Has Commuting Chat run its course?

pinno

I really hope not.

Well it does get dull in here when the petri dish breeding ground play pen of snail fodder bacterium start insulting each other and end up fishing in other parts of the forum. So it would be a shame if the fixie crew were told to bugger off to www.PCmonksandnuns.com.

However, I resent being dragged into the 21st century by the (UI) underpant ironers and for T47b thats two centuries of evolution to go through in a very short space of time which is quite frankly, cruel and unrealistic.

I can only apologise, its all my fault. If you ever feel trapped iin here, staring at your own and each others anusii (plural?) ts because of me:

Greg66 Tri v2.0 wrote:

The Leader of the Helmets has offered a truce.

pinarello001 wrote:

Greg66 Tri v2.0 wrote:

pinarello001 wrote:

I personally, am quite happy to concede and I am sure other BB'ers and Cake Stoppers, Crudcatchers etc are too - We won't bother with them as long as they don't bother with us.

A perfectly acceptable compromise. See if you can herd your cats accordingly.

Normal service will resume, it seems.

We have been promoted from bacterium to 'Cats' !!

So I am the 'Leader of the Helmets' - if that is so, you're all f*cked the lot of you.

dmclite-3.0

You are going to get some Brut 33 splash on squirted down yer japper if you start butting out heads with your helmet.

Mikey23

It will not only survive but go from strength to strength..
Feel my sincerity

seanoconn

pinarello001 wrote:

I really hope not.

Well it does get dull in here when the petri dish breeding ground play pen of snail fodder bacterium start insulting each other and end up fishing in other parts of the forum. So it would be a shame if the fixie crew were told to bugger off to http://www.PCmonksandnuns.com.

However, I resent being dragged into the 21st century by the (UI) underpant ironers and for T47b thats two centuries of evolution to go through in a very short space of time which is quite frankly, cruel and unrealistic.

I can only apologise, its all my fault. If you ever feel trapped iin here, staring at your own and each others anusii (plural?) ts because of me:

Greg66 Tri v2.0 wrote:

The Leader of the Helmets has offered a truce.

pinarello001 wrote:

Greg66 Tri v2.0 wrote:

pinarello001 wrote:

I personally, am quite happy to concede and I am sure other BB'ers and Cake Stoppers, Crudcatchers etc are too - We won't bother with them as long as they don't bother with us.

A perfectly acceptable compromise. See if you can herd your cats accordingly.

Normal service will resume, it seems.

We have been promoted from bacterium to 'Cats' !!

So I am the 'Leader of the Helmets' - if that is so, you're all f*cked the lot of you.

So you pick out the two quotes that name you as leader! :roll:

FFS! So transparent :roll:

arran77

seanoconn wrote:

pinarello001 wrote:

I really hope not.

Well it does get dull in here when the petri dish breeding ground play pen of snail fodder bacterium start insulting each other and end up fishing in other parts of the forum. So it would be a shame if the fixie crew were told to bugger off to http://www.PCmonksandnuns.com.

However, I resent being dragged into the 21st century by the (UI) underpant ironers and for T47b thats two centuries of evolution to go through in a very short space of time which is quite frankly, cruel and unrealistic.

I can only apologise, its all my fault. If you ever feel trapped iin here, staring at your own and each others anusii (plural?) ts because of me:

Greg66 Tri v2.0 wrote:

The Leader of the Helmets has offered a truce.

pinarello001 wrote:

Greg66 Tri v2.0 wrote:

pinarello001 wrote:

I personally, am quite happy to concede and I am sure other BB'ers and Cake Stoppers, Crudcatchers etc are too - We won't bother with them as long as they don't bother with us.

A perfectly acceptable compromise. See if you can herd your cats accordingly.

Normal service will resume, it seems.

We have been promoted from bacterium to 'Cats' !!

So I am the 'Leader of the Helmets' - if that is so, you're all f*cked the lot of you.

So you pick out the two quotes that name you as leader! :roll:

FFS! So transparent :roll:

Well in light of the recent poll, I think Pina could well be around for a good time yet :roll:

pinno

Be honest my veeted testicled, lycra clad loonies. The orginal fishing idea was perfected by the combination of my genius and T47b's inspiration. Without which, there would have been no fireworks with the ladies on fixies and not nearly as much fun. I think that T47b and we should be the BB equivalent of Ludendorf and Hindenberg or Abercrombie and Fitch or Mountbatten and Alexander the Great.
You two - STC and A77 shall be Igglepiggle and Ups-I-Daisy.

Stevo_666

I watched 'Animal House' last night. Plot summary:
"Faber College has one frat house called Delta House so disreputable it will take anyone. It has a second one called Omega House full of white, anglo-saxon, rich young men who are so sanctimonious no one can stand them except Dean Wormer. The dean enlists the help of the second frat to get the boys of Delta House off campus."

Maybe we should rename BB to 'Delta house'?

And purely coincidentally the Omegas are led by a bloke called Greg....

team47b

There's a forum especially for people that ride a bike to work, whatever next? :roll:

pinno

team47b wrote:

There's a forum especially for people that ride a bike to work, whatever next? :roll:

Your on form H. Must have been that long rest you had when the battle was raging.

team47b

battle? I heard it was a massacre

seanoconn

team47b wrote:

battle? I heard it was a massacre

Custard's last stand

daviesee

team47b wrote:

battle? I heard it was a massacre

Too be fair, they were outnumbered.

team47b

good job I was busy then :roll:

arran77

We could have done with the extra support, it was a close run thing :P

jonomc4

The only reason I go to commuter chat nowadays is to see what you guys have been up to - without you it's readership will fall so badly they will just close it due to lack of interest.

daviesee

jonomc4 wrote:

The only reason I go to commuter chat nowadays is to see what you guys have been up to - without you it's readership will fall so badly they will just close it due to lack of interest.

Its a service we provide.

ballysmate

daviesee wrote:

jonomc4 wrote:

The only reason I go to commuter chat nowadays is to see what you guys have been up to - without you it's readership will fall so badly they will just close it due to lack of interest.

Its a service we provide.

He's just trying to butter us up. (Don't think Last Tango) :shock:

arran77

jonomc4 wrote:

The only reason I go to commuter chat nowadays is to see what you guys have been up to - without you it's readership will fall so badly they will just close it due to lack of interest.

We just go there to hang out with the guys

sungod

Stevo 666 wrote:

I watched 'Animal House' last night. Plot summary:
"Faber College has one frat house called Delta House so disreputable it will take anyone. It has a second one called Omega House full of white, anglo-saxon, rich young men who are so sanctimonious no one can stand them except Dean Wormer. The dean enlists the help of the second frat to get the boys of Delta House off campus."

Maybe we should rename BB to 'Delta house'?

And purely coincidentally the Omegas are led by a bloke called Greg....

toga! toga!

navrig

Good grief, I haven't such behaviour since I was in Primary school (and I'm 50 now) when we go and throw stones, over the wall, at the Catholics and they would come and throw stones at the Proddies.

daviesee

Navrig wrote:

Good grief, I haven't such behaviour since I was in Primary school (and I'm 50 now) when we go and throw stones, over the wall, at the Catholics and they would come and throw stones at the Proddies.

That school antagonism will end around the same time DDD accepts BB.

arran77

daviesee wrote:

Navrig wrote:

Good grief, I haven't such behaviour since I was in Primary school (and I'm 50 now) when we go and throw stones, over the wall, at the Catholics and they would come and throw stones at the Proddies.

That school antagonism will end around the same time DDD accepts BB.

That will be a long time coming I suspect daviesee!!

rolf_f

jonomc4 wrote:

The only reason I go to commuter chat nowadays is to see what you guys have been up to - without you it's readership will fall so badly they will just close it due to lack of interest.

There's plenty of posting going on in Commuter Chat without the need for any BB contribution
CC is a mix of people who post anywhere they like in the forums and people who only post in CC - just like BB is a mixture of folk who post everywhere and only in BB. Maybe that is the difference between the narrow minded and the broadminded. Neither forum has the monopoly. The only really difference is that, for better or for worse, CC has DDD (and DDD does not represent the opinions of the majority of CC) - and just remember, before you condemn CC for that, one day BB might have a DDD of it's own..............

daviesee

Rolf F wrote:

and just remember, before you condemn CC for that, one day BB might have a DDD of it's own..............

Noooooooooooooo! :shock:

arran77

Rolf F wrote:

jonomc4 wrote:

The only reason I go to commuter chat nowadays is to see what you guys have been up to - without you it's readership will fall so badly they will just close it due to lack of interest.

There's plenty of posting going on in Commuter Chat without the need for any BB contribution
CC is a mix of people who post anywhere they like in the forums and people who only post in CC - just like BB is a mixture of folk who post everywhere and only in BB. Maybe that is the difference between the narrow minded and the broadminded. Neither forum has the monopoly. The only really difference is that, for better or for worse, CC has DDD (and DDD does not represent the opinions of the majority of CC) - and just remember, before you condemn CC for that, one day BB might have a DDD of it's own..............

What is it with the continual stereotyping of people who post in one and people who post in the other, I don't get it :roll:

rolf_f

arran77 wrote:

Rolf F wrote:

jonomc4 wrote:

The only reason I go to commuter chat nowadays is to see what you guys have been up to - without you it's readership will fall so badly they will just close it due to lack of interest.

There's plenty of posting going on in Commuter Chat without the need for any BB contribution
CC is a mix of people who post anywhere they like in the forums and people who only post in CC - just like BB is a mixture of folk who post everywhere and only in BB. Maybe that is the difference between the narrow minded and the broadminded. Neither forum has the monopoly. The only really difference is that, for better or for worse, CC has DDD (and DDD does not represent the opinions of the majority of CC) - and just remember, before you condemn CC for that, one day BB might have a DDD of it's own..............

What is it with the continual stereotyping of people who post in one and people who post in the other, I don't get it :roll:

It's pretty simple.

Definition - nar·row-mind·ed (nr-mndd)
adj.
Lacking tolerance, breadth of view, or sympathy; petty

If you hang around in one forum only, chatting only to a little clique, then I think you'd have a hard time trying to claim that, in terms of the forum, you have a wide breadth of view.

It's not a case of stereotyping - simply application of a definition. It's like it isn't (necessarily) an insult to call someone an idiot if they are an idiot whether the person you are calling an idiot thinks so or not.

Fact - the forum works better if people feel comfortable posting in different parts of it. The more people that post across the forums, the more more people will feel happy to join them and the more interesting the threads become.

seanoconn

Rolf F wrote:

arran77 wrote:

Rolf F wrote:

jonomc4 wrote:

The only reason I go to commuter chat nowadays is to see what you guys have been up to - without you it's readership will fall so badly they will just close it due to lack of interest.

There's plenty of posting going on in Commuter Chat without the need for any BB contribution
CC is a mix of people who post anywhere they like in the forums and people who only post in CC - just like BB is a mixture of folk who post everywhere and only in BB. Maybe that is the difference between the narrow minded and the broadminded. Neither forum has the monopoly. The only really difference is that, for better or for worse, CC has DDD (and DDD does not represent the opinions of the majority of CC) - and just remember, before you condemn CC for that, one day BB might have a DDD of it's own..............

What is it with the continual stereotyping of people who post in one and people who post in the other, I don't get it :roll:

It's pretty simple.

Definition - nar·row-mind·ed (nr-mndd)
adj.
Lacking tolerance, breadth of view, or sympathy; petty

If you hang around in one forum only, chatting only to a little clique, then I think you'd have a hard time trying to claim that, in terms of the forum, you have a wide breadth of view.

It's not a case of stereotyping - simply application of a definition. It's like it isn't (necessarily) an insult to call someone an idiot if they are an idiot whether the person you are calling an idiot thinks so or not.

Fact - the forum works better if people feel comfortable posting in different parts of it. The more people that post across the forums, the more more people will feel happy to join them and the more interesting the threads become.

Good post Rolf.

veronese68

I read that as staying in only one forum, whichever one that may be, is the narrow minded bit. Venturing elsewhere tends to be more broadminded.
A bit like the difference between Americans that have never left their own state, let alone the country and those that have travelled and realise there is a big wide world out here.

daviesee

Veronese68 wrote:

I read that as staying in only one forum, whichever one that may be, is the narrow minded bit. Venturing elsewhere tends to be more broadminded.
A bit like the difference between Americans that have never left their own state, let alone the country and those that have travelled and realise there is a big wide world out here.

Excellent analogy! :P

Stevo_666

Rolf F wrote:

arran77 wrote:

Rolf F wrote:

jonomc4 wrote:

The only reason I go to commuter chat nowadays is to see what you guys have been up to - without you it's readership will fall so badly they will just close it due to lack of interest.

There's plenty of posting going on in Commuter Chat without the need for any BB contribution
CC is a mix of people who post anywhere they like in the forums and people who only post in CC - just like BB is a mixture of folk who post everywhere and only in BB. Maybe that is the difference between the narrow minded and the broadminded. Neither forum has the monopoly. The only really difference is that, for better or for worse, CC has DDD (and DDD does not represent the opinions of the majority of CC) - and just remember, before you condemn CC for that, one day BB might have a DDD of it's own..............

What is it with the continual stereotyping of people who post in one and people who post in the other, I don't get it :roll:

It's pretty simple.

Definition - nar·row-mind·ed (nr-mndd)
adj.
Lacking tolerance, breadth of view, or sympathy; petty

If you hang around in one forum only, chatting only to a little clique, then I think you'd have a hard time trying to claim that, in terms of the forum, you have a wide breadth of view.

It's not a case of stereotyping - simply application of a definition. It's like it isn't (necessarily) an insult to call someone an idiot if they are an idiot whether the person you are calling an idiot thinks so or not.

Fact - the forum works better if people feel comfortable posting in different parts of it. The more people that post across the forums, the more more people will feel happy to join them and the more interesting the threads become.

I like that

I'm pretty 'cosmopolitan' myself when it comes to where I post so can see your point. A lot of BB regulars have been trying to get out and about into other forums, so logically all we need now to make this place better is for more people over in CC to come over and join in the light hearted banter and smut, in the keeping with the 'tone' of the Bottom Bracket

greg66_tri_v2.0

Stevo 666 wrote:

I'm pretty 'cosmopolitan' myself when it comes to where I post . A lot of BB regulars have been trying to get out and about into other forums, so logically all we need now to make this place better is for more people over in CC to come over and join in the light hearted banter and smut, in the keeping with the 'tone' of the Bottom Bracket

Leave aside the wink and the smile for a second. Is that (CC regulars coming over here) really what you want?

As Rolf has pointed out, BB and CC have regulars and occasionals. I'd say the regulars in both give the respective forums their tone, and there's no denying they have different tones.

If you have the CC regulars coming over to BB, you'll lose the BB tone - they won't be interested in the BB tone, otherwise they'd already be here. Just as conversely the BB regulars settling in CC will change the CC tone, because they won't be interested in it, otherwise they'd already be there. On that note, several other forums have tones that are either too straightlaced (most of them) or too hardcore (Pro Race springs to mind - turn up there without having done your homework and you'll know about it).

What I suspect BB really wants/needs is like minded new blood full stop. My simplistic read of this place is that there is a relatively small nucleus or regulars, and eventually the banter between them becomes a bit repetitive, they get bored, and start to look to have some fun elsewhere (if there's a different theory as to why BB regulars have been getting out and about, I'm all ears). The friction - at least as I see it - arises when that "fun" is a simple transplant of BB regulars and accompanying BB banter into a different environment. It doesn't really work.

Anyway, this isn't intended to kick off another round of fighting. It's a semi-serious observation on where things stand.