Maybe I'm too old?

[hbliam]

Yeah, I get it now, a girl's face is offensive. Yeah, that's the ticket!

Think of this "community" as a small town. Over the years I have lived in this small town (11+ now) we have had weddings, divorces, deaths, births, promotions, firings, triumph, defeat, and everything in between, including a few problems. These problems led to town meetings (really long threads), good people moving out, and good and bad people being evicted. Finally our Town council took note of all the problems, coupled with peoples opinions and made a few rules to make the place run smoother for the majority. The community suffered though a land grab (VS) and actually packed up and moved. The Council took their time and money to provide a new Town for our community to move to. This Town has many of the same rules along with a few new ones to protect us from being taken over again.

In other words we have lots and lots of history and the Council has lots of experience dealing with our community. 

Now you show up and three whole months into it you are b!tching about being asked to put up a new picture in your yard. Seriously?

If you want to be a 1%'r you logged on to the wrong forum. Get along or move along. You are entirely free to choose.

[CCEMN1]

seriously,

you're free to disagree with our avatar policy, but why do you find it necessary to take jabs at the people that run this place?

Let me put it in a different way.

If you don't like it here you are free to leave.

Nate, Why is it I'm the only one being persecuted and accused here? What about, " if you really believe your .gif was just a girls face, than maybe you haven't ever seen what it was depicting" ?? Is it that I have to sit and be quiet while others are allowed to take jabs at me?
I think I'll take your advice! I'm already on several other Duc forums and I really don't see much future in communicating in a place where people are this uptight. There is rarely any information of value to be found amongst such types. Especially when there is also no sense of humor! Kind of like wanting to vacation in Fallujah!

[Popeye the Sailor]

Nate, Why is it I'm the only one being persecuted and accused here? What about, " if you really believe your .gif was just a girls face, than maybe you haven't ever seen what it was depicting" ?? Is it that I have to sit and be quiet while others are allowed to take jabs at me?
I think I'll take your advice! I'm already on several other Duc forums and I really don't see much future in communicating in a place where people are this uptight. There is rarely any information of value to be found amongst such types. Especially when there is also no sense of humor! Kind of like wanting to vacation in Fallujah!

[mitt]

Nate, Why is it I'm the only one being persecuted and accused here? What about, " if you really believe your .gif was just a girls face, than maybe you haven't ever seen what it was depicting" ?? Is it that I have to sit and be quiet while others are allowed to take jabs at me?

Did you even notice my smiley?  And you said we don't have a sense of humor - pot this is kettle.


mitt

[SacDuc]

I've never been one to avoid trouble. In most cases, I'm the first one to jump in with both feet!

Here's a grand idea for the non-trouble-avoider: Instead of starting a thread whining that you are being oppressed, how about you act however you want to and then man up and accept the consequences. There are consequences to your actions. You knew that right? You don't have to like it. You don't have to give a make the beast with two backs. No one is asking you to. Just be who you are. If that means that you don't get to log in to some website where the people are all just uptight sticks in the mud, well, what would that matter to a rugged individualist non-trouble-avoider such as yourself.

Go ahead, jump in with both feet.

sac

[Grampa]

he he.... you said sac   

[SacDuc]

he he.... you said sac   

NO LAUGHING!! We are all humorless turds here! 

sac

[Grampa]

you're not the boss of me

[il d00d]

OK, my interest is piqued -  what were the Ducati Monster internet forums like back in the 80s?  What kind of sweet avatar policy did they have in like, yore?

[DoubleEagle]

It couldn't be more obvious that it's not me who isn't getting any!
And, Charlie don't surf, but he DOES ride a Monster!

Hey man, how'd you get my photo ?

Dolph   

[Goat_Herder]

For make the beast with two backs sakes...  My brother and I used to get into whine-off like this and it would go on and on and on.  And I was ten back then.  TEN YEARS OLD!!!

[ungeheuer]

CCEMN1,

try this... step back a few feet from your monitor

what do you see?

avatars and graphics

and you most likely can't read this text....

+1. Yup, this here is the point.  

CCEMN1, I personally never had any issue with your moving girl avatar..... but.... allow me to tell you a story.... One day I found myself viewing this site whilst visiting a McDonald's...um..... "restaurant".... and there was a post from you....no big deal, i didnt give it a second thought.... BUT... the young mother who walked past me (and had obviously glanced at my monitor) concluded that I was a dirty old porn-watching pervert.... coz she didnt see the words, the real content.  She only saw a 1" woman getting shafted from behind.  This my firend is why we need to keep ourselves "nice".  Nothin' to do with personal conservatism.  I miss kopfjaeger's fine collection of avatars but he's moved on, maybe you could do so too, huh?

[RAT900]

At 60, maybe I'm just too old, but I'm fascinated, amazed and a little disturbed at how conservative "Motorcyclists" have become!
Must be a whole different world out there? Thank God it hasn't infiltrated MY life yet! 

I don't think it is an age issue...I am 59 and I think it is simply how you metabolize what you see....which of course is a result of (first-off) what you CHOOSE to see.

What IS a sign of atrophied thinking commonly associated with those of advanced years,,, is the use of blanket generalizations and opinions that are grounded in perceptions rather than facts..... and a resultant tendency to take the world's changes as personal affronts if they are not in line with your personal beliefs

If I were to get a PM from a Flounder here telling me to trim it back a notch or 5... I would weigh the nature and validity of the request, determine if the request is within my personal sense of balance regarding the value I get from being here and I would act accordingly

Everyone has their own terms and conditions including Hosts who grant entry into their venues....it is their right

There's a good chance I could get away with a warning if I pissed on the peanut shelled floor in a seedy bar downtown (yes I have)...

and there is an assurance I will be roughly escorted out if I try to do the same in the deep pile at the Rainbow Grill in Rock Center (no not for pissing,, but I have been thrown out of there)

Now if the Flounders insisted that I put on Nike sneakers and wear a purple shroud and pledge my undying obeisance to ZUL at the end of each posting...I might elect to move on

Have social behavioral norms changed??? .....meh..... somewhat...we are pretty fancy about ourselves in America these days....however on the other side of the planet folks still express their beliefs with machete's....this place falls comfortably in-between for me

Humanity is a big tent and there is plenty of room for folks to gather of like-minds....I don't complain much anymore...I just move-on if I think things are stale or brittle

[ducpainter]

Nate, Why is it I'm the only one being persecuted and accused here? What about, " if you really believe your .gif was just a girls face, than maybe you haven't ever seen what it was depicting" ?? Is it that I have to sit and be quiet while others are allowed to take jabs at me?
I think I'll take your advice! I'm already on several other Duc forums and I really don't see much future in communicating in a place where people are this uptight. There is rarely any information of value to be found amongst such types. Especially when there is also no sense of humor! Kind of like wanting to vacation in Fallujah!

No...

you don't.

but if you continue to make such a big deal over such a small matter this will escalate to one of those situations where

people will leave and others will be evicted as hbliam pointed out.

I think it sucks that our society, along with corporate america, has the pole shoved so far up their collective ass.

I couldn't work there, and don't.

But many of the people here do, so we as adults accept what that brings.

Remember...we're adults now, and the fist shaking really is pretty unattractive from us blue hairs.

[ungeheuer]

....however on the other side of the planet folks still express their beliefs with machete's....

I resent that outrageously slanderous remark - although I haven't been to Dandenong recently.