From the strange Northern Snows come the plaintiff cry of the Evertonian. As licker and some others have mentioned before, should we have a separate section for Off Football threads. I know we have discussed this before and the powers that be have come to a decision but is it worth re considering?
It really effects the close season more than now. But I noticed that in the overseas club that FOF have are more than happy to talk Hockey and Baseball etc. So a non Football part of FOF would include Eggs and Tennis and anything else.
My feeling is that this MB is called FOF and so anything the fans and friends want to talk about is kosher. Still is it worth another look?
Talking of off topic threads. Anybody else fear a problem in the World Cup. Especially following this news -
South African President Jacob Zuma has appealed for calm after the killing of the white supremacist leader, Eugene Terreblanche.
Mr Zuma said South Africans must not allow anyone to take advantage of the "terrible deed" by inciting racial hatred.
Police said Mr Terreblanche had been beaten to death in a dispute with two farm workers over unpaid wages.
Mr Terreblanche's far-right movement urged its members to be calm.
The 69-year-old was attacked on Saturday evening at home on his farm near the town of Ventersdorp, North West province.
'Must be condemned'
Two males, aged 21 and 15, have been arrested and charged with his murder, said police.
We will decide upon the action we are going to take to avenge Mr Terreblanche's death
Andre Visagie
Afrikaner Resistance Movement
Obituary: Eugene Terreblanche
Terreblanche: Your comments
Life in pictures
His body was found with facial and head injuries on a bed, after he was apparently attacked with a machete and a wooden club.
Mr Terreblanche came to prominence in the early 1980s, campaigning for a separate white homeland and championing a tiny minority determined to preserve apartheid.
Mr Zuma's office said in a statement: "The president appeals for calm... and asks South Africans not to allow agent provocateurs to take advantage of this situation by inciting or fuelling racial hatred.
"The murder of Terreblanche must be condemned, irrespective of how his killers think they may have been justified. They had no right to take his life."
The BBC's Karen Allen in Johannesburg says the murder comes amid growing anxiety about crime in South Africa.
Opposition politicians linked the death to racially inflammatory sentiments from a minority of the ruling ANC party.
Sepp Blatter (aka Coco the clown) has said that FIFA have a contingency plan should it not be possible for the World Cup to be held in 'Sarf Ifrica'. The countries suggested include England, Spain, Mexico, United States and Japan.
I think there should be a separate category here for TYPING WHILE INTOXICATED.
Quote from: HatterDon on April 04, 2010, 02:34:02 PM
I think there should be a separate category here for TYPING WHILE INTOXICATED.
That'll be 99.9 % of my posts then :dft001: .
I see no problem with off-topic threads. The clue is generally in the title, so it's the simplest thing in the world to avoid what you don't want to read. Keeping to a narrow subject takes away the chance to learn new and interesting things, and maybe even have a laugh or two.
A simple NFR will do, I reckon.
If you don't want a seperate non football area why don't we have a disclaimer at the top of the board so "people" won't get stroppy :49:
Quote from: ron on April 04, 2010, 02:38:01 PM
I see no problem with off-topic threads. The clue is generally in the title, so it's the simplest thing in the world to avoid what you don't want to read. Keeping to a narrow subject takes away the chance to learn new and interesting things, and maybe even have a laugh or two.
Ron sums it up perfectly, if you see a thread about sausages/ eggs or dogs etc and you aren't interested then dont look, i personally like both Fulham and completely NFR topics ,but if i saw something with theatre for instance i wouldn't look,actually i probably would just to see if there was any craick going on.
I don't care BUT I feel that the voice of the vast majority of people on here who don't care should be heard...
I hope this helps give some balance to an argument dominated in the main, by people who actually care...
Its just that when you put all the topics on one page they disappear quite rapidly without ever having an in depth discussion.
This one was only started 3 days ago, discussed for a few hours and quickly went off the Radar, when i found this it had already slipped down to page four.
As i said before, on a football forum people expect to read about and discuss football, not rabbit on about sausage and eggs, or the contents of the weekly shopping from tescos.
I'm all for an "off topic" page for all those other non footy things.
Bill. :dft009:
Rabbit is quite tasty actually.
Quote from: finnster01 on April 07, 2010, 09:26:06 AM
Rabbit is quite tasty actually.
I cant remember having it Finnster, i must keep an eye out for it.
Personally I think it should be what Fulham fans WANT it to be simple as that. I enjoy both FR and NFR topics and see no reason why they should not be together. I would not go onto another clubs site and suggest something like this. Light head you are getting carried away with yourself again, I would hardly call your small spanish coin comments totally football related. :032:
I see absolutely nothing wrong in raising topics other than Fulham FC.
It allows us an insight into the lives and character of our fellow posters – some of whom are witty, intelligent and interesting.
There is only so much you can say about Fulham – as it is many Fulham related topics are regurgitated monotonously and just wait until the summer when the only Fulham topics will be, who will we buy and who we will we let go before the August kick-off.
No wonder the dreaded Mornington Crescent makes an appearance.
But come on guys – loosen up. Petty bureaucrats are the enemy of thinkers – don't let them interfere with our MB.
The point about brilliant threads being lost and not read because they just dribble down the pages is a valid onr. I always feel not enough people read my posts. I wonder if we should have a section just for ME. Thats enough about ME what did YOU think of MY posts.
Licker - You know you comments are always welcome and I know you will ignore blingo. We have to put up with him as he is the happy babbling Uncle in the corner that wets himself alot and laughs because he thinks it is funny. I on the other hand am the old fogey in the corner who moans and grumbles that he can't even go to the loo at all nowadays and wishes he could wet himself.
Off topic ????...................On topic, Let me remind you that this is the same Licker who introduced grapes, into a perfectly fine discussion, about the Officials at the Roma games ?????.......sour grapes !!!!
..............and there are some who believe the thread with the title The Picayune Blasts the Managers Prawn Brigade.
was about flavouring seafood :005:
I say keep it real ...sausages an all and no boxes :045:
Quote from: KCat on April 07, 2010, 09:52:21 AM
Off topic ????...................On topic, Let me remind you that this is the same Licker who introduced grapes, into a perfectly fine discussion, about the Officials at the Roma games ?????.......sour grapes !!!!
..............and there are some who believe the thread with the title The Picayune Blasts the Managers Prawn Brigade.
was about flavouring seafood :005:
I say keep it real ...sausages an all and no boxes :045:
And it was good old Licker who provided us with the General Knowledge quiz which was won by a brilliant erudite fellow called Corked Hat - nothing wrong with a good old General Knowledge quiz is what I say.
...I have a dilemma on the subject for these reasons:-
1) Non Football Related posts can be ignored by not looking at them, however, if there are a lot of them 'headlined' on a day then it can be a turn-off.
2) A dedicated NFR section may lead to calls for exclusive 'subject specific' posts also, such as politics, music, anything goes. I have seen The Fulham Independent and Fulham USA suffer, as well as other message boards because you have to spend 5 minutes navigating around a site to know where you want to respond or post!
I did think about adding NFR to the Overseas and Exiles, but was concerned that that would appear to 'devalue' the section.
I am undecided at the moment, NFR clearly shown in the 'headline' certainly helps - (as a moderator I have to look even if I have no interest) but I would prefer we keep them to a minimum, particularly while the season is still in full swing.
Oh! and blingo please remember that licker may be a toffee but has been a huge help with his advice in the various stages that FOF has been in existence for no other reason than he is a great bloke..!
Light head LB, I would NEVER put another teams supporter in front of one of my own and for that reason BYE BYE FROM BLINGO.
I think you may be making a bit of a mountain out of a molehill Blingo me old mukka , have a cup of tea and reread the thread . But he does have a point though Licker comes across as a good egg (sorry wrong thread :011: ) he is an Everton supporter and shouldn't really moan about a Fulham forum. What about a Bertha sort of thread were all the waffling goes in one big thread?
Let's face it, if a thread is good or interesting then more often than not it will go the distance. If people don't want to talk about sausages for example then the thread will die a natural death. If a good thread has been missed then it tends to get bumped.
I come on this site because I want to talk and argue about Fulham with other Fulham fans. However much like being in the pub there is only so long you can talk about a match for (Unless it's us beating Juventus 4-1) before the topic strays.
ps. Don't go Blingo, we need your positive vibes for tomorrow night.
Quote from: FatFreddysCat on April 07, 2010, 11:08:12 AM
I think you may be making a bit of a mountain out of a molehill Blingo me old mukka , have a cup of tea and reread the thread . But he does have a point though Licker comes across as a good egg (sorry wrong thread :011: ) he is an Everton supporter and shouldn't really moan about a Fulham forum. What about a Bertha sort of thread were all the waffling goes in one big thread?
Now there's a great idea Fred. Do you think it would entice your missus back to this Board? And McBride Fan, White Witch, Big Mamma, Nogood Boyo, Sad Old Git and all the others who used to keep the old girl (Bertha - not your missus Fred) afloat.
Of course to get it under way we need a post from Fulham Footie Chick to say that she preferred the old MB.
Quote from: LBNo11 on April 07, 2010, 10:46:03 AM
...I have a dilemma on the subject for these reasons:-
1) Non Football Related posts can be ignored by not looking at them, however, if there are a lot of them 'headlined' on a day then it can be a turn-off.
2) A dedicated NFR section may lead to calls for exclusive 'subject specific' posts also, such as politics, music, anything goes. I have seen The Fulham Independent and Fulham USA suffer, as well as other message boards because you have to spend 5 minutes navigating around a site to know where you want to respond or post!
I did think about adding NFR to the Overseas and Exiles, but was concerned that that would appear to 'devalue' the section.
I am undecided at the moment, NFR clearly shown in the 'headline' certainly helps - (as a moderator I have to look even if I have no interest) but I would prefer we keep them to a minimum, particularly while the season is still in full swing.
My view is that things should be kept as they are.
The lesson from the old, now defunct, TFI board was that the NFR sections were barely used apart from the politics section which became a seriously unpleasant place unless you were a hard line racist appalled by the BNP going soft.
Politics is a difficult issue for moderators to deal with. A blanket ban is at least unequivical. The alternative is to take a view post by post and only to intervene if things get nasty. I wouldn't want to be a moderator dealing with that 24/7.
I certainly don't want a board that is rigidly FFC only but it should be the principle reason for us being here and mixing all posts together doesn't seem to me to cause any problems. It neither encourages or discourages the NFR which seems right to me.
Personally, I see not a lot wrong with the current set up. I was dead against the Exiles section being renamed, as it does tend to encourage posts from the colonies for the colonials.
It would be helpful, after all, for posters (thread-makers) to prefix the NFR (er, does NFR stand for Not Fulham Related, or not Football Related?), then the purists amongst us can easily ignore them at will, without even having to read the rest of the title. For those that cannot even spell NFR, you'll just have to make do.
Oh dear i seem to have caused a bit of a problem.
Blingo does have a point, but i only came to voice my opinion because the thread had asked for it.
Blingo, i dont wish to chase anybody away from the forum, its just that i enjoy mixing it with the fans when i come down to the games, and i have had a few pints with several of the board members.
Sorry if i have upset anybody.
Bill.
Fans and supporters from every and any club are always welcome here. Licker is one of us anyway he just doesn't realise it yet. But FOF can do without any of us but not sure many of us can happily do without FOF. Blingo is blingo and as such I look forward to him having a go in the near future.
Definately vote to leave things as they are. Another forum I visit, but far less frequently than this, has lots of different areas for different topics, all well and good, but it ends up with a lot of topics being moved from one part to another as one of the moderators deems it to be more relevant for that part. And result is you lose track of interesting topics.
To take a recent offering, it started with something along the lines of does Roy know a TV programme about the Second World War in the Pacific is on, then moved to a discussion about doing a TV series on Vietnam, then moved to football between the trenches in 1915. An overzealous moderator with a non-football zone available would have swiftly moved it off of the main board and many of us would probably have never read it.
I always assumed that NFR meant non Fulham related.
The question did make me think, though. Ever since the Colonials/Exiles category was created, 100% of threads and posts regarding cricket have appeared there. What's that mean? Probably nothing.
I ignore entire threads all the time -- and it has nothing to do with them being offensive or not being Fulham enough. For instance, the threads about away transportation, ground transport outages in London on matchdays, which pub is the best for a pre- or post-match tipple, etc., are vital to y'all who live in and around, but have marginal utility for me [deep in the Heart of Texas, as I am], so I generally skip them. I've also discovered that I can pretty much skip by threads originated by one or two folks without reading them just based on who started them.
Since I exercise pretty much absolute power over what I choose to read and what I choose to ignore, I'm the last person on this site to recommend eliminating someone because it isn't of interest to me or because it offends me.
Finally, COME BACK, MR. BLINGO.
I am insulted for Blingo, I'm not sure why, perhaps it's sour grapes :007:
..........and what will i do now ??? with no Blingo scale .............
I just cannot do depression -basement
Quote from: KCat on April 07, 2010, 09:57:17 PM
I am insulted for Blingo, I'm not sure why, perhaps it's sour grapes :007:
..........and what will i do now ??? with no Blingo scale .............
I just cannot do depression -basement
Luv ya KCat.
Let's stop taking ourselves and this MB so seriously. We should remember that this is an effing Message Board not the Magna Carta or the State of the Nation Address.
We have people huffing and puffing like a Dickensian orphanage headmaster whilst others take umbrage at things that shouldn't rate a zero on the Richter scale of importance.
I must confess that Tom gets on my wick and one of these days he is going to be the recipient of a vintage Corked Hat volley of abuse, but I will not allow him or anyone else to drive me off this MB even if the Beadle decrees that Tom has every right to upset me! WTF!
The blingo scale will continue with or without the great man. But as we have all agreed or disagreed with each other on matters of Cheese and Football I really have to repeat (oh too much Cheese) that FOF can do without any of us. As Corked Hat rightly says (not a sentence one often hears) this is just an MB. Probably the most powerful MB in the World but did I receive 121 or 122 insults. Well in all this twaddle I can't remember. But do you care? Hey no. Sucks Boo to you. Do you feel plucky?
Think I have covered all my bases.
Quote from: Lighthouse on April 08, 2010, 12:54:57 AM
The blingo scale will continue with or without the great man. But as we have all agreed or disagreed with each other on matters of Cheese and Football I really have to repeat (oh too much Cheese) that FOF can do without any of us. As Corked Hat rightly says (not a sentence one often hears) this is just an MB. Probably the most powerful MB in the World but did I receive 121 or 122 insults. Well in all this twaddle I can't remember. But do you care? Hey no. Sucks Boo to you. Do you feel plucky?
Think I have covered all my bases.
What do you mean that "As Corked Hat rightly says (not a sentence one often hears)". That is a downright insult, Shitehouse, and I am never, ever going to post on this stupid MB again.
And my plan slowley unfolds. I will soon be the only poster left on FOF. I will rule the threads and I will become the master of all. Only I will be left to post and only I can agree with everything I say.
:035: :011: :020: :55: :58: :59: :048: :041: :026: :017: :037: :55: :59: :011:
You love listening to your own threads Dim Wit. You really do say the oddest things and have a go at players when all they need is a bit of respect. You may have other every other poster off this MB but even I am becoming sick and tired of this dribble of drivel.
Oh yeah well if you don't like it you can .... What are you doing?.....Look it's only a bit of fun. Put that down.... No don't be a fool....DON'T DON'T ARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR
First it's Blingo, and now Corked Hat. One more and I will half to lock this thread. :49:
It all started so innocently and now, well, we have two posters vowing to never return and one drooling over in the corner. :dft011:
Quote from: RidgeRider on April 08, 2010, 02:05:02 AM
First it's Blingo, and now Corked Hat. One more and I will half to lock this thread. :49:
It all started so innocently and now, well, we have two posters vowing to never return and one drooling over in the corner. :dft011:
Half to lock? Not have, mate!
Good night, England
Quote from: HatterDon on April 08, 2010, 02:38:00 AM
Quote from: RidgeRider on April 08, 2010, 02:05:02 AM
First it's Blingo, and now Corked Hat. One more and I will half to lock this thread. :49:
It all started so innocently and now, well, we have two posters vowing to never return and one drooling over in the corner. :dft011:
Half to lock? Not have, mate!
Good night, England
Half a thought more like it. :dft012:
You might think that this is a post from Corked Hat in defiance of his vow not to post on here ever again, but I am your friendly hacker. I have assumed Corked hat's identity and now I can post ineffable rubbish and he can receive all the blame.
A wicked plan, what?
Welcome back senor Hat or shall I call you the Battersea Bridge Hacker or the Rupanyup Rambler? :011:
Ineffable, Gracie? Is that like impotent?
Quote from: HatterDon on April 08, 2010, 04:56:13 AM
Ineffable, Gracie? Is that like impotent?
Ineffable is indescribable Mr Don. I use long words because it suggests to the reader that I have enjoyed some modicum of education, which as my friends Nutmeg and Bazza will testify, is patently not the case.
Any sign of Blingo yet?
Quote from: CorkedHat on April 08, 2010, 06:48:48 AM
Quote from: HatterDon on April 08, 2010, 04:56:13 AM
Ineffable, Gracie? Is that like impotent?
Ineffable is indescribable Mr Don. I use long words because it suggests to the reader that I have enjoyed some modicum of education, which as my friends Nutmeg and Bazza will testify, is patently not the case.
Any sign of Blingo yet?
and I use lame puns in situations like this to indicate that I can do a Danny Larue leer with the best of them -- even in print.
And for Mr. Blingo, I havenae seen a sausage of him. I hope he returns soon.
