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SeanMacGabhann Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I seem to be caught in the middle on this (oh > hush!) > > Limericky/word/song threads - I like wordplay and > that but these are just way too.. can't think of a > better word.. random. I never feel tickled, amused > or in any way enriched > > Music room - come on - I have seen and heard music > and videos I wouldn't have ever come across - > definitely a goto place. And if people are showing > off.. good. I don't know enough about music.. > bring your knowledge ON > > Football.Gaming threads. yeah I can see why people > don't like them. But that's the subject matter > more than what the thread does. The limerick/word > association threads are different.. D'ja think the point could be that different strokes are for different folks? How radical. For a significant percentage of the Forum's users all this jibber-jabber in the Lounge is just that, and the Wanted section is the only thing that's used.

Good response, KK. Dullitch, bang out of order.

Ted Max Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I bet you click on them at least once though, just > for a peek, like. Yes, but then I feel so dirty and ashamed and always promise myself I'll never do it again.

Song Game, Word Association are the top 2 offenders for me, mostly because they never leave the front page. Football Focus, Badminton, Squash, DarkRoom - just not my kind of thing. Quiet Room - RIP (sigh) The whole of Residential Property, obviously. 99.94% of Wanted, Offered and Recommendations 80.34% of The Family Room because it's basically just W,O&R - but there are a few good threads in there, and it's new so hopefully will get more interesting than just selling things and babies Most of What's On because I never get to go out, bah humbug Anything about housing value, yawny yawn. Any threads about being a parent in ED and the furore and hurt feelings that always result Any of the 'curtain twitching' threads ("Ooh, saw a blue light in SquintHarder Street last night, what happened?")

I'm sure they do. Pretty much the definition of the word 'accident', isn't it? Either your own stupidity or someone else's. Does that mean they shouldn't be rescued?

14 minutes to reply to DM's post, and "too busy to read any more of this tosh"? Bless you. Come on, Angie, make the call. Sit on your hands and treat my post with the silent contempt it deserves, or send me one of your withering put-downs. Can't wait to find out which you go for.

p_in_ed, I don't think you put make much of a case. I didn't attend the meeting, but from memory it was held in the Goose Green centre, not in the park, and about 7pm - most people with children would have been home by then for the kids' bedtime, and could either organise half an hour's babysitting or keep them up a bit later if necessary. The meeting was advertised several weeks in advance, and if people didn't attend, the organisers can hardly be blamed for not taking their views into account. I agree that a weekend afternoon would have been easier for families, but the time for putting that argument forward was when it was first mooted. Too late now.

Nice segue there from sweets to booze - is it Christmas morning yet? We had a great Halloween! Lots of visitors, starting with very sweet small witches and devils accompanied by their parents, and as the evening wore on graduated to older and cheekier skeletons and werewolves who were fun to banter with. Michael Palaeologus and the Moosling in their matching outfits were also very cute, although one of them was a bit scared of the werewolf and clung on very tightly until he went away. If you missed out on visitors, try displaying a pumpkin next year - apparently it's a recognised 'sign' meaning that trick-or-treaters are welcome.

That might be more than I can handle.

Sorry, just in a bit of a bad mood today. Someone brassed me right off.

knockers are pretty funny. Oh come on, someone had to say it.

In our household a chubby toddler is being dressed as a pumpkin, pumpkin pie will be scoffed and sweets will be offered to small children who come by dressed as witches, wizards, skellingtons and so on. Apologies for the lack of appropriate ED irony, but I suspect we'll have a lot of fun.

I'm a bit startled by how quickly people are starting to play blame the victim. God forbid any of us get seriously hurt by the consequences every time we do something silly.

Franklin's man. He'd be good.

Do you know, I'm inclined to think that Mockers has had the last word there. Tricky, innit Brendan. see what i did there?

often the first sign of stalking is a small duck left somewhere inconspicuous, such as under a sofa.

About 12 weeks?

Microbite, you make a good point - we all chatter away and put down lots too much information... it's good to be cautious. Can't remember whether I've said hello before - if not, sorry and hello! But if you were born with the good fortune to be female there's no need to lower yourself, come now.

Yeah, Strawbs, get back in your box, you newbie.

Don't disagree with you, Tillie. But if a person only wants to be friends with a particular demographic perhaps the best way to ask the question is directly. I enjoy having friends with all sorts of different lives, but then I'm old and dull and have children, so what do I know?

Not really glorified. Just car rental.

Well quite. Please can everyone refrain from bringing a Certain Tabloid Newspaper into this, though. It's just annoying, I personally think it's overkill, but I have no wish to invoke the rage of those who remember Better Times, nor contributions from those who wish to accuse the former of wanting to bring back hanging.

Blackheath is top. Although you aren't allowed to wave sparklers around, presumably in case you injure yourself or your fellow man; and that is just annoying.

Well, that answers the question of how many forumites it takes to change a lightbulb.

Angela's got every right to ask whether there'll be people she'll want to hang out with in the area she moves to. The question could perhaps have been put more inclusively but I don't think there's any need to assume that she thinks all mothers are layabouts or unemployable or sponging off their platinum-card-waving husbands. And if it were to emerge that she does think it... well, it would be interesting to hear why, so that would be good too! Realistically, you won't see many people in relatively costly suburban high streets except for mothers during a weekday - or, in fact, you will, but a person with a buggy is just that bit bigger and more visible. Try weekends and evenings for a more balanced view.