Where is everyone?

[cloughie]

Time to go to bedfordshire .......

Long way from Cornwall?

[Alison]

Just the one thread from you Cloughie in 2014. Go on, do it sometime.

It will almost definitely be interesting now.

[Alison]

The atmosphere was occasionally electric when reviews of Proms would hurtle in as soon as the concert was over.

It took over an hour to get one post tonight.

The 10.00pm - midnight batch of posts was invariably the most interesting.

Now everyone seems to retire somewhat earlier.

[EdgeleyRob]

I didn't listen to the Prom this evening.
The Edinburgh festival Brahms and DSCH on I player was a much more of an draw for me.

[Badgerhound]

This is my first post. Please don't welcome me - such things make me nauseous, and anyway, you'll soon feel different.
I doubt I'll be around long, but in the meantime I'd like to volunteer to liven things up and ruffle absolutely everyone's feathers on any subject you fancy, without breaking any forum rules.
Having read this thread, I'd like to suggest that most gone-silent board participants have died of smugness, emoticon overdose, self-aggrandisement or any number of similar middle-class ailments. You're about as interesting to the outside world as FoR3 is to BBC management.

[Blotto]

smugness, emoticon overdose, self-aggrandisement or any number of similar middle-class ailments. You're about as interesting to the outside world as FoR3 is to BBC management.

What was your reason for joining and what do you feel might energise the place, Bh? Does it need energising?

[Badgerhound]

I joined to liven things up, as wished for by some. As it happens, I'm a one-time Radio 3 listener and that led me to this forum, where I've been an occasional reader for some time. That's some background.
As for whether this place needs energising, I don't really have a view on the matter - it makes no difference to me. But for a while, I'm offering to put the wind up you all.

[verismissimo]

This is my first post. Please don't welcome me - such things make me nauseous, and anyway, you'll soon feel different.
I doubt I'll be around long, but in the meantime I'd like to volunteer to liven things up and ruffle absolutely everyone's feathers on any subject you fancy...

Sounds a bit, you know, nauseating, thanks Badge.

[Flosshilde]

As it happens, I'm a one-time Radio 3 listener

Goodness - you've only listened once? I know that (according to some) it's been going down hill for some time, but I think that even they listen a bit more often.

[mercia]

I have a vague memory that someone called Burpless got shot to it in that novel by Aldous Huxley (I have an awful memory for novels too ).

good memory. Maurice Spandrell ? Is Burpless a type of cucumber ?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point_Counter_Point

[cloughie]

The Dachshund arrives on a full moon - something of the night about him/her - or just another chancer? Will the dawn scare him/her? The plot thickens or does it?

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

You're about as interesting to the outside world as FoR3 is to BBC management.

Well, yes. But then, the same can be said of all "special-interest" internet blogs, chatrooms etc etc. I doubt the Forum has ever been interesting to the outside world - it wouldn't be "outside", otherwise - the point of the Thread seems to be the suggestion that we're becoming (or have become) less interesting to the "inside world"; ourselves.

But nice try - thanks for the effort.



(By the way; what did you mean by "emoticon overdose"?)

[Flosshilde]

(By the way; what did you mean by "emoticon overdose"?)

(but you forgot to welcome him - perhaps we all should - or would that be an emetic overdose?)

[teamsaint]

Well, yes. But then, the same can be said of all "special-interest" internet blogs, chatrooms etc etc. I doubt the Forum has ever been interesting to the outside world - it wouldn't be "outside", otherwise - the point of the Thread seems to be the suggestion that we're becoming (or have become) less interesting to the "inside world"; ourselves.

But nice try - thanks for the effort.



(By the way; what did you mean by "emoticon overdose"?)

smiley, and the outside world smileys with you.

Actually, I have just clicked, that is a secret code in smiley form, isn't it Ferney?

My guess: " Simpson? at a BBC Prom?"

[teamsaint]

(but you forgot to welcome him - perhaps we all should - or would that be an emetic overdose?)

not welcoming him is a welcome change.