After more than half a century on the road, you can't blame the guy. The 71-year-old had originally scheduled a 300-date tour spanning five continents that was expected to run through 2021, but the superstar showman doesn't seem to be ready to leave the stage just yet. Once again, Elton John has added more dates to his Farewell Yellow Brick Road tour, adding shows in 25 North American cities. It is a tough balance to keep the peace without running off the regulars."Sorry" doesn't seem to be the hardest word."goodbye" does. I'm just as guilty as anybody for being confrontational. The only deletions I can recall are ones directed user on user or speculation/posts about the host's personal lives. If a sense of decorum and some board norms here and there are what you deem necessary I am fine with that. I have no problem with you running your place how you see fit. Understand Pman that is not directed at you. It drives away the content, ie the users and the commenters. A game day thread on the shag might fly forty or fifty posts on an interception, theirs or ours. This is best illustrated by a game day post that had all of 10 posts. Negative comments were deleted and users banned. Soon it devolved into an echo chamber of fewer and fewer voices. One of the proprietors of the site told someone that actually knew how to do it, "go start your own board". It became a board of fewer and fewer voices after the coming of Shaggybevo. In fact the very people who could help the board improve itself were banned for silly reasons. There was even an offer of improving the servers and programming. There was a day when it was a lively and vibrant board with regular posters and slammed servers. Over at HornsFans, which until recently I was unaware of entirely, they have posted a farewell of sorts. We get our beer muscles up and it is easy to start a flame war. You wouldn't want MTC to become like that now, would you? Something terrible might happen to it.īesides, I understand Grubes Is My Leader is open for business over on Facebook." "One guy takes a shot, then it won't do but that the guy being shot has to take a shot, and it's all so annoying to read AND SO DAMNED UNORIGINAL. I'm reading along in some of these comments, and the comment is fine, well-put, legit, and then, in the last sentence, the author seems to feel the need to take a shot at another commenter's intelligence, motives, identity, whatever. (3) Listen up, pilgrims: You got a point to make, make it. I'm getting a nice education just looking them up. I don't really even care if the writer had to look those people up or whether they knew who they were to begin with. ![]() All of the people signing themselves "not" someone triad of obscure philosophers or fictional characters. (2) We have a pretty amazing population of Confessors here. The guy ("Ted") who was talking to his girlfriend/wife about giving medicine to the cat, and her absolute I'm-not-having-any-of-your-nonsense responses while putting away groceries (and knocking down a shelf in the process) - ya know, one likes to think one is a sophisticated consumer of highbrow humor, but Ted (who is apparently a law student) and his anus talk and w/g's responses about had me driving off the road. (1) I'm not the biggest fan of the more juvenile aspects of The Ticket, but I have to confess (of course) that the Hardline's new "Throw Down Your Anus" challenge had me larfing mightily in the old Conestoga yesterday on the way home.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |