Seriously no one is even burning anymore.
How about a little fun for the oldtimers.
How about a little fun for the oldtimers.
Summer is here, how about the can
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bet your a warren supporter now that hill blew her chance with the old **** case. why have the can opened. aint nothing but worms in there.
maybe someone started a stove, low got down to 34*http://forecast.weather.gov/MapClic...ap_y=129.02001953125&x=138&y=130#.U6Vh341OXIV last day of spring in maine??(broken link removed) andhttp://(broken link removed to http://www.mattnoyes.net/alerts/2014/06/record-report-from-national-weather-service-burlington-vt.html)
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Remember Sundays, back in the day? The righties would go extra nuts in the can, me and Craig would laugh our butts off.
Brother Bart and Fossil would point our their stupidity, Begreen would post wise sentiments and Jags was a moderating force without even being a moderator.
Brother Bart and Fossil would point our their stupidity, Begreen would post wise sentiments and Jags was a moderating force without even being a moderator.
What I am still waiting for are some links to those "gazillion" other forums to discuss politics etc. I have not found any so far that have such a wide variety of opinions/political leanings, stay mostly civil, draw a crowd from all over the US and beyond and lend themselves to discuss pretty much everything. Anyone know of some?
bassJAM
Feeling the Heat
There is a local motorcycle forum to Cincinnati called assfaultjunkies.com. I got rid of my sport bike though so I haven't been on there in about a year so the climate could have changed. We used to have a lot of religious and political talks, with VERY different opinions. But because most of us meet up every Sunday to ride, it stayed pretty civil. I do think people for the most part stay pretty decent on here. I hate that a lot of the more interesting threads in the Inglenook get locked pretty fast, personally I'd rather see offenders get banned/warned, and let the rest of us discuss things other than firewood every now and then.
The can was the best part of my life.
I am bummed out beyond all reason. Year in and year out I wait for it to reopen. What is the big deal?
I can't speak for others as I was one of the guys that thought the can would open back up. That said - it was near consensus that the can was a distraction from what the site was built for (a wiki of sorts for heating with wood and gas). There was a bit of moderation madness involved too. It was a fine line to walk to keep it civil at times. And there are always that handful that should never have peaked in there to begin with. They just "can't handle" it.
Warm_in_NH
Minister of Fire
Latest being the one about MC owners. One person without a bike hijacked it and went on rant about bikes and bikers and it killed the thread. Made no sense.
Ashful
Minister of Fire
It's very difficult to find political discourse on the internet that is simultaneously intelligent and civil. I think civility in political discourse is somewhat overrated though. People will ask me "well how could you possibly say a thing like that?" Here's how I see it. There is nothing that I care more about in life than my children; their welfare, safety and happiness. Nearly everything that the left, (I'm talking the far left, not your reasonable moderate liberals which are fairly rare these days) stands for today is a direct threat to the safety and happiness of my children's future. Why would I want to be civil with this lot when I view them as a dire threat to what I care most about in life?
"Progressivism" as it's been rebranded is nothing but stale tyrannical leftist collectivism. It's a vile cancer upon humanity.
It must be mentioned that many who claim to be conservatives are not classical conservatives but rather a motley assortment approaching the futility of progressives, ie. souless corporate shills, war mongering flag waving neocons, intolerant religious fundamentalists, etc etc
The mainstream political movement that most closely represents my beliefs is libertarianism.
Unlike Dune, online political discussion is not even close to the best part of my life but it can sometimes be a nice way to get through those very slow days at the office.
And just why - on a forum about home heating would the mods allow anybody to not be civil. One view vs another view is no reason to not be civil. This is exactly the reason the can got shut down. Personal attacks simply won't be tolerated.
[quote="bassJAM, post: 1733324, . I hate that a lot of the more interesting threads in the Inglenook get locked pretty fast, personally I'd rather see offenders get banned/warned, and let the rest of us discuss things other than firewood every now and then.[/quote]
Well said. I don't think I've encountered anyone on this site who was not able to let it go and immediately switch gears to go to another thread and post on the topics that this website was created for. It would be nice to have the ash can as a place for those other topics to be discussed and have the moderators single out those who routinely step over the line rather than shutting down the entire thread.
Well said. I don't think I've encountered anyone on this site who was not able to let it go and immediately switch gears to go to another thread and post on the topics that this website was created for. It would be nice to have the ash can as a place for those other topics to be discussed and have the moderators single out those who routinely step over the line rather than shutting down the entire thread.
I don't actually think any of my past posts were uncivil and I know I did not make any personal attacks. As a general rule I do my best to be civil until I'm treated uncivilly which, when I'm engaged in a discussion with a lefty usually takes about ten seconds.
Kind of says it right there. Open to discussion as long as it supports my POV.
The US has become more polarized, racist, religious, extreme and gullible. It's hard to have a reasonable conversation when rationality, respect common sense and decorum are not part of the ground rules. Personally I have no desire to have a discussion that doesn't stay within the forum rules.
Here are some more political discussion boards for those that need them:
http://www.usmessageboard.com/
http://www.politicalforum.com/
http://www.politicsforum.org/
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