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With Tesco taking out full page adverts to say sorry for selling us ponyburgers, now is the time for us all to say Sorry.
Write a letter of apology to someone who deserves it.
props to Monty_Boyce
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Imagine if you will a small pub. It's a "local" pub but it's clientele come in all shapes, genders & sizes, from all walks of life and all corners of the globe.
One corner of the pub is reserved for those who like a good natter. It can get a bit repetitious and the humor is a mix of frat-boy and in-jokes but it's usually all in good fun. Another corner is set aside for those who like to share information with each other. They can be a lively bunch but mostly keep to themselves. In the 3rd corner we find those who can make funny moving pictures and draw spunking magenta cocks on other pics. Speaks for itself really. Funny shit to look at all day, everyday.
Finally we come to the story-tellers corner. This is a spot where the windbags do tend to gather. The landlord or a pub employee usually sets the topic (apparently thru some sort of democratic process) and the clients take turns telling their (sometimes true) tales based upon the topic.
When I first frequented this bar - mainly as purely a listener rather than a talker in the story corner, most of the story tellers would tell their tales and aside from some vigorous ribbing the audience would make their comments.
Things slowly started to change. It seemed as tho the most negative minded of the nattering mob, having got bored with the tautological banter where they were wanted something else, so many of them drifted over to the story-tellers corner.
This was also around the time that I became more of a teller than a listener. It also seems to be when some of the pubs problems started.[Maybe there is some correlation there - good-onya for spotting it!]
As story tellers told their tales they were often shouted down by the natterers or abused out-rightly as the natterers then took over the tales with their in jokes. To the point that there were even jokes about outdoor structures that store garden tools.
Surely jokes about the landlord's proclivity to stick his digits inside children would be funnier than that? No?
I mean these guys really are like flies on shit.
These days you head down to the pub and as you walk in the front door you pretty much get called a cunt for ordering your drink.
There have been many more people apart from me who have made far more effort to basically spoil the experience for everyone else, aside from their little cadre of in-jokers (however they seem just as happy to turn on each other too!).
So I'd like to apologise for my part in making this a shit pub. Because I decided I was sick of hearing the the same old dribbly shit-giving from a bunch of people who rarely actually head down to the pub to tell a story and have a laugh at others' stories and instead head down to the pub to hang pointless shit on the people there to share a story.
How many of us would actually listen and talk to these people in RL if they behaved the way they do online?
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I don't get your point.
*Insert "the landlord enjoys fingering us" joke here*
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It's gotten to the point where I generally stick my head in the door without saying anything, listen to the tenor of the conversation and just walk back out. Most of the time it just doesn't seem worth the effort, but I do so out of habit more than anything else.
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We take the piss out of bullshitting, self-aggrandising pricks in pubs here.
( , Mon 21 Jan 2013, 8:27, closed)
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We'd lynch you here for being a whinging pommie wanker who collects "funny" stories off an internet site.
Cause it's not funny.
JSYK.
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Blimey, that sounds like a cracking local.
( , Mon 21 Jan 2013, 8:46, closed)
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Also.... Stfu you skinny whinging pom.
Even the mankey old skimpy in my local wouldn't serve you.
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Missed that AB - mainly 'cos you rarely say anything worth replying to so I kinda skip over your drivel most of the time.
"Aussie pubs must be waaaay different to Brit pubs.
We take the piss out of bullshitting, self-aggrandising pricks in pubs here."
No you fucking don't. You might whisper to your mates but you don't have the bottle or the backup to take the piss out of someone in a pub. To be fair, I wouldn't either. Taking the piss out of someone in the pub generally leads to fisticuffs. Something to be avoided unless I have no other choice.
And Aussie pubs are pretty much the same as Brit pubs. Except nobody drinks 4X over here.
Cheers
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Lol, that was a joke. I would actually kill myself if I was you.
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Most of the wankers from /talk have turned /qotw into an internet wasteland due to their constant negative input. & I'm kinda sorry because a lot of my responses to them has not improved the website.
Kinda.
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Why would anyone bother taking the time to write something funny?
The standard reaction now is for one of you shitflinging chimps to either; aggressively accuse the poster of lying, which wasn't entertaining the first time you did it, so the 1,00th time is almost physically painful, or to just hijack the whole thing and drag it off into yet another bickering match.
Ringofyre certianly has posted interesting and amusing stuff in the past. He rarely does it now, and I know exactly why. He has explained it very precisely in this thread.
You on the other hand don't get it. You still think calling people liars, cunts, or lying cunts is worth doing.
Anyway, to go back to the analogy, what you've managed to do is chase all the interesting posters out of the pub. Now you're complaining that it's full of idiots. Well, you're hogging the bar there son, if you want something better, move aside.
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If it doesn't happen as often it is probably because a page full of "Great story mate!" posts is a lot duller than, say, calling an obvious liar a liar and them getting upset by it.
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Unless by 'interesting and amusing' you meant 'barely literate and desperately upset'.
( , Mon 21 Jan 2013, 9:29, closed)
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opinion, of course.
Anyway, if you prefer ABs relentless drivel, have at it. I'm not going to waste time persuading you otherwise.
Time for a time out, I reckon.
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( , Mon 21 Jan 2013, 10:39, closed)
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Maybe you should spend less time here and more time attending to your missus.
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The moral guardian who spends his time humiliating his colleagues.
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I know. Complete bastard I am. Going around, humiliting people.
"We take the piss out of bullshitting, self-aggrandising pricks"
"Some stories are funny because they're well...funny. Some stories are funny because picking the holes in the blatant lie, mocking a pompous arse or deflating a fevered ego is also, funny"
Can you see any contradictions on what you accuse me of and what you've posted just in this thread?
Cheers
Nice ninja-edit there AB. Calling for people to post literate posts then spelling humiliating wrong must have been, well, humiliating....
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who published a fail archive.
Fucking hell, you really have no sense of what a hypocritical tool you appear to be. It's as if any brain cells that should have been labelled "self awareness" got missed out.
In short, you come out as something of a sociopath without the superficial charm.
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Some stories are funny because they're well...funny. Some stories are funny because picking the holes in the blatant lie, mocking a pompous arse or deflating a fevered ego is also, funny.
I bet you used to write letters of complaint to Speak You're Branes didn't you?
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How many of us would actually listen and talk to these people in RL if they behaved the way they do online?
That's probably why they spend so much time in here- no one in the real world wants to be bothered with them.
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You've managed to entrap all four of the drearies in one fell swoop. For a moment I thought this was the real ringofire.
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Mind you, his breakdown probably isn't helping things.
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How many of them do you think will have a go but claim not to be upset, despite sounding just the opposite?
They are sort of proving your point.
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Cheers.
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Please keep up.
Sometimes I think even you don't listen to the background noise that is yourself.
I do feel slightly guilty for laughing at you though.
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Are you leaving or not?
Perhaps if you do, things might get better again.
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It's heartbreaking really, he was on here all over christmas.
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that you know so much more about my state of mental health and the state of my marriage than I do.
Really.
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is that they rarely understand that they're in the middle of a mental breakdown.
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As an aside, I really regret looking at your profile.
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Legless came fucking close with -
"Except nobody drinks 4X over here." Ahh, you can take the boy out of Queensland...
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whether you agree with me or not - this ain't exactly working is it?
So now I have a suggestion for qotw.
How do we fix it?
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but I think QOTW has run its course and nicely summarised why in the op
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Tell a concise, literate, coherent, amusing and, ideally, believable story.
( , Mon 21 Jan 2013, 10:34, closed)
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That probably still wouldn't work, would it?
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QOTW is the sum of its parts, which broadly speaking are only the posts.
So, the posts need fixing. Few of them relate to the questions any more.
Be less shit is actually as good an answer as there is. The problem is it's the shit posters demanding that there is less shit posted.
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is very simple.
Basically, you can't respond to a post until you've posted yourself on that week's entry.
If the entry you post is obviously shit (an in-joke, a dreadful pun rather than a good one) or just complete nonsense - it gets removed and your right to reply to QoTW for that week is suspended.
If your reply is just "LIES" or any form of in-joke - it gets deleted. No more responses for you to QoTW for that week.
3 strikes and you're out. Three reasons to delete your posts or responses, and you and your IP address are banned forever.
Fuck up your first post to QoTW by breaking these rules - banned forever.
That would fix it pure and simple. Mods - are you listening
Signed, yet another person not really willing to contribute to QoTW anymore due to the high quotient of wankers on here.
Awaiting the inevitable response from the usual suspects to this post in 3,2,1...
( , Mon 21 Jan 2013, 13:45, closed)
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desperate times, desperate measures. Being unregulated means QoTW is dying on its arse.
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and there would be moaning. Keeping everything on-topic would sort of do that, would it not ?
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is to put their username and password up for the first person to grab.
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You are a shit person with terrible ideas
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Have you considered the possibility that your attitude is the problem here?
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Rory's attacking Loon about BGB, I've bought up Jahled's baseball bat (& Rory's sword - but I have to say I don't really think that counts), I've given Battered shit about banging on about apeloverage's book, AB's brought up a number of refs. including Albert Marshmallow and (I think) ctrl_del_alt (via a link, no less!) and tangledupinblue thinks I'm flouncing and shit.
Happy, sociable bunch, aren't we?
( , Mon 21 Jan 2013, 10:16, closed)
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from Coronation Street. Don't really know or care where the meme came from.
Tellingly the lines seem so blurred between fantasy and reality to tangled that he can't tell the difference between actor and character.
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However if it had not been posted by you, AB, Rory or Monty and a few others it might have had a whiff of originality.
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There are people who can help. Maybe you just need someone to listen.
(that person isn't me, though, as your post is tl but unfortunately I did r and I really regret doing so)
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If you don't like the comments just ignore them, if you can't ignore them then delete your account and kill yourself.
cheers
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only the zombies outside have more brains than the clientele.
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Put them on ignore, post your stories or just Fuck off. I've given people shit for bullshit stories, and taken the piss, and most who don't like me will have ignored me. You keep banging on about it like some qotw crusader that no one fucking wants. The mods put in 2.0, it is stupid but it does exactly what you want and silences the fuckwits that ruin it for you. Shut up. Just fucking stop it
( , Mon 21 Jan 2013, 11:36, closed)
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accuse him of getting cross on the internet, and make an estimation of how many minutes it will be till he flounces.
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Though it does read as just a little bit upset & online.
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still think you're a tool though.
( , Tue 22 Jan 2013, 13:41, closed)
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A little.
Have a good one.
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Doesn't he finger enough dogs for you? Eh? You people disgust me.
( , Mon 21 Jan 2013, 18:17, closed)
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Or indeed how to post on a comedy forum without getting extremely upset and having a massive internet breakdown. I hope you can talk some sense into him windy.
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evolution, and to be expected. And whilst a glass of whine seems appropriate, QOTW's entertainment value is ultimately whatever one wishes it to be.
I'm the chap in the corner with the soda water reading the paper.
( , Mon 21 Jan 2013, 11:37, closed)
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*clink*
*accidentally spills drink over ringofyre*
Er, sorry.
( , Mon 21 Jan 2013, 12:05, closed)
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*wipes ringofyre's jacket, leaves print stains*
*knocks over said's drink*
*trips over table leg, falls into next table, knocks drinks over punters*
*gets up, slips, falls over pool cue rack, cue hits jukebox which starts playing yakkity sax*
*gets hit in face by cream pie*
*makes for door*
Sorry!
( , Mon 21 Jan 2013, 12:35, closed)
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You did choose to comment on this thread. You could have ignored it.
Or are you the guardian of B3TA now?
( , Mon 21 Jan 2013, 13:22, closed)
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he's not the one who's upset?
This whole thread is a complete waste of time, isn't it?
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It seems to be the stock answer for the hard-of-thinking.
Personally I think this thread has sort of proven the point Ringo was trying to make. Although I'll probably be accused of flouncing, being upset, boring, or using the Legless gambit instead of a witty or God forbid intelligent reply being said in response.
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Anyway, my work here is done, so I'll be riding my Accord into the sunset.
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I've never received any of this 'abuse' stuff on anything I've posted, as infrequently as I bother.
Also, everything you post is tedious and awful.
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You fucking cunt,
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it's not a real pub is it?
It's creepy when you get metaphorical on us.
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just wanted to have a post here as everyone else seems to be doing so.
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but it's just not the same without JMG flooding it with Steve Macdonald pictures (the token efforts, above, are just that).
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This is great for racking up my "ignore" column.
*reaches over the bar*
Have one on the house.
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or would some sherbert be more to your taste?
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but yes, I'd love some Lemon sherrrrrr-berrrrrt.
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I'm against ignore 2.0 on principle but I wouldn't miss you.
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all nice & lovely.
Fuck off, you can't have my gin you fucking teetotal.
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