Ship of Fools

I was on a Christian discussion site in the early 2000s called Ship of Fools. It is where I got the name Assistant Village Idiot rather than Village Idiot. There were some good discussions and reasonable people there, but I eventually found it repetitive and enabling to, well, fools. It suddenly occurs to me that it was far better than TikTok, FB, Twitter/X, etc. There were a variety of bulletin boards with names such as "Dead Horses," which helped keep perspective on discussion that was potentially rancorous.  It was still often rancorous, but less so than we see now.

The site has shifted to humorous and satirical content, though there still are discussion boards. As an example of the former, there is a piece about the double-entendres of hymns, Bosoms and Ebenezers 

 I've always found singing in church a joy, but some hymns make you smile for all the wrong reasons. For a start, they use words that lead very different lives in other parts of your brain. Words such as 'bare', 'bondage', 'bosom', 'bowels', 'breast', 'bush', 'desires', 'conquest', 'flesh', 'gay', 'kiss', 'loins', 'lover', 'organ', 'prostrate', 'queen', 'rude', 'seed', 'submission', 'succour', 'tossed', 'virgin', 'womb' – and not forgetting good old 'intercourse'.

For the latter, Oops- Your Trump Presidency Discussion Thread in the "Purgatory" category, which is currently discussing his bone spurs as a draft deferment. The site is more UK than USA, but plenty of both.  It definitely tends liberal and snarky. I don't think I will reinvest my time, but someone here might be curious.