A pointless thread.

[qtr6]

If a thread has no imidiate apparent point or outcome what is the point of it? Sometimes the point is entertainment or to simply stimulate discusion. Viewed alone this is a pointless thread however if it is allowed to fill out this may be a justifiable thread. My point is if a harmless thread is judged when it is just put up it may just appear to be pointless & if the argument is to stay on topic read some of the threads out there & you will see a a newby I have no idea of where they go because they end with one person I dont know inviting another person I dont know out for coffee. So if you dont like a thread DONT READ IT.:eek: :confused: :rolleyes:

[girlsOngirls]

lovely

[Phazz]

My cat's breath smells like cat food...true story :)

[datkindagal]

thats it I'm hitting the report button lol

[Asherbella]

'Nothing will come of nothing'
King Lear, William Shakespeare
Cordelia states that she loves her father no more than that of her sisters, Goneril & Regan. Offended, King Lear, states to Cordelia that her declaration of love will yield her 'nothing'. King Lear rendered her statement of love as 'pointless' - but the point of Cordelia's statement was not to 'overwhelm' her father with 'falseness' or insincerity....

'A show about nothing'.
Jerry Seinfeld
Proving that 'nothing' does indeed have a 'point'.

[Chancethegardener]

Was Joseph Fritzal's wine cellar in a different part of the basement from where he kept his daughter entombed for decades? I've often wondered...

[girlsOngirls]

i feel like eating some washed rind cheese and water crackers.

[datkindagal]

yes and I think a few months ago I posted a "thread about nothing" which is a consistently humorous trait of mine to try and create something from nothing. I love how a thread can just take on a life of its own with minimum input by the author.

[Chancethegardener]

Where John Howard's eyebrows controlled by a hedge fund?

[girlsOngirls]

Where John Howard's eyebrows controlled by a hedge fund?

lol i think jims mowing should have been paid to maintain the facial shrubbery.

[dreadcircus]

i queefed

[datkindagal]

I shpongled

[Phazz]

I douched....

[meezon04]

I quakked

[Asherbella]

i queefed
Dreadcircus: You are hereby cited with an infringement notice persuant to the Pointless Verbal Morality Code, SameSameREF: Z6757. You are now under the constant surveillance of Marshy. :D

[datkindagal]

consider the DaDa movement.

Dada or Dadaism is a cultural movement that began in Zürich, Switzerland, during World War I and peaked from 1916 to 1922.[1] The movement primarily involved visual arts, literature—poetry, art manifestoes, art theory—theatre, and graphic design, and concentrated its anti war politics through a rejection of the prevailing standards in art through anti-art cultural works.

Dada activities included public gatherings, demonstrations, and publication of art/literary journals; passionate coverage of art, politics, and culture were topics often discussed in a variety of media. The movement influenced later styles like the avant-garde and downtown music movements, and groups including surrealism, Nouveau Réalisme, pop art, Fluxus and punk rock.

Dada is the groundwork to abstract art and sound poetry, a starting point for performance art, a prelude to postmodernism, an influence on pop art, a celebration of antiart to be later embraced for anarcho-political uses in the 1960s and the movement that lay the foundation for Surrealism.

I feel dirty when I wiki !

[datkindagal]

GoG is nearly 1000 in samesame years

lovely

[Dash80]

If a thread has no imidiate apparent point or outcome what is the point of it? Sometimes the point is entertainment or to simply stimulate discusion. Viewed alone this is a pointless thread however if it is allowed to fill out this may be a justifiable thread. My point is if a harmless thread is judged when it is just put up it may just appear to be pointless & if the argument is to stay on topic read some of the threads out there & you will see a a newby I have no idea of where they go because they end with one person I dont know inviting another person I dont know out for coffee. So if you dont like a thread DONT READ IT.:eek: :confused: :rolleyes:

I agree. It doesnt take any effort NOT to read a thread, and everyone would be happier, well, at least not arguing.. maybe.

[datkindagal]

we apologise for interrupting our normal programing to bring you this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLQi6vv0Ih8&feature=rec-r2

[Ignorance77]

I once ate an entire glazed ham.

[weathervain]

Nothing to be done-Estragon
(Samuel Beckett's waiting for Goddot)

[Marshy]

Fruitful discussion as per usual I see.

[Light-Bearer]

Conversation is over rated. I prefer hand claps, and finger puppets to get my point across.

[Asherbella]

Fruitful discussion as per usual I see.

Yes. A fruitful discussion. A thread devoted to the 'pointless' actually is an exercise in creative expression. One could argue that the 'Word Game' thread is pointless because it encompasses the random word association that comes along with immediate flashes of spontaneous insight (ie *pointless*). And yet the Word Game thread IS THE MOST POPULAR and HEAVILY TRAFFICKED THREAD ON SAME SAME!

Even immediate flashes of spontaneous insight are 'fruitful'.

[Light-Bearer]

pfft - fruit

[Light-Bearer]

One tranny's fruit is another man's poison.

[Marshy]

And yet the Word Game thread IS THE MOST POPULAR and HEAVILY TRAFFICKED THREAD ON SAME SAME!

Indeed. Word games are traditionally the most popular thread on most forums that allow them. That and "nothing/low content" threads. It allows the post whores to do what they do best. ;)

As you were.

[weathervain]

we apologise for interrupting our normal programing to bring you this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLQi6vv0Ih8&feature=rec-r2

Who knew Kyra Knightly had such a lovely voice

[Light-Bearer]

Wanna play "slaps"?

[weathervain]

turkey slaps are the best- it's the tryptophan really that makes it so good

[Asherbella]

Indeed. Word games are traditionally the most popular thread on most forums that allow them. That and "nothing/low content" threads. It allows the post whores to do what they do best. ;)

As you were.

*Nothing/low content*? Well, it's all about individual interest. Christian posts an article about how Kylie's new South American boyfriend is 'gay' ('She sure can pick 'em') just because he accepts a modelling pay cheque from OUT magazine. An article about NOTHING. That thread died after 2 days or so, lack of substance...

Meanwhile we have threads about incidental (what you'd call *nothing/low content*) stuff that last for over a week...and the content that surfaces out of these threads end up more meaningful that the *interesting* ones....

Another thing. Calling loyal posters 'post whores' really goes to heart of how you moderate. If all the 'post whores' were to go elsewhere, your role would be redundant.

[dreadcircus]

Indeed. It allows the post whores to do what they do best. ;)

As you were.

Coming from somebody who has worked a prostitute... I'm proud to be a post whore these days as nothing would revolt me more than going back to whoring for tranny trade!

As you were posters of nothingness :)

[Light-Bearer]

I like being a whore. It makes my undies crunchy

[Dash80]

I like being a whore. It makes my undies crunchy

Thats very sexy

[Asherbella]

I like being a whore. It makes my undies crunchy
As if you wear undies...;)

[dreadcircus]

I like being a whore. It makes my undies crunchy

They were squishy on the weekend....

[weathervain]

http://www.theage.com.au/ffximage/2006/08/16/wiggle_narrowweb__300x307,0.jpg

Hello there boys and girls, I love me some pointless fun, remember no one loses an eye with pointless fun!

[CeeJay]

'This man is nothing! This course is nothing!
If you want something go find a better class.
And when you find one You'll be an actress.'
And I assure you that's what fin'lly came to pass
Six months later I heard that Karp had died.
And I dug right down to the bottom of my soul And cried--
'Cause I felt nothing...

Morales - A Chorus Line

[synergism]

*Nothing/low content*? Well, it's all about individual interest. Christian posts an article about how Kylie's new South American boyfriend is 'gay' ('She sure can pick 'em') just because he accepts a modelling pay cheque from OUT magazine. An article about NOTHING. That thread died after 2 days or so, lack of substance...


You're assuming that everyone that reads news/reviews/features on the Same Same website posts in the thread that's created from commenting on the story, when it's not usually the case.

Just because the thread on that particular news story didn't get many replies on the forum, it doesn't mean the story itself did badly.

Even if a story doesn't take off, at the very least it makes it look as if the website is being constantly updated.

[dreadcircus]

We work hard to bring people up to date with news stories regardless on if people comment on them. Hopefully we can bring more and more news, events, reviews as the site continues to grow.. Remember much of the work done at samesame is by contributors. The site is much much more than forums...

unless you sit here every day clicking refresh in the forums every 3 seconds, then I suggest your life is full of nothingness and it's time to re evaluate

[datkindagal]

'This man is nothing! This course is nothing!
If you want something go find a better class.
And when you find one You'll be an actress.'
And I assure you that's what fin'lly came to pass
Six months later I heard that Karp had died.
And I dug right down to the bottom of my soul And cried--
'Cause I felt nothing...

Morales - A Chorus Line

THIS IS A PROTEST WE ARE NOTHING AND IRRELEVANT AND ERM YES NON-SENSICAL. WE ARE PROUD AND STAND TOGETHER UNITED IN ERMM NOTHING. NOTHING IS THE NEW SOMETHING. PROUDLY SPONSORED BY CANTALOUPE.

[datkindagal]

THIS IS A PROTEST WE ARE NOTHING AND IRRELEVANT AND ERM YES NON-SENSICAL. WE ARE PROUD AND STAND TOGETHER UNITED IN ERMM NOTHING. NOTHING IS THE NEW SOMETHING. PROUDLY SPONSORED BY CANTALOUPE. ©

[Marshy]

Another thing. Calling loyal posters 'post whores' really goes to heart of how you moderate. If all the 'post whores' were to go elsewhere, your role would be redundant.

Settle petal. 'Post whore' is an affectionate term ♥

[CeeJay]

'Nothing will come of nothing'
King Lear, William Shakespeare




Or to put it another way...

"Nothing comes from nothing.
Nothing ever could."
Maria & Captain von Trapp :)
(Oscar Hammerstein II)

[dreadcircus]

or this quote..

"Nothing is not a thing and can often be something even if nothing has nothing to do with something or something is some thing full of nothing"

Some random guy on pills at Arq 2008

[weathervain]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwSGSMWSk3c

[CeeJay]

But it's the bubbles of nothing that make it really something...

http://th.physik.uni-frankfurt.de/~hossi/Physics/aero.jpg

[datkindagal]

http://img158.imageshack.us/img158/1590/cantaloupepk6.jpg

[Light-Bearer]

Too much of nothing
Can make a man feel ill at ease
One man's temper might rise
While another man's temper might freeze
In the middle of confession
We cannot mock a soul
Oh, when there's too much of nothing
No one has control.

When there's too much of nothing
It can cause a man to weep
He can walk the streets and boast like the most
but he dont now a thing.
It's all been done before
It's all been written in the book
Andwhen there's too much of nothing
Nobody should look.

And too much of nothing can make a man a liar
It can cause one man to sleep on nails
It can cause others to eat fire
Everybody's doin' somethin'
I heard it in a dream
But when there's too much of nothing
It just makes a fella mean.
-Bob Dylan

[Light-Bearer]

http://img158.imageshack.us/img158/1590/cantaloupepk6.jpg

That fucking killed me. :D

[datkindagal]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ad5mzbNhAx4

[dreadcircus]

http://img158.imageshack.us/img158/1590/cantaloupepk6.jpg

This made me laugh and then fart or was it fart and then laugh.. whatever I'm just glad a coco pop didnt shoot out :p

[datkindagal]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxj7IxPmoIw

[Ignorance77]

I once ate an entire glazed ham.

[datkindagal]

http://img223.imageshack.us/img223/922/omous9.jpg

[datkindagal]

http://img213.imageshack.us/img213/996/40240315bl2.jpg