To all the xATS’ers - I feel you

[Antisthenes]

Hello friends.

Hmm... this place feels mighty familiar.  Anyone know where I can find some cookies?

Give me a minute, I need to finish my Bourbon & Coke,,,, OKAY, Ready.
 Well that do? 

Looks yummy! 

I like turds. 



These people refer to them as chocolate oatmeal no bake cookies. Pff

OMG! Those look evil and delish....I will make some soon....TY!

[ChiefD]

Hi everyone. ChiefD here. Good to see some of you who migrated to this site. I see some of you carried your avatars over from ATS. I’m trying to figure out how to do that. 

I agree with what some of you said regarding ATS being special because of the people. I will miss it if it goes away, but I have the memories of some friendships on there too. Glad to see you all here.

Go to the Avatar Thread and tell @"BIAD" to make you one. He and Gordi are our lab techs for avatars.

Thanks. I will check into that.

[Ninurta]

I came to ATS in 2011 in search of something I did not know I was looking for. 

It was a gateway to open my eyes. 

I found everything I was searching for and more. Met my wife there. 

I went searching further, finding various of places to land. 

Banned from there several times, I really just went dark, just researching on my own. 

ATS has gone through this before, but honestly, I won't miss it because of the friends I made elsewhere and for the friends I know in real life. 

Done with politics, and want to continue my search for the weird and unexplained. 

Cheers !

I met Grace over there, too! Who knew ATS was a matchmaking site? She was a Muslim, I was bashing the shit out of Muslims, and the rest is history!

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Love finds you in  the strangest places. Best thing ever happened to me.

What's love?

(I finished this post as a song in my head)

I can't really define it, but I know what it is when it sticks cold feet in my back in the middle of the night, and yet I don't break it's legs for it...


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[Ninurta]

I had been on ATS for quite some time, under different names like most. It always seemed a decent reflection of "normal" society outside the digital veil.

Politics creeped into everything there with about the same timing as everywhere else that wasnt facebook/twitter.

I had actually thought I was just gonna go down with the e-ship and leave the net.. But I dont know how else to share the tech stuff I have worked on. So, here we are!

I saw redneck, rickymouse, and The Spock here and figured itd be good.

Can I post one liners or naughty words here?

I've not tried all seven of Carlin's Seven Deadly Words yet, but so far everything I've tried has flown...

So far, I've seen "shit", "piss", "Fuck", and "tits".

Three more to go...

... but two of those are compound words, and so may not really count.

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[Ninurta]

When i started a thread on ATS last week titled "Post a site similar to ATS", i was hoping for somewhere where everybody knows your name..
LOL.

This site right here is exactly what i was hoping for, it couldnt be any more perfect for me.
It looks great in dark mode, the user interface (is that the correct terminology?) is easy to navigate, and best of all, theres already a good few familiar names. Plus the new names (to me) are friendly and very helpful.

I already know this is the place for me

You just haven't heard my new name. I dunno if you've heard my old one or not. I was a member at ATS from 2008 onward, but ceased being active there in late 2014. I was "nenothtu" there.

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[Ninurta]

Howdy!

Then my bestie there threw a fit and got herself banned. In solidarity with her and her reasons, I got myself banned too.

1000 posts and another  year or two later, I was banned again...

 I was banned AGAIN! Saddened yes, but not truly surprised. 

Hi all 

So is it safe to say it is almost impossible to get banned here...lol

You'd have to be pretty rough to get banned. Usually, Guohua just takes you out back and gives you a whip-lashing. Once the scars heal, all is forgiven.


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[Ninurta]

Hello friends.

Hmm... this place feels mighty familiar.  Anyone know where I can find some cookies?

Give me a minute, I need to finish my Bourbon & Coke,,,, OKAY, Ready.
 Well that do? 

Looks yummy! 

I like turds. 



These people refer to them as chocolate oatmeal no bake cookies. Pff

OMG! Those look evil and delish....I will make some soon....TY!

I'll taste--test them for you to make sure they're edible, and not poisonous. I'll probably need several - quality control, y'know?

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[veteranhumanbeing]

Truly glad to be here.

There were bad events on ATS (bannings).  Used to crush me looking back through the old threads and seeing accounts that had just been trashcanned.  What was the good of it?No idea whose protective wings I posted under, but I suspect one or more of our recent sign-ups.
Cheers

Cancel Culture. They added to its mystery. Member banning, punishing 'time outs' for irredeemable retrobates? ; infantile nonsensical overreactions to something in the ether?

[veteranhumanbeing]

Anyone banned from ATS was banned for good reason....

I personally, won't associate with any online persona that failed to pass the ATS test.....

I got banned from ATS after less than a year by Skeptic.  But one of the Mods got me back on again.  I kind of said something that Skeptik thought a guest speaker wouldn't like, but the guest speaker actually didn't mind what I said when he responded to my post a day later.

You just 'thought'you were banned (it was actually the cat wearing the glasses with a book) got tossed.

[TheRedneck]

Ew.

Weird people?

Weird is relative. Everyone seems sane to me.



Wait...

TheRedneck

[AutomateThis1]

You will be ok, if there is a knock on your door just dont answer it

People actually answer their door??? That's insanity.


I usually just peek through the blinds with a gun in my hand.


:smallwink:

[MisterSpock]

You will be ok, if there is a knock on your door just dont answer it

People actually answer their door??? That's insanity.


I usually just peek through the blinds with a gun in my hand.


:smallwink:

I hate it when the door bell rings. 

It's just not worth answering. First, I don't care who is there and secondly I'd have to put clothes on to answer the door. So I just ignore it, they all go away after a few rings.

[AutomateThis1]

You will be ok, if there is a knock on your door just dont answer it

People actually answer their door??? That's insanity.


I usually just peek through the blinds with a gun in my hand.


:smallwink:

I hate it when the door bell rings. 

It's just not worth answering. First, I don't care who is there and secondly I'd have to put clothes on to answer the door. So I just ignore it, they all go away after a few rings.

For sure, that's an easy fix though .I just removed the switch and there's a sign on my door that says go away.

People know that unless they call me or text me not to be dropping by. It helps that I don't live in the city either, so it's a bit conspicuous when people decide to use my driveway as a turnaround. I used to get irritated about that, but now as long as they don't sit there for longer than it takes to move on, or ask me if I've seen their missing dog it's okay.

I had one guy catch me outside while doing yardwork, and he wanted me to sign his petition to run for some political position. I think he went straight home afterwards. He couldn't answer any of my questions, and when he asked again if I would sign I told him he had five minutes to get off my property.

[guohua]

You will be ok, if there is a knock on your door just dont answer it

People actually answer their door??? That's insanity.


I usually just peek through the blinds with a gun in my hand.


:smallwink:

I hate it when the door bell rings. 

It's just not worth answering. First, I don't care who is there and secondly I'd have to put clothes on to answer the door. So I just ignore it, they all go away after a few rings.

For sure, that's an easy fix though .I just removed the switch and there's a sign on my door that says go away.

People know that unless they call me or text me not to be dropping by. It helps that I don't live in the city either, so it's a bit conspicuous when people decide to use my driveway as a turnaround. I used to get irritated about that, but now as long as they don't sit there for longer than it takes to move on, or ask me if I've seen their missing dog it's okay.

I had one guy catch me outside while doing yardwork, and he wanted me to sign his petition to run for some political position. I think he went straight home afterwards. He couldn't answer any of my questions, and when he asked again if I would sign I told him he had five minutes to get off my property.

I usually start screaming in Mandarin Chinese and that pretty much gets them running.

[Freija]

This is a nearly two year old thread I shamelessly thought needed a bump for those feeling a sense of loss or withdrawal considering ATS might be gone for good this time? It was written when SO first started talking about things going dark and we had an influx of new members.

Scroll through, there's a lot more folks here from there than you might guess.

[yuppa]

This is good news for this site though. There will prolly be thousands wanting to sign in now.

[PLOTUS]

Freija,.....the 'bit**'......I love to hate...... I think you nailed it just about every word, ......ok every word.... Salute.

[EndtheMadnessNow]

This is a nearly two year old thread I shamelessly thought needed a bump for those feeling a sense of loss or withdrawal considering ATS might be gone for good this time? It was written when SO first started talking about things going dark and we had an influx of new members.

Scroll through, there's a lot more folks here from there than you might guess.

I felt like a red-headed step-child that just got kicked to the curb.
Had the premise in mind for 2 years now, but didn't expect the abrupt, unannounced eviction. Oh well, that's life. Thanks for the warm welcome & quick sign-up!

[Infolurker]

 silly old me - of course some of the fruitcakes will likely make their way here....which should add to the fun!!!

Yes, I have arrived. 

[guohua]

 silly old me - of course some of the fruitcakes will likely make their way here....which should add to the fun!!!

Yes, I have arrived. 

GREAT!