Post #758407 by Atomic Tiki Punk on Thu, Feb 4, 2016 2:00 PM

The conversation is getting both heated & a little incendiary now :D

I should address a couple of things ErichTroudt has mentioned in his post:

"Its turned into a board with basically one active moderator, an owner who left, and about a dozen people who consistently post, one of which who is beyond rude. The language on the shout is always terrible, I can't even bring tiki central up on the computer when my daughter is in the room because of the language."

Now this is only my opinion, but Tiki is for adults, the kids have just about everything else in the world, with kid safe/political correctness/everything should be
accessible to my child, world that we live in, Tiki was made for adults, by it's very nature of Bars, cocktails & adult escapism, it was not meant for children!

So if you choose to give your child access to Tiki Central, Tiki events & take them to a Tiki Bar, which is full of adult content, I question your judgement
and can't we adults have just one thing that is just for adults?

Also I am pretty sure you are referring to me, about the use of language (as well as some other things) Yes! I don't check my language here, because I am conversing
with adults about a very un-politically correct time in our history (Tiki) the very thing we are all here for, right? it is why we are attracted to it in the first place.

ErichTroudt, you have been here for many years, have you forgotten just how heated, divisive & negative it used to be here on TC
because it's damn near Woodstock levels of calm today, compared to then, hell, I didn't officially join TC for two years because of what a warzone it was
at the time & new folks were flayed to the bone on a regular basis if they said one thing out of place.

Now this is going to piss off some of you, but collecting mugs/menus and what not, has nothing to do with Tiki (sure it supplements your interest in Tiki, but no one was doing it back in the days of going to Polynesian Bars & Restaurants) just as "Urban Archaeology" is not Tiki! yes I said it! it's not Tiki, it's Academic
which no one was also doing back in the good old days of Tiki!

They just went to a Polynesian Bar or Restaurant for some cocktails & escapism from their post war/working lives, to have a good time
And it was that time in history that draws us all together here.

And that is what Tiki is.