Can Scientists Prove the Chat to be More Than Just Nonsense?

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The forum discussion centers around the perceived decline of the General Discussion (GD) section, with multiple users asserting that it has become nonsensical and unengaging. Key contributors, including references to past members like entropy and mr robin parsons, highlight a nostalgia for earlier, more vibrant discussions. The conversation also touches on upcoming "guru ribbons" to be awarded in October, with members expressing a mix of humor and frustration regarding the current state of engagement in the forum.

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  • #31
Pengwuino said:
Oh my god moonbear I've never loved you more then I do right now :!) :!) :!)
Now just hold that thought until October. :biggrin:
 
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  • #32
Pengwuino said:
I've improved! A year ago i didnt even exist :(
:smile: Ah ... the good 'ole days.

(Just razzing you ... I wasn't here either. :wink:)
 
  • #33
Evo said:
"Funniest member" and "most improved" member.

Any chance of giveing one of those to your favorite communist PFer :rolleyes: (the chocolate is on its way :wink: ).
 
  • #34
do u know dead sea? my dad killed it
do u know build hill? my mom built it.

& N-O-W
GD is dead...


i killed it.
gurkha
 
  • #35
Evo said:
Artman got my vote last year. :rolleyes: And I didn't even get anything.
You have my deepest respect for your vision and good taste. :approve: :biggrin:

You mean you never got the chocolates?[/size] Moonbear! [/size]


Actually, there is another possible reason why you haven't gotten the delivery:
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  • #36
Evo said:
Increasing the frequency of delivery is never a *bad* thing. :wink:

I am open to bribes..er, I mean "suggestions". I will be nominating members very soon. Oh who will it be? Who will it be? :biggrin:

Chocolates are small beans, i offer a crate of sherry, half now half later :biggrin:
 
  • #37
This is the reason GD is dead, i mean what relevance does chocolate have on the life and soul of GD?

Shouldnt have said that really, now some wacko is going to justify why chocolate is the life blood of the entire Universe.
 
  • #38
Andy said:
This is the reason GD is dead, i mean what relevance does chocolate have on the life and soul of GD?

Shouldnt have said that really, now some wacko is going to justify why chocolate is the life blood of the entire Universe.

Have you not heard of the Milkyway :biggrin:
 
  • #39
I do think GD could be improved:

i) we need to become hotter in this forum, so ladies please do it better. Sorry, men are so, we need action and PF girls don't give us nothing of this. Maybe american women are so...

ii) I propose to make GD an open forum, where everybody can say what he want. You could insult, you could talk about religion and sexual fantasies, you could discharge your fury over an undesired member and so on. "The discharging forum" would be called.

This forum will evolute when we are already to talk about our most hidden rubbish and share it.

Does anybody dares to say I don't speak up and clear?
 
  • #40
C2, all this talk about undesired members, may put off the ladies
but may be not. :devil:
 
  • #41
wolram said:
C2, all this talk about undesired members, may put off the ladies
but may be not. :devil:

Wolram, don't you were complaining about GD is dead? Well, my comment is going to live up here. :smile:
 
  • #42
it would never work, would be a rotting cesspit of decadence and just plain filth that should be left somewhere else...dunno where though. And yea i think it could be a good laugh, lol.
 
  • #43
Andy said:
This is the reason GD is dead, i mean what relevance does chocolate have on the life and soul of GD?
Dark, liquor filled chocolates, the kind that they have in Europe that they don't sell here in the US are soooo good.

Are you in a bad mood today?
 
  • #44
Yea i think i am, should go get some sleep before i go off on some rant and start offending people. nite nite.
 
  • #45
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Can I get a ribbon now?
 
  • #46
Brown nose! This kinda thing never used to happen in the good old days, bk in the day you would argue with a mentor get kicked off the forum just to come back again with a different username. Where as nowadays everybody's to busy sucking up to the mentors.

What kind of society have we become?
 
  • #47
Perhaps I can get the "Most reproved member" ribbon?
 
  • #48
arildno said:
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Can I get a ribbon now?
Why, I just suddenly had a premonition of Arildno winning the funniest member ribbon. :!)
 
  • #49
I just like the "wave" effect of all those blinking hearts. :biggrin:
 
  • #50
Moonbear said:
I just like the "wave" effect of all those blinking hearts. :biggrin:

I started watching those and woke up in a tree a half hour later. :confused:
 
  • #51
Ivan Seeking said:
I started watching those and woke up in a tree a half hour later. :confused:
:smile: They're even more hypnotizing than the laughing smiley!
 
  • #52
Ivan Seeking said:
I started watching those and woke up in a tree a half hour later. :confused:

I WONDERED where you went... :smile: :smile:

How'd you get out of the tree with your bad pinky?
 
  • #53
arildno said:
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Can I get a ribbon now?

How blatant can you get Arildno must be the king of creep
i vote we deduct ten points for every :!) after ten :-p
 
  • #54
Evo said:
Why, I just suddenly had a premonition of Arildno winning the funniest member ribbon. :!)

Hmm... maybe ill have to make sure he isn't around for the voting :devil: :devil: :devil:
 
  • #55
Pengwuino said:
Hmm... maybe ill have to make sure he isn't around for the voting :devil: :devil: :devil:

You can count on my help :wink: :devil: :devil: .
 
  • #56
Pengwuino said:
Hmm... maybe ill have to make sure he isn't around for the voting :devil: :devil: :devil:
EVO, HELP!
A communist penguin plans to murder me!
HELP!
 
  • #57
Don't worry arildno, how dangerous can a penguin be?

Beware of wabbits. I understand they can be quite fierce.
 
  • #58
Ivan Seeking said:
Don't worry arildno, how dangerous can a penguin be?

Beware of wabbits. I understand they can be quite fierce.

Look on page 5 in the daily express 18th aug.

The penguin army is after you Arildno, :smile: :smile: :smile: :smile: :smile: :smile:
 
  • #59
You two just don't care if the commie penguin just waddles right over me! :cry:
 
  • #60
arildno said:
You two just don't care if the commie penguin just waddles right over me! :cry:

All is fair in love and war, and you hoisted the flag first :smile:
 

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