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Post by Meadow on Sept 3, 2009 22:01:21 GMT
Sounds as though I would have enjoyed the pyramid portal. Oh well.
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Post by ambersalamander on Sept 4, 2009 20:42:58 GMT
Oh! So YOU were "Sutton Sal" then I thought i'd lost you forever but you were here all the time! ;D Don't be so ridiculous. You never doubted it for a minute Ballboy was funny. I'd forgotten all about him. And Jase, you're horrid.
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Post by Sultan of Cannock not logged on Sept 4, 2009 22:40:31 GMT
Murder, 'assisted death' - both are illegal here. The PRA will never forget. Only when you do it a human being. You can of course, take a much-loved but ailing pet to the vet to be put out of it's misery quite legally. Where the law stands on internet forums is unclear. As i remember, the Portal had long gone past it's best. The founder, Joe Poppy, had become an absentee landlord and mainstay modrator PhilT TFC had disappeared, too. We were hit hard with a sustained troll-attack from the obnoxious "Russchad", an individual who plagued many a board. Amidst all this the board got hacked. We ran into trouble over how to deal with it. Opinion was divided between the likes of moderator "Stillmanjunior" who tried to delete the prat out of existence and members such as " Gatesheadloy" (who gave the impression that he could start a fight in an empty room) in favour of "freedom of speech" If memory serves, Stillmanjunior took his ball home for a while. Even when he came back to help clean things up a bit, arguments broke out and things got a bit fractious. SMJ was definately not a fan of the frivoulous threads and off-topic stuff that were our speciality.He loathed our word association game and hated a story thread that we'd started (it might have been 11 words per poster or similar) One day the thread inexplicably disappeared. A trickle of regulars had begun to leave before the Russchad attacks and this become a torrent as things developed. I stuck with it for a while. At the time i was working on three shifts and offered to help mod the thing because i was seeing spam and russcrap at times when others weren't about. Unfortunately Joe Poppy never replied to the emails or PM's. I began to drop in less and less as PP had fewer visitors. One day i tuned in only to find that some shopping site had taken over the address. When TT started up, again there was some controversy because emails were sent out to former Portallers but not everyone received their's. This lead to some people thinking that they had been snubbed deliberately. SMJ was conspicuous by his absence. I think that half of us were a bit too frivolous for hime while the other half stuck the boot into him. It was no surprise to me that he never came here. The Portal was great in it's day and i was very enthusiastic about but for my money it had degenerated and (rather like the Stafford Rangers ground and forum at the moment) had become a whiney, fractious and sometimes nasty place to be. I was sad, but not sorry when it disappeared because i felt that i was visiting out of a sense of duty rather than enjoyment. Oh well, this is a personal take from someone who was never part of the inner circle. If i'm innaccurate then i'm more than happy to stand corrected...
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Post by Roscoe, TFFN Reporter (Ret) on Sept 5, 2009 7:27:25 GMT
****STOP PRESS*****STOP PRESS*****STOP PRESS*****
TINPOT TERRACE POSTER'S LEAGUE 2009 UPDATE.
After 4 days of Tinpot mayhem, we now have a new leader as the founding father ISIHAC has swept into top-spot displacing Ambersalamander. The Sultan held onto 3rd as the cuckoo went into a bit of a tailspin and he currently stands 5th as Meadow eased into an ominous-looking 4th place.
We now have TEN Ten-pot Elite leaguers!!!! Frankiegth and J-esaj PRA stepped up, claiming the vacant spot and booting out an inactive Medibot into the bargain.
Giggy now sits proudly at the top of the Premier League.
After 70 posts were recorded for the whole of August, a remarkable 80 appeared in the first 4 days of September, an average of 20 pieces of red-hot soccer chat added each day!
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Post by ambersalamander on Sept 5, 2009 21:02:54 GMT
I wonder if that's because some of us complained that nobody posts on here any more
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Post by robotsmfc on Sept 5, 2009 23:20:06 GMT
I like it here and I'm glad there's more action again. It's much more relaxed and friendly than any other non-league forum that I frequent.
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Post by ambersalamander on Sept 6, 2009 11:16:37 GMT
and more tinpot.
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Post by robotsmfc on Sept 6, 2009 14:35:35 GMT
The tinpot part is the main attraction.
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Post by loudefc on Sept 6, 2009 17:18:46 GMT
Can i ask if DaveT has a -10 for going into admin.
Great point for you yesterday mate
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Post by Col ISIHAC. on Sept 6, 2009 20:49:48 GMT
Loud! Nice to see you again. Dave is keeping schtum on the subject of being in administration for the time being. I'd dearly love Salisbury to survive this season, they are a good side on the pitch but a 10 point deduction is not going to be easy to counter in the BSP.
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Post by peekay on Sept 10, 2009 2:56:23 GMT
I heard a rumour that Loy is supporting Sunderland these days.
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Post by peekay on Sept 10, 2009 2:57:42 GMT
I've not been around much lately have I?
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Post by ambersalamander on Sept 10, 2009 12:30:27 GMT
I think he is too. And no, we haven't seen you! Where have you been hiding?
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Post by peekay on Sept 10, 2009 23:19:08 GMT
I've been having a rather strange summer. I've had some stuff to sort out. Also, I was on holiday in Scotland last week. You'd think after the unending streams of dross I've had to put up with in recent seasons I' wouldn't have been able to keep away from the place while we're actually doing well. (FA Cup excepted)
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Post by Col ISIHAC. on Sept 11, 2009 12:45:04 GMT
Being out of the FA Cup at this early stage is nothing to be ashamed of. THere are some good sides a-fallen by the way already. Take Yaxley, for example!...
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