The Snug Rhino

What is it with people here?

Do you have to check in your brain when logging on?

Recent posts....."am i in love"...."what business shall i start"...."what house should i buy"

I'm all for stuff like "which TV is best" but cant belive people are asking questions that only they can answer.................its as bad as the other end where they are asking questions that goggle would answer in seconds.

jjones

i did predict this thread a while back, and i agree with you pete https://www.scoobynet.com/showpost.p...&postcount=110

ESH

Hi mate,

You may have to lighten up a wee bit on this one.

A forum is often an annonymous way of expressing yourself and getting differing views and advice for everyday issues / occurances.

How many people would have a chat with their mates down the pub about being in love? I for one would but my point is that I am a minority for doing this.

I will admit that some posts are a bit wayward but each to there own and if people don't want to reply then they don't have to.

I suppose we can agree to disagree.

Regards

Esh

Maz

iTrader: (34)

It is a romantic notion that the hallowed pages of Scoobynet are all knowing. This is a community and thus it is not strange that people treat it as such. I doubt very much that the enquirers of the aforementioned questions will take any suggestions as gospel, but at least it will provide some food for thought. Heck you are a regular contributor and thus part of this very rich and diverse tapestry. Methinks certain questions are only posted for the sheer bedevilment and facetiousness of it all.

Reality

These threads tend to end up having above average entertainment value though . Tends to allow more opinions through than your average what's the best mobile phone for under Ł2.99 including 50,000 free texts and 3,000,000 x-network minutes

The Snug Rhino

Pete? How hard is it to read the name of the person posting the thread correctly?

Brendan Hughes

you know how it is - "I'm the only troll in the village"

Reality

Tiggs - not everyone can follow who's who on here - especially nowadays.

You should dump the Snug one and get Tiggs back - everybody liked Tiggs much better

KiwiGTI

I think a lot of people are just seeking reassurance and also have the desire to tell the world about their situation.

Is bizarre though, if I normally require guidance I'll go to a specialist forum and do the research myself. eg: avforums is much better for deciding what TV to get.

jjones

oh my apologies Mark. maybe if you don't hide behind second acount names...

NotoriousREV

Back to front, one sheet to wipe and one to polish

The Snug Rhino

Its not complex....I was Tiggs, that account had too many posts so i switched to a new name after years. Hardly a "mass username abuser".

Aside from a brief episode as Go Fast i have had no others.

Also - how am i hiding when i publicly gave up my last name? not very discrete was it?

NotoriousREV

It appears I've made a terrible error. Front to back applies to your vagina, not your bunghole. Sorry for any confusion this may have caused.

Brendan Hughes

<Bubba> but actually it WAS discrete...</Bubba>

Diablo

Its even more bizzare when you consider 75% of the advice given is at best wrong and at worst dangerous...LOL...

Mark, to answer your thread topic, I'd recommend sandpaper

babyboy

I agree with some of what you say ie advice about which Ł1 lightbulb to use etc. But the board can be used for some useful info.
You have referred to my 'which business to start' thread. It is not an unreasonable question to throw out on a forum where we have everything from IFAs to ITs to plumbers to Drs. If you think this is the only place I'm seeking info then you are being naive. If you think I will blindly follow any advice/opinions given you are being naive.
You are not an idiot, please don't imply I am.

TopBanana

https://www.scoobynet.com/coffee-tea....html?t=184567

Brendan Hughes

"Also, I recently breathed in and am wondering what to do next. I'm torn between passing out from carbon dioxide build-up, or whether to exhale and repeat the process? "

Alas

Don't rush into a decision as that may be catastrophic. Think about it for a couple of days and let us know what you decided.

Maz

iTrader: (34)

May I recommend the former.

Apparition

Yve

GC8

Which colour toilet paper shall I use? REV; youre wrong..... Im not going to argue about direction but its two sheets: one up; one down and one polish!

Ive said this a number of times; the number of stupid threads asking 'which colour car to buy' and such are beyond belief. Some numptie asked how to wash his car (can I wash the factory decals?) the other day. Threads asking for a 'photoshop' of their car with different wheels; decals or paint colour have to be the worst though. Cant these people just close their eyes and see what itd look like using nothing more than their imagination?

Reality

Surely a thread complaining about the crapiness of threads has to be the crappiest of them all

Brendan Hughes

funny you should say this, I was wondering whether to post it. Thanks to your prompt...

I read an article recently (forgotten where; probably Guardian, maybe Econ, IHT...) which said the latest fashionable item was black toilet paper, as made by the Portuguese company Renova.

Just saw some on the shelves recently while shopping. 7 euros for 6 rolls, compared to about 4 euros for 20 rolls of the "normal" stuff! Had wondered about it for the novelty value, but not at that price!

Brendan Hughes

Crappy no, SIAL yes...

GC8

I can see a BIG problem with black toilet paper. You know when youve completed the final polish and you check out the paper just to be sure...? Well: if its black how can you be sure that there wasnt still a trace on the paper? Also, if there is do you wipe again, or do yo assume that that was the final bit.....?

Is this the first post asking how to wipe my own **** on ScoobyNet?


Simon

Brendan Hughes

Is this the inherent answer? Only those who can AFFORD to wipe again, will do so to make sure?

Brendan Hughes

Part of the NYTimes article: (WARNING - contains bullsh!t)

Design Notebook
This Season's Must-Have: The Little Black Roll
By PENELOPE GREEN
Published: May 18, 2006

LAST Monday night, both the men's and women's bathrooms at the Double Seven, an ink-and-gold nightclub on West 14th Street, carried new accessories: rolls of black toilet paper, though you could hardly see them through the gloom. (The Double Seven's bathrooms are tiled in black, have black toilets and sinks and are lighted by candles.)

Laurie Black (her real name), a 34-year-old customer relations manager at an information technology consulting firm who was there having a drink with her boss, obligingly tugged out a length of the stuff and squinted. "It certainly doesn't jump out at you," she said finally. "I imagine once you'd pulled it out your train of thought would be interrupted. You'd stop worrying about whether or not you'd paid for your last drink or whether you were going to go home with this guy. You'd think, wow, black toilet paper. Am I really going to use this?"

Good question. If black is the new black, again, should its influence extend to toilet paper? Can toilet paper make it as an object of design, a touchstone of chic? More important, should it?

"The question for us was not why, but why not," said Paulo Miguel Pereira da Silva, the president of a Portuguese paper company called Renova, which has just begun testing its new product, Renova Black, otherwise known as black toilet paper, in this country. Mr. da Silva, who speaks Portuguese and French, communicated with this reporter by e-mail, his answers and my questions translated by an employee.

Mr. da Silva wrote that he had been thinking about the idea of spectacle and how it relates to consumer products while at a trade show in Las Vegas. Black was an intuitive choice for toilet paper, he suggested, because it signals "avant-garde creative work."

"In a design sense," he wrote, black means "irreverence, maybe touching a bit on the core nature of art, which is to break rules and set new ones.

"Culturally, deep down, Renova Black invites people to break down whatever might be limiting as common sense ideas," he wrote.

Mr. da Silva ventured that his new product was "neither solely a product, an object or a communication tool," but some heady combination of all three. He also admitted, more prosaically, that when he stocks his bathroom with Renova Black at parties, guests tend to pinch the rolls.

In any case, hoping to capitalize on the concentration of design folk in town for the International Contemporary Furniture Fair next week, Mr. da Silva's company has hired Kelley Blevins, a soft-spoken, Tennessee-born public relations executive at OnTrend International, to find Renova Black just the right context. (He's already placed it in urgent hot spots like the Double Seven, Frederick's Bar & Lounge, Frederick's Restaurant and the basement bar at La Esquina.)

"I wanted as many tastemakers and influencers as possible to have a personal encounter," said Mr. Blevins, who claims to be the man responsible for making the Chupa Chups lollipop a fashion accessory a few years ago, and so has had some experience in giving a stylish sheen to unlikely items.

Black toilet paper is enjoying its pre-buzz stage, said Mr. Blevins, who as of Tuesday had promises from Conran's, Catherine Memmi (a furniture and design store in SoHo featuring much dark wenge wood and white leather), Troy, Vitra and a gaggle of meatpacking district boutiques like Stella McCartney, Carlos Miele, Rubin Chapelle and others that black toilet paper would be a staple at their furniture fair parties.

"Basically, everyone with a bathroom said yes," Mr. Blevins said.

A few weeks ago, when André Balazs threw a party for his girlfriend, Uma Thurman, at Frederick's Bar & Lounge on West 58th Street, the buzz was so soft no one heard it. Reached in London last week, Mr. Balazs, after a muffled conversation with the birthday girl, said the toilet paper was "there, and, uh, it was very black."

"O.K.," he admitted, "nobody noticed."

Shark Man

I can't believe I just read that