It is good to see you guys too! I’ve actually missed you a lot. If you will have me back I’d like to rejoin you as one of the old windbags with an obsession with 70’s prog rock!
So then, what have I missed?
Not much has changed at SOG Towers other than I still have lock down hair so am rocking the mad professor back to the future look.
I’m guessing it’s been a couple of years?
I needed a bit of a break from Barry (hi Barry, how are you?) so decided to take some time off. I was still posting on Fiverweb as I have been there forever, so still got a daily fix.
I did pop back probably just after you changed the format and it freaked me out a bit, so I disappeared again but always planned to come back sometime, but the days lengthened!
As we know, there is a bunch of very vocal right wingers on Fiverweb and anyone slightly left of centre gets a tough time. The daily battle was grinding me down especially hypo, who seems to get an alert when’re I post and replies immediately. So earlier this year I took a step back from TSW.
I have always lurked on the Ugly and Nick’s even handed posts about the club were a pleasant distraction from the usual slaggings offs. It is a smaller pond with a more rabid bunch of right wingers so I wasn’t expected a warm welcome when I started posting earlier this year. Once again, anyone posting anything slightly left of centre is a target so I was new and tasty meat. I didn’t know Dune and Turkish from TSW as I didn’t venture off of the football section for many years. Dune posted as Occasional Showers (and maybe others) and Turkish as This Charming Man (an oxymoron if ever there was one!). They and a few of their buddies were constantly attacking the few of us who don’t share their views. Thankfully they both got themselves banned, either due to multiple logins or constant abuse, or both. There are still a few for whom the PM and government can do no wrong and don’t like it if your criticise them (the worst culprit is a character called Boris - tells you all you need to know) but there is a better balance now and the right contingent are no longer getting there own way.
When Turkish got himself banned from the Ugly he started stalking me on TSW so I had 2 stalkers to contend with along the vocal right wing crew. You can put these people on ignore but their attacks still eventually work their way through eventually so I spend much less time on there.
So, as with ex lovers, I began to look back on Sotonians with rose tinted bifocals. This is without doubt the best Saints forum out there (despite being smug
). I had a little read the other day and all of the old feelings came rushing back, so here I am with a bunch of wilted rose from the local garage and a box of After Eight mints in the hope that you will take me back! 