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Matty143 · March 2012

In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/wedding-boards_etiquette_fff-88?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Wedding%20BoardsForum:9Discussion:1aee36f2-caa5-449c-874d-8a1268202e66Post:d7ef243a-d3e0-4618-94fd-f08105dc323d">Re: FFF</a>:
[QUOTE]Did anyone else just get a pop-up for a survey? I only have this and gmail open so I have no idea where it could have came from.
Posted by lovethebeach16[/QUOTE]

Nope. I also have this and gmail open.

mica178 · March 2012

1. Why were most people completely nonplussed by shadowkat's 18 year age gap (and she's only 22)? You all focused on her constant switching of majors and diagnosed ADD (a major irritation of mine unless you are a psychiatrist), but no one said boo about the fact that her FI is 40. Anyone remember that Ciara was nailed for a similar age gap?

2. Look, if a poster has 100 posts and rarely posts on E then starts a vent thread, yes, I'm going to think it's a little weird. I don't walk into Starbucks, approach a table of women I don't know and biitch about my coworkers. It's weird. If you think that's condescending, well, maybe you're more of an extrovert than me.

Bubbalub · March 2012

In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/wedding-boards_etiquette_fff-88?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Wedding%20BoardsForum:9Discussion:1aee36f2-caa5-449c-874d-8a1268202e66Post:6ad278e3-7ae8-43f0-9100-7e0969da65bd">Re: FFF</a>:
[QUOTE]In Response to Re: FFF : <--- showing my obvious lack of music knowledge.
Posted by lovethebeach16[/QUOTE]<div>
</div><div>No, it's not music related (at least to me), it's literary:</div><div>
</div><div><span style="color:#333333;font-family:Verdana, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;line-height:19px;font-size:small;" class="Apple-style-span">"A quick Google search reveals "Goodbye, cruel world" is a phrase in Kurt Vonnegut's 1961 novel <em style="font-style:italic;">Mother Night</em>, a 1961 song by James Darren, and a 1979 song by Pink Floyd. Whatever its origin, the phrase has now become synonymous with the idea of committing suicide to escape this cruel, cruel world."</span>

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ErinG93 · March 2012

In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/wedding-boards_etiquette_fff-88?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Wedding%20BoardsForum:9Discussion:1aee36f2-caa5-449c-874d-8a1268202e66Post:d7ef243a-d3e0-4618-94fd-f08105dc323d">Re: FFF</a>:
[QUOTE]Did anyone else just get a pop-up for a survey? I only have this and gmail open so I have no idea where it could have came from.
Posted by lovethebeach16[/QUOTE]

<div>I got one of those yesterday. I was really confused, but I didn't think it was from TK. Maybe it was.</div>

midgetthemighty · March 2012

So, I don't know why this was my first thought when TheValidator posted in here, but I immediately thought of it being some "superhero" from the wedding bee. I'm a nerd.

Bubbalub · March 2012

And holy cow, I just realized how potentially pretentious that last post of mine looked. Not my intention. I just didn't even know there were songs by that title, I always think of an actor on a stage, Hamlet-style, contemplating suicide and saying "Goodby, cruel world!" before throwing himself off a building or something.

[Deleted User] · March 2012

In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/wedding-boards_etiquette_fff-88?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Wedding%20BoardsForum:9Discussion:1aee36f2-caa5-449c-874d-8a1268202e66Post:c9a67e53-e169-42f9-ae1e-04243ca11056">Re: FFF</a>:
[QUOTE]1. Why were most people completely nonplussed by shadowkat's 18 year age gap (and she's only 22)?
Posted by mica178[/QUOTE]
I didn't see that until much later, but I enjoyed your posts there. It was the thing that stood out to me from OP, too. Also, as the thread went on, it struck me how much she talked about, in relation to college and her major, how much she doesn't know what she wants. Yet somehow she knows that she wants to spend the rest of her life with someone who happens to be twice her age? Not buying it. I'm not one to get bent about young brides, but everything about that screamed "too immature to get married" to me.

ahhhitsshannyn · March 2012

YOU ARE SO PRETENTIOUS BUBS. I really didn't know the literary factor, but I think I have heard it in movies or something.

annakb8 · March 2012

I've read Mother Night several times and I still didn't catch the reference.

My e-ring was free so no gifts here.

Bubbalub · March 2012

I know I am, Shan! It's been pointed out to me in FFF before. Heh.

I have a friend that was dating a 40-year-old guy when we were still in college and I thought it was super weird. They just didn't have anything in common, we all hated him, he wouldn't mingle his friends with hers. It was just too big an age gap to make sense. Thank goodness my friend didn't want to marry him. I wouldn't have given good odds on that marriage lasting.

Loopyseven · March 2012

I totally missed that age gap Mica. Good eye

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Celles · March 2012

In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/wedding-boards_etiquette_fff-88?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Wedding BoardsForum:9Discussion:1aee36f2-caa5-449c-874d-8a1268202e66Post:c9a67e53-e169-42f9-ae1e-04243ca11056">Re: FFF</a>:
[QUOTE]<strong>1. Why were most people completely nonplussed by shadowkat's 18 year age gap (and she's only 22)?</strong> You all focused on her constant switching of majors and diagnosed ADD (a major irritation of mine unless you are a psychiatrist), but no one said boo about the fact that her FI is 40. Anyone remember that Ciara was nailed for a similar age gap?
Posted by mica178[/QUOTE]

Probably because it's NBD? I know a lot of people who have happy, healthy relationships in spite of a significant age difference between partners. It's not something I'm inclined to judge without knowing considerably more about the individuals involved.

TheValidator · March 2012

In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/wedding-boards_etiquette_fff-88?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Wedding%20BoardsForum:9Discussion:1aee36f2-caa5-449c-874d-8a1268202e66Post:1b07681e-622f-4005-83ca-4d9cb7a65897">Re: FFF</a>:
[QUOTE]So, I don't know why this was my first thought when TheValidator posted in here, but I immediately thought of it being some "superhero" from the wedding bee. I'm a nerd.
Posted by midgetthemighty[/QUOTE]

I'm not from Wedding Bee. Here's my picture for enquiring minds:<div>
<a href="http://cdn.cl9.vanillaforums.com/downloaded/ver1.0/content/images/store/11/12/cb0345c1-ac7d-418b-bca7-17ec0a9f975f.large.jpg" title="Click to view a larger photo" class="PhotoLink"> <img src="http://cdn.cl9.vanillaforums.com/downloaded/ver1.0/content/images/store/11/12/cb0345c1-ac7d-418b-bca7-17ec0a9f975f.medium.jpg" alt="" /></a>
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Beachy730 · March 2012

I know we've moved on but I was stuck on the phone. Not so much a flame, but more of a WTF. I think it's really ironic how some people now are saying that want the board to have a little more drama and more flames like it used to, but I'm pretty sure way back when I (and several others) said it, we get jumped all over. Like Eagles, I'm pretty sure you were one way back when who said you like that everyone is friends and gets along and there is no drama. Now you're saying you want it back to the old days. I just think it's funny how people flame others for the opinion that they then come to hold.

shadowkat08 · March 2012

In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/wedding-boards_etiquette_fff-88?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Wedding%20BoardsForum:9Discussion:1aee36f2-caa5-449c-874d-8a1268202e66Post:c9a67e53-e169-42f9-ae1e-04243ca11056">Re: FFF</a>:
[QUOTE]1. Why were most people completely nonplussed by shadowkat's 18 year age gap (and she's only 22)?
Posted by mica178[/QUOTE]

<div>I know it's bad form to comment about your own flaming, but to be honest I was quite surprised about that as well. </div><div>
</div><div>Guess I probably shouldn't mention I met him on the internet then huh? ;)</div>

kellyjellybelly · March 2012

Actually, beachy, I don't think you were jumped all over. I think you were called a bitch

baystateapple · March 2012

I don't know if this is a flame, per se, but I'm sick of everyone calling everything "lame." The word "lame" is used so much on these boards lately that it feels like it's losing it's meaning.

Someone's acting whiny? They're lame.

Someone responds to a flame and tries to argue their point? Lame.

Somebody decides to be Captain-Save-A-Newb or -Reg? Also lame.

This board needs a thesaurus.

Matty143 · March 2012

In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/wedding-boards_etiquette_fff-88?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Wedding%20BoardsForum:9Discussion:1aee36f2-caa5-449c-874d-8a1268202e66Post:476af0f2-01dc-4d1a-b1c8-f917a5ea6883">Re: FFF</a>:
[QUOTE]In Response to Re: FFF : Whenever people asked us <strong>what the theme of the Purdue Christmas Show would be each yea</strong>r, we were always told to respond "CHRISTMAS!" Or snarkily "Duh! Kwanzaa!" Pheagles, you said something the other day that made me side eye, but I can't find it and can't remember. Obviously it affected me a very big way. Can I flame the user Meegles, because it makes me say Pheagles in my head, and then I think of Pheagles, but it's not her? /end lameness.
Posted by MattsPenguin[/QUOTE]

In your case, that makes sense. Its a Christmas show, that is the theme. Got it :)
To me, this was more ZOMG a wedding doesn't need a theme! or Pirates! Pirate kittens!!
The vendors were most likely looking for what the colors were, what food they were serving, casual or formal, stuff like that.
Again, its a lame flame but whatever. :)

Loopyseven · March 2012

In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/wedding-boards_etiquette_fff-88?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Wedding%20BoardsForum:9Discussion:1aee36f2-caa5-449c-874d-8a1268202e66Post:1dbee47d-db28-4cb5-86ff-d9473ba60610">Re: FFF</a>:
[QUOTE]In Response to Re: FFF : I know it's bad form to comment about your own flaming, but to be honest I was quite surprised about that as well. Guess I probably shouldn't mention<strong> I met him on the internet</strong> then huh? ;)
Posted by shadowkat08[/QUOTE]

<div>o_O</div>

Beachy730 · March 2012

In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/wedding-boards_etiquette_fff-88?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Wedding%20BoardsForum:9Discussion:1aee36f2-caa5-449c-874d-8a1268202e66Post:53b58779-822b-416e-80b8-8e860a22ca69">Re: FFF</a>:
[QUOTE]I don't know if this is a flame, per se, but I'm sick of everyone calling everything "lame." The word "lame" is used so much on these boards lately that it feels like it's losing it's meaning. Someone's acting whiny? They're lame. Someone responds to a flame and tries to argue their point? Lame. Somebody decides to be Captain-Save-A-Newb or -Reg? Also lame. This board needs a thesaurus.
Posted by baystateapple[/QUOTE]

<div>I get sick of seeing the same word all the time too. I feel like the boards go in phases. I remember for a time when everything was tacky. People, posts, ideas, etc. Everything was tacky. Apparently lame is the new tacky I guess.</div>

AllAboutTheBenjamin · March 2012

Gawd bay, that's a lame flame.

midgetthemighty · March 2012

Bay, you're so lame.

JK, you're totally not lame.

chirpchirp · March 2012

This is a P&R but speaking of puppies and rainbows sucking, Snippy's thread about Lucy going to see a castle was beyond lame.

baystateapple · March 2012

In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/wedding-boards_etiquette_fff-88?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Wedding%20BoardsForum:9Discussion:1aee36f2-caa5-449c-874d-8a1268202e66Post:cec4f9d9-f5de-4010-95a8-e938c0fd181f">Re: FFF</a>:
[QUOTE]Gawd bay, that's a lame flame. :)
Posted by AllAboutTheBenjamin[/QUOTE]

Ahahaha I figured this was coming :)

mica178 · March 2012

I don't like the term lame. I think of it the same way I think of using the terms gay and retarded as insults.

MattsPenguin · March 2012

In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/wedding-boards_etiquette_fff-88?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Wedding BoardsForum:9Discussion:1aee36f2-caa5-449c-874d-8a1268202e66Post:ad4cd4b6-6840-499d-af24-fc939e824f19">Re: FFF</a>:
[QUOTE]In Response to Re: FFF : In your case, that makes sense. Its a Christmas show, that is the theme. Got it :) To me, this was more ZOMG a wedding doesn't need a theme! or Pirates! Pirate kittens!! The vendors were most likely looking for what the colors were, what food they were serving, casual or formal, stuff like that. Again, its a lame flame but whatever. :)
Posted by Matty143[/QUOTE]

Oh, I wasn't commenting on your flame. It just reminded me of that story from yesteryear.

I don't doubt that weddings have "themes" or "vibes". I surely had an idea about ours, which ended up totally fitting myself and my husband.

Matty143 · March 2012

In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/wedding-boards_etiquette_fff-88?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Wedding%20BoardsForum:9Discussion:1aee36f2-caa5-449c-874d-8a1268202e66Post:da674889-35d8-4f5d-8427-29fc98a15dd2">Re: FFF</a>:
[QUOTE]In Response to Re: FFF : Oh, I wasn't commenting on your flame. It just reminded me of that story from yesteryear. I don't doubt that weddings have "themes" or "vibes". I surely had an idea about ours, which ended up totally fitting myself and my husband.
Posted by MattsPenguin[/QUOTE]

Oh, OK :)

abbalish · March 2012

A couple of the earlier generic flames about signatures reminded me....

For some reason it bugs me when posters refer to their Hs by their real names instead of just as "H." Not sure why, I guess it just seems out of place since we don't even call each other by our real names.

FutureMrsTR · March 2012

In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/wedding-boards_etiquette_fff-88?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Wedding BoardsForum:9Discussion:1aee36f2-caa5-449c-874d-8a1268202e66Post:39ce40fa-1be5-43d3-af77-a29da52f3646">Re: FFF</a>:
[QUOTE]I don't like the term lame. I think of it the same way I think of using the terms gay and retarded as insults.
Posted by mica178[/QUOTE]

Oh FFS.

baystateapple · March 2012

I don't think of lame as an insult. I think it's just ridiculously overused here. It's like the go-to adjective.

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