I'm going on a limb and probably not getting posted to say that the "Great Flouncing of 2012" got a fuck off and this didn't, and while anon posted that, this is equally unmentionable.
I was honestly wondering what happened to folks. As for the term, Arwen - sorry. I'm fairly attached to it, and having lived through that period, I think it fits.
I don't buy that this is sacred cow territory or that by asking I'm stirring some forbidden pot.
Fair enough, anon, since Caps is just interested in giving me grief on a regular basis without owning it.
I consider a post by an anon to be much more hostile than something posted by Squid but that's just me. The anons haven't exactly been adding positive content and I couldn't see any kind of a positive spin to that post, especially since I'm sure anon has some idea of who is no longer posting and just wants to stir shit.
If Squid says he is not stirring, he's not anon and I am more likely to believe him although, truthfully, I am not 100% sure what his purpose was.
That's the difference, to me, of reading something from a known poster and something from some anon.
Oh and I just said I didn't like that term, Squid, not that you had to stop using it
I call bullshit on "anons not adding positive content." THE DV IS THE BAD GUY HERE. I post stuff that's not offensive and sometimes funny (to me). Some other anon is crowing about how great moderation is and kissing DJ's ass. Give me a break, will you? Please?
And Squid has my permission to wonder where any former, current or future posters are, may go or might have been, if he does it while making me chuckle, all the better.
Seriously? You don't remember RPS (who hid his/her gender furiously) coming back here as Cooper and trying to sell us his/her silver jewelry? I do. Sheesh. I think you need to send me more pity money.
I was just hoping RPS was some strange abbreviation for Resident Sleepwalker. I've wandered off a time or two but don't think I've ever been gone long enough for anyone to notice.
"branch Dravidians" were people who followed a cult in Waco Texas that emassed guns and came to a fiery end, "Turtle" was a slow witted and droll OT poster who started his own message board and people followed him there. Also came to a figurative firey end.
Yes. It was Virgil Turtle aka Virgil Trucks III, a scion of the Allman Brothers Band family. I say these things because he did not hide them, and to this day if you google "virgilturtle" this information is readily available.
It was kind of weird actually. Trucks, who was a fairly frequent poster here, created his own board. He just kinda 'did it' one day, and then posted about it on this board like, "Hey, I made my own board, stop by and see!" Some here reacted that he was advertising his own thing on tOdd's dime, and trying to 'recruit' out of this community. He reacted defensivly to these complaints, and others defended his right to do whatever he wanted.
It was all very Internet 1.0.
Then it escalated to factions and entangling alliances which led to the Great Board War. This board won, but there were casualties.
As Appy said, in the Great Board War, the OTTVB Ministry of Information coined the phrase "Branch Turtulians" to cast Trucks as a David Koresh-like leader of a cult of wackos (which ironically included a guy name Waccomacco) that left to follow a madman. It was a joke.
Others may have a different spin, but the victors write history.
Pretty nuts we have two. It's a baseball kinda joint up in here!
heh.
I don't recall much about the Branch Turtleians (sp?) time here on the Bored, but I do remember that there was another board and that people said it was all cult-a-suckalicious, compared the THE Bored.
Oh ok anon. You did a little searching. So then we'll just accept your distillation of a couple of years or so of board stuff you supposedly weren't around for as 'the way it was.' Good stuff.
It doesn't take Sherlock Holmes to figure out that your battle of egos was the crux of it. Hey, you brought it up. It's out there for the world to see. I mean, he's got famous relatives and basks in the glow and likes to rule. You're a big important business guy or something and like to rule. Eh.
What are you talking about? The whole thread is about some guy named Virgil that started a new board. Searched him. Seems ok, but big-headed. You can figure out the rest, right?
I don't remember the VT board having anything to do with Squids ego. More like we thought it was funny that this kid had all these followers who were so serious about it. That's they way I remember it.
I'd say the egomaniac is you. You 'searched' it, and figured we'd care what you thought of a bunch of our friendship interactions from 8 years ago and how you pronounce it went based on your 'reading a few threads?' I started to thread to talk to people who know what they're fucking talking about, not random jackasses with uninformed and offensive opinions.
Seriously, THAT is ego.
For the record, I'm the one approving your nonsense here, next time you try to spin me as Captain Censorship.
That's mighty big of you, Squidward. I'd ask what caused this touching change of heart, but I don't care.
One day you'll see that by one click of the mouse people all over the world can see what you type on the internet and might comment on it. The Trucks part was interesting. The rest was just really cold gravy.
And please, there are so few threads as it is - you're no better than the DV if you think shitting on all of them is going to contribute to this board getting any better. I'm trying to get conversations going, not to give outlets to your hard on for me.
I don't think many people are that bent by approval. We haven't taken a vote or anything, but we had it for a month or so while tOdd was away, and it worked great IM~HO.
Part of your statement is ridiculous, anonny. I am not approving ANY posts posted by anon. Why? Because I AM NOT YOUR MONKEY!
If you want to post on the bored when approval is on, get a stupid login and post away with no need for approval. But don't bitch if someone who took the time and effort to get a login doesn't do your work for you.
Make sense?
I have no comment about the deleting other than to say I am against it.
This message has been edited by AnnyBoo on Jul 11, 2012 2:34 PM
Log ins are not approved by the board. They are network54 wide, that's why you can use the same log in on the movie borad (or any other network 54 board).
Emokid is throwing slomo dove at my face, I guess that means he flipped me the bird
That's what's curious. DV could log in and post if it wanted to - just not seeing it happen, hence the question. Interesting. And thanks for being nice about it.
HA! You're right DJ! I kept thinking, "WHO does she mean!"
Ha, yes - I have a great uncle that played professional ball briefly, but messed it up to be present at the birth of one of his kids when his manager said "you'd better not go!"
I also have a step-second cousin who played pro football, but that's a stretch. Is that what you'd call your step-mother's cousin?
I thought that I had remembered some conversation on the bored, in years past, where Doc Z posted pics of his dad playing ball for the Yankees? And, everyone on the bored was all like.."that's so cool, doc z...."
Maybe it was a nutty dream I had or something, who knows. Heh.
I'm an ex-turtulian. Because of that, I'll receive total consciousness on my death bed. So I got that going for me.
I joined the VT board shortly after discovering DF board. All in all, I liked it when there were people posting. But my interest in all message boards has since diminished. Probably cuz I don't have desk job.
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