How about biting the arse on the buttcheek instead?
Lmao I just reread the "burger" thread and described chipotle as "one of my 5 favorite places to eat." It's amazing how true that was and how much that has changed.
Spoiler: forcing yourself to eat at the same restaurant known for a limited menu 3 times a week for 3 months is a good way to get sick of it.
Spoiler: forcing yourself to eat at the same restaurant known for a limited menu 3 times a week for 3 months is a good way to get sick of it.
Social media kind of killed most people's interest in forums.
Not only that, but the ever-shrinking subset of that group who still manage to make time to come here.
Yeah, I know. We don't really have a strong unifying thing, and I don't want to force one - saying "we're THE premier forum for talking about Minotaur Penis" isn't all that useful, saying "we're the number one forum to talk about golf" is, well, laughable, and would invalidate all the non-golf people here.
Thé number one place to talk about fat cats?
Well no, because then my threshold would be lower.
I've tried several times over the years. Only "success" was a couple of past girlfriends. One which I think still participates in the Secret Santa every year. The other...doesn't come here anymore thanks to post-breakup drama.
But I've tried inviting other friends to join, but to no success.
I remember that a few years ago we got a new member who only made one post, and that was to ask me for an apple brownies recipe. She got the recipe and disappeared. How weird is that?
And combing through old threads, we had a ton of people leave in 2012-13. I think the late North Ranger was the glue that kept some Halforumites here.
And combing through old threads, we had a ton of people leave in 2012-13. I think the late North Ranger was the glue that kept some Halforumites here.
I think this predates North Ranger's passing, but there was also big drama involving The Artist Formerly Known as Chaz, when he was banned. There was a Halforums IRC group with a bunch of people who left over it. I can't remember any details from it. Something about a conspiracy that a new forum member was actually Chaz or something.
Speaking of drama, I'm genuinely surprised Charlie Don't Surf hasn't resurfaced. I don't think he's posted since Trump's election.
I feel like the 2013-2014 era is when I sort of stopped thinking to check Halforums as often because that's when I got into Reddit, which was hitting the dopamine rush of new threads and new topics more frequently and has zero shortage of new person influx. But there's definitely an advantage to a smaller community where you immediately recognize each person posting and have a general idea of their personality and post history. I may lurk more often than I actually post, heck there's a lot of times I'll type out a post just to not submit it or to immediately delete it, but browsing Halforums feels more intimate and I find myself thinking about what specific people here said far more often than on other sites, even if I personally disagree with the politics of a lot of them. Really sad to come back and notice that certain major players have been gone for six months or more, or see people leave over drama I didn't even realize was ongoing.
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I feel you, man. It's more or less the same reason I left. That, and it seemed like literally every single thing I said was met with some drawn out, angry argument. And usually one that seems so silly in retrospect. The straw that broke the camel's back was when a member I actually liked a lot decided apparently to make it his personal mission to find fault with every thing I said. Oh well. It's kind of end-of-Stand-By-Me sad. I remember the good times fondly, but now some of us are working part time at the scrap yard or in and out of prison.
I actually work at an In-N-Out in a prison.
...I'm calling BS on this.
EDIT: And thank you, @Ravenpoe for pointing out that my Chromebook has a LOUSY word replacement algorithm.
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