Whinlatter tomorrow, Helvellyn Saturday, and an as yet undecided route from Ambleside on Sunday.

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I’m OUTTAHERE!
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Helvellyn Saturday

for what it’s worth, the weather is glorious right now 🙂

Maybe instead of a separate forum for women, we could have separate forums for people who want to be mean and nasty, and those who want to spread some peace and love. I’m gonna hang with the hippies, man 8)

Mark – Administrator

It’s a PERSONA. Not real life. Work it out.

Wrong!
It IS real life.
You post on here and upset someone with your words then you have upset them for real! They aint pretending!
You insult someone on here you insult them for real.
You offer an opinion on here people will correctly assume that is your actual, real life opinion.
You act a arse on here I will consider you to be an arse because all evidence will point to you actually being an arse!

Couldn’t agree more. Which is also pretty much the reason I stopped using STW forum more than 2 years ago in the first place. Full over overly opinionated arses (though a lot of them seem to have moved on) with nothing much to say other than “I’m right, you’re wrong”. I only came back onto STW cos I was so bored sat at home after being made redundant and I was trying to get out riding some more. I’m kind of glad I did too, cos since then I’ve met a quite a few really cool people that I wouldn’t have met otherwise, though I have no inclination to meet (or at least go out of my way to meet) many of the overly self indulgent childish “persona’s” off this forum. No names, most of them know who they are, but I really don’t get it.

In defence of RudeBoy, having met him (albeit only for a short while), he’s actually an alright guy. Certainly no quieter in person than he is on here, but I don’t mind that, at least he’s got something to say for himself. I think a lot of what he says gets taken too literally, and he doesn’t always see how he might be offending other people. Or he doesn’t see that the fact that 20% of the posts on this forum are made by him alone (ie. he has ALWAYS got something to say, no matter what the subject), and that infuriates people too. But in fairness, I don’t think he’s hiding behind a persona though. We all piss people off at times, and more often than not we don’t realise we’ve done it. Inevitably, those with more to say about things are going to piss more people off than those that keep schtum all the time! Fact of life really.

All the above said, if I happened to meet any of the known “trolls” or just those that like the sound of their own voice too much, it wouldn’t make me behave any differently. Just as Mark says, they’d have a LOT of convincing to do to make me think they were anything other than an arse!

annabananna – Member

Maybe instead of a separate forum for women, we could have separate forums for people who want to be mean and nasty, and those who want to spread some peace and love. I’m gonna hang with the hippies, man [8)]

You and me both! Where the pace of life is nice and slow, and I’ve got plenty of time to take some pictures 😉

Didn’t get that job BTW anna. Bummer, but they’ve taken someone on more experienced. Hey ho! 😕

You and me both! Where the pace of life is nice and slow

I’d like to see you try and be like that 😆 😉

Awwww, sorry to hear that m, was wondering if you’d heard. Don’t give up, you will find the right job.

aleigh – Member

You and me both! Where the pace of life is nice and slow

I’d like to see you try and be like that [:lol:] [:wink:]

LOL

I’m close to horizontal I’m that laid back!

Oh by the way, public service announcement… For those who have not met Aleigh, she’s terrible. Would reccomend staying away from her at all costs. Absolute nightmare! Most horrid person in the world ever. You have been warned!

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Sorry, you asked for it 😛

And everyone that does know me knows you’re talking out of your backside 😀

aleigh is a vision of loveliness :o)

[warning: internet grooming alert]

Don’t worry Aleigh, he’s a nasty and horrible man. I’ll look after you.

(Gives Aleigh a nice cuddle)

Personally, I woon’t not meet someone off here, based solely on their online persona. If someone was organising/proposing a ride, and they were someone I’d ‘locked horns with’, that woon’t put me off at all, as I woon’t judge them until I’d got to know them. And meeting up would be a good way to get to know them better, surely.

There was a feller recently, pulled out of going on a ride, and has disappeared off here, because SFB was going to be on the ride. I don’t know the full ins and outs of the case, but it did seem a little silly. Especially if the bloke haddunt even met SFB. Denying yourself having fun, just because someone you may have disagreed with on an internet forum is pathetic. **** it, go on the ride, enjoy yerself. If someone wants to carry things on from a silly forum, that’s childish and ridiculous.

I’ve probbly met a few STWers who might think ‘who the **** does he think he is?’ before they’ve met me, and possibly after. I don’t really care. Those who I get on with, I’ll keep meeting up with and having fun.

As for someone needing to ‘convince me that they aren’t an arse in real life’, well, I just see it as they may be an ‘arse’ on here, but always give someone the benefit of the doubt until you’ve actually got to know them a bit.

This is JUST a forum. It is not the be all and end all in life.

Especially if the bloke haddunt even met SFB.

he claimed he had met me, and it’s quite possible as we get loads of people who just do one or 2 rides and then vanish (perhaps driven away by toxic Barnes). I did offer to back out but that didn’t satisfy him either 🙁

I met Glupton in a zoo once
IGMC

aleigh – Member

And everyone that does know me knows you’re talking out of your backside [:D]

RudeBoy – Member

Don’t worry Aleigh, he’s a nasty and horrible man. I’ll look after you.

Sheesh

Aleigh and RudeBoy in sense of humour failure shocker! 😆

(walks away having lit the blue touch paper)

Aleigh and RudeBoy in sense of humour failure shocker!

she had a smiley too and RB probably has designs on her…

Well…what can I say?! 😆

Well…what can I say?!

that’s easy, you say “Give it up Rudeboy, my heart belongs to that SFB geezer!” :o)

I’m sure there are people on here who I wouldn’t get on with in real life. Not sure who they are yet, because I haven’t met them…

A big part of the problem is that this is a community, one in which people start to feel comfortable after a while. A bit like you might feel amongst good friends. I wouldn’t hesitate to call one of my mates something crass ( and take the retaliatory pinch 😉 ). Sometimes I have to remind myself that it doesn’t work that way here and some people struggle to differentiate between pisstaking and genuine insults.

Give it up Rudeboy, my heart belongs to that SFB geezer!

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Waaaaahhhhh!

(Runs off sobbing) 😥

Turned down in favour of SFB. That’s enough to tip a man over the edge….

What’s he got that I jolly well have not, apart from a much hairier arse?

What’s he got that I jolly well have not, apart from a much hairier arse?

hehe 😆

Awwwww, you know I only have eyes for your RudeBoy 😳

Aw thank you Aleigh! 🙂

(Laughs cruelly and unkindly at the spurned Barnes…)

[cough]Veet[/cough]

What’s he got that I jolly well have not, apart from a much hairier arse?

a) don’t send a boy to do a man’s job
b) men DO have hairy arses 🙂

Worries about SFB’s intimate knowledge about mens arses and tries to prevent imagery appearing in minds eye
Back to the topic ish
what about evil Zone, the personas on there and the Hacker is their on line persona also nothing like their real world persona? Just because the person hacks charities destroys a businesses databases is this OK because in the real world they do not break into offices and trash the place or steal the charity collection box form the local chippy?
What about the online persona of a paedophile or a Groomer –certainly would be laughed out of court as a defence- is that OK if they dont do it in the real world?

PS SFB may or may not be like his persona he was to far in front of me to tell sadly 🙁

a) don’t send a boy to do a man’s job
b) men DO have hairy arses [:-)]

Age is unimportant, you ageist old git you 😉

I will agree on the hairy arse front though. As George Orwell would no doubt have said, “Some are more hairy than others”

aleigh – Member
reading this thread, it seems i really must try harder!

perhaps people have forgotten who you are?

eh?

Age is unimportant, you ageist old git you

happen, but experience counts :o)

“Some are more hairy than others”

yeah, but he also said “4 legs good, 2 legs bad”, and we’ve already established that’s illegal 🙁

Worries about SFB’s intimate knowledge about mens arses

you may take it I’m well acquainted with my own 🙂

If someone is an asshat, and annoys people on the bus, because they are an asshat, then they are an asshat.

If someone pretends to be an asshat on the bus, because it amuses them to annoy other people on the bus by acting like an asshat then they are an asshat.

As buses, trains and the internet are the only times I am in close proximity to a lot fo people I do not know who annoy me I assume that the rules that apply on the bus also apply on the internet. Although admittedly there is less porn on the bus.) 🙂

isn’t the bus only for poor people?

Yep. If you’re on the bus you’re a failure. And possibly an asshat.

But when they got off the bus, they might be something completely different.

Like a seahorse, for example. Or a plug.

Nope, sorry, an asshat seahorse on a bus is an asshat seahorse. 😉

Can’t be an asshat and a seahorse. S’not possible.

Can’t be an asshat and a seahorse

surely even a seahorse may wear an asshat* ?

* this discussion might be expedited if we knew what an asshat was ?

To get mildly back on topic, I’ve met loads of folks from here and they’ve all been smashing. Most, if not all, similar to their online ‘personas’ but generally that’s no bad thing.

There’s no one from here I’d actively avoid meeting. Take me and RudePaddedFredDibnah, we’ve had our disagreements over the last few days but I’d happily meet him for a pint. It’s easier to tell someone they’re wrong face-to-face 😉

* this discussion might be expedited if we knew what an asshat was ?

From the slang expression having one’s head up one’s ass, thus, wearing the ass as a hat. The term is extended to people who are clueless or bumbling, who don’t understand what is going on.

simonfbarnes – Member
isn’t the bus only for poor people?

Apart from Routemasters, Simon, you’re spot on.

None of you because i’ve heard rumor’s you all smell 😉

robdob – Member
Mark.

EXACTLY!

If you are the sort of person who can’t be themselves here then don’t you think that’s dishonest? And downright nasty if you just want to antagonize folk. If you are typing it here you’ll certainly be thinking it when we meet and speak for real. So Jo thanks, I’ll take a raincheck on that meeting unless you be who you are on here.

Just in case no one else has pointed it out Robdob, it wasn’t me who said the stuff about personnas it was Rudeboy. I’m pretty much exactly who I am on here. Most people who have met me say that I am.

because i’ve heard rumor’s you all smell

I do, but OTOH I don’t resort to grocers’ apostrophes :o)