What is "the flob"?

[TaipAmy]

I saw it mentioned in a closed topic. WTH is it/does it mean?

[KHHville]

@TaipAmy

I saw it mentioned in a closed topic. WTH is it/does it mean?

where you are right now

[TaipAmy]

Now I’m even more confused.
Or does “the flob” mean a temporary situation?

[KHHville]

@TaipAmy

Now I’m even more confused.

It’s okay. Stay out of IP and Covid-related threads and you’ll get back to normal.
Flob = taiwan. Others may know its origins.

[Marco]

@KHHville

@TaipAmy

Now I’m even more confused.

It’s okay. Stay out of IP and Covid-related threads and you’ll get back to normal.
Flob = taiwan. Others may know its origins.

He’s right. I barely survived.

[Dr_Milker]

@KHHville

Flob = taiwan.

Pretty sure Flob refers to Forumosa.

[KHHville]

maybe flob = forumosa land of betelnuts

[jdsmith]

@KHHville

Flob = taiwan

No.

@KHHville

Others may know its origins

Yup.

Ask @superking to run it down for ya. He made it up.

[TaipAmy]

So what is it? I hate feeling so ignorant. Enlighten me.

[Marco]

@KHHville

maybe flob = formosa land of betelnuts

I thought it was the Forum for Lots of Bickering

[Marco]

@TaipAmy

So what is it? I hate feeling so ignorant. Enlighten me.

I don’t know either. It apparently refers to this forum. I just never bothered to ask.

It’s like Xiangshan. It’s there. I’ll do it another day.

Many years later. Still not visited.

[jdsmith]

The Flob isn’t a thing, it just is.

[BiggusDickus]

@jdsmith

@KHHville

Flob = taiwan

No.

@KHHville

Others may know its origins

Yup.

Ask @superking to run it down for ya. He made it up.

Who the flob is @superking?

[jdsmith]

Some TomHill.

[olm]

@TaipAmy

I saw it mentioned in a closed topic. WTH is it/does it mean?

“flob” seems to be an old-fashioned (insider) name for forumosa.

I’m not ancient enough to know the roots, but there seemed to have been an URL like “flob.me”… which might have been the source of this term, or it might not.

Actually, the URL is still there. Wow.

[TaipAmy]

Perfect. Now we just need someone to explain the origin story

[olm]

Calling @GooseEgg . You da man, no?

[Charlie_Jack]

Here are some examples, beginning in September of 2006:

If you found a smurf...?

In what sense? Banking or Internet?[/quote] T’internet, and more particularly, here, at flob.com.

Flob (philology)

Can someone please explain the history of the term ‘flob’ as a reference to this here site? Is it from an IRL meeting? or from a thread? if thread, please link. thanks F. Nietzsche

Flob.com... I just don't get it

Two words: TomHill.[/quote] That’s one word.[/quote] You just don’t understand Dr. McCoy humour culture.

ForUmosa T-shirt for 2007

[quote=“Tigerman”]Anything in tie-dye will do nicely. And skulls, too. Yeah.[/quote] Ok so we have a tie-dye print with the words ‘Flob.com. Gratefully taking the c*nts out of Scunthorpe.’ With a nice big Homer Simpson skull on the back. AWE-some.

Provoking strangers

[quote=“BlackAdder”][quote=“TomHill”]Sometimes when I am in a bad mood I come onto flob.com and use my words to piss off people I don’t know very well. It’s easier than dealing with the reality of what is really making me angry. Am I wrong to do this? Am I alone in doing this? I apologize to anyone I have pissed off, or will piss off in the future. When I do this, I am actually angry about something else, something real, and not about how you, Mr Stranger, conduct your personal life and your…

Around that time, people were also messing around with an anagram:

Should the site administrator (Maoman) be more professional?

If you have to ask, you can’t afford it. But of course the reason is because it’s flobby. Plus, sourfoam was taken.

Hello Forumosa!

sourfoam.com edicts TomHill is the only good poster. Good threads are only posted in Temporary Forum (If you are not sure if your thread is good, post it in the Open Forum). If you are pedantic (that means, ‘nitpicky’ by the way. What you might have thought it meant is in ‘Dating and Relationships’), go to ‘Learning Chinese’. If you are pedantic and boring, go to ‘Teaching in Taiwan’. If you are pedantic, boring and pugilistic, go to ‘International Politics’. If you are pedantic, boring, pugil…

Different fonts?

Only 70% of Sourfoam users are on Windows machines? That PROVES they are a lot more discerning than your average hamster. Most real life polls have about 90% Windoze users. Cool! dead easy to find a better system. Me, I chose Mac yers ago (like 1984), and am now looking to put some version of Linux on my Mac Intel box. any tips? and back on tpoic: OP, you just have to make the changes in your Internet exploder preferences, you can your own computer choose the fonts to use, even bettter, h…

[yinggeaussie]

Maybe some enterprising member needs to start printing TShirts with FLOB emblazoned across the front, distributed (for a fee) to the Regulars so we can wear them (or maybe not!!) when we go out.

[urodacus]

One question: is half a flob better or worse than half a chub?