Is it the demise of crappy pubs....

Nice cast !

I never fish, leopard.

Are you on about the anti-muslim stuff?

I'm on about loads of repetitive crap instead of chit-chat.
I'm on about righteous indignation, politicking and a few arseoles.
Mostly I'm on about how little recognisable this forum is compared with how it was.

I realise that the changes made to it, the wholesale culling of contributors by BF and the non-ability to gain new members in any rush don't help.
But, I know a few people from and on here (in real life) and they all say how crap it is now and a major reason is that some of the people who use the forum the most, sort of spoil it.

Instead of spending hours on here, pouring through threads, joining in banter, arguing (not political btw), new threads appearing all the time, quizzes, people asking questions and just plain funny stuff, it is a quick browse when bored.

That's what I'm on about.

And I'm writing it instead of spending time enjoying the forum. Which kind of proves my point - to me anyway.

Totally agree, studyform. 

I used to love the forum, most of the time. It was funny and informative, even though it could be horrible.

Totally agree as well, it is a forum that I just do not recognise anymore. Everyone helping each other about various subjects and was always a very useful place to get advice about things and places that you don't know about but I hardly bother much these days. Just a quick look every now and then but hardly contribute much now. It used to be a great place

how easily we forget the how to cook a boiled egg thread.

smashed it

You have to realise that we are in the most depressing time of the year......it is winter but we have no snow......very little sunshine......too much rain due to the jet stream higher north than normal.....we are all suffering from S.A.D. to varying degrees.....things will get better as we move in to spring.

CHEER UP !

Chit chat has always been ever so faintly ridic

You need one of those special lights, crags !

No, I like dim

Sabre

Toothed

It's not what it was.  Lawyers?  The grim reaper?  The iron chains of real life that bind posters?  Growing old?  Other, more recent, addictions?  But the ragged remnants are worth support.  Until the end.  It can still astound and make you laugh out loud.

I certainly think the law has something to do with it.  I used to be astounded regularly by the posts on here! Now posters  are mindful of being barred or worse.

its a muslim thing.

they have even messed the forum's up, aswell as tv's newspapers ect ect

... and punctuation, by the looks of things

i too, miss the days of out and out hostilities. all this implied xenophobia and subtle bullying is hopeless for the soul.

Not ... quite - I've been able to post "challenging" stuff that held until someone went over the edge of reason.  There are very many things you - I - can say about muslims without triggering oblivion.  The extremists are mad dogs that need burial.  There we go.

AFTERTHOUGHT?

in fairness as someone posted on another thread we don't get cats up
trees anymore, near everything is muslim related, we're brainwashed with muslim
news non stop, on the net, in the papers, on the tv news,

then we have lefties making ridiculous decision to wind people up even more.

it's bound to have an effect on forums shirly?

There must be some high ups thinking , " Should we Nuke Raqqa ? "

Wow - I think my decade-old u-tube stuff has been blitzed.  Why?  This could be serious.