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Post by Jim Riley on Jan 21, 2020 13:14:56 GMT
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Post by Telemachus on Jan 21, 2020 13:28:52 GMT
I went boating and when I came back - there it was locked. Not too surprising, the group-think doesn’t like having its views challenged. Actually I quite like Athy, if only for his charming old-world naivety. He thinks iPlayer is a device like an iPad. I had to explain what virtue-signalling is. And really, he was as much to blame for the thread descending into squabble simply by replying to nearly every post in a way that begged a further response. I’m surprised it lasted that long. But there is one mercy, we are spared the mawkish platitudes from VS people publicly wailing and sobbing their expressions of grief for someone they have never met and in reality couldn’t give a shit about. |
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Post by naughtyfox on Jan 21, 2020 14:59:20 GMT
The thread has now been locked, I blame Telemachus . 😂😂😂😂 "No doubt we shall learn more after the authorities have concluded their investigations." - says Athy. Only this is rarely the case. We still haven't heard exactly how those Pikeys killed Andrew Harper, and whether the final blow was him getting hit by a Police car (as has been reported anonymously). "I'm reluctantly taking MHS's advice and locking it." - or you could just tell MHS to fuck off. |
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Post by lollygagger on Jan 21, 2020 15:45:32 GMT
If ever there was a thread to capture what is wrong with CWDF in a few pages that was it. Very funny. Athy's apparent fuddy duddyness is 100% act, learned when he was a "schoolmaster". Boris Johnson plays a similar game pretending to blunder about and be a bit of a duffa. My own brother used to do it, he talked in a whisper and grew hair twirly out of his ears when he was Uni professor. It's some kind of defence mechanism to act dufferish?
In a parallel world of forums on a different subject, on one I used to like but stopped posting on around the same time this one was born, the mod who always seems to be there is very loud about Brexit = racism. A few days ago he was bemoaning how overtly racist society has become "thanks to Brexit" and that it had been "difficult enough to bring up his mixed race children in the UK even when we were part of Europe". His wife is a very white Southern European, he's a white Englishman. His kids have always lived in the same area of England. Is that mixed race? Only minutes later he was attributing somebody's mechanical breakdown to Chinese crap when there had been no evidence or mention of Chinese parts. Is that racist? Having Mods like this guy and Athy is so stupid. Forum death wish. A good moderator doesn't do anything but politely fend off the offended and moderate stuff that could cause legal trouble, hopefully without loosing the gist. I'm the only mod on another forum and I do nothing at all. If people moan I suggest they use a forum with rules. What's so difficult?
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Post by bedruthan on Jan 21, 2020 16:02:36 GMT
If ever there was a thread to capture what is wrong with CWDF in a few pages that was it. Very funny. Athy's apparent fuddy duddyness is 100% act, learned when he was a "schoolmaster". Boris Johnson plays a similar game pretending to blunder about and be a bit of a duffa. My own brother used to do it, he talked in a whisper and grew hair twirly out of his ears when he was Uni professor. It's some kind of defence mechanism to act dufferish? In a parallel world of forums on a different subject, on one I used to like but stopped posting on around the same time this one was born, the mod who always seems to be there is very loud about Brexit = racism. A few days ago he was bemoaning how overtly racist society has become "thanks to Brexit" and that it had been "difficult enough to bring up his mixed race children in the UK even when we were part of Europe". His wife is a very white Southern European, he's a white Englishman. His kids have always lived in the same area of England. Is that mixed race? Only minutes later he was attributing somebody's mechanical breakdown to Chinese crap when there had been no evidence or mention of Chinese parts. Is that racist? Having Mods like this guy and Athy is so stupid. Forum death wish. A good moderator doesn't do anything but politely fend off the offended and moderate stuff that could cause legal trouble, hopefully without loosing the gist. I'm the only mod on another forum and I do nothing at all. If people moan I suggest they use a forum with rules. What's so difficult? "Wokeness" is the latest trend. Any differing opinion from a poster is either racist, thick or bigoted. The offended poster will either be a woke man, or woke woman, I could be classed as anti woke just for suggesting the gender reference in this post. Feckin worlds going nuts, or to be more precise, we have a generation of lunatics who step outside their front door each morning looking to be offended. Owen jones is a prime example of this problem, he presents himself as a victim the minute he hits fresh air. |
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Post by lollygagger on Jan 21, 2020 16:22:45 GMT
Morally outraged without a cause fashionably denying reality.
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Post by bedruthan on Jan 21, 2020 16:39:28 GMT
Morally outraged without a cause fashionably denying reality. Using the word 'woke' is now bigoted, according to wokes. Everything they do is about controlling language. Control the language, silence the adversary. |
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Post by naughtyfox on Jan 21, 2020 16:47:50 GMT
Go 'woke', go broke.
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Post by phil70 on Jan 22, 2020 9:49:49 GMT
A bit insensitive, they may have friends and family who read the forums. You have been slapped for less before. Did you enjoy it? After your recent post on the pikey solution I'll just take that as a bit of virtue signalling. That's Rog's job. How likely is your scenario, I'd say not. They were just random canal walkers. Even if they were boaters? Cwdf trying to big up their importance to boaters across the land! It's visited by more than TB yes, but it's only a fraction of National boaters. CWDF does big itself up all the time, they claim so many members but neglect to mention that the numbers are inclusive of many deceased, many thrown out, and many,like here that join up, visit once or twice before sinking below the waves never to be seen again. Phil |
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Post by lollygagger on Jan 22, 2020 9:55:50 GMT
There are quite a few on that thread who when they criticise the modding and set out how it should be … are describing Thunderboat. Perhaps they are already here under different names but if not one wonders why. It's not like you'll get your head kicked in here is it? This is a pretty benign forum when all's said and done.
Slowly, slowly, for the first time I find I can imagine this place becoming more popular than CWDF, not that it matters.
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