Come on guys...

This is boring without you

Here I am, now STFU

What do you want I'm busy?

superarmy wrote:What do you want I'm busy?

Oh never mind I just realised it is boring with and without people being here... I suppose this is a forum that is active between the hours of 1900 and 0200.

*looks at 5o1's avatar*

brb getting my Flamethrower

If you are bored with and without people, is this why you are continually using your computer and the internet to connect with "usernames"?

By chance; are you in a prison?

master5o1 wrote:

superarmy wrote:What do you want I'm busy?

Oh never mind I just realised it is boring with and without people being here... I suppose this is a forum that is active between the hours of 1900 and 0200.

Oooh we seem to be cultivating a membership of people that are actively engaged in other pursuits during the work/educational day....

Bodes well for the quality of debates

Oooh we seem to be cultivating a membership of people that are actively engaged in other pursuits during the work/educational day....

Bodes well for the quality of debates

Yes, it does. Especially when we have people that enter forums, purely to create havoc, by being two-faced and bolchy, then once someone enters into a constructive debate with them, they go extremely nasty and run a very thin line between constructive debate and down right meanness.

Obviously it goes to show that people in the computer world cannot cope when tables are turned on them; so they delete their accounts and leave. I wonder what they do in real life? Change Job? Change friends? Change Houses? Change Partners? Delete themselves maybe?

Abbey wrote:Oooh we seem to be cultivating a membership of people that are actively engaged in other pursuits during the work/educational day....

Bodes well for the quality of debates

Yes, it does. Especially when we have people that enter forums, purely to create havoc, by being two-faced and bolchy, then once someone enters into a constructive debate with them, they go extremely nasty and run a very thin line between constructive debate and down right meanness.

Obviously it goes to show that people in the computer world cannot cope when tables are turned on them; so they delete their accounts and leave. I wonder what they do in real life? Change Job? Change friends? Change Houses? Change Partners? Delete themselves maybe?

or said people realise that arguing across many internet forums is a waste of thei time. if you want to have a go at YDEKM i suggest we keep it to one thrad.

What makes you think I'm even referring to YDEKM?

She is nothing special. Only in your book, perhaps. Forums are not the be all and end all ABOUT her.

My remarks were a total generalisation of how in today's society, if you interact totally via your computer; how do you/did you/are you getting on in life in the REAL WORLD.

I wasn't even going to get involved in this... but you can't make obvious inuendo and then hide behind the fact that it was inuendo Abbey... that was obviously about YDEKM.

Who, btw, I want to get back here.

I second the request that YDEKM returns here. Why can't we all just face the fact there we are all different people, and there will always be those that clash? So what if there's a few insults thrown between one another? Is that not just pure honesty, in the context of what is happening at the time?

Fight it out, get it off your chest, and do it publicly, so that all the secrecy disguised as privacy can no longer poison relationships. And I include myself in all of the above.

Well stated

Abbey wrote:if you interact totally via your computer; how do you/did you/are you getting on in life in the REAL WORLD.

I don't know anyone of that description, even online. I recognise that there would be some people like this in the world, but I haven't come across them.

Tikva wrote:I second the request that YDEKM returns here. Why can't we all just face the fact there we are all different people, and there will always be those that clash? So what if there's a few insults thrown between one another? Is that not just pure honesty, in the context of what is happening at the time?

Fight it out, get it off your chest, and do it publicly, so that all the secrecy disguised as privacy can no longer poison relationships. And I include myself in all of the above.

hahaha its not clashing that rach has a problem with . this forum is too similar to other forums she has been a member of in the past. the same people are here and the same time consuming issues to get drawn into.

the distant one wrote:

Tikva wrote:I second the request that YDEKM returns here. Why can't we all just face the fact there we are all different people, and there will always be those that clash? So what if there's a few insults thrown between one another? Is that not just pure honesty, in the context of what is happening at the time?

Fight it out, get it off your chest, and do it publicly, so that all the secrecy disguised as privacy can no longer poison relationships. And I include myself in all of the above.

hahaha its not clashing that rach has a problem with . this forum is too similar to other forums she has been a member of in the past. the same people are here and the same time consuming issues to get drawn into.

Well, I didn't actually think that Rachel has a problem with clashing, LOL. To be honest, I don't think it's the forums per se that are the problem. It's all the MSN (or whatever) chatting that seems to go on behind the scenes, which can in some cases essentially amount to gossip. Don't get me wrong, there's nothing wrong with chatting via IM's or anything, it's just the bitching about others that can go on in the chats that I think cause a lot of problems. Learned the lesson myself over 10 years ago, and have only occasionally bothered with IM's ever since.

Come on guys, get firewise!

Tikva wrote:

the distant one wrote:

Tikva wrote:I second the request that YDEKM returns here. Why can't we all just face the fact there we are all different people, and there will always be those that clash? So what if there's a few insults thrown between one another? Is that not just pure honesty, in the context of what is happening at the time?

Fight it out, get it off your chest, and do it publicly, so that all the secrecy disguised as privacy can no longer poison relationships. And I include myself in all of the above.

hahaha its not clashing that rach has a problem with . this forum is too similar to other forums she has been a member of in the past. the same people are here and the same time consuming issues to get drawn into.

Well, I didn't actually think that Rachel has a problem with clashing, LOL. To be honest, I don't think it's the forums per se that are the problem. It's all the MSN (or whatever) chatting that seems to go on behind the scenes, which can in some cases essentially amount to gossip. Don't get me wrong, there's nothing wrong with chatting via IM's or anything, it's just the bitching about others that can go on in the chats that I think cause a lot of problems. Learned the lesson myself over 10 years ago, and have only occasionally bothered with IM's ever since.

its not as dramatic as some people imagine. rfach decided she didnt want to spend time here at the moment cos she finds it hard not to comment when she disagrees with something so she left. here and in another forum some members find that hard to understand and expect her to just not to login ("time out") or post a "I'm leaving thread" (which i know she hates cos a) it's noones business really and b) the people she likes to talk to have her msn and facebook).

and anywa rach is the first to admit she is argumentative and to stop things degenerating she choose to leave. its not hte drama people make out it is. plus i think shed had about a bottle of wine when she did it so it wasn't much of a tantrum

Abbey wrote:What makes you think I'm even referring to YDEKM?

She is nothing special. Only in your book, perhaps. Forums are not the be all and end all ABOUT her.

My remarks were a total generalisation of how in today's society, if you interact totally via your computer; how do you/did you/are you getting on in life in the REAL WORLD.

Now you're just getting bitchy.

Tikva wrote:

the distant one wrote:

Tikva wrote:I second the request that YDEKM returns here. Why can't we all just face the fact there we are all different people, and there will always be those that clash? So what if there's a few insults thrown between one another? Is that not just pure honesty, in the context of what is happening at the time?

Fight it out, get it off your chest, and do it publicly, so that all the secrecy disguised as privacy can no longer poison relationships. And I include myself in all of the above.

hahaha its not clashing that rach has a problem with . this forum is too similar to other forums she has been a member of in the past. the same people are here and the same time consuming issues to get drawn into.

Well, I didn't actually think that Rachel has a problem with clashing, LOL. To be honest, I don't think it's the forums per se that are the problem. It's all the MSN (or whatever) chatting that seems to go on behind the scenes, which can in some cases essentially amount to gossip. Don't get me wrong, there's nothing wrong with chatting via IM's or anything, it's just the bitching about others that can go on in the chats that I think cause a lot of problems. Learned the lesson myself over 10 years ago, and have only occasionally bothered with IM's ever since.

and you're on MSN too, right?

I have an Account on MSN, but use it about once a year.

Tikva wrote:I have an Account on MSN, but use it about once a year.

You used IT twice last year...

Well, even twice should give you a pretty clear idea that I use it rather rarely!!!

Hate the damn things ~ sitting at the computer, focussed on doing something, and all of a sudden a window pops up with a chat message from someone. Pisses me off completely, so 99.99% of the time, I avoid them. There have been times however when I have attempted to contact someone at the phpbb forums (a Mod developer) as well as another person for technical issues. Not chats, and certainly not gossiping.