Seriously I wish you'd actually joined the forum when you technically joined. You missed so much you could have set off. Sansa would have been your favorite person you didn't like. And on an odd level I suspect she would have liked you in a way she would never admit.

See, for me, I don't care if you're *******s because I will just choose not to respond to you.

But what does bother me is losing people I like to talk to because they find it more difficult to ignore it when you guys are being jerks. :(

Okay. Next time I travel back to '77, I'll be sure to not bring her with me.

Watch for the next post. You won't be disappointed.
This is the real truth.
Thanks guys.
Deffo
Still reading, yes. Will jump at the chance, no.
This was completely unexpected. Thanks for that. I'm a little less certain now. actually wrote some very nasty things about you in my individual thanks post. Not sure if I should go ahead with that now.
The thing about this is, if I could believe you were only getting under my skin, fine. But your manner is very acerbic and insulting, and if there's one big thing in my life it's my writing. I've been writing since I was, oh, about seven years old. You wouldn't believe the terrible crap I've written (well, yes you would) but I have also written some decent stuff. I have no problem with you not liking my writing - Frownland doesn't like it either, but he had the decency to compliment me on my grasp of character and plot, while still saying it wasn't to his taste, which is fine. But I don't like to be told I'm an awful writer, because I'm not. So you struck a raw nerve there. I wouldn't ask you to make that pledge, but I would ask you to maybe leave my writing as an off-limits subject? Would that work for you? Of course I've done my share of badmouthing, but I think I can say it's never been without provocation and always with humour (I think). I'm not perfect. Nobody is. But there are lines you don't cross. Even when I slagged off Frown's music, I made it clear I understood that others might like it, but I didn't. I did not say he was an awful musician. There is a difference, and yes, it hurts to hear that.
Still around on Skype. I can hook you up if you want.
Say high or get high? ;)
No. A hiatus would have been just "oh well see you in a week", and I feel - felt - more angry and upset than that. I wanted to show how badly things had gone, and the pass they had pushed me to. What's a week's hiatus? Would barely have registered here. Not that I did this for attention. I really feel/felt that it was my only option. It may yet be.
I never said that. Why would I say that? Why would I do that? How could I review an album I didn't listen to? Maybe you're thinking of when I said I only listened to each one once? Not sure otherwise. Lost me there.
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Never, that I saw. That would be stupid.
Yeah well you came after me with no provocation, Hawk. I was just posting my stuff and you started calling it ****, so I tried to turn it into a joke and you just got nasty.
And a beak.
Church
Like I say, never. Would not make sense.
Easy answer there, Hawk. I can guarantee that I listened to every single album that is reviewed in that thread. And as for useless? It was, as it says in the OP, originally an idea for me to get a better handle on the current albums doing the rounds. And it has worked. I've discovered so many new artists through it, many/most of whom I would not even have bothered, um, bothering with otherwise. You don't like it, that's fine, but it's not a waste of time. Not for me. And I'm sure some people enjoyed some of the reviews. Surely? Someone? Little help?
:shycouch:

Sig-worthy. :)
They probably would have formed an alliance against me.
:shycouch:

Is this all sorted now then?

^ Hi Trollheart!

First things first: if you have a change of heart and decide to continue here, you'll make a lot of members happier. BTW, when I tried this morning, your PM box was full. I'd berate you for not keeping shop properly, but this is probably not the right moment.... ;)


On more complex issues:-


^ I completely agree with this, and would only add that there are others who dip in briefly and leave, as well as an unknown quantity of people who take a look, assess the atmosphere and never join at all.

I'm sure modding is a difficult job and nothing is harder than making a judgement call about when good-natured ribbing morphs into bitter attacking. One rule of thumb might be that if you don't like the content of a thread, just leave it alone. It's not like MB is short of threads and topics to post in.

^ This paragraph has a lot of truth in it, though I can't imagine anyone thinking MB is "too snowflakey".

^ And this paragraph is an example of the kind of thing that I suggest we avoid. If you're not interested in this thread, why not have the good manners to let it be?
Ultimately, almost every human endevour can be dismissed as a waste of time. There's no need, imo, to pick on this thread as an example of human futility. As old ladies sometimes do, my mum used to feed birds, putting out bird seed for them in the winter. Now of course, my mum and the birds she fed are long dead; it was all "one of the most pathetic wastes of time I've ever seen" but she liked to do it and it did no harm to anybody. Never would I have dreamed of calling her out on it. Maybe it's an overly-emotive parallel, but I hope people see what I'm suggesting. If a thread keeps someone happy, even if it's only the OP, why not let it be?

^ Yep, me too!

Probably for the same reason we all enjoy videos of very late term abortions.

Sad that you're leaving TH. One of my favourite members.

Thanks in advance for your complimentary response.

He’s staying ffs

Troll, stay and keep writing and doing what you do best. If those Donald Trump threads couldn't tear this community apart then nothing will. :laughing: