Escape Artists
The Lounge at the End of the Universe => Gallimaufry => Topic started by: Russell Nash on October 09, 2008, 04:19:49 PM
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Are there really forums for everything?
I ask this, because I found a very surprising forum. I was going through some shots from a trip to the zoo. I try to take a shot of the signs to help me get the proper description. I didn't have a one for this rooster that I saw. I figured a few minutes on Wikipedia and I'd have it. No luck. A little googling got me a little help. I'd narrowed it down to a couple of breeds and a couple of color schemes.
Then I found Backyard Chickens (http://backyardchickens.com/forum/index.php). I started giggling my head off. Then I was very confused. They had over 16,000 registered users, we have less than 2000. They had 170 members online when I was there, we had 5 at the same time.
To quote bdoomed when I showed him the site, "WTF!". Is there really a forum for everything?
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Then I found Backyard Chickens (http://). I started giggling my head off. Then I was very confused. They had over 16,000 registered users, we have less than 2000. They had 170 members online when I was there, we had 5 at the same time.
Perplexed? Pfeh. Pastoral people post passionately on points pertaining to poultry.
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Then I found Backyard Chickens (http://). I started giggling my head off. Then I was very confused. They had over 16,000 registered users, we have less than 2000. They had 170 members online when I was there, we had 5 at the same time.
Perplexed? Pfeh. Pastoral people post passionately on points pertaining to poultry.
How long have you been waiting to use that?
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Can you make the link work?
Also, our neighbours have chickens that keep wandering through our yard, laying their so-called "eggs". It makes a change from urban London, I can tell you...
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Then I found Backyard Chickens (http://). I started giggling my head off. Then I was very confused. They had over 16,000 registered users, we have less than 2000. They had 170 members online when I was there, we had 5 at the same time.
Perplexed? Pfeh. Pastoral people post passionately on points pertaining to poultry.
You forgot prefer.
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Fixed the link
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Perplexed? Pfeh. Pastoral people post passionately on points pertaining to poultry.
plus: photoshoped poultry pageantry (http://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=93829&p=3).
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painted pet poultry? (http://img.thesun.co.uk/multimedia/archive/00455/RSNN2036A_682_455661a.jpg)
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Perplexed? Pfeh. Pastoral people post passionately on points pertaining to poultry.
How long have you been waiting to use that?
Improvised. I'll have you know all my material is original. (And I never steal from Ferris Bueller's Day Off.)
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A plethora of P's.
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Keeping chickens can be fun - I have 3 currently...
http://iedaddy.wordpress.com/projects-around-the-house/the-chicken-coop/
The one problem with chickens...They're bloody territorial - it's almost impossible to introduce a new chicken to an established flock. For those who say that Humans are the only animals that kill their own kind, they've never seen a flock of bored chickens out for a little blood sport.
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we had a flock of 6 geese growing up.
geese are bigtime jerks, we learned.
But with four females we had more eggs than we could handle.
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We had ducks in our backyard. Only occasionally eggs, lots of slimy green poop and they're the most horrible rapists. They also had the local cats cowed into submission.
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We had chickens when we were growing up, about 40 of them.
I still have scars on my arms from gathering the eggs.
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My point was that there were 170 people online on a sunday afternoon in a forums about chickens. Also I was wondering what other weird forums are out there.
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Everyone else's point - not really weird.
I have three chickens myself. Granted, I don't care to read about them, I just think their eggs are tasty. But I can see how someone would find the different breeds, keeping methods, etc, etc well worth reading and posting about. It's practical too, unlike talking about SF stories.
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Everyone else's point - not really weird.
I have three chickens myself. Granted, I don't care to read about them, I just think their eggs are tasty. But I can see how someone would find the different breeds, keeping methods, etc, etc well worth reading and posting about. It's practical too, unlike talking about SF stories.
I don't think keeping chickens is weird. I'm not interested in doing the work for it, but if the kid next door wanted to do it, I'd finance it in exchange for eggs. Given what I pay for non-industrial eggs, I'd get my money back in 8-10 months.
I also understand that people would talk about the best birds for their area and needs (eggs or meat or pet). They would also want to ask questions about building and setting up the house. This all makes sense.
Look at the forums. There's a couple small sections dealing with these questions. The rest of the place is about making them outfits and if their chicken needs prozac.
There is a tradition of literary groups. People getting together to talk about books or stories or authors. How many of us have heard about monthly groups to talk about the best way to make a tuxedo for your chicken.
If this doesn't strike you as a weird forum, show me ones that are weirder.
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If this doesn't strike you as a weird forum, show me ones that are weirder.
That sounds like a challenge to me.
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If this doesn't strike you as a weird forum, show me ones that are weirder.
That sounds like a challenge to me.
Yes, yes it is.
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i think its weird
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CHickens don't only have their own forums it seems: According to this story (http://www.boingboing.net/2008/10/12/plymouth-rock-monthl.html) you can (or could) get magazines for specific breeds of chickens with circulations in the tens of thousands.
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If this doesn't strike you as a weird forum, show me ones that are weirder.
That sounds like a challenge to me.
http://www.postpunkkitchen.com/forum/index.php
For those of you into vegan ice-cream, kombucha, and vegan baking...
Thos of you not familiar with kombucha, it's basically brewed/fermented tea... My wife has started brewing her own... here's a picture of the "scooby" which is some sort of culture used to make the stuff...
(http://farm1.static.flickr.com/161/407159524_001c79425d.jpg)
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http://apps.facebook.com/farmgame/forums.php
You might need a facebook account.
Facebook, apparently, is a social networking site like MySpace. The forums I've linked are for discussion of, and sharing tips about, the digital farms to save the rain forest. As Shwankie has explained it to me, you click to plant stuff, wait the prescribed length of time (1-3 days), click to harvest, click to sell. Use the 'money' you get to buy more stuff. The more active you are (sitting at your computer) the more money is donated to save the rain forest.
Yes. There is a thread about digital chickens.
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http://apps.facebook.com/farmgame/forums.php
You might need a facebook account.
Facebook, apparently, is a social networking site like MySpace. The forums I've linked are for discussion of, and sharing tips about, the digital farms to save the rain forest. As Shwankie has explained it to me, you click to plant stuff, wait the prescribed length of time (1-3 days), click to harvest, click to sell. Use the 'money' you get to buy more stuff. The more active you are (sitting at your computer) the more money is donated to save the rain forest.
Yes. There is a thread about digital chickens.
So it kind of works like the freerice vocab game? There's advertisements that pay for the donations?
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http://apps.facebook.com/farmgame/forums.php
You might need a facebook account.
Facebook, apparently, is a social networking site like MySpace. The forums I've linked are for discussion of, and sharing tips about, the digital farms to save the rain forest. As Shwankie has explained it to me, you click to plant stuff, wait the prescribed length of time (1-3 days), click to harvest, click to sell. Use the 'money' you get to buy more stuff. The more active you are (sitting at your computer) the more money is donated to save the rain forest.
Yes. There is a thread about digital chickens.
So it kind of works like the freerice vocab game? There's advertisements that pay for the donations?
As far as I can tell; I haven't really checked it out.
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If this doesn't strike you as a weird forum, show me ones that are weirder.
That sounds like a challenge to me.
Yes, yes it is.
I accept your challenge, sir. Cracked.com presents the 8 weirdest forums on the web. (NSFW) http://www.cracked.com/article_15250_wtf-8-strangest-communities-on-web.html
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If this doesn't strike you as a weird forum, show me ones that are weirder.
That sounds like a challenge to me.
Yes, yes it is.
I accept your challenge, sir. Cracked.com presents the 8 weirdest forums on the web. (NSFW) http://www.cracked.com/article_15250_wtf-8-strangest-communities-on-web.html
I did not need to see homoerotic Kirk and Spock.
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I did not need to see homoerotic Kirk and Spock.
Me either, I thought number one was much weirder. I... I don't even know what to say about it. I never would have thought that one up, not in a million years.
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Being familiar with furries and their odd predilictions, the boytaurs didn't surprise me - well, not too much. And slash fiction has dozens upon dozens of forums, and tons of fans. Nothing surprising there. Not my thing, but I know plenty of folks - all women - who are really quite into it.
What got me was a forum for chewing ice. Uh, what is there to talk about? I mean, I've been known to crunch on a cube myself. And I guess it makes some of my friends cringe. But I never thought about it much, and certainly never felt the need to write about it or find a like-minded community. Huh. Much stranger than the chicken thing - even with costumes.
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is chewing ice strange? Every time (or at least most times) i have a cup, with ice in it, i end up chewin on the ice... never seen anyone cringe because of it, most of my friends chew ice, etc. never knew it was an anomaly...
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is chewing ice strange? Every time (or at least most times) i have a cup, with ice in it, i end up chewin on the ice... never seen anyone cringe because of it, most of my friends chew ice, etc. never knew it was an anomaly...
Because you don't fetishize it. The internet lets all those sub-sub-sub-groups that fetishize weird things come together and rationalize their fetish. Chewing ice every now and then isn't a problem, doing it purposefully to the point of obvious detriment to one's well-being is.
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is chewing ice strange? Every time (or at least most times) i have a cup, with ice in it, i end up chewin on the ice... never seen anyone cringe because of it, most of my friends chew ice, etc. never knew it was an anomaly...
Because you don't fetishize it. The internet lets all those sub-sub-sub-groups that fetishize weird things come together and rationalize their fetish. Chewing ice every now and then isn't a problem, doing it purposefully to the point of obvious detriment to one's well-being is.
Are you necessarily doing it to your detriment just because you want to talk about it? By being here, I'm I SFing to my detriment.
Someone save me before I SF again!!
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is chewing ice strange? Every time (or at least most times) i have a cup, with ice in it, i end up chewin on the ice... never seen anyone cringe because of it, most of my friends chew ice, etc. never knew it was an anomaly...
Because you don't fetishize it. The internet lets all those sub-sub-sub-groups that fetishize weird things come together and rationalize their fetish. Chewing ice every now and then isn't a problem, doing it purposefully to the point of obvious detriment to one's well-being is.
Are you necessarily doing it to your detriment just because you want to talk about it? By being here, I'm I SFing to my detriment.
Someone save me before I SF again!!
Well, some things are worse than others, and the excerpt through the link has the guy talking about how he's going to have to get caps for a lot of his teeth. Last I heard SF didn't rot or chip your teeth.
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I had a teacher tell me once sf rots your brain "just like television." (She was mad I was reading in her class.) Oddly, she also assigned us to read Jurassic Park and Ender's Game that semester. Of course, this is also the teacher who told me she was planning on paying for her kids' college education with beanie babies, and she'd never heard of "The Divine Comedy." Worst English teacher evar.