The DU Lounge
Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsDo you guys remember the lounge in the old days?
This place used to be so active if a post was unpopular, it would be on page three in an hour.
Where did everyone go? It's kinda sad.
MineralMan
(146,189 posts)But, wouldn't your question be better in the Lounge? Seems like that's where people who remember it would answer.
Ptah
(32,983 posts)MineralMan
(146,189 posts)It's too damned close to GD and Meta, if you ask me. I am, indeed, a true moron.
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)"It's too damned close to GD and Meta, if you ask me. I am, indeed, a true moron."
MineralMan
(146,189 posts)in Meta.
madinmaryland
(64,920 posts)Just kidding!
Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)Just a thought
trof
(54,255 posts)I think he outgrew us.
And the hilarious gay guy with the gay yellow duckie?
His name escapes me now.
I think Underpants has a new user name.
YellowRubberDuckie
(19,736 posts)I'm not sure who the hilarious gay guy with the gay yellow duckie was. I'm a girl, so I have no idea of whom you are speaking.
I miss the old days. SIGH.
Rowdyboy
(22,057 posts)He loved "Queer Duck" (and Aunt Clara from Bewitched)....
Still miss him. Here's one episode from Sho-time
http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=queer+duck&mid=1DB2C6B18423C78630051DB2C6B18423C7863005&view=detail&FORM=VIRE5
Tuesday Afternoon
(56,912 posts)He was cool.
trof
(54,255 posts)Yeah, Arwalden.
"Oh my gay stars!"
I miss him.
Shoulda been a stand-up comic.
Rowdyboy
(22,057 posts)"Oh my gay stars!" yep-you remember our boy Arwalden. He befriended me when I was a totally naive noob and helped me through "the minefields" of the original DU.
Hope you and Mrs T and the grandkids are all still doing well!
silverlib
(2,521 posts)sex threads. I remember well.
Aristus
(66,075 posts)Like DU, only with sex threads. It was wild.
It didn't last long...
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graywarrior
(59,440 posts)I miss the old lounge.
twogunsid
(1,606 posts)To the old days. And Rev_Acts. Slainte!
graywarrior
(59,440 posts)bluesbassman
(19,309 posts)Many casualties on both sides.
YellowRubberDuckie
(19,736 posts)We'd all go off on each other in one thread...then share recipes in another. We were a family, Goddammit and we acted like it!
bluesbassman
(19,309 posts)Just like real life.
texanwitch
(18,705 posts)I don't hang out as much in DU now.
We did have some epic battles but also a lot of fun.
The Lounge saw me thru some rough times, glad it was there.
I read the Lounge sometimes now but never post.
I still like to hang out in DU2 also.
UTUSN
(70,494 posts)femmocrat
(28,394 posts)I was a newbie during some of those battles... not fun.
I remember a lot of inside-jokes that only a small group understood. The rest of us were pretty much ignored. I don't miss some of the people who were always stirring thing up.
Although everyone has a different experience here--and then, some of us are just wall-flowers! LOL
UTUSN
(70,494 posts)bigwillq
(72,790 posts)then a lot of the folks I interacted with left or were banned.
It's still a cool place, though. I guess it's what one makes of it.
It's a message board. People come and go. It's the way it is.
Hi, Duckie!
turtlerescue1
(1,013 posts)what's the t-shirt? seen it all-did it all-just don''t remember it at all.
Every thing seems to evolve, dissolve, re-evolve and it beats stagnation.
RFKHumphreyObama
(15,164 posts)The Lounge was a great place to hang out in the first few years or so after I first joined. It really helped me through some of the darkest days of the Bush mis-administration and there was a real sense of community, fun and good times. I miss those days and the people who used to come here!
HappyMe
(20,277 posts)Casting asparagus is a Meta thing!!
bicentennial_baby
(37,153 posts)And with that, back into hiding
YellowRubberDuckie
(19,736 posts)Aristus
(66,075 posts)Haven't seen you in forever!!!
Rhiannon12866
(202,966 posts)The screen name was tool fan, wonder where she went...
Baclava
(12,047 posts)yeah - I remember
now all that's done on facebook, I hear
DFW
(54,047 posts)I don't remember the old days.
YellowRubberDuckie
(19,736 posts)DFW
(54,047 posts)I was a couple of years later, either 2005 or 2006. I must have missed some great years indeed.
crunch60
(1,412 posts)#!
texanwitch
(18,705 posts)I never seemed to get anything done.
It was worth it.
Good times.
fizzgig
(24,146 posts)it truly good to see you
how are things in your world?
baldguy
(36,649 posts)Also lots of kudzu.
XemaSab
(60,212 posts)And FWIW, I think teh new longue is way less friendly and way more cliquish.
CreekDog
(46,192 posts)keep scrolling!
mentalsolstice
(4,453 posts)Back in the day there a lot of little groups here, and it was easy to find a place to fit in. Then LFP threw a big old hissy fit, and the lounge was forever changed after that. I think there is a lot of resentment still felt by more than a few of us over that.
Lex
(34,108 posts)it was. This place is like a shadow of its former self.
Aristus
(66,075 posts)I know of at least one long-time Lounger who told me she was going to leave because the fun often got out of hand and she would get her feelings hurt, or someone would deliberately be a douche to her. That spelled the end for her.
The Lounge has lost a lot of fun-loving DU-ers because of flame wars.
I miss them, but I keep hoping they'll come back someday...
Alas, the Grotto, I suspect, is gone for good. VelmaD was a goddess...
fizzgig
(24,146 posts)the nastiness was just too much and you never knew when you were going to step in a giant pile of shit by posting in what seemed to be an innocuous thread.
that said, we did have some damn good times. i miss both the nighthawks and clintmax's good morning threads. there were many nights i posted in both.
i'm glad that you're still around
Aristus
(66,075 posts)MrMickeysMom
(20,453 posts)Wouldn't this be better if DU3 married DU2 and the Lounge lived happily ever after?
BlueJazz
(25,348 posts)...a good chance of being sent to a jury.
Phentex
(16,330 posts)Probably would have been filled with self-deletes, too.
JitterbugPerfume
(18,183 posts)It has been through a lot of reincarnations since them!
LaurenG
(24,841 posts)A bunch left, a bunch were ts'ed and some pop in now an again but no one knows them or likes them so they leave and hang out with people who know and like them. At least I think that's what happened.