Model Forum / General / Models / March 2009

I'm not sure anybody else has noticed what I view as an alarming trend. As
many of the creative and controversial folks such as Gay Fawkes are hounded
off Usenet for various and sundry reasons the newsgroups become more and
more boring due to the fact that only anal-retentive, uncreative, boring,
hidebound folks remain as they are the only ones dull enough to abide it.

I found it highly entertaining whilst it lasted. They and their supporters and
of course their socks spent hours flamming each other like nobodys
business. We got a running commentary on each court appearance from
posters purporting to be from one side or the other. Advisors appeared and at
one stage were ten a penny and true to the nature of usenet disappeared as
soon as he lost his action against the ISPs. However, he had the satisfaction
of getting the extent of ISP liability clarified.

There is a down side to it. Since the outcome of the court case the ng in
question has become moribund. Posts are few and far between. Nearly
all of the regulars have disappeared, not a great loss in at least 6 of them,
gone to other ngs I suspect.

Well it was hilarious whilst it lasted. I thought that little good would come of
it. But it was first class entertainment! The old story of cliques when they
fall out and they always do the sh.t really hits the fan at a great rate of
knots......those were the days!! I miss them.

Live in peace fellow humans. It's cheaper.

Pete

This might help you put posts like this into some sort of perspective:

It is now general knowledge that  the uk. hierarchy  was set up
by the government to plug the gaps created by the abysmal
failure of their Psychiatric Care in the Community Policy.
The uk. hierarchy was devised to provide an outlet for
individuals who would otherwise spending their days sitting
at home wearing an aluminium foil hat waiting for a full moon
to rise. It was hoped that this would reduce the incidence
of nutters out there howling at the moon and frightening the
sh.t out of their neighbours. Another of HMGs aims and
objectives was to provide a distraction to take their minds
of the problem of who they were going to knife to death next.
Unfortunately this group, like others, has been taken over by the
articulate lower middle classes who have succeeding in
driving HMGs target audience away.Independant research has
shown that it was the amount and quality of the inane drivel,
called small talk which the middle classes are adept at, which
had the effect of doing those poor souls heads in. They left to
protect what was left of their sanity. Saddly this has happened
to the whole of uk.local. hierarchy.  

This newsgroup is a very good example of another HMG failure.