Bearsy has 1000 points.
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Wow, congrats Bearsy - you are totally awesome.
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woah I’m so proud! The pinnacle of my career! So many ppl to thank, but I’ll save time by taking all the credit for Myself
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Oh FFS now there’ll be no stopping him.
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as Brucie used to say “What do points make?”
Cunts.
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Well, a lot of people have come out to bat for this site, but Bearsy has posted for this site in the manner of a bear mama looking after a bear cub, so much so that bletch did not bat an eyelid when we slipped Bear the Poet Laureate 2015.
We both thought it would cause friction, half the reason we awarded it in the first place. But there you go; breaking K’s and taming bletches. You can’t argue with results.
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OK, it’s time this story came out.
Sorry, pap.
Bear was poached from Steveweb - tapped up outside of the 'window and not even through proper channels.
He was lured here with a promise of a big pay packet. He is paid twice what I get, and even Toke, yes that’s right, Toke gets more than me!
I was promised that I’d be coming to a Champions’ League venue, I didn’t expect Sligo funning Rovers. I miss Steveweb with its Tapatalk and range of Champions’ League emoticons.
And Bear’s contract contains a clause that ensures he will be top of the leaderboard for the first year at least.
It’s all fixed. I mean take a look.
Bear’s first overall, pap’s second and papdad is the highest earner this week.
Nepotistic ursinism doesn’t even come close to nailing it.
It’s a farce.
I’ll probably be found at a bus shelter with the tip of an umbrella embedded in my colon now, but I don’t care.
I had to share the truth.
#votebletch
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Well bletch, I can understand your concerns, but in the five or so weeks we’ve been active, you’ve had concerns.
**Concern #1 ** Your first concern was that FowllyD was a fifth column double agent, dragging him into an interrogation thread in which you tried to assert the maxim “if you post here, don’t you dare fucking post there”. This is Fowlly D, FFS. He’s a lovely chap that I got on well with. You would know this too if you could get your late arse to anything on time. Perhaps we can get Sfcsim to use his Dr Who? powers to place you in one of those 1930s photos, and perhaps then, perhaps fucking then bletch, you will get to the South Western Arms, a place well served by transport links, on fucking time. The sad thing is that I don’t even know if meeting Fowlly D would have helped.
Concern #2. After we got Fowlly D out of your virtual gulag, mostly unharmed, we had another incident in which you asserted that Coxford_lou had amassed more points than you due to the following factors.
- She is female
- That most of our esteemed clientele wouldn’t have been out of place in a public grumble flick cinema.
There was a concern, but it was the wrong concern. The real reason that Lou and I were keeping you and the Bear near the top of the charts was because we posted more. It was a site configuration error. We were handing out 0 points for an upvote and 1 point for a post. Bearsy nailed it. It was a spam scoring system. Lou and I weren’t really spamming, but we did provide a heartbeat in the early days that pushed us to the top of the charts. Once the points had been corrected to the intended system, it became apparent that Coxford_lou wasn’t ahead of you, the accusations you laid on her and other posters were entirely without merit, and we had another example of what is becoming known in the trade as a bletch-hunt.
So that in mind, Concern #3, which seems at best to be a legitimate fear of nepotism, and at worst, an implied fear of some shadowy papanostra, is misguided. I would love to be able to tell you that I directed unionhotel to sign up at the specific time to become the real 100th member, but honestly, I don’t have that power. It’s like trying to order a cat about. I’m certain the feeling is mutual.
In truth, I messaged him a few days ago, and while I am chuffed that he’s our 100th standard guest, that is a complete coincidence and his weekly position is explainable by sign-up points bonuses.
I know this is wind-up indignant post, but even so, you are officially this site’s 3rd best all-time best poster. I get votes just 'cos I do site development shit, so I reckon that adjusted, you’re already second.
Calm the Bletchzilla
Calm the Bletchzilla
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I love Bear. But I also love Bletch too.
Therefore I think the two should fight it out! Mud Wrestling!
Winner gets 200 points, and top of the Leaderboard.
i am Not Ok with that
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Look, as long as we can shift format into The Running Man in the next couple of years, I’m ready for all suggestions.
It has to be a show by 2017 to be historically accurate. No-one else seems to be bothered about this.
Originally posted by @pap
Concern #2. After we got Fowlly D out of your virtual gulag, mostly unharmed, we had another incident in which you asserted that Coxford_lou had amassed more points than you due to the following factors.
- She is female
- That most of our esteemed clientele wouldn’t have been out of place in a public grumble flick cinema.
There was a concern, but it was the wrong concern. The real reason that Lou and I were keeping you and the Bear near the top of the charts was because we posted more. It was a site configuration error. We were handing out 0 points for an upvote and 1 point for a post. Bearsy nailed it. It was a spam scoring system. Lou and I weren’t really spamming, but we did provide a heartbeat in the early days that pushed us to the top of the charts. Once the points had been corrected to the intended system, it became apparent that Coxford_lou wasn’t ahead of you, the accusations you laid on her and other posters were entirely without merit, and we had another example of what is becoming known in the trade as a bletch-hunt.
FYI. I didn’t call a stewards enquiry at the time, because I thought it would be petty, but technically speaking Bearsy and I were on a very similar post total, yet I had my points slashed in half, and Bearsy didn’t. Just saying.
I would get much more annoyed about people belittling my contributions just cos I’m a girl. But secretly I know it’s true - I don’t write clever stories, give wise words, write funny welcomes, or even give ITK updates. All I have is a high heel for an avatar. But hey, so long as I’m ahead of Tokes, I’m not complaining!
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Originally posted by @Bearsy
i am Not Ok with that
Get on board with me on this Running Man stuff, tho man. We can pit Tokes vs kindergarten girl gladiators in pilot episode. Shock factor will pull viewers in, but sight of five year olds pulling thirty-something bloke apart with sawblades will linger, and beome YouTube sensation.
I AM ok with that.
I have ave a mean crutch-hold and slam. (although I’ve never used it outside the bedroom before)
Point-by-point…
Concern #1 - I now realise that Flyd Owl was being intentionally ironic in his attempt to create The Lounge’s dullest ever thread. My apologies Flyd Owl, and congratulations on your _achievement _- eighth place is better than nothing.
Concern #2 - This has also been scientifically proved to have not been the case. Although I have been watching Louise’s leaderboard position ebb and flow in correlation to our male membership’s need to masturbate. It’s obviously coincidence.
Concern #3 - You would say that. You would say that.
P.S. I’d pay my fiver just to see the use of the term papanostra.
I’d say Bearsy’s results correlate with our male members need to masterbate more than mine do…
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