Shall we have a 'lets all agree with TJ' day?

I don’t read the Daily Mirror, sorry

DezB – Member

Bullying? It’s impossible to get bullied on a forum. You just click the red X in the corner!

Well since you suggest that the only solution is to get out, then you have proved that it is indeed perfectly possible to “get bullied on a forum”.

This might have started out with the intention of being a light-hearted thread, but idiots making comments like “I personally can’t stand TJ as he appears on this forum” soon guarantee that the thread takes a nasty turn for the worst.

He’ll be sat in a corner rocking, while shouting at himself

This is the way I see a lot of the regulars on here, because they suffer so severely from this:

…that I assume they have some sort of personality order outside the web also. Or at least are socially maladjusted, bearing in mind the forum rule you shouldn’t type anything here you’d say face to face.

Of course I might be wrong and you’re all balanced.

This might have started out with the intention of being a light-hearted thread

I’d suggest that binners didn’t think for one second how the thread might turn. He wasn’t thinking at all.

then you have proved that it is indeed perfectly possible to “get bullied on a forum”.

How’d I manage that then?

Sorry Junkyard, your post was rendered incomprehensible.

Of course I might be wrong and you’re all balanced.

No you’re the balanced one. Now **** off to moneysavingexpert.com where you belong 😛

ernie_lynch – Member
comments like “I personally can’t stand TJ as he appears on this forum” soon guarantee that the thread takes a nasty turn for the worst.

Such comments are inevitable, IMO, given how TJ posts.

Why would you want to bully a 13 year old? How old are you 😕

Hey DezB, am I forgiven for being a b****** or shall I start trying to annoy you on here too??

What tyres for….. Oops !, wrong thread.

I personally can’t stand TJ as he appears on this forum. 😐

Ernie, I have no doubt it was never intended to be light hearted, just a poke at TJ, like a banana in a tail pipe, but as Binners ran away, the yellow peril hit him on the back of the head as soon as TJ turned on the ignition. Thus it has most definitely left its mark!

That of a plonker.

Answer me this: would a forum exist without opinions?

I don’t know.

Hey DezB, am I forgiven for being a b****** or shall I start trying to annoy you on here too??

Of course you’re forgiven. Join in the bullying if you want though. I’ve signed up with a counsellor on Myspace

How’d I manage that then?

Are you pretending to be daft ?

Would you say to a schoolchild “it’s impossible to be bullied at school, you just need to go home and the bullying will stop” ?

CharlieMungus….my point exactly

Sorry Junkyard, your post was rendered incomprehensible

Nothing new there then 😉
Are you having a dig 😯
I actually typed it as it appears 😳

Not the best analogy ernie – no one has to be on here.

This is great! How many arguments can we have within a single thread anyway?
😆

Should this be the grumpiest thread ever? Group therapy?

This thread is no good without pictures.

Who’s winning ?

It’s a perfectly good analogy. DezB says it is “impossible” to get bullied on here because you can get out.

Obviously that’s complete bollox.

Are you pretending to be daft ?

Would you say to a schoolchild “it’s impossible to be bullied at school, you just need to go home and the bullying will stop” ?

What?? There are children on here?

What?? There are children adults on here?

I wonder if any of you are aware of how you appear to others in these multi page slagathons. Right, left, socialist, conservative or whatever, the constant bickering makes you all look very pathetic.

Sometimes I open a thread as the title intrests me and I have a personal view that I’d like to express (not this one, the euro one), and then I see the vitirol and name calling taking place and it immediatley quells any thoughts I had of a reasoned and interesting debate.

What ammuses me more, is that by the 2nd page of the argument you are all arguing about who is the most offensive. As an outsider of said argument, could I clear this up for you?

The answer is all of you. You do yourselves, singletrack and the mountain biking community no favours with these threads.

no one has to be on here

Will nobody think of the mods?

You do yourselves, singletrack and the mountain biking community no favours with these threads.

Blame the mods……..they should have closed this thread a long time ago.

makes you all look very pathetic

I thought we established that on page 1

Good point Southern Yeti, either tears of joy, as half of the old guard slug it out without any idea how it started…

Or the temptation to brew a cuppa, settle down on the old sofa and unplug the forum whilst mutteing…well it seemed like a good idea at the time….

Why is everyone so het up about a reclining chair?

Tandem Jeremy

OK it’s a bit Little Englander/Chavvy but it’s not that offensive…

I hope my discussion about “cyber bullying” wasn’t included in the bickering accusation.
I am serious about this – when that XC Racer bloke was on here (also Kaesae, to a certain extent) then I saw a lot of attemps at “cyber bullying” from forum members. I did think it was pathetic, but I really don’t see that an adult can suffer in any way from so-called “bullying” on a “forum”.
If they can, then, in the true spirit of STW, I’ll admit I’m wrong and shut up.

Before you all get carried away, TJ is perfectly capable of looking after himself.

Bullying is a somewhat inappropriate term for someone who is perfectly capable of giving up the hectoring & haranguing with the best of them.

School is compulsory. STW is not. If you are bullied on STW it is entirely with your consent.

Wow. TJ has a comfy chair named after him.

What does Binners have named after him?

I think you’ll find that it’s another TJ Win.

in the true spirit of STW, I’ll admit I’m wrong and shut up.

best use of irony on thread so far

You do yourselves, singletrack and the mountain biking community no favours with these threads

You have a valid point but other forums are available

DezB, I suppose it rather depends upon the individual. Possibly, someone who is fragile could take offence to being apparently attacked, or perceive it to be an attack due to their state of mind, when the perpetrator was just trying to be funny on a forum.

If somebody felt the need to bully anyone, in any environment…because they’re different or whatever…this is not the place, nor is any other any better.

Could a forum be used/abused in this way? Probably, as always..

It depends

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The Binners: a bunch of fully grown adults, once avowed to making sure that at least part of their leisure time was spent in a manner slightly less boring than the rest. Your typical Binner male will achieve this by taking advantage of the UK’s vast number of beautiful and mysterious sites that testify to Britain’s diverse history

There’s an awful lot of twoddle talked on here (this thread is the prime example surely?). And I’m as guilty as anyone. But the trick is to realise is is precisely that – just a lot of twoddle.

The way some people react, you’d think their words had been carried down a mountain by a bloke in a dress with a beard, while choirs of angels sang in accompaniment

I don’t really think there’s bullying as such on here. Apart from Hora of course. And he bloody well deserves it. Though I have had someone off here pull a genuinely nasty stunt on me. That had a very real impact in the ‘real’ world. But then again, I only had myself to blame

Hope your all enjoying my website. Thanks for that Junkyard 🙂

I wonder if any of you are aware of how you appear to others in these multi page slagathons. Right, left, socialist, conservative or whatever, the constant bickering makes you all look very pathetic.

Sometimes I open a thread as the title intrests me and I have a personal view that I’d like to express (not this one, the euro one), and then I see the vitirol and name calling taking place and it immediatley quells any thoughts I had of a reasoned and interesting debate.

What ammuses me more, is that by the 2nd page of the argument you are all arguing about who is the most offensive. As an outsider of said argument, could I clear this up for you?

The answer is all of you. You do yourselves, singletrack and the mountain biking community no favours with these threads.

If you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen. Too many cooks are spoiling the broth anyway.

ha ha ha HA!

The way some people react, you’d think their words had been carried down a mountain by a bloke in a dress with a beard, while choirs of angels sang in accompaniment

So now, you want to start on the Christians again? You should have got it out of your system on the other thread. Honestly, anything for the sake of an argument!