Freethough Forum and IIDB?

[HighOnHotSauce]

I have a newbie question. What is the connection between this forum and IIDB? The two forums are obviously intimately entwined as there are constant references and links to IIDB. What’s the deal?

[livius drusus]

Well, the basic connection is a large overlapping membership, including your friendly neighborhood admins. IIDB was my rage and howling demon for 4 years. I was a moderator there for one of those years and although I barely post anymore, I'm still vestigially attached to it. vm wasn't there for as long a time as I was, but once he got going he sure was noticeable. :D

Some people registered here because they knew us from II and wanted to check out our new project. Some people registered here after following a link to us from a post at II.

To answer your question more succinctly, the connection is one of membership provenance. There is no other connection offical or unofficial.

[slimshady2357]

I have a newbie question. What is the connection between this forum and IIDB? The two forums are obviously intimately entwined as there are constant references and links to IIDB. What’s the deal?

I'm sure someone else will correct this, but here's my understanding.

liv and vm are really hard to satisfy when it comes to forums. Although they liked IIDB they weren't satisfied. So they started a new forum, I hear it's called Heathen Hangout (HH). Soon however, this forum too did not satisfy them (I told you, they're hard to satisfy). So they left HH and started yet another forum, this one. I expect them to be leaving any day now :deepsigh:

Although liv and vm are incredibly hard to satisfy, they are very likeable people, so everywhere they went, people followed them. Thus, there are many people here from both IIDB and HH.

And in fact there are many people here from forums liv and tom only visited, such is their appeal. Forums such as the JREF and spin-offs.

Adam

[livius drusus]

Yeah, that. Especially the bits about how likeable we are. I left that out of my post just because I'm not one to brag. :giggle:

[viscousmemories]

Although liv and vm are incredibly hard to satisfy, they are very likeable people, so everywhere they went, people followed them. Thus, there are many people here from both IIDB and HH.
And then there are those who followed the others and have to put up with us. :D

As a side note, I think you passed up a perfect opportunity to use the word 'insatiable' here; the only English word I can confidently say I learned from a porn flick.

Oh, and thanks for the kind words. :blush:

[slimshady2357]

Although liv and vm are incredibly hard to satisfy, they are very likeable people, so everywhere they went, people followed them. Thus, there are many people here from both IIDB and HH.
And then there are those who followed the others and have to put up with us. :D

As a side note, I think you passed up a perfect opportunity to use the word 'insatiable' here; the only English word I can confidently say I learned from a porn flick.

Oh, and thanks for the kind words. :blush:

The only English word you learned from a porn flick? :giggle:

vm watches foreign porn! vm watches foreign porn! :giggle:

And worse yet, he tries to translate :biglaugh:

[viscousmemories]

Hey, don't knock the foreign porn!

I didn't tease you for dropping the 't' in 'freethought'! :hmph:

And um... I'm just pretending you started this thread. I knew you didn't. Yeah... that's the ticket. Pretending. And I watch foreign porn with my wife, Morgan Fairchild!

[slimshady2357]

Hey, don't knock the foreign porn!

So come on, what's the spanish phrase for Cleveland Steamer? :giggle:

I didn't tease you for dropping the 't' in 'freethought'! :hmph:

And um... I'm just pretending you started this thread. I knew you didn't. Yeah... that's the ticket. Pretending. And I watch foreign porn with my wife, Morgan Fairchild!

So you've seen "The Initiation of Sarah ... Jennifer Lawrence (1978)
A withdrawn young girl joins an unpopular sorority in college. It turns out she has psychic and telekinetic powers, and she uses them against a rival sorority."?

[livius drusus]

Wow, vm... Your wife is kind of a skank. :giggle:

[viscousmemories]

I gotta say, if not for that photographic evidence I never would've remembered Morgan going through a Ginger Lynn phase.

[Ymir's blood]

Some people registered here because they knew us from II and wanted to check out our new project. Some people registered here after following a link to us from a post at II.
And some people joined "to annoy you and make things generally irritating."

[livius drusus]

Ymir's blood, it's only because I care that I'm telling you this now: your addiction to my :glare: is spiralling out of control, man. Admit you have a problem before it's too late!

[Ymir's blood]

:welcome3:

[livius drusus]

:glare: :glare: :glare: :glare: :glare: :glare: :glare: :glare: :glare:
:glare: :skull: :cthulhu3: :mori: :cthulhu3: :skull: :glare:
:glare: :glare: :glare: :glare: :glare: :glare: :glare: :glare: :glare:

[Fencesitter]

Wow, vm... Your wife is kind of a skank. :giggle:


Gee, that's not a very nice thing to say about vm's pretend wife. :P



Well, actually, I don't know if it's nice or not because I didn't know what skank meant so I looked it up.

skank (from dictionary.com)

1. A rhythmic dance performed to reggae or ska music, characterized by bending forward, raising the knees, and extending the hands.
2. Disgusting or vulgar matter; filth.
3. One who is digustingly foul or filthy and often considered sexually promiscuous. Used especially of a woman or girl.

You could be using definition one given her picture. Did you mean that Morgan likes to perform a rhythmic dance? :D


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[livius drusus]

:laugh: How in the world did that dance thing get to be the first definition?! Someone at dictionary.com has a sense of humor.

[Ymir's blood]

:glare: :glare: :glare: :glare: :glare: :glare: :glare: :glare: :glare:
:glare: :skull: :cthulhu3: :mori: :cthulhu3: :skull: :glare:
:glare: :glare: :glare: :glare: :glare: :glare: :glare: :glare: :glare:
/me is satiated... for now.

[fragment]

:laugh: How in the world did that dance thing get to be the first definition?! Someone at dictionary.com has a sense of humor.
I don't know about anyone else, but for me skank meant the dance a number of years before I heard it as an insult... I guess different parts of the world pick up slang at different times.

[livius drusus]

Ooo, intriguing, fragment. May I ask which part of the world associates skank with the dance first and foremost? Have you actually seen people dancing the skank? Can you dance the skank?

Because if so, we need to get a skank-dancing smiley, stat.

[Crumb]

Is "dancing the skank" a euphemism for something dirty? :drool:

[livius drusus]

That's what I'm trying to find out. :heybabeh:

[fragment]

That was back in New Zealand, but I don't really know if my experience of popular culture is the same as everyone else's, I seem to have always run at a bit of a tangent to the mainstream, one way or another. I can't do the dance, in fact I've never even seen it, but I used to listen to a little bit of ska when I was a teenager (late 80s) - that's the British kind, not the older Caribbean stuff or the later punkified American stuff. The insulting use of "skank" probably entered my consciousness about 10 years ago.

And dancing the skank probably is a euphemism for something dirty. So was rock'n'roll originally. And jazz, or so I've heard.

[Joshua Adams]

* Ymir's blood is satiated... for now.At least someone around here isn't insatiable.

[Fencesitter]

* Ymir's blood is satiated... for now.At least someone around here isn't insatiable.


. . . depending on how long 'for now' lasts.



Fence

[Ymir's blood]

* Ymir's blood is satiated... for now.At least someone around here isn't insatiable.


. . . depending on how long 'for now' lasts.



Fence
About fifteen minutes.