Strange to see that the Portsmouth Social has been cancelled. Readiing through the post it appears that a banned member was attending and this caused Mal to take offence to that. I have read through the AUP and it doesn't say anywhere on it that social get togethers also come under the same guidelines as Munches.
Can a site administrator clear this up for us.
Do organisers of social gatherings have to inform the moderators of who is attending them and how is it anyone's business apart from the organiser of a private event who attends it or not?
It does appear that by policing private meets and events the moderators of Swinging Heaven are extending their remit to moderate BEYOND the scope of their position - which is to moderate an online contact site only. Do they think they are a vigilante police force who have power over all aspects of our lives?
What's next?
Do we have to have permission to have 1-2-1 meets too?
I have read this website for some time before actually joining it and I must say that some of the people who's posts I quite enjoyed seem to have disappeared of the face of the earth altogether. SunBunny was always eloquent and entertaining but she seems to have stopped posting, there's one in particular that I can think of.
Wishmaster had a thing to say or two also. Hit the mark quite a few times and sailed close to it many times more but always thought provoking I felt.
Postie is usually quite coherent but does have a tendency to waffle sometimes. But I particularly enjoy Dambuster's ravings! Now there's a spririted soul who has a firm grip on what's real and what isn't!
Is this thread about LadyFeeBee (who happens to be really rather lovely) . or Scottish females who really ought to know better than to wear flimsy clothing within the Artic Circle?
Either suits me by the way lol
Let's face it -- English is a crazy language. There is no egg in eggplant nor ham in hamburger; neither apple nor pine in pineapple. English muffins weren't invented in England or French fries in France. Sweetmeats are candies while sweetbreads, which aren't sweet, are meat.
We take English for granted. But if we explore it's paradoxes, we find that quicksand can work slowly, boxing rings are square and a guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig.
And why is it that writers write but fingers don't fing, grocers don't groce and hammers don't ham? If the plural of tooth is teeth, why isn't the plural of booth beeth? One goose, 2 geese. So one moose, 2 meese? One index, 2 indices?
Doesn't it seem crazy that you can make amends but not one amend, that you comb through annals of history but not a single annal? If you have a bunch of odds and ends and get rid of all but one of them, what do you call it?
If teachers taught, why didn't preachers praught? If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat? If you wrote a letter, perhaps you bote your tongue?
Sometimes I think all the English speakers should be committed to an asylum for the verbally insane. In what language do people recite at a play and play at a recital? Ship by truck and send cargo by ship? Have noses that run and feet that smell?
How can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same, while a wise man and a wise guy are opposites? How can overlook and oversee be opposites, while quite a lot and quite a few are alike? How can the weather be hot as hell one day and cold as hell another?
Have you noticed that we talk about certain things only when they are absent?
Have you ever seen a horseful carriage or a strapful gown?
Met a sung hero or experienced requited love?
Have you ever run into someone who was combobulated, gruntled, ruly or peccable? And where are all those people who ARE spring chickens or who would ACTUALLY hurt a fly?
You have to marvel at the unique lunacy of a language in which your house can burn up as it burns down, in which you fill in a form by filling it out and in which an alarm goes off by going on.
English was invented by people, not computers, and it reflects the creativity of the human race (which, of course, isn't a race at all). That is why, when the stars are out, they are visible, but when the lights are out, they are invisible.
And why, when I wind up my watch, I start it, but when I wind up this essay, I end it.
Being a fan of Manchester United this news has hit me hard and I must admit to shedding a tear or two. Any lover of 'The Beautiful Game' would feel the same at the passing of one of the game's legends and one of life's true characters. Best was the bestfootballer who ever graced a football pitch or donned a Manchester United shirt and it's tragic that his life and talent was wasted by alcohol.
I hope some of the younger stars of today that have much more money than George ever had at his disposal look long and hard at how they conduct themselves in their personal lives and not follow in George's footsteps - except for on the pitch.
For the record I think the entire look and feel of the site is a bit amateurish and could do with a professional makeover. Functionally, it works perfect and there isn't much that I would do to change that - a few minor enhancements here and there - but I think a crisp, slick layout with professionally crafted images would do the site a power of good.
Now - while the site is in it's transition period - would be the perfect time to incorporate any changes to reflect a new start for the site.
This is my first post here but I have perused the site for some time with a view to getting involved in the swinging lifestyle.
Your poll options seem to indicate that you are going to change the logo regardless of the feedback. Why?
The existing one seems to sum up this community perfectly and has served SH well for sometime now. Why change it all?
If it isn't broke then don't fix it springs to mind here. These are just my thoughts on the subject, feel free to disregard them as you see fit.