I'm thinking of starting a blog.
I figure it would stop me ranting about my crap love life on here and pissing you all off.

Who else apart from Noel has one and who thinks it would be a good idea?
( girlinthehole, Wed 9 Dec 2009, 14:37, 91 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

I had one
when I was a bit young and a bit emo... Blogger is a good site to use! :D
(Flim-Flam the Magnificent "You is talking loco and I like it!", Wed 9 Dec 2009, 14:40, Reply)

I thought about writing a blog
then I read a few.
(PsychoChomp, Wed 9 Dec 2009, 14:45, Reply)

^this
No-one cares about your dull, badly written life.

This isn't a personal insult against you BGB, but blogs in general
(The Modgazzer General defending justice and bothering the mods on, Wed 9 Dec 2009, 14:47, Reply)

oh you could use OT as your blog
but I've got more than a few users blocked who do that already.
(The Modgazzer General defending justice and bothering the mods on, Wed 9 Dec 2009, 14:48, Reply)

dammit
This two accounts thing is harder than it looks.
(The Modgazzer General defending justice and bothering the mods on, Wed 9 Dec 2009, 14:49, Reply)

*belms*

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 9 Dec 2009, 14:54, Reply)

I dunno who the modgazzer really is

( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Wed 9 Dec 2009, 14:56, Reply)

NO ONE DOES
who IS that masked modgazzer?
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 9 Dec 2009, 14:58, Reply)

I know : )

( girlinthehole, Wed 9 Dec 2009, 15:04, Reply)

so do I love
I was hamming it up for shits'n'giggles...
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 9 Dec 2009, 15:07, Reply)

it's worse than that
I can't remember the exact wording of my christmas name to login to that one. Technology fail.
(The Modgazzer General defending justice and bothering the mods on, Wed 9 Dec 2009, 14:57, Reply)

*belms so hard lower lip tears*
I can't quite recall it either, sorry
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 9 Dec 2009, 14:59, Reply)

Find a post you've made then copy and paste?

( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Wed 9 Dec 2009, 14:59, Reply)

Ah sneaky!

(Flim-Flam the Magnificent "You is talking loco and I like it!", Wed 9 Dec 2009, 15:00, Reply)

I have to do it all the time!
I forget how many 'o's and dashes I have in Roo-oo-ta!
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Wed 9 Dec 2009, 15:04, Reply)

and blindingly obvious
as well
( djtrialprice, Wed 9 Dec 2009, 15:05, Reply)

That too!

(Flim-Flam the Magnificent "You is talking loco and I like it!", Wed 9 Dec 2009, 15:07, Reply)

*belms so hard tongue actually falls out*

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 9 Dec 2009, 15:08, Reply)

*cries*

( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Wed 9 Dec 2009, 15:24, Reply)

Cheers!

( whenanimalsattackhumans clad in global hypercolour, Wed 9 Dec 2009, 15:04, Reply)

Oops!

( whenanimalsattackhumans clad in global hypercolour, Wed 9 Dec 2009, 15:04, Reply)

Hahahha

( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Wed 9 Dec 2009, 15:05, Reply)

Yeah you're right.
I'll just stick to throwing things against the wall and venting on here.
( girlinthehole, Wed 9 Dec 2009, 14:50, Reply)

Noels is interesting.

( girlinthehole, Wed 9 Dec 2009, 14:48, Reply)

Exacta
They are all a bit 'woe is me' etc

I've seen a few funny ones but they're rare.
(Flim-Flam the Magnificent "You is talking loco and I like it!", Wed 9 Dec 2009, 14:50, Reply)

I dunno, I saw this animation about people who were addicted to blogging by Twitter
but when it was pointed out that nobody cared about their pointless little lives it attracted the "Fail Whale" and it all came crashing down.

I think we can all learn something from that.
( Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Wed 9 Dec 2009, 14:51, Reply)

Blogs are gay
and rather self-indulgent. I'm sure Noel's is great, of course, but on the whole I find the idea that people think others will interested in the minutiae of their daily lives is probably at best delusional and at worst pompous and arrogant.

Keep a diary if you must - but why share it all?
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 9 Dec 2009, 14:52, Reply)

To be honest I wasn't thinking about anyone reading it. Ha!

( girlinthehole, Wed 9 Dec 2009, 14:55, Reply)

One problem with diaries
is that they can't tell you to fucking shut up and stop wallowing - a valuable service provided by friends, real or made up ones from the internet.

You keep on whinging, I'll keep on telling you to MTFU.

Deal?
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 9 Dec 2009, 15:04, Reply)

Deal : )

( girlinthehole, Wed 9 Dec 2009, 15:13, Reply)

Ayyyy.
Mine's not gay. I share the joys of free music with the world.

I would say it is self indulgent in that I pick the mixes but you don't have to tell all and sundry what you had for breakfast.*

*Activia and Meusli.
(Tugnut Ex of this parish, Wed 9 Dec 2009, 14:56, Reply)

And by the way...
...if any of you pop-pickers fancy uploading a mix/complilation I will be glad to post it. (Monty - still waiting.)

Edit - link in profile.
(Tugnut Ex of this parish, Wed 9 Dec 2009, 14:57, Reply)

yours has a very real purpose
not 'ooh, I had a shit earlier. then I watched TV. why does everyone hate me?' etc - totally different.

And I'm sorry Tuggers old boy. I'm hampered by technology - at the moment one of my turntables is making a horrible noise. I think the lead needs changing.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 9 Dec 2009, 15:01, Reply)

Is that type of blogging now obsolete...
...as they all moved to Facebook/Twitter to log their log drops?
(Tugnut Ex of this parish, Wed 9 Dec 2009, 15:06, Reply)

I haven't the foggiest - truly not even the tiniest clue
I've never even seen a Facebook page. Nor a 'tweet' *cringes*


*smashes loom*
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 9 Dec 2009, 15:17, Reply)

completely agree
I also hate twitter. I want to murder the person who inflicted it on the world.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 9 Dec 2009, 15:02, Reply)

Be thankful it exists.
Keeps mongs off the street.
(Tugnut Ex of this parish, Wed 9 Dec 2009, 15:49, Reply)

I started one but then realised no one would ever read it so I deleted it.
Now I just write. Poems, stories, whatever. It's a great way to vent.
( Lisette von Falcon, Wed 9 Dec 2009, 14:53, Reply)

Same here
I tend to write crappy stories etc and keep it on my computer rather than post it out in the world, its a good creative outlet! :D
(Flim-Flam the Magnificent "You is talking loco and I like it!", Wed 9 Dec 2009, 14:56, Reply)

are you saying I write crappy stories?

( Lisette von Falcon, Wed 9 Dec 2009, 14:56, Reply)

Nope yours are probably good
mine are crappy but I bask in their crappy glory!
(Flim-Flam the Magnificent "You is talking loco and I like it!", Wed 9 Dec 2009, 14:58, Reply)

nah
mine are relatively crappy but you're your own worst critic so you probably have good stories.
( Lisette von Falcon, Wed 9 Dec 2009, 15:00, Reply)

One was about garden gnomes taking over the world...
...
...
...
crappy! Haha
(Flim-Flam the Magnificent "You is talking loco and I like it!", Wed 9 Dec 2009, 15:01, Reply)

sounds like the plot of an episode of Dangermouse

( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 9 Dec 2009, 15:02, Reply)

Maybe I had watched too much Dangermouse
and it made my brain think gnomes was a good book idea!! :S
(Flim-Flam the Magnificent "You is talking loco and I like it!", Wed 9 Dec 2009, 15:04, Reply)

Daaangermoooooouse
That's you. To me, you'll always be Dangermouse.
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Wed 9 Dec 2009, 15:17, Reply)

YAY!
As a kid I was called Dangermouse by my little friends because my initials are DM! :D
(Flim-Flam the Magnificent "You is talking loco and I like it!", Wed 9 Dec 2009, 15:27, Reply)

when Mrs V first met my friends it was at a fancy dress party
I had pretty much insisted she dress as Dangermouse.

It went down well.

I was dressed as a vicar.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 9 Dec 2009, 15:28, Reply)

That's how my friend's mum was dressed
when she met her future son-in-law for the first time.
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Wed 9 Dec 2009, 15:34, Reply)

Dangermouse
is an excellent fancy dress costume. I had an argument with DiT last Halloween as I wanted to go to a party dressed as DM and I wanted him to go as Penfold... he got angry and said he was Dangermouse... as a compromise I went as a bee and he went as a Viking.
(Flim-Flam the Magnificent "You is talking loco and I like it!", Wed 9 Dec 2009, 15:36, Reply)

I can imagine him getting angry about that

( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 9 Dec 2009, 15:37, Reply)

I suppose its understandable
no one really wants to be Penfold... no one really wants to be Robin either... why be the shit sidekick when you can go for glory as the main dooood!
(Flim-Flam the Magnificent "You is talking loco and I like it!", Wed 9 Dec 2009, 15:40, Reply)

we had a hamster called Penfold, way back in t'80s

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 9 Dec 2009, 15:42, Reply)

But he would be a good Penfold and you would be a good DM
We can't always have our druthers. Put your foot down.
I'll tell him when I see him.
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Wed 9 Dec 2009, 15:40, Reply)

Hehehe careful now
He really doesn't want to be Penfold! Hehe
(Flim-Flam the Magnificent "You is talking loco and I like it!", Wed 9 Dec 2009, 16:02, Reply)

I didn't know others had done this before me!
*stalks and kills*
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Wed 9 Dec 2009, 15:30, Reply)

I had an idea the other day that sounded like a bad christmas movie

( Lisette von Falcon, Wed 9 Dec 2009, 15:06, Reply)

Oooh do tell!

(Flim-Flam the Magnificent "You is talking loco and I like it!", Wed 9 Dec 2009, 15:12, Reply)

Husband and wife are seperated, rich, he lives elsewhere but he's still paying for everything: kids, clothes, cars, house.
so he moves back in, not wanting to pay for seperate housing
fighting ensues
eventually they fall back in love
everyone's happy etc
( Lisette von Falcon, Wed 9 Dec 2009, 15:27, Reply)

I see Vince Vaughn
as the male lead in this film! :D
(Flim-Flam the Magnificent "You is talking loco and I like it!", Wed 9 Dec 2009, 15:37, Reply)

that sounds like my life
minus the wealth and the moving back in bit
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 9 Dec 2009, 15:43, Reply)

also, that's not crappy
it's interesting
( Lisette von Falcon, Wed 9 Dec 2009, 15:09, Reply)

Haha
Thank you, it was silly really. Gnomes meeting tri-annually at an undisclosed location to plot world domination… as you do.
(Flim-Flam the Magnificent "You is talking loco and I like it!", Wed 9 Dec 2009, 15:13, Reply)

that sounds fucking awesome

( Lisette von Falcon, Wed 9 Dec 2009, 15:14, Reply)

Haha
I'll send you a copy if I ever finish it! :D
(Flim-Flam the Magnificent "You is talking loco and I like it!", Wed 9 Dec 2009, 15:17, Reply)

I write crappy songs

( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Wed 9 Dec 2009, 14:56, Reply)

Hehe me too!
I found a notebook full of my crappy songs the other day, they were terrible! How I laughed!! Hehehe
(Flim-Flam the Magnificent "You is talking loco and I like it!", Wed 9 Dec 2009, 14:59, Reply)

I think I've written 5maybe 3 good songs in my entire life
The rest make me go red with embarrassment.
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Wed 9 Dec 2009, 15:10, Reply)

Hehe they're funny.
I love it when you find things you wrote when you were younger and get really embarrassed! Hehe
(Flim-Flam the Magnificent "You is talking loco and I like it!", Wed 9 Dec 2009, 15:16, Reply)

I've been told my poems seem more like songs
I've tried to actually write a song but they come out terrible
( Lisette von Falcon, Wed 9 Dec 2009, 15:10, Reply)

My songs are like shit poems

( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Wed 9 Dec 2009, 15:12, Reply)

I've tried writing lyrics before
and I can't get anywhere with it. my brain won't accept anything other than lyrical perfection, and yet is unable to provide it.

I stick to music instead
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 9 Dec 2009, 15:12, Reply)

I'm better at lyrics than bloody music
If someone writes chords I can be interesting with melody and lyrics, but actually writing a song from nothing I CAN'T DO.
My ex is a prize nutter and it's such a shame because we wrote ace stuff and even won a couple of songwriting things in local clubs. We had very few friends so it was genuine recognition!
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Wed 9 Dec 2009, 15:15, Reply)

does fucking about with ReBirth and a midi controller
count as making music? if it does, then i have 'made music'. Just jam for a while, loading in drum patterns, 303 melodies/squeals etc, then press record and start the ball rolling. It's excellent fun, however, the results can sound a tad repetative and samey, but sometimes dance music IS like that.

Then I think about knocking out one of those crappy hard house tracks, with the constant 4x4, cymbals and snare, fire in a 'soaring' female vocal, get the chipmunk filter onto it and thats it, job done!.
(Cancer Joy was short lived, Wed 9 Dec 2009, 16:01, Reply)

same here
without the music - I've only ever made up riffs and soloed. The idea of a properly-structured song makes my head hurt. Hell, I'm impressed by The Ramones...
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 9 Dec 2009, 15:18, Reply)

the few actual songs I've come up with have been quite nice
none recorded unfortunately, but mostly I make up second guitar parts, and solo while making faces
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 9 Dec 2009, 15:22, Reply)

I had a blog once
I told many many lies to make my ex girlfriend think I was about to post "those pictures" and that I had totally moved on.

It was just pathetic.
( Peej, Wed 9 Dec 2009, 14:57, Reply)

POIDH

( djtrialprice, Wed 9 Dec 2009, 15:08, Reply)

"those pictures"?
Sure, shall I post them on the main board?
( Peej, Wed 9 Dec 2009, 15:39, Reply)

stick 'em in your profile
Every old manky bint's getting their deflated balloons out in their profiles these days, apparently.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 9 Dec 2009, 15:45, Reply)

hahaha

( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 9 Dec 2009, 15:51, Reply)

gaz me a link first
I'll give them my special "user acceptance test" when I get home this evening.

The results i.e. degree from horizontal, will be posted in a new thread.
( djtrialprice, Wed 9 Dec 2009, 15:48, Reply)

Anyone ever read the Gilbert blog?
Probably the only decent blog I've ever read...
( whenanimalsattackhumans clad in global hypercolour, Wed 9 Dec 2009, 15:06, Reply)

what's that like?
"Just bummed George, then did some art. Then minced about Brick Lane being arty. Bummed George again. Made a painting about my shit"
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 9 Dec 2009, 15:20, Reply)

Did I say Gilbert?
I meant Dilbert!!!!!
( whenanimalsattackhumans clad in global hypercolour, Wed 9 Dec 2009, 15:26, Reply)

Haha!
My cats are called George and Gilbert.
( girlinthehole, Wed 9 Dec 2009, 15:28, Reply)

Do they throw poo?

(Flim-Flam the Magnificent "You is talking loco and I like it!", Wed 9 Dec 2009, 15:38, Reply)

Not in the house.

( girlinthehole, Wed 9 Dec 2009, 15:41, Reply)

That's at least something!!

(Flim-Flam the Magnificent "You is talking loco and I like it!", Wed 9 Dec 2009, 15:49, Reply)

Ooh, name-checked in a bgb thread.
Yeah, my blog is very introspective and basically an exploration of my messy head. I don't specifically write it for a readership, more to give myself an outlet that I don't really have in my personal life. I don't promote it unless I'm talking to someone about something personal and refer them to a post for more details without having to type in all out again on my phone.

My advice is if you want to write introspective or reflective stuff, fuck the readership and write what you want to write. If you discover a few things about life along the way, all's the better. You can also always set your blog to private or invite-only so you can keep it to yourself or special individuals if you want to.
( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Wed 9 Dec 2009, 16:46, Reply)

I have one
Shared with another 5 people, which makes it just perfect, as there is always someone who wants to write something, and someone who reads and comment.

For a blog only for yourself you need plenty of time and plenty of friends. I'm sure you'll do great!!
(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Wed 9 Dec 2009, 17:02, Reply)