Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
it seems that the forum has split into 3 different camps of late.
1/religion in posts.
2/ukip threads.
3/both the above appearing side by side.
there is a 4th camp who are bewilderd to whats going on.
Guest 658- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
- Posts: 660
No its not just you, and is the reason that many of us dont post as often as we once did.
beer the food of the gods
Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
- Posts: 6,950
Looking down page one:-
-Con, 1
-Lab, 2
-UKIP, 4
-Toilets, 1
-Housing, 2
-Local, 9
-Politics, 1
-Forum, 1
-Death,1
More or less, all of human life is here.
Alas, threads such as this one capture the general mood;we all seem to know when something is wrong, but have no idea what can be done about any of it.
The answer, as ever, is in ones own hands.
Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
spot on tom, especially the last line.
Terry Nunn
- Location: London Road, Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 4,316
"All human life is here", I thought I'd never hear that phrase again. Has DF become the new NOTW?
Terry
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,888
Tom Austin wrote:
More or less, all of human life is here.
Alas, threads such as this one capture the general mood;we all seem to know when something is wrong, but have no idea what can be done about any of it.
The answer, as ever, is in ones own hands.
I have a good answer to what can be done but it would go against the policy of this forum, ban the political fanatics from posting their tit for tat replies for a couple of weeks.
The trouble is that most of those who used to comment on other subjects either seldom look in, no longer bother to post on any topic or have left.
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I try to be neutral and polite but it is hard and getting even more difficult at times.
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Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
thank you,i thought I was going bonkers for a bit.
Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
- Posts: 6,950
Just maybe we could ask the much put-upon ChrisT to investigate a 'block posts from' option? After all even if each is free to have their say, there should be no requirement to have others listen.
Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
Guest 745- Registered: 27 Mar 2012
- Posts: 3,370
Nothing stopping people posting on subjects they whish to.
Nothing forcing members to view political threads.
Maybe Howard could do a help section for members that do not know haw to start a new thread.
The block would be good thing , I could block Brian
Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,888
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I try to be neutral and polite but it is hard and getting even more difficult at times.
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Guest 696- Registered: 31 Mar 2010
- Posts: 8,115
Perhaps some people live in a perceived different reality, draw a pension and see life through a pair of rose-tinted spectacles.
Others haven't placed their eggs in the pension nest and see things from a non-nested point of view.
This may reflect in posts and threads.
It could lead to intolerance on the part of some, who may be inclined to make judgments using rose-tinted glasses that are firmly stuck in a world as it was 40 years ago.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
we all have a choice what threads we read(except chris and myself of course), people not interested in politics can usually see which threads will involve the subject.
not in favour of the "block" thing that keith and tom suggest as it would go against the club ethos.
Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
- Posts: 8,664
All human life is indeed here, but it's all been seen and commented on before, so there's really nothing new under the Sun. Certainly we can all think of members to whom the following might be applied:
Rabbie Burns had this to say of some of his contemporaries:
"O wad some Pow'r the giftie gie us
To see oursels as ithers see us!
It wad frae mony a blunder free us,
An' foolish notion:
What airs in dress an' gait wad lea'e us,
An' ev'n devotion!"
Alexander Pope described the behaviour of certain of his critics thus:
"Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer
And, without sneering, teach the rest to sneer;
Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike,
Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike."
John Dryden also had this to say of the Duke of Buckingham:
"A man so various, that he seem'd to be
Not one, but all mankind's epitome;
Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong,
Was everything by starts, and nothing long;
But in the course of one revolving moon
Was chemist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon."
But perhaps most of us should reflect on another of Dryden's couplets:
"But far more numerous was the herd of such,
Who think too little, and who talk too much."
I'm sure there are plenty of other quotes from literature which would describe various forumites to a T.
I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
peter,alex wont like that now will he...........oh yes I forgot he said goodbye on another thread.
Guest 671- Registered: 4 May 2008
- Posts: 2,095
I am going to take a forumbatticall for a couple of weeks, as I am well aware that most of my posts are rather centred and not as broad as I would like them to be.
In my defence that is because I spend many hours at my pc and for a bit of relief I log on and mostly respond to debates instead of the more topical friendly threads, that should far exceed the boring the political ones.
Signing off for two weeks.
"My New Year's Resolution, is to try and emulate Marek's level of chilled out, thoughtfulness and humour towards other forumites and not lose my decorum"
Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
- Posts: 8,664
Brian, if Alex can find a cap to fit him among the above, he may wear it with pride. Nothing above is aimed at anyone with any malice.
I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
- Posts: 6,950
That's life...
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Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
Guest 696- Registered: 31 Mar 2010
- Posts: 8,115
Keith Sansum1
- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
- Posts: 23,942
Im with howard/keith b
Iv said it before, anyone can start a thread on any subject they wish, and if it becomes popular people will post on it.
Politics does appear to be favoured by many contributors(even those that say they hate the political threads and want to ban them)
We cannot go down the road of banning
there are a number of threads I t that doesn't mean they should be banned.
Banning one subject would open the floodgates, and would be the beginning of the end of the forum
ALL POSTS ARE MY OWN PERSONAL VIEWS
Guest 696- Registered: 31 Mar 2010
- Posts: 8,115
Banning threads on UKIP and/or on religion would be the start of a totalitarian regime.
Howard started a thread on Ramadan, there is nothing wrong in this.
I think the request to ban the two aforementioned topics should be rejected, and this I say as someone who is neither a Muslim nor a member of UKIP.
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