millworkman said:If you are under 40 here they card you.
Pam said:... but the way people are badgered, with moderator approval, for personal information shocks and appalls me and it is very difficult for me to make jokes about it.
If you came to my house and took a great, steaming dump on my floor, I could make jokes about it; but using peer pressure to ferret out personal information, no.
DickT said:Baltimore is now governed under a dictatorship.
Pepperfreak said:Sounds like Chicago. My wife's uncle was filling me in on their local rules, laws and regulations, not to mention ALL of the taxes there. It was nice to visit, but I don't think I'd want to move there.
Armadillo said:The question wasn't directed to anyone specially but out in the open.
We all are free members mostly over 18 from mostly free countries. So we are free to ask questions. Or not. And we are free to answer questions. Or not. So where's the pressure?
Pepperfreak said:I don't smoke, but around here most bars have an outdoor patio where you can still smoke and drink a cold one. In the winter, most places put up outside heaters so that it isn't too bad.
Pam said:Exactly, where people who might want to participate in fun stuff but are on the shy or uncertain side feel like they have to give out personal information to be part of the crowd. This is hardly the only time this sort of thing comes up.
Are you being deliberately disingenuous?
Armadillo said:This is one of 9,337 threads. There are a lot of threads with "fun stuff". And you feel under pressure if you don't like to answer to ONE SINGLE THREAD? Sorry, I don't get it. You freely participate in "Two Word Turd" and "The Word Association Thread". Don't you think you give away more than just your age and gender to someone analyzing your associations?
And there's a lot of fun stuff even for the people on the "on the shy or uncertain side" here on THP.
And no. I'm not deliberately or accidentally disingenuous. I'm telling you my opinion outright.
If someone is "on the shy or uncertain side" he might not like to talk to people who discuss nagas cos' he only dares eat jalapenos, he might be offended by people who talk about beer cos' he's dry or he might be offended by people loving man boobs cos' he's prudish or repulsed cos' he's skinny. If someone desperately wants to be offended someone can even feel offended by something like the "beens or no beens in chili"-discussion. JMHO
DickT said:Well now that you brought it up, I locked myself in a closet for a week over the beans or no beans thread, Just had to let that out, its probably what led to my sensitivity classes....
Pepperfreak said:This whole thread was posted purely out of innocent and fun spirited. Nothing more and nothing less. I definitely didn't want to stir things up and offend anyone.
DickT said:I actually want to quit, but its just the fact that they would mandate the law instead of leaving it up to the bar owners.
Pepperfreak said:Here in Ohio they voted on it, but the ballott was so confussing that I think most people didn't know what was up.
Txclosetgrower said:Ah, i missed the fact that it was 2 part poll.
Hadn't had coffee yet.
Armadillo said:This is one of 9,337 threads. There are a lot of threads with "fun stuff". And you feel under pressure if you don't like to answer to ONE SINGLE THREAD?
Sorry, I don't get it.
If someone is "on the shy or uncertain side"