Is there anything left to post?

Is there anything left to post?

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robinessex

11,046 posts

180 months

Sunday 21st September 2014
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DickyC said:
I hear Haymarket is going to launch PistonHeads Magazine.
Never work. It'll just end up in a slanging match, and full of teachers checking spellin and gramma............

DickyC

49,549 posts

197 months

Sunday 21st September 2014
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Ahem.

robinessex said:
Great, I've got an idea !! In our office many years ago, we had the Monday morning rumour club. A daft, but possibly probable rumour was created, and then the office 'mole' was seeded with it. The fun was seeing on Friday how it had developed.
I hear Haymarket is going to launch PistonHeads Magazine.

numtumfutunch

4,705 posts

137 months

Sunday 21st September 2014
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Wacky Racer said:
You have to remember hundreds of new members are joining every week, and they will not have seen threads from years ago, such as RAF Dug's Samurai sword and the 335D (mapped)..Cadence clutching etc.

I personally get very bored with "what car? threads.....

I have 5k to spend, what car to take my wife and three year old down to Tesco once a week?

Do your own research ffs!
Chipped 335d

HTH

NRS

22,080 posts

200 months

Sunday 21st September 2014
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Have to say I feel this way too. Every so often there is a few things that pop up that are good/ new/ surprise you, but most of the stuff is very similar to what has been done before. You can also see most of the PH official stories have very few replies these days.

226bhp

10,203 posts

127 months

Sunday 21st September 2014
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calibrax said:
That's why the search is broken. If it worked nobody would post, as every previous thread covering everything in the known universe would be easily accessible.

The search works, I use it. nerd Most can't be bothered.

I was going to start a thread like this, I was going to start threads about a few things - I find if you leave it long enough someone else eventually does it for you!

I gave it some thought, a bit too much maybe, I came up with the tagline: 'Pistonheads, where repetition matters.' mmmm, catchy.
PH needs posters and readers, it's a business.
I did read somewhere that there was a crackdown on repetitive threads once, I'm guessing it didn't last long because of this.

I don't like repetition in theory, I like originality, I like to learn something new and enjoy reading threads which are (because mine generally aren't), but I know a forum where the same subjects get locked and the perp' told to use the search system, it keeps it quiet and the mod comes across as a bit Hitleresque. Heavy handed moderation has caused me to just walk away from forums sometimes.

You do wonder when it comes to a point where people are sat there waiting and almost depending on something new to be posted up for them to get stuck into then that's the time to step away from the keyboard maybe....


okie592

2,711 posts

166 months

Monday 22nd September 2014
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Is there a thread explaining why straight males are so obsessed with an
Sex with a woman then vomit when it's 2 men doing it?

Or how about why lesbians are okay but gays aren't?

Kinky

39,456 posts

268 months

Monday 22nd September 2014
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I do believe this thread is a re-post from 6 years ago, from a time when the internet was full yes

DonnyMac

3,634 posts

202 months

Monday 22nd September 2014
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Every now and then something is posted which is so original you will damage your organs by laughing so hard, two I recall we're the chap in a hotel bedroom with a new sweetheart, he needed the toilet, the ensuite being separated by a pane of opaque glass, something about a strangled duck springs to mind, but it was an amazing description of a uniquely awkward moment; the second is the description of Eric as a fighter pilot.

If only the search function worked...

ajcj said:
I confess to feeling selfconscious when last night's lamb dhansak, chana massala, keema naan and Cobra is struggling its way out and making a lot of fuss while it does, especially when the traps to either side are occupied by chaps who seem to be able to lay one down with barely a splash, but for true embarrassment, you need a hotel room on your first night away with a new cutie.

So lots of charming conversation and civilised behaviour and attention to personal hygiene and nipping outside to fart have paid off, and several months in it's time for a romantic weekend away. The hotel room is in a dead trendy boutique place, and the wall between bedroom and bathroom is frosted glass. All other bathroom walls are tiled for maximum reverb. The door is also glass, and does not seal in any way - half-inch gaps all round. So you are effectively in the same room as the bed, which is where you leave your amour, curled up and warm ("hurry back", she murmurs) on the morning after a nice moroccan meal with plenty of chickpeas, spiced lamb, felafel and so on, plus a couple of bottles of rough red, and whisky to finish. You pace with measured tread to the echo chamber, then hunker down to answer the insistent call from the lower colon.

To begin with, it sounded like a duck being strangled half-underwater, then as if thirty clowns wearing oversize rubber shoes were having a sprinting race over a massive bowl of jelly, then as I desperately applied restrictive pressure, it faded into an anguished squeak like a deflating balloon, then as my muscle control gave out, a series of small escaping explosions escalated into a titanic rasp that echoed for several seconds.

Having done the paperwork, brushed everywhere in the bowl, including the underside of the seat (how in the name of gravity could that have happened?), washed hands, and assumed as nonchalant an expression as I could muster, I strolled back in to find her sitting up, covers drawn protectively up under her chin, eyes like a lemur, asking whether I was ok, and did I need medical attention?

Kind of killed the mood, rather.
Google "Eric the Aviator" for the second post, I'll not completely derail your original post with these old ones.


Edited by DonnyMac on Monday 22 September 02:21

Ari

19,328 posts

214 months

Monday 22nd September 2014
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I don't think anyone has posed the question about why someone would drive a convertible with the roof up on a hot sunny day in the last ten minutes...

Some Gump

12,671 posts

185 months

Monday 22nd September 2014
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It's been 10 minutes, we're overdue a tyre stretching or bloody cyclists thread. These need to repeat until the Prophecy is fulfilled - someone wearing Lycra on a bike with stretched tyres going though a red light. At this point, we will reach singularity and PH will reset from zero.

delmatt

Original Poster:

506 posts

190 months

Monday 22nd September 2014
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226bhp said:

The search works, I use it. nerd Most can't be bothered.

I was going to start a thread like this, I was going to start threads about a few things - I find if you leave it long enough someone else eventually does it for you!

I gave it some thought, a bit too much maybe, I came up with the tagline: 'Pistonheads, where repetition matters.' mmmm, catchy.
PH needs posters and readers, it's a business.
I did read somewhere that there was a crackdown on repetitive threads once, I'm guessing it didn't last long because of this.

I don't like repetition in theory, I like originality, I like to learn something new and enjoy reading threads which are (because mine generally aren't), but I know a forum where the same subjects get locked and the perp' told to use the search system, it keeps it quiet and the mod comes across as a bit Hitleresque. Heavy handed moderation has caused me to just walk away from forums sometimes.

You do wonder when it comes to a point where people are sat there waiting and almost depending on something new to be posted up for them to get stuck into then that's the time to step away from the keyboard maybe....

You are quite right with your assessment I reckon. I have actually just rejoined a forum for owners of a specific car whose number is between 6 and 8 and from what I understand the moderation is pretty firm there...there are actually a very small number of posters and ads etc etc.
So on the one hand it is very easy for me to grumble but the one good thing about PH is that there are just so many people looking and posting, so I guess that the thing I am asking about is not that bad really.

It is also so much easier to lay into an existing thread than it is to start a good one.

iva cosworth

44,044 posts

162 months

Monday 22nd September 2014
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What happened to the thread on Cross dressing chimp stock car racing?

I went to Wimbledon stadium for the inaugural race of the championship and it was great.......biggrin

( I might have made that up)........cool

littleredrooster

5,523 posts

195 months

Monday 22nd September 2014
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Is there anything left to post?

Yes, actually - I've got a reply-paid letter which should have been posted on Friday and I forgot. I've forgotten again - anyone going near a postbox shortly who could pop it in for me?
Ta!

biggrin

okie592

2,711 posts

166 months

Monday 22nd September 2014
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Some Gump said:
It's been 10 minutes, we're overdue a tyre stretching or bloody cyclists thread. These need to repeat until the Prophecy is fulfilled - someone wearing Lycra on a bike with stretched tyres going though a red light. At this point, we will reach singularity and PH will reset from zero.
Don't be silly, it's nearly winter, it's almost time for OH MY GOD XENON HEADLIGHTS BLINDING
LED brake lights have destroyed my retinas
OMG so many blown headlights and fog light wkers!!!

Which winter tyres? Lolz BMW driver with snow chains on the front

226bhp

10,203 posts

127 months

Monday 22nd September 2014
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delmatt said:
226bhp said:

The search works, I use it. nerd Most can't be bothered.

I was going to start a thread like this, I was going to start threads about a few things - I find if you leave it long enough someone else eventually does it for you!

I gave it some thought, a bit too much maybe, I came up with the tagline: 'Pistonheads, where repetition matters.' mmmm, catchy.
PH needs posters and readers, it's a business.
I did read somewhere that there was a crackdown on repetitive threads once, I'm guessing it didn't last long because of this.

I don't like repetition in theory, I like originality, I like to learn something new and enjoy reading threads which are (because mine generally aren't), but I know a forum where the same subjects get locked and the perp' told to use the search system, it keeps it quiet and the mod comes across as a bit Hitleresque. Heavy handed moderation has caused me to just walk away from forums sometimes.

You do wonder when it comes to a point where people are sat there waiting and almost depending on something new to be posted up for them to get stuck into then that's the time to step away from the keyboard maybe....

You are quite right with your assessment I reckon. I have actually just rejoined a forum for owners of a specific car whose number is between 6 and 8 and from what I understand the moderation is pretty firm there...there are actually a very small number of posters and ads etc etc.
So on the one hand it is very easy for me to grumble but the one good thing about PH is that there are just so many people looking and posting, so I guess that the thing I am asking about is not that bad really.

It is also so much easier to lay into an existing thread than it is to start a good one.
I think I thought about it so much there wasn't much more to say hence me not posting it up. hehe

I want to lower the tone start a thread entitled 'Women on TV whose breasts you would most like to see', not sure how well it would go down though.....

Kinky

39,456 posts

268 months

Monday 22nd September 2014
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226bhp said:
I want to lower the tone start a thread entitled 'Women on TV whose breasts you would most like to see', not sure how well it would go down though.....
Go on - it won't be a problem at all yes

For at least 3 seconds before you get banned

226bhp

10,203 posts

127 months

Monday 22nd September 2014
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Kinky said:
226bhp said:
I want to lower the tone start a thread entitled 'Women on TV whose breasts you would most like to see', not sure how well it would go down though.....
Go on - it won't be a problem at all yes

For at least 3 seconds before you get banned
I can't see why I would be banned, you wouldn't be able to post any pictures of something you had never seen. hehe