Reply #191: Thanks for reading my mind, Skin

[PDittie]

but I think I'll keep the Lounge on 'ignore' anyway.

A couple of weeks ago I started a thread trying to get a DU gathering going for my trip to Boston over Memorial Day.

I got one response in 24 hours. Granted, I posted in the Massachusetts forum, which apparently no one in Boston reads...

Now my feelings weren't hurt all that much; mostly I was perplexed at the brushoff because I knew I had seen multiple threads and pictures of dozens of Boston DUers at a recent meeting.

So what the hell, I started another thread, here in the Lounge, asking again.

As with the first thread, I got a couple of polite answers from folks who gave me helpful tourist advice, but no commitments to meet up. No big thing, I decided; the wife and I will still have a good time in Beantown ...

Only by some of the posters indicating that there had been a series of threads from others who were annoyed by all the threads about the Boston DU gathering (all of which I missed), was I able to deduce that my thread had apparently been taken by the Boston DU Lounge Lizards as more mocking of them. Which finally made sense to me as to why I was (essentially) blown off.

(Of course, it really could have been my online B.O. ...)

Now, Boston DUers, please don't take this the wrong way. I'm sure you're all a great bunch (in fact I know you are because I saw what a great time you had at your get-together), but as Skinner has more directly spoken to, there is a mentality that seems to take over here in the Lounge that is just too clique-ish and "inside baseball" for me.

It's a herd mentality at best, and at its worst it results in horrifyingly shitty episodes like the Andy Stephenson fake-surgery drama.

This is a fun place for many of you (and I'm not begrudging anyone their fun), but to me it's mostly just mildly annoying, occasionally it's obnoxious and every now and then it's downright hideous.

I'll just steer clear of the Lounge after this post.

(FWIW, I'd still be delighted to meet any Boston Duers when we're there over the upcoming holiday weekend. The thread in MA is probably easier to find than the one in here, or feel free to PM me.)