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Jan 13, 2017 20:10:24 GMT
Post by JohnV on Jan 13, 2017 20:10:24 GMT
No, I see where you are coming from but that is where CWDF went wrong it was stiff and ended up rigid and lost it's soul. Yes it might mean that new threads proliferate and things get discussed more fully. There is nothing stopping someone taking a remark in a post and starting a new thread with it. Generally if a thread is really interesting and is in full cry then an odd wild remark won't derail it ..... it just bounces back and continues.
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Jan 13, 2017 20:22:50 GMT
Post by Andyberg on Jan 13, 2017 20:22:50 GMT
No, I see where you are coming from but that is where CWDF went wrong it was stiff and ended up rigid and lost it's soul. Yes it might mean that new threads proliferate and things get discussed more fully. There is nothing stopping someone taking a remark in a post and starting a new thread with it. Generally if a thread is really interesting and is in full cry then an odd wild remark won't derail it ..... it just bounces back and continues. As I said, foxys comment on travellers I think would of made a cracking thread, very interesting, unfortunately I don't know enough about the situation to cast an opinion and start a thread, unfortunately it's now just lost in the noise of this thread!😞 Jeez, please understand I have no desire for this place to be as rigid and soulless as the other channel, mebbee I just got the wrong end of the stick this morning! 🙂
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Jan 13, 2017 20:35:06 GMT
Post by Deleted on Jan 13, 2017 20:35:06 GMT
My point was (and I'm very surprised you missed it), It's not what you say or think but what you encourage others to say or think - I always thought you were intelligent. eeyore !! Have I quoted something? If so I didn't mean to I was just saying what I thought. My nickname from the age of about 15 has been eeyore (or Donk for my mates), so it would be interesting to me if I have come up with a 'quote'
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Post by Deleted on Jan 13, 2017 20:43:08 GMT
For what it's worthy, I quite like the irrelevant randomness of the Fox's posts in some threads.
The way conversation bounces around on here is one of it's strengths.
As Johnv says, a thread that's on fire just rages on without pause.
Equally on some threads, going off at a tangent breathes new life in.
Rog
PS What were we talking about?
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Post by naughtyfox on Jan 13, 2017 20:59:52 GMT
Have to go to bed soon, but I'll say that I was going to agree with andy and try to keep it in mind that I should take a different tack, but then I read johnv's post directly underneath andy's and agree with that too!
If there is a problem, it lies with me and the way I think. When I chuck in a random post, I'm not trying to derail the original thread, it's just a slight step to the side, pause for thought. I don't think I've ever tried to deliberately twist a thread away from it's main line. I just like to look up side alleys for a moment or two, and kick ideas round the ball park - just like making a cup of tea when the ads come on whilst watching a film on TV. I go back to the sofa. I'm happy for the original thread to bang along to the end, but this IS the forum that Canalworlders told 'us' to make if we didn't like it over there, and you have to take the rough with the smooth, sorry. But here you ARE allowed to give annoying twerps (that's me sometimes) a kick in the gonads.
I'm probably 50% serious (certainly about the canal/waterways/boats threads) and 50% flippant. I always forget to see which section the threads are in, in my mind, anything in 'The Pit' can have anything added to it. I tend to read The Daily Mail for my updates on life in Britain, so am influenced by that partially. I do not see The Times or The Telegraph as being better newspapers, they are also in tabloid form these days, carry the same News, and have their own attempted brainwashing agendas. One thing I would like to see is for not for so many threads to be started but those that have been started to carry on, even if the subject has changed somewhere along the way.
As far as Donald Trump is concerned, has so much about one man ever been said in the History of Mankind? He's just a dopey mascot, that's all, someone has to be the 'POTUS'. He means nothing to me.
Anyway, folks, the thread is 'Trump' so back to it, OK?
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Post by tomsk on Jan 13, 2017 21:01:00 GMT
Please respond. I don't usually think of myself as 'dangerous'. I think Athy described me as 'peculiar but harmless' (what does he know??!!). Anyway, sauna now, just back from work, will stay logged in this evening... Firstly I said potentially dangerous - the 'potentially' is important in understanding my view. I'm a fairly middle of the road person who thinks he tolerates fairly wide views from both left and right, I don't like shutting down conversations or views unless they break my unwritten exceptions - I'd make a crap moderator. My assumptions about you are that you are intelligent, have fairly right wing politics (even at times accepting that your views are racist) and are outspoken. Sometimes you even suggest 'stupid' people should be reduced to fertiliser - hopefully in jest. Why do I think you are potentially dangerous?
Much more difficult to answer. It has it's roots in fighting Fascism. What you say on the internet isn't like chatting to a few mates down the pub, you don't know who is reading. TB often feels like a good pub but all good pubs are run by good Landlords, D9 doesn't want to take on the responsibility (who voluntary would try to keep us lot in check!) so we need to self moderate. Whilst I can tolerate your views most of the time, I can't tolerate comments about reducing people to fertiliser without commenting on them. Even if the comments are supposedly meant lightheartedly they might encourage others to think that is a normal way of thinking and so encourage others to move further to the 'right'. This is essentially why I think you are potentially dangerous. Having said all that, I hope we can still get along and share banter in the future. I have to say I agree with this. Surrealism, Dada and so forth are all well and good. I positively relish the well deployed non-sequitur/random rejoinder. I cannot however countenance persistent pointless posting. I have Foxy down as an acid casualty or similar, based on absolutely no evidence at all. I do enjoy some of your posts Mr Fox. Some of them are pure shite though.
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Post by thebfg on Jan 13, 2017 23:55:51 GMT
And why are there a few people who keep mentioning my posts count? It's only because I've been here so long. Delta has given me a nudge in the right direction once in a while, but not recently, so I guess I'm straying within the limits. And this is exactly where some forums go totally wrong. This is unmoderated but delta is there and is watching and we would of never known that you've been moderated and that's how it should be. A gentle unseen poke. I doubt you've ever been well over the top but like me a little excitable at times.q I agree with John. What I like about my local is you have a chat about one thing. People come and go and at the end of the night you've discussed everything possible and put the world to rights. Conversations just naturally morphs into something else and that is the feel I get here. Generally off topic convos are short and sweet and not really worth a new thread for. However we all know which topics need to stay on topic and we pretty much all adhere to it.
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Post by paul on Jan 14, 2017 0:39:29 GMT
"It probably was not a requirement by the person that gave them the job... (that they should be competent enough)... to tell you all about the beer. ...are you some class of a hipster with a top-bun, walkin' in to a pub and wanting to have a discussion about the beer instead of just drinking the damn stuff." I like to know a bit about the beer I buy and drink, and I expect the person behind the bar (or at least the pub landlord/lady) to know about what they are serving to their guests. Not a wine or beer snob, I'm just a bit fussy and particular and like to have some background knowledge. If I were providing a meal for people I like, I would like to have tasted the wine first to make sure it's respectable in my mind, to create a good impression and appreciation of the work I've put behind it, and to maintain standards imposed by myself. I'm very critical. I want to be in a pub in the Lake District with Cumbrians behind the bar, and I want to be in Yorkshire with Yorkshirefolk behind the bar. I want the genuine article, not some EU-sanctioned fake scene.
Sure, and i'd like to get to the bar in west Cork but i cant for rich British ex-pats coming over and snapping up property and getting worse by the day after brexit, but thats alright, why the hell not, i would if i could and i dont care because we all live in a small world and deal in a world wide economy. Dont you live in Finland or am i mistaken? Maybe you need to loosen up the scrunchie on your top-bun a little, it seems to be cutting off the circulation to your tolerance bone.
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Jan 14, 2017 12:20:09 GMT
Post by naughtyfox on Jan 14, 2017 12:20:09 GMT
...obviously nothing worth remembering, haha!
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Jan 14, 2017 12:45:27 GMT
Post by Deleted on Jan 14, 2017 12:45:27 GMT
As your here Foxy;
I hope yesterdays posts from me don't encourage you to change your posts (too much). Our views differ, I grew up close to Southall during the times of the riots there, a very scary time - the noise, sights and fear greatly shaped my views of race relations. And that is without going into the memories of the cover up around the SPG that partly shaped my views of authority. This means that I can't help but speak out on some issues.
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Jan 14, 2017 13:32:00 GMT
Post by paul on Jan 14, 2017 13:32:00 GMT
...obviously nothing worth remembering, haha! Well, i certainly cant remember because i was getting tanked up on polish beer. Maybe it was removed by the moderators for being a load of s**te
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Jan 14, 2017 18:42:02 GMT
Post by Mr Stabby on Jan 14, 2017 18:42:02 GMT
I was going to say as this was a rubbish thread I just thought I'd throw in some more garbage. But I won't. You aren't forced to read or contribute if that's how you feel about it...
Although I appreciate you have the need to keep your postcount on the up, maybe that explains your incessant derailing with inane drivel of virtually every thread you go on!!
It's worth pointing out that if you (or anybody else) finds naughtyfox's (or anybody else's) posts objectionable, you have the option to block them.
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Jan 14, 2017 19:46:56 GMT
Post by Andyberg on Jan 14, 2017 19:46:56 GMT
You aren't forced to read or contribute if that's how you feel about it...
Although I appreciate you have the need to keep your postcount on the up, maybe that explains your incessant derailing with inane drivel of virtually every thread you go on!!
It's worth pointing out that if you (or anybody else) finds naughtyfox's (or anybody else's) posts objectionable, you have the option to block them. It's not that I feel Foxy should be blocked, I enjoy 75% of his posts, it's the random post / thread drifts that have peeved me! anyhow..carry on!👍
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Post by Mr Stabby on Jan 14, 2017 21:15:04 GMT
It's worth pointing out that if you (or anybody else) finds naughtyfox's (or anybody else's) posts objectionable, you have the option to block them. It's not that I feel Foxy should be blocked, I enjoy 75% of his posts, it's the random post / thread drifts that have peeved me! anyhow..carry on!👍 Well, let's face it, if a person was 100% sane and normal then they wouldn't buy a narrowboat in the first place, so I think we just have to take posters as we find them. Personally I consider naughtyfox to be a huge addition to Thunderboat. I can see why others might not, but as I said, it is always an option for any member to block any other member, so that they no longer see their posts.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 15, 2017 7:53:32 GMT
But you'll still see their posts when anyone quotes them. And the thread may be hard to follow if it has a lot of posts that don't show up. I find that most posts that are a bit OTT will get slagged off by someone soon enough. This restores the balance!
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