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I just wanted to poke my head in the door, say hi, and see if any of the old folks are still around. I can't remember the last time I was here, and that may be for the best since I seem to recall I was kind of (very much) an asshole in the good old days.

Well, how's things, guys?

Hey Crudblud, nice to see you again! How are you?

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Good to see you too! I'm okay, just taking things a day at a time. I still compose music, although what I've been doing the past few years is quite different to anything I used to share here back in the day. I also compose soundtracks for games at my friend's development studio.

How's things with you?

Welcome back, Crudblud.


Management will be with you shortly.

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Much the same, still accidentally hurting myself on a regular basis...

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well, damn. carl finally got his driver's license. 8th time is a charm. and a segue to DUI city!
little toni is finally walking. but he walks backwards most of the time.
sheryl finally got a dvd player (last week) but A) from the pawnshop, B) she spilled pepsi "in it".
"flying v" ronnie has discovered this longwinded stoner band EARTHLESS!! and he has fell through 3 windows in 2 weeks.
deb and kevin got married. downtown. kevin got hit by a car. deb moved in with her sister. weird enough reaction, deb.
remember "dumpster d"? he is living at the Y now. and missing 3 more teeth. and "starting a rap troop".
i am living with sandy now. I KNOW, SHUT UP. only until i get back on my feet.
and damn, that gal can take a throat punch.


you?

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Oof, that's not so great. But you're keeping up with the drawing and stuff?


Jeez. That's a real epilogue slide montage of people I suspect may not exist right there. Much appreciated.

What about baddy, or feets, or MGG? Slime? BTM? There are names I'm forgetting, like the one guy who use to announce himself as being from "Cincinasty. NOhio". Hell, what about Cleon? What even, dare I ask, about Trendmonger?

Trendy's not here as far as I know, JayPFunk got banned and we suspect he's now back to his usual trolling, and there's a new troll who you've met already.
MGG's still a regular and most of the others still pop in.

I try to draw, at the moment I have two pupils: my BF's nieces. Cute.

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heh... "new".

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That's good, I guess. Never thought I'd hear about someone getting banned on the Zappa forums, though.


Awww, that's sweet. They have a good teacher!


If you weren't here eight years ago you're new to me.

Yeah he was rude to admin. Guess all the racist remarks he was making was okay, as long as you don't upset the management...

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I remember him being very right wing and very loud about it for sure, not racist necessarily, but I guess crime statistics by race are a popular thing for right wingers to hold up in response to BLM now, so it makes sense. Personally I don't think racism or anything like that should be cause for banning, as long as it's on a forum it's just an idea, and an idea that cannot be expressed is an idea that cannot be challenged. Obviously, free speech protections in law don't cover forums, but I think as a principle it's a better idea to discuss stuff like that than it is to shut it down by force, and I've always kind of appreciated this forum's laissez faire approach to what people can and cannot say. Of course, arguments only tend to make people more entrenched, so maybe there is no good approach to dealing with that kind of stuff.

The thing is most sites are on a service provider. If a user here calls for, say, murder of all the blacks, it's not just the site but also the provider that can be held responsible, and a provider can demand the site to remove such content.
Also there are laws against discrimination, and as you can tell from recent Facebook verdicts, social media are being held responsible for the outings of its users.

'Course there's more chance such a thing happens when you upload illegal movies.

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Hello!

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Hi escaped from TC hey

Hi Mr blud!
........................................................................................................................................... Nice to see your pixels again.....................................

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" . . . On the outside now . . ."

You're not a fully vested troll until you've been on the forum for five full years. It's similar to the partial/full-on Zappa fan delineation noted in the Z-Forum Rules, Section 5.2.

Mr. Crudblud - Welcome back! I remember your name but I don't think we ever really interacted much. Lapsed maps is ok. He's just one of those people that you either really hate or a, yeah. So, welcome back!

Good to see you old buddy!


If it ain't Eddie Varèse himself! I believe we're both on GMG as well?


I remember the name, although not the person so much. We'll have to fix that!


Thanks! Not interacting with angry teenage me is probably a good thing, to be honest.

Really nice to have you around, gentleman amigo. How is the UK fairing?

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If it ain't Eddie Varèse himself! I believe we're both on GMG as well?

Yep one and the same - good to see you here Crud, I even survived the recent STI massacre on TC

Hey Crud , nice to see ya

Howdy, welcome back, I have to be honest don't remember you but sometimes I have trouble finding my way home too...

Who?

The political situation is dire, but you know, what else is new? I'm doing okay in my part of the country, at the very least, but the north tends to be quieter in general. How are you doing?


Dare I ask?


There's the man! How's it going?


Well, it has been... seven or eight years, I think.


I ask myself the same thing on a regular basis. I remember you if that's any consolation.

Brazil is, indeed, in dire political situation. Since last election, the loosing party has done everything to destabilize the country political scene, pushing for a Venezuela-like scenario, which led to a white coup (the parliment overthrew the elected president, without a responsability crime) and opened way for the non-elected platform to take over. We are facing the growth of an army of more than 14 mi unemployed, loss of purchase power, increase in crime rates and everything that comes along with an economical crisis. The person in office is a known criminal, but still the (mostly) criminal house of representatives won't do shit.

I, personally (other than that), can't complain, though. I am employed, trying to produce science and raising a beautiful girl.

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