Drawing Room - Yay or Nay?

[katie1997]

Yay (tu)

I like the format of the forum but then again, I didn't have experience of using it when there wasn't a drawing room for discussion of serious topics....

I haven't felt afraid to post in there although I am by no means an expert on any of the topics. I think there are some pretty good discussions going on and its interesting to read others' views (even if I don't always share them.)

[mockney piers]

I think it has bedded in nicely though it has taken quite some time to find its feet, but then I'm probably biased.

One thing I'll say for it, at least there are genuine conversations in there. The lounge has turned into something of a woodland chorus. There are many voices, a few of them sweet of song, but most of them just marking territory, marking time, or just singing because they can, and as a whole it's becoming white noise and it is increasingly difficult to discern any real songs.

The gossip room converses, there are just no conversations i want to be part of.

The family room works well; just despite becoming newly fathered I can't actually get excited about cot mattresses or baby nasal sprays enough to want to talk about them, though I'll admit to having lurked there quite a bit gleaning nuggets of good advice from the community...keep up the good work :D

[woofmarkthedog]

Mockers

It does what it says on the box, no ?

lounge (lounj)

v. lounged, loung?ing, loung?es

v.intr.

1. To move or act in a lazy, relaxed way; loll: lounging on the sofa; lounged around in pajamas.

2. To pass time idly: lounged in Venice till June.

v.tr.

To pass (time) in a lazy, relaxed, or idle way: lounged the day away.

Obviously not high brow enough for you now you've thrown your sweaty moderator towel in

Must say honestly, my NOB-O-METERTM flashed up when I read your post

Leave it to go cold & re-read it later

W**F

[*Bob*]

I have dipped half a toe in there.. seems to be working out ok for a number of regulars.

The problems I have with it are that, firstly, it moves at a glaaaaaaciiiiiaaaaal pace (looking things up on Wikipedia and re-phrasing them takes time, you know). So in that respect, yes, it is like a conversation - only one you have with a narcoleptic aunt at a funeral.

Secondly, there are so many occasions where someone says something that really demands a verbal shoeing, but instead, like an edition of Later with Jools Holland when everybody stands around stroking their chin and pretending to appreciate each other's music, nothing happens. Which tends to make it less like a conversation and more like a succession of unconnected statements.

[mockney piers]

nothing to do with the height of the brow.

More that it's a lounge where everyone sits on their own picking at and examining their navel fluff.

Fine if that's what everyone wants, it just used to be a bit more sociable and more fun. Yeah yeah, this was all fields once ad nauseum. I hear spitting image isn't as good as it used to be.

Right, I'm off to start a thread about the fact that I had a bacon sandwich this morning.

[mockney piers]

nob o meter, oh funny, yep, funny that one. How's the novel coming along...

[Ted Max]

Yeah, I hear you love a bit of pork of a mornin'

You should see me bacon bits

I like it hard on the edges and soft in the middle

Bacon is a preserved salted pork product mainly produced in industro-cultural farms modelled on the Peregrinian notion of absolute need.

[Ted Max]

* Guffaws at self. Wiggles finger in up to second knuckle. *

[Brendan]

Ooohh I love bacon. Have you tried the ones at the cute little caf? on Northcross Road?

Scrummy.

:))

[woofmarkthedog]

mockney piers Wrote:

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> nob o meter, oh funny, yep, funny that one. How's

> the novel coming along...

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Ahhh....

Tired "Daddy" ?

I am nearly at the bottom of "page 1"

I'm thinking more of a short story now though

Really......

W**F

[????]

I'm still going to say Nay. It has worked to some degree as at least 'big' topics stay around for a while. But I'll go for my previous complaints

1) Made the lounge worse

2) Limited involvement, including many decent posters. So for instance MickM put up a Drawing Room type topic in the lounge a few weeks ago and it soon tonked up loads of posts with decent comments and no or little triviality

3) No room for meanders - which some of the threads could so with..this is even the case sometimes when the meanderings are interesting (eg the Euro one)

4) Different toilet, same sh1t.....same old voices (including myself)

It also tickles me that the Drawing Room it's not really a 'friendly' place or even that polite - it reminds me of the history men characters by Baddiel and Newman...alot! I've got used to it though so not a big thing for me.

The family room is great though with a whole load of regular posters who never post elsewhere and generally friendly BUT when it goes :X

[Moos]

mockney piers Wrote:

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> The family room works well; just despite becoming

> newly fathered I can't actually get excited about

> cot mattresses or baby nasal sprays enough to want

> to talk about them, though I'll admit to having

> lurked there quite a bit gleaning nuggets of good

> advice from the community...keep up the good work

> :D

Tiny bit unfair and uncharacteristically snide, Mockers. Most of the very practical conversations about topics such as cot mattresses are started by people who are primary carers in the throes of making practical decisions. Wait till you become one (not long to go...) before you judge.

There are more general conversations in the family room, but I get the impression that most of the regulars dip in and out in between their other commitments, especially since many are not desk-based, which makes them rarer than in the lounge.

Actually, although I think most of the regulars are great and I like the friendly and supportive atmosphere the room has, I would really like to see more people who are not primary carers of small children in the family room chatting about family things, and having family-related discussions, to give it a broader reach. It's also nice to have seen more dads in there of late.

[????]

it is a bit scary for dads...not that they're not welcome it just is!

[Ladymuck]

???? Wrote:

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>...MickM put up a Drawing

> Room type topic in the lounge a few weeks ago and

> it soon tonked up loads of posts with decent

> comments and no or little triviality

I know...very important that - for forum cred - isn't it?...I was well jealous!

>...Different toilet, same sh1t.....same old voices...

ahem!!! (*gives ???? a hostile glare*)

[The Chair]

Please see here for a minor change to Drawing Room etiquette. I hope more of you will come and post in the near future.

Many thanks

The Chair

[Ladymuck]

The Chair Wrote:

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> Please see here for a minor change to Drawing Room

> etiquette. I hope more of you will come and post

> in the near future.

>

> Many thanks

>

> The Chair

Woo hoo!

Erm...does that mean that I shall now be permitted to quote "Homer Simpson", where relevant to the debate - naturally?

[Ladymuck]

PS: are we permitted to bring things like bacon sandwiches into the room? Helps nourish the (rapidly depleting) brain cells.;-)

[Brendan]

I once got away with quoting Homer Simpson in an article in a construction law journal so I don?t see why not.

[The Chair]

In answer to your questions:

No and....

No.

Whilst debates will be allowed to wander from the defined perimeters of the original subject matter (much like a real debate), Homer Simpson, bacon sandwiches and other sillyness will still be confined to the Lounge.

[Brendan]

Oh well then I won't bother. As homer says, "If something's hard to do, then it's not worth doing"

[woofmarkthedog]

The Chair Wrote:

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> In answer to your questions:

>

> No and....

>

> No.

>

> Whilst debates will be allowed to wander from the

> defined perimeters of the original subject matter

> (much like a real debate), Homer Simpson, bacon

> sandwiches and other sillyness will still be

> confined to the Lounge.

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Well......

Ms/Mr Chair

In answer to your ....erm "answer" ( where was I...)

Oh yes, FYI "bacon sandwiches" are not silly, they are in fact the "SAS' of sandwiches

They can break a lifelong vegan into flat out " carnivorey " in days & armies march on them

DO NOT underestimate them EVER

Indeed...silly

W**F

[Narnia]

That's the most profound statement I've read anywhere in weeks! The Chair classifies this as sillyness. I beg to differ but would I be able to start a thread on this topic in the Drawing Room?

[Ladymuck]

Narnia Wrote:

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> >

> That's the most profound statement I've read

> anywhere in weeks! The Chair classifies this as

> sillyness. I beg to differ but would I be able to

> start a thread on this topic in the Drawing Room?

Go for it D...err...Narnia! So long as you eat beforehand and leave Homer at home...you should be within the rules. No pain no gain (is that equally profound?). xx

[Ted Max]

"It is tedious to tell again tales already plainly told" - Homer (not that one)

[Ladymuck]

"I tried my best and failed miserably. The lesson is never try" - Homer (yes, that one);-)