New UK News Section

Ben_Reilly wrote:Thanks! Thing is, when we started up we didn't have, I think, any British members and certainly didn't anticipate the big influx we've had -- which I largely credit to Catman, who found us on his own and then started letting others know about us.

Now, with such a large number of U.K. members, I figured it would be best to tailor the forum a bit to its audience. I had also found the item about the Russian suicide bombers and thought it might have a better chance of getting seen and discussed if it wasn't among all the U.K. threads.

Ben_Reilly wrote:Thanks, Catman -- you brought in a lot of good members

Ben_Reilly wrote:Thanks! Thing is, when we started up we didn't have, I think, any British members and certainly didn't anticipate the big influx we've had -- which I largely credit to Catman, who found us on his own and then started letting others know about us.

Now, with such a large number of U.K. members, I figured it would be best to tailor the forum a bit to its audience. I had also found the item about the Russian suicide bombers and thought it might have a better chance of getting seen and discussed if it wasn't among all the U.K. threads.

Ben_Reilly wrote:Well, it was only a month ago -- I wanted to see how many of you were going to stick around for a while

BigAndy9 wrote:

Ben_Reilly wrote:Well, it was only a month ago -- I wanted to see how many of you were going to stick around for a while

Going off previous form, they'll stick around as long as I do, and quite frankly, I love the forum and all the people here.

Best debates in town to be had right here, right now!

Original Quill wrote:Andy, they all came when SF went out of operation.  You had already long abandoned your membership with SF.  And I came a week or so later because I was bedridden with the flu.

The influx here was the flood as a result of closing SF.  Ben even describes it as the influx of Brits, of which you are only one.  As proof, look at the bitter debate that was going on, and Ben has mentioned several times.  That debate is what brought down SF, and it is what distinguished the group at in-coming.  It was all the same continuity.

As I understand it, the link introduced was Phil (Catman).  I was clued in by Bee, via email.

BigAndy9 wrote:Now now kids, I know I grate on some of you - even Ben tried to move the glory off me - he can't stand me making these great threads bigging up the forum - he thinks he should be doing that himself.

But face it, i'm the biggest draw on forums, always have been (remember agreeing with me on SF when I said that Quim?), and still am.

BigAndy9 wrote:Now now kids, I know I grate on some of you - even Ben tried to move the glory off me - he can't stand me making these great threads bigging up the forum - he thinks he should be doing that himself.

But face it, i'm the biggest draw on forums, always have been (remember agreeing with me on SF when I said that Quim?), and still am.

BigAndy9 wrote:Now now kids, I know I grate on some of you - even Ben tried to move the glory off me - he can't stand me making these great threads bigging up the forum - he thinks he should be doing that himself.

But face it, i'm the biggest draw on forums, always have been (remember agreeing with me on SF when I said that Quim?), and still am.

BigAndy9 wrote:Now now kids, I know I grate on some of you - even Ben tried to move the glory off me - he can't stand me making these great threads bigging up the forum - he thinks he should be doing that himself.

But face it, i'm the biggest draw on forums, always have been (remember agreeing with me on SF when I said that Quim?), and still am.

Ben_Reilly wrote:

BigAndy9 wrote:Now now kids, I know I grate on some of you - even Ben tried to move the glory off me - he can't stand me making these great threads bigging up the forum - he thinks he should be doing that himself.

But face it, i'm the biggest draw on forums, always have been (remember agreeing with me on SF when I said that Quim?), and still am.

Oh, hold on, Andy -- I was in no way trying to say that this isn't all about you, or that any thread I could create would hold a candle to one of yours! I'm so sorry if I came off that way, and please don't punish me.

BigAndy9 wrote:

Ben_Reilly wrote:Thanks! Thing is, when we started up we didn't have, I think, any British members and certainly didn't anticipate the big influx we've had -- which I largely credit to Catman, who found us on his own and then started letting others know about us.

Now, with such a large number of U.K. members, I figured it would be best to tailor the forum a bit to its audience. I had also found the item about the Russian suicide bombers and thought it might have a better chance of getting seen and discussed if it wasn't among all the U.K. threads.

Weird, because a quick look at the members list and playing with the join date drop down menu shows they all came when I joined.

It's nothing new Ben.

Keep up the good work though    

Sassy wrote:

BigAndy9 wrote:

Weird, because a quick look at the members list and playing with the join date drop down menu shows they all came when I joined.

It's nothing new Ben.

Keep up the good work though    

Nope Big Head, I joined two days before you.

BigAndy9 wrote:

Sassy wrote:

Nope Big Head, I joined two days before you.

Yeah, but let's be serious sassy.

Nah, never mind.

Sassy wrote:

BigAndy9 wrote:Now now kids, I know I grate on some of you - even Ben tried to move the glory off me - he can't stand me making these great threads bigging up the forum - he thinks he should be doing that himself.

But face it, i'm the biggest draw on forums, always have been (remember agreeing with me on SF when I said that Quim?), and still am.

No, you're the biggest turn off and extremely boring .

Handy Andy wrote:

Sassy wrote:

No, you're the biggest turn off and extremely boring .

As opposed to this Andy, whose better half describes him as verbal viagra!