So You Can't Talk About Eating Crickets or The 2nd Amendment?

[Chasing Embers]

I understand your point...we do have a great conversations anyways but if once in a blue moon somebody says something close to be a political subject and thread is shut down even it turns away from politics in a few posts afterwards I do not get it...Nobody wants meltdowns as happened years ago..Its preventable..politics is part of everyday life most of subjects includes it so why to be so restrictive..

A few posts after that it can turn back on that one post and wars break out. Cutting it in the bud keeps the forum gears turning.

 

[captainsousie]

A cricket once took my job.

Reminds me of the Monty Python bit.

"A møøse bit my sister once"

 

[Chasing Embers]

Obviously, it is not a forum predominated by people of letters.

Those are often some of the most passionately irrational and socially inept.

 

[lraisch]

Now, if I said the following, "I hate the Prius. It simply makes me look silly when I smoke my pipe. I wonder if those Ivory Tower types smoke pipes in Toyotas?"


I doubt that would come off as political.

I smoke a pipe in my Prius.

 

[Chasing Embers]

I smoke a pipe in my Prius.

I smoke a pipe in my Matrix.

 

[NC TX ID pipeman]

It's a pipe forum, not a TED conference. It's also a commercial site whose owner spends a lot of time and money on keeping it up to date and makes his living from it. The only thing "wrong" with America in this instance is an undeserved sense of entitlement.

I got that.. i understand he owns the rights and all that..and apreciate his work putting it all together...But would it take that much efford to be more tolerable and less restrictive?For God's sake we are in America .....

 

[Chasing Embers]

For God's sake we are in America .....

And on a privately owned forum who's revenue is generated by sponsors whom the forum membership patrons. We've had thread wars that have ended the membership of many members over political, racial, and one religious post that I can remember.

 

[rmpeeps]

 

[Chasing Embers]

I love Jimmy Durante!

 

[captainsousie]

I find the bit about "we live in America" to be rather funny after I just had a look through the New Member Introductions forum. A cursory read reveals that we also live in France, Germany, England, Taiwan, Canada, and other places too.

 

[sablebrush52]

I got that.. i understand he owns the rights and all that..and apreciate his work putting it all together...But would it take that much efford to be more tolerable and less restrictive?For God's sake we are in America .....

It would be nice, but it hasn't worked out that way. It's a shame that a few intemperate individuals make it difficult to maintain. We have had a few threads which had political content, and the mods let them alone until some knucklehead decided to throw a bomb.

 

[sablebrush52]

Just looked at the cricket thread and can see why it got the hook. WTF? Personaly I figure I get enough insects and rodent hairs in my hot dogs.

 

[rmpeeps]

Just looked at the cricket thread and can see why it got the hook. WTF? Personaly I figure I get enough insects and rodent hairs in my hot dogs.

From the article:
Mr Banks said the powder can be added to bread, energy bars and protein shakes while whole crickets, served as a party snack, are a "bit of a conversation starter".

 

[Richmond B. Funkenhouser]

Now, if I said the following, "I hate the Prius. It simply makes me look silly when I smoke my pipe. I wonder if those Ivory Tower types smoke pipes in Toyotas?"


I doubt that would come off as political.

Who drives the Toyotas? Do you hate them or love them? It all matters in whether the statement is political or not.

 

[Richmond B. Funkenhouser]

Oddly enough, four pages in, this thread has demonstrated that conversation can occur without the need to go the full Funk.

Now what was so damned offensive about me stating the fact that billionaires want me and you to eat crickets.. It was a thread about eating crickets. I don't know how wealthy you are, so I'm assuming they want me to eat them with greater passion...


I love all y'all, I really do.. But sometimes I wonder things like:

* How are these guys soo old and still so sensitive? For me the sensitivity wore off, it really started when I developed callouses on my hands. It never was the same after that, I tried lotion, lube, everything. So I ended up with a wife..

*Thank God this isn't a ted talk.. That's where the cricket pushers hang out. That cricket thread was in general discussion! That explains why it wasn't about pipes.. That british fella doesn't smoke, the thread starter, he's just a mostly cool guy who brings up inciting but interesting conversation.

And just remember, Funkerhouser loves you very much.

 

[coming to_falling too]

WHY CAN'T WE ALL JUST GET ALONG..... Lol

 

[Brendan]

Funkenhouser?!


Man I thought you were, like, dead or something.

 

[ssjones]

Jesse summarized the issue about four pages back. Some topics just lead to arguments. Take it to Facebook, or Twitter and knock yourselves out. The OP here was one click away this morning from a permanent ban. Don't make me do it.

There were several "free for all" pipe forums out there. I'd say join one, but I believe that they all folded.

This forum is unique in that it is funded by sponsors, so anything goes doesn't work.

 

[python]

I see not a lot has changed in my absence ?.

Just to add a couple of points.

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So, considering that the OP is not currently banned, I guess we do have tolerance and are not really Nazi's? ?


And
#2)

As much I like this forum it is the most censored forums I am following..

And that is precisely why PipesMagazine is THE LONGEST running ACTIVE pipe site and forum on the internet. Take a look around, I'm sure that nobody will find another pipe forum/site that has been constantly active for over a decade and still going.

Unfortunately people on internet forums need to be moderated. We all wish that this wasn't true, but it is.

That's all from me for now.

Peace Out.