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Where NSG was alive and spamming during the late night hours? (2:35 AM EST here)

It used to be much more active? Did people get lives? or jobs?

I'm married with a baby on the way, what is your excuse?

tell me! :p

Even the nostalgia was better, back in the day...

Even the nostalgia was better, back in the day...

no shit....I left for about a year and a half - two years , and good lord has this place changed.

I'm married with a baby on the way, what is your excuse?

How you make babby?

How you make babby?

How do you think I made baby? :tongue:

How do you think I made baby? :tongue:

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Mega Blocks?

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Mega Blocks?

LOL no.

And it wasn't via spam either...(although that would have rocked) :D

My lack of spam is due to growing up probably. When I was still in school it was all about +1. Plus, currently, I have a job which requires me to wake up at 550am. I would usually do my NSGing around 10-11pm but that's unlikely now. When I go back to uni my output will increase I think.

Actually I was wondering what was going on myself. Since Christmas there has been a definite slump in activity and I'm a bit unhappy about it. It is starting to pick up again now but I haven't had a good argument with someone (Come on Mur let's do another bout I need the practice) or even just semi spamming on a thread for awhile.

Or has everyone just put me on the ignore list.

no shit....I left for about a year and a half - two years , and good lord has this place changed.

It's not the place, it's the spam. The spam evolved/devolved into threads of "what are you doing," " look at this," "ASL," and the like. NS changes constantly, but the personalities stay the same.

..A bit of nostalgia: I miss Amarathe.

I miss Amarathe.

I may be completely wrong, but was she that hot chick?

What are you talking about Minority? Other than that ONE serious debate about presidential requirements I have done nothing but spam...

I may be completely wrong, but was she that hot chick?

I don't know. I don't even know Amarathe's gender. I remember Amarathe worked at a Starbucks in Victoria and was going to take a bus to visit family shortly after that psycho-butchering on a bus story came out.

Maybe it has something to do with the fact that the spam forum is no more...

*mutters* It's because I've been trying to catch up on the past three years of sleep I've been missing in one week.

Actually I was wondering what was going on myself. Since Christmas there has been a definite slump in activity and I'm a bit unhappy about it. It is starting to pick up again now but I haven't had a good argument with someone (Come on Mur let's do another bout I need the practice) or even just semi spamming on a thread for awhile.

Or has everyone just put me on the ignore list.

Wow, it's been a while since I had a good argument too... The last one I had was over guns with GnI

...

Hey! We could argue! :tongue:

Maybe it has something to do with the fact that the spam forum is no more...

*Ahem*

http://forums.jolt.co.uk/forumdisplay.php?f=1575

I miss Amarathe.

Do you mean Amarenthe?

She's Around: Last Activity: Today

Wow, it's been a while since I had a good argument too... The last one I had was over guns with GnI

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Hey! We could argue! :tongue:

hehe, I wish to have an argument.

hehe, I wish to have an argument.

Do not!

Do not!

Yes I do

hehe, I wish to have n argument.

Good... Hmmm, let's see...

What do we disagree on? Quick! Basic list of your beliefs on economic and personal issues!

Yes I do

No you don't!

Yes I do

No, you're just whining about the good old days. If you really wanted to have an argument, you'd start a thread on how great Oklahoma is.:p

No you don't!

Oh yes I do

Good... Hmmm, let's see...

What do we disagree on? Quick! Basic list of your beliefs on economic and personal issues!

When the time comes CM I will argue with you. Let me just say I will be watching yur posts in more detail from now on.

As I am very tired and about to go to bed, play our little game, let's just say it may belong in the Monty Python thread.

No, you're just whining about the good old days. If you really wanted to have an argument, you'd start a thread on how great Oklahoma is.:p

The musical or the state?

Oh yes I do

Nuh uh!

Damn, I have to go to work now. Pleasure having you as my co-spamerator we will have to continue this debate later on.

Do you mean Amarenthe?

She's Around: Last Activity: Today

Different people.

I'm married with a baby on the way

Hmmm, prenatal marriage, so you start even earlier than the guys in this thread (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=579995)... :tongue:

Ah, no, that's married to...

Oh yes I do



When the time comes CM I will argue with you. Let me just say I will be watching yur posts in more detail from now on.

As I am very tired and about to go to bed, play our little game, let's just say it may belong in the Monty Python thread.
So, I'm being stalked now? I feel so loved! :tongue:
The musical or the state?

Both. :wink:

So, I'm being stalked now? I feel so loved! :tongue:

Dude, I'ved always loved you. No wait you're 14 that came out wrong, never mind. HAHA But yes I will be stalking you.:tongue:

Both. :wink:

lol, soon to be up.

Nuh uh!

Damn, I have to go to work now. Pleasure having you as my co-spamerator we will have to continue this debate later on.

Look I want a good argument not just a contradiction.

An argument is a connected series of statements intended to establish a proposition.

The spam has certainly devolved...

*Ahem*

http://forums.jolt.co.uk/forumdisplay.php?f=1575

Forum 7 is NOT the 'spam' forum. There was a real 'spam' forum at one point, but when it was purged, a lot of people saw their post count plummet. And yes, it was written with a lower case "s".

You should teach us instead if bitching about it.

Forum 7 is NOT the 'spam' forum. There was a real 'spam' forum at one point, but when it was purged, a lot of people saw their post count plummet. And yes, it was written with a lower case "s".

Well, I've certainly being told. *slinks off*

Look I want a good argument not just a contradiction.

An argument is a connected series of statements intended to establish a proposition.
No, it isn't. :p

No, it isn't. :p

Yes it is! it isn't just contradiction. :)

Yes it is! it isn't just contradiction. :)
Yes, it is!

Etc. *loses interest, wanders off to look for cookies in the kitchen*

We're not as funny as the Pythons. Maybe it's that, in writing, we lose the comedic timing.

Yes, it is!

Etc. *loses interest, wanders off to look for cookies in the kitchen*

Why doesn't anyone want to do the skit with me?

*Goes off reminiscing about the days when people would play games with Blouman.*

Why doesn't anyone want to do the skit with me?

*Goes off reminiscing about the days when people would play games with Blouman.*
Sorry, I'm not in a jovial mood. I've had some fairly non-fun moments recently on NSG and today, in the real world, I'm going to the memorial service of a person I admired greatly and was looking forward to spending time with this year, but who died suddenly last week. He wasn't a close personal friend, but he was one of the better people of my acquaintance and a quite brilliant artist. :( Anyway, I've never been much of a game-player. Three or four posts worth is about my limit.

Sorry, I'm not in a jovial mood. I've had some fairly non-fun moments recently on NSG and today, in the real world, I'm going to the memorial service of a person I admired greatly and was looking forward to spending time with this year, but who died suddenly last week. He wasn't a close personal friend, but he was one of the better people of my acquaintance and a quite brilliant artist. :( Anyway, I've never been much of a game-player. Three or four posts worth is about my limit.

Sorry to hear about your loss, I hope that it is not to hard on you.

As for game playing I'll keep that in mind.

The spam has certainly devolved...
Things cannot "devolve." If their ecosystem changes in such a way that certain adopted traits are no longer useful, they may be abandoned by future generations in order to save the energy that would be otherwise expended on the maintenance of those traits. The proper term for this is "Streamlining Evolution."
In this case, the verdant ground of NSG has become less fruitful, so the spam has had to become less reproductive so as not to overbreed. Their metabolisms have slowed to allow for longer periods between sustenance, and some of the bright colors have been lost, in order to better blend with the drabber backdrop.
Yes, it is!

Etc. *loses interest, wanders off to look for cookies in the kitchen*

We're not as funny as the Pythons. Maybe it's that, in writing, we lose the comedic timing.
Or because, when you quote something, you completely lose the original unexpectedness? I already went through that business in the Python thread, though.

We're not as funny as the Pythons. Maybe it's that, in writing, we lose the comedic timing.

Yes that is true.

Or because, when you quote something, you completely lose the original unexpectedness? I already went through that business in the Python thread, though.

And shut down for it too I believe.

Remind me never to talk about any movies/TV shows/books with you as we may *gasp* talk about good bits and we shouldn't find it funny remembering what it is about.

Does that mean when you watch something a second time you won't laugh at it? Because after all you know what is coming next and the original unexpectedness is gone.

Meh.

Well, I kind of stopped posting because other stuff, on the internet and real life, came up. And I actually prefer the phpBB forum used before they came up with this vBulletin one.

And shut down for it too I believe.
Um...no?
Intangelon pointed out something I already knew (Muller isn't all that funny, although calling that comic pretentious is a stretch), and I acknowledged it.
Remind me never to talk about any movies/TV shows/books with you as we may *gasp* talk about good bits and we shouldn't find it funny remembering what it is about.
There's nothing wrong with talking about something that was funny. Monty Python is a specific issue because repeated referencing and quoting has caused it to fossilize over the decades. What was once fresh and vibrant has become stale and dead, and it is only a weak stand-in for wit. Everyone sees the irony coming, and the non sequiturs have all become cliches.
Does that mean when you watch something a second time you won't laugh at it? Because after all you know what is coming next and the original unexpectedness is gone.
Good comedy can stand repeated viewing, but no comedy can stand cultural saturation.

Meh.

Here! ^^^
You see?
Such brilliant remarks are still being made here every day!
So the standard of posting is still waaaaay up there!

Now to find an equally brilliant reply...

How about:

Moo!

That should spark an animalated discussion!

Things cannot "devolve." If their ecosystem changes in such a way that certain adopted traits are no longer useful, they may be abandoned by future generations in order to save the energy that would be otherwise expended on the maintenance of those traits. The proper term for this is "Streamlining Evolution."
In this case, the verdant ground of NSG has become less fruitful, so the spam has had to become less reproductive so as not to overbreed. Their metabolisms have slowed to allow for longer periods between sustenance, and some of the bright colors have been lost, in order to better blend with the drabber backdrop.

Bah. Perspective.

You should teach us instead if bitching about it.

1) Make it up yourself. No quotes, only parodies.

Well, I kind of stopped posting because other stuff, on the internet and real life, came up. And I actually prefer the phpBB forum used before they came up with this vBulletin one.

Tell us who you are?

:soap:

I'm not married and I don't have kids. At least, as far as I know, that last statement is true.

However, I do have a girlfriend and a life. In addition, I've been busy with college stuff.

I've been gone a long time...

Bah. Perspective.
Sssshh! Don't let the anthros and evodevos hear you say that! Also, don't let them hear you call them anthros and evodevos.
They are, by far, the angriest of scientists.

I'm never posting on NSG late at night because other people pressure me into shutting the computer. It's not that I don't want to, on night at a friend I think I posted the record for me of the most posts in one sitting.

Here! ^^^
You see?
Such brilliant remarks are still being made here every day!
So the standard of posting is still waaaaay up there!

Now to find an equally brilliant reply...

How about:

Moo!

That should spark an animalated discussion!
I stand by my assessment of the situation.

I say meh because your point is moo'.


I too have noticed a change here, yet I believe it has mostly to do with who's still around and who's joined since then. Blame the young ones, that always helps. The youth of today... ;)

I stand by my assessment of the situation.

I say meh because your point is moo'.


I too have noticed a change here, yet I believe it has mostly to do with who's still around and who's joined since then. Blame the young ones, that always helps. The youth of today... ;)

Yes, blame us. I also blame my youth sometimes for not knowing something about some subject.

Yes, blame us. I also blame my youth sometimes for not knowing something about some subject.

I'm ancient, and don't not know nothing about no subject or none.
I'd like to keep it that way, keeps my head from exploding. :D

About three years ago I remember a thread on the same thing. But it is true to say the forums are quieter now than they were before. Unless I stay up until about 2AM there's no-one on here.

Um...no?
Grave pointed out something I already knew (Muller isn't all that funny, although calling that comic pretentious is a stretch), and I acknowledged it.


Wait... me? What I do?

Wait... me? What I do?
What mistake? No, I didn't make one; You must be mistaken. Check my post, I don't mention you at all.
Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm going to exit stage right.

I'm married with a baby on the way, what is your excuse?

tell me! :pMarried with identical twin boys, 5 months old. Not much of an excuse, i know, but i should also include the extreme exhaustion as a factor.

There's nothing wrong with talking about something that was funny. Monty Python is a specific issue because repeated referencing and quoting has caused it to fossilize over the decades. What was once fresh and vibrant has become stale and dead, and it is only a weak stand-in for wit. Everyone sees the irony coming, and the non sequiturs have all become cliches.

Good comedy can stand repeated viewing, but no comedy can stand cultural saturation.

You and I must swim in different cultural circles, it may be an age thing unfortuantly I don't know enough people who know skits from Monty Python for it to have become tedious and boring to continue hearing quotes and references.

You and I must swim in different cultural circles, it may be an age thing unfortuantly I don't know enough people who know skits from Monty Python for it to have become tedious and boring to continue hearing quotes and references.
Swimming in cultural circles makes me think of toilets, and toilets are pretty accurate description of what I've had to live with to live with people.
And you use the internet right? Monty Python is ubiquitous online.

The good old days weren't always good. And tomorrow ain't as bad as it seems.

The good old days weren't always good. And tomorrow ain't as bad as it seems.

Ohnoyoudi-n't.
http://brooklynskeptic.files.wordpress.com/2007/09/glasshousespic.jpg

You need to post on controversial topics. Not troll because that is bad, bad, bad. need to channel your anger into productive post and not just call the other person an idiot. You need to attack the argument.


Religion is good one

Politics if you can find someone who disagrees with topic. This place tends to be left of center. Which attracts more left of center. Repeat

Abortion it has been done I am not sure there is any place new to go with it

Gun Control This is a sore spot. This one usually draws the crowd. Something along the lines of the founding fathers we not in favor of guns. Wham!

Separation of church and state. This usually degenerates the fastest. It took me the longest time to figure out that xtians were Christians.

Ohnoyoudi-n't.
http://brooklynskeptic.files.wordpress.com/2007/09/glasshousespic.jpg

Hey! Put down that brick!

I'm An Innocent Man, just trying to exist in my Glass Houses here in Allentown. But screw it, I'm Moving Out. The Pressure has gotten to me.

You really think you're a Big Shot, don't ya? You're really Shameless. But You May Be Right, I may be crazy.

Brenda - is that you? Put down that brick! Go back Uptown, Girl!

Hey! Put down that brick!

I'm An Innocent Man, just trying to exist in my Glass Houses here in Allentown. But screw it, I'm Moving Out. The Pressure has gotten to me.

You really think you're a Big Shot, don't ya? You're really Shameless. But You May Be Right, I may be crazy.

Brenda - is that you? Put down that brick! Go back Uptown, Girl!
:hail:
I've said "You ROCK" before, but this time, it feels a little more slippery when i say it, for some reason.

I'm lazy. Plus I have about four other forums to keep track of. I really should spend more time here.

Even the nostalgia was better, back in the day...
When I take a picture of the city it disappears
It's only a photograph the city is gone
The places I go are never there

Nostalgia isn't what it used to be
Sorry, I'm not in a jovial mood. I've had some fairly non-fun moments recently on NSG and today, in the real world, I'm going to the memorial service of a person I admired greatly and was looking forward to spending time with this year, but who died suddenly last week. He wasn't a close personal friend, but he was one of the better people of my acquaintance and a quite brilliant artist. :( Anyway, I've never been much of a game-player. Three or four posts worth is about my limit.
:fluffle:

When I take a picture of the city it disappears
It's only a photograph the city is gone
The places I go are never there

Nostalgia isn't what it used to be

:fluffle:

He brought me the air of Paris, in a bottle
The record caught the air of London, nineteen sixty-five
The places I go are never there

He brought me the air of Paris, in a bottle
The record caught the air of London, nineteen sixty-five
The places I go are never there

I'd continue, but it starts to get awkward then....;)

I'd continue, but it starts to get awkward then....;)
My hands are dirty too! What are you afraid of?
http://l.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/us/wrlds/strwrs/pr/img/orig/Episode_4_Han_Solo_and_Chewbacca_1.jpg

My hands are dirty too! What are you afraid of?
http://l.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/us/wrlds/strwrs/pr/img/orig/Episode_4_Han_Solo_and_Chewbacca_1.jpg

Finding out that Grave is actually the Graham Eaton to my Megan Bloomfield

Finding out that Grave is actually the Graham Eaton to my Megan BloomfieldThis, given so many things on this thread, doesn't seem so fearful a thing to discover. For me, anyway, what with the degree of separation and all (as of yet)

This, given so many things on this thread, doesn't seem so fearful a thing to discover. For me, anyway, what with the degree of separation and all (as of yet)

Granted, he wouldn't be the worst I could do...

Granted, he wouldn't be the worst I could do...Yeah, i agree. Could've been Hotwife/Whispering Legs/Remote Observer/Deep Kimchi/Eve Online/whatever that other name he used was. :eek:

Finding out that Grave is actually the Graham Eaton to my Megan Bloomfield

Wouldn't that mean I'm played by Clea DuVall?

I'm not seeing the bad...

Yeah, i agree. Could've been Hotwife/Whispering Legs/Remote Observer/Deep Kimchi/Eve Online/whatever that other name he used was. :eek:

Sierra BHTP, allegedly

Sierra BHTP, allegedlyYeah, AND that one, shortlived as it were.

I suppose our turnover from older, productive posters is higher than the newer productive posters we've been acquiring.

Swimming in cultural circles makes me think of toilets, and toilets are pretty accurate description of what I've had to live with to live with people.
And you use the internet right? Monty Python is ubiquitous online.

What are you doing swimming in toilets?

What is this internet you speak of? But then I obviously don't use enough of it to get saturation of Monty Python..

Where NSG was alive and spamming during the late night hours? (2:35 AM EST here)

It used to be much more active? Did people get lives? or jobs?

I'm married with a baby on the way, what is your excuse?

tell me! :p
yeah, it was more active. i used to rack up at lest 1,000 posts a month (well, at a guess), wheras, for example, its taken me months to get from 18k to almost 19k

these days i have a life, i work more, i'm with my gf at the weekend, and because i don't know so many of the new(er) people on here i just lurk more than i post

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http://www.cowboylyrics.com/lyrics/vassar-phil/good-ole-days-14141.html

Nostalgia just ain't what it used to be.

Blame the young ones, that always helps. The youth of today... ;)


Hey... its not our fault you old geezers hadn't set a example for us to follow. Get off your lazy ass and show us what it was like!




There's nothing wrong with talking about something that was funny. Monty Python is a specific issue because repeated referencing and quoting has caused it to fossilize over the decades. What was once fresh and vibrant has become stale and dead, and it is only a weak stand-in for wit. Everyone sees the irony coming, and the non sequiturs have all become cliches.



I have NEVER found Monty Python funny. I'm sorry but their NOTING funny about it. Its not witty or great or anything. In fact it actually pretty boring if you ask me. I just don't see what the fuss is.

My lack of spam is due to growing up probably. When I was still in school it was all about +1. Plus, currently, I have a job which requires me to wake up at 550am. I would usually do my NSGing around 10-11pm but that's unlikely now. When I go back to uni my output will increase I think.

You're defintiely right about that, when I first started that is pretty much all I wanted to do, but now I would rather waste my time in somewhat intelligent conversation.

It's not the place, it's the spam. The spam evolved/devolved into threads of "what are you doing," " look at this," "ASL," and the like. NS changes constantly, but the personalities stay the same.

..A bit of nostalgia: I miss Amarathe.

Amarathe! :eek: same here.

Spam has seemed to de-evolve into smilies and mindless blabber, instead of being at least funny, like it once was.

What are you talking about Minority? Other than that ONE serious debate about presidential requirements I have done nothing but spam...

You don't do it enough. :tongue:

Maybe it has something to do with the fact that the spam forum is no more...

That would probably be a big part of that, but the deletion of that forum was imminent.

*mutters* It's because I've been trying to catch up on the past three years of sleep I've been missing in one week.

Who needs sleep when you have spam?

yeah, it was more active. i used to rack up at lest 1,000 posts a month (well, at a guess), wheras, for example, its taken me months to get from 18k to almost 19k

these days i have a life, i work more, i'm with my gf at the weekend, and because i don't know so many of the new(er) people on here i just lurk more than i post

Life got in the way for me as well, and we are pretty much identical on everything else. So many newbies it is hard to catch up on everything when you have been gone for well over a year.

You never see the classy threadbumps like you used to anymore. XD

I have NEVER found Monty Python funny. I'm sorry but their NOTING funny about it. Its not witty or great or anything. In fact it actually pretty boring if you ask me. I just don't see what the fuss is.Gotta get the lighting right.

what always happens to "good old days". they run aground on the rocky shores of "you had to have been there".

You're defintiely right about that, when I first started that is pretty much all I wanted to do, but now I would rather waste my time in somewhat intelligent conversation.

True.. I've been sitting in the 4,000's for so long. My first 2-3 thousand came so fast thanks to spam forum... Good times though.

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You can't be a proper New Zealander with a self-put down like that. You should be hanging shit on us. ;)

I have NEVER found Monty Python funny. I'm sorry but their NOTING funny about it. Its not witty or great or anything. In fact it actually pretty boring if you ask me. I just don't see what the fuss is.

Warned for trolling :tongue:

You can't be a proper New Zealander with a self-put down like that. You should be hanging shit on us. ;)

Haha pfft. It's so all the Yanks understand :p