A typical day on a car forum!
22 December 2013, 04:56 PM
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23 December 2013, 07:11 AM
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I bet their lives are just so enhanced now! 
Only an attention seeking dullard would make a critical comment on a thread even when they claim not to know what it's about because the OP is their i-bin (sic) - it's an ignore list you thick Welsh bore!!
I have suggested you and I stay out of each other's way but you can't help yourself can you? If that's the way you want it no worries!
Can someone quote this so he can comment on it (we all know he'll have read it anyway, but he can't claim to have me in his ignore list and not to have read it if he replies without it being quoted)
Only an attention seeking dullard would make a critical comment on a thread even when they claim not to know what it's about because the OP is their i-bin (sic) - it's an ignore list you thick Welsh bore!!
I have suggested you and I stay out of each other's way but you can't help yourself can you? If that's the way you want it no worries!
Can someone quote this so he can comment on it (we all know he'll have read it anyway, but he can't claim to have me in his ignore list and not to have read it if he replies without it being quoted)
23 December 2013, 07:13 AM
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Apologies if this is SIAL!
Petrolhead by RICHARD PORTER
Porter provides a withering snapshot of a typical day in the life of a motoring internet forum
- A newcomer says they are about to buy a BMW 320d but wonders if there are any alternatives they may not have considered. One person gives a useful answer based on experience. Seven people don’t. A further nine people make in-jokes an outsider simply wouldn’t understand. The newcomer doesn’t come back.
- Someone boasts about beating another car, making unsubtle references to driving at 120mph on a public road. Seven people aren’t impressed. One person uses the word ‘****’. Someone gets banned, but not from driving. An argument breaks out.
- A Nissan GT-R owner lists all the ways in which he considers that the vast engineering department at Nissan did not do an adequate job and the ways in which he, the owner of a building company in Rochdale, has remedied this.
- Someone with a highly tuned car posts an unreadable graph taken from a rolling road session, along with an outlandish, Veyron-withering claim about how much power they have. A patently quite clever person delivers a short lecture about frictional losses. Three patently quite stupid people try to argue with him.
- A person with a pseudonym that seemed funny six years ago draws attention to a car for sale. Five people pooh-pooh this car. One person says they ‘quite like it’.
- Someone makes reference to their girlfriend for no real reason except to tell the world that they have a girlfriend.
- A Nissan GT-R owner lists all the supercars they believe to be inferior to and slower than the Nissan GT-R.
- Someone mentions Top Gear. Three other people say it’s an entertainment show and not a car show, as if they are the very first people ever to think of this.
- Someone describes Rovers as rubbish. Someone else vehemently defends them.
- Someone makes a cack-handed attempt to boast about how much they earn.
- A Nissan GT-R owner declares that the Nissan GT-R is the best supercar money can buy. Eighteen people take issue with the use of the word ‘supercar’. An argument breaks out.
- Another person prods at their keyboard to tell the world in acronym form that they “laughed out loud”’
- A British person who lives abroad tries to make their new home country sound brilliant.
- Someone refers to their car using an inexplicable capitalised abbreviation.
- Someone starts a discussion about home electronics. Someone else makes an artless reference to the size of his own television as if actually and needlessly comparing penises. Someone smugly provides unrequested evidence of the speed of their home internet connection. A lone voice asks if we can get back to cars.
- Someone makes a whimsical remark. Another person moves their mouse a couple of times, prods at their keyboard, moves their mouse again and devotes a total of 79 seconds of their time to tell the world in acronym form that they ‘laughed out loud’. They did not actually laugh out loud.
- A man with a pair of breasts pictured under his username accuses someone else of being childish.
- Someone refers to a car only by its obscure factory codename.
- Someone asks an innocent question about wiper blades. A man whose auto-signature styles them as ‘no-nonsense’ immediately crushes them with passive-aggressive disdain before their mum tells them to get off the computer and come down for their dinner.
- A man whose username is a car he hasn’t owned for six years asks for advice about practical small cars for his wife, ideally costing around £12,000. Someone immediately suggests a second-hand Boxster ‘like mine’.
- A contributor confirms that yes, they are a girl. Seven male contributors make inept attempts to be charming.
- Someone posts a photograph of a moderately famous actress and asks if she is hot or not. Five people immediately answer emphatically in the negative as if each of them is Brad Pitt. None of them is Brad Pitt. A lone voice asks if we can keep this to cars. Ten pages later, the debate is still rolling. It is no longer safe to view at work.
- Someone asks a question that, with a little effort, could be answered by a search engine. Three people leap to point this out. One of them is a total **** about it. An argument breaks out.
- Someone accuses a magazine of unfair bias towards BMW/Porsche/Jaguar.
- Someone makes a claim based on no information whatsoever. Two more people claim to have ‘heard that too’. Someone asks for proof. No proof is forthcoming. An argument breaks out.
The world keeps turning. People keep discussing cars on the internet.
All so true
Petrolhead by RICHARD PORTER
Porter provides a withering snapshot of a typical day in the life of a motoring internet forum
- A newcomer says they are about to buy a BMW 320d but wonders if there are any alternatives they may not have considered. One person gives a useful answer based on experience. Seven people don’t. A further nine people make in-jokes an outsider simply wouldn’t understand. The newcomer doesn’t come back.
- Someone boasts about beating another car, making unsubtle references to driving at 120mph on a public road. Seven people aren’t impressed. One person uses the word ‘****’. Someone gets banned, but not from driving. An argument breaks out.
- A Nissan GT-R owner lists all the ways in which he considers that the vast engineering department at Nissan did not do an adequate job and the ways in which he, the owner of a building company in Rochdale, has remedied this.
- Someone with a highly tuned car posts an unreadable graph taken from a rolling road session, along with an outlandish, Veyron-withering claim about how much power they have. A patently quite clever person delivers a short lecture about frictional losses. Three patently quite stupid people try to argue with him.
- A person with a pseudonym that seemed funny six years ago draws attention to a car for sale. Five people pooh-pooh this car. One person says they ‘quite like it’.
- Someone makes reference to their girlfriend for no real reason except to tell the world that they have a girlfriend.
- A Nissan GT-R owner lists all the supercars they believe to be inferior to and slower than the Nissan GT-R.
- Someone mentions Top Gear. Three other people say it’s an entertainment show and not a car show, as if they are the very first people ever to think of this.
- Someone describes Rovers as rubbish. Someone else vehemently defends them.
- Someone makes a cack-handed attempt to boast about how much they earn.
- A Nissan GT-R owner declares that the Nissan GT-R is the best supercar money can buy. Eighteen people take issue with the use of the word ‘supercar’. An argument breaks out.
- Another person prods at their keyboard to tell the world in acronym form that they “laughed out loud”’
- A British person who lives abroad tries to make their new home country sound brilliant.
- Someone refers to their car using an inexplicable capitalised abbreviation.
- Someone starts a discussion about home electronics. Someone else makes an artless reference to the size of his own television as if actually and needlessly comparing penises. Someone smugly provides unrequested evidence of the speed of their home internet connection. A lone voice asks if we can get back to cars.
- Someone makes a whimsical remark. Another person moves their mouse a couple of times, prods at their keyboard, moves their mouse again and devotes a total of 79 seconds of their time to tell the world in acronym form that they ‘laughed out loud’. They did not actually laugh out loud.
- A man with a pair of breasts pictured under his username accuses someone else of being childish.
- Someone refers to a car only by its obscure factory codename.
- Someone asks an innocent question about wiper blades. A man whose auto-signature styles them as ‘no-nonsense’ immediately crushes them with passive-aggressive disdain before their mum tells them to get off the computer and come down for their dinner.
- A man whose username is a car he hasn’t owned for six years asks for advice about practical small cars for his wife, ideally costing around £12,000. Someone immediately suggests a second-hand Boxster ‘like mine’.
- A contributor confirms that yes, they are a girl. Seven male contributors make inept attempts to be charming.
- Someone posts a photograph of a moderately famous actress and asks if she is hot or not. Five people immediately answer emphatically in the negative as if each of them is Brad Pitt. None of them is Brad Pitt. A lone voice asks if we can keep this to cars. Ten pages later, the debate is still rolling. It is no longer safe to view at work.
- Someone asks a question that, with a little effort, could be answered by a search engine. Three people leap to point this out. One of them is a total **** about it. An argument breaks out.
- Someone accuses a magazine of unfair bias towards BMW/Porsche/Jaguar.
- Someone makes a claim based on no information whatsoever. Two more people claim to have ‘heard that too’. Someone asks for proof. No proof is forthcoming. An argument breaks out.
The world keeps turning. People keep discussing cars on the internet.
All so true
23 December 2013, 09:16 AM
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I agree to be fair!
In fact that was indeed the idea! I said to LWC the last time he went on one of his 2am unprovoked rants at me (for which I was not present as like most people I was asleep) that we should just stay out of each others way. He didn't listen so the mods told him the same.
That was that as far as I was concerned! I won't pretend to like him as I don't, but in the interests of SN I thought we would just ignore each other
But ever since he keeps responding to me with childish little digs on various threads even though he claims not to be able to see my posts. This actual thread is a classic example. The second reply on this thread was from him claiming he hadn't read it yet he could guess what it was about. Why respond at all?
It's almost like he has a history of this sort of thing, maybe he has even been accused of cyber bullying in the past, who knows?
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23 December 2013, 09:59 AM
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Skunky,
I agree to be fair!
In fact that was indeed the idea! I said to LWC the last time he went on one of his 2am unprovoked rants at me (for which I was not present as like most people I was asleep) that we should just stay out of each others way. He didn't listen so the mods told him the same.
That was that as far as I was concerned! I won't pretend to like him as I don't, but in the interests of SN I thought we would just ignore each other
But ever since he keeps responding to me with childish little digs on various threads even though he claims not to be able to see my posts. This actual thread is a classic example. The second reply on this thread was from him claiming he hadn't read it yet he could guess what it was about. Why respond at all?
It's almost like he has a history of this sort of thing, maybe he has even been accused of cyber bullying in the past, who knows?
I agree to be fair!
In fact that was indeed the idea! I said to LWC the last time he went on one of his 2am unprovoked rants at me (for which I was not present as like most people I was asleep) that we should just stay out of each others way. He didn't listen so the mods told him the same.
That was that as far as I was concerned! I won't pretend to like him as I don't, but in the interests of SN I thought we would just ignore each other
But ever since he keeps responding to me with childish little digs on various threads even though he claims not to be able to see my posts. This actual thread is a classic example. The second reply on this thread was from him claiming he hadn't read it yet he could guess what it was about. Why respond at all?
It's almost like he has a history of this sort of thing, maybe he has even been accused of cyber bullying in the past, who knows?
23 December 2013, 10:06 AM
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No, I just ignored him. It's really quite simple! If he had left it alone we wouldn't be having this exchange now, but I am not ever going to be someone who stands by and lets people have constant digs ... sorry, but that's not me! The ball is in his court. If he shuts up then it will be left alone!
23 December 2013, 10:22 AM
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23 December 2013, 10:25 AM
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It's a forum , no one hates no one
I'd probably get on with all of you ( including f1)
It's all very silly ,I've met folk from here who have slagged me off and we've laughed about it
So come on , let's get real , it's Christmas
Happy Xmas to every single one of you
I'd probably get on with all of you ( including f1)
It's all very silly ,I've met folk from here who have slagged me off and we've laughed about it
So come on , let's get real , it's Christmas
Happy Xmas to every single one of you
23 December 2013, 10:29 AM
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23 December 2013, 10:31 AM
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Anyway as said Merry Christmas and all that
23 December 2013, 12:34 PM
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