OK I've already put on my flame retardant suit in preparation for the backlash, BUT....

Perhaps I'm just getting old, or maybe I'm just an ultra right-wing conservative, but I think the "mine is bigger than Mingos" avatar situation is starting to get a little out of hand, guys.

My kids read along with me on this site all the time. I've also got nurses looking over my shoulder at the hospital computer wondering what kind of perverted doc logs into sites like this in the midddle of the surgical work day. Frankly it's pretty pathetic that I have to come up with a lame explanation every time another set of mammaries goes scrolling by.

Not saying you guys can't have your fun, but instead of plastering your melon-clad avatars willy nilly onto every thread on the board, how about starting a "boobathon" thread that nobody has to look at unless they actualy click on the damned thing? How about changing your avatars back to subjects with a little more decorum and class, then just stockpile the sexy images in the special boobathon thread for those who need their daily fix.

Please?

....my wife also questioned the avatars when she glanced over my shoulder the other day....I tell folks about the website and encourage them to sign up. I don't tell them about the avatars, but wonder what they think when they log in.

I'm in support of FNP's call for a change.

i've actually wondered why there isn't a way to just turn off all the avatars in the profile options for users at work.

taken singularly i don't think they're all that bad. me and sol have any sort of interchange tho and it's 'butt, boobs, butt, boobs' heck, sol's avatar alone practically fills the whole screen. god forbid mingo or sunday money should interject. I can see how it'd be a bit much.

I don't mind changing mine.....or is it just the booby ones?

If those were the rules we'd never get to see pictures of Parker fishing, or Sol covering his potato threatened man cheeks.

I don't have a problem with the avatars. It's about freedom of choice. If you don't like what's on TV........turn the channel. If you don't like what's on the radio.......turn to a different station. Choose what you want to hear and see.

Unfortunately, sometimes you don't have a choice. Last night I was at Bellevue Square doing a little Xmas shopping and happened to walk BY Victoria Secrets. The mannequins in the windows made me blush. They were far worse than any avatar on this site. And there were moms and kids walking by everywhere.

Tell your nurses to go back to work and why are you browsing fishing sites when at work Doc? How's that for a little backlash?

Wow! I thought these were all self portraits. You mean Lupo isn't a hot chick! I had all these fishing fantasies, and now they're, like, wasted!

..and since you've gotten this far...here's a (not very) absolutely true story

I have been so blessed in my life. Great parents, great wife and kids, great job, and a great education.

When my first kid went off to college, I could hardly wait to spend time enjoying my favorite pastime -- bass fishing. I got my own little fishing boat and tried to get my wife to join me, but she just never liked fishing.

Finally, one day at the Bait & Tackle Shop, I got to talking to Tommy, the shop owner, who it turned out loves bass fishing as much as I do. We quickly became fishing buddies. As I said, the wife doesn't care about fishing; she not only refuses to join us, she always complains that I spend too much time fishing.

A few weeks ago Tommy and I had the best fishing trip ever. Not only did I catch the most beautiful bass you've ever seen, only a few minutes later Tommy must have caught his twin brother! So I took a picture of Tommy holding up the two nice bass that we caught and showed the picture to the wife, hoping that maybe she'd get interested. Instead, she says she doesn't want me to go fishing at all anymore! And she wants me to sell the boat! I think she just doesn't like to see me enjoying myself.

What would you do? Tell the wife to forget it and continue my hobby or quit fishing and sell the boat as she insists?

Thanks, A Fisherman

P. S. I have enclosed the picture of Tommy showing off the bass we caught...

Last time I saw Tommy he was still PreOp Tommy the Tranny, evidently the surgery was a success.

And yes dayshift nurses are prudes.

I enjoy the avatars, and will live with any embarrasment thus caused. However, in trying to add my avatar to my profile, I noticed that you CAN turn off other folks avatars for when you are viewing posts. Now if we could just assign 'ratings' codes, and you could selectively turn them off.

Personally, anybody whose avatar shows a bigger salmon than any that I have caught I consider insulting and degrading and not appropriate! (just kidding, sort of).

Yeah you can turn off avatars, but cannot turn off that "big-bass" photo above.

I still can't figure out what movie h2o avatar is from?

Yeah, I gotta agree with you there doc. It almost feels like this web site is sponsored by Maxim magazine or something.

Wasn't aware of the "avatar off" option. This will keep me out of trouble if you know what I mean...

I found the "avatar off" button in "my profile" under "Edit preferences".

Let me start by saying I dont think anybody should change their avatars!

I forgot about the option to turn off avatars of other users. This will be handy at work. It will require me to actually log into the site when I view it at work. But it will keep me safe from the "Prud Police". :rolleyes:
The entire network where I work is monitered by tech's who can see what your surfing.

Dont get me wrong, I love the avatars, but have always been concerned about the growing "zero tolerance" policy where I work when it comes to employee conduct.

Don't give us that conservative communist bullsh%t, dude. I heard about you in action at the Westport bar-b-que, cussing and dropping F-bombs in front of others kids. Or is it just your kids you worry about? Every time one of you hypocritical self-righteous neo-nazi conservatives open your mouth in favor of censorship, be it in the paper, on the news, in real life or on this board, I want to puke. Give it a break, Sulu. Warp speed straight ahead I say.

My wife gives me that "high eyeborw" look once in a while...but she also understands that "boys" will be "boys".

Growing up as a moral degenerate in So. Cal. (Newport Beach area) I've seen more mammaries than the average dude, and have come to accept over the years that boobs are boobs..and the big 'uns ain't near as much "fun" as those more appropriate sized for the body they are attached to. I like them just as much as the next guy, but the limit of "what-is-reasonable" was passed by here a long time ago, IMHO.

SOL: I'm glad you know the DOC personally...your comments (and assertions) are way out-of-line. Puke if you feel the need, but this is a forum for literally hundreds of people...not just you and your little clique. Grow up, and get over it. Folks have not said anything to this point just because it often seems that you and your gang run this board...well, it is time for a bit of that same respect as you have been given to be returned.

However, if the forum's owners feel that they want/built this board just for the "gang", then I would like Bob to advise the rest of us that have spent so many hours here, and we will find somewhere else to hang out. Not a problem.

Thanks Doc for standing up for what is reasonably decent. Meek and humble as it is, you are welcome in my boat anytime.

That is all I have to say on the matter.

Mike B (Middle of the road dude who just believes in a reasonable level of commonly accepted decency)

I think it's time for me to put on the earphones and crank up some Metalica. Perhaps a little, "Holier Than Thou." :p

Forum for hundreds is right. Turn the damn avatars off if you guys don't like them.

Yes, there is an avatar on/off button in everyones profile. Too bad the rest of us have to miss the cool avatars because you think with your winkie instead of your brain.

Metalica was short lived. I'll stick with RUSH, Johnny Winter and the old time Zepplin.

Well said ISO. I'm not in favor of any type of censorship but it's nice when people are willing to show a bit of class in public instead of just saying "f**k you, I'll do as I please".

But, I know with some folks here you just have to look at the source and move on.

The avatars don't bother me but I'm not the only person viewing.

It's just like the guy that pulls up next to you at the stop light with his windows down and thumping sound system going full blast. All he's really saying is that everyone else can just screw off 'cause it's all about me.

We're the strongest nation in the world. It's the libral boob-loving commanders and ass kickers among us storming the boarders of country's occupied by those that feel like you that give you the freedom you enjoy, and they're listening to Metalica and Maiden when they do it, not RUSH, Jonny Winter and Zepplin.

WOW,how long till The Big One steps in??.I'm gonna plead the 5th on this one.Both have there points.Good luck,
STRIKE ZONE

P.S. I think the problem would be solved if the big breasted woman were holding up bling bright steelhead/coho & nook's.Then this thread may have never started.

"Metalica was short lived."

Good God! I think a little piece of me just died!

I'm with STRIKE ZONE on this matter.

Lupo has a cool avatar. It has all the makings of quality, and doesn't express pure sex..a nice looking gal with a nice fishy. She ain't saying.."Look at my hooters..they aren't big and droopy!!

I will apologize for the Metalica comment...didn't mean to slam them..I LIKE Metalica, at times.

This thread is headed for destruction...soon..and I've got work to do. See Y'all.

MB

Big one must be "gone fishin'"

hit 'er hard while she lasts!

G'n R for me Welcome to the jungle, the ju ju ju jungle!

Doc: The simple fact is that most men are fascinated by breasts American men apparently more so than our European counterparts. Perhaps because Americans are such prudes and make such a big deal out of mammary glands. Whereas in Europe bare breast are no big deal.

Your girls need to know how obsessed we men are with those great gobs of fat. After all as your girls mature they will very likely have boobs and they will be better served if they understand men’s fascination with boobies. I doubt they will harmed by viewing abnormally large bosoms that are covered with tiny bits of cloth. But they will gain a small insight into the psych of men.

P.S.I recently read that our fascination with boobs had a deep evolutionary basis. Some scientists say that Neanderthal man was attracted to women with the largest breast as breast as essentially fat. Women with big breast were fat and healthy, thus the best breeding stock. See, nothing could be more natural.




P.S Sol, I resent that remark about Led Zeppelin. I listened to Metallica all day during the SRD, next time you can listen to the six hour version of In-A-Godda-Da-Vida. Yeah, I know different group but same genre. You can do whatever you want to with boobies, but don't dis my music!

I just wanted to post before this gets axed.

Good points ISO Chrome and Fish Doc. I agree that the little club\clique atmosphere is dragging down this board. And I agree that classless avators and pics are pushing many potential and long term members away.

Perhaps that's what Bob wants for this site. Fine, it's his to do with as he sees fit. But don't kid yourself about 'censorship'. What a load of bull. This is a public board, but is privately owned and if there are policies in place on certain content, the site mods have every right to enforce those policies.

I'm not dissin' Zep, dude. I burned a bit of herb to those guys in my younger days. All I was saying is our dudes thumping across Irag in U.S. tanks pushing the button on rag-head insurgents is jacked on adrenaline and Metalica, not day-dreaming about flower fields, rainbows and Zeplin.

"Let's get ready to rumble".....Nice post Vedder!

This is a real tempest in a teapot. I went to my profile and clicked on "Hide Others Avatars". It worked and took less than 20 seconds. It's like so many censorship issues. if you dont want to see it don't look!

Now I need to go back and turn the avatars back on.

I have been busted by my wife, looking at Sol and Mingos boobs. I just tell her they are pictures of their wives, and used as a status symbol on this site:D . She has hid or destroyed every swimsuit photo we have of her.

matt

"if you dont want to see it don't look!"

Better yet, if you have half a brain, you'll know that if you want porn and T&A there are much more logical places to get it than a fishing forum...

"censorship" - you guys are killing me

Pro boob Republican here.

This is not about censorship..but moreso about a certain level of class and respect for others.

I would not disrespect my wife by sticking a pic of some well endowed broads boobs up as an avatar. A beautiful woman is an awesome thing, and "beautiful" has a lot more to do with WHO she is than what kind of carcass she is attached to.

Dave: "It's like so many censorship issues. if you dont want to see it don't look!"

Ok..so the next time a kid wants to pray out loud in a public school the other kids can just plug their ears. Same difference.

Censorship sucks..but that is not an excuse to go overboard when a bit of lattitude is allowed by moderators, owners,. etc. Censorship happens when, by the actions of a few who go to far, the moderators are FORCED into censoring stuff.

If a poster decides.."Yeah, I could show some CLASS and RESPECT for other people and keep things in perspective.." Well, that ain't censorship..it's called respect for other people.

Off to a biz lunch. Y'all have fun with this.

Mike

Seems to me with the lack of weather and therefore lack of fish, everyone is getting a bit cranky.

Everyone to their respective fishing rooms and come out flogging the water for fish, not each other.

FishnMike

Hey Vedder..Who's that chick?? I gotta fish with her someday, awesome pic!

can you send me a larger version? please.

Thanks Dave, now I have a good explanation to tell the wife as the reason for my fascination/obsession with breasts besides being a "Perv". (As she so eloquently puts it)

Stam, Dave gets PAID for taking pictures like that. How much $$$ are you willing to give him?

(Just trying to drum up some business for ya Dave.)

Unfortunately, this reflects my sentiments exactly ISO...many of the posts on this board the last year or so have the air of a private chat room. JMHO of course.

Thanks for stepping up and posting this Doc. I tend to agree with you and ISO on this topic. I really enjoy the heated discussions about fishing related topics and politics, but the forum has taken such a step in the "erotic" direction that I am no longer comfortable reading it at work, even with the avatars turned off.

Cheers!
SA

I feel the same as SteelAddict and others....

Bingo.

The issue here really isn’t about our rights to display or view certain things but rather about the choices we make and whether we care more about our rights than the people our choices affect.

FNP spoke out of a concern and respect for others. Francis, I commend you. Once again you have shown a pure heart and a love for your board brothers.

Merry Christmas, to one and all.

Interestingly, I just did a search on some member numbers and tried to see how many techniques, tips, reports, hints, or even photos they posted.

After hitting the big ZERO, I gave up.

Those that contribute the least like the biatch the most.

:rolleyes:

I'm a party pooper too.
I can't tell the fith graders in the angler education classes to come to this site. :shrug:

You don't recognize Yvonne Munson Stam?

man i got spoiled with the skull and smoke, finding a new avatar is kinda tough.

the trump argument here is of course that, if you are truly at work....well, you know the rest.

I'll change mine when I find good one.

h20- I have that avatar of yours saved, if you want it back let me know.

H20, I like your avatar. I don't think it's offensive.

Therefore, you MUST change it.

What a thread! Sol, you kill me. Personally, I think it's all SundayMoney's fault. It will be interesting to see how all this pans out.

How 'bout a slogan Doc - "No EE's on BB's!"

Ike

The hooters don't bother me but I can understand it being a problem for those who log on at work or have kids/wives that look on.
It seems lately that a small group is dominating the board. The same group that takes over a river for a day by playing bumper boats, launching bottle rockets, and playing their stereos loud. If that's the respect they show for anglers outside their clique on the water I don't expect any better here. So be it. I'll still log on but will spend more time on other sites.

Uh...No, but I will next time!

Who's Yvonne Munson and where can I find her? from where I'm sitting she looks single.

I accept full responsability.


It has gotten a bit out of hand though. I never expected it to become a game of one-upmanship.

Choosing to show or hide your avatars is like putting down the toilet seat after pissing. If you want it down, put it down. I don't expect others to put it up when they are done. I guess it's easier for some to impose their will on others than do the work themselves.

I still fail to see why it's a problem to simply click on the button that says turn off others avatars. Problem solved.

Dave your right.But that would just be to easy than knowone could whine about the avatars.

Dave, you simply Rock!

Sol, your avator is offensive...who say's your a stud? I think that's stretchig the truth a bit....