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I'm not "sure" whether the different sides to particular posters makes me like/dislike PH but these two posts show in sharp relief how the same person can present themselves in very different fashions (apologies to the poster, I'm only citing this as an example).
Nik da Greek said:
How long do spiders live for? There's one in the roof of our porch that's out at night when I nip out for a crafty fag. I swear it's the same one that's been there about three years now.
Hmmmmmm. House cleaning regime might need some work
Is followed by this.Hmmmmmm. House cleaning regime might need some work
Nik da Greek said:
More Tory filth who got a Lordship as a sop purely because he knew more dirty secrets about them than they did about him. The only downside is if Dawn of the Dead was right and when Hell is full of dead Tories they'll have to start walking the Earth again
Not having a go, but I'll stay in The Lounge, Music and Football forums, whilst lurking on GG, Readers Cars and Classics, thanks 
TheChampers said:
I'm not "sure" whether the different sides to particular posters makes me like/dislike PH but these two posts show in sharp relief how the same person can present themselves in very different fashions (apologies to the poster, I'm only citing this as an example).
I'm finding what you've put there a bit strange. Are you suggesting that it's abnormal or untoward to present yourself differently to two dissimilar situations?Nik da Greek said:
How long do spiders live for? There's one in the roof of our porch that's out at night when I nip out for a crafty fag. I swear it's the same one that's been there about three years now.
Hmmmmmm. House cleaning regime might need some work
Is followed by this.Hmmmmmm. House cleaning regime might need some work
Nik da Greek said:
More Tory filth who got a Lordship as a sop purely because he knew more dirty secrets about them than they did about him. The only downside is if Dawn of the Dead was right and when Hell is full of dead Tories they'll have to start walking the Earth again
Not having a go, but I'll stay in The Lounge, Music and Football forums, whilst lurking on GG, Readers Cars and Classics, thanks I still like it here.
Over the years, I've joined a few sites and I keep coming back to this place. Why?
The diversity, for one thing. For example, my interests are cars (well, obz), music, food & drink and motorcycle racing. With the exception of GG, I find them all to be pretty agreeable places to visit with informative stuff to read. I should say that GG has it's oases of pleasure in the Smoker Barge / Retro Car / Bargain Basement / O/T Look At This threads. Even if you don't contribute often (and I'm a lurker on all of those), they're a great read.
Another thing is the moderation.................
See, I'm also interested in weather; much like schmalex and Puggit. Earlier this year I signed up to the NetWeather forum to chat about storms and snow and atmospheric thicknesses and such like. Yet the moderation is fierce! Posts are deleted and hidden if they veer even slightly "off course". Mention historical weather events in the "Weather Model" forum, and your post is out. It's akin to posting a message that concerns inappropriate overtaking in the BMW forum, and the BMW moderator deleting your post: "It wasn't BMW enough". Then again, most NetWeather members are Labour voters and are fully paid up to MMGW (but that's another ball of wax altogether)
Over the years, I've joined a few sites and I keep coming back to this place. Why?
The diversity, for one thing. For example, my interests are cars (well, obz), music, food & drink and motorcycle racing. With the exception of GG, I find them all to be pretty agreeable places to visit with informative stuff to read. I should say that GG has it's oases of pleasure in the Smoker Barge / Retro Car / Bargain Basement / O/T Look At This threads. Even if you don't contribute often (and I'm a lurker on all of those), they're a great read.
Another thing is the moderation.................
See, I'm also interested in weather; much like schmalex and Puggit. Earlier this year I signed up to the NetWeather forum to chat about storms and snow and atmospheric thicknesses and such like. Yet the moderation is fierce! Posts are deleted and hidden if they veer even slightly "off course". Mention historical weather events in the "Weather Model" forum, and your post is out. It's akin to posting a message that concerns inappropriate overtaking in the BMW forum, and the BMW moderator deleting your post: "It wasn't BMW enough". Then again, most NetWeather members are Labour voters and are fully paid up to MMGW (but that's another ball of wax altogether)
"Which cars can I buy for threepence ha'penny which will be worth a million quid three weeks from now?"
If we f
king knew, we'd be out fking buying them and not on here telling you, you fking fkgibbon!
"Person 1: opinion
Person 2: contradictory but perfectly valid opinion expressed calmly and with justification
1: you're just a keyboard warrior mate, you want to calm down, you'll give yourself a heart attack you keep losing your rag"
"Person 1: I've driven X car and I thought it was excellent. Not perfect, but certainly very good.
Person 2: I haven't driven the car, but you're taking bks."
There are a million and one other things, but avoiding those is a simple case of not bothering to click on the thread in the first place.
If we f
king knew, we'd be out fking buying them and not on here telling you, you fking fkgibbon!"Person 1: opinion
Person 2: contradictory but perfectly valid opinion expressed calmly and with justification
1: you're just a keyboard warrior mate, you want to calm down, you'll give yourself a heart attack you keep losing your rag"
"Person 1: I've driven X car and I thought it was excellent. Not perfect, but certainly very good.
Person 2: I haven't driven the car, but you're taking b
ks."There are a million and one other things, but avoiding those is a simple case of not bothering to click on the thread in the first place.
'If you won Euromillions which cars would you buy?' threads.
Everyone names a bunch of cars, everyone trying to be more eclectic and 'cool' than the last list in order to look like they're too cool to just want the latest Lambo and guess what, no one reads the last list, no cares and no one comments and it's just list after list of the same old st:
Old LR Defender
UR Quattro
Lotus Cortina
Original RS2000
Classic Bentley
Classic Porsche
Mini
1924 Dickhard Randomcrap
F40
Sierra XR4i
Etc etc.
Admit it, you'd never buy the list you state you'd just do what everyone else does and buy a new Range Rover, Bentley and a Ferrari 488.
Also the need to talk utter st when fawning over some 1980's luxobarge Merc that you could go and buy for £3k but won't as you know it's st but enjoy using words like 'Wafting' 'leptons' 'doff my cap to you sir' 'pressing on' and some random jumbled up English German phrase like 'essential when one wants to cross European borders at warp speed fastenstzer'
And it goes on, ordinary fat blokes who live in Basingstoke and wear M&S suits to their daily office grind suddenly turn all Mike Brewer when talking about buying a car and how everything is a fking 'bag of sand' or a 'monkey' It's quicker to write £1000.
Or how about everyone metaphorically sucking off Flemke in the vain hope he'll give them a ride in his F1 and then you see Turbo Terrific come along with his and he just seems like a normal guy.
Everyone names a bunch of cars, everyone trying to be more eclectic and 'cool' than the last list in order to look like they're too cool to just want the latest Lambo and guess what, no one reads the last list, no cares and no one comments and it's just list after list of the same old s
t:Old LR Defender
UR Quattro
Lotus Cortina
Original RS2000
Classic Bentley
Classic Porsche
Mini
1924 Dickhard Randomcrap
F40
Sierra XR4i
Etc etc.
Admit it, you'd never buy the list you state you'd just do what everyone else does and buy a new Range Rover, Bentley and a Ferrari 488.
Also the need to talk utter s
t when fawning over some 1980's luxobarge Merc that you could go and buy for £3k but won't as you know it's st but enjoy using words like 'Wafting' 'leptons' 'doff my cap to you sir' 'pressing on' and some random jumbled up English German phrase like 'essential when one wants to cross European borders at warp speed fastenstzer'And it goes on, ordinary fat blokes who live in Basingstoke and wear M&S suits to their daily office grind suddenly turn all Mike Brewer when talking about buying a car and how everything is a f
king 'bag of sand' or a 'monkey' It's quicker to write £1000. Or how about everyone metaphorically sucking off Flemke in the vain hope he'll give them a ride in his F1 and then you see Turbo Terrific come along with his and he just seems like a normal guy.
Pommygranite said:
'If you won Euromillions which cars would you buy?' threads.
I was going to say that. Also...
All the boring old crap about having a butler or being a powerfully built director. It wasn't funny five years ago.
And scoring people on their rant or saying the school holidays must've started. Tedious.
I think in general PH has a much more entertaining, informative and less cliquey set of forums that a lot of other car based sites. It's obviously not perfect but it's the only site I return to regularly. There are things I don't like but they are massively outweighed by the positives.
OP: I'd like an expert opinion on this difficult situation. Blah blah blah....
Expert: OK, this is where you stand. The legal position is blah blah blah, and because of that, you cannot do what you suggest. Your best bet is to blah blah blah.
OP: That's bloody disgraceful. What a bunch of scumbags you lot are. I don't know how you sleep nights. I'd rather starve than work in your industry. fk you and everyone else in your occupation.
Expert:
Expert: OK, this is where you stand. The legal position is blah blah blah, and because of that, you cannot do what you suggest. Your best bet is to blah blah blah.
OP: That's bloody disgraceful. What a bunch of scumbags you lot are. I don't know how you sleep nights. I'd rather starve than work in your industry. f
k you and everyone else in your occupation.Expert:
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