Nahh, I’m p much done with that place. Watching from a distance recently, it’s fallen into basically any other web forum. Vile, whiny straight white dudes bitching about how hard they have it.
the majority of people I have any interest in conversing with are here. I may try poach some of my arts buddies, otherwise I’ve no interest in that place. It’s grim.
I really enjoyed the arts chat over there. All the contributors were sound, and whilst not everything was to my taste there was usually always some interesting stuff to check out.
Cat, lifeintgeslowlane and obv my interwebs bff SuperMikey need to sort their shit out and get over here.
I’m trying to get Barry Sanchez. He’s gonna sign up as Dune, and we can have 6 months of pap accusing Dune of being Barry Sanchez, which will like bring things full circle
i dunno… i am feminist in that i like + respect womens, but i don’t believe in equality really, i.e. i refuse to accept that a woman could ever beat me in an arm wrestle. I don’t have much evidence for this cos i don’t v.often arm-wrestle women, but somehow in my soul i just know with supreme confidence, that i would always Win. Even a big strong bird like Serena Williams-Campbell, i would deffo back myself. Arrogant i spose.
i dunno krg, is it healthy to have frm where everyone quite likes each other? Don’t we need a sprinkling of antagonists, or for want of a better word, cunts?
I’ve belonged to forums where everyone got along. It actually works pretty well. Instead of trying to one-up each other by calling each other names and notwhat, competition is normally about sorting your own contributions than having a go at everyone elses.
Besides, antagonism is rarely interesting. Alright, you’ve got some people that are genuinely good at it, but the vast majority of people that try it do so with boring and redundant one-liners. e.g. “You are an odd person”, etc.
Indeed, as I recall pap a lot of our early encounters were disagreements, and me generally making a prat of myself. But we were on the whole, civil enough. That’s fine. Same as me and UJ over there, disagreed on almost everything but was decent chat.
Too many of them are just vile clones spouting bile (I genuinely think hippo & mash are one and the same). I know he rubs some people up, and he probably has a low opinion of me, but Fry was a master. It’s not even worth trying, as he’s just better at it than anyone else. But that’s the exception.
Geniality is is the way forward. In my experience, the best debate happens on the most carefully moderated sites. So far this place hasn’t needed that, but mostly as we are kind of a merry gang of chums.
Nahh, I’m p much done with that place. Watching from a distance recently, it’s fallen into basically any other web forum. Vile, whiny straight white dudes bitching about how hard they have it.
the majority of people I have any interest in conversing with are here. I may try poach some of my arts buddies, otherwise I’ve no interest in that place. It’s grim.
Get Cat over here, KRG. He’s got good music taste.
I really enjoyed the arts chat over there. All the contributors were sound, and whilst not everything was to my taste there was usually always some interesting stuff to check out. Cat, lifeintgeslowlane and obv my interwebs bff SuperMikey need to sort their shit out and get over here.
I think one of the first things I did was shame people who’d take off on the younger posters. Never really got it, in the sense that I wouldn’t countenance going out and telling a lot of nippers in the real world that they don’t know shit. The spectacle of watching over-the-hill stereotypical whiteys, so far from cool that they’re roasting on the spits of Hades, tell youngsters that they were odd never got old.
Don’t think you are correct about Sour Mash and Hypo. Turkish knows Sour Mash in real life, and Hypo was busy trying to convince Turkish that they’d met once. All those things being true, seems unlikely.
You’d definitely beat me in an arm wrestle because I’ve got skinny arms, can’t get any strength behind them. BUT, you’d be embarrassed by how long it would take you to beat me, because I never give up!
I know this for fact because I’ve participated in many arm wrestles with guys.
Don’t think you are correct about Sour Mash and Hypo. Turkish knows Sour Mash in real life, and Hypo was busy trying to convince Turkish that they’d met once. All those things being true, seems unlikely.
Yeah, I imagine you’re right, that was mostly tongue in cheek. It’s just the style is almost impossible to differentiate. Straight white dudes angry at everyone that dares murmur anything about any possible advantage that entails.
its that style and attitude I feel stifles any good discussion. I know I differ to some on the free speech thing, but their crap should just be stamped out. It’s anger and aggression at times verging on harassment. Whilst dissenting voices should not be snuffed out, it’s also true that such attitudes/approaches can be equally culpable in silencing others and preventing free discussion. Certain threads over ‘there’ at the minute highlight this, I reckon.