

[xmas74]

37. I'm getting ready to watch the feeds after I get my daughter

in bed. I'll let you know of any new developments w/ CT/Sovs.

Come on Hurricane Howie!

[LostinVA]

38. You're such a reality show junkie

That's why I like you...

[xmas74]

53. I work overtime just to buy the feeds in the summer.

Yep, I'm that bad.

I think next summer I should start my own board w/ nonstop feed updates and pics. Everyone would be invited and I'd probably have to get a donation button to help w/ the costs.

Might as well do something constructive w/ the money I spend on feeds and the time I waste watching them.



(from a thread at Survivor Sucks. Credit to Eubaldus)

[LostinVA]

39. You're such a reality show junkie

That's why I like you...

[LostinVA]

40. You're such a reality show junkie

That's why I like you...

[JackBeck]

43. Were the last two "meaningless posts" or just the first one?

Hungry minds want to know.

[JackBeck]

32. DO NOT watch anything on youtube, it's filled with spoilers!

I already know who wins POV. Heheheh, it's gonna get even bettah!

[xmas74]

36. I subscribe to the live feeds

and I post sometimes on another site about the feeds.

And what CT is talking about on the feeds now will permanently screw up a certain someone from S3's game! Haha!

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

18. Damnit! They locked up all the rancid platypus ball licking fun!

[Ariana Celeste]

25. Like GD doesn't have a shit ton of meaningless posts

:rofl:

[GalleryGod]

29. IRL is what I enjoy! I come here for the inanity

What Seabiscuit had to say took a lot of courage:yourock:

of course DUJHS is addictive, I suppose.

[ZombieNixon]

31. Well, I find *my* posts in the Lounge meaningless...

and I only post in the Lounge (mostly). :D :crazy:

[JackBeck]

34. Wow. Over 12,000 meaningless posts.

Good on ya'!

:bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :crazy: :crazy: :spank: :spank:

[graywarrior]

33. My life is meaningless.

What better way to celebrate that fact by posting in the lounge.

[jobycom]

41. Nah, GD seems meaningless to me.

Lots of petty bickering, less than a third worthwhile reading. Too many posters hanging out, looking for attention but not knowing how to get it without attacking people over nothing. It's like the Lounge for social misfits.

Not all of it's like that. Just too much of lately.

[norml]

42. If it weren't for pointless threads, I'd have no place to use for this.

GOP Donors Funded Entire PA Green Party Drive

By Paul Kiel - August 2, 2006, 4:00 PM

OK, we've done it. We've nailed it down: Every single contributor to the Pennsylvania Green Party Senate candidate is actually a conservative -- except for the candidate himself.

The Luzerne County Green Party raised $66,000 in the month of June in order to fund a voter signature drive. The Philly Inquirer reported yesterday that $40,000 came from supporters of Rick Santorum's campaign (or their housemates). Also yesterday, we confirmed that another $15,000 came from GOP donors and conservatives. Only three contributions, totaling $11,000, remained as possible legit donations.

Today, I confirmed that those came from GOP sources.

- The Green Party listed a $1,000 check from a Bill Wickerman of Covington & Burling. There is no such person. However, a Bill Wichterman works there. He's a Republican lobbyist who has also given to Santorum this campaign.

- James Holman, who in the past has supported GOP House candidate Howard Kaloogian, Sen. Sam Brownback (R-KS), and Rep. J.D. Hayworth (R-AZ), was incorrectly listed by the Greens as "James Howmen." He disclosed that he was an editor at the San Diego Reader; a James Holman is the publisher there.

- The Green Party disclosed that a "Franklin Schoneman" of Pottsville, Pa. gave $5,000. A "Franklin Schoeneman" of Pottsville has given $8,000 to Santorum so far this election.

snip

http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/archives/001256.php

[ThomCat]

44. GD is where you go to hate people. The lounge

is where you go to like and appreciate people. So there. :P

:grouphug:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

46. My dear JackBeck!

I do not find most Lounge posts "meaningless"!

I have often had threads here that many have come and commented on, and they all appreciated the discussions very much......

And my pic threads have brought some measure of beauty and tranquility to many......

And I'm not the only poster to do this, by any measure..........

Of course, we have had our share of silly threads........and why not? We need to laugh, dammit!

:hi:

[JackBeck]

52. Hi, CaliforniaPeggy.

I was feeling rather protective of the Lounge while hanging out in GD and that comment was made. It was such a flippant comment and I wanted to see how others felt.

:grouphug:

[ghostsofgiants]

47. What I find meaningless...

Is the whining that people do about the loung being full of meaningless shit.

[flvegan]

48. I think that tonight, I can dispel some of this myth:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=105&topic_id=5478745&mesg_id=5478745

So much gratitude, love and respect for my fellow DUers in, yes...The Lounge.

[Broken_Hero]

49. nope

I love the lounge, a good place to relax, and recoup from GD, or the busier forums...and its a good place to hang out and talk about outlandish things....:)

[NMMNG]

50. There are posts that are goofy and just for fun

But that's why it's THE LOUNGE for pete's sake. At least you can click on 98% of the threads safe in the knowledge that they aren't going to be a vitriolic flame war.

[Skittles]

51. sometimes, but so what?

sometimes meaningless crap is just what the doctor ordered