:smack: I thought you were talking about Carol Smillie from Wheel of Fortune, not Carol Vorderman on Countdown.
We haven’t got a Countdown analogue in the US.
No, that just makes you appear Hawaiian.
I guess disemvoweling might make you appear Jewish.
So, does that mean Marcel Marceau speaks like a Hawaiian Jew?
I love Sky King!
Warm up the Songbird.
I’ve never seen that, but then again I’m only on a half dozen boards, and half of them are specific to a product-user community.
I reckon every forum has its culture, which is fine.
I just have a hard time believing that the thread would have been summarily closed if instead I had posted, “Great board… I’m joining!”
Perhaps I’m wrong, but my guess is that, under those circumstances, no one would have stepped in and said, “This thread is getting dated and it looks like we have a resolution here, so time to close it.”
I reckon under those circumstances the thread would have been left open.
But hey, maybe I’m wrong.
And yeah, it was a bellyache, no denying that. And I have come back, no? So I reckon my complaint wasn’t too heartfelt after all. (Tho I still think, at heart, that it’s a fair shot.)
From “us”?
What’s this “us” business, paleface? (To cite an old joke.)
I was expressing disappointment with an admin in that post, not with “us”, not with the entire forum community.
Of course, in the offending post, I was griping about the board. And I do not retract that. To an outsider – or to this one, at least – it does seem like a place that’s overly concerned with board lore, insider jokes and catchphrases, old grudges and the like.
But I can take my slings and arrows for kvetching about that.
My observations about the admin reaction to that particular post also stand. It is indeed disappointing to see an apparently punitive response to criticism of the board, which btw just adds more support to my initial critique.
Disappointing, yeah, but hey, maybe my expectations were too high.
It’s rare to find any sort of intelligent community online, and perhaps I got my hopes up above where they should have been.
And like I say, every forum has its own culture. If I want to stick around here, I expect I just have to get used to this one.
So be it. No harm, no foul.
You really do want to prove my point for me, don’t you?
I never do.
Jesus H. Christ Brown! I wasn’t trying to get the first thread closed, much less this one, or any one.
Good God a’mighty, y’all got some dainty hair triggers around here, no doubt.
If you’d care to show me that I’m wrong, well, fine. And maybe I am. In fact, there’s a good chance that I just flew off the handle based on my limited experience.
But this?
You don’t want to hear the impression of this board that a newbie has? Well ok. Fine. Suit yourself. Don’t listen.
But please, don’t presume to lecture me, as you say.
You’re just proving my point here.
You’ve been here 10 years, so you know what’s what, and I’m not a “regular”, so I don’t. Apparently, I should know my place and not “presume” to be “disrespectful”, given that I’m “sophomoric” and “inexperienced”. Translation: “You’re not an old-timer, FatKid, so pipe down”.
This is precisely the kind of vibe that I motivated me to make the offending post in the first place.
Ok, I’ve responded to the relevant posts, but now I’m sick of it. I wish I’d never bothered to make the post at all, much less the OP for this thread.
Feeling kind of Rodney King here.
I still think this is a smarter group than just about any other I’ve run across online.
I still plan to check back from time to time and hopefully make some more productive posts than my last few rounds have been.
And now that I know how sensitive some folks are here, I’ll speak with considerably more caution, lest I ruffle the feathers of any high-roosters who have become unaccostomed to the feeling. 
I’ll be seeing you all around. Feel free to strafe me if you like.
Good night.
You came, you saw, you slapped us.
And not even a good reason . . . you just don’t like us.
And we should thank you for this and ask for more of your opinion?
Life is too short to hang with people you dislike.
Well, then, it seems like you fit right in. 
Actually, I don’t care for hair triggers. A standard pull makes it easier to squeeze off a well aimed round.
Hey Kid– I remember my first few months of posting. I thought people were* too* touchy about some things, and not touchy enough about others.
At times I was pretty bugged by it, but then I started to get the swing of things, and realized it was all just normal growing pains. Like your first couple of weeks or months at a new job. Or you could think of it like an initiation, or even hazing. But really, its simply a rather gentle, low-stakes learning curve that you negotiate as best you can until you get into the groove. It’s really not so painful, and everyone pretty much has to go through it.
Alas, some people never get the hang of it so they simply leave. Easy-peasey.
If I were you, I’d stay away from the BBQ Pit.
Hey FatKid, if you do come back after a while, perhaps you’ll take the opportunity to reread this thread with a fresh eye. Here’s hoping that you’ve gained enough perspective by then to see that the person most responsible for the nature of your reception is yourself.
Out of one side of your mouth, you acknowledge that you’re not as familiar with the place as some of the old timers. But only to beg sympathy for your inexperience. Out of the other side, you insist that you’re familiar enough to judge and complain. Which is it?
And your translation to “pipe down” is dishonest and self serving. Note: if you have to “translate” something someone says in order to make it into something you can object to, chances are more than even that you’re building a strawman, as is the case here. No one is telling you to pipe down because you’re new. Whenever anyone does say something like that to a newbie, they’re roundly pounced on by all and sundry; dismissing a poster for being new is considered bad form around here. No, you’re not being told to pipe down. Rather, it’s being suggested that an immediate negative reaction to a first impression–of a community that’s been more than a decade in the making–is perhaps premature. It’s being suggested that if you give it time, you might discover that there’s more to it than your first impression.
And it’s being further suggested that dropping by an open-house and, by way of introducing yourself, pointing out that the wallpaper is ugly and the hors d’oeuvres suck, is perhaps not the single best strategy for building a close friendship with your new neighbors.
But again, maybe you’ll have gained enough perspective to understand all this if you reread this thread a few months down the line. If not, your apparent strategy of presuming that offering little participation beyond complaints will somehow either result in some overhaul of the board to make it more to your liking, or a general bootlicking, entreating you to please don’t go, is not a strategy I would recommend in the long run.
Here, or anywhere else.
Wow, not even commercials?
Regards,
Shodan
I once heard that the best broadband would be a dump truck full of floppy disks. Is this more or less what’s going on here? The OP comes every 2 months to respond to an overripe thread and then disappear for some two more months.
Only for Campbell Kids Alphabet Soup.