Has Scoobynet gone tits up?????
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Did you really say such a thing, Les? Sounds a pretty ignorant thing for you to say but maybe this is all better understood in it's original context etc.?
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I can't really ad much beyond what's been said. I've just logged in here for the first time in probably 4 months just to see what's happening to the old place and it's sad to see 
It kinda reminds me of a pub I used to frequent. It was a great place full of interesting characters. Old blokes in their 70s happily mixing it up with the younger crowd, great beer, at least one ruck per week quite often related to a dispute about the pool table and you could get a really nice toastie for 50p. You never knew when you went in there what the evening would bring.....bit of blood splattered up the back of your jacket perhaps, going home with some lass and then wandering home in the morning hoping you haven't accidentally knocked her up
Point is. It was vibrant and lively and despite the possible risk of injury and or unwanted parentage people of all walks of life flocked there of a Friday evening to all get mullered together
Unfortunately it all started going south when the true scumbag element started to frequent the place
People just stopped going.
I was around the area a couple of weeks back and thought I'd nip in for a pint just to see what it was like now and I really wish I hadn't
Two for one drinks offers, ropey-looking microwave food, and people who look like they'd just called in for a quick livener on their way back from the DSS
The crowning moment was when I went for a gypsy's and found that they'd installed those UV lightbulbs intended to prevent heroin users from being able to see their veins
Unfortunately as has already been stated already many times, Scoobies are now so cheap that they've fallen into the ownership reaches of The Sh*tterati and owning one just doesn't mean what it used to 
I've also read that some people are happy that the muppets got culled because it made SN a much more 'friendly place'. While that maybe true I think you could perhaps replace the word friendly with the words 'bland' or 'banal'. After all I'm sure that a mother's union coffee morning is a lot more 'friendly' than a Metallica concert but I know that if it came to a choice of between getting elbowed in the face, having beer spilt all over me or sat listening to a gaggle of soon-to-be-dead women discussing health problems and the varying reasons why their grandchildren don't visit then show me the way to the concert please
I'm sure that SN has a future but quite what it is I wouldn't like to proffer an opinion
I know people keep saying, 'if we all just start posting then......' but it's not that simple. Unfortunately you've removed the people that used to add the spice to this place, the ones who caused the fizz. You've got all of the necessary ingredients but no catalyst to make the whole thing work so you're stuck with a vessel full of elements just looking at each other waiting for the other to do something
Saying 'if we all just start posting' reminds me of an enthusiastic but heartbroken young lad stood looking at his dying old dog laid on the kitchen floor, clutching his lead in his hands and saying, "come on boy, don't just lay there. Let's go for a walk, eh??"
Just my opinion
It kinda reminds me of a pub I used to frequent. It was a great place full of interesting characters. Old blokes in their 70s happily mixing it up with the younger crowd, great beer, at least one ruck per week quite often related to a dispute about the pool table and you could get a really nice toastie for 50p. You never knew when you went in there what the evening would bring.....bit of blood splattered up the back of your jacket perhaps, going home with some lass and then wandering home in the morning hoping you haven't accidentally knocked her up
Point is. It was vibrant and lively and despite the possible risk of injury and or unwanted parentage people of all walks of life flocked there of a Friday evening to all get mullered together
Unfortunately it all started going south when the true scumbag element started to frequent the place
People just stopped going.I was around the area a couple of weeks back and thought I'd nip in for a pint just to see what it was like now and I really wish I hadn't
Two for one drinks offers, ropey-looking microwave food, and people who look like they'd just called in for a quick livener on their way back from the DSS
The crowning moment was when I went for a gypsy's and found that they'd installed those UV lightbulbs intended to prevent heroin users from being able to see their veins
Unfortunately as has already been stated already many times, Scoobies are now so cheap that they've fallen into the ownership reaches of The Sh*tterati
and owning one just doesn't mean what it used to I've also read that some people are happy that the muppets got culled because it made SN a much more 'friendly place'. While that maybe true I think you could perhaps replace the word friendly with the words 'bland' or 'banal'. After all I'm sure that a mother's union coffee morning is a lot more 'friendly' than a Metallica concert but I know that if it came to a choice of between getting elbowed in the face, having beer spilt all over me or sat listening to a gaggle of soon-to-be-dead women discussing health problems and the varying reasons why their grandchildren don't visit then show me the way to the concert please
I'm sure that SN has a future but quite what it is I wouldn't like to proffer an opinion
I know people keep saying, 'if we all just start posting then......' but it's not that simple. Unfortunately you've removed the people that used to add the spice to this place, the ones who caused the fizz. You've got all of the necessary ingredients but no catalyst to make the whole thing work so you're stuck with a vessel full of elements just looking at each other waiting for the other to do something
Saying 'if we all just start posting' reminds me of an enthusiastic but heartbroken young lad stood looking at his dying old dog laid on the kitchen floor, clutching his lead in his hands and saying, "come on boy, don't just lay there. Let's go for a walk, eh??"
Just my opinion
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Thing is that while My Nan's post is all well and good it really only relates to The Muppets section of SN and not SN as a whole. I have no idea what went on in there as I never visited, nothing against it, just not what I wanted out of the place then or now, but whatever happened a few years back sure p***ed a good few people off. Sad really as it all seemed harmless enough.
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Thing is that while My Nan's post is all well and good it really only relates to The Muppets section of SN and not SN as a whole. I have no idea what went on in there as I never visited, nothing against it, just not what I wanted out of the place then or now, but whatever happened a few years back sure p***ed a good few people off. Sad really as it all seemed harmless enough.
Sorry. I only just found out there were more sections of SN this morning. I'm still trying to read my way through the backlog
Incidentally......what's a knocklink?
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I did not mean that I personally thought it was a punishment as you say, what I said as far as I remember was that "some thought that" but I did not say that I supported such a statement and just to make it absolutely clear, I do not and never have done.
The fact that I said what someone else thinks about AIDS does not mean that I think that way myself unless I specifically say so.
I think I have made my feelings about the possibility of a superior being plain enough, and "bible hugging" is not part of that either.
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You have taken a quote out of context. It was a long time ago and you have put a meaning on what I am supposed to have said which is just not true.
I did not mean that I personally thought it was a punishment as you say, what I said as far as I remember was that "some thought that" but I did not say that I supported such a statement and just to make it absolutely clear, I do not and never have done.
The fact that I said what someone else thinks about AIDS does not mean that I think that way myself unless I specifically say so.
I think I have made my feelings about the possibility of a superior being plain enough, and "bible hugging" is not part of that either.
Les
I did not mean that I personally thought it was a punishment as you say, what I said as far as I remember was that "some thought that" but I did not say that I supported such a statement and just to make it absolutely clear, I do not and never have done.
The fact that I said what someone else thinks about AIDS does not mean that I think that way myself unless I specifically say so.
I think I have made my feelings about the possibility of a superior being plain enough, and "bible hugging" is not part of that either.
Les
Anne Robinson,
I am perfectly entitled to feel disgust at the male homosexual sex act, and it does not make me hypocritical in any way.
Don't understand why you compare it to the heterosexual or natural sex act however. Or are you saying that heterosexuals in large numbers practice sex in the male homosexual manner in this country? As I said to Ted Maul, I cannot understand why a heterosexual couple feel that they have to do that and I doubt that they actually do. He was obviously unable to answer that one!
That is what happens in Africa however in order to practice some type of birth control since they can't be bothered to use condoms, and the Aids problem there is out of control. Funny that Aids was first discovered in San Francisco amongst the homosexual population. It seems that unnatural practices bring their own punishments.
Strange that PSL has not got the bottle to post under his own screen name.
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I am perfectly entitled to feel disgust at the male homosexual sex act, and it does not make me hypocritical in any way.
Don't understand why you compare it to the heterosexual or natural sex act however. Or are you saying that heterosexuals in large numbers practice sex in the male homosexual manner in this country? As I said to Ted Maul, I cannot understand why a heterosexual couple feel that they have to do that and I doubt that they actually do. He was obviously unable to answer that one!
That is what happens in Africa however in order to practice some type of birth control since they can't be bothered to use condoms, and the Aids problem there is out of control. Funny that Aids was first discovered in San Francisco amongst the homosexual population. It seems that unnatural practices bring their own punishments.
Strange that PSL has not got the bottle to post under his own screen name.
Les
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I think everyone is 'anti catching it', and I certainly wouldn't wish it on anyone or somehow think it could be some form of punishment from a higher power or 'mother nature'.
I don't think I saw the thread that others are referring to above, so I don't know the context of it all.
Yep, a smidge of speculation, I'm only human
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To be honest it's the only post I've ever read on ScoobyNet that actually shocked me. (That's also why I remembered it - better than Les apparently)
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It is a typically 'old fashioned' type of view though.
The more I think about it, I do have a glimmer of recognition of the thread but I must have deleted it from my brain
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