BS: Has Mudcat Become Bitter?

Subject: RE: BS: Has Mudcat Become Bitter?
From: Peace
Date: 08 Mar 06 - 02:01 PM

That sounds like a self-regulating drink. When you can no longer say it five times in a row fast, you don't get anymore.

Subject: RE: BS: Has Mudcat Become Bitter?
From: Bill D
Date: 08 Mar 06 - 02:38 PM

Can't make beer in Wales? What is Felinfoel then....I kinda liked it. And you may hear from Padre, excellent musician, sometimes poster, connoisseur of beer, and of fine Welsh extraction!

(sure is a lot MORE good beer in England & Scotland, though.....I think I need to conduct some more tests)

Subject: RE: BS: Has Mudcat Become Bitter?
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 09 Mar 06 - 01:01 AM

I think maybe quite a few of us are middle aged - If I'm in the middle of life - I'll live til I'm a hundred and fourteen.

Of course we're bitter, life didn't work out as well as it should have done.

Count yourself lucky that we're as nice as we are......

Subject: RE: BS: Has Mudcat Become Bitter?
From: John O'L
Date: 09 Mar 06 - 04:08 AM

"...life didn't work out as well as it should have done..."

This is probably true in a lot of ways, and perhaps we are resentful for those, but there are aspects of life which turned out unimaginably better than we could have ever hoped to dream, and I think most of us are aware of them as well.

Partially and sometimes bitter maybe, but not all and only bitter surely?

Subject: RE: BS: Has Mudcat Become Bitter?
From: GUEST
Date: 09 Mar 06 - 09:57 AM

speaking generally, yes. the most striking feature is hatred of guests, much like myself maybe?

You know, i have a life to lead too, i am at work, and have never bothered to join as a member, but like to look, read and post. But somehow my non-member status makes me inferior. There is a lot of that on here.

Subject: RE: BS: Has Mudcat Become Bitter?
From: GUEST
Date: 09 Mar 06 - 10:07 AM

We are not considered inferior. Just cowards.

Subject: RE: BS: Has Mudcat Become Bitter?
From: GUEST
Date: 09 Mar 06 - 11:15 AM

Guests are like ghosts, our presence is known, but one can't determine our existance, we can be annoying but not dangerous, and there are some who deny our existance.

Subject: RE: BS: Has Mudcat Become Bitter?
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 09 Mar 06 - 11:25 AM

Ther is no anti guest movement on Mudcat per se. There is a general and understandable dislike of abusive Guests, especially when it is a gutless Mudcat member who has logged out in order to be nasty.
Some of these Guests of convenience have such a recognisable style that it is pretty obvious who they are, but without access to Joe Offers managerial buttons we can't prove this, which is exactly what they are hiding behind.
So welcome Guest, your informative clever and amusing posts are welcome while your vituperation is wasted on those with any sense.
As an afterthought a set of initials or something would be nice, I know it proves nothing, but it's nice anyway.
Cheers
Giok

Subject: RE: BS: Has Mudcat Become Bitter?
From: Wilfried Schaum
Date: 10 Mar 06 - 04:52 AM

Better bitter than ale

Subject: RE: BS: Has Mudcat Become Bitter?
From: Don(Wyziwyg)T
Date: 10 Mar 06 - 11:45 AM

Bitter? Emphatically no!

Anti guest? Ditto!

It is, however, somewhat difficult to establish whether you are having a twenty post discussion with one person, or suffering twenty sniping attacks from separate individuals.

That is the main advantage of membership. We still don't know who you are in the real world, but we DO know we are talking to YOU, and not a whole bunch of others.

It's always easier that way to become a recognisable and respected poster.

The point about members logging out to make anonymous attacks is a good on, as of course it presents a negative view of the way guests behave. It might be a good idea if some of those were outed as a deterrent.

Don T.