The Thread about Nothing....

[Hitchy]

Originally Posted by mrkott3r

Welcom citizens of the USofA.

Im glad Lotek made the switch, now we just need to grab Brian.

....I was kinda hoping Koffee would jump over too.

[matagi]

Originally Posted by lotek

I moved that particular thread to trash, and posted a sticky with a bit
of a warning. To be honest I'm getting sick of some of the stuff that I'm
seeing going on there. Basically I told folks play nice or I'll invite them
to a vacation from BF.
Yah a bit harsh for me (I usually only ban spammers unless someone
is totally out of line), but I'm fed up with it. Hell I'd close down the entire
Tour de France subforum except I know it would just spill over somewhere else.

marty

Just keep the posts contained to the Tour de France subforum and let 'em wail and gnash their teeth and discuss conspiracy theories. It will pass eventually, although probably not soon enough for some. Shall I do as I threatened and post the synthetic pathway for steroid hormones? That'll have 'em heading for the exits.

[matagi]

Originally Posted by Hitchy

....I was kinda hoping Koffee would jump over too.

Hitchy, Hitchy, careful what you wish for.

[mrkott3r]

I just got a PM from Brian, looks like the TAT is gonna get resurrected.

Should we return or stay in our new home?

[Hitchy]

Originally Posted by mrkott3r

I just got a PM from Brian, looks like the TAT is gonna get resurrected.

Should we return or stay in our new home?

Are they gunna beg us to go back?.....after all, we were the 'most viewed thread' on the whole forum (apart from 'what bike do you have')....maybe we should be asking for royalties from Koffee's boss?.....maybe we should demand an all incluisive apology from Koffee?....maybe we should demand Koffee submit to a 'booting' ( obligatory Simpson's reference).....maybe I should shut up!....( & go back to being face down on the bed with a hangover!)

[62vette]

blimey, you spend the weekend away from the computer cycling and helping your wife's best mate celebrate a birthday and bikeforums melts down.

I say stay here, the server at bikeforums is so underpowered anyway it's no fun to use when every third click tells you the server is too busy. If it's up to telling you it's busy surely it can still function?

Yesterday's ride was the coldest so far this year, -1C at 8am at the beach with a hell frost and black ice on one shady corner that had most of the bunch slowly drifting down the camber towards the ditch.

Moet et Chandon for aperitifs for the birthday dinner and a hell cajun fish and scallop main.

And today was the mid winter 70km fun ride, 36km average with four of us finishing 5 mins behind the leaders after getting dropped about 20km from the finish.

[Gusboh]

Originally Posted by Hitchy

maybe we should be asking for royalties from Koffee's boss?.....maybe we should demand an all incluisive apology from Koffee?....maybe we should demand Koffee submit to a 'booting'

Yep, Buckley's of it happening though.

[mrkott3r]

Originally Posted by Hitchy

Are they gunna beg us to go back?.....after all, we were the 'most viewed thread' on the whole forum (apart from 'what bike do you have')....maybe we should be asking for royalties from Koffee's boss?.....maybe we should demand an all incluisive apology from Koffee?....maybe we should demand Koffee submit to a 'booting' ( obligatory Simpson's reference).....maybe I should shut up!....( & go back to being face down on the bed with a hangover!)

i really dont know except Brian did mention something about wanting his foot back? From a dark region?

[classic1]

Originally Posted by 62vette

Yesterday's ride was the coldest so far this year, -1C at 8am at the beach with a hell frost and black ice on one shady corner that had most of the bunch slowly drifting down the camber towards the ditch.

Moet et Chandon for aperitifs for the birthday dinner and a hell cajun fish and scallop main.

And today was the mid winter 70km fun ride, 36km average with four of us finishing 5 mins behind the leaders after getting dropped about 20km from the finish.

Sounds good except the -1 part. I see in your sig you are from the Bay of Plenty. I've always meant to ask where you live in NZ but can't get past the sheep jokes.

[62vette]

Originally Posted by classic1

Sounds good except the -1 part. I see in your sig you are from the Bay of Plenty. I've always meant to ask where you live in NZ but can't get past the sheep jokes.

http://www.bayofplentynz.com/

Tauranga is 200km southeast of Auckland, population 100,000 or thereabouts, and about 50km from Rotorua. Tauranga and Rotorua (Roto Vegas) are probably NZ's top tourist destinations by visitor numbers.

I am well used to the sheep jokes, my nickname (well one of them anyway) when I worked in Sydney was Sheep, and I was shown no mercy by my dingo scraping mates.

[531Aussie]

Originally Posted by mrkott3r

Should we return or stay in our new home?

this forum is run by Aussies, so maybe we should hang here and boost the ratings, and therefore their ad revenue

[Hitchy]

Originally Posted by 531Aussie

this forum is run by Aussies, so maybe we should hang here and boost the ratings, and therefore their ad revenue

You getting a cut???.........hah, wouldn't that be funny, given TAT's popularity at the other place, they musta been scoring a fair bit of add revenue just from the 'hits' we used to draw by seppo's looking to see what crap we were on about, if it impacted on their revenue....& koffee got kicked in the **** for 'nuking' us.....

[flipper]

Originally Posted by Hitchy

You getting a cut???.........hah, wouldn't that be funny, given TAT's popularity at the other place, they musta been scoring a fair bit of add revenue just from the 'hits' we used to draw by seppo's looking to see what crap we were on about, if it impacted on their revenue....& koffee got kicked in the **** for 'nuking' us.....

...now that would be a laugh

[flipper]

Originally Posted by Hitchy

.....maybe we should demand an all incluisive apology from Koffee?....

At the very least, and with a bloody big cherry on top... ya can't expect to treat people the way she did and expect it all to just blow over like nothing happened.
Pucker up KB!!

[existence]

Originally Posted by matagi

Well you could always cause all sorts of nasty troubles for one silly woman. Mind you, if BF keep her on I reckon that's just collateral damage, ya know?

The temptation to nuke the site is hard to resist, but then that would be reducing oneself to the same level of petty vindictiveness.

yes i dont generally subscribe to the same mindblowingly intelligent foreign policy as the US or their baby brother Israel...id rather take the time to listen to the other side of the fence and maintain my own ethical integrity. koffee knows she has been a silly little girl and the best way to deal with silly little girls is to ignore them.

anyway im sort of liking this new home...seems nice enough...although perhaps we as a collective group have outgrown bikeforums.net and the like...would be nice to think we could all chip in and develop our own forum reality - god knows there is enough quality open source code out there!!!