Hi!
I am Booty.
Have been around the CoFSM for over a year, only just heard of you lot yesterday in the general "WTF is Bobby doing now?" Conversations.
Thought I would stick a toe in and test the water :)
Not used to this "being polite" thing, but I will give it a go ;P
Welcome Booty! Your post sounds polite enough so you should be fine. ;)
Feel free to add your thoughts.
Hiya Abs - welcome to the site from another noob - Bobby still moderating?
Welcome, Booty!
It's not that we're so much into being polite, but we do like to practice mutual respect. Our Pirate's Cove can be quite the rowdy place, but it's understood that all crudeness there is mutual and can be taken with a grain of salt and a dram of rum.
A dram or two, at least.
Hullo, Booty! Welcome.
Welcome aboard Booty. Don't be afraid to express youself here, we are a very diverse lot, we just try to avoid getting personal and abusive. One big advantage of that is that the Siblings will allow you express you opinion without trying to shout you down. Have fun.
Sibling Bluenose
Yarr! Don't be listnin ter them blaggards! Come over to the Pyrates and 'ave at ye! Jest doan take enny IOUs from th' buckoes... Also, we prefer Captain's Delight ter that namby pamby rum muck... (See the Portsmouth Pirate Public School for the history of Captains Delight - ed)
Cap'n Bluenose
Quote from: Booty on December 14, 2007, 05:03:39 PM
Hi!
I am Booty.
Have been around the CoFSM for over a year, only just heard of you lot yesterday in the general "WTF is Bobby doing now?" Conversations.
Thought I would stick a toe in and test the water :)
Not used to this "being polite" thing, but I will give it a go ;P
We had a vote a while ago to drop the :censored: poilteness. Was I the only one who knew about it?
I know all about FSM (as if) but what is CoFSM? Is that like some support group for co-dependents of Pastafarians?
Welcome Booty. ;D
CoFSM stands for Church of the FSM - the venganza site :D
Thanks for all the welcomes!
I am having a hell of a time at home at the moment, but will try to have a look around soon.
So do you get many people with opposite views here?
Could someone point me to a good thread to get my teeth into?
farfalla ? Is that you ?
Welcome Booty! :)
I'm one of the people around here that haven't found this place though the venganza site (TOP -The Other Place is BTW a popular term for the site mentioned above).
Opposite views? Well, not opposite as much as a wide range of other views and as said on the front page "We are more interested in finding common ground than trumpeting our differences".
There isn't a hard, moderated or in anyway forced level of politeness around here, not that I've seen anyhow, so I don't think you have to worry much about that.
Are we polite here? Yes, we are, most of the time, because politeness is a very good grease on the cogs of social interaction. :)
Read the rules and browse the place and you will get the hang of it pretty soon, I promise!
There is plenty of space for general silliness and there is The Pirates Cove for drinking rum, swashbuckeling, stealing peg legs and liberating strangers from their doubloons...
A word o' advice, be nice t' us bar wenches or t' rum will be watered down... ;D
Quote from: Griffin NoName on December 14, 2007, 11:36:03 PM
We had a vote a while ago to drop the :censored: poilteness. Was I the only one who knew about it?
Been playing with the Pirates a lot lately dear Griffin? :P
:readnews:
Welcome aboard all newbies!!!!
btw- somewhere-- not sure exactly where- but somewhere there is a thread where we say
"I'm so and so from such and such and etc."
but of course that is entirely OPTIONAL--- you be who you want to be here there and everywhere
me--- well I'm anthrobabe here and at TOP (the other place aka Venganza) and anthrobabe other places as well.
but you be you and we welcome you with open arms (we do hug a lot-- but we try and keep the pinching down a bit)
Hey Booty!
Tell us what kinda stuff you like to sink your teeth into and we'll direct you there.
We have places for pirating, politics, current events discussions, health, home, jokes and games, music, art, creative writing, and personal concerns such as having a hell of a time at home. We can be a good support group.
Thanks!
I am mostly polite and nice I like to think - am jut having some fun chatting to the pro-gun lobby on Topix - and being nice seems to drive them potty!
I like lots of random silliness and some serious stuff mixed in - sounds like here will be just lovely! :D
I will tell you about me here as it's easier!
I am 35, married to a gorgeous, but not so chatty pastafarian, 2 boys aged 7 and 5, 2 cats aged 7 months and 6 months.
I work as a urology nurse (mostly willies)- that tends to scare people a lot :)
Anything else you'd like to know?
A nurse!!
Not in our specific field of interest--Griffin and I are BIG fans of the medical profession, OK, big supporters ummm...we're both not that fond of arrogant doctors, but then again, neither are most nurses...right?
To quote Animaniacs, Hello Nurse!!
(Griffin and I are both cancer patients--fairly long term, and have multitudes of respect for the nursing profession, notsomuch for some of the doctoring profession at times.)
:mrgreen: Heh. You may find that at times you feel like you've been transported into the psych ward. We're mostly harmless, even the Squiddies. Usually... :halo:
Sibling Chatty !! I adore big strong authoratitive (usually)-men who know what's best for me ;)
I'm think I'm going to ignore that one, Griff.
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I am mostly polite and nice I like to think - am jut having some fun chatting to the pro-gun lobby on Topix - and being nice seems to drive them potty!
I like lots of random silliness and some seriou stuff mixed in - sounds like here will be just lovely! :D
I will tell you about me here as it's easier!
I am 35, married to a gorgeous, but not so chatty pastafarian, 2 boys aged 7 and 5, 2 cats aged 7 months and 6 months.
I work as a urology nurse (mostly willies)- that tends to scare people a lot :)
Anything else you'd like to know?
I'm fairly sure LOGIC would drive them batty, much less niceness.
The med threads will be right up your alley. And I dunno how you feel about politics or such, but we have some fairly active threads on that.
Sorry if I have offended Scriblerus the Philosophe.;D
Hardly. Just not something I'm willing to comment on. :-*
Heh! Why am I thinking on the 'weak' gender? (just as a note, back home it was in common use the term 'weak gender' [sexo debil] in reference to women, which never made sense to me. All the women around me looked everything but weak, and I was the one that felt weak in their presence. It is obvious now that the 'weak gender' is the male :o ;) )
Quote from: Sibling Zono (anon1mat0) on December 16, 2007, 05:01:10 AM
Heh! Why am I thinking on the 'weak' gender? (just as a note, back home it was in common use the term 'weak gender' [sexo debil] in reference to women, which never made sense to me. All the women around me looked everything but weak, and I was the one that felt weak in their presence. It is obvious now that the 'weak gender' is the male :o ;) )
My sister-in-law once said: When a man can give birth to a 12 pound baby and still be willing to say "Next pregnancy", I will consider the possibility that a woman MIGHT be "the weaker sex".
Indeed!
I did consider "big" and "strong" might raise a debate. I should explain. They have a particular imprinted meaning inside my brain.
The teacher in my class, 4 year olds, every morning break, asked for a "big strong boy" to attend to the milk crate. Even at this young age, it was obvious to me that the majority of lads that answered the requests were neither bigger nor stronger than many of the girls. I was highly attuned to adults telling whoppers as my mother always insisted everything was nice and lovely even when things were actually horrific and unbearable. Translating mis-representation of facts had thereby already become a survival technique. Hence "big" and "strong" became "masculine, but with an awareness that females may also have this masculine trait*. Further, even very small men, frail, and shaky, are big and strong.
*early dawning of feminism.... I doubt my parents realised what was happening to their small girl ;)
Apologies to Booty for hi-jacking this thread. The Mods and Admins allow us to be so undisciplined ;D
Quote from: Griffin NoName on December 15, 2007, 10:58:23 PM
Sibling Chatty !! I adore big strong authoratitive (usually)-men who know what's best for me ;)
Didn't have you down as a Mills and Boon (http://www.millsandboon.co.uk/) reader.
Quote from: Griffin NoName on December 16, 2007, 05:42:39 AM
The teacher in my class, 4 year olds, every morning break, asked for a "big strong boy" to attend to the milk crate.
Ah, the dilemma of the modern woman. Settle for equality, or use psychology to bend men to your will?
Just going off on a tangent - thanks to whoever said that TOP meant That Other Place - thought someone meant TOPIX earlier.
Sorry - normal service resumes ;)
You will also see this place called TFM (ToadFish Monastery) and perhaps less obviously HOT (Honourable Order of the Toadfish)
I'll shut up now. :mrgreen:
Quote from: beagle on December 16, 2007, 06:37:16 PM
Quote from: Griffin NoName on December 15, 2007, 10:58:23 PM
Sibling Chatty !! I adore big strong authoratitive (usually)-men who know what's best for me ;)
Didn't have you down as a Mills and Boon (http://www.millsandboon.co.uk/) reader.
Mills and Boon - Pure reading pleasure it says on their website ;) ;)
I think I am more of the Jayne Eyre or Emma type. Or even Bridget Jones ;D
Quote from: beagle on December 16, 2007, 06:37:16 PM
Ah, the dilemma of the modern woman. Settle for equality, or use psychology to bend men to your will?
Talking of modern, I just heard about the man who was abducted to Mars by aliens and got sent back to earth where the CIA interrogated him, asking was Mars a more advance society than ours, to which he replied, yes much more, ... and they asked by how much.... and he said about six weeks.
Oh well, I guess it's all in the timing !!
(joke courtesy of a comedian I couldn't put a name to on Dawn French's interviewing male comedians show).
Hey, Alchi !!! We all got our own pet names for TOP :mrgreen:
hello newbies! how nice to see you. Migrants are welcomed with open arms here wherever they come from (unless Beagle gets hold of them and slaps them repeatedly with a copy of the daily mail whilst shouting about people coming over here and stealing our bandwidth).
Please be aware that this site is protected by a semi-official anti-troll goat (or SAGo for short) :goatflag: :goatflag: :goatflag: :goatflag: :goatflag: :goatflag: :goatflag: :goatflag: :goatflag:
so far it seems to be working
and hello to you too goat starer.
You sound interesting! In a dark cloak and false fangs kinda way :D j/k - hi :D
Goat doesn't need false fangs he have real horns... ;D
And hooves that would get caught up in a cape.
this is a goat cape although not one i approve of!
(http://www.shrimptoncouture.com/assets_d/2029/page_media/152-medium-web-view_108_sm.jpg)
more goat capes here
http://duotangoflies.wordpress.com/2007/11/ (http://duotangoflies.wordpress.com/2007/11/)
YArrrrr!
Nice droopy bits!!
Quote from: DaveL on March 20, 2008, 09:26:44 AM
YArrrrr!
Nice droopy bits!!
tackles the wayward pirate and swiftly bundles him below decks, closes hatch, sits on hatch, looks innocent and smiles while saying....
"what yelling from below decks- I don't hear no yellin-ye needs to clean ye ears out ye bilge bait"
YArrrr...
Ye can crash tackle me any time Saucy Gert!
stop it! you are scaring me.
all in good fun dear goat
all in good fun
well until someone gets their eye poked out with a dagger or something
hmmm- I wonder if one could saddle a goat?
Hello, Water Nymph!
Hello and Welcome! :)
Quote from: Opsanus tau on May 23, 2008, 10:25:01 PM
Hello, Water Nymph!
Sumpin' strange....are you replying to a post by Water Nymph, or just to the fact that she registered?
I'm confuzzeled....
Quote from: Bob in a quantum-state-of-faith on May 24, 2008, 04:13:43 AM
Quote from: Opsanus tau on May 23, 2008, 10:25:01 PM
Hello, Water Nymph!
Sumpin' strange....are you replying to a post by Water Nymph, or just to the fact that she registered?
I'm confuzzeled....
:ROFL:
they-- we--- you too are saying hello to someone who has registered called Water Nymph.
Quote from: anthrobabe on May 26, 2008, 02:16:25 PM
Quote from: Bob in a quantum-state-of-faith on May 24, 2008, 04:13:43 AM
Quote from: Opsanus tau on May 23, 2008, 10:25:01 PM
Hello, Water Nymph!
Sumpin' strange....are you replying to a post by Water Nymph, or just to the fact that she registered?
I'm confuzzeled....
:ROFL:
they-- we--- you too are saying hello to someone who has registered called Water Nymph.
Okay, that's making sense.
I'm the guilty one what invited her here (she's a regular over on Topix).
I thought she'd be a good fit, here, an' I hoped she'd like it enough to stick around.
Mebby she's jest to busy at present. Hope so.
Quote from: Opsanus tau on May 23, 2008, 10:25:01 PM
Hello, Water Nymph!
Hello. I certainly appreciate the welcome here. I'm just learning how to navigate these waters, so excuse the wayward fin now and again.
Quote from: Bob in a quantum-state-of-faith on May 26, 2008, 08:20:37 PM
Quote from: anthrobabe on May 26, 2008, 02:16:25 PM
Quote from: Bob in a quantum-state-of-faith on May 24, 2008, 04:13:43 AM
Quote from: Opsanus tau on May 23, 2008, 10:25:01 PM
Hello, Water Nymph!
Hello there, my friend. I am most happy to arrive on these shores.
Thank you so much for the invitation.
I think it will be a grand change from topix just from what I have read so far.
Give me time to get me sea legs (fins) under me, and look around a bit.
If you have any suggestions as to topics I might enjoy, please feel free to point your seashell in that direction.
Love Light Laughter to all
Sumpin' strange....are you replying to a post by Water Nymph, or just to the fact that she registered?
I'm confuzzeled....
:ROFL:
they-- we--- you too are saying hello to someone who has registered called Water Nymph.
Okay, that's making sense.
I'm the guilty one what invited her here (she's a regular over on Topix).
I thought she'd be a good fit, here, an' I hoped she'd like it enough to stick around.
Mebby she's jest to busy at present. Hope so.
Hi Water Nymph!
Welcome to the Monastery. Watch out for the squidlings, and don't be shocked at the folks napping under the tables in the pub. We provide them pillows and blankies and make sure they're comfy and nourished. (We likes it in the pub.)
Quote from: Sibling Chatty on May 26, 2008, 11:55:08 PM
Hi Water Nymph!
Welcome to the Monastery. Watch out for the squidlings, and don't be shocked at the folks napping under the tables in the pub. We provide them pillows and blankies and make sure they're comfy and nourished. (We likes it in the pub.)
I have all sons---I'm not shocked at too much in the world.
Thanks for the welcome.
Point me to the pub, please!
Quote from: water nymph on May 27, 2008, 12:12:01 AM
I have all sons---I'm not shocked at too much in the world.
If you have all sons does that mean I don't have to bother with mine anymore?
Welcome!
Quote from: water nymph on May 27, 2008, 12:12:01 AM
Point me to the pub, please!
Hey, were DID they move the pub to?
I can't seem to find it in the open sections.... but, then again, I _AM_ dim when it comes to directions. Is why I have a GPS thingy... ::)
The Pub's in the Tide Pool, which is a slightly more restricted area, for what we call Toadfish Novices (this is a kind of monastery, even if only in name, and the Abbot is female.) People who 'play nice' in Open Water soon get invited deeper inside. :)
Edit: We do like to wait a little to see if someone is going to stick around, or is just passing through... Both lots of people are welcome here, but we won't put a label on yer chair for just anyone... :P
Yarrrr... there be the Admiral Benbow o'er in Pirates fer now, 'tis open to all. ;)
Quote from: Agujjim on May 27, 2008, 02:29:36 AM
Yarrrr... there be the Admiral Benbow o'er in Pirates fer now, 'tis open to all. ;)
Aye, but not all have the penchant nor t'eyewear for proper piratin' an'all.
Arrr.
AH, but the Benbow's just the place to get hooked...
Arr arr arr, arrrrghhh!! :yar:
Welcome, Nymph!
If someone offers you fish head stew, run the other way!
Hey there again, WN! Somehow I just felt you'd check in here sooner or later.
Not a bad idea, though, having a public pub as well as a private pub and a pirate pub. As long as it begins with "p", there ought to be a pub involved, somehow.
A number of us are parents, here. Toadfish are natural critters and do not take vows of ...well anything, other than just basic intent to be decent to one another.
Quote from: Griffin NoName on May 27, 2008, 12:42:24 AM
Quote from: water nymph on May 27, 2008, 12:12:01 AM
I have all sons---I'm not shocked at too much in the world.
If you have all sons does that mean I don't have to bother with mine anymore?
Welcome!
Pretty much.
Thanks a bunch
Love Light and Laughter to you all
Quote from: Bob in a quantum-state-of-faith on May 27, 2008, 12:59:24 AM
Quote from: water nymph on May 27, 2008, 12:12:01 AM
Point me to the pub, please!
Hey, were DID they move the pub to?
I can't seem to find it in the open sections.... but, then again, I _AM_ dim when it comes to directions. Is why I have a GPS thingy... ::)
Hi, Bob. We'll end up there one way or the other. If I find it first, I'll send good directions. 22 years as a Realtor, ya know.
Quote from: water nymph on May 27, 2008, 03:55:12 PM
Quote from: Griffin NoName on May 27, 2008, 12:42:24 AM
Quote from: water nymph on May 27, 2008, 12:12:01 AM
I have all sons---I'm not shocked at too much in the world.
If you have all sons does that mean I don't have to bother with mine anymore?
Welcome!
Pretty much.
Relief at last !! Just throw a bucket of water over them once or twice a year ;)
Quote from: The Meromorph on May 27, 2008, 02:02:01 AM
The Pub's in the Tide Pool, which is a slightly more restricted area, for what we call Toadfish Novices (this is a kind of monastery, even if only in name, and the Abbot is female.) People who 'play nice' in Open Water soon get invited deeper inside. :)
Edit: We do like to wait a little to see if someone is going to stick around, or is just passing through... Both lots of people are welcome here, but we won't put a label on yer chair for just anyone... :P
Totally understandable. I tend to stick around interesting folk. So guess I'll see ya when I see ya at the pub.
Love Light and Laughter to everyone
Quote from: Scriblerus the Philosophe on May 27, 2008, 05:24:16 AM
Welcome, Nymph!
If someone offers you fish head stew, run the other way!
You don't have to tell me something like
that twice!
I'll be on the watch.
Quote from: Opsanus tau on May 27, 2008, 03:53:31 PM
Hey there again, WN! Somehow I just felt you'd check in here sooner or later.
Not a bad idea, though, having a public pub as well as a private pub and a pirate pub. As long as it begins with "p", there ought to be a pub involved, somehow.
A number of us are parents, here. Toadfish are natural critters and do not take vows of ...well anything, other than just basic intent to be decent to one another.
Maybe we newbies could have a pseudo-pub. That way, the old timers could direct us in the Toadfish Pub (and possibly Piratin') ways.
Heh, I forgot - we also have The Vent, which is the Satanist pub / "lounge for the sinister type". It's hiding in Snark and Rant.
No shortage of pubs, but there's always room for more.
hmmm.... we could do an internal pub crawl, y'know....
Quote from: water nymph on May 27, 2008, 04:10:01 PM
Quote from: Opsanus tau on May 27, 2008, 03:53:31 PM
Maybe we newbies could have a pseudo-pub. That way, the old timers could direct us in the Toadfish Pub (and possibly Piratin') ways.
PIRATIN ! Yarr ! Exsillent...fresh meet ! Inspirashun !
Quote from: Agujjim on May 27, 2008, 04:22:37 PM
hmmm.... we could do an internal pub crawl, y'know....
Just remember that many a pub crawl ends up as a pub drag. Some of us are just slow... ;)
...and some of us might want to do it in drag! You should see my Steve Buscemi impersonation.
Quote from: Sibling Chatty on May 27, 2008, 06:22:20 PM
Just remember that many a pub crawl ends up as a pub drag. Some of us are just slow... ;)
Ish jusht a click frum one t'the nexsht, y'know.... :drunk:
Here ya go: http://toadfishmonastery.com/index.php?option=com_smf&Itemid=32&topic=1364.new#new
Ops, I created a new board for the new Pub and moved it to Open Water from Site Content.
It is now HERE: http://toadfishmonastery.com/forum/index.php?topic=1364.msg65661#new
Oh, good. I was afraid it was me that moved.
Quote from: Opsanus tau on May 27, 2008, 10:58:56 PM
Oh, good. I was afraid it was me that moved.
No, you seem to be in an alcoholic coma under a bar stool :mrgreen:
You mean this is all a dream and my head is going to hurt tomorrow?
Well, possibly, but remember, tomorrow is the end of the world, so you may never find out ;)
Welcome, water nymph!
Quote from: Bruder Cuzzen on May 27, 2008, 04:51:43 PM
Quote from: water nymph on May 27, 2008, 04:10:01 PM
Quote from: Opsanus tau on May 27, 2008, 03:53:31 PM
Maybe we newbies could have a pseudo-pub. That way, the old timers could direct us in the Toadfish Pub (and possibly Piratin') ways.
PIRATIN ! Yarr ! Exsillent...fresh meet ! Inspirashun !
F-f-f-fresh m-m-m-meet? I hope that's meant real friendly like. I'm not a (known) pirate, you know. I'm kinda new to Piratin ways.
Edit by Bluenose: Jess fixin yer quoting nesting loike. Arrgh!
Welcome aboard WN!
Generally you'll find the pirates' barks are worse than their bites. I hope you enjoy yourself here in the monastery.
Oi can't bark, no matter how hard Oi troys. Can do a mean trumpet, though.
was it like this Opsa
:earthquake:
or this
:daz:
Again a warm WELCOME to Water Nymph--(and also if tea is more your thing or root beer you are just as welcome this place welcomes and embraces all)
It was more like:
"I feel the Earth... (bom bom) move... (bom bom) under my feet..."
Oh, yeah...
I feel the sky tumblin' down, a tumblin' down....
Quote from: Opsanus tau
It was more like:
"I feel the Earth... (bom bom) move... (bom bom) under my feet..."
Quote from: Sibling ChattyOh, yeah...
I feel the sky tumblin' down, a tumblin' down....
Wait a minute! Wait a minute! Shouldn't this be in the
End of Daze thread?
Nah, it just sounds like that when Chatty and I get singing those old songs "all over, all over, all over, all over..."