Pet Peeves

[Kurt Cocaine]

Yes. I'm fuming....

[Necro Red]

Another fucking customs charge. I don't mind paying the €2.44 VAT but the additional €3.50 An Post charge every time is a bit much.

Agreed! I got stung there for buying something from the US. Never again will I buy from America. 8t was only a Bluray I got and got that 3.50 to pay. I'll stick to amazon, seems they take care of the vat

[Carnage]

Anyone else irritated by the same 3 posters who are littering threads here with links and multi-paragraph posts that no-one is going to read?  They're in almost every single thread across the site and it's probably off-putting to people who wanna contribute but get drowned out by the noise.

Bickering and point-scoring, with no attempt at actual discussion. It's pathetic and needs to be knocked on the head.

[Blackout]

Anyone else irritated by the same 3 posters who are littering threads here with links and multi-paragraph posts that no-one is going to read?  They're in almost every single thread across the site and it's probably off-putting to people who wanna contribute but get drowned out by the noise.

Bickering and point-scoring, with no attempt at actual discussion. It's pathetic and needs to be knocked on the head.

We need an ignore button in here lad.

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Or... simply use the magic of will power to avoid the one thread which has literally been "tabloid vs anti-tabloid" since the very first page!

[Carnage]

Or you could rein it in. If ye kept it to one thread it'd be easy to ignore (though why should anyone avoid an open thread that once had an actual point?), but as Blackout mentioned, it's spread to others and is fucking tiresome.

Grow up and/or fuck off, the pair of ye.

[Blackout]

Or... simply use the magic of will power to avoid the one thread which has literally been "tabloid vs anti-tabloid" since the very first page!

It's a bit hard to avoid your verbal diarrhea when
it permeates every thread in the forum.

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Or you could rein it in. If ye kept it to one thread it'd be easy to ignore (though why should anyone avoid an open thread that once had an actual point?), but as Blackout mentioned, it's spread to others and is fucking tiresome.

Grow up and/or fuck off, the pair of ye.

Call me mental, but since no one else was doing anything about the stream of misinformation KC was shitting into, granted, two threads on a daily basis recently, I did. In the case of COVID because it's dangerous (not forgetting the reach of the forum is far, far greater than the numbers who actively participate) and in the case of the blatant racism, homophobia, etc., because, again, call me mental, but I couldn't in good conscience participate in a community (which I've been part of for 20 years) and not speak out against shite like that. And maybe you've still got a bee in your bonnet because I did the same thing over all the misinformation about the Nkencho case, which is the first time I recall you describing my counter-arguments to bullshit as "point-scoring", but if that's the case, well, pity bout ya; it was vile.

[Carnage]

No, you've been at it since long before KC kicked off. It's the incessant need to have the last word, to shout down anyone that disagrees with you - whether they're right or wrong - to pour out a flood of facts, figures and citations to show just how clever you are and how stupid everyone else is. You're doing it now, and I daresay it's having the knock on effect of driving people off the forum. Anyone else noticed how quiet it's gotten in the past couple of weeks? A fair few regulars have disappeared or barely post lately. Hmm.

It's an internet forum, it Doesn't Matter. Please stop it, you're not that immature, surely. Now off you go, have the last word, I'm sure that'll please you.

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

It's a fair point, but I take it you're not thinking of users like Juggz, Ducky, or Yung Led Zeppelin, all of whom made it more or less clear they were sick of the huge conservative, reactionary skew of the off topic forum.

[hellfire]

No, you've been at it since long before KC kicked off. It's the incessant need to have the last word, to shout down anyone that disagrees with you - whether they're right or wrong - to pour out a flood of facts, figures and citations to show just how clever you are and how stupid everyone else is. You're doing it now, and I daresay it's having the knock on effect of driving people off the forum. Anyone else noticed how quiet it's gotten in the past couple of weeks? A fair few regulars have disappeared or barely post lately. Hmm.

It's an internet forum, it Doesn't Matter. Please stop it, you're not that immature, surely. Now off you go, have the last word, I'm sure that'll please you.

https://youtu.be/8DYje57V_BY

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Juggz and Ducky happened to be two of the most active contributors to the main forum also (no slight to Mr.Zeppelin's contributions, they were just much less in number), and that's where there absence is most felt. Maybe it would be better overall if we simply had a "no politics" rule in Off Topic. Having started none of the political threads here, I'd actually be all for it. And who knows, as you pretty much suggest Carnage, it might even woo back the likes of Juggz, Ducky, YLZ, Pedrito, and others into main forum activity.

[Emphyrio]

I don't think politics or no is relevant. You tend to make threads and discussions about you and your perspective in a dismissive manner with regularity. That's why people don't bother engaging anymore. I looked at today's spat and what yourself and Kev be at. I realised life's too short for that kinda nonsense. But you get on the worng side of almost as many people as KC.

[Caomhaoin]

The Coronavirus thread became an unreadable pissing match, and it was good for a while.

I'm not minimising my bullshitting either by the way.

[hellfire]

Maybe it would be better overall if we simply had a "no politics" rule in Off Topic. Having started none of the political threads here, I'd actually be all for it.

Youve had that exact same speech Carnage made from a number of users in one form or another. At least once from me. Instead of  changing the forum rules how about you correct your behaviour. Your incessant need to flout your intellectual prowess irritates everyone.