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I mean first up you don't need fixing. obvious is obvious but ace or not that behaviour is still shitty. If I could justify an action i take towards another person because I say its better for that person, thats not good. yeah, that stereotype that men 'should like it' is around and does hit a lot of guys. doesn't mean you will and, to borrow a phrase, 'no means no'. no amount of telling you that this is something you should like changes that. To be honest, having been to a fair few clubs and bars in my time, not liking it when random women come up and hit on you is actually fairly common for a guy, especially if they go straight for contact and explicit demands to find a private space. that does come across as creepy or at least classless. i know there is a sort of unwritten culture that suggests guys should like that, and sure some do, but a lot dont want that. And if they dont and she doesn't back off, thats wrong on her part.

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I have no knowledge about the person who runs that subreddit. Good to bring this up but it might be worth messaging someone who has power in that forum. put it out there to them and see what they think. Certainly worth posting in that subreddit as well to see if people agree. I would also say there are plent of aro ace people here, probably more than non ace at the moment so you will probably get some aro ace feedback for sticking it here. And anyway, allowing other aros to have a say, especially on definitions for things like qpr, is probably a good thing.

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https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/870215-the-disc-s-greatest-lovers-were-undoubtedly-mellius-and-gretelina-whose Soulmates problem reminded me of this wonderful quote

oh I like that, other sites might hit you with a ban hammer, but here a frog thats like, a thousand times your size just eats you.

Frog admin and frog mod are now on site. thank you @DeltaAro, these are wonderful

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Another thing to add, Nik Hampshire's series about being aro but not ace. one of the few videos I know of which specifically focuses outside of asexuality

ah, ok that makes sense, well as much sense as it could make. glad its nothing serious

we have multiple threads for sharing memes, but I cant find anything for aromantic videos, and the general video thread by Harvest inspired me. https://www.arocalypse.com/topic/5207-youtube-video-thread/ What aromantic themed videos have you found? I'll kick off with a couple of threads we already have

I would be really interested in that, looking at the wiki for flags of extinct states there's a few which look absolutely bangin https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Flags_of_extinct_states Soviet republic of Naissar has pirate communism and a level of artistic skill barely above mine, its terrible but also kind of brilliant. Republic of Formosa has a cat, which makes it perfect in all ways. on the other hand every george cross is a flag of a country that doesn't exist any more, so honestly your shop would do pretty well with that.

admin i can put in I'm not actually sure we could do a newbie one as that is only symbolised by the little blue thing which i can only show or hide, I dont think i can do a long badge for newbie. (or at least, i cant do any of that within invisions menus and i have no intention of editing the theme html)

ok, I've put @DeltaAro's initial design of frog with tongue out at the moment. looking at it 30x90 seems absolutely fine. the concept is brilliant too.

A polar bear walks into a bar and orders a pint. The barman says "that'll be 6 pounds 99 please" The bear sits down on a bar stool and starts drinking. After a while the barman says "You know, we don't get many polar bears drinking here" The bear turns to the barman and replies "with those prices I'm not surprised".

frog lord looks cool i used a simple red square to show how 50x90, 30x90 and 20x90 look as frames for whatever image might end up here. 30 high honestly looks fine to me, 50 looks a bit odd imo but could try something and see ok that is such a good idea, I like that

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I'll tell of the Battle of Hastings,As happened in days long gone by,When Duke William became King of England,And 'Arold got shot in the eye.It were this way - one day in OctoberThe Duke, who were always a toffHaving no battles on at the moment,Had given his lads a day off.They'd all taken boats to go fishing,When some chap in t' Conqueror's earSaid 'Let's go and put breeze up the Saxons;'Said Bill - 'By gum, that's an idea.'Then turning around to his soldiers,He lifted his big Norman voice,Shouting - 'Hands up who's coming to England.'That was swank 'cos they hadn't no choice.They started away about tea-time -The sea was so calm and so still,And at quarter to ten the next morningThey arrived at a place called Bexhill.King 'Arold came up as they landed -His face full of venom and 'ate -He said 'lf you've come for RegattaYou've got here just six weeks too late.'At this William rose, cool but 'aughty,And said 'Give us none of your cheek;You'd best have your throne re-upholstered,I'll be wanting to use it next week.'When 'Arold heard this 'ere defiance,With rage he turned purple and blue,And shouted some rude words in Saxon,To which William answered - 'And you.''Twere a beautiful day for a battle;The Normans set off with a will,And when both sides was duly assembled,They tossed for the top of the hill.King 'Arold he won the advantage,On the hill-top he took up his stand,With his knaves and his cads all around him,On his 'orse with his 'awk in his 'and.The Normans had nowt in their favour,Their chance of a victory seemed small,For the slope of the field were against them,And the wind in their faces an' all.The kick-off were sharp at two-thirty,And soon as the whistle had wentBoth sides started banging each other'Til the swineherds could hear them in Kent.The Saxons had best line of forwards,Well armed both with buckler and sword -But the Normans had best combination,And when half-time came neither had scored.So the Duke called his cohorts togetherAnd said - 'Let's pretend that we're beat,Once we get Saxons down on the levelWe'll cut off their means of retreat.'So they ran - and the Saxons ran after,Just exactly as William had planned,Leaving 'Arold alone on the hill-topOn his 'orse with his 'awk in his 'and.When the Conqueror saw what had happened,A bow and an arrow he drew;He went right up to 'Arold and shot him.He were off-side, but what could they do?The Normans turned round in a fury,And gave back both parry and thrust,Till the fight were all over bar shouting,And you couldn't see Saxons for dust.And after the battle were overThey found 'Arold so stately and grand,Sitting there with an eye-full of arrowOn his 'orse with his 'awk in his 'and. Marriott Edgar

ok, so this is what that would look like. There doesn't seem to be a way to remove the white space where the word moderator would sit previously. if i dont do it like that it still has the green moderator text above the word moderator. but this is roughly what we would be getting. on the good side, hiding the blue shield icon was dead easy.

Thank you for pointing this out. This used to be enabled by default but at some point it must have switched, I have no idea when or why and since I'm not a new user I didn't notice it. I've changed the settings so status updates are enabled by default again as that seems like the more sensible option. cheers @AromanticAardvarkfor asking and @sevanfor finding out what happened.