The Takeover Thread - Recon Group - NOW WITH NEW POLL

[tim]

Have we been taken over yet, or what?

[PeterWithe]

Apart from the football related stuff I find the whole of Heroes and Villains an excellent, informative read.  There have been threads, the Charlie Hebdo being an excellent example, where the content of this forum has been as high, if not higher than the serious journals.

I love the surprise outbursts and tangents of H and V.  It would, in my view, be a less exciting and stimulating place if all we ever read or write on here had to be neatly tooth combed into relevance and appropriateness.

I consider myself to be pretty widely read and I see this forum as different, special and stimulating.  It's diversity, unpredictability and wide range of attitudes is what makes it so.

Yup, as ever Brian, well said.

[The Laughing Policeman]

I'm with Brian on this, I belong to a railway forum where going off topic means a metaphorical base ball bat around the head from the mods. When I come on here after spending time on there it's how I imagine it must feel to be let out of jail.

[TelfordVilla]

Yes, ok, but have we been taken over yet  

[Nastylee]

That's all well and good but Boris' racist outbursts from years ago are not stimulating.

[Alex77]

I'm with Brian on this, I belong to a railway forum where going off topic means a metaphorical base ball bat around the head from the mods. When I come on here after spending time on there it's how I imagine it must feel to be let out of jail.

You can't really blame them for wanting to keep you on track!

[Stu]

Interesting if the No.6 is Garry Cook, who if you can get past some o fhis less pleasant character traits that led to his demise at Man City, did a great job of taking over where Bernstein left off in largely utilising the obscene riches well to start with, as well as apparently getting a lot of the behind the scenes stuff right.

He's also a bluenose. VillaVA, once of this parish, was in corporate hospitality up at the oil bowl for our first fixture against them after City signed Milner, and he started singing 'shit on the Villa' at her.

[PeterWithe]

I'm with Brian on this, I belong to a railway forum where going off topic means a metaphorical base ball bat around the head from the mods. When I come on here after spending time on there it's how I imagine it must feel to be let out of jail.

It must be a comfort to come here and let off some steam.

I'm so, so sorry.

[mr underhill]

yet again, we're signalling a change in the direction of travel. Have we been sold?

[VillaAlways]

I'm with Brian on this, I belong to a railway forum where going off topic means a metaphorical base ball bat around the head from the mods. When I come on here after spending time on there it's how I imagine it must feel to be let out of jail.

Doesn't it make you lose your train of thought though?

[Alex77]

I'm with Brian on this, I belong to a railway forum where going off topic means a metaphorical base ball bat around the head from the mods. When I come on here after spending time on there it's how I imagine it must feel to be let out of jail.

Another thread derailed

[in exile]

I'm with Brian on this, I belong to a railway forum where going off topic means a metaphorical base ball bat around the head from the mods. When I come on here after spending time on there it's how I imagine it must feel to be let out of jail.

Another thread derailed

I think it's just the ticket

[dave shelley]

Another vote for Brian here.   A shining example of how this site can educate; was a debate mainly between The Farmer and Dave Cooper Please on the subject of Badger culling.  It was educational, informative and conducted in civilised non-aggressive manner, as it should be.  Both men putting their points across.  Everything this site aspires too.

[damon loves JT]

A railway forum. Oh my days. My wife thinks I'm a pervert for going on the Internet and talking about football. If she knew that some of you were railway enthusiasts, she'd cancel the broadband

[cdbearsfan]

I moonlight on a Scottish football forum, which is probably a more niche interest that railways.