Frozen Sausages
Discussion
I expect I'm late to the party in posting these views, for which I apologise, and I know this is a difficult one as it's super hard to effect change in this way... but, I genuinely think this is beginning to ruin the place.
Somehow there has been some form of evolution of collective thinking whereby some members (usually new ones, but not exclusively) seem to genuinely believe that rushing into all and any threads to mention frozen sausages in the lawn is in some way a right of passage or an "in joke" that all other members will find amusing, entertaining or original. Despite the fact that it is, in fact, unimaginably tiresome.
To a lesser extent, there are similar things happening with MX5s as the answer to every car question and also dominating the stairs / hallway / front room / telephone box or whatever. Now don't get me wrong, most if not all of these in-jokes arose from threads that were funny and entertaining, the problem is, it seems to me that some members are SO desperate to fit in, that they genuinely cannot see how hugely dull, pathetic, boring, repetitive this kind of behaviour is, for everyone. And actually, in reality, chiming in with the frozen sausages line not only marks you out as new / out of touch / unimaginative, but it widely publicisies it too.
It reminds me of pre-teens desperately trying to become accepted in their peer group or teenagers blindly repeating phrases from something funny on the TV over and over and over trying desperately to experience a tiny fragment of ownership over someone else's words.
I don't know what the answer is... probably just to ignore it, but seriously, almost every thread gets the same influx of bilge; this one will too. There's literally no chance that this topic can be even discussed without someone doing exactly the thing I mention in some kind of determined frenzy powered by irony mixed with idiocy and wrapped up in a filthy, damp sheet made of boredom.
I can guarantee that close to 100% of the (longer-standing or simply right-minded) members who read this kind of endless regurgitated waste-of-bandwidth type nonsense immediately assume that the poster is a pathetic idiot with the social skills of a terrapin.
Is there any way to address this and maybe push on to find some new funny / amusing / entertaining phrases?
Probably not. Sadly.
Somehow there has been some form of evolution of collective thinking whereby some members (usually new ones, but not exclusively) seem to genuinely believe that rushing into all and any threads to mention frozen sausages in the lawn is in some way a right of passage or an "in joke" that all other members will find amusing, entertaining or original. Despite the fact that it is, in fact, unimaginably tiresome.
To a lesser extent, there are similar things happening with MX5s as the answer to every car question and also dominating the stairs / hallway / front room / telephone box or whatever. Now don't get me wrong, most if not all of these in-jokes arose from threads that were funny and entertaining, the problem is, it seems to me that some members are SO desperate to fit in, that they genuinely cannot see how hugely dull, pathetic, boring, repetitive this kind of behaviour is, for everyone. And actually, in reality, chiming in with the frozen sausages line not only marks you out as new / out of touch / unimaginative, but it widely publicisies it too.
It reminds me of pre-teens desperately trying to become accepted in their peer group or teenagers blindly repeating phrases from something funny on the TV over and over and over trying desperately to experience a tiny fragment of ownership over someone else's words.
I don't know what the answer is... probably just to ignore it, but seriously, almost every thread gets the same influx of bilge; this one will too. There's literally no chance that this topic can be even discussed without someone doing exactly the thing I mention in some kind of determined frenzy powered by irony mixed with idiocy and wrapped up in a filthy, damp sheet made of boredom.
I can guarantee that close to 100% of the (longer-standing or simply right-minded) members who read this kind of endless regurgitated waste-of-bandwidth type nonsense immediately assume that the poster is a pathetic idiot with the social skills of a terrapin.
Is there any way to address this and maybe push on to find some new funny / amusing / entertaining phrases?
Probably not. Sadly.
Sterillium said:
Coin Slot. said:
This subject again, really?
Problems tend to get talked about until such times as they cease to be problems. So yes.
You will be asking when Eric will reach his 100,000th post next.
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