So what's new around here?

[rory_20_uk]

I need a new drug.

I think the field is infectious diseases... I mustn't judge though

[Vladimir]

Kukri was elected appointed president.

[Crazed Rabbit]

I feel overrun by British Socialists. Or maybe Beskar just posts a lot. JAG's still gone.

Seems like the crowd is younger.

Oh, and I got out of the Somalian jail after I promised to show some pirates how to shoot if they attacked Greenpeace vessels.

CR

[InsaneApache]

I;m drunk.

[Husar]

I;m drunk.

Nice, I had a beer.

[Strike For The South]

Nice, I had a beer.

Nice, I'm sober

[Husar]

Nice, I'm sober

Cool, I just got up.

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Not like that's a new thing that hasn't happened to me before.

[Fragony]

I;m drunk.

lol

[Hosakawa Tito]

I;m drunk.

He asked "what's new".

[InsaneApache]

He asked "what's new".

I'm sober now. How's that?

[KukriKhan]

We give guns to the fetuses (fetii? ), makes the operation more sporting.

I laughed out loud. Never saw that coming.

Kukri was elected appointed president.

and Vlad's been stalking me ever since. :)

[Gregoshi]

Brilliant responses to a simple question!

[ajaxfetish]

We give guns to the fetuses (fetii? ), makes the operation more sporting.

Well, it's a 4th declension noun, so if you want to be really proper about it, the plural would be 'fetus.'

Ajax

[a completely inoffensive name]

Shoot, reading this thread made me sad. I wish I was here when apparently all the good posters were still posting.

[Furunculus]

rose tinted spectacles to some degree, there are always revered forbears spake of in reverent terms.

[Husar]

That's partly true but I think the average age was a bit higher and thus more knowledge and experience were present. Or maybe just more bias, depends on your point of view.

[Furunculus]

fair point.

i almost always disagreed with tribesman, but he is sharp.

[Fragony]

Got another love-letter in the watchtower from Tribes! (and on my private account some will never learn)

[Viking]

That's partly true but I think the average age was a bit higher and thus more knowledge and experience were present.

That's going to need some evidence. Many of the more frequent posters in earlier times were punks, just as now. The main difference is that in earlier times you had no earlier Backroom to compare to.

[Furunculus]

punks?

[Viking]

3 a : a young inexperienced person : beginner, novice; especially : a young man b : a usually petty gangster, hoodlum, or ruffia

[Furunculus]

fair enough :p

[Husar]

That's going to need some evidence. Many of the more frequent posters in earlier times were punks, just as now. The main difference is that in earlier times you had no earlier Backroom to compare to.

First off, nice selective quoting, without the next sentence. And secondly, you call me a punk? Not that I was here from the beginning, but...
That there was no earlier Backroom to compare to back then does not make the comparison we can make now invalid.

Your turn.

[Ja'chyra]

I was never into punk much myself.

But i hear they tuck their jeans into their boots.

[Viking]

First off, nice selective quoting, without the next sentence. And secondly, you call me a punk? Not that I was here from the beginning, but...
That there was no earlier Backroom to compare to back then does not make the comparison we can make now invalid.

Your turn.

I thought you meant that the higher age, which you proposed, would have the same looks as more bias, or something along those lines.

I didn't call anyone in particular a punk, but people in the right age group will always know who they are.

What I meant was that in teh early Backroom, you couldn't complain about how the posters were wiser (and generally more godlike) in earlier times, since there was no Backroom then. It had nothing to live up to. When people say "everything was much better back in the day", it's typically referring to when they were relatively young. You know, they'd encounter problems if they tried to go too much further back in time since they wouldn't be existing anymore. The parallell here is that they are comparing their experiences; and these have a specific beginning, just like the Backroom. They'd be going out on a limb if they said "30-40 years before my time, everything was much better!". In essence, it looks like people like to select the start of something (like their lives) as the ideal times; while later times are trying to live up to those ideals.

Therefore, I find it very relevant that the Backroom hasn't been around all that long.

[Ja'chyra]

I thought you meant that the higher age, which you proposed, would have the same looks as more bias, or something along those lines.

I didn't call anyone in particular a punk, but people in the right age group will always know who they are.

What I meant was that in teh early Backroom, you couldn't complain about how the posters were wiser (and generally more godlike) in earlier times, since there was no Backroom then. It had nothing to live up to. When people say "everything was much better back in the day", it's typically referring to when they were relatively young. You know, they'd encounter problems if they tried to go too much further back in time since they wouldn't be existing anymore. The parallell here is that they are comparing their experiences; and these have a specific beginning, just like the Backroom. They'd be going out on a limb if they said "30-40 years before my time, everything was much better!". In essence, it looks like people like to select the start of something (like their lives) as the ideal times; while later times are trying to live up to those ideals.

Therefore, I find it very relevant that the Backroom hasn't been around all that long.

Hasn't there always been a backroom?

[Sarmatian]

Hasn't there always been a backroom?

No, I think Big Bang precedes the backroom.

[drone]

Hasn't there always been a backroom?

I thought there was once just the Tavern for off-topic stuff. The Frontroom and Backroom were created afterwards to separate the contentious stuff from the more harmless.

[Ja'chyra]

I thought there was once just the Tavern for off-topic stuff. The Frontroom and Backroom were created afterwards to separate the contentious stuff from the more harmless.

Ah, that rings a bell

[Husar]

I was never into punk much myself.

But i hear they tuck their jeans into their boots.

It was Viking's turn, so what are you doing here?

When people say "everything was much better back in the day", it's typically referring to when they were relatively young. You know, they'd encounter problems if they tried to go too much further back in time since they wouldn't be existing anymore. The parallell here is that they are comparing their experiences; and these have a specific beginning, just like the Backroom. They'd be going out on a limb if they said "30-40 years before my time, everything was much better!". In essence, it looks like people like to select the start of something (like their lives) as the ideal times; while later times are trying to live up to those ideals.

Therefore, I find it very relevant that the Backroom hasn't been around all that long.

I wasn't complaining, I was just saying there were more older members here, in some respects it is actually better now, add to that that some or most topics like guns and Iraq/Afghanistan were still kind of new back then and more new things could be said about them.
And it's actually true that we got more snow in my childhood.