Because you touch yourself at night.

 

Okay, see... I thought this might be why the threads I reply to have a tendency to immediately die. So something doesn't quite add up.

 

Actually, I thought this board just wasn't very chatty. I belonged to the Firefly board, 'way back when, and there was LOTS of conversation. There were quite a few threads that went into the tens of thousands of entries, and at least one that's passed the 500k mark.

This board has the strictest limits of any I've ever joined (all three of them.)

 

500,000 posts in one thread? You actually think that's a good thing? Even tens of thousands is too many. Hell, even 500 would be too many.

Small threads result in proper conversation.

Overly long threads result in people repeating what other people have said a few hundred posts before, because they weren't able to read the thread up until that point, because it was so fucking long. They also result in hundreds to "Me too" posts. You also aren't able to hold any meaningful conversation with anyone.

In short, small threads rule and long threads fail.

 

Yes, the *long* thread was simply a chat room - open for any conversation. People introduced themselves, made arrangements to meet at conventions, complained about their day. The idea was to build a feeling of community, I think.

There were threads that argued about backstory, talked about how various social pressures would affect the 'verse, and compared Companions with the Bene Gesseritt. Other threads were open-ended discussion about the series as it ran; every week there would be a new "burst" of observations and theories. Necroposting was encouraged, so long as new information or ideas was expressed. I still feel that Firefly was one of the greatest killed-too-soon stories (all hail the Mighty Joss!)

I'd never seen a "closed" thread til long after I came here. It's different, to say the least. Notice that I'm still here - I'm not really complaining, much. There's a lot to enjoy at DLP, not least the library. There are smart, educated people who can hold up their end of a conversation. They just seem to be very goal-oriented. We don't have the free-form discussions that I was used to having.

I just wish I could get more people to, you know, have a discussion. I REALLY thought my ideas about exchanging horcuxes would touch off a storm of ideas and a major brainstorming session. No one even responded to the question about putting a horcux into someone who had been Kissed.

 

People tend to only reply here if they have something valuable to contribute. We don't really get that many "Yeah, good idea!" posts. With stuff like putting horcruxes into other people, there's not really much you can say. It's a fanon concept, and in fanon anything goes, so there's not much discussion to be had about it. The biggest areas of discussion tend to be over areas in canon that have been left vague, and people have differing ideas about how those gaps are filled (e.g. Wizarding numbers, magical theory).

 

Not that I want to intrude on your meaningful coversation but, what does this have to do with the main subject?

 

Nothing, we're going off on a tangent.

 

Edit: Taure got it first......D:

 

Yeah. I understand. Besides, a TV series continually adds to canon, keeping interest high. The HP books were aimed at children, and there wasn't much effort put into back story. There was almost NO reference to the world outside of the British Wizarding World. Now that the series is closed, we don't even have the *hope* for more sophisticated future plots.

Back to topic (sorry, Mods - I *try* to stay on task, but I'm very bad at it)

Fleur was gorgeous, and presumably the most intelligent and powerful competitor that Beauxbatons could field. That the boys were attracted her is certainly nothing for them to feel embarrassed over. If she was using her ... assets ... to increase her popularity, well, why not? It isn't like she was trying to get the students to steal copies of tests for her, nor was she seducing minors into her bed. So far as canon goes, she was a stunningly attractive young woman. And she knew it. What purpose would be served by false modesty?

 

I get the feeling that Fleur's veela powers were not overly strong. She was very attractive, and Ron was reduced to a stuttering mess, but isn't Ron always reduced to a stuttering mess?

She sounds like a perfectly normal girl to me. I mean, I don't think she was easy, no where in the HP books did it say that she shagged Davis, and don't tell me that none of you have so much of snogged a girl/boy who you haven't been dating? I know that I am not "easy", but that doesn't mean that I have never been on a date with a guy I just met, or does it mean that I haven't randomly snogged someone. Fuck, I've randomly snogged strangers because I was bored. It only makes someone "easy" or a whore if one sleeps with the person, or has a little play, when they don't know them, or isn't in a relationship with them... depends on your morals really.

And at the age of seventeen it is as though she wouldn't have boyfriends and such. It is more than likey that she would be one of those girls who always has a boyfriend. It doesn't make her a slag, just popular. Guys like her in a phiscal sense as well as a mental sense, (I assume) and so, if they are fit enough, (because lets be reasonable, there HAS to be some phisical attraction) she would date them.

And about the "is fleur a cock tease" the only girls that are NOT cock teases are ugly ones, and slags. Think about it.
A slag can not be a cock tease, and an ugly girl may wish to be a cock tease, but would fail. Any other pretty girl is bound to excite men, and men, being how they are, will try to get her attention. Not all of the attention will be wanted. If she is a bitch she might tell them to bugger off, if she is a nice person she might treat them kindly, or as friends, and then would be labled a tease. It's funny how the world works...

 

I think we need to define our terms. When I was in High School, a "prick tease" was a girl who would arouse a boy or very young man, then At The Last minute (just before insertion,) suddenly announce that she'd gone far enough, and deliberately leave the boy unfulfilled.

This is not the same thing as having one partner lose her nerve and call a halt to proceedings out of fear. It is not the same thing as stopping as soon as you discover that no one brought condoms. It isn't even the same thing as having your father nearly walk in on you, and thus kill the mood.

A "prick tease's" goal is to hurt or humiliate. It's a domination game, and in an odd way its purpose is a lot like rape. It's all about power. It's about victimizing someone.


Edited to add:
Being in the same room when a sixteen-year-old gets a stiffie is NOT being a tease!

 

Well this is an interesting little question but I think it basically comes down to shes a woman, shes damn sexy and she knows that its a useful trait. If she decides to use it to her advantage then thats not really being a cock tease but more importantly

This sounds like a personal expierience story.

 

Lies!

/me looks at his age.

Lies, I say!

Well I always defined a cock tease as someone who perpetually arouses someone with the implication that they will sate them, while not fulfilling in the end.

I don't remember what I voted, but I'm positive option two was it; and if the italics don't lie, then yes, I did vote for the second.

Fleur walking into the room and drawing every males attention can hardly constitute of being a cock tease, can't blame her for being attractive.

Fleur dressing up in skimpy clothing then grinding up to Roger Davis while leading him to a more secluded zone with promises of more, is.

Her actions throughout the Triwizard Tournament hardly constitute as those of a cock tease.

 

wow Please dont compare ginny to Fleur.
Ginny is just a dirty bitch who throws her self at any body just to try and get some attention.Fleur, on the other hand, is just to hot to be contained.

 

Hit the nail on the head. Not much more I think I can add, but I'll say that Fleur is certainly a sex symbol.

 

Sex symbol status died for me when I saw movie Fleur. Was not attractive at all. Maybe that was the director's point, since we as an audience can't get affected with the "Veela charm"; she's just a plain chick using magic to attract men.

 

She was to be far more beautiful than what she was portrayed to be. It wasn't only the Veela charm that the audience could not feel. Eva Green, died blonde should have played the role, although I don't think she would have accepted the minor role she had in GoF.

 

Eva Green? I dunno.

I always thought she'd be a wicked hot Professor Sinistra...

Woah. I've hit fanboy stage. Bullet me...NOW!