For me it's simply the toxicity, no matter what views are being expressed

I have more or less opposite politics to gobb, for example, yet we exchange them perfectly reasonably on here and I don't think either of us has ever called the other a c**t or equivalent. Tony Martin and I disagree on some political things and again we've never called each other names or got toxic with each other.

Part of it is the social-media-driven removal of the idea that two reasonable people can look at the same information and reasonably reach two different, but reasonable, conclusions. You don't agree with me that this particular cat is cuter than that particular cat WELL THAT MEANS YOU'RE BASICALLY HITLER.

Part of it is the other social-media-driven removal of anything requiring an attention span of more than two minutes, or any argument requiring nuance. Everything is black, or it is white. Grey does not exist.

It's absolutely fine if people want to behave however they want to behave, and if I don't want to join in I don't. I think this is what Bertie Russell was also getting at.

Posted By: Old Man on November 22nd 2024 at 14:00:45

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NBTT (General Chat) - norwaay, Nov 22, 07:58:00
- For me it's simply the toxicity, no matter what views are being expressed (General Chat) - Old Man, Nov 22, 14:00:45
  - 🙏 (n/m) (General Chat) - Tony Martin, Nov 22, 15:31:41
  - Yes, that's good stuff OM (General Chat) - norwaay, Nov 22, 14:46:19
  - Yep nailed it..... (n/m) (General Chat) - usacanary, Nov 22, 14:30:46
- I think a lot of the problem (General Chat) - Tony Martin, Nov 22, 10:07:43
  - Great post (General Chat) - norwaay, Nov 22, 10:12:43
    - 🙏 (n/m) (General Chat) - Tony Martin, Nov 22, 11:18:27
- Fair enough, Phil (n/m) (General Chat) - Old Git, Nov 22, 10:00:04
  - You’re doing this all wrong (n/m) (General Chat) - jamesward, Nov 22, 10:19:35
  - x (n/m) (General Chat) - norwaay, Nov 22, 10:02:02
- Remember it's a football forum. People need to reset their expectation for the level of (General Chat) - The Gaffer, Nov 22, 09:38:57
- International breaks have a lot to answer for on here (n/m) (General Chat) - LowestoftBoy, Nov 22, 09:06:07
- 2. Trolls / unpleasantness. (General Chat) - ParrotPuncher, Nov 22, 08:28:03
- Yeah I completely agree (n/m) (General Chat) - Knitted Jesus, Nov 22, 08:24:55
  - And of course, one of unpleasant trolls doesn't agree. (n/m) (General Chat) - norwaay, Nov 22, 08:40:49
    - Don't reply lol (General Chat) - ParrotPuncher, Nov 22, 08:55:13
      - Most of your posts start with some kind of abuse (General Chat) - Knitted Jesus, Nov 22, 09:15:04
        
        Fair enough I respect your opinion (General Chat) - ParrotPuncher, Nov 22, 09:33:21
        
        I actually agree that you do get quite a lot of abuse on here (General Chat) - Knitted Jesus, Nov 22, 12:40:00
        
        I don't care about myself - they/words don't bother me (General Chat) - ParrotPuncher, Nov 22, 13:49:16
        
        and to add... (General Chat) - Knitted Jesus, Nov 22, 12:43:16
- Quickly adding (General Chat) - Lentil Weaver, Nov 22, 08:06:17
  - who has used words like flid or spaz (General Chat) - ghostof barry butler, Nov 22, 08:57:01
    - Nobody.....Haterz make shit up to fit their agenda/fantasy. (General Chat) - usacanary, Nov 22, 11:55:00
      - narcissism alert. The term 'div' was used yesterday. Go check (n/m) (General Chat) - Lentil Weaver, Nov 22, 12:02:53
        
        so now my behaviour is Narcissistic .... (General Chat) - ghostof barry butler, Nov 22, 13:33:31
        
        So you made up Flid and Spaz..... (General Chat) - usacanary, Nov 22, 12:37:01
        
        I said about this controlling behaviour the other day, demanding proof (General Chat) - Lentil Weaver, Nov 22, 15:36:37
        
        Im not the one making shit up..... (General Chat) - usacanary, Nov 22, 16:59:21
        
        Word for word read it (General Chat) - Lentil Weaver, Nov 22, 17:14:10
        
        You need to take your lumps and move on.... (General Chat) - usacanary, Nov 22, 17:23:56
        
        I haven't make anything up. I've quoted it and over explained it to you (General Chat) - Lentil Weaver, Nov 22, 17:32:08
        
        Oh I see.... (General Chat) - usacanary, Nov 22, 18:06:04
        
        No it's not that. This is now mental gymnastics, (General Chat) - Lentil Weaver, Nov 22, 18:22:33
        
        You literally quoted two words that nobody has been saying... (General Chat) - usacanary, Nov 22, 23:07:49
        
        🤏 (n/m) (General Chat) - Lentil Weaver, Nov 23, 00:02:42
  - Definitely (General Chat) - norwaay, Nov 22, 08:19:36
    - So you basically agree with the lie above. (General Chat) - usacanary, Nov 22, 12:40:42

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