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Re: 2012 - a retrospective
« Reply #210 on: November 12, 2012, 07:27:29 AM »
Mostly the smaller ones, though. :P

  It's a start.  As we grow in selfishness, we will grow in strength!   :arrr:

I'm moving Mount Everest! :arrr:

Where will you put it?

On the Netherlands. You people need a proper hill. :P

    :evilplus:    They won't know what that strange thing is in their field of vision!

           Then they'll try to climb it in their klompen!   :rofl:
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Re: 2012 - a retrospective
« Reply #211 on: November 12, 2012, 07:29:35 AM »
Mostly the smaller ones, though. :P

  It's a start.  As we grow in selfishness, we will grow in strength!   :arrr:

I'm moving Mount Everest! :arrr:

Where will you put it?

On the Netherlands. You people need a proper hill. :P

Will you warn in advance. Takes a bit of space, that thing.

And, with the depth of our country, the height of the Mount Everest may decrease significantly indeed.
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Re: 2012 - a retrospective
« Reply #212 on: November 12, 2012, 07:29:57 AM »
:rofl:
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Re: 2012 - a retrospective
« Reply #213 on: November 12, 2012, 07:31:44 AM »
  Now I'm picturing Everest as a gently rolling hill, sunk deep into the water
   and covered with brightly colored tulips and some jolly windmills!   :rofl:
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Re: 2012 - a retrospective
« Reply #214 on: November 12, 2012, 07:32:22 AM »
A different kind of challenge for the climbers. :rofl:
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Re: 2012 - a retrospective
« Reply #215 on: November 12, 2012, 07:43:04 AM »
Never really understood man's need to climb mountains.

Big thing in the way,  just go around it.  Seems logical.
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Re: 2012 - a retrospective
« Reply #216 on: November 12, 2012, 07:50:55 AM »
Agreed. I don't understand why you'd want to risk your life to reach the top of a bloody rock. One would think that inn the case of Mt Everest, the numerous corpses on the way up (an back down again) might somehow deter the nutters but nope, instead more are added every year.
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Re: 2012 - a retrospective
« Reply #217 on: November 12, 2012, 08:07:28 AM »
I like climbing for the challenge and the excuse to get out in the middle of nowhere.

Not Everest though. What's the fun when there's a queue to go up that lasts all summer?
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Re: 2012 - a retrospective
« Reply #218 on: November 12, 2012, 08:11:51 AM »
  If I want to see the view atop a mountain, I watch the National Geographic Channel!   :tv:
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Re: 2012 - a retrospective
« Reply #219 on: November 12, 2012, 10:02:09 AM »
Successful thread is successful :)

I was just complaining that I haven't had any noobs to abuse for a while :(

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Re: 2012 - a retrospective
« Reply #220 on: November 12, 2012, 10:23:49 AM »
Successful thread is successful :)

I was just complaining that I haven't had any noobs to abuse for a while :(

Plenty of people to abuse here. Must it be n00bs? :zoinks:
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Re: 2012 - a retrospective
« Reply #221 on: November 12, 2012, 10:35:04 AM »
Successful thread is successful :)

I was just complaining that I haven't had any noobs to abuse for a while :(

Plenty of people to abuse here. Must it be n00bs? :zoinks:

No, but they are an added delight.  I love when they come in thinking this place is a gladiatorial arena and fall on their face.

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Re: 2012 - a retrospective
« Reply #222 on: November 12, 2012, 10:54:43 AM »
I agree, fresh meat is always nice.
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Re: 2012 - a retrospective
« Reply #223 on: November 12, 2012, 03:21:59 PM »
This board seems to me to be about socializing. We come on here to hang out with our mates. As much as I like many of the older members, I need to have people that are younger as well.
To use your pub analogy, when you were 22, its unlikely youd have been a regular in a pub where all the punters were miles older than you. You might have liked a lot of them, and seen them as friends, but if it didnt have at least a decent amount of people your own age, its unlikely youd be a regular. At least, thats how I feel, and most people I know tend to hang out with people of roughly their own age, more than people of wildly different ages.

You've done this part a few times and much as I'd like to nod in agreement, I can't because it's as confusing as the rest and I'm beginning to think that you are actively avoiding my question. See, the above might work as an explanation if it was about physical age. I'd think "fine, she wants to hang out with other 20-yo's or whatever her age is". No biggie.

But then Adam chimes in and says that me and Les are being deliberately obtuse (my choice of words) because it's not about physical age. And so me the rationalist wants to know what it is about, then. How is "young" defined in this case? How is "old" explained? (Sort of beside the point but I never knew I was "old" until this thread.)

Some members are mentioned by name, of which a few are posting still and others have left for various reasons. These members are mostly physically younger than I am, but some are in their 40s and I'm struggling to understand what it is that they do that is "young", so I ask again.

I also ask if this young/old thing is more about grouping people in likes/dislikes, which also is fine but this is left without comment, too.

But no answers, no explanations. Just that deliberately dumb thing.

I don't know what to think. Except that it creates drama which creates posts.

TBH, some people fully get what I mean, and others dont. If you dont get it, then I doubt if you'll ever understand, no matter how many times I try to explain.

You have me, Adam, and Schleed. 3 of the few young people left on your site, all telling you more or less the same thing. That the site now holds no interest for us, to the extent that none of us really seem to be happy here.
Your main concern appears to be winning this "argument" with me. For me, that just totally sums up what this site has become.

You keep bringing up the failure of Zomg and s2. All Zomg and s2 really prove is that a decent chunk of the membership here are so dissatisfied with this place that they feel the need to try to create a new place to hang out.

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Re: 2012 - a retrospective
« Reply #224 on: November 12, 2012, 03:24:32 PM »
I liked ZOMG. Was it Buttcoffee who fucked it up?  :(