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Post by Jazz on Apr 28, 2009 21:02:31 GMT
Oh, I see, It's all down to the title of the OP is it ? Nice. Still, I applaud your attitude as mods, both of you. You must be very proud. Speaking as Josephine Poster, I think the title is important. When I first began on forums (2 years ago), I would look only at the titles and then choose what to read. I missed some great stuff and only would find it by accident. Then I discovered a couple of forums with 'Most Recent 50 posts' etc...Now, I immediately go through the last posts and can clearly see what is interesting to me. On AnyPort, OurParisVariations and (in the past,ttr), I go to the Most Recent Posts first. If I have time, or am searching for a non-current thread, I slog through each division. To attempt to be concise (!!!), some of the greatest threads have boring and tedious titles and are thus ignored.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 28, 2009 21:07:22 GMT
Gyro, you make lots of excellent posts, but titles like "This" or "Would you be interested" are not the sort of thing that make people want to find out all that much more unless they already know you (in which case of course they might want to avoid the post - I know you love smileys). Other post titles are just fine and/or intriguing like "Globular Clusters". If you don't really care, that's fine, but since you seemed a littled miffed (yes yes, I know: "irony") at the lack of attention for St. George's Day (title: "a bit late") maybe you wouldn't have felt neglected with a more explicit title.
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Post by Jazz on Apr 28, 2009 21:19:17 GMT
No. please tell me more on how I should operate on your precious site. In fact, hell, just have my password and write my posts for me. Gyro, I am not one of the 'top dogs'...haha...But I don't understand why you are upset. I think that you are one of the most intelligent, strongest and funniest posters here. You are very much 'your own man' and certainly don't need lessons on how to post, either with content or your use of language. Perhaps a look at 'catchy titles' of OP's?', but that is all. Special for Gyro: You may have 'missed' 2 of my OP's in Europe, page 2, that obviously overwhelmed the readership into silence, anyportinastorm.proboards.com/index.cgi?action=display&board=europe&thread=54&page=1#677....2 replies, one from me. anyportinastorm.proboards.com/index.cgi?action=display&board=europe&thread=56&page=1#250....0 replies
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Post by spindrift on Apr 28, 2009 21:50:19 GMT
Brilliant wit and repartee from the four involved.
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Post by tillystar on Apr 28, 2009 21:58:45 GMT
A bit late I know but we do celebrate 1st May in England, we just do it on the 1st Monday instead. We love a long weekend you see.
(Some people here do prefer to celebrate on the actual day by beating the crap out of people int he street. This traditionalist sect is known as the police)
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 29, 2009 2:48:58 GMT
*wraps precious self in righteous innocence*
I am safe and warm in the knowledge that I was the first person to respond to the St. George's Day thread OPed by the well-liked but sometimes prickly Gyro. Not only did I respond, but I did so appropriately and with interest and sincerity.
So there.
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Post by gyro on Apr 29, 2009 4:15:46 GMT
First response, yes. 'Sometimes prickly' is a description that also can be applied to you and K. Self-righteous, certainly.
Tilly; isn't the 1st May Beltane though ? Argubaly more relevant thatn St George, but nothing to do with celebnrating being English.
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Post by tillystar on Apr 29, 2009 12:54:38 GMT
I only mentioned it as K said we didn't celebrate at all... but it is also the International Workers Day in lots of other countries (hence "Kick a Hippy Day here), originally it was one of the first public holidays in the UK as seeding was over so the workers could go party with maypoles and do morris dancing which is all a bit English. I suppose its workers day and Beltane traditions all mixed up, like most of these things.
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Post by gyro on Apr 29, 2009 16:55:36 GMT
It's roots are, as far as I'm aware, Beltane, and as such it's the oldest traditional holiday we have; pre-dating Chrimbo, obviously. But I don't think the 'celebration' side of it is essentially anything to do with this country as such, in the same way that Whitsun and Easter aren't either.
God knows what the bank holiday in August is all about.
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Post by tillystar on Apr 29, 2009 19:15:49 GMT
A day of holiday given to all workers so that they may have the opportunity to visit B&Q, I believe.
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Post by gyro on Apr 29, 2009 19:32:17 GMT
B&Q visits are obligatory on a Sunday, once a month, for married couples anyway. As per the bill passed in parliament in 1999.
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Post by Kimby on Apr 29, 2009 20:12:55 GMT
I must be clueless. What is B&Q?
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Post by Deleted on Apr 29, 2009 20:16:11 GMT
Clearly something British. I haven't a clue either.
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 29, 2009 20:23:15 GMT
You all stop being self-righteous and prickly!
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Post by auntieannie on Apr 29, 2009 20:29:13 GMT
to gyro: one of my grandfathers was called Georges, and he named his first son Georges as well...all in honour of St George. Do you think St George's day will one day be a bank holiday en England? to K2: how come dare you make fun of part of your ancestors? heh? there is NO need for an excuse to party...
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 29, 2009 20:56:46 GMT
to K2: how come dare you make fun of part of your ancestors? Kerouac has dragons in the family?!
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Post by auntieannie on Apr 29, 2009 21:14:13 GMT
not that I know of, bix... although some swiss might sound like dragons!
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Post by gyro on Apr 30, 2009 4:42:23 GMT
"Do you think St George's day will one day be a bank holiday en England?"
Without sounding TOO prickly etc. etc., (ha ha ha, amaaaazingly funny), no I don't. As I may have said before, if we were to have a national holiday, I'd rather it was mid June or something like that, and it doesn't necessarily have to to have anything to do with St George as the story is not anything to do with this country. Rather we had an 'England Day' or something like that, like Australia Day, only with better beer.
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Post by tillystar on Apr 30, 2009 5:38:50 GMT
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Post by gyro on Apr 30, 2009 6:25:38 GMT
" And the Lord sayeth to Man: Lo! If thou art married, and have a garden, thou shalt henceforth take yourself to B&Q and maketh with the decking before the second year of rain cometh upon you. "
Jewsons, 5:11
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