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Title: This site is definately going downhill
Post by: ftp on February 28, 2010, 10:00:36 am
If I click on to a new subject nine times out of ten it's just some childish conversation that a teenager would conduct over their mobile with text speak. Page after page of chit chat  ???

Then there are the JW club members having another chit chat over one of their funny handshake type meetings.

what's going on?
Any better forums about, because this one is dire lately?
Title: Re: This site is difinately going downhill
Post by: DaveG on February 28, 2010, 10:02:28 am
lol m8 innit muuuush ;D
Title: Re: This site is difinately going downhill
Post by: R W C™ on February 28, 2010, 10:11:33 am
lol was just thinking the same, Do people not have msn, pass your details on and talk about where you live in the past, or ex partners on there  ;D
Title: Re: This site is difinately going downhill
Post by: matt on February 28, 2010, 10:17:09 am
u just got 2 get down wit da kids

Title: Re: This site is difinately going downhill
Post by: ok cleaning on February 28, 2010, 10:17:46 am
cant agree more
Title: Re: This site is difinately going downhill
Post by: sgibsoncleaning on February 28, 2010, 10:22:02 am
i said something like this 3 years ago and it was lynching time. trouble is how much is there to say about window cleaning. there was a post about george and would it run on a particular pda. my reply was "yes" thats all there was to say. the are definate cliques if you disagree with one of them the rest gang up on you.
if you left it to just relevent questions and answers the site would be so slow it would lose interest.
Title: Re: This site is difinately going downhill
Post by: paul rulton on February 28, 2010, 10:39:12 am
If I click on to a new subject nine times out of ten it's just some childish conversation that a teenager would conduct over their mobile with text speak. Page after page of chit chat  ???

Then there are the JW club members having another chit chat over one of their funny handshake type meetings.

what's going on?
Any better forums about, because this one is dire lately?

maybe u just need 2ave a break from it ftr..... how many posts u done????? :o ;D
Title: Re: This site is difinately going downhill
Post by: R W C™ on February 28, 2010, 10:48:43 am
If I click on to a new subject nine times out of ten it's just some childish conversation that a teenager would conduct over their mobile with text speak. Page after page of chit chat  ???

Then there are the JW club members having another chit chat over one of their funny handshake type meetings.

what's going on?
Any better forums about, because this one is dire lately?

maybe u just need 2ave a break from it ftr..... how many posts u done????? :o ;D

Youll be there soon hitman as you seem to of done quite well since the 16th of jan  ;)
Title: Re: This site is difinately going downhill
Post by: Clive McDonald on February 28, 2010, 11:04:07 am
Isn't this just such a thread ftp?

But yes, these non spelling, short hand thinking, short cut multi posters are devaluing the post currency.
There are waves, i suppose, like high points in civilisation such as the renaiscannce with people like leanordo da vinci just one genuis among many, or like when a slumpbuster stumbles upon a forum like this and lights it up.

For the most most part though i find dave, yours, and matts posts okay and don't feel you need to apologise.
Title: Re: This site is difinately going downhill
Post by: ♠Winp®oClean♠ on February 28, 2010, 11:05:05 am
Definately missing the likes of macmac, cozy & a few others.
Title: Re: This site is difinately going downhill
Post by: ronaldo on February 28, 2010, 11:07:55 am
Have to agree,you cant ask a question on here anymore without getting a stupid reply, or someone saying how many houses they clean a day or how many thousands they make a week, got some good freinds from off here i talk to regular via facebook, saves on all the bullshi#e replies.
Title: Re: This site is difinately going downhill
Post by: Ste M on February 28, 2010, 11:23:23 am
If I click on to a new subject nine times out of ten it's just some childish conversation that a teenager would conduct over their mobile with text speak. Page after page of chit chat  ???

Then there are the JW club members having another chit chat over one of their funny handshake type meetings.

what's going on?
Any better forums about, because this one is dire lately?


I may be guilty of some of this idle chit chat but I am not guilty of text talk. What you call idle cht chat though is sometimes a bit of banter that should be taken somewhere else but I don't have msn. I will try an conduct some of this elsewhere but what you may class as crap talk may actually be something else to me.

What I do if I open a thread an don't like it is I press the back button an go to something else. As someone else has said , isn't this post along the same lines as what your complaining about.

What are the new people to this forum supposed to do? There are no rules posted on here about what you can or can't post or how you cvan or can't reply, come on ftp relax a little an don't take everything so seriously

Ste
Title: Re: This site is difinately going downhill
Post by: matt on February 28, 2010, 12:19:13 pm
Isn't this just such a thread ftp?

But yes, these non spelling, short hand thinking, short cut multi posters are devaluing the post currency.
There are waves, i suppose, like high points in civilisation such as the renaiscannce with people like leanordo da vinci just one genuis among many, or like when a slumpbuster stumbles upon a forum like this and lights it up.

For the most most part though i find dave, yours, and matts posts okay and don't feel you need to apologise.

as you have mentioned me ;) and Leonardo in the same post, here are my thoughts

i feel i have the flair of  Leanordo da vinci and the good looks of Leonardo dicaprio combined with the sword skills of Leonardo ( from TNMT ) ( i then ran out of Leonardo's :(
Title: Re: This site is difinately going downhill
Post by: telboy on February 28, 2010, 12:23:25 pm
If I click on to a new subject nine times out of ten it's just some childish conversation that a teenager would conduct over their mobile with text speak. Page after page of chit chat  ???

Then there are the JW club members having another chit chat over one of their funny handshake type meetings.

what's going on?
Any better forums about, because this one is dire lately?


What you mean like this ???
Title: Re: This site is difinately going downhill
Post by: dazmond on February 28, 2010, 01:49:50 pm
well go and do something else ftp!its only a forum!

this site has helped me change my attitude to my business and as a result im improving it no end.

but what is it your looking for?inspiration?conversation?humour?wit?whatever it is you d be better looking to your friends and family for that!! ;D ;D ;D

best wishes

dazmond

if you think its gone "downhill" so to speak.lets see how you can make it better pal! ;D ;D ;D ;)
Title: Re: This site is difinately going downhill
Post by: bad trippy on February 28, 2010, 03:13:16 pm
lot ppl on ere h8 tx talk so do i m8 lol
Title: Re: This site is difinately going downhill
Post by: Ian Mason on February 28, 2010, 03:44:25 pm
i said something like this 3 years ago and it was lynching time. trouble is how much is there to say about window cleaning. there was a post about george and would it run on a particular pda. my reply was "yes" thats all there was to say. the are definate cliques if you disagree with one of them the rest gang up on you.
if you left it to just relevent questions and answers the site would be so slow it would lose interest.


Yep, I totally agree with what you are saying here!

It does make me laugh when you have a difference of opinion on here, & then a NEW member miraculously appears that seems to take a very biased side in an instant!

They seem to know so much about previous threads/posts, & all within minutes of joining "incredible"!

It is as if you are meeting someones alter ego, lol. :)
Title: Re: This site is definately going downhill
Post by: rg1 on February 28, 2010, 06:36:46 pm
I visit several forums on a daily basis regarding different subjects and I don't see that this one is any different to the others. Maybe that's how forums are now so my suggestion would be:

Make a post when it's relevant, look through the replies, ignore the crap and take on board answers that appeal to you.   Simples ;)

Title: Re: This site is definately going downhill
Post by: weetot on February 28, 2010, 07:20:20 pm
OK sue me.....I'm guilty of talkin' cak some of the time, buts its meant well.  :(
Title: Re: This site is definately going downhill
Post by: Rcs on February 28, 2010, 08:04:03 pm
ive only been going sinse about october brought a traditional kit and had a go
found this site by chance in november
looking through the threads asking questions and buying equipment  its helped me greatly
without it i reckon my business would have never grown as fast as it had
i have always found the members helpful ansd have often pi***d myself laughing at some of the replies
 its good for me
Title: Re: This site is definately going downhill
Post by: Bill1903 on February 28, 2010, 08:07:15 pm
Ban all text speak i say!
Title: Re: This site is definately going downhill
Post by: weetot on February 28, 2010, 08:19:06 pm
I agree, blummin' well speak proper like!  ;D
Title: Re: This site is definately going downhill
Post by: AuRavelling79 on February 28, 2010, 09:25:10 pm
If I click on to a new subject nine times out of ten it's just some childish conversation that a teenager would conduct over their mobile with text speak. Page after page of chit chat  ???

I'm a reasonably conscientious er ... anal speller and grammar bod but I don't see the need to impose my views on others. I do think in window cleaning issues things are pretty cool really - I personally find word association and football pretty boring - the former being a way to increase post count and the latter to send me to sleep. But I don't feel the need to have a moan; I just rarely visit those threads.
Then there are the JW club members having another chit chat over one of their funny handshake type meetings.

So what? I agree that JW stuff should be kept to other issues and I personally feel that to arrange JW exclusive "Meet-ups" on the forum is discourteous to other users. Hence my parody of one last week.
what's going on?
Any better forums about, because this one is dire lately?

I like this one "warts and all!"

Title: Re: This site is definately going downhill
Post by: matt on February 28, 2010, 10:43:17 pm
If I click on to a new subject nine times out of ten it's just some childish conversation that a teenager would conduct over their mobile with text speak. Page after page of chit chat  ???

I'm a reasonably conscientious er ... anal speller and grammar bod but I don't see the need to impose my views on others. I do think in window cleaning issues things are pretty cool really - I personally find word association and football pretty boring - the former being a way to increase post count and the latter to send me to sleep. But I don't feel the need to have a moan; I just rarely visit those threads.
Then there are the JW club members having another chit chat over one of their funny handshake type meetings.

So what? I agree that JW stuff should be kept to other issues and I personally feel that to arrange JW exclusive "Meet-ups" on the forum is discourteous to other users. Hence my parody of one last week.
what's going on?
Any better forums about, because this one is dire lately?

I like this one "warts and all!"


i allways took the JW meet things as a joke / spoof type of posts, i didnt realise ANY of them were serious
Title: Re: This site is definately going downhill
Post by: Clive McDonald on February 28, 2010, 10:44:16 pm
The original brothers post i thought was about us, a group hug kind of thing, and it threw me when it wasn't.

Couple of howlers in ftp's thread title, keep up the good work ftp.


This has all been done before of course.fao Alex- did you get my email- rang you earlier- see you at the caff later-did you honk at that bird who walked to work with her dress still tucked in the top of her knickers from the lavvy?

Oh yes, there are no depths to which this forum hasn't sunk. Never feel you are the pits, or the most stupid poster because the competition is awesome.
Title: Re: This site is difinately going downhill
Post by: paul rulton on February 28, 2010, 10:47:20 pm
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maybe u just need 2ave a break from it ftr..... how many posts u done????? :o ;D
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Youll be there soon hitman as you seem to of done quite well since the 16th of jan  ;)
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yer im busy on m8 but i like it on here i think its the nuts, but im not the 1 bitching about the forum :P
Title: Re: This site is definately going downhill
Post by: Clive McDonald on February 28, 2010, 10:49:23 pm
Good going hitman that's exactly the sort of thing. Great stuff
Title: Re: This site is definately going downhill
Post by: paul rulton on February 28, 2010, 10:51:13 pm
Good going hitman that's exactly the sort of thing. Great stuff
;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
Title: Re: This site is definately going downhill
Post by: Ste M on February 28, 2010, 10:51:38 pm
i remember how nasty this place got when the weather was bad, no one said anything then, everyone was on here all the time and the comments and jibes that were being thrown around were terrible, did anyone complain then? no. why? cos it was the old timers throwing the insults around.

its great on here and im building up some superb advice and tips as well as making some very good contacts
Title: Re: This site is definately going downhill
Post by: mci services on February 28, 2010, 10:56:59 pm
try www.window-tools.com now i am off there before i am banned ;D
Title: Re: This site is definately going downhill
Post by: Ian Mason on February 28, 2010, 11:10:54 pm
try www.window-tools.com now i am off there before i am banned ;D

Fantastic!

Thanks for the link, it seems so much more friendly. ;D
Title: Re: This site is definately going downhill
Post by: Gleaming windows on February 28, 2010, 11:12:48 pm

Oh yes, there are no depths to which this forum hasn't sunk. Never feel you are the pits, or the most stupid poster because the competition is awesome.

Well I guess thats heartening to know  ;)

I guess something good has come out of this thread although its a crap thread ;D