Does anyone have the link for the "Aussies over 40 and under 90 Dinner Gathering Thread"?

Elitist mocker!

You come back when you reach 13000 posts laddie!

I must be too old to understand this dang thread.

Yikes! Someone stole 6,000 of my posts. Do I need to pay a ransom to get them back in an un-marked sack?

I feel sure there were about 14,000 there yesterday. Could it be the TSA? I typed some things about Air Marshalls they might not have liked?

May I remind everyone to PLEASE stay on topic?

The topic is (as posted by wearetoogood.com) whether you are age 30 and/or under and would like to meet up with him for a night at restaurants and bars that cater exclusively to a 30 and/or under crowd (or as they would say in Dallas, a "not so exclusive" establishment).

Please keep on topic.

Ok. That is the last straw for me! If I am not under 30 I can't enjoy the "establishments"? Damm! What are you people telling me? At age 31 my $20 bills are are too small and wrinkled?

You under 30 crowd have all the fun don't you?

Poor auh2o... you can hang out with me anytime! (Well, as long as there's no tequila within 100 yards)

[This message has been edited by markbach (edited 05-06-2003).]

This thread has been hijacked.


I recommend opening up another one in a more understated, polite tone. Perhaps, to keep the envious rabble at bay, you should include a link to one or two of the debate threads?

WOW! My 5000th Post!!!!

I'm sorry TG, but I think, coming from a moderator of the forum (let alone any member), that was a very low and unnecessary twisting of a user handle. Fair enough if you beg to differ, but being in the exemplary role you hold, I'd expect more and urge you to consider editing your name calling.

Anyways, on topic, I'm under 30. I'm not a big fan of gambling, but I can dance all night (salsa, hip hop, electronic, burn-out hippie music), do shots of tequila, down pints of beer, operate on minimal sleep... I can dress up to to lookgood(.com) and can have a good time in nearly any company.

(I am however, not good enough for Sue Bird, and I have thus cursed the Seattle Storm in having a horrible season.)

Anyways, I'd put the possibility of my attendance at this event in the low single digit percentage points. Tbe honest, I think I'd have more fun w/ either my own friends in this type of scene -OR- with "non 30 and under" FTers in a different scene.

I'll keep my eyes on the thread to see how it develops.

[This message has been edited by chexfan (edited 05-06-2003).]

Did you try looking on the forums at welookgood.com? You might find something for your group there! You can also enlarge your penis and/or breasts, make money fast!, and order up a free sex toy catalog all in the same place

-alan in sitges

Chex, you are welcome to disagree with me any time.

When I am moderating, I am very careful to not post opinion and to include a "moderator" signature at the bottom of my post. If you noticee, there I did not include my moderator signature at the bottom of that post (which was made very tongue-in-cheek) and I was exercising my right to post as a general member in this forum. If Randy wants to discipline me for it, by all means, please turn me in. This is one issue I'm more than willing to serve a time out over.

One reason I asked to be a moderator for the Community forum was that I was grateful for the opportunity to have met so many people over the past two years at FT events, many (perhaps most) whom I would never had met through more "self-selecting events". When I first came to FT, I too was naive. I dumbly assumed before my first FT event (which was the TPE run in September of 2001) that I would probably be the only (or one of the only) female(s) and certainly would be the only one under the age of 40. After all, this was a frequent flyer event, right? Well imagine my shock that no only was I NOT the only person in my 20s but that there were 4 or 5 twenty-somethings along who were YOUNGER than me. So much for the need to "self-select", eh?

And thus I feel it is a slap in the face of the Community to have someone come and post here who repeatedly (despite gentle nudging and not so gentle ribbing from the Community) persists in his efforts to exclude a large portion of that Community and do so in a quite public way.

I notice that Randy has excluded age from the TOS, but let me quote the other protected classes here:

Age discrimination is still wrong, despite the fact that Randy has not named it in the TOS. And I feel that welookgood.com has somehow made the statement that he thinks he is "too good" for the rest of us (or hence my mocking wearetoogood.com) and thus must exclude folks from his event. And exclude he is doing... rather than come back with a clean post describing his "young person's" event and letting us all choose for ourself how young we are he has instead come out and further clarified the fact that he definitely chooses to enforce an arbitrary age cap of 30.

And so I stand by my post.




[This message has been edited by techgirl (edited 05-06-2003).]

Not THOSE establishments. I was referring more to those overgrown college bars that still service the twenty-something gang.

Why? Because the hip/trendy bars in Dallas that attract the "see and be seen" crowd on Friday or Saturday night but rely on the thirty/forty-somethings who frequent their attached restaurants/lounges on the other nights of the week to keep their doors open.

Now I know many of these bar/restauant managers (and have a close friend who does bar/restaurant PR)... and they view the Saturday night drink specials as a loss-leader because they create buzz for a club and the overall name and drive the business dollars into their restaurant.

Boy there will be a few dozen permanently deleted accounts soon over at the British Airways Board if this is true.

I got mixed up somehow? I lost money, got a free breast and ordered a penis.


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[This message has been edited by ozstamps (edited 05-06-2003).]

Has it been so long that we can no longer recognize a troll? This thread would have had zero replies if we werent feedeing the troll. Let it go. Allow he unfettered marketplace of ideas run its natural and sometimes brutal course...what if welookgood had a party and no one came?