The Gooner Forum

I Hate Hleb wrote:

clockendal wrote: I know there's no clique. I was just a bit pissed off that the thread had gone off topic. Plus I'd been in the pub all day which didn't help my mood.

I appreciate what you are saying re break up the monotony but again isn't that what we have the basement for ? If it is a thread about Joe Cole then I still maintain that I don't see why it needs to be full of pages of jokes between people ? I mean if you want to break up the monotony and look at a pair of tits then start a new thread no ? The tits and arse thread ? Drunk or not, I still feel the same way as last night but I guess that's just a difference of opinon.

To be totally honest clockendal, there are times when it pisses me off also that a thread has gone off track, but like I said earlier, that's the nature of it and the way this forum has been since almost day 1. It's also one of the things that does differentiate this forum from most others.

We do try and keep the trivial stuff in the Basement or at least move it there once it's had an airing, but sometimes things just spring up (ooh, err!!!) from nowhere. If we were to take a firmer line (stop the tittering!!! ) within each individual thread and limiting it just to the actual subject matter, then eventually we'd be constantly deleting posts (even more than we already do) and pissing off the users.

Now I'll admit that I'm as guilty as anyone of throwing the occasional joke or pun into a serious thread - although never dirty pics!! - just because a previous post inspired it. I genuinely don't see any harm in that.

If we were to start a new thread every time we thought of something funny, there'd be thousands of them (okay, slight exaggeration. There'd be a load more). Also a by-product of that would be that serious threads would quickly slip down the page and be lost a lot of readers. If you think about it in another way, us 'funny guys' are actually doing the serious threads a favour by keeping them in the public domain longer!!!

Anyway, just to reiterate - THERE IS NO CLIQUE!!!! (And even if there was, we're not letting you in!!)

Boomer wrote:Can you two stick to the topic please or get your own thread!

I Hate Hleb wrote:Not the first time Boomer's been told that, I bet!!

RobbieVP wrote:BTW Coles contract expires during the quarter-final stages of the World Cup so not sure about this announcement on Sunday or Tuesday...i recon this is a load of tosh

RobbieVP wrote:BTW Coles contract expires during the quarter-final stages of the World Cup so not sure about this announcement on Sunday or Tuesday...i recon this is a load of tosh

brazilianGOONER wrote:

RobbieVP wrote:BTW Coles contract expires during the quarter-final stages of the World Cup so not sure about this announcement on Sunday or Tuesday...i recon this is a load of tosh

he can still sign a pre-contract

enjibenji wrote:have you been told anymore as regards this frank?

marcengels wrote:

enjibenji wrote:have you been told anymore as regards this frank?

I don't think he does on the Cole issue.

But if you pm him, he'll give you some inside information on a horse that's running at Kempton in the 2.30 tomorrow, by the name of Ifallatthefirstalot.

marcengels wrote:

enjibenji wrote:have you been told anymore as regards this frank?

I don't think he does on the Cole issue.

But if you pm him, he'll give you some inside information on a horse that's running at Kempton in the 2.30 tomorrow, by the name of Ifallatthefirstalot.

Eboue-Why? wrote:Frank, are you still thinking this is genuine? I seem to remember a couple of weeks ago that sources (not yours) suggested that Buffon was nailed on too.
What's disturbing is that I actually dreamt about Cole in an Arsenal shirt last night ( and unfortunately it wasn't Cheryl!!)