The Last Bass Outpost
Main Forums => The Outpost Cafe => Topic started by: westen44 on February 25, 2014, 11:32:06 AM
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Of course, I can't be specific, but something really strange happened to me on another board. The discussion was Hendrix. I simply quoted something he said in a concert as part of my contribution to the topic. I was just paraphrasing him, but it was something to the effect that he said he was dedicating a song to all the plainclothes policemen and all the other goof balls out there. That's all there was to it. I wasn't calling anybody a goof ball myself; I wasn't even agreeing with Hendrix's comment. In fact, that isn't something I would say myself. I don't even know any plainclothes policemen, although I do have a relative who used to be a police chief. But he wasn't a goof ball and I suspect most people like that aren't. I've been going to that board since 2005. I've never had any problems like that at all. For the record, it is a bass board. I've gone to several through the years. I don't plan to go back, though. If they can censor that, then that's just too arbitrary for me. I don't know what's next there, maybe censoring Ringo's comments about wanting to be a Powerpuff Girl. So, it looks like this really is the last bass outpost for me.
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That does sound a bit extreme. Speech isn't as free as it once was!
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I used to frequent a music board like that. The owner had a number of hot topic items that were forbidden, even though he often started threads on his own no-fly list. I was removed from the board when I posted a link - not even an opinion or commentary - about how the California wine industry would suffer with global warming. People came and went from that board pretty frequently. I finally dropped off because I didn't feel paying $30/year with censorship of participation were a good mix. The internet really isn't free...you're always playing in someone else's sandbox.
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I dropped the F-bomb in a post here recently and it was automatically changed to something like F*&$%@. Are we not men?
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I dropped the F-bomb in a post here recently and it was automatically changed to something like F*&$%@. Are we not men?
I thought that it was evident by the humor and language that we rate a solid PG-13! ;)
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I was banned from a brand-specific forum with a highly conservative bent for making a comment about Rush Limbaugh. It happens. Boards have owners, owners have their rules and their biases. Such is life.
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I used to frequent a music board like that. The owner had a number of hot topic items that were forbidden, even though he often started threads on his own no-fly list. I was removed from the board when I posted a link - not even an opinion or commentary - about how the California wine industry would suffer with global warming. People came and went from that board pretty frequently. I finally dropped off because I didn't feel paying $30/year with censorship of participation were a good mix. The internet really isn't free...you're always playing in someone else's sandbox.
I was banned from a brand-specific forum with a highly conservative bent for making a comment about Rush Limbaugh. It happens. Boards have owners, owners have their rules and their biases. Such is life.
You're both talking about the same forum. And you know that there's a strict no-politics rule, unless you're talking about politics the owner likes. Then it's okay. :rolleyes:
I haven't been there in a good three or more years, all the interesting people left or were banned.
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You're both talking about the same forum. And you know that there's a strict no-politics rule, unless you're talking about politics the owner likes. Then it's okay. :rolleyes:
I haven't been there in a good three or more years, all the interesting people left or were banned.
Yeah, some ne'er-do-well there branded me as waving my Epi Freak Flag all the time. Wonder where he ended up? :o
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Anyway, you can't please everyone. Maybe your Hendrix comments were just misinterpreted, it might help if you asked. Or it might just be someone being petty and vindictive.
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Yeah, some ne'er-do-well there branded me as waving my Epi Freak Flag all the time. Wonder where he ended up? :o
I think I may have said that at the Pit. Either way, it's true! ;D
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Anyway, you can't please everyone. Maybe your Hendrix comments were just misinterpreted, it might help if you asked. Or it might just be someone being petty and vindictive.
Based on some of the things I've seen there recently, most likely petty and vindictive. Whatever it was, being there is more trouble than it's worth; that's for sure. This had "last straw" written all over it.
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I think I may have said that at the Pit. Either way, it's true! ;D
And proud of it, I might add. 8)
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:rimshot: :rimshot: :rimshot:
I dropped the F-bomb in a post here recently and it was automatically changed to something like F*&$%@. Are we not men?
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Everything here has been very cool. Even when things have some very opposite points of view, it boils down to a " let's just agree to disagree" thing. My hat's off to everyone here , and a special thanks to Dave and Ewe for hosting this place ;D.
Rick
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What is the other site?
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What is the other site?
I'll PM you.
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After talking to a friend, I think I figured out that I might have got caught in the crossfire of something going on that I nothing to do with on that forum. I'm pretty sure of this now. Nevertheless, I'd prefer to just move on now.
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The weather is so much nicer here, anyway! :-*
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Pilgrim if you don't mind pm ing me too( just to confirm) as some issues might be the same. thanks
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Pilgrim, gweimer and I were talking about the FDP. Not a bass-specific forum. No need to hammer on it, anyone who remembers it from years ago knows what's happened there over the years.
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Dave does censor all the postings here on a nightly basis for claims that finish might have something - just a little! - to do with sound. That is why you never find it here. Along with posts about Apple's mom or Che pictures posted on refrigerator doors.
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Dave does censor all the postings here on a nightly basis for claims that finish might have something - just a little! - to do with sound. That is why you never find it here. Along with posts about Apple's mom or Che pictures posted on refrigerator doors.
LOL! I've never lost sleep wondering whatever happened to Bonnie of Che on the refrigerator door fame. Maybe she formed a local chapter of Baader-Meinhof.
Your reference to Mott in the Kiss thread did remind me of a deleted post. Remember the poor guy with the pathetic T-bird that allegedly had belonged to Overend Watts? Blazer found and posted a pic of it. It may have been legit though the guy had no provenance, and it definitely wasn't his white bass. It was severely abused, IIRC you called it a "leperbass." We all voiced our opinions pro and con. A year later, the owner of the bass finds the thread, dredges it up and proceeds to attack the opinions of anyone who didn't think it was wonderful. I deleted his post and locked the thread. People are entitled to their opinions.
The bass had its own MySpace page ( ???) and the guy then proceeded to write a long rant against me on it. I was amused. Shame, he seems to have taken it down now.
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Err... this one...?
(http://i655.photobucket.com/albums/uu280/kjrstewart/random%20stuff/OVERENDTbird.jpg)
... and he let me keep a souvenir... :vader:
(http://i655.photobucket.com/albums/uu280/kjrstewart/random%20stuff/OVEREND.jpg)
... and he did sell me the Demetriou... yes, it's still not finished... :rolleyes:
He also had a really nice Pre SG shaped EB0 with a black MB...
Ok... enlighten me... Bonnie of Che...?
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Yep, that's the one. Poor pathetic thing (the bass, not you). I forgot that he's the same guy who sold you the Demetriou.
The Bonnie story: when I was 22, a co-worker set me up with a girl who she said was just perfect for me. She turned out to be 27 y.o. radical leftist with a big drawing of Che on her refrigerator. She had taught her 10 y.o. daughter to always refer to police as fascist pigs. I took her out to a popular dance spot where she griped because she wanted to dance to "acid rock." The story amused Uwe.
Why he thinks I have a thing for airhead Gwyneth Paltrow is beyond me.
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Funny you say it enough and you start to believe it, the pepper pots thing.
My house!
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The Bonnie story: when I was 22, a co-worker set me up with a girl who she said was just perfect for me. She turned out to be 27 y.o. radical leftist with a big drawing of Che on her refrigerator. She had taught her 10 y.o. daughter to always refer to police as fascist pigs. I took her out to a popular dance spot where she griped because she wanted to dance to "acid rock." The story amused Uwe.
Comrade Dave just didn't want to be liberated from oppression. The working class can be listless, you know.
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At 22, all you want to liberated from is your jeans. ;D ;)
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There is no age limit for liberation.
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The weather is so much nicer here, anyway! :-*
That's a good way to look at it.
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... Poor pathetic thing (the bass, not you)...
Guilty as charged, some days... :mrgreen:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZ9myHhpS9s
... and as for Miss Potts... we all have our guilty secrets... ;)