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| (...) Who are you to judge whether or not Anthony's requests were genuine or not? The only person who is qualified to be the judge of that is Antony himself, right? Yes, I'm being sarcastic. -Tim (20 years ago, 17-Sep-04, to lugnet.admin.suggestions, lugnet.fun.community, lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.people, lugnet.org)
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| (...) I snipped the rest of your stuff, but I just want to chime in with my agreement to your point of view. -Tim (whose opinion shouldn't imply anyone else's opinion by his affiliations) (20 years ago, 17-Sep-04, to lugnet.admin.suggestions, lugnet.fun.community, lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.people, lugnet.org)
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| (...) There is one really significant difference between Teddy's request and these ones you're making. His was genuine. Chris. (20 years ago, 17-Sep-04, to lugnet.admin.suggestions, lugnet.fun.community, lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.people, lugnet.org)
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| (...) I wonder if this is a common theme. I'm not a Playmobil lover, but my wife is. But she can play with LEGO too. I do enjoy watching her and sometimes I like getting involved when she is playing. I wonder though, how my kids will grow up, seeing (...) (20 years ago, 17-Sep-04, to lugnet.admin.suggestions, lugnet.fun.community, lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.people, lugnet.org, FTX)
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| (...) Why cast this as conservative vs. liberal? I'm not seeing it that way and I am not sure it's a useful characterisation. (...) I am not seeing any characterisation of the 'majority' as ignorant, hateful or unqualified by anyone. I certainly (...) (20 years ago, 17-Sep-04, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.suggestions, lugnet.org)
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| (...) Hear, hear! Imagine what could be done by bringing together Playmobil fans, brick fans, and the now-sanctioned dark-side brick modders? We all need a home. Hybrid Playmobil-Lego mods! "Ports" of Playmobil accessories to the Lego platform! (...) (20 years ago, 17-Sep-04, to lugnet.admin.suggestions, lugnet.fun.community, lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.people, lugnet.org, FTX)
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| (...) I get the feeling I'm going to regret it too, having to sit through the eighty or ninety posts of people telling you that everyone's allowed to their own opinion as long as it's not to think being gay is a sin. (...) Now I have no opinion one (...) (20 years ago, 17-Sep-04, to lugnet.admin.suggestions, lugnet.fun.community, lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.people, lugnet.org) !!
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| (...) Would then an individual who wants a gay-only lugnet discussion forum, because they feel uncomfortable talking about lego with non gay individuals, be called "heterophobic?" It's just a question, and shouldn't be taken as a statement being (...) (20 years ago, 17-Sep-04, to lugnet.admin.suggestions, lugnet.fun.community, lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.people, lugnet.org)
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| I KNOW I should duck out of this now, but I just can't resist not posting something. I'm going to regret it, I know. So... I am a Heterosexual Conservative Catholic. Do I think being gay is a sin? Yes. Do I have gay friends? Yes. Do I preach to gay (...) (20 years ago, 17-Sep-04, to lugnet.admin.suggestions, lugnet.fun.community, lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.people, lugnet.org) !!
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| (...) I just love this abuse of the term "homophobic" to anyone who disagrees with whatever homosexuals propose to do (and Alfred, this does not mean I am saying you a homosexual because I don't know and don't care). No other group exists - (...) (20 years ago, 17-Sep-04, to lugnet.admin.suggestions, lugnet.fun.community, lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.people, lugnet.org)
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| (...) This last argument is always appealed to when a majority having a conservative position is opposed to what a minority group with a more liberal viewpoint does or doesn't want to do. In this case the majority is cast as being ignorant, hateful (...) (20 years ago, 17-Sep-04, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.suggestions, lugnet.org)
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| (...) I let this roll around in my head for a day before posting a reply to this. There are a few things I have to post about this and I hope to get them out. 1. I have to say this is the first time in my life I have heard anyone try and tie sexual (...) (20 years ago, 17-Sep-04, to lugnet.admin.suggestions, lugnet.fun.community, lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.people, lugnet.org) !
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| (...) Amazing timing, my lugnet membership comes to my email just as I was itching to reply to this thread (I've been "lurking" now for months and this is my first post). In any case, I think that having a lavendar group is going to be something (...) (20 years ago, 17-Sep-04, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.suggestions, lugnet.org)
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| Hello! Being a Playmobil-lover I always felt somewhat to be the odd one out at AFOL meetings. For many years Playmobil has been one of my most important inspirations for building with LEGO. There are so many things in the Playmobil universe that (...) (20 years ago, 17-Sep-04, to lugnet.admin.suggestions, lugnet.fun.community, lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.people, lugnet.org, FTX) !!
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| Bruce Schlickbernd wrote in message ... (...) Well, I wasn't going through the posts saying mentally "that one, and that one, and that one..." and categorising who was saying what, and how. No intentional lumping going on. (...) with (...) Many (...) (20 years ago, 17-Sep-04, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.suggestions, lugnet.org)
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| (...) Clarification: ...the only time a thread has been cancelled without first securing the permission of the poster(s). -Tim (20 years ago, 17-Sep-04, to lugnet.admin.suggestions, lugnet.fun.community, lugnet.people, lugnet.org, FTX)
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| (...) Yep. We didn't even cancel the infamous f-bomb posts (which kinda surprised me). The only time a thread has been cancelled was at the request of LEGO's lawyers upon the leaking of some confidential information, some years ago. And IIRC, it (...) (20 years ago, 17-Sep-04, to lugnet.admin.suggestions, lugnet.fun.community, lugnet.people, lugnet.org, FTX)
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| In lugnet.admin.suggestions, Edward Welsh wrote: --snip-- (...) Well I'm not sure I think that's a good idea. Lugnet has managed to stay nicely free of censorship so far - it would be nice if that continued. However, of such posts would be good, and (...) (20 years ago, 17-Sep-04, to lugnet.admin.suggestions, lugnet.fun.community, lugnet.people, lugnet.org, FTX)
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| (...) Are you lumping into that those that are really saying, "Lugnet is about Lego, and homesexual, heterosexual, transsexual, etc. really has nothing to do with Lego"? I'm starting to see spin-mastering on this topic that I don't foresee as (...) (20 years ago, 17-Sep-04, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.suggestions, lugnet.org)
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| (...) Well I *know* my view doesn't matter here (right Lar?) but my mind is boggling too, so I'll post my opinion that it's a great idea. I mean, if you look at local groups for instance-- they are composed of AFOL's who have the common (...) (20 years ago, 17-Sep-04, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.suggestions, lugnet.org)
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