So I rather liked this thread, started by Evil Pie, as an antidote to all those dreadful "Why I hate/things that piss me off" threads, which I'm not ashamed to say I have never once viewed.
that's only coz you tell us all the stuff that pisses you off on here :p
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Hi Tikay,
I've been hovering writing this post for all or 20 seconds thinking of how to respond to the comment about the piss you off type threads. I initially started the thread because of the blatant waste of tax payers money in times of austerity. It kind of got out of hand but I think 60 pages further down the road it simply shows that sometimes people just need to sound of about things that irritate them.
It's good to let off steam sometimes. I think the thread should make an appearance on the 'makes you happy' thread.
The 'fuck you off' thread I started was because 3 thieving scumbags broke into my house whilst my wife, 2 young children and myself were fast asleep. These 3 scumbags later performed armed robbery on a bank and a post office and then wrote off my car. I make no appologies for this thread.
Funny thing is, is I'm a happy person really.
BTW first time posting on your thread although I do lurk whilst silently admiring the steam engines.
Bob, worry not, I'm a funny bugger, and it is me who is out of step with the world, & often Forums, not everyone else.
I can fully understand your angst after that dreadful experience, I really can. Been there, not nice. Some folks like to vent to get rid of their anger, thats fine.
Just because I wrote - truthfully - that I studiously avoid such threads, does not make them wrong. As I say, I'm a funny old bugger. But there IS a reason for that. Readers will need to bear with me here......or look away now, as I am in a melancholy mood tonight.
I've lived a wonderful life, but much of it involved conflict, & aggro. Growing up, as a child who was "backward" ("retarded", as the current vogue describes it) was interesting.....having a step-mother was likewise. I worked hard to get away from home conflict, & as a result, rose quickly in business, & found myself in Management. And what does Management do with its time? Resolve arguments, strikes, dissident staff, & most of all, which I spent almost all of my career doing, conflict resolution. At which, casting aside false humility for a moment, I have excellent skills. Maybe because I have seen so much of it.
So I retired early, to get away from it eventually. Great decision, peace at last.
And then, Dave Colclough approached me, & asked me to enjoin with him in blonde. And so it began......
I'm not sure it is confined to poker players, but the blondes seem to love a good ruck, or many of them do. Take almost any thread, & it soon kicks off. And I groan, every single time - poker is our recreation, why do we have to have aggro so often? But peeps like it, so fair enough I guess, but I'll pass on it, if I may. Then there's the trolls. Did you ever meet an intelligent troll? Nope, nor me. But they can't half stir it.
Then I got approached to help start APAT. Great success, but what vitriol towards us when we began!
I left Poker Night Live to help start up 865, after being poached by Sky, & the PNL forum abso slaughtered me for, as they saw it, killing their channel. Never mind.
At 865, initially, & then
Sky Poker, life is fantastic, it really is. We started from zero, broke every known rule of how to run an Online Poker Room, got - still get - told daily by adolescent poker players we are doing it all wrong, & them boys don't do social skills, they just pile in with the aggro speech. Never having seen the inside of an online poker room, mind. Meanwhile, the business is bursting at the seams, innovating non-stop, breaking traffic records week after week, heading steeply north as most of the others plummet south. Funny old game.
It's part of my role there to front up to all that stuff, & I do it well. I have to non-stop bite my tongue, stop myself saying what I think, but it is cool, I manage. Day after day, they moan & groan, & I deal with it. "sort it out Sky" (usually mis-spelt) is the most common thread title next door, bless. Think they skipped the psychology class at school.
I have to "work" Facebook, too, same thing. I used FB for the first time in months today, after "retiring" from it for a while, & it kicked off instanty, kids moaning.
blonde is my eascape, & I adore it here - really, I love the place. These days, I try to spend a day each week offline, to just have a change of scenery, get better life balance. I love writing this Diary, too, or I would if I had enough time to do it properly. At present, I have over 60 stories half-written, which I want to do properly. Time, or lack of......
Anyway, I like blonde most when it is peaceful, & everyone gets along. Did you see Tighty's Advent Thread? Magnificent, & everyone adored it. Perfect.
I don't know if that makes much sense, but I feel bad that an honest comment has clearly troubled you a tad. I did not intend that, hence the rambly explanation.
My life is wonderful, never been better. Aggro, it will never go away, but these days, I try to avoid it as much as I can, & diffuse it if I can, too.
Life's too short. Was there ever a truer saying? But you only realise that when you get to my age.
Carry on with the threads, & I hope you continue to enjoy blonde.
Anyway, now you know, & perhaps understand better, why I never open certain threads.
Now it is me hovering over the "SEND" button, because such a Post will invite ridicule. Eeny meeny miney mo.......
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