Kathy Ellen;1254191 wrote: Hello Everyone....
Please smack me upside my head if I'm wrong....but can we please have some dialogue about the threads being posted lately about polls and the BNP lately
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I'm just tired of this type of thread as the original purpose of the thread is lost because of 'pop-up, pot-stirrer threads' that then appear.....and the nonsense goes on and on and on....
sorry...but it becomes silly and not fun....Or am I wrong about this? I really enjoy reading a good debate, but these threads do not seem to lead to a good debate...
I've made a promise to myself that I'm going to post in the wonderful threads in FG that are so ignored and not appreciated. There are so many members that try to post heart-warming, funny, creative threads to spark our senses, and .....they're ignored by many of us. I am so guilty of this and will try harder to post in these threads because they are beautiful:-4
I truly miss the good fun here in FG and think that we need to 'love' our garden again:D .
Maybe we can open our pub again and have a halloween party:D Guess that takes a village...
I don't see the problem. Just avoid the threads you find boring-I never look at the word game threads or any of the other ones I see little point in or am not interested in, the religious ones are occasionally interesting to me but I don't consider I have any right to complain about them. Nor do I go on the threads about american politics and complain about what they are talking about because I don't think it's very relevant . Why read the posts about British politics if they don't interest you? Your healthcare debates are interesting but actually affect me not at all- I read them and chip in occasionally because I find them quite interesting. I see The threads like conversations taking place in a group-every now and then a few people will wander off talking about something else amongst themselves and then come back and chip in to the main conversation just skip the bits that have gone off at tangents. I suggest you ignore the odd tosser as well.
The next few years are going to change the UK radically-we are likely to see constitutional shake up and there is also the possibility the UK may split-it hangs on the next election. The BNP are a big issue at the moment in the UK and quite frankly most british posters are going to get involved and they and their supporters are fair game. If a member if the kkk or the aryan brotherhood was posting would you ignore it? The BNP are a modern manifestation of the british nazi party. We are used to fairly heated debates and are less inclined to hang back but the arguments about the BNP have actually been quite civilised but in any case we can fall out over politics but not actually take things personally, any insults are taken in good part and the spirit in which they are usually intended. We have a couple of wind up merchants in our midst who are BNP travellers at the very least. To borrow a quote from woody allan
I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats (on the KKK).
The right wing in UK politics are still there like slaters under a stone.
I wouldn't smack you upside your head ( what an odd turn of phrase, I assume you mean skelp you one) but I think you maybe read more aggro in the posts than there actually is and just ignore the polls.
posted by lon
Any newbie looking at the last few weeks postings would be pretty turned off I suspect----they could perceive that FG is being used by a couple of vey prolific posters to set a posting record of some kind irrespective of the posts content. They could also perceive that FG is primarily a UK dominated site. Overall---FG is pretty boring at the moment, but that will pass as it has before.
Actually it's always seemed an american dominated forum to me and it's only recently there have been enough british posters to get a good argument going on British issues. A lot of american posters seem to have drifted away-especially after the presidential election-relief or despair at the outcome perhaps.
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