# Use some imagination, fluiddruid (rather polite) **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [February 14, 2006, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/use-some-imagination-fluiddruid-rather-polite/344396 "2006-02-14T02:51:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Aeschines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aeschines/32/16251_2.png) [@Aeschines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aeschines)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2006, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/use-some-imagination-fluiddruid-rather-polite/344396/21 "2006-02-14T04:07:57Z")
> [@Q.E.D.](#): > > Guess it depends on what you mean by “worse”. I didn’t find either thread _offensive_, as such, but the gay sex thread didn’t make me think “Well, _that’s_ a bit much!” Of course, ask 99 people the same question and you’ll get 99 different answers. OK, it’s not “offensive” but it is a “bit much,” so it should have been closed and you gave **fluiddruid** the high-five for doing so. Can you see why I’m puzzled here? ---
**Author:** ![Aeschines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aeschines/32/16251_2.png) [@Aeschines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aeschines)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2006, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/use-some-imagination-fluiddruid-rather-polite/344396/22 "2006-02-14T04:12:01Z")
> [@yBeayf](#): > > One is a legitimate request for information concerning a realm in which most heterosexuals will never have any experience. The other is revelling in a big ol’ whiff of yeast-stank. But is the latter an _illegitimate_ revelling? C’mon, you know you love it too. ---
**Author:** ![Q.E.D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2006, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/use-some-imagination-fluiddruid-rather-polite/344396/23 "2006-02-14T04:16:01Z")
> [@Aeschines](#): > > Can you see why I’m puzzled here? To the extent that I realize everyone has a different cutoff level for being squicked out, yes. Obviously yours is different from mine. I’m fine with that; I’m just expressing my opinion. That’s all. ---
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2006, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/use-some-imagination-fluiddruid-rather-polite/344396/24 "2006-02-14T04:17:20Z")
For the record, I dropped a dime on the crotch-sniffing thread. Others may have too; I have no way of knowing. Do you see a lot of other threads in CS asking about wanting to sniff crotches? No? Do you see a lot of threads _anywhere_ on the boards about having a prurient interest in sniffing crotches? No? Think about why that might be… As for the line in the sand drawn on TMI threads, in the thread for which **What Exit?** created an artificial link, [How do gay people have sex? (TMI friendly)](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=358651), note the OP there quoted the SDMB standard for TMI threads: technical information is OK, erotic fantasies are not. You can’t pretend that your thread was anything other than prurient. Your thread was inappropriate for this board and the closure was correct. ---
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2006, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/use-some-imagination-fluiddruid-rather-polite/344396/25 "2006-02-14T04:22:16Z")
To be specific on the [SDMB TMI guideline](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=2341019&postcount=10): > [@Arnold Winkelreid](#): > > **Talking about sex and illegal drugs at the SDMB** > > **Drugs** > Illegal (in the USA) Drugs - You are allowed discussion of the effects of drugs, but do not discuss where to buy them. Limited discussion of past use of drugs is OK, discussion of current use is not. Please include a disclaimer that the drug is illegal in the US. > > **Sex** > Sex: The medical approach is OK, the Penthouse approach is not. If you are not sure, err on the side of caution and/or contact a staff member before you post. ---
**Author:** ![Aeschines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aeschines/32/16251_2.png) [@Aeschines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aeschines)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2006, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/use-some-imagination-fluiddruid-rather-polite/344396/26 "2006-02-14T04:26:27Z")
I see, so there was a guideline. Then I was wrong, sorry. ---
**Author:** ![Aeschines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aeschines/32/16251_2.png) [@Aeschines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aeschines)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2006, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/use-some-imagination-fluiddruid-rather-polite/344396/27 "2006-02-14T04:28:52Z")
> [@Q.E.D.](#): > > To the extent that I realize everyone has a different cutoff level for being squicked out, yes. Continuing the discussion in an academic fashion, how can reading about something you’ve done 500 times and enjoyed squick you out? ---
**Author:** ![Q.E.D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2006, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/use-some-imagination-fluiddruid-rather-polite/344396/28 "2006-02-14T04:35:12Z")
> [@Aeschines](#): > > Continuing the discussion in an academic fashion, how can reading about something you’ve done 500 times and enjoyed squick you out? Hey, just because I’ve done something and enjoyed it doesn’t necessarily mean I’ll enjoy reading about someone _else_ doing it. ---
**Author:** ![duffer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duffer/32/1026_2.png) [@duffer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/duffer)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2006, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/use-some-imagination-fluiddruid-rather-polite/344396/29 "2006-02-14T04:44:34Z")
> [@Otto](#): > > For the record, I dropped a dime on the crotch-sniffing thread. Others may have too; I have no way of knowing. Do you see a lot of other threads in CS asking about wanting to sniff crotches? No? Do you see a lot of threads _anywhere_ on the boards about having a prurient interest in sniffing crotches? No? Think about why that might be… Yet again we have dear, sweet, **Otto** to save us from ourselves. Just about every post I’ve seen from him for the past few months is a non-sensical attack on whoever is the OP. Unless the OP in the Pit is bitching about gay rights, the OP is the enemy. :rolleyes: I’ve had an issue or two with you **Aeschines** in the past, but this seems milquetoast on the part of the closing. Not sure if it was the right forum, it’s not my call. Maybe IMHO would be better, but the content hardly exceeds anything that is “allowed”. And no, **Otto** , there aren’t many threads referring to gay men. Do I need to step it up a notch? Am I not doing all I can to show you I don’t hate you because you’re gay? Let me know if I need to start a few threads to make you feel comfortable with who you are since you seem to have insecurities with the issue. Since you mentioned that you, oh so proudly, reported a post about that which you hate (hetero sex) and any mention of it, let me mention this post won’t be seen by you according to your cowardly e-mail to me telling me I’m on your ignore list. I won’t mention the insults in that e-mail. Fucking worthless coward. ---
**Author:** ![duffer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duffer/32/1026_2.png) [@duffer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/duffer)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2006, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/use-some-imagination-fluiddruid-rather-polite/344396/30 "2006-02-14T04:46:56Z")
> [@Q.E.D.](#): > > Hey, just because I’ve done something and enjoyed it doesn’t necessarily mean I’ll enjoy reading about someone _else_ doing it. Well. I once enjoyed voting for a Democrat. Can we stop talking about that? ---
**Author:** ![Aeschines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aeschines/32/16251_2.png) [@Aeschines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aeschines)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2006, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/use-some-imagination-fluiddruid-rather-polite/344396/31 "2006-02-14T04:48:35Z")
> [@Q.E.D.](#): > > Hey, just because I’ve done something and enjoyed it doesn’t necessarily mean I’ll enjoy reading about someone _else_ doing it. That pretty much rules out all written pr0n then, doesn’t it? Pussy-sniffing is hardly a sexual extreme, I dare say. ---
**Author:** ![Martin\_Hyde](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/47e85d/32.png) [@Martin\_Hyde](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Martin_Hyde)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2006, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/use-some-imagination-fluiddruid-rather-polite/344396/32 "2006-02-14T04:50:28Z")
What’s the allure of crotch-sniffing? My enjoyment of the female sex isn’t based on sniffing of genitals. In fact, considering we’re talking about people engaged in an athletic activity, I have a feeling it wouldn’t smell very good. ---
**Author:** ![Q.E.D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2006, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/use-some-imagination-fluiddruid-rather-polite/344396/33 "2006-02-14T04:53:05Z")
> [@Aeschines](#): > > That pretty much rules out all written pr0n then, doesn’t it? Not all…I said I wouldn’t _necessarily_ enjoy it. Some things I do, some things I don’t. I think it was more the _way_ your OP was worded than the subject matter itself. ---
**Author:** ![Martin\_Hyde](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/47e85d/32.png) [@Martin\_Hyde](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Martin_Hyde)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2006, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/use-some-imagination-fluiddruid-rather-polite/344396/34 "2006-02-14T04:56:35Z")
Aeschines do you think enjoying something is synonymous with having to talk about it in a forum? ---
**Author:** ![Aeschines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aeschines/32/16251_2.png) [@Aeschines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aeschines)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2006, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/use-some-imagination-fluiddruid-rather-polite/344396/35 "2006-02-14T04:57:07Z")
> [@Martin Hyde](#): > > What’s the allure of crotch-sniffing? It smells good. > [@](#): > > My enjoyment of the female sex isn’t based on sniffing of genitals. Don’t you eat out your woman? > [@](#): > > In fact, considering we’re talking about people engaged in an athletic activity, I have a feeling it wouldn’t smell very good. If it didn’t I’d go straight for… never mind. I’d hate to be _Penthouse-y_ on the Dope. It’s forbidden, you know. ---
**Author:** ![Aeschines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aeschines/32/16251_2.png) [@Aeschines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aeschines)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2006, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/use-some-imagination-fluiddruid-rather-polite/344396/36 "2006-02-14T04:58:46Z")
> [@Martin Hyde](#): > > Aeschines do you think enjoying something is synonymous with having to talk about it in a forum? Pretty much. Some shit’s so bad that if you do it you should be too ashamed to talk about it (stuff that harms others, mainly), but other than that, yeah, rock/talk on. ---
**Author:** ![Martin\_Hyde](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/47e85d/32.png) [@Martin\_Hyde](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Martin_Hyde)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2006, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/use-some-imagination-fluiddruid-rather-polite/344396/37 "2006-02-14T05:00:56Z")
> [@Aeschines](#): > > It smells good. Ever worked out? Gotten sweaty? Do your balls smell good then? The female genitalia is just as susceptible to stinking. > [@](#): > > Don’t you eat out your woman? I eat cheeses that I don’t enjy the smell of all the time. > [@](#): > > If it didn’t I’d go straight for… never mind. I’d hate to be _Penthouse-y_ on the Dope. > > It’s forbidden, you know. Yeah, and you know it is. Any reason you feel the need to keep flaunting that rule? ---
**Author:** ![Martin\_Hyde](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/47e85d/32.png) [@Martin\_Hyde](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Martin_Hyde)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2006, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/use-some-imagination-fluiddruid-rather-polite/344396/38 "2006-02-14T05:02:09Z")
> [@Aeschines](#): > > Pretty much. Some shit’s so bad that if you do it you should be too ashamed to talk about it (stuff that harms others, mainly), but other than that, yeah, rock/talk on. How immature. You don’t believe you can do something without talking about it, I knew a lot of people like that when I was 15, too. ---
**Author:** ![Martin\_Hyde](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/47e85d/32.png) [@Martin\_Hyde](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Martin_Hyde)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2006, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/use-some-imagination-fluiddruid-rather-polite/344396/39 "2006-02-14T05:06:32Z")
Furthermore Aes, this is a society of sorts. A pseudo-society. When in society it’s generally considered appropriate not to talk about stuff when it obviously makes someone uncomfortable. In the workplace for example talking about stuff like this and refusing to stop when people tell you it makes them uncomfortable is sexual harassment. Plus, even if it wasn’t sexual harassment, just like in real life it’s only polite to shut up about something that the people around you have told you makes them uncomfortable. ---
**Author:** ![Aeschines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aeschines/32/16251_2.png) [@Aeschines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aeschines)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2006, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/use-some-imagination-fluiddruid-rather-polite/344396/40 "2006-02-14T05:12:23Z")
> [@Martin Hyde](#): > > Ever worked out? Gotten sweaty? Do your balls smell good then? Ah, now _you’re_ getting Penthouse-y. > [@](#): > > The female genitalia is just as susceptible to stinking. But that’s when the “genitalia” (most of us non-prudish types call it “pussy”) smell _really_ good. > [@](#): > > I eat cheeses that I don’t enjy the smell of all the time. Your woman will get jealous. > [@](#): > > Yeah, and you know it is. Any reason you feel the need to keep flaunting that rule? The word is FLOUTING, dumbfuck. Why don’t you get a good dictionary? Your ignorance and prudishness combined with make it the best pr0n you’ve ever read. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/use-some-imagination-fluiddruid-rather-polite/344396.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/use-some-imagination-fluiddruid-rather-polite/344396.md?page=3)