| This place is fooking awful at the moment 11:09 - Sep 17 with 4495 views | Dubtractor |
Truly unbearable.
Parking the question of who is right or wrong, it is a perfect microcosm of the way that we have all been divided into tribes by the people with hands on the levers of power in recent years. Brexit is the most obvious example here, but there are loads more, and it's very evidently a deliberate ploy to divide populations into things they disagree about rather than unite on the things they agree on. The USA over the last decade is obviously another good example.
I try my hardest not to get sucked in, but it's becoming increasingly hard to just ignore stuff that I find almost upsetting at times.
Think im going to go football only on here for a bit. Which is a shame, as I do value seeing different views to challenge my world view.
Appreciate that this is a bit of a look at me post, but wanted to be able to vent a bit.
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| This place is fooking awful at the moment on 11:13 - Sep 17 with 2823 views | DJR |
I am happy to post on issues that interest me but tend to switch off or ignore the bickering. The sad thing is that the bickering often overshadows the more measured posts on an issue. [Post edited 17 Sep 11:14]
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| This place is fooking awful at the moment on 11:17 - Sep 17 with 2773 views | positivity |
i find a few well-deployed ignores help, but it is tricky not to give in to curiosity and log-out... |  |
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| This place is fooking awful at the moment on 11:21 - Sep 17 with 2697 views | WeWereZombies |
So...Pablo or Shefki ? |  |
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| This place is fooking awful at the moment on 11:27 - Sep 17 with 2626 views | Churchman |
| This place is fooking awful at the moment on 11:13 - Sep 17 by DJR |
I am happy to post on issues that interest me but tend to switch off or ignore the bickering. The sad thing is that the bickering often overshadows the more measured posts on an issue. [Post edited 17 Sep 11:14]
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That’s my stance too. I think if people lightened up a little it might help a bit. It’s not as if we as individuals can do anything about anything beyond voting so there is nothing in realty to bicker about.
It’s hard not to get sucked in on certain issues and I do understand the opening poster’s view. |  | | |
| This place is fooking awful at the moment on 11:30 - Sep 17 with 2574 views | The_Romford_Blue |
Well said Dubbers
I don’t mean you when I say this, and I’m fully aware I used to be like it abit too, but people do take this place too seriously. The tribe mentality to defend your position on something like Israel over the course of dozens of pages of the internet is really unnecessary. And also makes you pretty boring I’d argue.
Again I don’t mean you. I mean the people you’re referring to in the OP |  |
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| This place is fooking awful at the moment on 11:31 - Sep 17 with 2564 views | blueasfook |
I think its social media algorithms that is radicalising people one way or the other. Once you click like on a post of a certain nature, you get more of the same and the journey down the rabbit hole begins! |  |
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| This place is fooking awful at the moment on 11:37 - Sep 17 with 2482 views | Steve_M |
If you add to which a handful of long-standing personal enmities between posters who can not resist making constant digs at each other then it is pretty tedious most of the time.
Certainly I look at the board and decide I can't be bothered to post more often than not these days. Which is both a shame and reflective of the internet these days.
Anyway, this is both of us today.
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| This place is fooking awful at the moment on 11:40 - Sep 17 with 2442 views | DJR |
| This place is fooking awful at the moment on 11:31 - Sep 17 by blueasfook |
I think its social media algorithms that is radicalising people one way or the other. Once you click like on a post of a certain nature, you get more of the same and the journey down the rabbit hole begins! |
For what it is worth, I am not on social media and don't need anyone to tell me what to think.
Indeed, even when it comes to YouTube, I'm never logged in and only watch music videos. [Post edited 17 Sep 11:44]
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| This place is fooking awful at the moment on 11:40 - Sep 17 with 2434 views | Guthrum |
| This place is fooking awful at the moment on 11:31 - Sep 17 by blueasfook |
I think its social media algorithms that is radicalising people one way or the other. Once you click like on a post of a certain nature, you get more of the same and the journey down the rabbit hole begins! |
Indeed. Plus there is so much information/news/propaganda out there, it is impossible to sort through. Much easier to just consume what arrives in your personal feed, often from "trusted" sources (who are themselves influenced by the same methods).
Clickbait exists to get people using those platforms, generating revenue from advertising and so on. It is in the social media outlets' interest to get users het up about stuff and thus more involved. |  |
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| This place is fooking awful at the moment on 11:45 - Sep 17 with 2339 views | chicoazul |
That’s all very well but what are your top 5 cheeses |  |
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| This place is fooking awful at the moment on 11:46 - Sep 17 with 2331 views | Mullet |
| This place is fooking awful at the moment on 11:37 - Sep 17 by Steve_M |
If you add to which a handful of long-standing personal enmities between posters who can not resist making constant digs at each other then it is pretty tedious most of the time.
Certainly I look at the board and decide I can't be bothered to post more often than not these days. Which is both a shame and reflective of the internet these days.
Anyway, this is both of us today.
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| This place is fooking awful at the moment on 11:49 - Sep 17 with 2305 views | Luk38644 |
Completely agree, and I said as much on the recent Charlie Kirk thread – regardless of viewpoints & beliefs, there was a huge lack of sympathy for a husband & father who had been brutally murdered in front of his family – I’m the same age, have a wife & son and also share views to the right of centre, so to see people almost claiming ‘he deserved it’ made me feel a bit weird. I like a debate as much as the next person but this place is relentless at times, and no one ever concedes or is open to changing their view, they just want to prove they’re right which rarely ever happens.
Debate should be encouraged at every possibility to challenge people’s views and make them think about perspective, but the vitriol that comes with it on here at times is not worth the trouble. |  | | |
| This place is fooking awful at the moment on 12:25 - Sep 17 with 2066 views | Bluish |
I concur. Is it time to reinstate the 'Friday Poo Thread'? Something that we can all get behind (pun intended). |  | | |
| This place is fooking awful at the moment on 12:29 - Sep 17 with 2021 views | giant_stow |
| This place is fooking awful at the moment on 12:25 - Sep 17 by Bluish |
I concur. Is it time to reinstate the 'Friday Poo Thread'? Something that we can all get behind (pun intended). |
What's that in the old man's beard? Is it an Alien? |  |
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| This place is fooking awful at the moment on 12:30 - Sep 17 with 2007 views | wkj |
The unfortunate reality is that sitting in the "centre" (or being a centerist Dad) is no longer really a force for change, as it once was. |  |
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| This place is fooking awful at the moment on 12:32 - Sep 17 with 1973 views | Bluish |
| This place is fooking awful at the moment on 12:29 - Sep 17 by giant_stow |
What's that in the old man's beard? Is it an Alien? |
I like to think it's one of many cats living in there. Like a portable cattery. | | | |
| This place is fooking awful at the moment on 12:42 - Sep 17 with 1843 views | BlueBadger |
Shut it, you [redacted] [redacted] piece of [redacted] in a [redacted]. |  |
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| This place is fooking awful at the moment on 12:51 - Sep 17 with 1754 views | NthQldITFC |
| This place is fooking awful at the moment on 12:32 - Sep 17 by Bluish |
I like to think it's one of many cats living in there. Like a portable cattery. |
It's actually a very portly Manx cat, seen from above, at the moment that it starts to pass an indigestible sailor. |  |
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| This place is fooking awful at the moment on 12:54 - Sep 17 with 1711 views | Swansea_Blue |
| This place is fooking awful at the moment on 11:31 - Sep 17 by blueasfook |
I think its social media algorithms that is radicalising people one way or the other. Once you click like on a post of a certain nature, you get more of the same and the journey down the rabbit hole begins! |
It’s a big part of the problem. All the algorithms do is encourage content creators to create ever more outrageous click bait. Expert voices get completely lost and people believe any and share any old balls. I recommend not being on it at all (hypocrite alert as I’m on here and this is becoming very tribal). |  |
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| This place is fooking awful at the moment on 13:06 - Sep 17 with 1586 views | leitrimblue |
| This place is fooking awful at the moment on 12:25 - Sep 17 by Bluish |
I concur. Is it time to reinstate the 'Friday Poo Thread'? Something that we can all get behind (pun intended). |
What yer got for lunch? |  | | |
| This place is fooking awful at the moment on 13:09 - Sep 17 with 1543 views | leitrimblue |
| This place is fooking awful at the moment on 12:54 - Sep 17 by Swansea_Blue |
It’s a big part of the problem. All the algorithms do is encourage content creators to create ever more outrageous click bait. Expert voices get completely lost and people believe any and share any old balls. I recommend not being on it at all (hypocrite alert as I’m on here and this is becoming very tribal). |
Think TWTD is the only social media I use or have ever used. Not sure if that's a good or a bad thing? | | | |
| This place is fooking awful at the moment on 13:09 - Sep 17 with 1540 views | Nthsuffolkblue |
We need a unite the kingdom movement to end all this division! |  |
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| This place is fooking awful at the moment on 13:10 - Sep 17 with 1518 views | textbackup |
| This place is fooking awful at the moment on 11:30 - Sep 17 by The_Romford_Blue |
Well said Dubbers
I don’t mean you when I say this, and I’m fully aware I used to be like it abit too, but people do take this place too seriously. The tribe mentality to defend your position on something like Israel over the course of dozens of pages of the internet is really unnecessary. And also makes you pretty boring I’d argue.
Again I don’t mean you. I mean the people you’re referring to in the OP |
If they are like this on here, imagine what they are like in real life.
Just don’t take a computer screen too seriously.
We all die in the end, just have a laugh |  |
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| This place is fooking awful at the moment on 13:12 - Sep 17 with 1494 views | waveneyblue |
| This place is fooking awful at the moment on 13:10 - Sep 17 by textbackup |
If they are like this on here, imagine what they are like in real life.
Just don’t take a computer screen too seriously.
We all die in the end, just have a laugh |
Bloody hell, I agree with you again.
This is getting too much..... |  | | |
| This place is fooking awful at the moment on 13:14 - Sep 17 with 1459 views | textbackup |
| This place is fooking awful at the moment on 13:12 - Sep 17 by waveneyblue |
Bloody hell, I agree with you again.
This is getting too much..... |
I’m cancelling the kids season tickets and upgrading to an adult so I can take you with me.
Basically brothers now 🙂 | |
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