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General Category => Discontempt => Topic started by: Thrash on January 09, 2014, 01:24:30 AM

Title: Quotes of the week nominees ... Years of 2014-2020 (Or So) ...
Post by: Thrash on January 09, 2014, 01:24:30 AM
Yeah ...
Title: Re: Quotes of the week nominees ... Year of 2014 ...
Post by: Tru on January 14, 2014, 10:45:08 PM
There haven't been any posts to quote this week.
Title: Re: Quotes of the week nominees ... Year of 2014 ...
Post by: Thrash on January 15, 2014, 12:42:32 AM
It's just a formality, man ...
Title: Re: Quotes of the week nominees ... Year of 2014 ...
Post by: Tru on January 15, 2014, 01:37:02 AM
A sad one.
Title: Re: Quotes of the week nominees ... Year of 2014 ...
Post by: Thrash on January 17, 2014, 01:13:09 AM
I'm not disagreeing ...
Title: Re: Quotes of the week nominees ... Year of 2014 ...
Post by: Tru on January 17, 2014, 06:36:18 PM


"Yeah ..."

Quote that.


WTF is everyone doing that they can't post once and a while.
Is life getting so hard now that message boards have become a drag. Slaving away to get by with no time left for this even though that is why they became popular in the first place. Or is it the realization that everything we say is now monitored?

I used to tell people we only had a small window to organize on this format. Meh, closed now.
 
Title: Re: Quotes of the week nominees ... Year of 2014 ...
Post by: Thrash on January 18, 2014, 01:30:49 PM
One compound word ...
Do I really have to say it?
Title: Re: Quotes of the week nominees ... Year of 2014 ...
Post by: Tru on January 20, 2014, 06:56:12 PM
Hey, Its the best we've seen in two weeks here.
Title: Re: Quotes of the week nominees ... Year of 2014 ...
Post by: Tru on January 20, 2014, 07:03:28 PM
Might as well close the doors and turn off the lights.
Title: Re: Quotes of the week nominees ... Year of 2014 ...
Post by: Thrash on January 21, 2014, 10:45:30 PM
Nah, I like the living archive ...
I took time to restore it; it's staying up, goddammit!!!
Title: Re: Quotes of the week nominees ... Year of 2014 ...
Post by: Tru on January 22, 2014, 06:38:42 PM
You have to make a really strong statement to get a response these days. It's not just here its web wide. I think it's because people have heard so many different opinions of the issues that they are tired of the whole idea of arguing the issues.
Anything short of a "New Pearl Harbour" and our goals of far reaching and varied discourse will fail.   
Title: Re: Quotes of the week nominees ... Year of 2014 ...
Post by: Thrash on January 23, 2014, 12:51:10 AM
Rotten.Com killed the "shock posting" we used to do to each other ...
I know that for sure ...
Title: Re: Quotes of the week nominees ... Year of 2014 ...
Post by: Tru on January 23, 2014, 01:16:30 AM
Yeah well , I'm not sure about that, maybe we all just got tired of bashing each other when it became clear-young and old-we were all in the same boat.
Title: Re: Quotes of the week nominees ... Year of 2014 ...
Post by: Thrash on January 23, 2014, 01:52:52 AM
Maybe ....
Maybe R1 tired us of that ...

There's a lot of factors then ...
I refuse to think we all just "grew up at the same time ... all of a sudden" ...
Title: Re: Quotes of the week nominees ... Year of 2014 ...
Post by: Tru on January 23, 2014, 12:58:06 PM
Maybe everyone has become addicted to Candy Crush?
Title: Re: Quotes of the week nominees ... Year of 2014 ...
Post by: karla_k on January 24, 2014, 03:39:34 AM
I'm stuck on level 999! HELP!!!!

Just kidding. I used to play that game back when it was called BEJEWELED!!
Title: Re: Quotes of the week nominees ... Year of 2014 ...
Post by: Tru on January 25, 2014, 06:45:32 PM
LOL I played it when it was called Bejeweled too.

Now they are trying to copyright the use of the word "Candy" in the title of games.
A couple hundred games could be in violation and subject to damages if that shit goes through.
Title: Re: Quotes of the week nominees ... Year of 2014 ...
Post by: Thrash on January 26, 2014, 03:11:55 AM
CandyLand's fucked now ...
Title: Re: Quotes of the week nominees ... Year of 2014 ...
Post by: Tru on January 26, 2014, 08:52:05 PM
Yep!
Title: Re: Quotes of the week nominees ... Year of 2014 ...
Post by: Thrash on January 27, 2014, 03:07:06 PM
Man, that's a terrible quote ...
Title: Re: Quotes of the week nominees ... Year of 2014 ...
Post by: FAH-Q on February 01, 2014, 01:31:09 PM
I refuse to think we all just "grew up at the same time ... all of a sudden" ...

Nah, I don't think it's that. I think that the novelty of meeting strangers online for anything other than sexual purposes has worn off to a large extent.

When I started out online, everyone was into chat rooms. Now nobody uses that shit, or at least I haven't heard anything about them in years. Then ICQ and MSN messenger and AIM and all those were popular before everyone had cell phones that could do the same things, but those have all but died off too.

Chat programs were popular about the same time as the rise of the various social media sites, a lot of which were used for a combination of people we know "IRL" and random strangers. I know one of the things I liked about facebook when it first got popular was that unlike hi5 or MySpace it was almost entirely for people I actually knew, and getting added by someone random was a lot rarer.

Obviously, message boards have been around longer than pretty much anything else online, but they've traditionally served a different purpose than any sort of live chat OR private messenger systems, in that they allowed for discussion of various topics, and one didn't actually have to be there at the time of the discussion to be part of it. It makes for a more interesting, and often more well-thought out discussion.

I believe that a big reason that most of the other social media sites failed while facebook succeeded is because they were able to take some of the chat experience, some of the message board experience, and some of the social media experience, and combine them. People post things on their profiles (basically like people posting new threads), they pop up in people's newsfeeds, and people like or comment on them. It doesn't usually make for the type of epic argument or discussion that message boards have allowed, but I think that's partly because people's attention spans are getting shorter, and since almost everyone uses their real name on facebook, people are a little more hesitant to express potentially unpopular opinions, be they genuine or trolls.

But still, lots of times the sort of things people used to post on message boards now get posted on someone's page on facebook, and commenting ensues. Which kind of makes non-topic-specific message boards redundant.

Which is our problem here. To get back to a really fun, hopping board, we'd need new members. But how could we convince anyone to come post here? Why should they, if they don't already know us, bother going to a whole different site just to post about the same shit they probably already do on a more central platform like facebook?

It's sad, I loved and still love the message board format. But I'm glad this place is still here, even if it's probably doomed to never be what it once was.
Title: Re: Quotes of the week nominees ... Year of 2014 ...
Post by: Tru on February 02, 2014, 01:06:14 AM
I think you are right, but I would expect some of the old crowd to stop in once and a while even if only to let us know they are still alive.
Title: Re: Quotes of the week nominees ... Year of 2014 ...
Post by: Thrash on February 04, 2014, 08:54:09 PM
... well, I can say a hell of a lot more on here (or ThrashInc) than on a place with my name on it like with FB
Title: Re: Quotes of the week nominees ... Year of 2014 ...
Post by: Tru on October 04, 2014, 02:35:27 AM
FB is evil

Now there is something called  "ello social network" supposed to be open and data farm free, an alternative to FB.

Never been there and I'm not buying it.
Title: Re: Quotes of the week nominees ... Year of 2014 ...
Post by: Thrash on October 05, 2014, 02:55:17 PM
I'll check it out for you ...
Title: Re: Quotes of the week nominees ... Year of 2014 ...
Post by: Zoomie on October 06, 2014, 02:03:26 PM
You can ask for an invite but it takes a long time. I'm trading in my iphone for a simple flip and unplugging. I'll keep the ipad for coffee mornings out but
no more screen addiction.
Title: Re: Quotes of the week nominees ... Year of 2014 ...
Post by: Thrash on October 19, 2014, 02:06:00 AM
Wow; that's huge, man ...
Title: Re: Quotes of the week nominees ... Year of 2014/2015 ...
Post by: Thrash on February 07, 2015, 05:01:52 PM
Extended to include the new year ....
Maybe ...
Title: Re: Quotes of the week nominees ... Year of 2014/2015 ...
Post by: Phaedrus on February 07, 2015, 10:14:19 PM
Well it wasn't on this board but I just heard a great quote from someone on irc. 

"Frankly, we find your American beer a little like making love in a canoe." "... Making love in a canoe?" "It's fucking close to water."
Title: Re: Quotes of the week nominees ... Year of 2014/2015 ...
Post by: Tru on February 07, 2015, 10:59:48 PM
Why I drink Malt Liquor !

German beer can get away with being as strong as Malt Liquor and not have the alcohol taste. Don't know how they do it but is a fact.
In America regular beer is in fact very close to water.
Title: Re: Quotes of the week nominees ... Year of 2014/2015 ...
Post by: Thrash on February 09, 2015, 07:12:34 PM
I hate piss beer ...
Title: Re: Quotes of the week nominees ... Year of 2014/2015 ...
Post by: Tru on February 09, 2015, 07:46:36 PM
Yeah but hard liquor is to much like poison, after a few you start trying to drink it like beer and that never turns out well.
Title: Re: Quotes of the week nominees ... Year of 2014/2015 ...
Post by: Thrash on February 11, 2015, 03:22:35 AM
No, I mean I like good, craft beers ....
Title: Re: Quotes of the week nominees ... Year of 2014/2015 ...
Post by: FAH-Q on February 21, 2015, 09:32:48 AM
The US produces an almost endless list of really excellent beers, but like most other places, the mass produced, mass appeal ones pretty much suck. They're beer for people who don't care what they're drinking, they just want something cold and wet and slightly boozy and beerish. But the same is true of lots of places, the UK included.
Title: Re: Quotes of the week nominees ... Year of 2014/2015 ...
Post by: Thrash on February 21, 2015, 02:45:24 PM
I liked a few beers out of Norway the best ...
But, I agree, Si ...
Title: Re: Quotes of the week nominees ... Year of 2014/2015 ...
Post by: FAH-Q on February 21, 2015, 06:44:03 PM
Title: Re: Quotes of the week nominees ... Year of 2014/2015 ...
Post by: Thrash on February 23, 2015, 04:51:49 AM
Hmmm, I'll have to find out which ones they were for you to look into ...
Title: Re: Quotes of the week nominees ... Year of 2014/2015 ...
Post by: Zoomie on February 25, 2015, 10:08:05 PM
Real Tuborg is the shit. American Tuborg is just shit.
Title: Re: Quotes of the week nominees ... Year of 2014/2015 ...
Post by: Tru on February 25, 2015, 10:16:05 PM
I say the same thing about Dinkelacker, great in country, sucks in America.
Title: Re: Quotes of the week nominees ... Years of 2014/2015/2016 ...
Post by: Thrash on October 26, 2015, 04:04:14 PM
On this line, Sierra Nevada Celebration Ale is one of the best beers I've ever had (American) ...
... and it's about time for them to produce/distribute it again ... Just try it ... It's awesome!!!
Title: Re: Quotes of the week nominees ... Years of 2014/2015/2016 ...
Post by: Tru on March 23, 2018, 10:04:09 PM
Is that a real beer? Sounds made up.
There is a nice microbrewery less than a mile away. And yes their stuff is packed with flavor. But not a big kick.
Title: Re: Quotes of the week nominees ... Years of 2014/2015/2016 ...
Post by: Thrash on March 29, 2018, 06:01:40 PM
Yes, it is ...
.... and it's just .... WOW!

I'd buy a few cases of it if I found it anywhere but on tap ...
(I had some bottles a few years back, I just haven't found any in a while)
Title: Re: Quotes of the week nominees ... Years of 2014-2020 (Or So) ...
Post by: Thrash on March 31, 2018, 11:22:35 AM
I don't know WHY I didn't catch this before
(or just didn't think the same way at the time) ...

Quote from: FAH-Q
but I think that's partly because people's attention spans are getting shorter, and since almost everyone uses their real name on facebook, people are a little more hesitant to express potentially unpopular opinions, be they genuine or trolls
The more I think about it, the more I'd think that it would SUPPORT boards like this one, where you AREN'T using your real name ...
I won't even go into the "attention span" thing ...
Then again, we all know each other's real names (mostly) and have "Loaded-People" on FB ...

So, (upon replying now) I guess, maybe, I have no argument either way?
(Maybe that's why I didn't reply to that when he posted it) ...
Title: Re: Quotes of the week nominees ... Years of 2014-2020 (Or So) ...
Post by: Tru on March 31, 2018, 08:53:33 PM
Hey, ever tried "Freedom 35" ?
Title: Re: Quotes of the week nominees ... Years of 2014-2020 (Or So) ...
Post by: Thrash on April 01, 2018, 07:54:22 PM
No; is it anything like "'ello" (I think it's/was called) was supposed to be?
(I'm not even sure how that turned place turned out)
Title: Re: Quotes of the week nominees ... Years of 2014-2020 (Or So) ...
Post by: Tru on April 03, 2018, 09:47:30 PM
I just reread you comment on FAH-Q's post and FAH-Q had a valid opinion and it was seriously valid, without anonymity people will never say what they want. They might want to say something but then stop and consider how their mother might feel about that or something like that. So no, they can't be honest.

Freedom 35 can be bought in cans but is a fictional product from 'The Trailer Park Boys'. And if you have never watched them you have missed out on a lot of laughs.
Title: Re: Quotes of the week nominees ... Years of 2014-2020 (Or So) ...
Post by: Tru on April 04, 2018, 02:00:02 AM
Freedom 35 is from the current series but they have a few movies out.
One of my favorites.

https://www1.putlockertv.to/watch/trailer-park-boys-dont-legalize-it.yn4p/1o96kx
Title: Re: Quotes of the week nominees ... Years of 2014-2020 (Or So) ...
Post by: Thrash on April 05, 2018, 01:20:55 PM
Yeah, I agreed with his point ...
Thus, why I think boards like this are still the "internet graffiti" and still needed (in some context(s) ...

Ok, I knew I heard the term "Freedom 35" before ...
Damn, now I may have to look some TPB's up ...