Thread: What is TD to you?

To me TD's an interactive cyber-sitcom in which you can prod the oddball characters and make up your own when you have a quiet moment or two, and then laugh when they get all haughty and try to stop you toying with the only social life they have.

Fuck off smeg

Tough talk

It's a friendly warm fuzzy place that picks you up when your having a bad day or a personal crisis a bit like the Samaritans

Starts cool
Warms to plot
Kettled
Lets of steam
Evaporates like fairy gold of Pride Street Beige Water
Ends up without a marmelade sandwich merkin
How much can Paddington Bare?

Originally Posted by Steam

To me TD's an interactive cyber-sitcom in which you can prod the oddball characters and make up your own when you have a quiet moment or two, and then laugh when they get all haughty and try to stop you toying with the only social life they have.

It means that when your best friend on here awakes in Thailand he will be posting on here and this thread will be another "Tom and Jerry" cartoon

Originally Posted by jimbobs

It's a friendly warm fuzzy place that picks you up when your having a bad day or a personal crisis a bit like the Samaritans

More like kicks you in the gonads when you are writhing in pain from an elbow to the jaw. Friendly like a drag party after with Isis more like..

Since returning to NZ, after 10 ish years in Thailand - I have no friends (apart from my wife's friends who I have adopted as my own) so by virtue of being friendless.. you are lumped with me unfortunately.

Someone has to keep the felchers at bay...It's like owning a ranch...Ya gotta ride the range and check the fence-lines every so often 'cause the little weasels might breach
the border lines...

A quick rap on the head with a gun butt or cudgel and it's all good...But they do come back, like zombies...

Sad and dangerous part is: They know who they are...

Originally Posted by BaitongBoy

Someone has to keep the felchers at bay.

.... but not you eh, boy?

This forum is a lot like you Smegma. Starts off slowly, then fizzles out altogether. Let's face it you are a spent firework.

<burp>

I think the "duke" (snicker) is wetting his tights and preparing for meltdown...

Mellow out and listen to some Joplin, ffs..."Everyone in this world wants the same damn thing"...

You're the first of the "know who you are" gang to respond, Chas, so have a cigar...

Originally Posted by BaitongBoy

I think the "duke" (snicker) is wetting his tights and preparing for meltdown...

Mellow out and listen to some Joplin, ffs..."Everyone in this world wants the same damn thing"...

You're the first of the "know who you are" gang to respond, Chas, so have a cigar...

Have you ever tried poin English boy?

Just in time, NZ...Cheers...

Originally Posted by Steam

To me TD's an interactive cyber-sitcom in which you can prod the oddball characters and make up your own

For the majority I think it is a community. A messed up and dysfunctional one maybe, but a community all the same. Where we can share our experiences, learn something, be entertained, amused or even sometimes educated. We can bicker to our hearts content (or at least until the mods get sick of it).

But here is the thing. By and large it is people sharing their experiences. Largely in anonymity, but real experiences by real people.

Now you, you think of it as some cyber playground, which is why I, and I think many others, think of you as the board equivalent of a turd in a bowl of soup.

Originally Posted by nidhogg

Originally Posted by Steam

To me TD's an interactive cyber-sitcom in which you can prod the oddball characters and make up your own

For the majority I think it is a community. A messed up and dysfunctional one maybe, but a community all the same. Where we can share our experiences, learn something, be entertained, amused or even sometimes educated. We can bicker to our hearts content (or at least until the mods get sick of it).

But here is the thing. By and large it is people sharing their experiences. Largely in anonymity, but real experiences by real people.

Now you, you think of it as some cyber playground, which is why I, and I think many others, think of you as the board equivalent of a turd in a bowl of soup.

This place is still a mystery to me. I have a feeling some members here would feel right at home at 4Chan.

Still beats the shit out of Thai Visa though. I lasted about 2 days in that den of snakes. Didn't get banned or anything, just felt nauseous every time I logged in.

What I like about TD is the fact that mods don't seem to treat you like absolute children and start dishing out bans the second two members lock horns.

Not a bad analysis, nidhogg...

Cheers...

^ Nid's summary was spot on IMHO.

DK... is TV really so inhospitable? (even more so than here?)...

I guess I lucked out then ey? joined Ajarn, but never posted... never joined TV.

Originally Posted by Door Knob

This place is still a mystery to me. I have a feeling some members here would feel right at home at 4Chan.

Still beats the shit out of Thai Visa though. I lasted about 2 days in that den of snakes. Didn't get banned or anything, just felt nauseous every time I logged in.

What I like about TD is the fact that mods don't seem to treat you like absolute children and start dishing out bans the second two members lock horns.

Well said, Door Knob...I guess you won't be getting offended when someone calls you a doorknob in the future...

Yes, it is a strange place...Too bad, it can't last...Maybe the women will save it...Only chance, I think...

And I don't mean Sophia, either...That "poor girl" is pretty busy as it is...

Originally Posted by NZdick1983

^ Nid's summary was spot on IMHO.

DK... is TV really so inhospitable? (even more so than here?)...

I guess I lucked out then ey? joined Ajarn, but never posted... never joined TV.

That place is an old boy's club. TD seems a bit like that as well to an extent, but it's more fragmented. You won't get everyone flaming you all at once if you're a newbie. Plus the admins are all on a power trip on TV. They're famous for it.

Originally Posted by BaitongBoy

Originally Posted by Door Knob

This place is still a mystery to me. I have a feeling some members here would feel right at home at 4Chan.

Still beats the shit out of Thai Visa though. I lasted about 2 days in that den of snakes. Didn't get banned or anything, just felt nauseous every time I logged in.

What I like about TD is the fact that mods don't seem to treat you like absolute children and start dishing out bans the second two members lock horns.

Well said, Door Knob...I guess you won't be getting offended when someone calls you a doorknob in the future...

Yes, it is a strange place...Too bad, it can't last...Maybe the women will save it...Only chance, I think...

And I don't mean Sophia, either...That "poor girl" is pretty busy as it is...

Well I don't take myself seriously and I'm not easy to offend. So I think I'll be fine here.

Not sure about all the doom and gloom though. TD has members with some of the highest post counts I've seen anywhere, so it's been doing something right for a long time obviously. Some members just need to pipe down on the paranoia a bit when it comes to new members to allow for new blood to flow in. I understand trolling is an issue, but all they have to do is err on the side of caution and simply ignore suspected multi-nickers. Attention is oxygen to a troll, but people can't seem to starve them off it, like not being able to stop tonguing a sore tooth. The crusaders are as much to blame as the trolls IMHO.

Yeah, I don't care who is a troll/multi-nick, if they say their mum has cancer and ask for advice or whatever, I will take their word for it and respond if I think I can offer some solid advice (or a stupid asinine comment)...

I enjoy the news...occasionally there are interesting poster insights and articles that I haven't seen elsewhere. I like the movie threads. I enjoy all the travel photo threads, and kudos to those with the patience to put them up.

The constant bickering by a few members is irritating, as are the multiniks.

All in all, I enjoy TD for the most part.

Originally Posted by NZdick1983

Yeah, I don't care who is a troll/multi-nick, if they say their mum has cancer and ask for advice or whatever, I will take their word for it and respond if I think I can offer some solid advice (or a stupid asinine comment)...

Yeah, I don't get why "multinick" is such a despised thing.
A dork is a dork, whether he's a returned dork or a new one. People who deliberately try to hurt others are despised by me. I was quite shocked at the level of personal insults when I first started being regular her several months ago. Some seemed to be banter between friends, which is OK, but some of it seemed to be needlessly crude and offensive.
Take Cold Pizza. He was harmless. So his posts were boring...who cares?
Then you get others who try to write something that will upset people...blatant racial slurs etc or posts designed to provoke (trolling). I can largely just ignore it....until it's directed at me specifically or it's someone who absolutely needs to be taken down a peg or two.

Originally Posted by Maanaam

Then you get others who try to write something that will upset people...blatant racial slurs etc or posts designed to provoke (trolling). I can largely just ignore it....until it's directed at me specifically or it's someone who absolutely needs to be taken down a peg or two.

Anyone in particular in mind, manny?

That 'until it's directed at me' exclusion is...kinda major.

Originally Posted by cyrille

Originally Posted by Maanaam

Then you get others who try to write something that will upset people...blatant racial slurs etc or posts designed to provoke (trolling). I can largely just ignore it....until it's directed at me specifically or it's someone who absolutely needs to be taken down a peg or two.

Anyone in particular in mind, manny?

That 'until it's directed at me' exclusion is...kinda major.

I think everyone knows who the troll trolling me is. He's clever enough and has enough sycophants to have made it appear that it is ME that is the troll, but if you look at the entire history, it is not me. He just loves trolling, and has sooooo much spare time on his hands that he can get lots of posts and repo in....more than anyone else, I imagine.
Must lead a sad life to be on here that much.

In real life, I'm very easy-going but will stick up for the underdog, especially if the underdog is me, lol.

Cue his change of tack so as to not appear to be trolling me. In the pocket, or Brer Rabbit?