Unpopular Opinions You Hold

[Finnegan]

15 minutes ago, The Bear said:

Even if that did mean my post with 30 likes was deleted too. 

 

 

 

[The Bear]

That wasn't meant to read sarcastically. I really don't care!

[Finnegan]

1 minute ago, The Bear said:

That wasn't meant to read sarcastically. I really don't care!

 

Mmhmmmm

[Countryfox]

3 hours ago, Finnegan said:

 

The problem is, it's just fvcking constant. 

 

Everyone thinks they're entitled to an explanation for every individual bit of moderation done to them. It doesn't seem unreasonable to them because it's just one post, or one thread they started. 

 

But to the mod/admin it was probably just one out of stacks of tidying up they had to do and if you stopped to explain it all, you'd be there all night. 

 

Especially because, and this is the real kicker here, the sort of people that need to ask why something was deleted are never going to actually agree. They're not looking for an explanation, they're looking to contest the decision. The usual dissenting voices come on here with that bullshit rhetoric of "we just want an explanation, we'd be happy if we got one, we're just frustrated that we don't understand" are completely full of shit. What they want is to argue with the mod. Preferably in public. 

 

It is infinitely better to just not engage. The vast majority of moderation is extremely obvious. Yes, there's undoubtedly inconsistency where an equally offensive post somewhere got overlooked when yours was removed but what are you expecting from a bunch of volunteers chipping in on their free time? 

 

It's an unbelievably thankless task and almost nobody who'd actually be any good at it wants to do it and the people that usually do want to volunteer want to be mods for the wrong reasons and would be dreadful. 

 

All in all, this place is exceptionally well moderated and wouldn't be one of the most successful fan forums in all of British football if it wasn't. 

 ..  well said Taff.

[Corky]

The close season is the best time to be a football fan.

[bovril]

3 minutes ago, Corky said:

The close season is the best time to be a football fan.

Every day is an amazing time be a football fan if you support Leicester, even if we finish mid table this season. 

[Daggers]

Expandable hoses are dreadful.

[Bellend Sebastian]

30 minutes ago, Daggers said:

Expandable hoses are dreadful.

A lot of Amazon reviews have got your back on this

[Finnegan]

I read that as expandable horses. I was pretty confused but also its @Daggers so yknow, it's quite possibly a joke I missed. But then @Bellend Sebastian chimes in and validates that expandable horses is actually a thing and I'm genuinely lost. 

 

I was literally about to open a new browser tab and Google expandable horses to see what the fvck they were talking about when I noticed (I was thinking maybe clothes horses, that would make sense? Probably. Someone should dragons den that, if they don't exist already they'd be handy for people with limited storage space. Some new builds you don't really get a good utility cupboard.)

 

I really need to skim read less.

 

 

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Edit:

For the record, it turns out if you Google expandable horse then Google assumes you're an idiot and shows you a bunch of expandable hoses anyway. The in laws have one, it's shit, I don't understand it, all the water just pools in it so I guess you have to turn the tap off ages before you've finished hosing so judging when to do so must be annoying. Plus it pisses out everywhere. 

 

Also, if you really persist with a search for expandable horses this is the most common image. Idk. 

 

 

 

 

I don't think the horse itself expands I think it's more like the wagon does like a stretch barbie Disney limo? 

 

 

I think I need to go back to bed. 

 

Edited 24 August 2021 by Finnegan

[Dunge]

12 minutes ago, Finnegan said:

I read that as expandable horses. I was pretty confused but also its @Daggers so yknow, it's quite possibly a joke I missed. But then @Bellend Sebastian chimes in and validates that expandable horses is actually a thing and I'm genuinely lost. 

 

I was literally about to open a new browser tab and Google expandable horses to see what the fvck they were talking about when I noticed (I was thinking maybe clothes horses, that would make sense? Probably. Someone should dragons den that, if they don't exist already they'd be handy for people with limited storage space. Some new builds you don't really get a good utility cupboard.)

 

I really need to skim read less.

 

 

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Edit:

For the record, it turns out if you Google expandable horse then Google assumes you're an idiot and shows you a bunch of expandable hoses anyway. The in laws have one, it's shit, I don't understand it, all the water just pools in it so I guess you have to turn the tap off ages before you've finished hosing so judging when to do so must be annoying. Plus it pisses out everywhere. 

 

Also, if you really persist with a search for expandable horses this is the most common image. Idk. 

 

 

 

 

I don't think the horse itself expands I think it's more like the wagon does like a stretch barbie Disney limo? 

 

 

I think I need to go back to bed. 

 

I genuinely went one worse than this and read “expendable horses”.

[Alf Bentley]

1 minute ago, Dunge said:

I genuinely went one worse than this and read “expendable horses”.

 

I was just about to post to say that I initially read it exactly the same. I'd just started to imagine another story of horseracing folk pictured on a dead horse, when I realised my error.

 

I've just noticed that Mr. Daggers has some sort of little woolly horse (?) as his profile photo, so maybe that affects (diseased) minds subliminally?

 

As for expandable horses, I'm sure that inflatable horses are available to purchase for those with an equine sexual kink....

[The Bear]

1 hour ago, Daggers said:

Expandable hoses are dreadful.

Agreed. I know someone who had two of them and both leaked. Binned them off for a normal one now. 

[Finnegan]

I think we can all thank Daggers for bringing the horrendous way that horses are treated so expendably to everyone's attention. 

[ealingfox]

The Safehouse thread is every bit as pathetic and embarrassing as the OTT posts in match and post-match threads.

[Daggers]

29 minutes ago, Alf Bentley said:

 

I was just about to post to say that I initially read it exactly the same. I'd just started to imagine another story of horseracing folk pictured on a dead horse, when I realised my error.

 

I've just noticed that Mr. Daggers has some sort of little woolly horse (?) as his profile photo, so maybe that affects (diseased) minds subliminally?

 

As for expandable horses, I'm sure that inflatable horses are available to purchase for those with an equine sexual kink....

Some sort of little woolly horse?

 

Wooly?

 

Horse?

 

What kind of people does Mark let in here these days? Freaks, weirdos, and dimwits, that's who.

 

Wooly horse indeed.

 

It's the quintessential expendable horse. Just like a real horse, you can stuff sweets into its anus. But it's also one you can beat with a stick without having the RSPCA call you a depraved monster in court. Christ knows I've had my fill of that happening.

[Daggers]

And I'm pretty damn sure it's a llama at that.

[Daggers]

Maybe a donkey.

[Daggers]

Sure as shit isn't wooly.

[Daggers]

29 minutes ago, The Bear said:

Agreed. I know someone who had two of them and both leaked. Binned them off for a normal one now. 

Wife made me buy a second after it sprang a leak. One month in, the new one now leaks. Ridiculous.

 

I expect more from my horses.

 

Hoses. I expect more from my hoses. Wow, it is easy to confuse them, I can see why this thread diverted now. Thank god I didn't complain about my tiny clock.

[Jon the Hat]

28 minutes ago, ealingfox said:

The Safehouse thread is every bit as pathetic and embarrassing as the OTT posts in match and post-match threads.

You leave my quiche alone!

[Alf Bentley]

12 minutes ago, Daggers said:

Some sort of little woolly horse?

 

Wooly?

 

Horse?

 

What kind of people does Mark let in here these days? Freaks, weirdos, and dimwits, that's who.

 

Wooly horse indeed.

 

It's the quintessential expendable horse. Just like a real horse, you can stuff sweets into its anus. But it's also one you can beat with a stick without having the RSPCA call you a depraved monster in court. Christ knows I've had my fill of that happening.

 

 

Are you trying to tell me that's a piñata? A funny-looking one, if so. I assumed it was a woolly, colourful, lovable little toy horse as that was the cute image you wished to present on here? 

 

Well, at least you've caused me to semi-educate myself about piñatas. I'd never seen one until I was in Spain about 25 years ago, but they were widespread in the UK by the time I had a kid of my own.

Wikipedia suggests that the concept was exported from Spain to Mexico in the 16th century but that a similar tradition already existed in Mexico & Central America. Presumably it has since been exported to the USA and then to the UK.

A bit like how Halloween was exported westwards across the Atlantic and has now been reimported (sadly at the expense of Guy Fawkes' Night).

 

 

11 minutes ago, Daggers said:

And I'm pretty damn sure it's a llama at that.

 

.....named Carl, I hope.

[Carl the Llama]

37 minutes ago, Alf Bentley said:

.....named Carl, I hope.

Let me just get this straight.  You hope that I am the Llama described as having sweets stuffed into its anus and beaten with sticks by children?  You sick fvck.  Mods!

[Finnegan]

1 hour ago, ealingfox said:

The Safehouse thread is every bit as pathetic and embarrassing as the OTT posts in match and post-match threads.

 

I think I'd say they're two sides of the same coin without being as aggressive about it, to be honest. I sort of agree, I think there's a smug, self-satisfied undercurrent to the Safehouse that probably wasn't intended when it was first made.

 

I think there needs to be a bit more tolerance for the fact that we're all quite clearly emotionally invested in football and Leicester City. Probably to a level that a lot of people in our personal lives probably think is excessive and maybe a bit silly. I know my missus just can't relate when I'm lobbing the remote across the room and storming off in a huff because we've conceded a ridiculous fourth, I know my dad's missus thinks he's equally ridiculous and has a good chuckle at his case of the mardies. I imagine a lot of you experience the same.

 

Foxestalk is supposed to be a place where we're all City, that cuts both ways. It should mean less attacking each other but it should also mean more tolerance for each other's obsession. I mean we're all here with thousands of posts talking about the club, all day and night, 24/365 because we care a hell of a lot. We should be emotionally invested.

 

To that end, I don't really care how theatrical and over the top the match threads get. I know I get drawn in to it myself. I can forgive all the hysteria afterwards as well, when you know five or six different people are going to start melodramatic threads preaching about how there's a need for drastic change. 

At the end of the day, these people are just hurting and need to process. If part of your process is ranting on the internet for a few hours while you come to terms with things? I mean, that's alright really isn't it? Given that domestic violence cases go up by something like 25% minimum when England play and about 40% when they lose, we should probably be happy that folk are just crying with their fellow nerds on the internet instead of venting their frustrations more physically on people they love. Because, that's how passionately some people feel about the sport.

 

I agree that Foxestalk can get ridiculous, when it's midweek, people have had time to calm down, and they're STILL trying to convince you that Rodgers needs to be sacked, that Vardy is finished, that Tielemans is crap or that Cags is just a liability? Yeah, okay, they're idiots. But in the heat of the moment after a painful loss? Let people have their moment to let off steam.

 

But equally, and this is important too, if how you process is trying to distance yourself emotionally, find a bit of zen and convince yourself that those over-reacting are a bit foolish then that's alright too. Better they be doing it in an easily-avoided, separate thread in a completely different part of the forum riffing about quiche, crumpets and tea than just openly rowing with everyone in the main forum.

 

Bottom line, whatever people need, if they're not hurting anyone - just let them be. We all work through pain in different ways and I imagine we can all agree that last night's result was pretty painful.

[Daggers]

1 minute ago, Finnegan said:

 

...I sort of agree, I think there's a smug, self-satisfied undercurrent to the Safehouse that probably wasn't intended when it was first made.

I now own a hybrid.

Edited 24 August 2021 by Daggers

[Finnegan]

1 minute ago, Daggers said:

I now own a hybrid.

 

Tell me about your favourite new vegan recipes.