This forum lacks substance

[_Trevor]

Whatever you do, Daniel, make no mention of the Chubby-T list on this board. I mean it.

I knew that eventually my own special anti-anti-Mormon list would be unveiled by someone here.

[_guy sajer]

Isn't that precisely what makes it so Freudian? That you hadn't thought about it? :)

Oh, I suppose. Which is good, I guess, for chats and cocktail party witticisms.

I just don't take Freudianism very seriously. (And I had legitimate, relevant reasons for each adjective I used.)

Freud himself, on the other hand, offers an interesting window into fin de siècle Vienna, a period whose thought and culture intrigue me. My wife and I have a nice Gustav Klimt reproduction hanging on our bedroom wall.

A few years ago I went to a Klimt exhibition at the Belvedere Palace in Vienna. A prodigious talent.

I'm partial to Winslow Homer. I've got a large print of his "Breezing Up" hanging over my fireplace mantel.

[_beastie]

Tell me someone didn't use "chubby" on a thread where Freud has already been invoked.

by the way, I think we just proved msnobody's point.

[_Daniel Peterson]

by the way, I think we just proved msnobody's point.

Oh, I dunno.

I think that the demerits of Freud and the merits of Gustav Klimt and Winslow Homer are pretty substantial.

[_solomarineris]

by the way, I think we just proved msnobody's point.

Oh, I dunno.

I think that the demerits of Freud and the merits of Gustav Klimt and Winslow Homer are pretty substantial.

DCP,
You are so stupid.....
You permit yourself to make all kinds of comments on this board, yet you tattle tale us on MAD&d board, so we are
axed. You chase us away from MAD&d, follow us here.
BECAUSE YOU KNOW WHERE REAL THE FUN IS.

Just give thanks to Dr.Shades & moderators for allowing you free speech.
I certainly do.

[_Daniel Peterson]

You are so stupid.....

True. Why do I stick around here for posts like this?

You permit yourself to make all kinds of comments on this board, yet you tattle tale us on MAD&d board, so we are
axed.

Not true.

You chase us away from MAD&d, follow us here.

Right. I'm here for you.

Dang. My secret has been revealed.

BECAUSE YOU KNOW WHERE REAL THE FUN IS.

Not quite.

Because I know where wildly false accusations are being made against me.

Just give thanks to Dr.Shades & moderators for allowing you free speech.I certainly do.

And here I thought I owed that to the Founding Fathers . . .

[_Jersey Girl]

Hilarious and intellectually flaccid.

Not bad.

At the least, Freudianism provides fodder for occasional jokes (and a thin veneer of intellectual cover for the kinds of jokes most often associated with sexually curious but insecure adolescents), which is, I suppose, some contribution to modern life.

Daniel,

I hope that you know I didn't mean that remark as a commentary on you in any way, shape or form and that I was simply engaging in word play.

I like ya.

Jersey Girl

[_Ray A]

Okay, I'll "let the cat out of the bag" One of the main reasons I come here is for the occasional good laugh, and the sense of humour many have. Some time ago Droopy started a thread about "dirty, rotten, filthy apostates". The first "reply" came from Antishock, who posted this:



I swear, I didn't stop laughing for about three days. Every time I looked at it I cracked up. With that one image, Antishock achieved more than ten swearing posts. Maybe we need to not take everything so seriously sometimes, including ourselves, and as they say, laughter is the best medicine. While I like the serious discussions, we would go mad without humour.

[_Daniel Peterson]

I hope that you know I didn't mean that remark as a commentary on you in any way, shape or form and that I was simply engaging in word play.

Not a problem. It never occurred to me to take it badly.

I like ya.

That's mutual.

Gosh. Can the love fest get any worse? To which the answer is, Yes it can. Just watch what comes next:

I thought antishock8's photograph was really funny, too. Even he's not entirely without redeeming value.

[_moksha]

Lately it seems to me that the terrestrial forum lacks substance.

So what are you, personally, doing to reverse that trend?

Outside of putting down Mormonism or an occasional Blixian-Steussian flirtation of an intellectual nature, what type of substance oriented discussion would flourish on this board?