[Closed] ERMAHGERD SAUSAGES!

It's explanation why my posts sometimes don't come across well. Unpleasant ay? I've never been called that before.

Can you answer the awesome bit yet or do you want to continue with the insults?

Enough now. He's ok, just remember that communicating via text is a) quite hard b) really easy to misinterpret and c) prone to make people think the worst of someone, for some reason. I helped someone write a dissertation on this once*.

So back to sausages - thanks OP, I did not know you could get those. Would be damn handy when bikepacking/ultra-endurancing.

* I say help.. when researching her own dissertation she asked me for my input on another text-based medium and I pontificated at length - ended up about a third of her dissertation was a straight C&P! Still, nice to know I can write Cambridge degree level dissertation material off the top of my head 🙂

Enough now.

Who died and made you King Sausage?

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Where's it on the benefits of backpacking with pre-cooked food?

I refuse to believe than any non-sauced meat product can be 'Delicious in 1 Microwave Minute'.
Even kebab meat mings after pinging.

Anyone prepared to take a sausage for the troops and report back?

Had some of these....

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....were fine.

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I think Drac has probably banned me a few times, he's alright though.

Anyone prepared to take a sausage for the troops and report back?

I'll take two if it gets the sausage party back on track.

Hook, line, sinker, rod, reel and copy of Angling Weekly.

TBH from a purely personal perspective, it's a refreshing change to see a Moderator getting a random out-of-context kicking who isn't me. That Drac, he's such a self-serving bastard.

I thought I should take my turn.

We've plenty of folk that publicly flounce, and I suspect more that just leave without being noticed (because they just read rather than post crap) simply stop visiting here. An assumed amount of them were subscribers, so a loss of revenue to the place.

Agreed. Mark's allocation of my "amusing" tag became a sure fire way to ensure that I never again bothered to subscribe or buy the mag, and certain plugins do the job of "P" for free.

Might be an awesomely funny joke, but be snarky to too many of your customers and sooner or later you'll find you don't have as many

Actually, walking back from lunch, I had a think about just how many people I knew via STW IRL. I don't think a single one of them frequents the forum any more, and I only pop up once in a blue moon.

Don't get me wrong, there can be some very helpful people on here, but even over on the bike forum it doesn't seem to take long before the snark comes back out.

Unless the product is from my local butcher, we refer to sausages as 'mystery bags'. Although they are a kinda guilty secret.

On a different, yet thread related note, I thought there was going to be a mutiny for a while back there^^^^^^ 😆

Interesting to see the ' we never harms our own' mentality shine through in times of need 🙄

On a personal level, I found that possibly more interesting than the original subject matter ( sorry Rich) in that I'm clearly not the only one. 😉

I actually think this forum is pretty tame and actually pretty liberal if I'm honest

I also really enjoy being a very small part of it. This is the only forum of any nature I spend any real time on. Yet I'm certainly not part of any in crowd or whatever.

That said I'm a "vet" of the OCUK forums. If you did your time on there everything else is a gravy train. 😀

First rule of forums is never read too much into other people's posts or comments. Simple fact is that social etiquette hasn't quite kept up with the internet age. More importantly there are a lot of people out there having a tough time for one reason or another and sometimes a forum is just a vent for them.

Also, much to the amusement of my friends,I am a great advocate of "smilies". It's so, so easy to offend totally unintentionally via a forum/text as it's hard to get irony/ gentle sarcasm across via such means.

Childish as it may seem to some,a smiley face or a "wink" can make a seemingly explosive comment reveal itself to be entirely benign in intention.

Oh,I also have a love for genuine, well meaning satire which helps on here. 😉

Forums tend to invite you to see your own reflection. To a degree you see what you want to see. This place actually cheers me up in my day to day life. Sure there can be some negativity on here just like there is in real life,I just concentrate on the vast amount of good stuff on here instead.

Lastly, look around you guys. The world's a mess,I find it hard to get worked up about a comment on a bike forum these days! 😀

Anyway, off to kip now. Got to hug some trees later today. 😀

Enjoy your eggss, beans and bangers in the morning!

I too was unaware that pre-cooked sausages (cocktail sausages notwithstanding) were available.... what a time to be alive.

STW still feels like a community where somewhat intelligent, somewhat liberal and somewhat sensible* people can communicate with each other, with a fair bit of good-natured, mutual p*ss-taking.

*This is not irony - honestly

However, like the world around it, the "tone" of this forum seems to have changed a bit in the last year, in my opinion. Again, in my opinion, a few people (generously described by some as "trolls") have had a disproportionately negative impact on the tone and quality of forum. I don't advocate banning them..... but I would like a way of stopping them from turning STW into something that looks like the youtube comments section. Pinkbike's forum hides comments with a significant number of downvotes - mebbe that'd work?

Even kebab meat mings after pinging.

I can't believe that a lighthearted thread about the availability of precooked sausages has derailed this much. I'm all for a thread derailment, but this is quite different.

This place is great when compared to a lot of other forums. I genuinely don't see any subculture of bullying or think that there is any particular clique. It seems like a great community most of the time. Just look at the recent Gnusmas thread.

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This place is great when compared to a lot of other forums. I genuinely don't see any subculture of bullying or think that there is any particular clique. It seems like a great community most of the time. Just look at the recent Gnusmas thread.

I completely agree - although it does seem that more threads turn a bit nasty than they used to

actually think this forum is pretty tame and actually pretty liberal if I'm honest

Death by a thousand cuts, tho. If your constantly getting picked up on your spelling/grammer etc or other consistent negative retorts then it can be just as bad as some of the more rambunctious forums.

And to think that I read the title as 'embargoed sausages'...

I'm curious about this thread.

Have some people clicked on the thread thinking 'yeah I like sausages, and don't mind reading about them but what I'm really hoping for is a lynch mob to have a go at the mods, as I [s]havent got the stones[/s] don't want to be the only one doing it. Fingers crossed!'
*click*
'Jackpot!'

I just came for the sausages, and all this angry talk is spoiling my sausage based fun.

And to think that I read the title as 'embargoed sausages'...

Now that is something to get angry about!

a Moderator getting a random out-of-context kicking who isn't me

In the years I've been here that's never happened to you. If you wanna read a thread with a kicking taking place then... well, I reckon you can guess what I'd link to.

That's a flaw of my dyslexia at times, I read things to literal and miss what people or saying, even read them as the opposite of the point they are making.

If you're aware of your ability to misconstrue then why respond in a negative fashion. Why not just question what the motive is/was before going in with guns blazing?

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Nice. We have some teams forming.

Looks like the Great Sausage War is a go!

Three pages and we still haven't asked the most-important question.

Red sauce, brown sauce or no sauce at all?

And on the other subject at hand, it's a bit like when my wife is cooking sausages - there's no smoke without fire.

If that ad is your handiwork, Binners, then you missed out the bottle.

Still time to edit, tho...

Edit : Or perhaps just replace it with a sauce of your choice...!

[i] Pinkbike's forum hides comments with a significant number of downvotes[/i]

which seems almost *designed* to allow cliques to take over and stifle dissenting voices?

Anyway, as JFK famously said: "Ich bin ein Frankfurter"

I've just had a sausage roll for breakfast

Who's side am I on then?

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Also: I need to take issue with the casual malignment of the cocktail sausage. I suggest you try a solitary contemplative moment with a bowl full of them, dipping them in brown sauce

I'm gonna have a sausage butty at 11sies. With ketchup.

Alternative version of this thread :

Post 1 - Oh wow, pre-cooked sausages. Ossum.
Post 2 - They've been around for ages.
Post 3 - Oh, really?
Post 4 - Yeah.

The End.

OP - You're really happy you've discovered pre-cooked sausages, why has that changed because someone points out that they've been around for ages? You've still got pre-cooked sausages (and at a rollback price), surely that's the most important part.

Red sauce, brown sauce or no sauce at all?

A proper sausage deserves proper mustard. Anything else is just wrong.

What people choose to do with the abominations in the OP is of no concern. They have already lost all their human rights.

Wurst thread ever?

chakaping - Member
Three pages and we still haven't asked the most-important question.

Red sauce, brown sauce or no sauce at all?

That's because the question doesn't need asking.
Red is fit for hotdogs and hotdogs only, every other pork based product should be smothered in HP.
I'll be getting that sneaked in with all those EU laws into U.K. law.

neil the wheel - Member
Wurst thread ever?

I like your work there.

Nice. We have some teams forming.

Looks like the Great Sausage War is a go!

Cry Havoc! and let slip the hot dogs of war.

I'm gonna have some Cauldron veggie Lincolnshire sausages in a sandwich for lunch.

Red sauce and mustard.

For any DB fans...
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the "tone" of this forum seems to have changed a bit in the last year

I do reckon the snowflake quotient has increased though.

And I'm more of a mustard man.

OP - You're really happy you've discovered pre-cooked sausages, why has that changed because someone points out that they've been around for ages? You've still got pre-cooked sausages (and at a rollback price), surely that's the most important part.

I think it's more of a build up rather than just this one-off incident. Could be wrong but it's not the first time I've read posts from Bear hinting at his displeasure at the way in which Drac responds to his and other's posts.

In my younger days I was a big fan of the Winkie...

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neil the wheel - Member
Wurst thread ever?

Frankly, yes.

I do reckon the snowflake quotient has increased though.

Congratulations. You have the same vocabulary as Piers Morgan.