Missing TFFers

[Martino Knockavelli]

If he won't sign up can you at least find out for me if he's ticked everything off on his IMDB walk-around wallet list?

 

[Jockney]

"Began yesterday listening to a Czech questioning some Polish Jehovah's in Birmingham and ended discussing John Stuart Mill with a Chinese girl in Milan. Yay not being at home!"

"On the train opposite an old woman with a Daily Mail and a woman in a niqab, awk-multiculturalism"

I think he has more pressing concerns...

 

[smat]

Are they real? Tell the truth.

 

[Martino Knockavelli]

So what you're saying is he should be invited onto WeChat where he can act out Shantaram and On the Road like the rest of yous.

 

[Jockney]

What was the mankytoes post structure again... Assertion -> rambling personal anecdote -> mealy-mouthed qualifier or caveat... I think.

Well he's dispensed with the third part that I can see.

 

[mnb089mnb]

Watched an episode of Quantum Leap earlier where Sam Beckett convinces Jack Kerouac to talk a girl out of a "life on the road". You could see a shark jumping over Al's head whilst the fella playing Kerouac quoted passages from his most famous novel.

 

[mnb089mnb]

I think getting mankytoes on here would be as big a transfer coup as when Jurgen Klinsmann and Ruud Gullit signed for Premier League clubs.

 

[Jockney]

So what you're saying is he should be invited onto WeChat where he can act out Shantaram and On the Road like the rest of yous.

How can it be like On the Road if I am not gay or addicted to drugs?

I took drugs with a gay guy once. He was an interesting fellow. We talked about Ayn Rand on a chaise lounge for half an hour. I had to rebuff his affections.

Not that I am homophobic, though, I have plenty of gay friends.

 

[Oaf]

Has anybody actually gotten hold of Nialquinnsdiscopants yet? Or maybe I've just missed him.

 

[Smally]

Masterwig here?

 

[T.A]

Has anybody actually gotten hold of Nialquinnsdiscopants yet? Or maybe I've just missed him.

Is that not Dolph Ziggler? - I know he's one of the wrestling clan that changed his name but I can't remember if its him or someone else...

 

[Cardsfan]

Is that not Dolph Ziggler? - I know he's one of the wrestling clan that changed his name but I can't remember if its him or someone else...

Thats Bradford Kenneth

 

[T.A]

Ahh always used to get them two mixed up. My bad

 

[Saddlerrad]

Did all of the County fans make it? Good group on TFF they were. I've seen RB, Long Eaton Pie, Pieeyes, and Jacob - but not sure on the others? Droo? Stoichy?

 

[Aberstone]

Where's our German representative Mente Captus?

 

[Saddlerrad]

Where's our German representative Mente Captus?

He has definetely signed up, not seen him posting yet though.

 

[Etty Abrics]

@ Pineapple.

It was obvious – and had been for yonks – that they'd grown tired of the whole thing and had become rather jaded and sour. To an extent, I think that's understandable. They'd been there for ages. Circumstances change. Priorities change with them. And sometimes something you once enjoyed becomes tiresome just through sheer repetition. So no hard feelings on that. Them admitting they couldn't be arsed anymore was, in some respects, admirable.

Their apparent wish for the site to die with their glorious reign was rather harder to stomach (for me, at least), but the next best thing was what they initially did – i.e. give some pre-warning so people could save their content, make new plans and so forth. Part of me wanted to give them credit for that. Unfortunately the "closure" post contained all the usual bugbears: the cloying martyrdom; the superciliousness; the patronising and threatening insistence that everyone must "play nice" or else; gripes about bad feeling but zero acknowledgement that they'd caused it by behaving like humourless, autocratic cock-rings; the inevitable nostalgic circle jerk with numerous unfunny references to Roque Junior and Latvian buses… I just couldn't swallow it down. I wasn't alone.

I don't know what irked them into suddenly pulling the plug. It might have been the (relatively few) dissenting posts in that closure thread. It might have been the lack of people falling to their knees and begging them to reconsider. It might have been people enthusiastically trying to organise something new (the swines!). Hey, it might really have been an April Fools (their latest ill-advised and gimmicky attempt to make people love them) and they threw a strop when they realised it had backfired.

I dunno. And, in all honesty, I don't care now. I said in my last post on TFF that we needed a reboot and new leadership. I didn't say that to annoy Lord Football, or to find a silver lining in the cloud or whatever. I said it because it was my honest view and had been for a very long time. And, on the basis of what's happened since, I think I've been proven right. I don't wish to come across as insensitive to those who've lost content they wanted to keep (that's really shitty), but I'm actually delighted it's worked out the way it has. I even wonder if it would have worked so well if we'd had a 10 week build up.

But, yeah… Spleen vented. Time to move on. Hakunu matata. Or something.

Obviously didn't see the picture of Roque Junior in a cap.

 

[Pagnell]

He's already on here, but he signed up as Pangle.

Nah, that's clearly an account created by someone to take the piss.

Had a read through a few threads and it's a nice place you have here guys, good luck with it.

 

[JoeJoeJoeJoe]

He just couldn't stay away.

 

[Jarvis]

Prove you're the real Pangle Pagnell!

 

[Techno Natch]

Nah, that's clearly an account created by someone to take the piss.

Had a read through a few threads and it's a nice place you have here guys, good luck with it.

The Mobile thread is nothing without Pagnell.

 

[Rammy]

Welcome Pags.

 

[Posh Hammer]

Pagnell, what's it like to be someone without an ounce of power? You can't even throw random warnings at people for no reason anymore!

 

[Son of Cod]

Nah, that's clearly an account created by someone to take the piss.

Had a read through a few threads and it's a nice place you have here guys, good luck with it.

"Nah"?
Congratulations on blowing your Pagnell cover within one word of your attempt.

 

[Pagnell]

Yes, I never once used that word on TFF. I've been undone by detective work which would have put Sherlock Holmes to shame.

 

[Stevencc]

I feel like the nasty teacher just walked into the classroom when all the kids were having a great time

 

[GodsGift]

What's your take on what went down over on TFF then?

If you sit on the fence, we'll know it's really you.

 

[Son of Cod]

Also, please provide details of your most recent automobile problems.

 

[Saddlerrad]

It's either Pagnell, or someone who isn't already signed up that's signed up as Pagnell because there is no clashing IP. If it is, welcome Pagnell - plenty of water under the bridge, but I hope you stick around with us! You and all the TFF admin are more than welcome here for myself and TB.

 

[Pagnell]

As for my latest car issues COD, thanks for the (feigned) interest. It's a bit shit given that £1700 is to be paid out next week for a new turbo and cat on the Previa. It's at Toyota right now. I could do without that to be frank but can't live without the car.

And PoshHammer, you're right, I have no power on here. But thankfully that doesn't stop me thinking you're a tiresome, shallow imbecile with a fake tan.

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