cubby
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Post by cubby on Oct 28, 2022 9:40:01 GMT
My rule is ribbing someone about a relatively light thing is fine, but if it's in any way a serious thing you're discussing attack the contents of the post and never the poster.
I'm sure I've broken that a few times, though.
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Post by wunty on Oct 28, 2022 9:42:33 GMT
None of us are perfect. I like a wind up as much as anyone but we're all getting older and I think that some things affect us more now than they did even a few years ago. Sometimes a throwaway comment is just a tiny pebble inside a backpack already full of rocks and before you know it you're fucking drowning. It's like we go through life gathering these rocks up. All the sleights, all the mistakes, all the frustrations. They pile up. We become more brittle because of this constant weight.
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Post by Lukus on Oct 28, 2022 9:44:01 GMT
Soooo, none of you are gonna try and talk me out of it..?
FINE
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Post by dogbot on Oct 28, 2022 9:45:36 GMT
How DARE you? That's it, I quit. -- Seriously, though. Exactly this. We all act like we know each other, but we have only the tiniest little vignettes into each other's lives, issues and backstories. Most of us (I think) would miss this if it fell apart.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 28, 2022 9:45:37 GMT
It's all gone a bit Colin Robinson this morning.
It's this grey weather, never happened during the glorious™ heat wave.
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wunty
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Post by wunty on Oct 28, 2022 9:45:40 GMT
Christ I'm full of shit sometimes.
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Post by dogbot on Oct 28, 2022 9:45:58 GMT
Soooo, none of you are gonna try and talk me out of it..? FINE No. Stop. Wait. Don't. Come back. *sad walking away music plays*
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Post by dogbot on Oct 28, 2022 9:46:45 GMT
It's all gone a bit Colin Robinson this morning. It's this grey weather, never happened during the glorious™ heat wave. Give it ten years and you'll be navel gazing with the rest of us. We'll just be in rocking chairs whilst you walk around laughing at us.
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Post by freddiemercurystwin on Oct 28, 2022 9:46:47 GMT
People seem to take obvious ribbing a bit to personally and it ends up like this. He'll probably reflect on it, realise it was a bit silly and come back. Just lighten up a little. Nothing personal (honestly ) but that's the classic response here though isn't it, there are some bullies here and they take it too far sometimes, to me it's a more grown up forum than 20 years ago when anything went, the average user surely must be a bit more mature nowadays, Calm Down, It's All in Your Head, It's Really not a Big Deal, Everything Will be Fine, I Know How You Feel, all crappy shit to say to people when you really have no idea what's going on in their heads. It's not the first time on this forum's short life this has come up. It's a shame. Nobody want's to walk around on eggshells all the time, forever worrying about upsetting anybody and anyone (there's far to much of that shit in real life) but it seems to go a a bit far sometimes.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 28, 2022 9:53:06 GMT
Can you show an obvious example of when it's gone too far?
And where there's been bullying?
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Post by jeepers on Oct 28, 2022 9:56:46 GMT
Can you show an obvious example of when it's gone too far? And where there's been bullying? Fuck off Monkey you enormous nonce.
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wunty
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Post by wunty on Oct 28, 2022 9:57:54 GMT
It's all gone a bit Colin Robinson this morning. It's this grey weather, never happened during the glorious™ heat wave. Give it ten years and you'll be navel gazing with the rest of us. We'll just be in rocking chairs whilst you walk around laughing at us. Ha, exactly. Spot the guy still in his thirties.
Oh just wait Rum. So much joy and happiness lies just around the corner.
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Bongo Heracles
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Post by Bongo Heracles on Oct 28, 2022 10:15:45 GMT
all crappy shit to say to people when you really have no idea what's going on in their heads. It's not the first time on this forum's short life this has come up. It's a shame. Equally, to extend the theme, there is also a tendency to assume malice of people who they have been (virtually) hanging around with for 10+ years where there really is none, so it probably is worth giving people the benefit of the doubt. Literally the only moderating I do is trying to work out which newly registered accounts are spammers and which accounts are re-regs of people who got trapped in a glass case of emotion two days earlier.
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Post by nexus6 on Oct 28, 2022 10:17:19 GMT
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Post by GigaChad Sigma. on Oct 28, 2022 10:27:16 GMT
How many quit the forum posts would this be? It's genuinely past ten, if you include EG.
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Post by GigaChad Sigma. on Oct 28, 2022 10:28:46 GMT
Bullying... You're grown men posting on a gaming forum ffs.
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wunty
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Post by wunty on Oct 28, 2022 10:36:48 GMT
GigaChad Sigma.Look. This has gone too far. I can't keep watching you post and not say anything. There have been a few times in the past but I've refrained from it but I can't go on any longer. Do you NEED to have that full stop in your profile name? It's really fucking with me. You're fucking with me. Why are you fucking with me?
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Youthist
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Post by Youthist on Oct 28, 2022 10:37:59 GMT
Can someone summarise the lasest bit of drama / naval gazing please? I cannot work out what occurred, but is seems to have led to Witchking going off again is that right?
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Post by wunty on Oct 28, 2022 10:38:40 GMT
On a more serious note. I wouldn't diminish any of this by saying it's just a gaming forum. It's not really. It's just as much about other stuff as it is games. The topic is irrelevant anyway. The issues are valid because we are human beings interacting with each other on a regular basis. Some of us are human beings anyway. Those that have full stops in their profile names are just fucking monsters.
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Post by askew on Oct 28, 2022 10:41:57 GMT
Horny definitely ain’t PES
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Youthist
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Post by Youthist on Oct 28, 2022 10:44:49 GMT
Oh I found the drama/
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Bongo Heracles
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Post by Bongo Heracles on Oct 28, 2022 10:45:14 GMT
We aren’t a gaming forum. We are the internet equivalent of taking an emotional support goose onto an airplane.
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wunty
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Post by wunty on Oct 28, 2022 10:46:21 GMT
You just made me google what the hell you meant.
I really want an emotional support goose now.
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Post by GigaChad Sigma. on Oct 28, 2022 10:46:24 GMT
GigaChad Sigma. Look. This has gone too far. I can't keep watching you post and not say anything. There have been a few times in the past but I've refrained from it but I can't go on any longer. Do you NEED to have that full stop in your profile name? It's really fucking with me. You're fucking with me. Why are you fucking with me? The sad truth is I thought it was just a funny classic bumper sticker, I didn't even get the pun until a few years ago. I just thought it was amusing people honking their horns in an aroused state. I didn't see the layers. I'll add an extra dimension just for you.
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Lukus
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Post by Lukus on Oct 28, 2022 10:47:12 GMT
We're Mumsnet. Face it. We're Mumsnet.
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Post by jeepers on Oct 28, 2022 10:48:45 GMT
We're Mumsnet. Face it. We're Mumsnet. when all we really wanted to be was Chumsnet.
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wunty
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Post by wunty on Oct 28, 2022 10:51:03 GMT
See now a question mark works. It just works.
I also only just got the pun.
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Post by GigaChad Sigma. on Oct 28, 2022 10:53:26 GMT
We're Mumsnet. Face it. We're Mumsnet. Mumsnet has more than few MILFS. I don't like our chances in Hot or Not showdown.
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Post by drhickman1983 on Oct 28, 2022 10:56:54 GMT
See now a question mark works. It just works. I also only just got the pun. There's a pun? 🤔 ... ... Oh, I get it!
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Post by Zuluhero on Oct 28, 2022 10:57:47 GMT
Well Hot or Not, we all need to get together and have a Top-Gun style topless beach volleyball match. Really work it out.
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