An Ode to Times Past
or
How Things Used To Be http://bit.ly/cWCeOp



How now shall we know the value of that upon which we post?
Who will label our threads for us?
Yea, though we compose but the most perfect sesquitricentenary missives
will there be no condemnation?

Judgmentality hath fled the land.

Everywhere threads lose their corrosiveness
and drip with snake oil.
Wingnuts vibrate loose and slowly work down the external cylindrical inclined planes
of our existence
And there is none to screw them up!

How long, O Lord
Dymo
How long?

Fruits loop the loop where they please
and soque puppettes breed in secret,
looking daggetts at those who are Left
and post immune from accusation.

Is there none to help?

The joy of combat withers.
The Forum flags.
All are undone.

Keep us not all in suspension animation at your exile
O Lord
Dymo

O that Right would prevail,
and thy acolytes attend on our deliberations.

Dear Forrest,

In the face of such poetic pleading, how can I not respond?

I'm afraid the days of yore have passed, and we're now in another era where the OLOgarch rules supreme. Alas, we are constrained by the Eye of Big Brother/Sauron/Hal, whereby textual jousting has been sadly relegated to other realms, particularly for those of us of Winston Smith/Elvish/Dave hue.

And with those words, the Lord Dymo passed into the Grey Havens. I believe he can still be found on occasions visiting a realm called Cyberia.

That post inspirer's me to start a thread.
Bit naughty, may well use this one.
Like it or not, few are happy with the recent election result.
I BELIEVE, fully, opinions on both sides have become stretched, some times hostile.
Do we have the right to think and express our selves differently than each other.
Can an election be the force in driving us apart? do we need American style combative politics here?
Yes yes know I give as much as I get, but some threads make me feel ill, truly thought it best to use this one than try to get one going saying.
Is free speech [with in bounds of respectability] Still OK in OLO?
OLO we are told[ give a few bob to support it]I hope still has room for every type of post.

I was wondering what happend to you CJ. We haven't seen Severin, Foxy, Bronwyn, Romany and pynchme for a while either. Hope they are not unwell.

Belly
It is a challenging thing to be able to put forward an opinion without offending anyone. Our opinions are shaped by many influences and values, and OLO does attract some interesting characters who test our own beliefs, or in some cases, serve to strengthen them. :)

May we all continue to cherish the many freedoms we enjoy in this country and continue to improve on what we already have. Perhaps cyberspace is one way to cut through the dominance of the media even if it does sometimes just add to the noise.

Thanks pelican we are in agreement here.
Now I note the list, some are far too good to not have around.
I played my hand wrong, disturbed by just a few posters bitter one eyed threads, I and others, let the baiting get to me.
Wandering around looking for a new forum.
I found one with our refugees, not recent, but my move was wrong.
I intend to avoid if possible those who some find a problem,me included.
I clash even with my friends sometimes, my increasing concerns about the greens puts me off side with CJM at times.
Such is free speech, to farm my thoughts so as not to offend is stifling free speech.
My concerns about some threads stopped me putting my rather pointed one up, we do each of us, owe some respect to both the forum and other posters.

Oh dear, did the big bad Graham not agree with poor widdle Ceej? Oh, diddums, where's your dummy?

Belly, of course OLO has room for the left, even the loony lefties like the group you mention.

Of course, they don;t have much room for OLO, since they actually have to defend their views here, rather than sitting around nodding sagely in agreement with each other's fatuosities.

At least it keeps the noise level down for the rest of us.