Can't we all get along

MWHCVT said:
Rule 7 - Don't under thread of death disturb Yv when the cricket is on...

In all seriousness it's all pretty sound advice, I'm sure the team of green shall continue to have the upmost support and respect for their hard work from now and into the future from the majority of the membership myself included (y)
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Where has the "puke" smiley gone?
 
Yv said:
I can tell you [but I won't] which members would actually punch each others lights out within 10 mins of meeting each other in a pub.
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Damn and I thought I hid it quite well in the pub the other night :oops: :$
 
d300graham said:
ha ha I love this place, people falling out, raving at each other, photography knowledge, comedy, reality, life, sadness, Oh wait its like my home life !!!!!!!!!!!! :runaway::runaway:
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I love this place too, I think that most do to be honest...thankfully it's nothing like my home life, I've not killed off anyone from this community yet :P now just where did I leave my shovel and quick lime...fairly sure I've got a free corner on the bottom lawn still
 
i'm cleaning my car tomorrow morning - but I won't be taking a photo of it - just throwing a few buckets of water over it
 
MWHCVT said:
now just where did I leave my shovel and quick lime...fairly sure I've got a free corner on the bottom lawn still
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Found it for you Matt

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Nod said:
I used to get called a c-unit on a daily basis when I was a doorman. My usual retort was "Well, you are what you eat. P###k!"
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:D:D
 
BRASH said:
... and pish in yer water supplies.
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Oh no, not that. Please. Anything but that.

Seriously, it can be hard to pitch communication appropriately with strangers who are out of view so that there is no context of facial expression or body language. You don't know what their hangups or sensitivities are. But you try to give honest and valid opinions and even sometimes provoke worthwhile discussion by saying something contentious.

The sensitive may be sometimes wounded and have to retreat to a corner, and those with fragile egos may spit their dummies from their prams, but most of the time I think it works ...
 
I'm quite thick skinned, but it's never nice to see someone bullying someone else. (Or my poor pillaged pets). It is a shame when delicate but interesting people are kept away.

There is a Second pub test: Would you go into a pub if your conversation is going to be interrupted by tw@ts?
 
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I'm no shrinking violet but the general air of nastiness that creeps into so many threads on here is what's kept me away from this site I used to love so much.
It used to be the first site I looked at every morning but I don't even log on much any more. It's a pity because I'm the one who loses out on all the good things about this forum.
 
Adzman808 said:
A couple of slightly tongue in cheek MADE UP examples of things that you WON'T see on my other interest forums.
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I think all forums are different and probably reflects the subject and the type of people who follow it. I've been on forums where you can get personally attacked for having a different opinion to someone else and if you're not in general consensus with the rest of the group, you're automatically an "outsider" and get treated differently.

Yv said:
if everyone could just 'get along' in a large community, the world wouldn't be in the mess it is in.
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I've always gone by the idea that the only way to avoid any fights or arguments is to have only one human on the planet. As soon as you introduce a second human, you're gonna have a difference of opinion/ideas, leading to fights and even violence. It is human nature.

TP for me has always been a nice place compared to other forums, even considering the recent arguments.
 
omens said:
I've been on forums where you can get personally attacked for having a different opinion to someone else and if you're not in general consensus with the rest of the group, you're automatically an "outsider" and get treated differently.
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Unfortunately that's just human nature, and over a period of time, little groups or clubs will form within a forum.
Conversely, and I kid you not,
Another forum that I am on, probably half the size of this, but very active,
Someone disagreed with the site owner and he shut it down :D
That's the best dummy spit I know of :D
It did get re-opened about a week later though :)


omens said:
TP for me has always been a nice place compared to other forums, even considering the recent arguments.
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I can assure you that we, the staff and admin, are working behind the scenes to try and stop this.
We don't like it any more than you or indeed the majority of the members do.

Obviously we can never stop it 100% as you will always get the troll posts
and those "Friday night posts" just after the pubs close ;)

Hopefully would have noticed (will soon notice) that things are slowly getting back to an even keel :)
 
:agree: I was on another forum about movies,now i don't bother because a few member got together in a little group,let just they were royal pains in :eek:.

I think talk photography is big enough,to enjoy the member you get on with,and avoid those member you don't :)
 
simonblue said:
I think talk photography is big enough,to enjoy the member you get on with,and avoid those member you don't :)
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And thats another very good idea :)
 
if anyone feels the need to enjoy a member its probably best that they don't shout about it ;)
 
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someone got out of the grumpyside today - just pointing out the humour of how that read .... we all know what you meant :coat:
 
MWHCVT said:
the "pub test" e.g. Would you say that down the pub?
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I have to say mate that i'm not sure the pub test works - theres all sorts of stuff i'd happily say down the pub that i wouldnt dare say on here - principaly because I know the people i'm in the pub with and they know when i'm joking and when not - and uninvolved sensitive little flowers looking to get offended on behalf of someone else would just get told to butt out in a pub environment, and people just trying to cause an argument would get told to go forth and multiply.

Certainly anything that I wouldnt say down the pub is unfit for forum viewing , but it doesnt automatically mean that if its pub safe its also forum safe

Not to mention that anyone who gets barred from our local for persistent bellendery doesnt come back the next day disguised as someoneelse
 
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big soft moose said:
I have to say mate that i'm not sure the pub test works - theres all sorts of stuff i'd happily say down the pub that i wouldnt dare say on here - principaly because I know the people i'm in the pub with and they know when i'm joking and when not - and uninvolved sensitive little flowers looking to get offended on behalf of someone else would just get told to butt out in a pub environment, and people just trying to cause an argument would get told to go forth and multiply.

Certainly anything that I wouldnt say down the pub is unfit for forum viewing , but it doesnt automatically mean that if its pub safe its also forum safe

Not to mention that anyone who gets barred from our local for persistent bellendery doesnt come back the next day disguised as someoneelse
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Ah but the "pub test" on the whole does work...yes there are instances where it falls short, but not too many, I guess I could also be thought of as the "granny test" or in some places where the generations are really close the "great great granny test"


The general principle still stands, that if you wouldn't say it down the pub to someone you'd don't know (that last bit is probably key and I missed it first time around) for the likely result being a smack on the nose, then it's most likely not suitable to be said on the forum
 
True - but I once paraphrased the churchill you're drunk thing to a complete stranger in a pub ( Some lady or other said to winston " Churchill you're drunk" and he alledgedly replied " yes madam but you are ugly , and in the morning i'll be sober" )
 
big soft moose said:
True - but I once paraphrased the churchill you're drunk thing to a complete stranger in a pub ( Some lady or other said to winston " Churchill you're drunk" and he alledgedly replied " yes madam but you are ugly , and in the morning i'll be sober" )
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"Apparently" that was Elizabeth Margaret Braddock (Bamber)JP


Braddock: "Winston, you are drunk, and what's more you are disgustingly drunk. "
Churchill: "Bessie, my dear, you are ugly, and what's more, you are disgustingly ugly. But tomorrow I shall be sober and you will still be disgustingly ugly
 
Ah Sir Winston Churchill some of the best quotes ever

Lady Nancy Astor: Winston, if you were my husband, I’d poison your tea.
Churchill: Nancy, if I were your husband, I’d drink it.
 
I wish Stanley Baldwin no ill, but it would have been much better if he had never lived
 
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