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SquirrelMeat said:

You may if you wish. Personnally, I call it "being positive" (as opposed to "being negative").

pplrain said:

Whoo! Look at the venom slipping out! LMAO!

Listen girly....you will not dictate to me at all. If I so choose to use any word here, you will have NO say in it.

hv3121 said:

Do you think Prince was thinking of his fans feelings when he sent cease and desist orders, which, if followed through you lead to the likely closure to the biggest on line community?

gemini13 said:

You will notice a common. The personal venom spitting, or dictictoral views mostly come from self proclaime positive "fams".

The people they see as negative very rarely attack other fans on here, unless provoked first.

JazzMeUp said:

My kind of girl.

SquirrelMeat said:

Oooh, sounds like someone has feelings after all...

JazzMeUp said:

So

Speaking freely = Negative.

Curtailing words to suit third parties = Positive.

Please call me negative every time!

JazzMeUp said:

Nicely dodged.

SquirrelMeat said:

Exactly!

SquirrelMeat said:

Feel free to use whatever vocab you like... obviously your posts will speak volumes about you, won't it?

pplrain said:

According to just you, which means absolutely nothing. You need to get that through your head.

pplrain said:

Girl, be the wisest and stop. Why have this nasty feeling.
Don't you see these people are waiting for someone to bite? You sound like someone who actually enjoyed a decent upbringing, so use it. You will never be able to explain anything to them since they talk to a mirror.
Boredom and ignorance to the max .

CJanssen said:

CJanssen said:

Are you implying that I didn't have a decent upbringing when you don't know a thing about it?

Man, you people sure are grasping at straws for your justifications.

CJanssen said:

I'm trying to decide if you really are dumb or trolling!

You don't think the opening statement of this thread fits your description of someone waiting for a bite?

SquirrelMeat said:

Yes there haters here but there are only haters when they admit it.
Anyway, inspite the fact that they have the right to express there opinions, thoughts, and etc. the way they come off is annoying ignorant and immature. I mean seriously if you don't like Prince 1) Why the hell are you here then that's just reduntant just to come here and be disrepectful 2) If you going to critize Prince at least be sane and serious about it. You just don't know how many times people used "Prince sux" as a valid answer. That's some great reasoning right there 3) Just get a damn life and move on if you can't do #2.
Sheesh People nowadays just making things harder....

SquirrelMeat said:

Not negative, nasty,

Nastiness provoked me, not fair objection.

It's nice to know we are all welcome tho.

SquirrelMeat said:

Can I just butt in here.... Yes the word c**t is used a lot in East London, but it's still rude and that still doesn't make it acceptable to the general population does it? That's a small area of the world your talking about!

Maybe the question of this thread should be re-worded. Maybe Slave to the music vs. FAN of the music. There is a difference between being a fan and being a slave. A fan you can voice your opinion if something is wrong. A slave u must stay quiet. A fan will come around when thick is no longer thin-but point out the negative. A slave will praise you even if your wrong.

Me personally..Im a fan..and I really love Prince's music..It always will have a place for it in my heart.

But it seems that in recent months that alot has been going on. Its one thing after another. I came here to talk and share about Prince (Other forums is an extra) and thats what I will do forever. Whether negative or positive (Hopefully ALOT more positive). I was upset when he moved forward with all these suits. BUT that dosent make me a hater of him.

It seems like my fanship of prince (and maybe others like me) is like a marriage. I will always love him and u gotta take the good with the bad if its gonna last. Its just when the bad/negative happens time and time again..I'm gonna have something to say about it.

But good music soothes the soul. and I try to keep everything positive.

Jeffiner said:

"Its still rude"? In your eyes, not to the person who uses it as a casual profanity.

As far as the use of the word cunt is concerned, its no more or less offensive than a word like nigger. Its all depends whos saying it, and in what context.

Some people hate it, but it's ok to use on records?

Bad language is objective. Its not exclusive to whats acceptable in mainstream USA.

NastradumasKid said:

Have you actually tried reading whats been said? Who's been here just to be disrespectful to Prince?

You have, if you haven't had the thought to follow the thread. Where are these insults to talk about?

pplrain said:

You're a strange one!

You list your fan level as "Enthusiast" yet you seem to love coming here baiting as much as possible, whilst blaming everyone else in the process.

Its like the thread you started in the concert section a few weeks back. There we had a bunch of honest fans, feeling aggrieved trying to get refunds for their £235 VIP seats which ended up restricted view, and you decided, that you should start a thread to tell them all to stop moaning and worship the fact that Prince was in town.

You had nothing to contribute to help them. No reason to be there, and no reason to dismiss what some people believed was a legitimate complaint. Instead you waded in like some upstart and told them all to shut up. Not just in response form, but you even started a thread to tell them to shut up.

If thats what being a fam is about, god help us all.

1KissAtATyme said:

Really like your post. I've sent messages to the authors of some great posts I've seen amongst the negative ones.

I know exactly what you mean.
I bet people just are dying to put me under the "slave" category because I rarely have a bad thing to say about Prince.
Truth be told, I don't think he's perfect and I don't love 100% of his work. But I do like a very good %age it and give some albums/songs more chances than most people here would.

haha... people will come after me for this as well. The whole thing about liking Prince being like a "marriage"... taking the good with the bad... It feels like the same thing wiht me too. But I hate speaking badly of him, but there are sometimes where it can't be helped. Comes very rarely for me, but I try to avoid it.

I like sticking with the positive myself... that annoys people, sure, but it doesn't stop me from being honestly postive, haha. Music is meant 2b a positive experience because there's enough in this world to bring us down. Music is like our escape for harsh realities. But when the harsh realities come here, things get pretty ugly.
So I still listen to the music like I always have and enjoy it all the same despite the hate towards its creator

Edit: just wanted to add that a lot of people asked me to stick around because my positivity has inspired them. I don't mean 2 sound arrogant, but I feel like its up to me and other positive thinkers to stick around to keep this place from being plunged into the darkness of negativity.
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I'm on pplrain's side, it's jus an ugly word, to even read...I don't like the word blog either, there are nicer words to refer to a girl, like sugar pie or honey.. I think Squirrel's girlfriend deserves some flowers, from another man.

SquirrelMeat said:

.. and what are you, the self proclaimed saviour of Prince.org? When was the last time you filled an arena the size of O2 without a hitch? Have your cake and eat it too man! Go fcuk a duck Peace Out!
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Tame said:

imho it's his right hand.. he sure wishes it would be something soft and wet