Shame.
Anyway I'll be starting 2012 by posting a picture of some huge great big tits.
Nice!
If it's due to what he sees as "childish bickering" or whatever I think that's a bit sad.
To me, the forum is vastly more interesting than it used to be when it could be very sycophantic and nicey nicey - just for the sake of not rocking the boat.
Now we get semi-regular interesting debates, generally with at least a few people with pretty solid grounding in a topic, or at worst some considered opinions. Great, in my book.
Yes - but one persons idea of somewhere to engage in healthy, but heated debate is another person's idea of hell.
My background on that issue:
7 years ago I spent a hellish couple of years dating someone who had once been "queen of her school debating team", and she thrived on having a differing viewpoint and taking people to task in a political style debate:
If the other person raised a valid argument or salient points - rather than mull over those ideas with a chance of being "enriched" by the new info and maybe altering aspects of her outlook, she simply looked for ways to undermine her "opponent" in any way she could and wasn't frightened of researching her opponent to find weaknesses to pick upon (she would have made a good lawyer like the ones you see in TV dramas) or find a way to prove the fallacy of your view.
She would wage war on the other person via blogs, forums, social media and suchlike - all in the name of sport.
She is a bit like marmite wherever she goes - some people love her as she brings drama with her, and others $%&#ing hate her with a passion.
Even those that liked her can get converted the other way if she decides to make them the subject of her laser-guided wrath.
Having been a psychological punchbag a few times too often maybe I'm just a bit allergic to people wanting to strike up a debate for the sake of it. There is nothing wrong with debate as such but my life has enough drama without it.
Using the "pub" analogy that often gets used to describe this place:If I went to a pub and one of the regulars regularly made the place feel uptight and tense with his need for debate and drama, I might feel the need to go to a different pub if I wasn't able to ignore the atmosphere he created.
If it were my "regular" boozer where I had been a barfly for years , I might feel inclined to have a word i his ear if I felt driven out by the 'argy-bargy' - or more than likely to have a word in the ear of the landlord.
I may be alone in feeling that I preferred it without the added tension, but then again I may not be.
Lately it has gotten a bit predictable:
At one time you could post a pic of a tele and think - Uh oh - just wait till Roo sees that - there will be hell to pay.
Or post a link to Phil X without saying it's him and have PhillyQ get in a strop about it
Lately I have on a few occasions thought: I
dread NFE seeing a particular thread as it will just turn into a highbrow head butting contest.
You are actually very good at debating and returning a structured argument, you know stuff or research it well.
Anyone wanting to see what I mean can follow the link to your responses to one subject here on Youtube
http://www.youtube.com/user/nfe?feature=watchReflecting upon my views even as I type this I can see that you don't go to similar extremes that my ex did, but I think I am still allergic to being around too much debate.
Maybe I l have looked at the BKP forum for the longest time as somewhere where I had been used to coming to kick back, relax and chill, whilst discussing guitar sounds, and not having fierce debate raging around me .
Maybe I am in a minority here and others would prefer a more vigorous debating platform here at BKP.
If that were to be the case and the forum drifted in that direction maybe I too would be like Ben and quote Duncan Bannatyne from Dragon's Den with the words "I'm Out"
