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The Cafe - what IS it here for ?

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Quote by Heather, in a post elsewhere,
Along the way, I've made a great many friends... but when push comes to shove we come here to discuss the lifestyle in peace and freedom... This was never intended to be an extension of the local pub.
Hxx

Excuse my highlighting that phrase Heather - hope thats ok !
I'd been thinking about this very thought with a split mind over the last few weeks - not easy when my mind is so small and fragile to start with wink
Personally I do like the mix of sexual queries, light-hearted harmless lunacy and serious soul searching. I wonder though if we are diluting the recipe for people like yourself who used this place, as you ably describe, as an extension of the other forums rather than a totally seperate thing ?
I'd be curious, being such a latecomer to this place, what the original rationale was for the Cafe ? Escape from the scene in a place to talk on a different level or discussion forum angled towards the scene and lifestyle ?
If it is the latter and some of us do have the end of the stick then let me be the first to offer apologies and the offer to bring my posts "back on track" for fear of driving people away from it's primary use.
Discuss-me-do !!
Carpathian
Quote by Carpathian
Personally I do like the mix of sexual queries, light-hearted harmless lunacy and serious soul searching. I wonder though if we are diluting the recipe for people like yourself who used this place, as you ably describe, as an extension of the other forums rather than a totally seperate thing ?

I must admit, perhaps naively, that I thought it was for what Carpathian describes in the first sentence above. Boy you've got me thinking now. I know I'm a pain in the arse but I usually know it when I am (or at least very soon afterwards). God I hope Carpy's right I don't think I could stand it otherwise :!:
My twopenneth....?
I have always been happy on here, in a general sense of the word. I come and go, because I have other forums I partake on, and yet each has merits. I think if this forum ever becomes JUST a sexual forum, it will die. Because it takes the odd lune, the odd nutter, and I hope I cover both these to break up the subject. I really like the I Village forums, and often if not regularly partake of a natter on many, and yet the door says boldly...a site for women with women in mind....? I did not see the part where men cannot enter. Likewise I am into some weird subjects more akin to new age, and I regularly get questions from younger people, and older about things I know, and yet I am not a follower of any particular path or way.
I think you get out of this forum what you need? I think the answer Carpy, is that if you start to get rollockings from mods, bad pms, no one talking to you, then you have issues...apart from that keep it up mate? Have to dash cos I have a tv prog to watch, but may pm you with a view to a chat if ok???
Rocky...
I believe that the Cafe is literally where we can discuss any topic. The difference between this and other forums is that we can discuss sexual matters openly.
If this forum was just about sex, then I agree with Rocky, it would probably die.
What makes this forum for me is the fact that we can discuss virtually anything whether it makes sense or not.
Oh, and in case you were wondering Heather, I merely quoted you as I tend to try and pay attention to peoples posts - more especially those who've inhabited this place longer than me !
Just call it old fashioned respect ! wink
Carpy, I am so pleased that you started this thread.
I read Heathers post the other day and it made me start to think about if I should be here or not (in fact I am still contemplating if I am here under false pretences!!). That is not a criticism of Heather. It just shows that her comments were thought-provoking, which can only be a good thing.
At the moment I look to this site for friendship and humour and have not made any sexual advances towards anyone. I usually avoid replying to the threads relating to Swinging as I do not feel qualified to voice an opinion (well, not a serious one!!). lol :lol: :lol:
I enjoy the diversity of subjects that are discussed but now wonder if people such as I have changed the Cafe from the place it was intended to be?? dunno
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What makes this forum for me is the fact that we can discuss virtually anything whether it makes sense or not.

You mean it does???... lol :lol:
I have to agree with JQL and Rocky about the forum dying if it was just about sex.... It just shows that swingers have a life outside swinging.....
Being in The Cafe is like living in a small village, you have the local gossip shop, the advice shop, the library, the local pub and not to mention a few village idiot's... But all in all this is friendly community in which you find yourself feeling all warm and cosy...
It makes you laugh, and it makes you sad but it ALWAYS makes you want to return...
Shireen
xxx
Shireen,
Very eloquently put.
Why thank you JQL kiss
Shireen
xxx
Quote by shireen-steve
Being in The Cafe is like living in a small village, you have the local gossip shop, the advice shop, the library, the local pub and not to mention a few village idiot's... But all in all this is friendly community in which you find yourself feeling all warm and cosy...

....and I own the knocking shop!!!
I think this thread slightly crosses over with what's in it FORUM you and I don't want to repeat myself too much....but......I did say in that thread that when I log in to SH I have a house full of friends!!! (Which one of you left the loo seat up?)
As for "What is The Cafe for?" I am not sure as there were ever any hard and fast rules. I am sure someone will tell us if there were. I personally like it just the way it is.
Love
Wilma
Owner and CEO of The Knocking Shop
x x x x
The Cafe
General discussion and chit-chat. Post anything here that is NOT a Meet Up or about Dogging. Use the sections below for those.

I think the cafe is being used exactly how it was intended to be used, you only have to look through some of Mark's posts for that. I'm with Wilma:
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I personally like it just the way it is.

So do I.
Steve
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....and I own the knocking shop!!!

I didn't like to mention that, cause they will all want to know where it is now... redface surprisedops:
Shireen
xxx
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...(Which one of you left the loo seat up?)

Me, Me...
You're a big girl now Wilma. If its up, put it down.... :twisted:
Sarge I need your bunker and quick....
Quote by JQL
If its up, put it down

Now how would you like it if when you have a hard on we said that to you? lol wink
Consider myself a little more comfortable in my mind that things are fine in Cafe Land - I guess I was wondering that if I was thinking that then I may not have been the only one - which, as it turns out, was right. Glad I mentioned it but you've all answered it very nicely cheers !
Right then, looks like you have no excuse for an exit either then Sarge - there really is no escape from here ! wink
Carpathian
Remind me JQL - are you a munching this weekend?? :twisted:
Come out from behind Sarge you cad! whip
Sorry Carpy - back to your thread.
NOW BEHAVE YOU LOT!!!! smackbottom
JQL is hoping to confirm nearer the time. At this rate I'll be getting a phone call Saturday afternoon to say the builders have arrived and he can't come.
Don't scare him away Wilma, he's only delicate.
Steve
Steve,
I PMed you at the weekend to say it was nearly certain. Later I PMed Vicky to say I coming...
Just trying to sort out accommodation at present.
I suppose I better hunt around in my old trunk for the cricket gear lol
I think the SH Cafe is what makes this site so different from all the others. I love all the different threads, the diversity really brings out peoples characters. Before I found SH I was on another site for a short while. It was purely swinging based, you couldn't build any sort of rapport with people.
Sure, there are other forums which you can talk about non swinging subjects. But I like talking over anything and everything within this site. When it does come to the more intimate threads, then I am a lot more comfortable asking advice from you lot than I would be from total strangers. One subject not so long ago I was asking advice, now had that been any other site it would've been a receipe for an avalanche of PMs from people offering to show me. Instead it was treated with both good advice and humour.
It's a mixture of the varying threads and broadmindedness of people that make this site work for me.
Oh and I do also have something else to be grateful to SH for :inlove:
Quote by Carpathian
Right then, looks like you have no excuse for an exit either then Sarge - there really is no escape from here ! wink

The only reason that I will accept for either of you leaving is to track down Arti and bring him back.
(Yes, I'm still here. The real world intervenes again sad )