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[northgahearse]

Alrighty guys, here is the situation...

I want to get some feedback from our regulars here because this is something important.

As you may or may not know, the PCS has made some changes with their forums rules that are causing people to peruse the possibility of other forums to visit. This is a good thing for us because I have already referred a couple of people to the forums here and several have registered as new users in the past couple days. The overflow of people who are coming here is awesome because it gives us more activity and more variety so I want to embrace that.

The one piece of feedback has been the fact that we are somewhat, er, politically incorrect. We've brought this up before, and the resounding feedback was that you'd rather not be more politically correct. That's fine, but we would still like to be more approachable so that we can enjoy a boost in membership and have a more rounded forum what I would like to suggest is this - We construct (by we, I of course mean Chris) a At Your Own Risk forum. Basically there is a splash page warning on the forum that this is the place where you do NOT go if you are easily offended or bothered by questionable humor, that way we can still be as offensive as we want to be but we'd have a more friendly atmosphere and garner more registered users.

What I need to know is, is this something that you, the regular users would support us on and help us by posting in that forum?

yeah that "politically correct society" bunch of old men that need to be in the white only men only country club... bitching at why no one loves them so full of themself ok ill stop now

but its a good idea to keep somethings off the main pages there are times i can't hit the sight to show it off due to somethings that just don't fit the time ... but no way does it need to be stoped

the last thing we need to do is go politically correct

but if we must here is a list to get us started

Politically Correct (PC) Terms:
A Criminal - unsavory character
A Crook - morally (ethically) challenged
Abortion - Near-Life Experience
Alcoholic - Anti-Sobriety Activist
Alive - temporarily metabolically abled.
An Immigrant - a newcomer
Assassination - involuntary term limitation
Bald - comb-free
Bald - folically independent
Bald - follicularly challenged.
Battle Fatigued - shellshocked
Blind - optically darker
Blind - photonically non-receptive
Blind - visually challenged
Body Odor - nondiscretionary fragrance.
Broken Down Automobile - mechanically challenged
Broken Home - Dysfunctional Family
Bum - Displaced Homeowner
Bum - Homeless Person
Bum - Involuntarily Domiciled
Cannibalism - Intra-Species Dining
Censorship - Selective Speech
Cheating - Academic Dishonesty
China - Porcelain
Chronically Late - Temporarily Challenged
Clumsy - uniquely coordinated
Commercial Fisherman - Flipper Whipper
Computer Illiterate - Technologically Challenged
Corpse - Permanently Static Post-Human Mass
Corpse / Stiff - Metabolically Challenged
Corpse / Stiff - Terminally Inconvenienced
Cowardly - Challenge Challenged
Cowboys - bovine control officers
Crackpot - certified astrological consultant, certified crystal therapist, or certified past-life regression hypnotist
Crime Rate - street activity index
Dead - Actuarially Mature
Dead - biologically challenged
Dead - environmentally correct human
Dead - living impaired
Dead - metabolically challenged
Dead - persons living with entropy
Deaf - Visually Oriented
Delicatessen - Corpse Farm
Dirty Old Man - sexually focused chronologically gifted individual
Dish Washer - utensil sanitizer
Dishonest - Ethically disoriented.
Dorm - Residence Hall
Drooling Drunk Idiot - person on floor
Drowning - aquatically challenged
Drug Addict - Chemically Challenged
Drunk - spacially perplexed
Drunk / Junkie - in recovery
Earthquake - geological correction
Fail - achieve a deficiency.
Fat - Differently Weighted
Fat - gravitationally challenged
Fat - horizontally challenged.
Fat - horizontally gifted
Fat - People of Mass
Fat - person of substance
Fictional / Mythological - ontologically challenged
Freshman - first-year student
Frog - amphibian American
Full of Crap - fecally plenary
Gang - Youth Group
Garbage Man - sanitation engineer
Gas Station Attendent - petroleum transfer technician
Geek, Nerd, whatever... - socially challenged
Ghetto / Barrio - Ethnically Homogenous Area
Hamburger - Seared Mutilated Animal Flesh
Handicapped - Differently Abled, Handi-Capable
Having PMS - cyclically challenged
Hearing Person - temporarily aurally abled
Homeless - outdoor urban dwellers
Homeless - residentially flexible
Homelessness - Mortgage-Free Living
Housebroken - Family Disfunction
Housewife - domestic engineer
Hunter - Animal Assassin
Hunter - Bambi Butcher
Hunter - Meat Mercenary
Ignorant - factually unencumbered
Ignorant - knowledge-based nonpossessor.
Incompetent - Differently Qualified
Incompetent - Specially Skilled
Incompetent - Uniquely Proficient
Insane People - Mental Explorers
Insane People - Selectively Perceptive
Insult - Emotional Rape
Janitor - sanitation engineer
Klutz - kinesthetically challenged
Large Nose - nasally gifted
Lazy - motivationally dispossessed
Lazy - motivationally deficient.
Learning Disability - Self-Paced Cognitive Ability
Library - Educational Resource Center
Logger - Wood Weasel
Logger - Paper Pirate
Logger -Treeslayer
Loser - Second Place
Loser - uniquely fortuned individual on an alternative career path
Man-hole - maintenance hole
Mankind - humankind
MANkind, HuMAN, PerSON - Earth Children
Mercy Killing - Euthanasia
Mercy Killing - Putting Down/To Sleep/Out of Misery
Messy - differently organized
Meter Maid - Parking enforcer
Midget / Dwarf - Little People
Midget / Dwarf - Vertically Challenged
Mute/Dumb - verbally challenged
Not with somebody at the moment - romantically challenged -
Off - energy-efficient
Old - chronologically gifted
Old Person / Elderly - Gerontologically Advanced
Old Person / Elderly - Senior Citizens
Panhandler - Unaffiliated applicant for private-sector funding.
Paper Bag - processed tree carcass
Perverted - Sexually dysfunctional.
Pimp-mobile / Low-rider - Culturally Responsive Transportation Option
Plagiarism - Previously Owned Prose
Po' - financially inept
Policeman, Policewoman - law inforcement officer
Poor - economically marginalized
Poor - Economically Unprepared
Poor - monetarily challenged
Postman - letter carrier
Pregnant - parasitically oppressed.
Prisoner - client of the correctional system
Prostitute - sex care provider
Psychobabble - constructivist feminist psychotherapy
Psychopath - socially misaligned
Racist - genetically discriminating
Really Big Nosed - nasally disadvantaged
Redneck - person of region
Redneck - rustically inclined
Refugees - asylum seekers
Road Kill - Vehicularly Compressed Maladapted Life Form
Rudeness - Tact Avoidance
Runny Nose - nasally gifted
Senile Bag o' Bones - Alzheimer's Victim
Serial-Killer - Person with difficult-to-meet needs.
Shoplifter - Cost-of-Living Adjustment Specialist
Short - vertically challenged
Sighted Person - temporarily visually abled
Slum - Economic Oppression Zone
Slut - suffering from a sex addiction (female)
Someone who has no other reason to park in a handicapped zone - morally handicapped
Spendthrift - negative saver.
Stained - creatively re-dyed
Steward, Stewardess - flight attendant
Stoned - Chemically inconvenienced.
Stud - suffering from a sex addiction (male)
Stupid - differently-brained
Stupid - intellectually impaired
The Elderly - Senior citizens
Thin - horizontally challenged
Thirsty - osmotically challenged
Tone Deaf - musically delayed
Too old/young - other aged
Too Tall - people of height
Tree-Hugger - environmental activist
Trees - Oxygen Exchange Units
Ugly - aesthetically challenged
Ugly - Cosmetically different.
Ugly - facially challenged
Unemployed - Involuntarily leisured.
Used Books - Recycled Books
Vagrant - Nonspecifically destinationed individual.
Vegetable - noble unconscious hero
Vice President - Post-Coronary Leader of the Free World
Vocal Minority - target equity group
Vomiting - Unplanned Reexamination of Recent Food Choices
Waiter, Waitress - food server
War-Monger - Peacekeeper, patriot
Welfare Bum - economically disadvantaged
Whaler - Blubber Lover
White - melanin-impoverished
White American - racially challenged
White Boy - rhythmically challenged
White Trash - caucasian culturally-disadvantaged
Wife - unpaid sex slave
Worst - least best.
Wrong - differently logical.

[Morella]

I can't seem to find my last reply, so I'll try one more time.

You asked us to throttle back on certain content, and we have cut it out altogether, then the worst of the whiners left anyway! Where is this going to end? Hearse drivers for Jesus?

How about a forum called "Pusscakes who walk on eggshells?"



-denise

[Kaos Photo]

I can't seem to find my last reply, so I'll try one more time.

You asked us to throttle back on certain content, and we have cut it out altogether, then the worst of the whiners left anyway! Where is this going to end? Hearse drivers for Jesus?

How about a forum called "Pusscakes who walk on eggshells?"



-denise

I agree with you about whiners that can't handle any thing they wouldn't say on"ABC Family", but if they own a pro-car and have some technical know how to pass on, let's give 'em somewhere to put it and to feel all safe, and warm and fuzzy from all us "freaks". Anything that takes away from all the stuffed shirts in that little purist car club will make me happy. It doesn't seem like it would be too much of an inconvenience for us, and it could do some good. Just as long as they don't come to any meets thinking they will be nice and cuddly. Unless they are like that! Haven't been here long enough to attend any yet!

[R U INJRD]

So I'm curious, what's gone down on this forum with respect to what's allowed, whiners, etc.? I don't want people to think I'm coming in here right off the bat asking for change. That's what I was accused of over there at the PCS.

Seems like right now there are two groups that are interested in the same vehicles, and they couldn't be more different from each other. That's not to say there isn't common ground and everybody can't get along, obviously there is a lot of cross-pollination going on and some people from each "side" are friends with each other, but each group (the NHAA and the PCS) isn't for everybody, I think anyone can see that.

Is there a possibility for a middle ground somewhere? Maybe even a third forum that doesn't cater to nor bash either group? That would be something I could refer a lot of friends to.

[LMS]

So I'm curious, what's gone down on this forum with respect to what's allowed, whiners, etc.? I don't want people to think I'm coming in here right off the bat asking for change. That's what I was accused of over there at the PCS.

Seems like right now there are two groups that are interested in the same vehicles, and they couldn't be more different from each other. That's not to say there isn't common ground and everybody can't get along, obviously there is a lot of cross-pollination going on and some people from each "side" are friends with each other, but each group (the NHAA and the PCS) isn't for everybody, I think anyone can see that.

Is there a possibility for a middle ground somewhere? Maybe even a third forum that doesn't cater to nor bash either group? That would be something I could refer a lot of friends to.

It's nothing you have done, there were some real wuss bags here in the past that just seemed to be offended by everything.

We have 4 main sections to the board now each with subcatagories:
Embalming room
Projects
NHAA members
Classifieds

What we should do is just move a few of them to a more "professional" section where we try not to be our usual beloved ass hole selves.
Call the new section Pro car section. Move categories like technical, classifieds, projects, e-bay finds and the like to this new section. It has always annoyed me how some threads in those areas turned into little love triangles and bitch fests, save that shit for the tomb where anything goes.

Everything should be clearly marked though regardless, that way no one can bitch when they get offended.


I have always thought we could attract more members if we could really section the board off into a "safe zone" and an "absofuckinglutly anything goes section".

[Psychoholic]

I'm down for whatever.

David, would you post how you think it should be and I'll move all the shit around *(I work best with punch lists).

[msc0nduct]

I just hope I am not considered one of the "wuss bags". I am not offended by anything, I just thing SOME THINGS need to be put in a proper place for people at work. Myself included, since I work for a school district and all. Just wanted to clarify.

[BIGEVIL]

Hey, I like the diversity also. All I ask, if it is NWS, please label it as NWS in the title/header so I won't open it at work.
I think we have enough catagories. I really enjoy the technical and picture posts.
Me personally, I usually save a good f-bomb for when I really need to drive a point home. Other than that, I really don't want any of us to have to worry about upsetting thin skinned people. If they don't like us or the board. fuck 'em.

[dead ed]

Welcome One and All. But if you Bitch and whine, off with your heads. Nws should be in its place. It's fun when I'm bored. I'm not easily offended, but i wouldn't show this site to mom. This site has been very helpful with maintenance and finding parts. I'm here 4 life. My hearse is my passion. I love my Emily.

[Morella]

I just hope I am not considered one of the "wuss bags". I am not offended by anything, I just thing SOME THINGS need to be put in a proper place for people at work. Myself included, since I work for a school district and all. Just wanted to clarify.

No, Sweetheart, I'm pretty sure that this happened before you got here. There was an epedimic of racial jokes and other offensive material.

A few people sought total censorship, and most of them left after the board was cleaned up. I think that they just needed to show that they could get their way.

Most people thought that some things needed to be toned down a little. Some of us suggested that if we just let things cool off for a while, the problem would work itself out, and, in my opinion, it has, even more than I expected. For instance, the powers that be said that there was nothing wrong with an occasional ethnic joke, but there were more of them being posted than anything else. I can't remember the last time I heard an ethnic joke at all; at least, on the tomb.

That is why I got angry about being asked to tone it down again...there isn't anything to tone down. It's already more mellow than it has ever been. Most of the people on this board are a little bit eccentric, and if they tried to "tone it down" any more, they would no longer have a place to be themselves. I wouldn't have any hard feelings about leaving, but I would leave, because I wouldn't have a place where I could be myself anymore, which is the way that I feel about the board now.

I'm not interested in the not safe for work section, and I don't read it, but if someone sent me something that was disgusting, but so funny that I just had to pass it on, I would post it there.

-denise

[spastic_chicken]

I'm just along for the ride...

[tonytheskin]

This place is going to turn into NPR

[LMS]

This place is going to turn into NPR

No, it will still be the same old place just with a "safe zone" and an "anything goes zone"
Both clearly labeled so that visitors can have a the choice of a truly pro-car related area, or a wacky fun place where they can see titties and shit.

[LMS]

I'm down for whatever.

David, would you post how you think it should be and I'll move all the shit around *(I work best with punch lists).

Chris I will PM you how I think it should be set up, you can make any final calls on it.

[Morella]

Both clearly labeled so that visitors can have a the choice of a truly pro-car related area, or a wacky fun place where they can see titties and shit.

The only area I usually read is the tomb, so I hope you're not thinking about doing away with it. Since I'm not interested in "titties and shit" (which we already have two areas for), that would leave me a board where I wasn't allowed to talk about anything but hearses. We moved the tits and ass to another area so that we could have some ordinary conversation which may or may not concern hearses, which has worked out well. We're not going to screw that up, are we?

-denise