Damn, this chat up line would have worked on me when I was in my teens or twenties. Nowadays it would make me drop my glass of pure tomato juice... 
When/Why did the BCG become so dull & lifeless? Page 12
Back to Tim's original question then and I'll have a guess at Twitter being a main reason. That and the novelty of chat rooms and forums having worn out somewhat since the mid naughties. But if there were real characters here in the past, do you really think they've stopped seeking an audience??? They've probably just found fancier, bigger sites to do their stuff haven't they? Could be wrong.
Quote: Alfred J Kipper @ October 6 2013, 2:24 PM BSTBack to Tim's original question then and I'll have a guess at Twitter being a main reason. That and the novelty of chat rooms and forums having worn out somewhat since the mid naughties.
This is a good point- up until a couple of days ago I ran the North East Comedy Forum, for local stand up types to use as a sort of industry notice board for advertising and looking for gigs. I shut it down because no one was using it due to the presence of a Facebook Comedy Forum, and it had become unnecessary. Maybe because people now have their very own, super convenient, platform for sharing opinions (Twitter and FB) they don't feel the need as much to join a forum to share it there.
Quote: Alfred J Kipper @ October 6 2013, 2:24 PM BSTBack to Tim's original question then and I'll have a guess at Twitter being a main reason. That and the novelty of chat rooms and forums having worn out somewhat since the mid naughties. But if there were real characters here in the past, do you really think they've stopped seeking an audience??? They've probably just found fancier, bigger sites to do their stuff haven't they? Could be wrong.
I assumed he'd retired to Spain, come back "home" for a holiday, and been shocked how the place was now crawling with immigrants.
After all, "the left" has changed a lot.
Surely FB - apt initials - doesn't go far enough?
When he promised in 2010 to leave stand-up so that he could "spend more time" with his family, he never went through with it.
And a four day "hunger strike", if one has ever happened, is merely a dilettante's diet.
Your turn
One event that hasn't been addressed yet is the effect of me getting a job where I couldn't post on BCG all day. It's not been the same since for any of us, but you've all been so terribly brave. Oh so terribly brave.
Quote: lofthouse @ October 6 2013, 3:02 PM BSTYour turn
Zooo covered in chocolate or L.E. covered in lemon ice?
Quote: Gordon Bennett @ October 6 2013, 4:29 PM BSTZooo covered in chocolate or L.E. covered in lemon ice?
Oooh how about zooo covered in L.E.
Genius!
Quote: zooo @ October 5 2013, 1:21 PM BSTOr as Tim has apparently been doing, watching them talk for years without joining in. The blimmin' weirdo.
There are few things in life so dull as observing the drunks in the pub from the perspective of a water glass, or hanging out with old chums still on heroin when you've graduated to chewing gum.
It may have already been mentioned that Facebook is responsible for much of the decline in quality of various fora.
Quote: Kevin Murphy @ October 5 2013, 2:09 PM BSTAs often as I disagree with Renegade Carpark, he did bring a certain I-don't-know-what to these boards.
Chap was always fun when not slagging off the Chinese or hectoring over the joy of guns. Even though he did once liken me to Jeremy Beadle.
Anyway, 10 pages of distinctly mediocre sallying back-and-forth over "You're sexist or racist - I am not, you're just a PC killjoy!" is pretty much QED for the OP. FTW.
Quote: gappy @ October 5 2013, 3:49 PM BSTAs a relative newcomer, I must say I rather like it here. People are welcoming, mostly level-headed and there are hardly any threads wasting energy over thin, inflammatory issues.
Quite so. Recruiting vulgar loose cannons to spice things up is one thing, but this site's attraction was its civility, as long as it didn't get sabotaged by tedium and infantile "games".
Quote: Kevin Murphy @ October 6 2013, 4:25 AM BSTI hope this is true. If it is, it's a pretty marvelous gotcha.
Booya!
Yes, it is true. Frankie Boyle did go on hunger strike to draw attention to the plight of Shaker Aamer, who is a British Citizen.
That in itself isn't surprising if you've been following his writing and career. It's only really surprising if your knowledge of him comes from ancient over-hyped newspaper stories about his old Jordan jokes.
Quote: Harridan @ October 6 2013, 9:45 AM BSTI don't really like to argue for the sake of it, but I do find it very hard to sit on my hands when someone posts something so utterly wrong. I think I'm often surprised by some of the opinions so openly expressed here - they seem at odds with modern Western society at times! I will try harder to resist, I promise!
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That's not true at all and you're just picking a fight for the hell of it.
It's interesting that you believe you post from high principle but when I make an intervention you think I'm picking a fight 'for the hell of it'.
Perhaps this explains your casual dismissal of other forum members (often of long standing). I'm not objecting to you slamming their views - Kipper is an old fart - but the casualness with which you disregard them. And I find your single-handed effort to force a PC orthodoxy on this forum about as welcome as a surprise midnight ball-wax.
Make no mistake, I'm not suggesting you don't express your views - you should, as is your right, although it's interesting in a thread complaining about dullness and lifelessness, you don't do it more concisely and with at least an attempt at a joke.
Quote: Steve Sunshine @ October 6 2013, 1:28 AM BSTHas the Man Vs Woman stuff finished now?
Am I the only one who's finding it a bit tiresome?
Quit moaning, you sound like an old woman.
Quote: Godot Taxis @ October 6 2013, 6:34 PM BSTMake no mistake, I'm not suggesting you don't express your views - you should, as is your right, although it's interesting in a thread complaining about dullness and lifelessness, you don't do it more concisely and with at least an attempt at a joke.
The problem is that it is genuinely quite difficult to hear this sort of ridiculous crap on an almosy daily basis and keep a sense of humour about. It's really terribly wearing being made to feel less valid a person and, once it gets to the point where you feel the need to speak up, even your protestations are dismissed as the ramblings of radical, bra-burning, cous cous eaters. We're lucky that the Alfreds seem to be a dwindling minority but it still gets to you. That's why I used to throw a shit fit every time he piped up with his silliness.
Plus, I think all of our periods have just synched- everyone should check for bears.
Quote: Godot Taxis @ October 6 2013, 6:34 PM BSTYes, it is true. Frankie Boyle did go on hunger strike to draw attention to the plight of Shaker Aamer, who is a British Citizen.
Both FB and JC have done extensive challenges for charity, supported them and also made dodgy jokes and been caught dodging tax (granted JC's was somewhat worse and more hypocritical).
Comparing them is the comedy geek equivalent of arguing if R2D2 could beat up Mr Spock.
As for sexism.
Whatever you want to say about him, RCP was about the only one who posted sexist tosh with a puckish, degree of wit.
Even if he did tend to get carried away with himself.
Godot, Kipper you ain't him. So you just come across as grumpy guys with flaccid willies, moaning about the lesbian barmaids into your warm bitter in Wetherspoons.
I'm sure this isn't the case. But knock that shit on the head for your own sakes, you're starting to look ridiculous and sound boring.
You also make it impossible for me to say I find Sarah Millican shit, without sounding like I agree with you. (Her and that woman who won Edinburgh for talking about biros).
Quote: sootyj @ October 6 2013, 7:04 PM BSTand that woman who won Edinburgh for talking about biros
Nat's so going to unvalidate your vagina.
Unvalidate like a motherf**king pro. FEEL MY FEMINIST TIT SLAP.