An interesting thing I didn't know until today

[Capybara]

I learned today that you can spend every day for 20 years interacting with people on an online community, but if you disappear for 3 or 4 months no one will even fucking notice.
It's a good thing I don't have a virtual cat.

https://www.onetouchfootball.com/for...07#post2615707

Anyway, hope you are OK.

[hobbes]

Ah, shit. Do I have to put my bottom lip away now?
Yes, I'm fine thanks Capybara. I got the feeling I'd inadvertently started annoying people on here (not least myself) so I figured I'd give myself until the new season to reflect on how and why that was.

[Nocturnal Submission]

I learned today that you can spend every day for 20 years interacting with people on an online community, but if you disappear for 3 or 4 months no one will even fucking notice.
It's a good thing I don't have a virtual cat.

Hey, I noticed and was a little concerned, because I thought you reported a health concern shortly before you went AWOL. But then I checked and saw that you were occasionally viewing the board, if not posting.

Welcome back.

[WOM]

I even went to your FB page, and since nobody was discussing your untimely demise, I just figured it was something Sony-related.

[Satchmo Distel]

Mae West's risque number, "I Wonder Where My Easy Rider's Gone?" was written by an African-American, Shelton Brooks, so there was a black influence on her genre, making her even more subversive perhaps. She's in the Ma Rainey/Bessie Smith tradition to an extent.

[matt j]

Beck (Hansen) of Odelay and "Loser", and everything else... has a bit of a interesting family: (e.g.)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Hansen

Beck also apparently has disavowed being a Scientologist recently, which is good?

[Toby Gymshorts]

Ah, shit. Do I have to put my bottom lip away now?
Yes, I'm fine thanks Capybara. I got the feeling I'd inadvertently started annoying people on here (not least myself) so I figured I'd give myself until the new season to reflect on how and why that was.

Welcome back, old bean.

[ursus arctos]

Genuinely wonderful to see hobbes again

[caja-dglh]

Well isn't that a nice turn up for the books.

[Satchmo Distel]

Genuinely wonderful to see hobbes again

Seconded

[hobbes]

I appreciate it. And feel like a right arsehole, to boot.

[Hot Pepsi]

I have no sense of time.

[Hot Pepsi]

Walter Koenig is still alive.

[Uncle Ethan]

Well, today, after many years using the platform I finally noticed that the Twitter home icon is a birdhouse.

[ad hoc]

Your absence had been noted, commented on, and worried about on at least one thread Hobbes, though I can't remember which one. Great to have you back

[Discordant Resonance]

That there was a Quaker offshoot religion founded by arguably America's earliest non-binary individual.

[Guy Profumo]

Seconded

Thirded

[EIM]

Ah, shit. Do I have to put my bottom lip away now?
Yes, I'm fine thanks Capybara. I got the feeling I'd inadvertently started annoying people on here (not least myself) so I figured I'd give myself until the new season to reflect on how and why that was.

You've been annoying me for 20 years.

[delicatemoth]

Ah, shit. Do I have to put my bottom lip away now?
Yes, I'm fine thanks Capybara. I got the feeling I'd inadvertently started annoying people on here (not least myself) so I figured I'd give myself until the new season to reflect on how and why that was.

Not only do I find it hard to imagine you annoying me, I felt privileged that you paid a flying visit and just commented on my good news. I thought you were just taking a break from the board!

[Nocturnal Submission]

London:

[Evariste Euler Gauss]

London:

Where?

[Nocturnal Submission]

Where?

Ruislip (Lido Beach).

[Hot Pepsi]

As a kid, I spent a lot of time at crap "beaches" on small lakes like that. That one is way too crowded.

[Walt Flanagans Dog]

As a kid, I spent a lot of time at crap "beaches" on small lakes like that. That one is way too crowded.

That is thoroughly under occupied compared to major European beaches in e.g. Spain, and also compared to major beaches in the south of England in a heatwave (particularly last year when people were limited in being able to travel abroad).

[WOM]

The beaches of OBX are incredibly spacious and spartan, but we drive right by Virginia Beach on the way home...and people are sitting on each other's shoulders. Those Jersey Shore pictures give me hives.