I like the way this site ticks. I can understand not wanting swear words as a banner or whatever but I think the freedom given leads to a more open, less antsy site. People seem to ignore or chat. There is in fact less rudeness to other posters than well run pay as you go sites. Quite happy to abbreviate foul language.
The word in question has such varied value. Used when someone knows that they are being one as opposed to using it for those that are, then there is a huge difference in meaning.
That is making the quite big and arrogant assumption I would want to be a mod on here. Being a Mod would mean I would become âthe manâ. It would also mean I would probably have to log on for a certain number of hours and trudge through political bullshit. I would have to argue with the likes or Barry and Cherts about the storm in the teacup of that given day. Worst of all it would mean you would be my boss and I would have to do as you request. Any idiot or poison dwarf can see this would be a lose-lose situation for me. Bletch doesnât seem to be loving it.
It suits me much more to log on now and again and highlight your hypocrisy. It was your idea to have a Soviet and hand over control. You nominated some idiots like me and bear to make up the numbers and to look fair and the people had their say. Like it or not, we were elected. I have not great desire to be in the soviet. If I am and it is a real thing and not the watered down role it now looks to be, then great. If I am not, I still get to log on now and again and point out how you look like a Cuban dictator in an ill-fitting shellsuit clinging on to power of a remote island. I get to make some jokes and maybe wind up âthe manâ now and again. Win win.
I think that was a missed opportunity @tokyo-saint
Rather than using Cuba as an example, even though it links nicely to the heels, perhaps North Korea would have been more insulting?
You could have suggested that the site is run by a beardy and all-powerful Kim Jong-un?
Surrounded by fawning acolytes, impervious to alternative opinion, dressed in comedy clothes from another era while overseeing random missile tests as he prepares for a full assault against capitalism, the decline of social housing, the EU, world poverty, and anyone who disagrees.
Thanks RB, I was thinking more about the famous socialist promising free speech, elections etc then getting into power, discovering they like it a little too much and then spend the next 60 years clinging on to it and backtracking on everything he had said previously. But I can see how your one works.
Thanks RB, I was thinking more about the famous socialist promising free speech, elections etc then getting into power, discovering they like it a little too much and then spend the next 60 years clinging on to it and backtracking on everything he had said previously. But I can see how your one works.
I guess to some extent we must be programmed to do so, so I understand your Mulderesque / Skullyesque search for the smoking gun, the shredded piece of Sotoniansâ notepaper, the DNA test that proves exactly what I did or didnât do to your mum all those years ago, but in this instance youâre better off looking for cockup and not conspiracy, son.
Truth is, since papâs rejigging of the ownership / steering of Sotonians, the âownersâ havenât actually managed to meet.
Sad state of affairs, but true.
Some of us donât go to home games because weâre closet Pompey fans, some of us arrange meet ups on our daughters birthday, some of us live oop North and RaleighBoy only drinks hot chocolate.
So as soon as I can convince this motley crew to come and see some random lefty folky singer or other,Iâm sure weâll ratify the result of the Soviet election.
I remember making you a pledge that if you won a seat on the Soviet and it wasnât honoured, then I would resign.
That still stands.
So just a little (more) patience is required. Weâll get there.
Thanks dad, as I said I am not fussed as the wind-up option is also favourable. I was just highlighting 2 things 1) In spite of not being able to meet up, there now seems to me a mod moderating the free speech that this forum was âbuilt onâ. Changes in the constitution should be a Soviet thing no? I guess not as I have been informed it is a management issue. Guess the Soviet are lower than the management and not one in the same? 2) By highlighting this I was not asking to be a mod as was inferred by the management. This was just another diversion by the manager.
Say what you want about Castroâs Cuba, but if I wanted someone to handcraft a new wing for a 1958 Mustang using nothing more than an old sink unit, that would be my first port of call.