Re: BIGGEST FORUM FLOUNCE

[lardbucket]

Not sure if this thread is 'gold', but there are so many allusions to forum history (at least until I joined in about 6 pages back and it rapidly degenerated into a dissection of the relative merits of Lesser Brewing And Distilling Products) ...

Themes include:

Why Did Sarah Flounce?
The Forumer You're Most Afraid To Meet
Zim And Horace Fight To The Death At The MCG
NFI = Merlin? (always guaranteed to get a reply from Merlin)
Danny's Festering Armpit
The Great JC Computer Heist
Pollyanna Puts The Accountant Right
AD and the great Banana and Orange Shortage of the late 1930s
Avoiding Vomiting During Teenage Copulation Rituals
Rumpole's Favourite Tipple


Should almost be compulsory reading for new forumers. Oh.

[skully]

Zat wins on a technicality. He flounced twice.

[lardbucket]

He just stopped posting this last time, didn't he?

Well, just checked. His last post was over a year ago. There was a blow-up not long beforehand, but the 'farewell' post was succinct.

Anyway, for anyone interested, I hear from him occasionally and he seems fine, busy with work and doing something that he loves.

[skully]

Indeed. Have shared a few messages with him, and he's happy as a pig in poo. Good on him.

Before his final departure, he had a nasty health scare at work and had to get carted off in an ambulance. I think this was the moment he decided life was too short to get wound up on a piss-ant little forum. Wise choice.

[taipan]

I suppose Mel_yonex was in a category of her own.

[Brass Monkey]

The Forumer You're Most Afraid To Meet

Lardbucket.

Danny's Festering Armpit

Bad times.

[lardbucket]

The Forumer You're Most Afraid To Meet

Lardbucket

Phurt!

[lardbucket]

[snigger]

As a teen I was under the impression that claret was a quality red, so I drank it in quantity one night. Haven't touched a drop of the vile stuff since.

... don't you drink merlot? shiraz? cabernet?

[PeterCS]

What does Merlo drink?

[PeterCS]

Not sure if this thread is 'gold', but there are so many allusions to forum history  (at least until I joined in about 6 pages back and it rapidly degenerated into a dissection of the relative merits of Lesser Brewing And Distilling Products) ...

Themes include:

Why Did Sarah Flounce?
The Forumer You're Most Afraid To Meet
Zim And Horace Fight To The Death At The MCG
NFI = Merlin? (always guaranteed to get a reply from Merlin)
Danny's Festering Armpit
The Great JC Computer Heist
Pollyanna Puts The Accountant Right
AD and the great Banana and Orange Shortage of the late 1930s
Avoiding Vomiting During Teenage Copulation Rituals
Rumpole's Favourite Tipple


Should almost be compulsory reading for new forumers. Oh.

As Gandhi is reputed to have said when asked what he thought about Western Civilisation:

"It would be a good idea."

[Brass Monkey]

What does Merlo drink?

Probably Merlo.

Not the wine, I meant his own semen.

[Merlin]

What does Merlo drink?

Probably Merlo.

Not the wine, I meant his own semen.

PMSL.
You have a splendid way with words Monkeh.

[Brass Monkey]

Who are you and what have you done with Merls?

[Merlin]

What does Merlo drink?

A good Rioja Gran Reserva . . . 2008 preferably.

[Batman]

Zat all the way..........

[lardbucket]

BIGGEST FORUM FLOUNCE

Possibly omitted one or two.

Not sure if this thread is 'gold', but there are so many allusions to forum history  (at least until I joined in about 6 pages back and it rapidly degenerated into a dissection of the relative merits of Lesser Brewing And Distilling Products) ...

Themes include:

Why Did Sarah Flounce?
The Forumer You're Most Afraid To Meet
Zim And Horace Fight To The Death At The MCG
NFI = Merlin? (always guaranteed to get a reply from Merlin)
Danny's Festering Armpit
The Great JC Computer Heist
Pollyanna Puts The Accountant Right
AD and the great Banana and Orange Shortage of the late 1930s
Avoiding Vomiting During Teenage Copulation Rituals
Rumpole's Favourite Tipple


Should almost be compulsory reading for new forumers. Oh.

Summary of this thread … though there’s an even longer thread on flouncing which is WORSE!!

[skully]

beamer flounced recently after not being able to cop lardy's reminders about how pissweak England's spirit of cricket arguments and moral victory claims were during Ashes 2023.

[horace]

beamer flounced recently after not being able to cop lardy's reminders about how pissweak England's spirit of cricket arguments and moral victory claims were during Ashes 2023.

I am hopeful he will return

[skully]

I doubt it. He was pretty peeved when he flounced off.

[horace]

I doubt it. He was pretty peeved when he flounced off.

I know. I wrote to him.

Still hope he returns. He’s a good guy.

[lardbucket]

He may do. He flounced before after a disagreement with Danny, and returned. Apparently I was a qunt because a) I did not agree that England won the 2023 Ashes, morally, and the Australians were a pack of cheats for running Bairstow out in a move which in his view changed the result of the series; b) I had repeatedly disagreed with his premise that the best way forward in Tests was to select a couple of punch-hitters to open and hope that this came off often enough to justify the gamble (and I still don’t); and c) extrapolating from the above, I simply couldn’t engage in sensible debate ie … be swayed to his correct viewpoints.

He made many other excellent posts over the years when engaged in conversation with multiple forum participants, including me, so to lose him due to a single blind spot is a loss. One of many not due to the grim reaper. Taipan included.

[beamer]

I hadn’t looked in for a while and wondered if anything had been said, especially with the likely lack of English comment on a major Test series.

I did feel things were turning personal in terms of lardbucket in particular, and those two topics were just examples, I felt my posts on other subjects were also given such treatment on occasions.

On the whole, though, I’ve felt a growing anti-English sentiment which may have sometimes been tongue-in-cheek but not always, and the other thing magnifying that for me was the lack of backup given all the other English posters are long gone or make occasional appearances nowadays. From the impressively diverse cricket community we had on here and its predecessors in the past, it’s become largely an Australian echo chamber, and thus no longer an enjoyable forum to be part of.

So after pretty much two decades on here and C4 before it, on reflection I think it’s run its course for me. I may drop in occasionally e.g. for Ashes series as certain other English posters do, and see if Dello/Fromage is still putting his 50p coins in the meter to keep the lights on…

[skully]

Take care, beams.

[horace]

Ditto

[embee]

The Dingoes took our beamer

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