Tone of this board

[take_a_pop]

Brill idea. Hmmmm, now i wonder who would be on that one the most ?
Thats a hard 1 to answer. (NOT). Could only be 1 of the Maned crew. Thats Moan About Nothing Every Day incase you dont know, like
Walt Jabsco, and Peaceseeker, who are getting like the 2 old muppets on the balcony.
Can we take it you have empty lives, as its Empty vessels that make the most noise.

[peaceseeker]

Walt Jabsco's post summed up the situation perfectly. Whereas Take a pop's post, shows the very problems that this board is having.

[Bobbie En Tejas]

Peas seeker, you may want to review your 12 posts.
1. How much crime do you have to look forward to in Campbeltown.
2. How much snow do you have to look forward to in Campbeltown.
3. Complaint.
4. Complaint.
5. Complaint.
6. Complaint.
7. Complaint.
(looking at watch)
8. Complaint.
9. Complaint.
(yawning)
10. Complaint.
11. Complaint.
(falling asleep)
12. Complaint.

[Wee Toon Ajax]

Have to say that I agree with Walts initial posting here. It can be quite annoying when you find some of the more serious topics have been hijacked, for the want of a better word, and turned into inanane ramblings, probably guilty of this myself. Really is up to the individual posters to be responsible enough for what they are posting. Been on a few different message boards and the same thing tends to happen - cliques will form.

Personally, I think the board has been well enough set up with regard to subject matters eg local news and issues, general chit chat etc and think poster should respect this. Local news and issues will be more serious than general chit chat in my view. And yes, some topics will even be boring but then that is like life in general - sometimes it is boring.

[wee alba]

Wee Toon Ajax - the problem with forums etc are how people interpret a posting. While some people read the tone of postings with a bit of laughter other read it differently. That is why the mods etc will have an impossible job.

A few times I have felt like posting with my name but I won't because the likes of BJ seems to find something personal to say about anyone he can identify. Not a dig BJ jist the truth!

But please - can you all stop moaning about it - for the likes of me staying in Glasgow it is a breath of fresh air to read up on the news from back home. Some of it is tedious but as posted before then you just have to move on!

One final comment Walt Jabsco - and again do not take this personally - but why don't you post more often? The likes of discussions in local news are pretty much sensible so post in there or do you not have views on local issues? Perhaps you don't stay in Kintyre so sorry! However, if you remember back to a couple of weeks ago I found two of your postings were far from sensible but I dinnae bite! Although I'm a gers fan your posting on the George Best thread could have easily offended some people and you also had a rant on the St Andrews Day thread which actually annoyed me but once again I didn't jump in at the deep end - I notice you have removed that posting mind you!

PS - See you all over Christmas! Perhaps we should have a Christmas get together and have a few shandies!

[GarySutherland]

That's a good point. Email is at best an imperfect medium for expressing yourself, even with the abundance of emoticons and web-speak.

Very easy for what was meant as light-hearted banter or an in-joke to be taken completely the wrong way.

Cheers
Gary

[LO]

The Girning Room has quite a good ring to it don't you think?

[Neil]

Girning room?.Or the house of Mon thenyeh frick erse or the house of Keech.

[Bochan Mor]

Bj and BM are close to the bone (sometimes), but they at least are not boring, and boring is what drives people away.

That's just damned ridiculous.

Peter Sutcliffe, Fred West. et al. . Hardly boring characters but ...

And, as people ARE being driven away from this board, then patently the two idiots you mention are responsible.
Wake up. Smell the coffee

Look closely in the mirror Keechseeker. Then ask yourself: 'Which two 'idiots' have helped to facilitate, with the kind assistance of many other good-natured members, the highest volume of traffic through a single thread on this forum.

The bulk of visitors to this board wouldn't give posts, even collectively, by Neil, Chris A or yourself a second glance, without replies from the likes of bubbly jock, Morenish or Take-a-Pop, to name but a few.

Bobbie En Tejas and Dorian, despite their geographical location, are far more akin to the people of Kintyre than you. Surely you have forums closer to home with like-minded people that would suit your needs much better than this particular gem. It is blatantly obvious that you are probably closer in nature to the afore-mentioned psychos that you misaligned bubbly and myself with.

I suspect that this is not the first forum that the three of you have raided with your British Bulldog style of Casualism.

Naw, I can state categorically that I'm not one bit like you, and neither do I have any desire to be remotely comparable.

As bubbly jock recently said to me: 'Lets leave them to it. The board will quickly descend to bored.'

You claim that people are being driven away, and yet Davie P's website has soared to become the 6th most popular in Scotland. I suppose that I have to admit though, that many of the people only log on in the hope that the locals are going to take the rip right out of the likes of you!

Keep coming back, but please keep a civil tongue

[Right Pongal]

Girning room?.Or the house of Mon thenyeh frick erse or the house of Keech.

This is heading towards the charity pantomime in aid of paranoid schizophrenics which descended into chaos yesterday when someone shouted :

"He's behind you!"

Now away and wash yer mooth oot wae carbolic soap or bilgex for that matter!

[Snoddy]

And, as people ARE being driven away from this board, then patently the two idiots you mention are responsible.

Wake up. Smell the coffee

Dear Mr Peacekeeper: NEVER CALL THY BROTHER A FOOL!

[Neil]

And to my other sparring partner bochan considering I only came on here to look back I wouldn't expect anybody to take or look at my posts with that much interest,don't get me wrong ive had a few good laughs at some of the threads and posters... Yes you and bubs are a couple of funny fellas and when you get together you can be pains in the arses but now its moved up a level to pure f*ckwittery and its now become win the argument at any level and bordering on the personal level which can get out of hand.

So play along with your little midnight cowboys who understand you so well I doubt they will ever say anything to upset you(no disrespect to the people mentioned,they have always been ok with me).

And like Chris A said if you are ever down this way give us a shout im sure we could return the hospitality.

[Bochan Mor]

but now its moved up a level to pure frick and its now become win the argument at any level and bordering on the personal level which can get out of hand.

So play along with your little midnight cowboys who understand you so well I doubt they will ever say anything to upset you(no disrespect to the people mentioned,they have always been ok with me).

And like Chris A said if you are ever down this way give us a shout im sure we could return the hospitality.

Neil, don't take it too personally. It's more a cultural thing, that you lads wouldn't be expected to understand, and yes, you are 100% correct in saying that it is getting out of hand.

I currently have no ambition to visit your area, but should I choose to do so, then who knows, I may give you a shout.

Anyway, have a good Christmas, and when the bells toll at Midnight on Hogmanay, you can charge your glasses and drink a toast to your old pals: bubbly, Bochan, Morenish, Hurricane Jeck (If he's not completely demented yet), Take-a-Pop, Dorian, Bobbie-en-Tejas, Heidless, Pongal, Bitter End, old Snoddy, the Scouder (if he's listening) and all the other colourful characters that you have met on here.

When you've done that, show some respect and recharge your glass and shark one straight down the hatch in the name of Davie the Pea and all the other poor moderators on here.

Peaceseeker could do worse than go to some of the pages below, where he will find evidence that our auld tongue is not only spoken, but written. With the kind permission of Westminster of course!

http://www.scuilwab.org.uk/index.htm

http://www.itchy-coo.com/

As our Viking ancestors would say: 'God Jul og et Godt Nytt Ǻr. Vennlig hilsen'.

[bubbly jock]

Aye Bochan mor

The cakes been well and truly left oot in the rain, soaked and ruined by those from afar or maybe not as far as we are led to believe.

I'm off to sunnier climes and might jeest catch up wae the Heidless Horseman at the Mill Dam. Come and give us a wave at Mundell's as we ride into the sunset. That's if your naw too busy. Say cheerio to your cohorts when you see them

And to the vulger element on here the board is all yours boys. Enjoy.

bubbly

[Working Boot]

Haven't posted since my last thread seemed to cause a wave of replies!!

However, cant help but reading postings over the last few weeks and notice one thing - the people who seemed to be offended are English. I really think there is nothing to be upset at and you just really don't get it - it is a Scottish thing perhaps but stop yer ranting.

And PLEASE do not take this as an insult and go off on one - my wife is English and she is the nicest person I have ever met (still can't understand a word I say but there you go!)

Just seems some people have went off in the huff and looking retrospectively there was nothing in it.

Personally, I find the characters on here colourful, healthy and facinating!

PS - Neil your use of the English language leaves alot to be desired....