From the outsideFollow

When I first began frequenting these forums a few years ago, I remember seeing "The Asylum" on the left sidebar and pondering what it could possibly be. A short while later, when I learned what the Asylum was for, it became somewhat of an object of intimidation. Not real intimidation, mind you, as words from one anonymous poster to the next hardly warrant feelings of unease. However, I suppose it's fair to say that just as a karma score or a post count mean something tiny and insignificant to me, they still mean something, and as such suggests that one actually does care about things as meaningless as anonymous co-posters.

I'm getting somewhat off topic now. In my early days, I thought the Asylum was just for immature kids who wanted to flame and attack one-another for no real reason, other than perhaps some odd sort of sadomasochistic joy. I assumed that nobody who came here to post would have anything of value to say, and even if they did it would quickly be shut down by other Asylumites. I avoided the Asylum because of these false inferences for a very long time.

The majority of my time spent on Alla used to be committed to the FFXI forum, but eventually I migrated over to OoT. For a long time I found these two forums sufficient, but after a particularly long dry-spell on both forums, I found myself meandering in search of something interesting to read or post about. This, naturally, led me to the Asylum, though I came somewhat reluctantly at first.

What I found was something unexpected. The posts here are by far the most entertaining, and often the most intelligent, that Alla has to offer. The Asylum also seems to be the most active forum of the bunch, and what's more is that, for a place that has a reputation of being harsh and hateful, there is a wonderful sense of community here, the likes of which isn't seen anywhere else on Alla, at least to my knowledge.

I've been eavesdropping on your conversations for some time now, though this is actually my first post in the Asylum. Perhaps I'm somewhat of a voyeur, but I don't have much to add. What that said, I hope the exchanges here maintain their luster. You guys make time go by at a much more acceptable pace.

I don't have much to add

Right.

Delete the rest of the post so no elese has to suffer reading it.

Feelings, nothing more than feelings,
Trying to forget my feelings of love.
Teardrops rolling down on my face,
Trying to forget my feelings of love.

Feelings, for all my life I'll feel it.
I wish I've never met you, girl;
You'll never come again.

Feelings, wo-o-o feelings,
Wo-o-o, feel you again in my arms.

Feelings, feelings
Like I've never lost you
And feelings like I've never
Have you again in my heart.

Feelings, for all my life I'll feel it.
I wish I've never met you, girl;
You'll never come again.

Feelings, feelings like I've
Never lost you
And feelings like I've never have you
Again in my heart.

Feelings, for all my life I'll feel it.
I wish I've never met you, girl;
You'll never come again.

Feelings, wo-o-o feelings,
Wo-o-o, feel you again in my arms.
Feelings...

So while here you found the meaning of life? God? your keys?

Hm.

[pre]-butthurt?

He won't expect it, but you're not fooling anyone. They don't call Bodhi "Snowball" for nothing.

Yeah I find it entertaining here as well, but mostly I just lurk ><. The reputation for being harsh and hateful doesn't come from being nice, and encouraging. Unless they are in some way encouraging you to gfy off a cliff :)

Did we just get collective rim jobs?

/em reloads shotgun


There best not be any kumbaya singing in here, folks.

I refuse to play your reindeer games. :P

Well we don't need no one to tell us what to do
Oh yes we're on our own
And theres nothing you can do
So we don't need no one like you
To tell us what to do

We don't refer to the past
When showing what we've done
Our generation gap
Means the war is never won
The past is in your head
THE FUTURE'S IN OUR HANDS!

Cos I'm a brat
And I know everything
And I talk back
Cos I'm not listening
To anything you say

And if you count to 3 (one, two, three)
You'll see it's no emergency
You'll see I'm not the enemy
Just a Prisoner of Society

Well we don't need no one to tell us what to do
Oh yes we're on our own
And theres nothing you can do
So we don't need no one like you
To tell us what to do

Cos I'm a brat
And I know everything
And I talk back
Cos I'm not listening
To anything you say

And if you count to 3 (one, two, three)
You'll see it's no emergency
You'll see I'm not the enemy
Just a Prisoner of Society

(GO!)

Well we don't need no one to tell us what to do
Oh yes we're on our own
And theres nothing you can do
So we don't need no one like you
To tell us what to do

We don't refer to the past
When showing what we've done
Our generation gap
Means the war is never won
So we don't need no one like you
To tell us what to do

Cos I'm a brat
And I know everything
And I talk back
Cos I'm not listening
To anything you say

And if you count to 3 (one, two, three)
You'll see it's no emergency
You'll see I'm not the enemy
Just a Prisoner of Society

One of the most vomit inducing intro posts in Asylum history.

And that's the truth.

Much closer to the truth....

Anyone else super happy that Mexico was eliminated by Argentina? And as much as Beckham is a pretentious prick, his shot was pure pwnage.