This is a test for our new host, hrmjustin.

[rug]

US STOCKS-Wall St drops in late slide, but ends May with gains

http://in.reuters.com/article/2013/05/31/markets-usa-stocks-idINL2N0EC21O20130531

[hrmjustin]

1. LOL I am reporting on you my friend!

[rug]

2. It's "alerting" not reporting.

10 points from Gryffindor.

[hrmjustin]

3. AH I falling behind already!

[hunter]

4. Hunter is here again too...

Don't post any newsy stuff.

Cute cat pictures are okay if they are not posted on commercial porn sites that randomly link to fetishes I do not want to know about.

I believe everyone should wear sensible shoes.

[rug]

5. I too believe in sensible shoes.

[hunter]

22. For close friends, family, and lovers anything goes.

"Spy cams" and voyeurs are not okay.

Don't be the pervert hiding in the bushes with a long lens. Creepy guys, you know who you are.

But if you find one of those pictures of me when I was young and on fire, send a P.M...

I was naked, six pack abs, wearing a leather hat I bought in Mexico, nothing else.

Salt. That's another clue. Once upon a time on the ancient internet, thanks to strange girlfriend who thought "Eraserhead" would be a good date movie, and I still have nightmares about that.

But I've lost it. I'm and ordinary sort of bald skinny fifty-something white dude who likes beer on Friday. Something computer. Grown kids just called their boring old computer nerd dad, "is mom there?" Seriously, she's still exciting.

No, I will never enter the precise search terms into google or bing with "safe search" off. At some point I signed something for Uncle Sam and I swore I never would.

But yeah, for a very brief moment in history, fifteen minutes I think, I was Daniel Craig 007 hot on motorcycle.

Don't mess with the DU Lounge.

[BainsBane]

6. Where's the kitty pic?

If there's no kitty pic it's not a legitimate lounge thread.

?w=640&h=480

[hrmjustin]

7. I love this picture!

[rug]

8. Lounge cat.

[BainsBane]

12. That must be MFM's cat

[nomorenomore08]

27. "MINE!"

That's how cats are about everything. It's why they rub against us - they're claiming us as territory.

[Ptah]

9. I saw a blue car today.

[rug]

10. Take it to LBN, suspender nipples.

[BainsBane]

13. but did it have that old tired Ford logo?

and a pitbull in the back?

[Paulie]

11. Shake your love. I just can't shake your love.

[rug]

14. Little did she know the dangers that awaited her.

[BainsBane]

15. I'm still trying to get over the trauma

of seeing a pro-Barry Manilow thread in the lounge last week. Now Debby Gibson? Are you trying to push me over the edge?

[rug]

17. At least I didn't post Tiffany.

(sorry, I couldn't help myself.)

[Paulie]

19. Let me post both at the same time!

Yes, I was at this concert. Yes indeed!!!!

[BainsBane]

20. Are you serious?

[Paulie]

23. It was packed. Standing room only

I was like on the 3rd floor nosebleed section. Great time!!!

[hunter]

24. At great risk to myself, I'm going to post my crazy grandma Barry Manilow story...

...I was driving my crazy grandma to Idaho, and don't ask, it's a long story.

There was uncomfortable silence somewhere around Shoshone so I turned on the radio.

Fuck, I don't know what I'd said to her to cause the silence and it doesn't matter because she was crazy. It took the police and paramedics several hours to drag her out of her home when she became a danger to herself and others. Thank God she didn't go for her guns. Perhaps she couldn't find them in all the garbage stacked to the ceiling and the used kitty litter covering the path to the toilet.

Anyways, Barry Manilow's Copacabana was playing.

Grandma said "Drive into that telephone pole!!!"

I said "Grandma???"

She said, "I'd rather be dead than listen to this!"

[BainsBane]

25. She wasn't that crazy

I know how she feels.

[Paulie]

16. What happens in B movie stays in B movie

[rug]

18. Lol! Quick, warn BainsBane!

[BainsBane]

21. I had no idea what lurked beneath the dark underbelly of DU

It truly is terrifying

[Tuesday Afternoon]

26. Hosting The Lounge -

isn't that some kind of oxymoron?

[BainsBane]

28. Someone has to mix the coctails

[hrmjustin]

30. Cocktails! I love booze!

[BainsBane]

31. I'll take a margarita on the rocks

Top shelf tequila, with salt. Thanks!

[hrmjustin]

32. Hey we are going to hit 10,000 in the next few days together.

[BainsBane]

33. So we are

but I've been here for less time. Just goes to show I talk too much.

Seriously though, a number of people have gotten pissed off over my post count, that it's so high when I've been here a short period of time. I find it odd: a "Yours is bigger than mine, and I therefore I don't like you" kind of thing. It's just a function of my not having kids to look after like many people do.

[hrmjustin]

34. Who cares what they say.

[BainsBane]

35. That's the best attitude

[hrmjustin]

36. It is the only attitude.

It is not our fault if people find respond all the time to our posts.

[Kali]

29. we need to have access to the host forum so we can chime in and annoy the GD hosts

[Tuesday Afternoon]

37. that is the scary truth of the matter

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

38. Isn't that a question for...

...the philosophy group???

[Chan790]

39. It's hard work.

Get up at noon, have a drink, wait for an alert, have a drink, smoke a j, eat dinner, post kitten pics, go to the bar, pick up some honeys (I totally use this gig to pick up women), go home, check for alerts, have a night cap with a j, go to bed with new friends, get up at 6am to kick out harem, check for overnight alerts, smoke a j, go back to bed.

Brutal.

[madinmaryland]

40. PAGING SKITTLES! Ordering up an ass-kicking for rug!

[hrmjustin]

41. LOL!

[jakeXT]

42. Headlines

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-06-01/whats-wrong-picture