I’m relatively ambivalent about poaching more people from TSW.
Yeah, apart from mentioning that I’d like to see Lungs here, I wasn’t really advocating for a recruitment drive or anything. More curious if you guys thought there were actually any decent members still posting there who would make good Sotonians, rather than actively infiltrating hostile territory and dragging them from their beds in a 3AM SWAT-style raid.
What the actual fuck? He is simply a rambling clown devoid of original thought who could contridict himself in the space of a single paragraph without even being aware of it.
I always felt that Turkish overstepped the mark somewhat with Frank’s Cousin. A bit of banter is to be encouraged but some of the personal stuff was below the belt
If I was opening a business with limited cashflow and felt sure Turkish could transfer his forum skills, I’d employ him to run it. He does a little with a lot. Frank’s Cousin gave him loads, so he did even more with that - but he even had Verbal on the hook for months with two things. The Papa Lazarou avatar was pure forum judo. Verbs would come on every day calling out Turks for being a racist on having a black and white minstrel as an avatar. I would not blame Turks if he spent those days cackling maniacally in a rocking chair.
In the end, I got bored with it (it’s fun, but there’s only so much you can take), so I put Verbs out of his misery, explaining that it was a character from the League of Gentlemen, and gently let him know that he’d been raging for nowt. This was before we fell out over conspiracy stuff.
With the benefit of hindsight, I’d have kept schtum and pissed my pants laughing.
Tis a thing of beauty that you have begun. Trying to second guess the genuinely confused from the pesky mischief makers is rather fun. Would probably have old Frank’s cousin tutting with vexation, but thankfully he’s dissappeared up his own arsehole