I wonder !!

[SJS]

Sometime back, irritated by post after post after post exchanged between two worthies on the CW, I decided to put them on the 'ignore' list so that I could see those posts that were not the exclusive domain of their private debate.

It made things far easier but sometimes I feel I may be deprivcing myself of some earth shattering revelations.

Today, going thorough the last four pages , four complete pages mind you, I found only the following available for me to read, the rest were neatly laid between blue lines, date and time of the mighty debating arguments and an official sounding statement telling me that the message was hidden from me because the worthy was on my 'ignore' list. At the other end was a polite query asking me if I wanted to change my mind about not wanting to expose myself to the presence of thesemighty warriors.

This is what I could read, besides :-
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marc71178 Like GIles, it's clearly only low because by some miracle he's avoided being hit big-time...-
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marc71178 I bet you've missed a lot more than 1 in every 200 balls that Flintoff (or for that matter any bowler who has other played the game but isn't you) has bowled.

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I am perplexed. A lot of questions bother me.

1. What are these guys so engrossed in ? They are more obsessed with each other than any lovers I have ever seen.
2. Why doesnt Marc leave them alone ?
3. Could it reallly be that I am the guy missing out on all the fun ?/

I wonder

[biased indian]

the two name that came to my mind was what i found in the thread

[PY]

Try ignoring anything below the tour threads like I've come accustomed (sp?) to doing. Does wonders for the quality of post......

As for missing out, as the great Roy Walker says on 'Carpark Catchphrase' on BBC Radio One, I feel like I'm missing out as much as I'm missing out on 'a fork in the eye'.

[SJS]

Originally Posted by PY

Try ignoring anything below the tour threads like I've come accustomed (sp?) to doing. Does wonders for the quality of post......

As for missing out, as the great Roy Walker says on 'Carpark Catchphrase' on BBC Radio One, I feel like I'm missing out as much as I'm missing out on 'a fork in the eye'
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[BoyBrumby]

Originally Posted by SJS

1. What are these guys so engrossed in ? They are more obsessed with each other than any lovers I have ever seen.
2. Why doesnt Marc leave them alone ?
3. Could it reallly be that I am the guy missing out on all the fun ?/

I wonder

You're a wicked, wicked man SJS!!

I have to say I find it a tad dispiriting that there's so little give-and-take between their respective positions. Just once I'd like to wake up & be that certain I was absolutely correct in my beliefs!

IIRC Mr Wright once started a "Richard vs TEC" thread, perhaps it's time for it to be resurrected?!

[SJS]

Originally Posted by BoyBrumby

You're a wicked, wicked man SJS!!

I have to say I find it a tad dispiriting that there's so little give-and-take between their respective positions. Just once I'd like to wake up & be that certain I was absolutely correct in my beliefs!

IIRC Mr Wright once started a "Richard vs TEC" thread, perhaps it's time for it to be resurrected?!

You know BB I am absolutely "amazed" (for want of a stronger word) how these guys can go on and on and on for hours, weeks, months without making an iota of an impression on the other, nor getting influenced one nano-bit themselves and STILL keeping at it !!! Why ????

There are a couple of people on this web who make outrageous statements and proclaim them as facts even provide dubious statistics which with a bit of knowledge, or research, can be blasted to bits and I have done that once in a while. But when you realise that it is a pointless excercise, I give up and then those posters are persona-non-grata for me. Not because I cant convince them but because both of us cant do any good to each other. So I just avoid them (except the occasional tongue-in-cheek remark addressed to no one in particular).

But here are these two guys who take so much trouble to achieve ZILCH !!

Stunning.

[PY]

Originally Posted by SJS

You know BB I am absolutely "amazed" (for want of a stronger word) how these guys can go on and on and on for hours, weeks, months without making an iota of an impression on the other, nor getting influenced one nano-bit themselves and STILL keeping at it !!! Why ????

Stunning.

I think you have succinctly summed up the main reason why people (other than those two) find it so frustrating to deal with because as you say, if you whack them on the ignore list then you miss out on pages and pages of posts (not too bothered about that) but also on replies people make to them which might be relevant to the overall discussion.

Then again, what can be done as they generally don't abuse each other, they just post each other to death (can that be made a crime for the health of the human race? ). They seem to be nice blokes but dear me, please just show some persona, show some character and agree to disagree or make a concession to one another.

[BoyBrumby]

Originally Posted by SJS

You know BB I am absolutely "amazed" (for want of a stronger word) how these guys can go on and on and on for hours, weeks, months without making an iota of an impression on the other, nor getting influenced one nano-bit themselves and STILL keeping at it !!! Why ????

There are a couple of people on this web who make outrageous statements and proclaim them as facts even provide dubious statistics which with a bit of knowledge, or research, can be blasted to bits and I have done that once in a while. But when you realise that it is a pointless excercise, I give up and then those posters are persona-non-grata for me. Not because I cant convince them but because both of us cant do any good to each other. So I just avoid them (except the occasional tongue-in-cheek remark addressed to no one in particular).

But here are these two guys who take so much trouble to achieve ZILCH !!

Stunning.

Your post put me in mind of Karl Marx's famous aphorism:

"History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce."

[biased indian]

Originally Posted by SJS

1. What are these guys so engrossed in ? They are more obsessed with each other than any lovers I have ever seen.
2. Why doesnt Marc leave them alone ?
3. Could it reallly be that I am the guy missing out on all the fun ?/

I wonder

But i see that you had today or yesterday quoted a post by Richard how is that possible if u had him in the ignore list

[SJS]

Originally Posted by biased indian

But i see that you had today or yesterday quoted a post by Richard how is that possible if u had him in the ignore list

Oh yes. I do read some replies to his posts by others and if it interests me, I try to read the original (if it is close by ).

MInd you its not because I have anything against Richard but this going on and on and on about the same thing really stmies me plus makes it difficult to go through the posts. I think PY has summed it up nicely.

[Tom Halsey]

Originally Posted by BoyBrumby

You're a wicked, wicked man SJS!!

I have to say I find it a tad dispiriting that there's so little give-and-take between their respective positions. Just once I'd like to wake up & be that certain I was absolutely correct in my beliefs!

IIRC Mr Wright once started a "Richard vs TEC" thread, perhaps it's time for it to be resurrected?!

Could be wrong, but I remember it being "Richard vs Marc"

[Richard]

No, Kyle definately created a "Richard vs tec" thread.
I think there may have been a "Richard vs marc71178" one somewhere, too, though.

[Richard]

Originally Posted by SJS

Oh yes. I do read some replies to his posts by others and if it interests me, I try to read the original (if it is close by ).

MInd you its not because I have anything against Richard but this going on and on and on about the same thing really stmies me plus makes it difficult to go through the posts. I think PY has summed it up nicely.

SJS, I am hurt and disappointed that I am on your ignore-list.
It really isn't difficult, at all, to just skip any threads which have become exclusive to tec and myself - as you say, it's not like you're going to gain anything by reading the odd isolated comment here and there (if there are any).

[Richard]

Originally Posted by BoyBrumby

Your post put me in mind of Karl Marx's famous aphorism:

"History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce."

Yep, gone through my mind plenty of times.
As soon as tec disagrees with a single comment I make, anywhere, I immidiately think "here we go again..." and it rarely fails to happen.
Exactly the same thing every time - pages and pages of 10-quote posts (once it gets to more than 10 I break it down).

[Richard]

Originally Posted by PY

Then again, what can be done as they generally don't abuse each other

Well, not entirely - if I had a quid for every time tec had called me a fool I'd be a very, very rich man. Doesn't generally go beyond that - there's the odd "stupid" here and there, but normally I just take it in my stride.

They seem to be nice blokes but dear me, please just show some persona, show some character and agree to disagree or make a concession to one another.

Yet you know what'd happen then: "see, yet another thing you were proved wrong on"... as if it doesn't happen often enough (and I'd forgive most people for not knowing it does).