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I think the decision is pretty messed up considering you'd have no web site if it wasn't for free thinking artists' like you and me... Bring us your photos and just keep your mouth shut we'll handle the rest...
I'm confused,, I thought that ( in USA anyway) a lounge is a pub,bar, which means a place to gather and talk and relax...
I'd really like to know why "artists" would consider having another evangelical christian "extremist" in our white house ... Especially the ones that like to take pics of boobs... Also if your gonna mess with me about my comment DON'T mess with my computer this time..! That shits gettin old
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Originally Posted by
Steve M Hostetter
I thought that ( in USA anyway) a lounge is a pub,bar, which means a place to gather and talk and relax...
Dear Steve,
You forgot to add the words "and fight..."
jim k
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Steve, you need to take another look at the forum banner. You're free to relax and talk about photography in the lounge here, and free to talk about anything else . . . elsewhere.
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Too bad... Lounge is easy to block off if you're offended by it.
But there was a lot of interesting thoughts and opinions. I'll miss unsanitized Lounge.
More than that- I'm blocking the Lounge off from now on. :)
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I agree with Sergey ... too bad.
20% of the interesting content in this forum is now gone ... just because it being out there someplace made some people uncomfortable. The ironic thing is, that's how this country got started ... certain people in Europe being intolerant of others' beliefs and self-expression caused an exodus to a "free" country.
We're so proud of our free speech, free exchange of ideas, open debate, etc. ... and then this ... sure, it's a "Large Format Forum" ... but how nice to have a place where people with a common interest could air out current topics ... and, O.K., sometimes over-the-top and less than graciously ... but the group generally brought the malefactors up short and the threads ended up being self-policing.
I've never understood why these kind of exchanges make others uncomfortable ... but they obviously do. I wish, though, that the issue had been put to a vote ... because I think the "live-and-let-live" vote would have prevailed. At least, I hope it would have.
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Well I guess the "land of the free" means that people are free to be p@ssies too.
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And the printer head goes back and forth.... back and forth.... :eek:
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See ... now those are exactly the kind of responses I'm going to miss!!!!!!
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Daniel Grenier
As an apolitical staunch Left Wing Conservative and God-fearing Atheist I applaude your move.....I think.
too subtle.
possibly
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Vote Quimby!
(Sorry -- I couldn't resist a Simpsons reference.)
http://www.snorgtees.com/votequimby-p-514.html