BS: Why do BS threads . . .

Subject: RE: BS: Why do BS threads . . .
From: rangeroger
Date: 25 Oct 01 - 01:16 AM

Yes, and commercials for Tasteless Garbage.

I still have my vinyl album.

Loved and still use the comment by Captain Quirk to the two people in the janitors closet who said it was Ok we're engaged.

"Well disengage and return to the bridge"

rr

Subject: RE: BS: Why do BS threads . . .
From: Mountain Dog
Date: 25 Oct 01 - 12:39 AM

RangerRoger,

I liked the reference to one of Congress of Wonders' classic bits...Right up there with the Stoned Ranger and Cedro Willy, eh?

Subject: RE: BS: Why do BS threads . . .
From: A Wandering Minstrel
Date: 24 Oct 01 - 09:46 AM

You can still get the Hedgehog crisps if you go to the factory in Caerphilly. They also do Dragon Crisps as well!

Subject: RE: BS: Why do BS threads . . .
From: kendall
Date: 23 Oct 01 - 07:20 PM

bitch, bitch, bitch...

Subject: RE: BS: Why do BS threads . . .
From: SharonA
Date: 23 Oct 01 - 06:35 PM

I got a kick out of MAV chiding Armen for "shouting" on one of the two threads toadfrog referenced above (because Armen had posted in mostly bold type) when MAV was by far the worst offender in either of those threads (with boldface, all-caps, italic, large-size type in a couple of places, among other attention-getting tricks!)! Hee hee hee!

Subject: RE: BS: Why do BS threads . . .
From: Greyeyes
Date: 23 Oct 01 - 04:10 AM

Liz The Squeak, you've never had a prawn cocktail that tasted like a hedgehog?

Subject: RE: BS: Why do BS threads . . .
From: Ebbie
Date: 22 Oct 01 - 11:55 PM

I think that sometimes it's an innocent mistake or misunderstanding of how html works. For instance, the other day I posted a song someone had requested. The lines were in couplets and I put in the br symbol dividing them. Before I 'sent' it, I suddenly noticed that out of habit I had also done the two-enter format, so then I changed it to travel by the br symbol. If I had not changed it, I think it would have been triple spacing. If you follow all that?

Ebbie

Subject: RE: BS: Why do BS threads . . .
From: catspaw49
Date: 22 Oct 01 - 11:35 PM

Is it the parsing? We seem to be into that on the pol threads. Repeating what someone else says and putting it in italics then answering......and repeating the process over and over. A great ploy for those without ideas and who wish to dissect words and give them meanings which are completely far-fetched.

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Why do BS threads . . .
From: rangeroger
Date: 22 Oct 01 - 11:10 PM

Little Hawk,

I thought it was the Starship Intercourse, thrusting its way through space on another penetrating mission.

rr

Subject: RE: BS: Why do BS threads . . .
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 22 Oct 01 - 10:33 PM

It's only 3.30 Jon!

Subject: RE: BS: Why do BS threads . . .
From: Jon Freeman
Date: 22 Oct 01 - 10:30 PM

I must be on the wrong lines if that is the case. There were a few posts by LH and Kendall in those threads that I looked at and they don't show the same HTML trait I noticed. It must be something else - maybe someone else will spot it - its getting too close to bed time for me.

Jon

Subject: RE: BS: Why do BS threads . . .
From: toadfrog
Date: 22 Oct 01 - 10:17 PM

I have noticed in particular MAV, Little Hawk, Kendall and maybe also Troll have that habit.

Subject: RE: BS: Why do BS threads . . .
From: Jon Freeman
Date: 22 Oct 01 - 10:08 PM

opps. mucked up my html there. try again... <p> is added (in addtion to the <P> you normally see when viewing source).

Jon

Subject: RE: BS: Why do BS threads . . .
From: Jon Freeman
Date: 22 Oct 01 - 09:48 PM

Just had a quick look. I notice MAV uses <

> at the end of a paragraph in addition to leaving the blank line to wichh MC adds a P break but in upper case. It doesn't show no any of mine but perhaps that could cause the effects on certain browsers.

What is interesting is such things tend to be posting quirks of one person. If you get 2 people doing the same in one thread - there is a chance that what you are really reading is the same person chatting to themselves.

Jon

Subject: RE: BS: Why do BS threads . . .
From: toadfrog
Date: 22 Oct 01 - 09:47 PM

Well, now, McGrath, here's another thread like that. They aren't at all uncommon.

Subject: RE: BS: Why do BS threads . . .
From: toadfrog
Date: 22 Oct 01 - 09:33 PM

Well, McGrath, that's a fair request. My browser has problems so I can't negotiate so well lately in Mudcat, but this thread is particularly good example of what I had in mind.

Amergin: well, one reason I care is, before posting to a thread one is supposed to read what comes before, so as not to duplicate what others say. And when the earlier messages are unreadable, that's hard. Moreover, I am genuinely curious what people think is gained by treble-spacing long messages. I really want to know why they do it. It may also be common in music threads, I just don't notice it so much.

I also don't count threads about Bob Dylan as "music" threads.

Subject: RE: BS: Why do BS threads . . .
From: Little Hawk
Date: 20 Oct 01 - 08:11 PM

Damn! Shouldn't have put the apostrophe in "it's"...

- LH

Subject: RE: BS: Why do BS threads . . .
From: Little Hawk
Date: 20 Oct 01 - 08:10 PM

"...THE FINAL FRONTIER! THESE ARE THE VOYAGES OF THE STARSHIP ENTERPOOP! IT'S ONGOING MISSION...TO INVADE STRANGE NEW WORLDS...TO INTERFERE WITH AND HARASS STRANGE NEW RACES OF BEINGS...TO BOLDY FUCK UP WHERE NO ONE HAS FUCKED UP BEFORE!!!!!"

Dooo...doooo...doo...doo...doo...

Dooo...doo....doo...doo...doo..doo...

- LH

Subject: RE: BS: Why do BS threads . . .
From: heric
Date: 20 Oct 01 - 08:05 PM

Space?

Subject: RE: BS: Why do BS threads . . .
From: DougR
Date: 20 Oct 01 - 05:34 PM

What a waste of space.

DougR

Subject: RE: BS: Why do BS threads . . .
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 20 Oct 01 - 05:18 PM

Not any more - they were banned by the Trading Standards people, because they weren't proveable as hedgehog flavoured.

Mind you, I've never had a prawn cocktail that tasted like that either.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Why do BS threads . . .
From: heric
Date: 20 Oct 01 - 02:46 PM

Is that true? Can you really buy hedgehog flavored crisps in the U.K.?

Subject: RE: BS: Why do BS threads . . .
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 20 Oct 01 - 02:30 PM

I haven't noticed much of this. At least, no more than crops up sometimes in music threads.

I've tended to assume it's something to do with the characteristics of some browser these particular people are using, which makes what they enter come out for the rest of us (or for me at any rate), looking a bit different from the way it looks to them when they post it.

So why not write a post with a few links to examples?

Subject: RE: BS: Why do BS threads . . .
From: Murray MacLeod
Date: 20 Oct 01 - 02:14 PM

The answer to your question, toadfrog, is here

Murray

Subject: RE: BS: Why do BS threads . . .
From: Little Hawk
Date: 20 Oct 01 - 02:08 PM

The reasons why, Toadfrog, are:

1. They want to show how good they are at HTML.

2. They want to attract attention.

3. They are bored and looking for something to do.

4. They want to see what it would look like to do that.

5. They want to provoke further threads protesting that sort of thing on a music forum, and demanding that people stop doing it!

- LH

Subject: RE: BS: Why do BS threads . . .
From: Gareth
Date: 20 Oct 01 - 12:07 PM

Actually all this funny HTML makes me want to see red !!!

Gareth

Subject: RE: BS: Why do BS threads . . .
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 20 Oct 01 - 11:50 AM

Sign seen in cafe window VEGETARIANS AVAILABLE I wonder how much they were!

Subject: RE: BS: Why do BS threads . . .
From: Mr Red
Date: 20 Oct 01 - 11:27 AM

thread creep
Sign on an Opthalmologists window
if you cannot see in the window, come inside.

Subject: RE: BS: Why do BS threads . . .
From: wysiwyg
Date: 20 Oct 01 - 10:59 AM

Rogue Ophthalmologists-- buncha Stooges!

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: Why do BS threads . . .
From: gnomad
Date: 20 Oct 01 - 04:05 AM

I put it down to poor mastery of language. Similar to the belief that all foreigners speak your language if you shout loudly enough.

Of course it could be sheer perversity, or rogue ophthalmologists trying to drum up a bit of trade.

Subject: RE: BS: Why do BS threads . . .
From: Gary T
Date: 19 Oct 01 - 11:28 PM

Okay, toadfrog, I give up--why?

Subject: RE: BS: Why do BS threads . . .
From: Amergin
Date: 19 Oct 01 - 11:19 PM

why would you care so much?

Subject: RE: BS: Why do BS threads . . .
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 19 Oct 01 - 11:05 PM

atleastitisbetterthanwritingalljumbledup,ithinkthatishardertoread.john

Subject: RE: BS: Why do BS threads . . .
From: GUEST
Date: 19 Oct 01 - 10:38 PM

Then why are you doing it?

Subject: Why do BS threads . . .
From: toadfrog
Date: 19 Oct 01 - 10:31 PM

Why is it


that people


who POST


to threads in


MUDCAT, or at least in the political threads, like to


TRIPLE SPACE


their messages so that they


sprawl all over the place and are IMPOSSIBLE TO READ???!!


and why do they like to put so much stuff in ALL CAPS???


and break it up with

STUFF IN ENORMOUS PRINT so that nobody can possibly read it without extreme eyestrain.


I can't read stuff like this, can you???