But you always come back again, so you must like it here really!

We use to disagree, but the people we disagreed with would post a thread claiming they were being bullied and are leaving the forum FOREVA! I tell ya, political correctness has gone crazy!

One point proven

I guess it's like any other forum... if people like it they stay.... if they don't then they go....

Any links?

BB isn't on so we can't really talk about it can we *shrugs*

I agree      

It doesn't appear to me anyway that BB being on mad much difference,

That's up to you, but there's no reason that we should change the way we are to suit you.  And we certainly don't need YOU to 'liven up the forum' thank you.  We mostly get on well here and 'agree to disagree' because there is no point in arguing until we're blue in the face, when we have different views and opinions.  It's called being polite and meeting halfway.  

If you want arguments and spats, maybe you should try a different forum.  Funnily enough, the last few 'newbies' on here seemed to complain that we don't accept newbies very well (supposedly.)  It's like a broken record: every newbie (or supposed newbie) that comes here moans that we are so unfriendly and cold towards newbies, that we're actually sick of hearing it now...

I could have bet a grand that you were going to come out with this 'you're so unwelcoming to newbies' comment, and I would bet many here would say the same... Everyone gets on well here, and we have a lot of fun, and if you don't like the way we roll, then that's your problem...  You know where the door is...

Why do you always say "we" when you are making a point?

Is that because as a newbie I don't get to be part of the forum on a whole?

All I can do is say it how I see it. Sorry but I guess I'll just stick around a while and moan about not fitting in some more or until I get bored and move on, but it will be because I want to move on, not because you have ranted that I should move on.

quick edit..I also wished you had bet a grand that I would have come out wih the "you're so unwelcoming to necommers" comment. I'd be a grand richer.

Well said 

Oo-err, me thinks an argument is afoot.... 

How on earth can that be described as well said/ It's ful of untruthes and general asssumptions.

Don't think you was here for most of it was you? i'd say nearly every thread was BB related, as for being a newbie and not being allowed to fit it, when i joined i was made to feel very welcome and treated well, i guess we all see thing's differently though 

what gave you that idea 

Or not as the case may be.

To be fair I don't think stain claimed to be feeling 'left out' or not 'fitting in'.

I don't think Cupcake's post contained any untruths or assumptions. 

One of us is wrong.

Some FMs have had bad experiences in the past. I'm not defending accusations of new FMs being a spambot or whatever (which sounds rather unfriendly to me), but it has made some FMs a little "defensive"; which is a shame seeing as one of the most common comments on this forum is "Wouldn't it be nice to have more members?"

I agree there was a lot more "uninimity of thought" during this year's BB, but I do honestly think that the exception rather than the rule. There are a lot of lurkers out there, and I do feel that it only need a few FMs to come out with differing opinions for a lot of them to put their heads above the parapets. (Hint, hint...  )

Most of the FMs here are refugees from the old C4 BB site. Over there, there was a tendency for the main BB and off-topic forums to be effectively merged "out of season". That tendency was inherited over here, but because of the smaller FM-base there's always tended to be a lot of O/T discussion in season too...

It's like bloody groundhog day here!  

Come off it 'stain,' you have come on here claiming to be a 'newbie,' and in your first week after joining, you start a thread, slagging everyone off on here, and saying 'it's like a cult on here,' asking us if we're half dead, and how we are so unfriendly to 'newbies.'  And you expect friendly responses?  And act all shocked and hurt when people are remotely hostile?! 

My post up there ^^^  had nothing in it that wasn't true or called for.   There was no 'untruths' or 'assumptions' in my post; it was merely just defending the posters here and saying that you don't have to stay here if you don't like it.  A fact.  Your original post in this thread is slating the forum and its people, so why stay if it's so bad?  

I'm posting nothing else on this thread.  You just carry on slating us and acting the victim when we fight back and defend ourselves.  Be seeing ya!  

Correct.

What I am saying is that it feels, to me anyway, like a forum that has infact very little to do with Big Brother but  more to do with friendships. So therefore people who join, like me thinking they can get a debate or three about big brother have infact been led up a garden path a little.

It is no big deal really, i'll just say my piece and move on when I've had enough and leave you all to your friendships. 

Out of interest, stain, how many previous IDs have you had on this forum? 

I think a large part of it has to do with an actual loss of interest to Big Brother.  The move to channel 5 didn't bode well with some, especially me, it was too different, no live feed, no buzz.  So apart from the 'Official Big Brother thread', there wasn't a real need to create anymore threads about it.

We've all become pretty close on here, I'm sure everyone has a memory of certain forumers and they 'distinct posts'.  I'm always going to be remembered for my gold tie debacle (which we won't go into ).  And I'm going to feel close to a large number of people, on here, with the support they gave me when my mum sadly passed away last year, at 54.  And the support they give me for my filmmaking.

You're gonna come across people on here that you don't get on with, or take what you say the wrong way, but thats life in general.  I'm sure you'll find yourself getting involved in more discussions the longer you hang around.

Ok, you may or may not reply that is up to you but I do need to defend myself when you say I have "slagged everyone off" Or that I said you were all unfriendly to newbies,.

I said you all seem wary of newbies and used the pm I recieved as a reason for my thinking of this.

To me you seem to be the only one being a little unfriendly about the whole matter, heck you won't even discuss the matter in a jovial; friendly way like people should do.

Perhaps it has taken me a week to realise my views and air them to ask in a civilised manner why it is like this!

I wish you would come back and discuss it like an adult instead of running away refusng to address the matter with me.

Well, I dunno...

Firstly, it won't be long till the new series of CBB. (For example, I noticed a recent twitter exchange Aaron had with Jamie East which suggests he'll be involved in some of the spinoff shows...)

Secondly, some of the follow-up articles, interviews, etc dealing with HMs after the series can be interesting. E.g. we sometimes get insights into things that weren't properly shown in HLs (a particular problem this series...  ) I do know that some FMs are interested in what the HMs get up to post-show, but are often uneasy about posting here because of the forum's O/T feel "out of season", which seems a shame to me..,

we actually prefer the term *interlopers* but carry on

i love that bit in 'american werewolf in london' when the blokes walk into the slaughtered lamb pub

This is a friendly forum where 'people agree  to disagree' That's just the way it has evolved! many of us are also Digital Spy members, we save the arguing for there!

None, most BB forums don't allow that, does this one? If it does it seriously needs to reconsider that because in my experience it leads to nothing but trouble. I discovered this forum after doing a search about Aaron on google. I popped in and registered thinking it would take 5 minutes. Heck I think it was about 4 days later that I noticed I could log in to post. I posted about Aaron not sharing the money with Jay as I do on most forums because I think it is vitaly important that our BB winner is not a turncoat.

yeah,

i was a proper git for being a pain but ive *evolved* well i hope i have

cant be arsed to confront and cause bother

its sorta nice to be nice

Lordy im getting old

Have you seen the fenton dog video remade into that part of the film.Also one of the gadgies in the bar is the refferee in kes I think.

Ahh, ok. thank you for that. Do you have room for one more until after cbb?

You should still post things about BB even out of season as it is a BB forum after all 

nah,

you got a link?

Have I missed the list yet?....

I will post it when I'm accepted.

heehee,

i used to look forward to those

I think you meant to say "That London" didn't you pet?

Or....