This isnt what happens on this forum though, the people who have anything negative to say get ganged upon. It seems as though who can only say positive things or you just get slated.
Content to posts starts discussion, style can cause arguments. However, some people take offence however you say it.
I have always seen this forum as a little like a pub where you are sat around with a group of friends chatting about the one thing you have in common and you all enjoy. In such circumstances you would talk sensibly and calmly to people and you would respect their views while putting forward a counter argument in a polite and thought through way. If the converstaions I have witnessed following our defeat by ManU were to take place in such a pub the police would have closed the place down claiming it to be a rough house with constant brawls in the car park. When expressing a view or challenging someones opinion I think it is a good rule to imagine them sat in front of you when you do so.
I'm replying to you now Fran..... now should I be thinking naked Hattie Jaques or a sultry, semi-naked Bridgite Bardot (Ps. I realise one is gone and the other a lot older than you...)
Not as big as Hattie and nowhere near as wrinkled as Bardot (sun is so bad for you). We should stop now before Mods close it down for containing smut
I think that this is exactly why posters shouldn't rise to the negative posts - it happens after every game, and the same arguments spring up again every Saturday or Sunday afternoon. It's such a circular, pointless waste of energy, yet the same hamsters get on it every single week and pretty much say the same things. Just start a positive thread, as some do, and get involved in that, and leave the negative posters to their own threads. Even if all negative posters were booted off this space, there would be a new subset of the most negative of the positive-skewed posters, and the most positive of those positive posters will just start having a go at them, and vice versa. You can't beat human nature. And what I think the OP is getting at - which I completely agree with - is that it is completely mindnumbing to just have everyone having a go at how negative everyone is, no matter what thread you're on. It gets in the way of everything else for the entire week afterwards. Perhaps when we get sub-forums, we can have match threads, and then two sub-forums, one for positive posters, and one for negative. Though of course there will be a sliding scale within each group, and the same arguments will come up. What I'd love is a thread purely for rows, where anyone just looking for a fight or an argument can go in and post abuse, argumentative statements, WUM-ery etc. Would make great reading, if serve no other use.
pre - emptive negativiity = Where the poster senses a forthcoming wave of negativity and therefore seeks to criticise the notional critics for their negativity before they speak. Its very self righteous and very patronising.
The very lovely Mrs Godders is as beautiful today as the day I first met her. Rather sadly the virile, muscular and rather handsome (in an ugly sort of way) man she fell for is falling apart and Fran is quite right you would not want to see me naked. I often do and it is not a pretty sight in fact it is a horribly frightening sight but you can get away with a lot if you undress in the dark
No offence but you talk of Mrs Godders as if we know who she is. She could be a doll for all we know.
She is known to a great many very fortunate people of whom the most fortunate is me. I am sorry you do not know her as that makes your life a little poorer but you now know of her so there is hope. However please note that it was Fran and Lamballana who started all of this not me.
As someone stated before. Did it hurt when you fell off your high horse? Is arrogant your middle name? I'm sure most people have little interest in who you care to share your life with.
If my posts upset you then please feel free to put me on your ignore list as you are already on mine. That should make us both a great deal happier.
