[Closed] This Forum is...

It stinks of self fulfilling prophecies in here.

... becoming a tedious hangout for the usual suspects to bicker with each other about their perceived shortcomings (linguistic, politic, philosophic and so on...) like a bunch of miserable old pensioners.

As interesting as watching a boil leaking.

Agree

y'know' Like' I mean there's a lot of English teachers' innit!

Seems OK to me but I don't bother with political threads or threads over a couple of pages.

like a bunch of miserable old pensioners.

You rang? Old and claiming my pension.

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I like it! Often good advice on random subjects and mostly good banter. It's generally easy to avoid the bitchy threads by their titles or authors.

I suggest Specialized The Captains for tedious drivelling and abuse.

becoming? surely that's what a forum is

What would Jesus write?

I like this forum, I discovered that "Baby Womble" is a breed of dog.

I discovered Luminous lights on this website - for that alone, I am grateful 😉

more and more like a old peoples home every day. same conversations too.

Becoming?

Na! it's been like this for the last few years, you're just a little more sensitive now and reading into it more.

Trick is to not GAS about others opinions, not to ask questions and expect serious answers and learn to filter through all the crap and find the one post you chose to agree with.

Anyone who struggles to get it, should learn to accept the predicted behaviour of those few, whom have personal issues with certain others and ignore it.

The weather's taken a turn for the worst.

As interesting as watching a boil leaking.

Less so I'd say! Apart from my own engaging/hilarious input of course.

Hah you wanna try the UKClimbing forum. This is like playschool compared to that.

You would think half the worlds subject matter experts are on there. Its enough to make a person stop visiting the site alltogether.

Where are my slippers?

I remember when it were all fields..

I went over there once and asked a perfectly reasonably question about where I could buy some bolts and what sort of drill to use to make a route a bit more manageable for mere mortals and they were most rude in response.

close the door on your way out

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Hah you wanna try the UKClimbing forum. This is like playschool compared to that.

Yup. Try starting a thread there asking how to set up a top rope because you want to take a stag group up to the Roaches. Top roping usually gets them going.

can someone chew my beef, it's getting to be far too much effort to be bothered...

Apart from my own engaging/hilarious input of course.

It's the only reason I come here.

Well, that and the free mints.

Haha nice one, I can why on that one though! Dont worry im not gonna have a go, I hate sport climbing anyway 🙂

yep, top-roping and students are good for a 'healthy debate'

this forum is the bane of my life

im only here for the sex 🙂

I've never known a place with so many ill informed, opinonated, misguided, middle aged, fat, slow and ugly toss pots.

I feel right at home! 😆

Hi, you must be new to the Internet.

You put a group of people together with ostensibly nothing in common other than a shared interest, you're going to get friction. That's not a failing of STW, that's a feature of people.

Best best is not to rise to the bait; the male hens identify themselves fairly readily.

As an aside, I use a BBS that predates the world wide web. (Gratuitous plug, www.mono.org, tell 'em I sent you.) Happens there sometimes too. It's like being in a pub full of crotchetty old regulars, it's the most comfortable place in the world but you've got to roll with the punches.

I rather like STW for just that reason.

I went over there once and asked a perfectly reasonably question about where I could buy some bolts and what sort of drill to use to make a route a bit more manageable for mere mortals and they were most rude in response.

That's the funniest thing I've read today, well done. (-:

It's like being in a pub full of crotchetty old regulars, it's the most comfortable place in the world but you've got to roll with the punches.

but you've got to roll with the punches.

aren't they more like air kisses ??

yunki - Member
this forum is [s]the bane of[/s] my life

😯

I like the pictures of nuclear war victims.

Discuss.

I don't believe discussion is possible on forums, most people just talk at each other rather than to each other. It's like being at work.

I blame TJ.

Where do i get the free mints?

Why not change the tempo and start a new dance?

I agree with the original poster.

I use two other forums and both are friendly and a lot more pleasant than here.

Obviously I get something from using this place. Not sure what though.

ive been coming on here for about 5 years and it has gone a bit vile of late...

much more of a shitty vibe and attitude from people, must be the economic downturn and all the doom and gloom 😉

the Golf R32 thread is a classic example and 'that' vulcan thread!

i love it though and ive had some great answers when ive asked the most boring questions..

It's clearly the pessimistic tone that the Prime minister has set that's seeping into people in this country.

Either that or we're not getting enough fibre in our diet.

I agree with the original poster.

I use two other forums and both are friendly and a lot more pleasant than here.

Oh for goodness sake.

The original poster is [b]Woppit ![/b]

He's hardly a shining example of someone who abhors 'bickering', as he calls it.

Just listen to him when he gets into a rant about the Labour Party or religion, and he tears into someone with an opposing point of view.

Or is this a new MrWoppit ?

One who has found Jesus in his heart. And having now seen the errors of his ways, wants to repent ?

i find it pleasant on here still.
just remember it is not at all real.

This forum seems to attract a particular breed of middle-class, pseudo working-class, elitist debater with nothing better to do. It would be no surprise to me that UK climbing has more of them! Educated single men with beards who spend too long in the countryside with other men up a rope? Nobs

haha the best thing about this thread is coming on here and freely insulting [s]each other[/s] essentially yourselves!

Ive found taking a step back, & having a 2 minute rule to post on threads that have a tendency to go A over T, before posting has helped loads.
I also feel only posting negative things & worrying about the state of the forums makes me angry for absolutely no reason 😉

I agree there are a number of "heavyweights" who see their role as to insult and be rude to any posters. Yes it is often witty but often just caustic.

Under my own 2 minute rule I should of gone to bed, but since I bothered to type the reply below then stuff it 😉

Junkyard, there used to be other 'heavy hitters' there will be more to come, do they matter in a cyber world?

Drac bringing up the old badger thread tonight has made me remember how things haven't really changed on here since 2003, sure the posters were different, but it was the same mix, it all came good in the end, no one will be searching the forum for years to come for car threads, but the classics will always be there, just remember the good times & stay out of the crap threads.

Cheers.

I find it quite amusing when a poster runs out of coherent and logical argument and then has to resort to insults, pure class. No harm in debating en masse. 😆

Its goes through phases. I find it informative and entertaining, but am often horrified by some of the views.

It went through a bad spell with racists a few years ago, at least that is over now. There are a few bores, but you know which threads they will be on so just don't engage with them.

It used to be all about jey boys and singlespeeders

ur thread is saracin...

... well someone had to say it.

I'd hate to think how long I've been inhabiting this forum, and I'd be even less keen to know how long I've actually spent reading. It seems to go through phases where there are outbreaks of nastiness, usually about politics or religion, but as others have said, I generally avoid those (especially the religious ones, as I have a degree in theology, so the incoherent level of the debate is bloody infuriating) or only read them when I'm in a sufficiently good mood to find them funny - usually by imagining certain people in a state of drooling apoplexy as they type.

There have been a lot of good folks on here - some of them are still hanging around and others, I guess, are long gone. I haven't met many of them in real life, although I did once spend an interesting week in the Alps on a biking holiday where all the guests slowly realised that we sort of knew each other from singletrack on the basis of the infamous 'badger' thread, and people were trying to suss out who was who in terms of user names to see if we could declare ourselves without bringing an online tiff into the real world. All worked out well in the end, and we had a good laugh for the rest of the week.

deep_river - Member
Hah you wanna try the UKClimbing forum. This is like playschool compared to that.

You would think half the worlds subject matter experts are on there. Its enough to make a person stop visiting the site alltogether.

Exactly why I stopped visiting that forum about 2 years ago. I've been using this one much more since, but I'd have to agree that it does seem to be getting that way too.

Exactly why I stopped visiting that forum about 2 years ago. I've been using this one much more since, but I'd have to agree that it does seem to be getting that way too.

Interesting as I've noticed a slight improvement there over the last couple of years.... 😉

For 8 hours each day, you people save (but occasionally endager) my sanity.

It's either you lot or my work colleages and to be honest, it's no contest 🙂

I am hardly ever on evenings or weekends.

Interesting as I've noticed a slight improvement there over the last couple of years....

This forum seems to attract a particular breed of middle-class, pseudo working-class, elitist debater with nothing better to do.

You'll be first against the wall come the revolution 😆

I agree there are a number of "heavyweights" who see their role as to insult and be rude to any posters.

Name & shame? 8)

Why not change the tempo and start a new dance?

Beautiful.

The badger thread was awesome, although I think I started to see this place in a different light after the 'football spoiler' meltdowns a few years back. It never really recovered imo.

Y'know what.

It's not the trolls and argumentatives that are the problem, it's people who take them seriously.

If you're sitting there going "OMFG, I can't believe they've said that!!" and getting all worked up, you've already lost.

Life's too short. Someone's being a bellend, let 'em. Point and laugh from a distance, you'll get more out of STW. And the Internet. And life.

i like it. has been a source of banter, lots of great practical advice, and most the piss taking is hard to get upset about. have been here for years under a couple of names and it seems no more or less nasty than ever.

[i]It used to be all about jey boys and singlespeeders [/i]

they're all still here, just pretending they ride 'rigs' with 160mm travel and chain devices down perilous descents at high speed - being jey is a life sentence.

by the way....i've just farted!

keefus 😆 How come no one started fighting yet?

Yeah. Trolling's not what it was... 🙁