Our very own P&R off topic thread (merged)

[spookyturtle 9,465]

Some of the better, old-time posters are leaving one-by-one.

Hopefully Scandal comes back one day. I think his account hasn't been closed.

I wonder why anyone would leave?

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

He was upset that the OT thread got moved from P&R along with one of his own, he then asked that his account be deleted.

Interesting. I asked Ewok to close my account several times. I think his blackberry has me on ignore now.

[Penny Lane 8,159]

Half an hour until home time.

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

I was sorry to see him go as well.

Definitely a loss. He was one of those members that I could sit on either side of the table with, depending on the issue.

[spookyturtle 9,465]

Half an hour until home time.

I think this belongs in the rant thread. Mods please move.

[Calypso 464]

I wonder why anyone would leave?

I'm not going there. Stop baiting.

[spookyturtle 9,465]

I'm not going there. Stop baiting.

I guess you haven't seen my reply to your post in the underwear thread.

[Calypso 464]

I guess you haven't seen my reply to your post in the underwear thread.

I'll pretend I didn't read that.

[Penny Lane 8,159]

I think this belongs in the rant thread. Mods please move.

Not a rant. I'm pretty happy about it.

[spookyturtle 9,465]

Not a rant. I'm pretty happy about it.

You should be punished anyway. Troublemaker.

[GandD 5,966]

AJ is the master. No one else comes close.

Word

[Pooky 3,694]

Okay. Thanks. That's indeed sad. Some of the better, old-time posters are leaving one-by-one.

There are many posters I had fun posting with / against that no longer vist here.

A number of old-timers have left because of goings-on in the old (all inclusive) Off Topic, and, more recently, the breakdown of P&R into a partisan b!tch-fest, where a thread is lucky if it's still on-topic at the bottom of Page 1. The art of discussion appears to have been lost in there.

Me? I just like haunting the place.

[elmcitymaven 9,712]

There are many posters I had fun posting with / against that no longer vist here.

A number of old-timers have left because of goings-on in the old (all inclusive) Off Topic, and, more recently, the breakdown of P&R into a partisan b!tch-fest, where a thread is lucky if it's still on-topic at the bottom of Page 1. The art of discussion appears to have been lost in there.

Me? I just like haunting the place.

I am glad we've been reinventing OT as a place for the P&R irregulars to hang out in. I am sick of the partisan blah blah blah all the time, but there are so many people I have gotten to know in P&R that it seemed impossible to leave it. Recolonising OT as a place to be has got to be the best thing so far this week. It's nice to have the same sort of knockabout humour without all the gunsgunsguns.

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

Where is Gary?

[Pooky 3,694]

I am glad we've been reinventing OT as a place for the P&R irregulars to hang out in. I am sick of the partisan blah blah blah all the time, but there are so many people I have gotten to know in P&R that it seemed impossible to leave it. Recolonising OT as a place to be has got to be the best thing so far this week. It's nice to have the same sort of knockabout humour without all the gunsgunsguns.

More rediscovery than reinvention.

Off Topic never went away, it's just that P&R satisfied members' more base instinct to get into an argument.

As long as politics is kept out of Off Topic, it should remain a place to have a peaceable chat with other members, without the distraction of partisan political judgementalism.