Ballsack, etc.
You know what, T-King? (And I'm going to ramble here for a minute, so bear with me)
You are right, of course. My wife and I are actually very easygoing people normally, who get along great with everyone. (Sounds like those report cards we used to get as kids, doesn't it, "plays well with others"?).
Anyway, back to my point that you are right, and name calling is not our usual style. It's just very frustrating that my wife, and Laurie and Sue and Alyce and all the folks who donate their time and work keeping this site running have to keep seeing posts made by this jerk who has nothing better to do. He's been at it for a long time. OK, so he doesn't think our site is worthwhile. He's entitled to his opinion. And he points out that he doesn't like the fact that we keep the same sample page and clip up, and the same forum post designed to attract new members. He doesn't seem to get the concept of the post being intentionally targeted to people who have not visited the forum before, thus the post is NEW to them. This is also because most of the TMF regulars are already familiar with us. Again, his opinion, and that's fine. But nobody is making this guy view our posts or join our site, so we are doing him no harm, yet he continually badmouths us. It's immature and completely uncalled for.
Probably the only reason we keep runing the site is because of our members, and the usual emails we get are from our long term members,(many, many of whom came to us through the TMF) thanking us for keeping our monthly dues at $5.85 when a lot of pay sites charge a good bit more, and for extending things like our movie and cartoon clips so that they run longer than the originals. Our members also like our original material, which there is a lot of, in spite of discodj's false statement that all of our clips are other "hard working" people's material. That's nothing but a lie, plainly and simply, and what's worse a lie told simply because he wants to say something negative. Yes, we do use material from other sites (tickling paradise is a good example) and we use them by permission, and post their banner on our site as a thank you. So saying we just take advantage of other's work is nothing but B.S. And there are plenty of sites that use pretty much NOTHING BUT other sites clips (like Uncle Steve's Extremetickling for example). BTW, I like Uncle Steve's site, but you don't see golfer and disco bashing Steve for making his site a pay site.
The bottom line: Sue and Laurie and Don and I, and Alan and everyone else involved in this site keep it going because we are all really into tickling, it's certainly not for the big paychecks it brings us, because as I pointed out, at the end of the month if we have covered our bandwidth expense and other expenses without having to take any money out of our pockets to keep things going, we count it a good month. And you know what, that's fine because we knew going into it that we would not be getting rich. We wanted to share our love of the old cartoons tickles and movie tickles while also finding some real tickling clips of a kind that others are not doing. We feel we have succeeded in that, and the vast majority of our members agree. We don't misrepresent our site up front in order to get members, either, like many other sites do. We are clear about what we offer and our pricing up front.
As for people like golfer, he's just decided he's going to bash us no matter what. I guess what we don't get is why he does it again and again. He's made his point (no matter how weak), but he just can't seem to let it go.
So TickleKing, your point is well taken, and I should not have said "ballsack" (oh shit, I said it again!) But we are a little frustrated with this loser and his continual, unjustified attacks. If we had ripped off his money or lied to him somehow, OK. But as I told him, you don't like our post, you don't have to read it. You don't like our site, you don't have to join it. If we have somehow offended this guy in another life, I hope he lets us know how it happened. I suspect maybe at some time in the distant past he was a termite and we were ardvaarks, or something!
In closing, I agree with you- bad visual to think about. I was reading a book by Mike Nelson (of MST3000 fame), and he was wondering why the old guys at the gym always seem to be the ones going around naked in the locker room, as if to say "look at that, my scrotum is old, wrinkled and leathery!". I promise to not ever go there again.
Take Care, and thanks for listening to my rambling.
Tom Servo
"Many people who have survived near-death train collisions say....AAAHHHHHHHH!!!!!"
