Newbie (well, obviously!)

[Booty]

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

[Sibling Zono (anon1mat0)]

Welcome Booty! Your post sounds polite enough so you should be fine.

Feel free to add your thoughts.

[Alchemist]

Hiya Abs - welcome to the site from another noob - Bobby still moderating?

[Opsa]

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.

[Scriblerus the Philosophe]

A dram or two, at least.
Hullo, Booty! Welcome.

[Bluenose]

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

[Griffin NoName]

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   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.

[Booty]

CoFSM stands for Church of the FSM - the venganza site
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?

[Bruder Cuzzen]

farfalla ? Is that you ?

[Darlica]

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... 

   

We had a vote a while ago to drop the  poilteness. Was I the only one who knew about it?

Been playing with the Pirates a lot lately dear Griffin?

[anthrobabe]

 

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)

[Opsa]

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.

[Booty]

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!
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?

[Sibling Chatty]

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.)

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...

[Griffin NoName]

Sibling Chatty !!  I adore big strong authoratitive (usually)-men who know what's best for me