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Posted by Enigma (# 16158) on
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Just enterered the cafe - 4 people there - within 30 seconds all had bid their farewells with a couple saying hello and goodbye.
I have no idea what I may have done but it obviously must be something dreadful such that none of them might have stayed for even a minute!! So I am calling myself to hell for being - I don't know what but obviously not interesting.
Quite seriously, when you enter the cafe and people are obviously doing other things and don't notice you that's OK, but when there are people there who acknowledge you then all leave that's just demoralising in the extreme. Just when I thought the ship might extend my family. Oh well!!
(I'm saying this not because I'm in any danger or anything but if I had been needing help I might have headed straight for the overdose) Just saying ... so what's so dreadful about me? Probably just unlucky but if there are any flames to be had please let me know......
Posted by Kelly Alves (# 2522) on
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Don't know if this is related, but I just tried to log in( mostly to tell you "calm down and have a cookie" if you were still there) and the cafe basically flipped me off. So, maybe it's not that they don't like you, maybe the cafe doesn't like any of us at the moment.
In other words-- shit happens, but the cafe is kind of a shit-happening lightning rod.
Posted by Twilight (# 2832) on
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Also, Enigma, it's dinner time in America.
Posted by Kelly Alves (# 2522) on
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That's right. I'm in California; dinnertime is about an hour away.
Also, sometimes you just stroll in exactly at that moment when everyone has decided to pack it in. They may just not have thought to mention it, or assumed someone else would.
[ 23. May 2012, 23:07: Message edited by: Kelly Alves ]
Posted by Lyda*Rose (# 4544) on
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I'd recommend putting this on a sticky on the frame of your screen (if you are not using a teeny-weeny smart phone): quote:
It's not always all about me. Really. ![[Smile]](smile.gif)
Posted by PeteC (# 10422) on
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Honestly, does this little pity party belong in Hell?
Oh, right. It doesn't. Bye!
PeteC
Hell Host
Posted by PeteC (# 10422) on
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On sober reflection (and a good sleep), I changed my mind. Have at it.
PeteC
Hell Host
Posted by Pyx_e (# 57) on
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Well I have not been in the cafe for years but today I am going back in all day. As soon as Enigma logs in I will log out. But just before I do I will type "Ssshhh here he is....."
AtB Pyx_e
Posted by pjl (# 16929) on
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Hey enigma, I was part of that gang of 4, I think we had just reached that part of the night when bed time beckoned.
If you haven't already topped yourself get in earlier.
cheers mate
Posted by Think˛ (# 1984) on
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Also worth pointing out the cafe is a social space not a support group - if you need I-think-I-might-OD type help you should be calling the Samaritans or seeking professional help.
Posted by Fidei Defensor (# 17105) on
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This used to happen to me in the days when one didn't need to have a particular Ship login to doss in the caff. It was usually mousethief holding court, but the denizens would evaporate as soon as I (in whichever guise I entered the caff) breezed in. I think Enigma's onto something.
Anyway, he/she isn't there now, nor is anyone else, so I'll tootle up to All Saints to express my desire to commune with cafenauts.
Posted by George Spigot (# 253) on
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I'm going to log into the cafe RIGHT NOW and boy oh boy will there be trouble if NOBODY TALKS TO ME!
Posted by Think˛ (# 1984) on
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Fidei, I don't think mousethief's used the cafe for several years.
[ 24. May 2012, 10:07: Message edited by: Think˛ ]
Posted by Fidei Defensor (# 17105) on
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quote:
Originally posted by Think˛:
Fidei, I don't think mousethief's used the cafe for several years.
Which is why I posted quote:
in the days when one didn't need to have a particular Ship login to doss in the caff
Whatever, far be it from me to junior host, but this topic doesn't really lend itself to rude words. Even if George Spigot didn't hang around while I finished my Portuguese Cabbage, Potato and Chorizo Soup as I clearly signalled in All Saints was my intent.
Posted by Ariel (# 58) on
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quote:
Originally posted by Enigma:
I have no idea what I may have done but it obviously must be something dreadful such that none of them might have stayed for even a minute!! So I am calling myself to hell for being - I don't know what but obviously not interesting.
Well, you've just answered your own question. Now you need to establish how boring you are on a scale of 1-10, and then work on getting to one end of the scale or the other in order to become more interesting. You'll know if you're succeeding as people will add a few seconds to the time they spend in the cafe with you before disappearing.
quote:
Just when I thought the ship might extend my family.
We're not your family. What did you have in mind, marriage, or adoption?
Posted by Molopata The Rebel (# 9933) on
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Has anybody noticed how quiet Hell's been since Enigma started posting here?
Posted by The Great Gumby (# 10989) on
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quote:
Originally posted by Molopata The Rebel:
Has anybody noticed how quiet Hell's been since Enigma started posting here?
Shhhhh!
Posted by Curiosity killed ... (# 11770) on
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As I said as I left, it was already 11:30pm, UK time, and my alarm goes off at 5:30am; it was time for bed! The person who went just before me had already bid their adieus - and hadn't been in the café for over a year, before last night.
The problem with people arriving at that time of night is that there are two choices: continue leaving or make conversation. At 11:30pm on a week night, it's too late to start a deep and meaningful conversation.
PS Pyx_e - you're not keeping your promise!
Posted by Curiosity killed ... (# 11770) on
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It was 11:30pm UK time on a weekday night. And you've come to Hell to complain that people were on their way to bed and didn't stick around to make conversation?
Posted by Marvin the Martian (# 4360) on
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I'm just checking something, can't stay sorry...
Posted by Curiosity killed ... (# 11770) on
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As one of the people who said hello and goodbye, let's get this straight: at 11:30pm UK time on a weekday night people chose to go bed rather than start a new conversation. And you've brought that to Hell? Ri-i-ight.
PS Pyx_e - hmmph, not going to believe anything you say in the future.
Posted by Curiosity killed ... (# 11770) on
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As one of the people who said hello and goodbye, let's get this straight: at 11:30pm UK time on a weekday night people chose to go bed rather than start a new conversation. And you've brought that to Hell? Ri-i-ight.
PS Pyx_e - hmmph, not going to believe anything you say in the future.
Posted by Kelly Alves (# 2522) on
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Quiet, indeed
Posted by Enigma (# 16158) on
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quote:
Originally posted by The Great Gumby:
quote:
Originally posted by Molopata The Rebel:
Has anybody noticed how quiet Hell's been since Enigma started posting here?
Shhhhh!
Better post again then..... how cool to be boring even in Hell!! I was a trifle offended though by the quick departures in the cafe. It was like going to a (very small) party then being left to party alone. I do take Ariel's point that I must measure myself on the boredom scale - except I'm too bored to bother. And also I am so uninteresting that I'm not interested in myself.
See it's not all about me - cos I am boring!! ![[Biased]](wink.gif)
Posted by Gwai (# 11076) on
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Well,
Posted by Enigma (# 16158) on
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quote:
Originally posted by The Great Gumby:
quote:
Originally posted by Molopata The Rebel:
Has anybody noticed how quiet Hell's been since Enigma started posting here?
Shhhhh!
I'd better post again then if I can clean up Hell!
I was rather offended by the quick exits in the cafe yesterday but I'm so boring that it's not worth pursuing.
To take Ariel's point - I'm not even interesting to myself so I really deserve to be here in the land of nothingness.
It's really not about me.....so unless someone wants to take this in another direction I'm happy for this excuse for a rant to be closed. Next time I'll try more vitriol.
Where can I buy that?
Posted by Spike (# 36) on
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testing
Posted by orfeo (# 13878) on
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Wait, we have a cafe?...
Posted by jedijudy (# 333) on
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Oh, I was supposed to be insulted when folks left the cafe just when I logged in? Silly me. I thought they had Other Things to Do™.
Posted by Socratic-enigma (# 12074) on
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Enigma, please pay attention…
You are not ‘in’; so subsequently whenever you are in, everyone who is ‘in’ will be out. However, those who are ‘in’ will strenuously deny that any such characterization exists, and that because you are in, you must necessarily be ‘in’ (which may or may not follow depending on who you follow). At some point in the future you may become ‘in’, although exactly why will never be made explicit, and may abruptly be followed by one no longer being in, just as inexplicably – so suddenly those who are ‘in’ will be in when you are in… and will abruptly cease to be when you no longer are.
Is that clear?
S-E
Posted by orfeo (# 13878) on
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Wait, the Ship has a cafe?...
Posted by Socratic-enigma (# 12074) on
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Enigma, please pay attention…
You are not ‘in’; so subsequently whenever you are in, everyone who is ‘in’ will be out. However, those who are ‘in’ will strenuously deny that any such characterization exists, and that because you are in, you must necessarily be ‘in’ (which may or may not follow depending on who you follow). At some point in the future you may become ‘in’, although exactly why will never be made explicit, and may abruptly be followed by one no longer being in, just as inexplicably – so suddenly those who are ‘in’ will be in when you are in… and will abruptly cease to be when you no longer are.
Is that clear?
S-E
Posted by Spike (# 36) on
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quote:
Originally posted by Fidei Defensor:
Whatever, far be it from me to junior host, but this topic doesn't really lend itself to rude words.
So what? Swearing isn't compulsory in Hell you know. And for that matter, it's not banned on any of the other boards either.
Posted by Curiosity killed ... (# 11770) on
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I am one of the people who said hello and goodbye.
Let's just clarify something. If you arrive in the café at 11:30pm UK time on a week day, why do the UK shipmates, who've just been saying that it's time to go, have to stay to chat to you? And why is it so offensive to you when they don't that you think it's worthy of a Hell thread?
Posted by fletcher christian (# 13919) on
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No, no, no, you must never take it personally. I like the cafe because more often than not people you think are absolute assholes on board turn out to be quite normal and good folk...of course the reverse can be true too. But mostly it's fluff; fluff about life, fluff about tv, fluff about music and the eurovision all interspersed with a certain wit. Of course these things can get heated too and now and again people do a mass exodus because they find the topic boring, too heated or whatever and it's possible to come in just at the wrong time.
It's a little like when you're working late and you know everyone else is at the pub having a laugh, but when you get there they are all heading home because the one in the corner has being going on all night about how Angela Merkel isn't the anti-Christ and is just a very naughty woman to the point where everyone has lost the will to live - and there you are bounding in with pint in hand with the joys of spring only to have your hoped for event turn to a pile of festering shit right in front of your face. It's annoying, a tad disappointing, but it's not personal.
Posted by The Great Gumby (# 10989) on
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quote:
Originally posted by Kelly Alves:
Quiet, indeed
I know. Listen to that echo.
Posted by fletcher christian (# 13919) on
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No, no, no, you must never take it personally. I like the cafe because more often than not people you think are absolute assholes on board turn out to be quite normal and good folk...of course the reverse can be true too. But mostly it's fluff; fluff about life, fluff about tv, fluff about music and the eurovision all interspersed with a certain wit. Of course these things can get heated too and now and again people do a mass exodus because they find the topic boring, too heated or whatever and it's possible to come in just at the wrong time.
It's a little like when you're working late and you know everyone else is at the pub having a laugh, but when you get there they are all heading home because the one in the corner has being going on all night about how Angela Merkel isn't the anti-Christ and is just a very naughty woman to the point where everyone has lost the will to live - and there you are bounding in with pint in hand with the joys of spring only to have your hoped for event turn to a pile of festering shit right in front of your face. It's annoying, a tad disappointing, but it's not personal.
Posted by The Great Gumby (# 10989) on
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quote:
Originally posted by Kelly Alves:
Quiet, indeed
I know. Listen to that echo.
Posted by fletcher christian (# 13919) on
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No, no, no, you must never take it personally. I like the cafe because more often than not people you think are absolute assholes on board turn out to be quite normal and good folk...of course the reverse can be true too. But mostly it's fluff; fluff about life, fluff about tv, fluff about music and the eurovision all interspersed with a certain wit. Of course these things can get heated too and now and again people do a mass exodus because they find the topic boring, too heated or whatever and it's possible to come in just at the wrong time.
It's a little like when you're working late and you know everyone else is at the pub having a laugh, but when you get there they are all heading home because the one in the corner has being going on all night about how Angela Merkel isn't the anti-Christ and is just a very naughty woman to the point where everyone has lost the will to live - and there you are bounding in with pint in hand with the joys of spring only to have your hoped for event turn to a pile of festering shit right in front of your face. It's annoying, a tad disappointing, but it's not personal.
Posted by fletcher christian (# 13919) on
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No, no, no, you must never take it personally. I like the cafe because more often than not people you think are absolute assholes on board turn out to be quite normal and good folk...of course the reverse can be true too. But mostly it's fluff; fluff about life, fluff about tv, fluff about music and the eurovision all interspersed with a certain wit. Of course these things can get heated too and now and again people do a mass exodus because they find the topic boring, too heated or whatever and it's possible to come in just at the wrong time.
It's a little like when you're working late and you know everyone else is at the pub having a laugh, but when you get there they are all heading home because the one in the corner has being going on all night about how Angela Merkel isn't the anti-Christ and is just a very naughty woman to the point where everyone has lost the will to live - and there you are bounding in with pint in hand with the joys of spring only to have your hoped for event turn to a pile of festering shit right in front of your face. It's annoying, a tad disappointing, but it's not personal.
Posted by fletcher christian (# 13919) on
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No, no, no, you must never take it personally. I like the cafe because more often than not people you think are absolute assholes on board turn out to be quite normal and good folk...of course the reverse can be true too. But mostly it's fluff; fluff about life, fluff about tv, fluff about music and the eurovision all interspersed with a certain wit. Of course these things can get heated too and now and again people do a mass exodus because they find the topic boring, too heated or whatever and it's possible to come in just at the wrong time.
It's a little like when you're working late and you know everyone else is at the pub having a laugh, but when you get there they are all heading home because the one in the corner has being going on all night about how Angela Merkel isn't the anti-Christ and is just a very naughty woman to the point where everyone has lost the will to live - and there you are bounding in with pint in hand with the joys of spring only to have your hoped for event turn to a pile of festering shit right in front of your face. It's annoying, a tad disappointing, but it's not personal.
Posted by fletcher christian (# 13919) on
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No, no, no, you must never take it personally. I like the cafe because more often than not people you think are absolute assholes on board turn out to be quite normal and good folk...of course the reverse can be true too. But mostly it's fluff; fluff about life, fluff about tv, fluff about music and the eurovision all interspersed with a certain wit. Of course these things can get heated too and now and again people do a mass exodus because they find the topic boring, too heated or whatever and it's possible to come in just at the wrong time.
It's a little like when you're working late and you know everyone else is at the pub having a laugh, but when you get there they are all heading home because the one in the corner has being going on all night about how Angela Merkel isn't the anti-Christ and is just a very naughty woman to the point where everyone has lost the will to live - and there you are bounding in with pint in hand with the joys of spring only to have your hoped for event turn to a pile of festering shit right in front of your face. It's annoying, a tad disappointing, but it's not personal.
Posted by fletcher christian (# 13919) on
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No, no, no, you must never take it personally. I like the cafe because more often than not people you think are absolute assholes on board turn out to be quite normal and good folk...of course the reverse can be true too. But mostly it's fluff; fluff about life, fluff about tv, fluff about music and the eurovision all interspersed with a certain wit. Of course these things can get heated too and now and again people do a mass exodus because they find the topic boring, too heated or whatever and it's possible to come in just at the wrong time.
It's a little like when you're working late and you know everyone else is at the pub having a laugh, but when you get there they are all heading home because the one in the corner has being going on all night about how Angela Merkel isn't the anti-Christ and is just a very naughty woman to the point where everyone has lost the will to live - and there you are bounding in with pint in hand with the joys of spring only to have your hoped for event turn to a pile of festering shit right in front of your face. It's annoying, a tad disappointing, but it's not personal.
Posted by The Great Gumby (# 10989) on
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quote:
Originally posted by Kelly Alves:
Quiet, indeed
Isn't it just? You can hear the echoes going on forever.
Posted by fletcher christian (# 13919) on
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No, no, no, you must never take it personally. I like the cafe because more often than not people you think are absolute assholes on board turn out to be quite normal and good folk...of course the reverse can be true too. But mostly it's fluff; fluff about life, fluff about tv, fluff about music and the eurovision all interspersed with a certain wit. Of course these things can get heated too and now and again people do a mass exodus because they find the topic boring, too heated or whatever and it's possible to come in just at the wrong time.
It's a little like when you're working late and you know everyone else is at the pub having a laugh, but when you get there they are all heading home because the one in the corner has being going on all night about how Angela Merkel isn't the anti-Christ and is just a very naughty woman to the point where everyone has lost the will to live - and there you are bounding in with pint in hand with the joys of spring only to have your hoped for event turn to a pile of festering shit right in front of your face. It's annoying, a tad disappointing, but it's not personal.
Posted by The Great Gumby (# 10989) on
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quote:
Originally posted by Kelly Alves:
Quiet, indeed
Isn't it just? You can hear the echoes going on forever.
Posted by Think˛ (# 1984) on
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Hmm, I don't know if the repeat posts are to do with our current problems or not - but will try to delete for ease of reading.
Think ²
Hellhost
Posted by fletcher christian (# 13919) on
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No, no, no, you must never take it personally. I like the cafe because more often than not people you think are absolute assholes on board turn out to be quite normal and good folk...of course the reverse can be true too. But mostly it's fluff; fluff about life, fluff about tv, fluff about music and the eurovision all interspersed with a certain wit. Of course these things can get heated too and now and again people do a mass exodus because they find the topic boring, too heated or whatever and it's possible to come in just at the wrong time.
It's a little like when you're working late and you know everyone else is at the pub having a laugh, but when you get there they are all heading home because the one in the corner has being going on all night about how Angela Merkel isn't the anti-Christ and is just a very naughty woman to the point where everyone has lost the will to live - and there you are bounding in with pint in hand with the joys of spring only to have your hoped for event turn to a pile of festering shit right in front of your face. It's annoying, a tad disappointing, but it's not personal.
Posted by fletcher christian (# 13919) on
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No, no, no, you must never take it personally. I like the cafe because more often than not people you think are absolute assholes on board turn out to be quite normal and good folk...of course the reverse can be true too. But mostly it's fluff; fluff about life, fluff about tv, fluff about music and the eurovision all interspersed with a certain wit. Of course these things can get heated too and now and again people do a mass exodus because they find the topic boring, too heated or whatever and it's possible to come in just at the wrong time.
It's a little like when you're working late and you know everyone else is at the pub having a laugh, but when you get there they are all heading home because the one in the corner has being going on all night about how Angela Merkel isn't the anti-Christ and is just a very naughty woman to the point where everyone has lost the will to live - and there you are bounding in with pint in hand with the joys of spring only to have your hoped for event turn to a pile of festering shit right in front of your face. It's annoying, a tad disappointing, but it's not personal.
Posted by Ariel (# 58) on
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Somebody should frame this thread and hang it on a wall. It's brought a whole new dimension to Hell calls.
Posted by fletcher christian (# 13919) on
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No, no, no, you must never take it personally. I like the cafe because more often than not people you think are absolute assholes on board turn out to be quite normal and good folk...of course the reverse can be true too. But mostly it's fluff; fluff about life, fluff about tv, fluff about music and the eurovision all interspersed with a certain wit. Of course these things can get heated too and now and again people do a mass exodus because they find the topic boring, too heated or whatever and it's possible to come in just at the wrong time.
It's a little like when you're working late and you know everyone else is at the pub having a laugh, but when you get there they are all heading home because the one in the corner has being going on all night about how Angela Merkel isn't the anti-Christ and is just a very naughty woman to the point where everyone has lost the will to live - and there you are bounding in with pint in hand with the joys of spring only to have your hoped for event turn to a pile of festering shit right in front of your face. It's annoying, a tad disappointing, but it's not personal.
Posted by fletcher christian (# 13919) on
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No, no, no, you must never take it personally. I like the cafe because more often than not people you think are absolute assholes on board turn out to be quite normal and good folk...of course the reverse can be true too. But mostly it's fluff; fluff about life, fluff about tv, fluff about music and the eurovision all interspersed with a certain wit. Of course these things can get heated too and now and again people do a mass exodus because they find the topic boring, too heated or whatever and it's possible to come in just at the wrong time.
It's a little like when you're working late and you know everyone else is at the pub having a laugh, but when you get there they are all heading home because the one in the corner has being going on all night about how Angela Merkel isn't the anti-Christ and is just a very naughty woman to the point where everyone has lost the will to live - and there you are bounding in with pint in hand with the joys of spring only to have your hoped for event turn to a pile of festering shit right in front of your face. It's annoying, a tad disappointing, but it's not personal.
Posted by fletcher christian (# 13919) on
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No, no, no, you must never take it personally. I like the cafe because more often than not people you think are absolute assholes on board turn out to be quite normal and good folk...of course the reverse can be true too. But mostly it's fluff; fluff about life, fluff about tv, fluff about music and the eurovision all interspersed with a certain wit. Of course these things can get heated too and now and again people do a mass exodus because they find the topic boring, too heated or whatever and it's possible to come in just at the wrong time.
It's a little like when you're working late and you know everyone else is at the pub having a laugh, but when you get there they are all heading home because the one in the corner has being going on all night about how Angela Merkel isn't the anti-Christ and is just a very naughty woman to the point where everyone has lost the will to live - and there you are bounding in with pint in hand with the joys of spring only to have your hoped for event turn to a pile of festering shit right in front of your face. It's annoying, a tad disappointing, but it's not personal.
Posted by fletcher christian (# 13919) on
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No, no, no, you must never take it personally. I like the cafe because more often than not people you think are absolute assholes on board turn out to be quite normal and good folk...of course the reverse can be true too. But mostly it's fluff; fluff about life, fluff about tv, fluff about music and the eurovision all interspersed with a certain wit. Of course these things can get heated too and now and again people do a mass exodus because they find the topic boring, too heated or whatever and it's possible to come in just at the wrong time.
It's a little like when you're working late and you know everyone else is at the pub having a laugh, but when you get there they are all heading home because the one in the corner has being going on all night about how Angela Merkel isn't the anti-Christ and is just a very naughty woman to the point where everyone has lost the will to live - and there you are bounding in with pint in hand with the joys of spring only to have your hoped for event turn to a pile of festering shit right in front of your face. It's annoying, a tad disappointing, but it's not personal.
Posted by fletcher christian (# 13919) on
:
No, no, no, you must never take it personally. I like the cafe because more often than not people you think are absolute assholes on board turn out to be quite normal and good folk...of course the reverse can be true too. But mostly it's fluff; fluff about life, fluff about tv, fluff about music and the eurovision all interspersed with a certain wit. Of course these things can get heated too and now and again people do a mass exodus because they find the topic boring, too heated or whatever and it's possible to come in just at the wrong time.
It's a little like when you're working late and you know everyone else is at the pub having a laugh, but when you get there they are all heading home because the one in the corner has being going on all night about how Angela Merkel isn't the anti-Christ and is just a very naughty woman to the point where everyone has lost the will to live - and there you are bounding in with pint in hand with the joys of spring only to have your hoped for event turn to a pile of festering shit right in front of your face. It's annoying, a tad disappointing, but it's not personal.
Posted by fletcher christian (# 13919) on
:
No, no, no, you must never take it personally. I like the cafe because more often than not people you think are absolute assholes on board turn out to be quite normal and good folk...of course the reverse can be true too. But mostly it's fluff; fluff about life, fluff about tv, fluff about music and the eurovision all interspersed with a certain wit. Of course these things can get heated too and now and again people do a mass exodus because they find the topic boring, too heated or whatever and it's possible to come in just at the wrong time.
It's a little like when you're working late and you know everyone else is at the pub having a laugh, but when you get there they are all heading home because the one in the corner has being going on all night about how Angela Merkel isn't the anti-Christ and is just a very naughty woman to the point where everyone has lost the will to live - and there you are bounding in with pint in hand with the joys of spring only to have your hoped for event turn to a pile of festering shit right in front of your face. It's annoying, a tad disappointing, but it's not personal.
Posted by fletcher christian (# 13919) on
:
No, no, no, you must never take it personally. I like the cafe because more often than not people you think are absolute assholes on board turn out to be quite normal and good folk...of course the reverse can be true too. But mostly it's fluff; fluff about life, fluff about tv, fluff about music and the eurovision all interspersed with a certain wit. Of course these things can get heated too and now and again people do a mass exodus because they find the topic boring, too heated or whatever and it's possible to come in just at the wrong time.
It's a little like when you're working late and you know everyone else is at the pub having a laugh, but when you get there they are all heading home because the one in the corner has being going on all night about how Angela Merkel isn't the anti-Christ and is just a very naughty woman to the point where everyone has lost the will to live - and there you are bounding in with pint in hand with the joys of spring only to have your hoped for event turn to a pile of festering shit right in front of your face. It's annoying, a tad disappointing, but it's not personal.
Posted by fletcher christian (# 13919) on
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No, no, no, you must never take it personally. I like the cafe because more often than not people you think are absolute assholes on board turn out to be quite normal and good folk...of course the reverse can be true too. But mostly it's fluff; fluff about life, fluff about tv, fluff about music and the eurovision all interspersed with a certain wit. Of course these things can get heated too and now and again people do a mass exodus because they find the topic boring, too heated or whatever and it's possible to come in just at the wrong time.
It's a little like when you're working late and you know everyone else is at the pub having a laugh, but when you get there they are all heading home because the one in the corner has being going on all night about how Angela Merkel isn't the anti-Christ and is just a very naughty woman to the point where everyone has lost the will to live - and there you are bounding in with pint in hand with the joys of spring only to have your hoped for event turn to a pile of festering shit right in front of your face. It's annoying, a tad disappointing, but it's not personal.
Posted by PeteC (# 10422) on
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Well, the board seems to be catching up.
But is there an echo in here?
Posted by PeteC (# 10422) on
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fletcher christian has become the new epitome of boring.
Ah has spoken.
Posted by Barnabas62 (# 9110) on
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Poor fletcher. I'm sure he really didn't mean to go on and on and on and ON ...
Posted by Pants (# 999) on
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Makes it far easier to read a longer thread though! Lol
Posted by Think˛ (# 1984) on
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I think everything after Fletcher is now in the order intended by the poster - I have changed my mind and am not going to delete anything , who knows what it might do to the indexing ![[Paranoid]](graemlins/paranoid.gif)
: ...
Think²
Hellhost
Posted by la vie en rouge (# 10688) on
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This thread makes me feel like I have slipped through a wormhole into some alternative dimension.
(This is only going to post once, right?)
Posted by Ricardus (# 8757) on
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It's like one of those plays by (hastily checks Wikipedia until distracted by actual work) Someone You've Never Heard Of.
Posted by Marvin the Martian (# 4360) on
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Originally posted by la vie en rouge:
(This is only going to post once, right?)
It would seem that all of the previous posts only posted once. It's just that Hell was broken, so they didn't display, leading certain posters (myself included ![[Hot and Hormonal]](icon_redface.gif)
) to keep mashing the "Add reply" button in the hope that this time it'll work, dammit...
Posted by Enigma (# 16158) on
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Originally posted by Socratic-enigma:
Enigma, please pay attention…
You are not ‘in’; so subsequently whenever you are in, everyone who is ‘in’ will be out. However, those who are ‘in’ will strenuously deny that any such characterization exists, and that because you are in, you must necessarily be ‘in’ (which may or may not follow depending on who you follow). At some point in the future you may become ‘in’, although exactly why will never be made explicit, and may abruptly be followed by one no longer being in, just as inexplicably – so suddenly those who are ‘in’ will be in when you are in… and will abruptly cease to be when you no longer are.
Is that clear?
S-E
You talking about cricket here?
Posted by Pyx_e (# 57) on
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ssshhh here he is.
Posted by Matt Black (# 2210) on
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Quick, everyone, let's leave!
Posted by Zappa (# 8433) on
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should have helped his post count no end
Posted by Evensong (# 14696) on
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wtf?
Posted by Ariel (# 58) on
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This thread could be retitled The Enigma Variations.
Posted by fletcher christian (# 13919) on
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What the hell? I seem to have morphed into the one in the corner in my own post
Posted by Anselmina (# 3032) on
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I tried to post last night to say I had been in the cafe for the first time since for-ever - maybe even the poster Curiosity Killed referred to? I didn't even know it had changed format so much!
I had a couple of nice chats. I was tempted in by Alex Cockell's invite to live-chat about the Eurovision song contest. Though we didn't talk about that after all.
I did wonder if the regulars were wondering 'what's she doing here? Never bothered her arse before?' ![[Razz]](tongue.gif)
But it is difficult if there are only a few in the cafe. It's inevitable that regulars have things in common to post about - but I felt pretty welcomed. And as others point out, timing is crucial. People who need to log off shouldn't feel guilty about that just because someone else enters the cafe.
(After seeing Fletcher's performance on this thread, I'm delighted that all my various attempts to post didn't get through!!)
Posted by Curiosity killed ... (# 11770) on
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No, Anselmina, I wasn't thinking of you. It was someone who hasn't been around for a long time - last in the café over a year ago, and I can't remember the last time she posted. She really didn't deserve to be called to Hell for continuing to leave when she'd already made her adieus.
Posted by Think˛ (# 1984) on
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Test
Posted by Sine Nomine (# 66) on
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So often I've thought to myself "Damn. The same people are making the same posts over and over again." And now it has come true, just as I imagined it. That happens so seldom in life.
Posted by Twilight (# 2832) on
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I tried going to the Cafe, once, years ago. I was terrified by the frantic pace and the clacking noise. Maybe Enigma and I should start a new, less exciting Cafe where no one needs to be wide awake and inanity rules.
Posted by Sine Nomine (# 66) on
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Originally posted by Twilight:
I tried going to the Cafe, once, years ago. I was terrified by the frantic pace
Me too. Once and never been back.
Posted by Organ Builder (# 12478) on
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Most of my time on the boards is spent with a few minutes here and there to read contributions on threads I'm following. Anything I post longer than three sentences is probably going to be done on my lunch hour.
The cafe doesn't fit that kind of schedule, so I've really only been there for Erin's memorial.
Posted by Mockingale (# 16599) on
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Oh my, I feel like someone has drugged my coffee
Posted by Enigma (# 16158) on
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Originally posted by Curiosity killed ...:
No, Anselmina, I wasn't thinking of you. It was someone who hasn't been around for a long time - last in the café over a year ago, and I can't remember the last time she posted. She really didn't deserve to be called to Hell for continuing to leave when she'd already made her adieus.
Ahem - may I remind you that the person I called to Hell was myself?? I was just unlucky I guess - I got excited when there were 4 people there - then there were none. ![[Frown]](frown.gif)
If the goodbyes had been staggered by even a few minutes I might not have felt as I did. And isn't that what Hell is for? To have a rant?
I will be back for more though - hope no hard feelings.
Posted by Enigma (# 16158) on
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Originally posted by Sine Nomine:
So often I've thought to myself "Damn. The same people are making the same posts over and over again." And now it has come true, just as I imagined it. That happens so seldom in life.
I've never done this before??? But perhaps I will again now since I am now a part of your imagination.
Posted by Curiosity killed ... (# 11770) on
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Oh no, you very passively aggressively called to Hell all those who didn't stay to chat to you in the café
Posted by Enigma (# 16158) on
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Originally posted by Curiosity killed ...:
Oh no, you very passively aggressively called to Hell all those who didn't stay to chat to you in the café
Unfortunately for me that was everyone.
Stop now - guilty as charged. Won't complain again in here of the circumstances of life. I was just trying to show real feelings - sorry!
Posted by Drifting Star (# 12799) on
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Originally posted by Enigma:
quote:
Originally posted by Sine Nomine:
So often I've thought to myself "Damn. The same people are making the same posts over and over again." And now it has come true, just as I imagined it. That happens so seldom in life.
I've never done this before??? But perhaps I will again now since I am now a part of your imagination.
Psst - I think Sine was referring to fletcher christian's very impressive run of 8 identical posts at the top of the page.
Posted by Enigma (# 16158) on
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Originally posted by Drifting Star:
quote:
Originally posted by Enigma:
quote:
Originally posted by Sine Nomine:
So often I've thought to myself "Damn. The same people are making the same posts over and over again." And now it has come true, just as I imagined it. That happens so seldom in life.
I've never done this before??? But perhaps I will again now since I am now a part of your imagination.
Psst - I think Sine was referring to fletcher christian's very impressive run of 8 identical posts at the top of the page.
Oops. See I've just proved what I didn't want to prove, that I think it's all about me as people have suggested. Always learning about life.....and keeping up!!
Posted by Think˛ (# 1984) on
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Would you like me to throw you a spade or close the thread ?
Think²
Hellhost
Posted by Sine Nomine (# 66) on
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Originally posted by Enigma:
I was just trying to show real feelings - sorry!
Oh dear. One of those "I've got feelings too!" types.
Posted by PeteC (# 10422) on
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Originally posted by Think˛:
Would you like me to throw you a spade or close the thread ?
Think²
Hellhost
Think it over, Enigma. We're feeling giddy with relief at the moment.
PeteC
Hellhost
Posted by Enigma (# 16158) on
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Originally posted by Sine Nomine:
quote:
Originally posted by Enigma:
I was just trying to show real feelings - sorry!
Oh dear. One of those "I've got feelings too!" types.
I'll try to harden up for my next appearance but yes hosts - you can close the thread. Thank you.
Posted by Think˛ (# 1984) on
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Your wish is my command.
Think²
Hellhost
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