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fletcher christian
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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.
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fletcher christian
Mutinous Seadog
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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.
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fletcher christian
Mutinous Seadog
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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.
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fletcher christian
Mutinous Seadog
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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.
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fletcher christian
Mutinous Seadog
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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.
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fletcher christian
Mutinous Seadog
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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.
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fletcher christian
Mutinous Seadog
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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.
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fletcher christian
Mutinous Seadog
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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.
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Uncle Pete
Loyaute me lie
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Well, the board seems to be catching up.
But is there an echo in here?
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Uncle Pete
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fletcher christian has become the new epitome of boring.
Ah has spoken.
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Barnabas62
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Poor fletcher. I'm sure he really didn't mean to go on and on and on and ON ...
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Ship's Foolwise Unperson
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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) : ...
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Ricardus
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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.
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Marvin the Martian
Interplanetary
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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...
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Enigma
Enigma
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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?
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Pyx_e
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ssshhh here he is.
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Matt Black
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Quick, everyone, let's leave!
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Ariel
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This thread could be retitled The Enigma Variations.
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fletcher christian
Mutinous Seadog
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What the hell? I seem to have morphed into the one in the corner in my own post
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Anselmina
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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!!)
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Curiosity killed ...
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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.
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Doublethink.
Ship's Foolwise Unperson
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Test
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Sine Nomine
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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.
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Twilight
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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.
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Organ Builder
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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.
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Oh my, I feel like someone has drugged my coffee
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Enigma
Enigma
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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.
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Enigma
Enigma
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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.
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Enigma
Enigma
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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!
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Drifting Star
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Originally posted by Enigma:
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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.
Psst - I think Sine was referring to fletcher christian's very impressive run of 8 identical posts at the top of the page.
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Enigma
Enigma
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Originally posted by Drifting Star:
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Originally posted by Enigma:
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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.
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!!
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Doublethink.
Ship's Foolwise Unperson
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Would you like me to throw you a spade or close the thread ?
Think²
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Uncle Pete
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Originally posted by ThinkČ:
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.
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Enigma
Enigma
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Originally posted by Sine Nomine:
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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.
I'll try to harden up for my next appearance but yes hosts - you can close the thread. Thank you.
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Doublethink.
Ship's Foolwise Unperson
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Your wish is my command.
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