[Closed] it's a shame how boring this has become

no it isn't!!

interesting to see knee jerk reactions from people that think they are cool lol! solidify your point of view with a really heavy piece o work or big bag o crisps i'm bored

This forum is good if you want a laugh or suggestions for dealing with a life situation or domestic crisis but I find Cycle Chat better for cycling discussions.

This forum is good if you want a laugh or suggestions for dealing with a life situation or domestic crisis but I find Cycle Chat better for cycling discussions.

Sorry but I think this post goes a long way to proving the op's point 😆

proving the OP's point

This forum is good if you want a laugh or suggestions for dealing with a life situation or domestic crisis but I find Cycle Chat better for cycling discussions.

Sorry but I think this post goes a long way to proving the op's point

+1, it's a bit like a middle class version of Eastenders. People bemoaning their middle class problems, it's only interesting for a while before the same things keep raising their heads.

A few lifetime bans and some draconian moderating I think has sanitised this forum.

**** the moderators!!!!
Let's riot!!!!!
<splashes freshly squeezed orange juice on keyboard>

There seems to be a rancorous hardcore of acrimonious misanthropes that are determined to prevent any abstract discussion or exchange of ideas, preferring instead to steer all threads into perpetual debate over minutiae..

It's a bit difficult trying to express any opinions that don't toe the official right wing middle class party line without getting harangued by the ever waiting mob.. unless you have the patience of a saint and a very great deal of spare time it can be difficult to get past the inane simian squabbling and house of commons style jeering with your point intact..

Perhaps what we need is a vociferous and tenacious 'speaker' who is ready and willing to keep these boisterous buffoons in check by injecting a little ribald but erudite common sense into the proceedings.. some sort of righteous self-aggrandising cockney missile who will offer their services out of the goodness of their 'eart, before this fine old British tavern becomes a Wetherspoons..?

Perhaps what we need is a vociferous and tenacious 'speaker' who is ready and willing to keep these boisterous buffoons in check by injecting a little ribald but erudite common sense into the proceedings.. some sort of righteous self-aggrandising cockney missile who will offer their services out of the goodness of their 'eart, before this fine old British tavern becomes a Wetherspoons..

Would you have a [b]mayn[/b] in question...?

😉

Perhaps what we need is a vociferous and tenacious 'speaker' who is ready and willing to keep these boisterous buffoons in check by injecting a little ribald but erudite common sense into the proceedings.. some sort of righteous self-aggrandising cockney missile who will offer their services out of the goodness of their 'eart, before this fine old British tavern becomes a Wetherspoons..

Please god, no.

Would be interesting to know the official stat's for STW in its H&S liberated guise...

Change in number of active posters. Page views stats. Moderator hours...etc

Scratches head draws a blank and leaves!

A few lifetime bans and some draconian moderating I think has sanitised this forum.

**** the moderators!!!!
Let's riot!!!!!
<splashes freshly squeezed orange juice on keyboard>

The recent step up in modding has made it duller imo, and well some still get away with being v offensive.

some still get away with being v offensive.

Isn't the problem that too many forum users are taking offence?

What yunkiman says.

More or less anyway.

I miss Fred.

If people don't like the forum then say something interesting instead of waiting for someone else to.

If people don't like the forum then say something interesting instead of waiting for someone else to.

Where is Fred?

I think his contributions to the "film" thread would have been eclectic.

I am banned from obsessive / excessive arguing which has me treading a fine line some of the time.

I think the forum will allways keep changing in mood and I don't think there was some halcyon time when it was better than now although I do wonder if the reigning in of some folk - myself included - went a bit too far.

I am banned from obsessive / excessive arguing which has me treading a fine line some of the time.

I think the forum will allways keep changing in mood and I don't think there was some halcyon time when it was better than now although I do wonder if the reigning in of some folk - myself included - went a bit too far.

What a load of bollocks.

(remember...no arguing TeeJ)

LOL @ 40DD... TeeJ if you could've reigned in yourself then there wouldn't have been any need for the moderation?

TBH this thread is already getting boring. Anyone want to talk about low carb dIets?

I think that was for your own mental wellbeing, TJ...

This thread has repeated regularly for at least 10 years on here. in fact I wouldn't be surprised if it was the first thread ever posted 😉

What a load of bollocks.

(remember...no arguing TeeJ)

Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

Have the bra ads reappeared yet?

There are ads? Etc...

🙂

I think the forum will allways keep changing in mood and I don't think there was some halcyon time when it was better than now although I do wonder if the reigning in of some folk - myself included - went a bit too far.

TJ, to be honest, your arguing with Al was stinking out the whole place.

As for Fred, well I miss him.
All he had to do was to self-moderate when he was in one of 'those' moods, but he couldn't bring himself to move away from the keyboard.
Hell of a shame, he came across as a lovely bloke 95% of the time, and an absolute nightmare the rest of it.

Ah well, he's urinated on his fried spuds, said some really nasty things to the wrong people and nothing can be done about it now.
As I say, hell of a shame.
He was a great deflator of some of the the self important egotists that predominate on here.

There seems to be a rancorous hardcore of acrimonious misanthropes that are determined to prevent any abstract discussion or exchange of ideas, preferring instead to steer all threads into perpetual debate over minutiae..

We're going to need some XXXL placards for that slogan at the demo. Might need to carry them in pairs...

There seems to be a rancorous hardcore of acrimonious misanthropes that are determined to prevent any abstract discussion or exchange of ideas, preferring instead to steer all threads into perpetual debate over minutiae..

So, still bitter about the UFO thread then yunki? 😀

Challenging your abstract ideas with a bit of science "minutiae" is all part of the debate and very much in line with the history of great debate that you want us to aspire to. I [u]don't[/u] think this place would be more interesting if we all agreed with each other, or let people spout any old bollocks without challenging it.

He was a great deflator of some of the the self important egotists that predominate on here.

He was one of the worst of them (us?). But yeah I do miss him. He was quite funny, intelligent and lucid when he'd been taking his meds.

It's a bit difficult trying to express any opinions that don't toe the official right wing middle class party line without getting harangued by the ever waiting mob..

Lightweight.

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Challenging your abstract ideas with a bit of science "minutiae"

It's not all about you you you petal.. I've 200 odd pages of posting history before you sashayed into my life with your contributions on [i]that[/i] thread..

*shudders*

but yes.. I am still sulking.. 😐

1) stop whining and lead by example. You want an interesting forum? Be interesting.

2) no-one's forcing you to be here if you don't like it.

3) here's a kitten in a bag.

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oh no, i suspect the stw universe is about to retract into another one of those navel gazing introspective nightmares where we all dwell on how it was so much better back when.........

'[s]reg and ron,[/s] fred would have sorted it all out...........'

When I were a lad this was all fields..................

When I were a lad there was no t'internet - we had to make do with a ball of string and cocoa tins

Keveers , you ASDA be aving a laugh.

When I were a lad this place was funny - now its just peculiar

tj, it's always been a nest of freaks.

it's always been a nest of freaks

Oi.. I [s]resent[/s] resemble that remark..

TM - when will you be tempted out of your scholarly den for Moorish meanderings..?

I went to Grimspound on Tuesday.. very nice too.. might post some pics up in a sec.. 🙂

When I were a lad

I was much younger

almost there yunki, another couple of weeks and there will be a chink of light in the doorway 8)

All the usual "big" topics have been drilled into exhaustion again - [s]god[/s] fred, politics, religion, TJ and so on. It's just lying fallow for a while. It'll soon perk up again once someone accuses nuns of being sadistic lesbians or that all Muslims are ignorant religious freaks or that Boris Johnson is a Nazi or the like...

Guys - why aren't you riding your bikes?

That shut 'em up. 😉

No. It's just that riding bikes is sooo boring.

Haven't you got some exercise to do TSY? 😉

Believe me, I would love to be able to ride a bike, particularly as well as you!

Yes! The mrs wants to head to the gym for a few hours. She's still asleep though and I've been up since 7. Bored as a very bored thing.

Bikes? What, like push bikes?
That's just for kids isn't it?

Guys - why aren't you riding your bikes?

crocked knee 🙁

1hr v light turbo training this morning.

hobbling.

scan next week.

not happy.

can I start an argument to pass the time ?

I've been shopping, now I ride.

Fred had mates on here once, have they all gone elsewhere too??

When I were a lad, I rode up a hill and came down a mountain.

When I were a lad..
Spam was a meat (ish) product
Rasberry pi was a pie
Mobile phones were on star trek
Any bike that worked was a good bike
M'old,.... 😥

nobbut a lad sakander 🙁

When you were a lad the world was in black and White..
And everyones legs moved very fast..... 😀

we called it sepia,o and spam was never even meat(ish) 😀

can I start an argument to pass the time ?

Have you booked an apointment?

I [url= http://twitpic.com/9hjyzr ]rode my bike[/url], anyway.

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meta meta meta meta meta meta meta meta meta meta meta meta MUSHROOM MUSHROOM.

I rode my bike, anyway.

* furrows brow and wonders why there is still a wheel sitting in my kitchen despite not being able to ride for over 4 weeks now *

Kettle's going on soon, has anyone been doing some baking?

it's always been a nest of freaks.

Baked a bucket full of flapjacks bursting with maravhino cherrries, having rode my bike i'm now hoe'ing down on them one by one.

When I were a lad I saw Apollo 13 take off at CC, with me Dad.

I got mrs deadly's birthday present and a matching card - four days early!! Get me!! 8)

Believe me, I would love to be able to ride a bike particularly, as well as you!

so CG wants some TSY riding action and folks claim this is dull place? You don't get cougar action like this on time trialling forums! 😀

Lol @ tazzy 😆

Well, you know, us ladies do bring a certain something to the Forum. 😉

*twirls gentlemanly moustache at c_g and gets terry thomas voice on*

you certainly do my dear

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(shouts at self for not proof-reading before hitting Send Post) 🙄

has anyone been doing some baking

Mrs Yunki has created a pile of cakes that almost touches the ceiling during the last day or two..

Mrs flap_jack doesn't bake flap jacks. But rhubarb,date & ginger cakes come thick and fast at this time of year. Yum.

I don't really remember Fred, which considering I've been here quite a while now saddens me slightly. I feel I'm missing out.

I think the 'liveliness' of this place ebbs and flows, I agree that it's a little dull at the moment, but it'll come back!

elfinsafety was fred, padded bra, rudeboy and others

ah damn it, now I know what you look like. Mental image ruined!

Oh god, what the heck were you expecting? I'd thought about that, oops.

I think the 'liveliness' of this place ebbs and flows

Still highly entertaining IMO......maybe I'm just easily pleased 😉

Damn, I miss rudebra, fredib, elfinboy or wattever he was calling hisself at any given moment, particularly the architecture photo threads. Blimmin' good, they were.

I am trying to behave these days but there are certain threads I [u]CANNOT[/u] walk away from.

TBH if there weren't threads where folk debate stuff it would be extremely dull.

There's only so many "what stem for my 29er" threads a man can read.

I like your hair cougar. The beard is a bit weird though. 😀

The arguments on here recently have been a been playground.

I miss Charliemungus

I like your hair cougar. The beard is a bit weird though

Before or after I had it cut off? It was halfway down my back up until two days ago, think the last time it was this (relatively) short was at College.

[i]but there are certain threads I CANNOT walk away from.[/i]

the argument threads in one sentence.