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Samsa- thanks for going back in time and checking out the currents of conversation 5 years ago so people can't say, "well, back in the good old days everybody talked about ONLY vintage stuff." It's funny that people want to remember times gone by colored with their own perception. Trouble is that then it becomes a warped fantasy.
Like you I don't understand why people are complaining about non-vintage topics being discussed in the Observation Lounge- the exact place they historically have been. I would agree that the "Hat" heading is no place to ramble on about a great weekend had in Virginia at the Indian casino and the "Golden Era" is inappropriate to discuss movies in general even considering some may have been made in that era.
Actually I don't see that many topics begun in alien headings. Ones that are seem to be moved by the moderators so what really is the problem? It seems to continually return to people lamenting what they conveniently recall the Lounge to have been in the past and that they don't want others to discuss non-vintage topics.
As you mention Samsa, most of us are interested in certain aspects of vintage articles. After I posted "yea I bought this hat!" and several others say, "yea it looks cool," just what the hell is else is there to talk about concerning that hat? I never mistook the FL as a radical, hardcore, seperatist movement championing the return to life wearing vintage clothes and living with only era furniture, tools and appliances in some lost world scenario with a David Koresh copy preaching the ONLY way to salvation is by a return to a vintage lifestyle.
After all no one who peruses the non-vintage topics are attempting to lure, cajole or in any way deviate the paths of those seeking to discuss only vintage topics. If people wish to discuss more vintage things then they should perhaps begin some threads that might intersest others instead of actively lobbying for a ban on non-vintage discussion.[huh]
Like you I don't understand why people are complaining about non-vintage topics being discussed in the Observation Lounge- the exact place they historically have been. I would agree that the "Hat" heading is no place to ramble on about a great weekend had in Virginia at the Indian casino and the "Golden Era" is inappropriate to discuss movies in general even considering some may have been made in that era.
Actually I don't see that many topics begun in alien headings. Ones that are seem to be moved by the moderators so what really is the problem? It seems to continually return to people lamenting what they conveniently recall the Lounge to have been in the past and that they don't want others to discuss non-vintage topics.
As you mention Samsa, most of us are interested in certain aspects of vintage articles. After I posted "yea I bought this hat!" and several others say, "yea it looks cool," just what the hell is else is there to talk about concerning that hat? I never mistook the FL as a radical, hardcore, seperatist movement championing the return to life wearing vintage clothes and living with only era furniture, tools and appliances in some lost world scenario with a David Koresh copy preaching the ONLY way to salvation is by a return to a vintage lifestyle.
After all no one who peruses the non-vintage topics are attempting to lure, cajole or in any way deviate the paths of those seeking to discuss only vintage topics. If people wish to discuss more vintage things then they should perhaps begin some threads that might intersest others instead of actively lobbying for a ban on non-vintage discussion.[huh]