Horst.Epp wrote:There are enough other boards in the internet dedicated to useless conversations.
Well, strictly speaking, you are perfectly correct. However, there is no other forum that has the one common factor that draws us here i.e. a shared interest in (and enjoyment of) TC. Few would know, much less care, what the hell you were wittering on about were you to pass comment on any aspect of TC on fark, digg, slashdot, or any other board, right?
Of the hundred or so daily posts here, only a vanishingly tiny handful explore the outer limits and I feel they usefully break up the dry endless cries of "Please, please, tell me what's going to be in TC 7, 8, 9, 10", or "Why, oh why, dear God has my FTP gone titsup", etc, etc, etc.
You might disagree but variety IS the spice of life and irreverent OT posts do stop some of us from taking ourselves too seriously and imagining that the sun shines out of our golden @ss. We now enjoy a world of intrusive surveillance, awash with those who would love nothing better than to compel each and every one of us to behave, think, worship, vote in exactly their approved way - sometimes with tragic results. I'd rather let the children laugh, play, and dream, even when they're supposed to be doing something 'serious', wouldn't you? (Let me hastily add that none of the foregoing was meant to be a jibe directed at you personally, it's just a broadly general observation. No offence intended.)
In my book, the last few posts were just as interesting as any on the more technical topics because of the glimpse they gave into the personalities of two of our valued members and how they came by their unusual nicks. I'm so sorry that you thought they were 'useless nonsense'.
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Japanese eat horse-radish by the tonne. I prefer not to know if they use a dick to harvest it!
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