Age and The Broken Funny Bone

[Bitchamachacha]

It's always nice coming back for a spell and reading up on the old familiars, especially now. There's so much love here. It's pretty damned awesome.

I recall popping by many times before, though and simply reading, checking in on everyone silently and smiling here-and-there, but there was always that common complaint: "The board is boring. It's not funny anymore. Yada..yada.."

I felt the same. I wondered if people just ran out of things to say. Then I realized that even "I" would draw a blank on what to post. It were as if I'd lost my sense of humor. But perhaps it's age. What we all once found funny isn't funny anymore because we all put on our big kid pants. And maybe we find different things funny now. Back in the day, I think I laughed the most at the posts where we gave each other a rough time (out of love and sarcasm of course). But I think I've grown out of that, plus I don't know many newer kids well enough on here to laugh at the sarcasm, because it goes straight over my geezer brain.

I want my old funny bone back, damn it!

[Kid Presentable]

People hit delete on heaps of their posts before they submit them, and save their 'a' game for facebook.

Can someone give me dating advice? I might have a date soon and I'm about to go on meds for depression (ongoing - needed to happen about 10 years ago). When I used to dole out the advice it was fun because I didn't have to live with the consequences.

I'm thinking something unconventional like a Thursday night. No picking her up, just meeting her at a bar or something. I'll get maggot drunk and spew on her shoes it'll be doooooooooope

[M|X|Y]

are you still writing books?

[Kid Presentable]

Nah bro, just posts about dating advice. How come?

[M|X|Y]

aren't anti-depressives related to boner problems? watch out!

[Kid Presentable]

They'll save me from being a two-pump chump it's gonna be the bolts

[M|X|Y]

no i meant bitcha... i thought she used to write books

[M|X|Y]

that's one way of looking at it. tits to the pits, man(y)

[Kid Presentable]

I'm not used to dating women, just to picking them up. Should be fun.

Any advice though breh breh?

[Lo_Lyfe]

I'm not used to dating women, just to picking them up. Should be fun.

Any advice though breh breh?

kill urslef

[avignon]

I spent some time over the past few days looking at very old threads here. It made me very sad to realize that none of it was as clever as I remember it. I suppose this all met some need we had at some point, but to look back now it just reads as a bunch of people on a message board talking about being on a message board. Lots of fishing for attention and affirmation-even the arguments since the people arguing roused the most attention. I don't exactly regret it, but it seems like a totally artificial substitute for real social interaction now.
The magic is gone. :(

[Kid Presentable]

I spent some time over the past few days looking at very old threads here. It made me very sad to realize that none of it was as clever as I remember it. I suppose this all met some need we had at some point, but to look back now it just reads as a bunch of people on a message board talking about being on a message board. Lots of fishing for attention and affirmation-even the arguments since the people arguing roused the most attention. I don't exactly regret it, but it seems like a totally artificial substitute for real social interaction now.
The magic is gone. :(

Real people are fucking retarded though

[avignon]

People hit delete on heaps of their posts before they submit them, and save their 'a' game for facebook.

Can someone give me dating advice? I might have a date soon and I'm about to go on meds for depression (ongoing - needed to happen about 10 years ago). When I used to dole out the advice it was fun because I didn't have to live with the consequences.

I'm thinking something unconventional like a Thursday night. No picking her up, just meeting her at a bar or something. I'll get maggot drunk and spew on her shoes it'll be doooooooooope

What kind of date advice? Do you want advice about the actual date, or asking her out, or what? Actually, it depends on the outcome you want. Is this a flingy thingy or a potential ongoingy thingy?

[avignon]

Real people are fucking retarded though

Couldn't agree more but so are e-people and you can't throw rocks at e-tards.

[Kid Presentable]

What kind of date advice? Do you want advice about the actual date, or asking her out, or what? Actually, it depends on the outcome you want. Is this a flingy thingy or a potential ongoingy thingy?

Start with the fling with a view to an ogoing thing.

I can handle the asking part, it's more the operational aspects. Eating vs Drinking, Wallabees (which have been resolutely poorly received in this city) vs sneaks, shirts vs t shirts, hug vs kiss vs goose and so on

[Bitchamachacha]

are you still writing books?


Nooo. My life went berzerker and the publishing industry is balls. I just don't have time to sit and write like I used to. Thanks for asking, though. You must have changed your username, right? Or my memory is going along with my sense of humor.

Anti-depressants are hard core. I tried some to help with another med I was on and damn..it made me feel like shit. I had to stop taking it. But they are supposed to make you feel like shit the first couple weeks while your brain changes and your serotonin levels raise. I would wait on setting a date until you get over the side effects of the meds. They can make you very tired and sometimes super anxious. They gave me the vomits and I was too weak to walk.

[Kid Presentable]

SSRIs, though. Plus I've done lots of drugs, should be right (y)

[Bitchamachacha]

SSRIs, though. Plus I've done lots of drugs, should be right (y)

Yeah..you should be awesome once your body adjusts, just drink lots of water and rest. Seriously. SSRIs and SNRIs change the brain, and it takes time for them to kick in and do their magic. My experience occurred just last week. Still fresh on the mind.

[avignon]

Start with the fling with a view to an ogoing thing.

I can handle the asking part, it's more the operational aspects. Eating vs Drinking, Wallabees (which have been resolutely poorly received in this city) vs sneaks, shirts vs t shirts, hug vs kiss vs goose and so on

Well, the thing i hate about the concept of a date is that this is someone you probably don't know very well but want to get to know better, so what activity is there that would give you both some common ground? Unless you met through some common activity that is. Don't go to a movie. That's two hours of not talking to eachother so what's the point? Drinking, again, not a great way to get to know each other. Dinner is cool. And cliche and easy. But if you're just thinking to sex her up, then take her to dinner, be all Bond like and it's done. If it's an ongoing thing, then be yourself which is the opposite of Bond like. Meaning take her to dinner somewhere that has paper napkins and burp and pick your nose. Don't worry, most women in it for the long haul know they shouldstart with a fixer-upper.

[tpk]

i was excited to see everyone back but have since realized people were probably just passing by with no intention of actually returning.

the problem seems to be that people got older no doubt. reading the what's new thread, pretty much everyone got old and depressing really. depressing in the sense of living a normal family life. that's not very entertaining for a message board.

i'm very nostalgic as a person though and so i try not to change too much. i would still enjoy everything i enjoyed years ago on the board.

so yeah, stop being old and depressing is what i'm trying to say.

[Pres Zount]

I also have been spending some time reading old threads and posts, and while some of it was hilarious, a lot of my own posts made me cringe with embarrassment.

But for the record I do want a place that I can come to and hang out with internet friends on the internet! So I might stay, unless I get voted off again.

[avignon]

I love the update thread, but I suspect there have been some username changes that I don't get. Yetre flam is zorra?

[tpk]

I also have been spending some time reading old threads and posts, and while some of it was hilarious, a lot of my own posts made me cringe with embarrassment.

But for the record I do want a place that I can come to and hang out with internet friends on the internet! So I might stay, unless I get voted off again.yeah no doubt about the cringe part. just checked out the trading cards a few days ago and damn.

but yeah i hope people end up hangin around. of course you're gonna go blank when wanting to post something if you're not constantly posting cause you don't know what's goin on and so you don't know what to comment on.

[avignon]

I also have been spending some time reading old threads and posts, and while some of it was hilarious, a lot of my own posts made me cringe with embarrassment.

But for the record I do want a place that I can come to and hang out with internet friends on the internet! So I might stay, unless I get voted off again.

The worst part is the pictures that have been deleted and in some cases all the posts of a certain person. It's like they only exist in peoples' quotes. That blows. It's like ripping pages out of a book. Not a great book, but still.

[TAL]

Yetre flam is zorra?
Yes. Yetra is zorra.

[Miho]

I haven't changed very much. I'm still young at heart. Whenever people meet me, they think I'm in my early 20s, when I'm actually 27. I take that as a compliment. It isn't just because of my young looks, but I also act young and spirited. Like Tpk, I don't like to change too much about myself.

Around here, I've never been a popular personality. Probably because I never was attention-seeking or anything like that. I would've liked to been closer to some of you.

[Bitchamachacha]

i was excited to see everyone back but have since realized people were probably just passing by with no intention of actually returning.

the problem seems to be that people got older no doubt. reading the what's new thread, pretty much everyone got old and depressing really. depressing in the sense of living a normal family life. that's not very entertaining for a message board.

i'm very nostalgic as a person though and so i try not to change too much. i would still enjoy everything i enjoyed years ago on the board.

so yeah, stop being old and depressing is what i'm trying to say.

Time has alot to do with it, too. Growing up and getting jobs where we can't hang on a computer all day keeping up with fast moving threads really blows. At least they used to move fast. I remember when this board was like a chat room. One post would get 20 replies in ten minutes.

And normal family life can be very interesting. :) It's having to be more responsible and maturing that's depressing. I was way more silly as an immature twenty-something, but I was also more of an asshole. I'm still silly, just careful about how silly I get and around whom.

[na§tee]

the problem seems to be that people got older no doubt. reading the what's new thread, pretty much everyone got old and depressing really. depressing in the sense of living a normal family life. that's not very entertaining for a message board.

i'm very nostalgic as a person though and so i try not to change too much. i would still enjoy everything i enjoyed years ago on the board.

so yeah, stop being old and depressing is what i'm trying to say.
woah there. i'm pretty sure the 'old and depressing' settled people can still enjoy things.

i don't think it's so much about getting older, it's how peoples' habits online have changed. and that has an impact on the cycle of activity like bitcha said. get jobs etc where you can't doss about online all day > less posts > less activity on the board > things get slow > less likely to visit regularly > etc.

[mikizee]

I plan on hanging around. I don't want this board to die again, we got a pretty cool bunch of people here.

[Dorothy Wood]

I like this place because people interact that are so different in nature and location, yet we all kind of adapt to each other. We're enemies, best friends, and nothing but words on a screen at the same time. I can call somebody I've never met a "cunt" in one thread, and then give someone else a pat on the back in the other. The former being generally frowned upon in real life.

I think facebook started to account for most of the pats on the back, so perhaps most people who left just drifted into a different kind of online community, one more tied to real life, one rooted in mutual respect and tangible rewards. Much more constructive, and honest because your real likeness is associated with your real name instead of a pseudonym (in most cases), so you want to put your best foot forward.

Except best feet forward are often very boring, so when you want to let your real feelings out, you come here! and yell your head off if you want. It's pretty cool.

:cool:

[Matt]

Honestly, I feel like this place played a major role in who I am as a person. I've learned to not let little shit bother me, to cherish friendships, and, most of all, to be funny.

We all are getting older, and we do have more responsibilities. I feel like we all have put on our big kid pants in some way, but it feels good to slip those off and put on or BBMB-brand footy pajamas sometimes. Let go, be silly here, and you'll come out better on the other end, you know?

[tpk]

woah there. i'm pretty sure the 'old and depressing' settled people can still enjoy things.

i don't think it's so much about getting older, it's how peoples' habits online have changed. and that has an impact on the cycle of activity like bitcha said. get jobs etc where you can't doss about online all day > less posts > less activity on the board > things get slow > less likely to visit regularly > etc.yeah i was mostly ranting. re: getting older though. indirectly that means all the things you mentioned up there, at least in my opinion.

so yeah im sorry the problem isn't age and depression but more what comes with age - responsibilities etc.

either way though, most people here are pretty great and it would just suck to see everything just fade away when i've met so many cool people through the boards.

[paul jones]

I'm never going to get old and responsible.I will get old,yeah....I'm 41 but I mean like worrying about pensions or gardening or D.I.Y. or wearing shit clothes.I'll probably turn into a Larry David without the money.(y)

[Beckalina]

The dude who plays hawkeye in avengers is 41

[paul jones]

The dude who plays hawkeye in avengers is 41

I wish I had the cunts money(y)

[Beckalina]

I wish I had cunt money too. It's the best.

[paul jones]

I wish I had cunt money too. It's the best.

yes,just ask Man City.they're full of 'em

[BGirl]

i was excited to see everyone back but have since realized people were probably just passing by with no intention of actually returning.

Wow, this made me feel really bad. :(

My life is definitely a lot different now than it was when I was a regular here (TT5B-TMU eras). I was working at home, alone all day, and more importantly, Mr. BGirl was taking classes and working on his thesis in addition to working full time and he had ZERO time for me... I was lonely and this place filled in the gap quite nicely. Thank you all for entertaining me and keeping me company and some of you for even befriending me. I think of you more than you know and do stop by now and then to read and see what's up with the people who are still here, but it's not really easy to jump back in when you've been gone a long time. I'm going to join the BBMB group(s) on Facebook (Dorothy Wood was on point - do people still say on point? - with what she said about Facebook I think) and try to keep in better touch, especially with the people who were nice enough to become my friends. :)

[Mae]

i was excited to see everyone back but have since realized people were probably just passing by with no intention of actually returning.

the problem seems to be that people got older no doubt. reading the what's new thread, pretty much everyone got old and depressing really. depressing in the sense of living a normal family life. that's not very entertaining for a message board.

i'm very nostalgic as a person though and so i try not to change too much. i would still enjoy everything i enjoyed years ago on the board.

so yeah, stop being old and depressing is what i'm trying to say.

I'm still fucking awesome, so no change there.

[tpk]

I'm still fucking awesome, so no change there.yeah i'm starting to disagree with what i originally said :)

the thing was as i was writing that there had been like no activity on the boards for about one and a half days.

whatever though, it feels good now. i would not have been able to deal with the loss of yauch the way i did if it wasn't for the boards. (y)