So, Off Topic's a sinking ship.
10am Monday morning, no thriving threads, most of the regulars nowhere to be seen. Cheers, Off Topic. It was fun while it lasted.
( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Mon 24 Aug 2009, 10:02, 18 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

well I think some people left because of the extreme direction it went,
and they haven't been back since it slowly began to swing back to niceness.
(Poppet some assembly required., Mon 24 Aug 2009, 10:15, Reply)

I expect work got in the way

( Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Mon 24 Aug 2009, 10:16, Reply)

blasphemy!!
work should never get in the way - unless you have no internet access.
(Poppet some assembly required., Mon 24 Aug 2009, 10:19, Reply)

I suspect more places are clamping down
On frivolous internet usage. What we need is a proxy for the site with a serious name like projectmanagement.co.uk so we could browse at work without arousing suspicion.
( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Mon 24 Aug 2009, 10:20, Reply)

Maybe it's just
because it's summer, and people have been busy or away? Not that I knew what it was like before, except possibly beckyjsbx and thegrammarbadger starting every other thread...
(berk, Mon 24 Aug 2009, 10:20, Reply)

We were the backbone of OT
Giving people much to bitch and moan about, never a dull day :D
( TGB checking Off Topic is still shit at, Mon 24 Aug 2009, 13:22, Reply)

What, like the JMG of OT?
I'm not sure that's worth bragging about, judging by the pit of misery that /talk has slid into...
(Deadly Octopus no deaths since, Mon 24 Aug 2009, 13:53, Reply)

pft
Don't tarnish me with your dirty JMG brush
( TGB checking Off Topic is still shit at, Mon 24 Aug 2009, 14:58, Reply)

It was only a little tarnishing
A sort of breezy tarnishing, the sort that wouldn't hurt anyone.

You're just jealous because you didn't think of grammar cakes first.
(Deadly Octopus no deaths since, Mon 24 Aug 2009, 15:10, Reply)

my work internet connection has been down this morning
that's why I haven't posted so far this morning. Also, I'm pretty busy.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Mon 24 Aug 2009, 10:43, Reply)

Even I have been quite busy recently.
We must all be having a concentrated effort of knuckling down at work.
( girlinthehole, Mon 24 Aug 2009, 11:30, Reply)

I believe it's because this place is so tucked away
It hardly gets the new member-age of the bigger boards?
( whenanimalsattackhumans clad in global hypercolour, Mon 24 Aug 2009, 11:38, Reply)

Well it's not that we re not getting new members
its that all the old ones aren't posting as much any more.
( Mrs Entity is in hiding., Mon 24 Aug 2009, 11:43, Reply)

Perhaps a smidgeon of both ;)
It's a vicious circle.
( whenanimalsattackhumans clad in global hypercolour, Mon 24 Aug 2009, 11:54, Reply)

I blame the credit crunch.
How the credit crunch is to blame, I have yet to figure out.
( girlinthehole, Mon 24 Aug 2009, 12:47, Reply)

I liked this place as soon as I found it
I do hope it doesn't die a death. They'd make mincemeat of me on the other boards. Maybe we need to have a big Live Aid even to save OT.
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Mon 24 Aug 2009, 11:44, Reply)

It'll get busy again shortly when rob shuts down /talk.

( Dr Preference AjcuiVd289, Mon 24 Aug 2009, 11:52, Reply)

that'd be hilarious and horrifying
in equal measures
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Mon 24 Aug 2009, 12:10, Reply)