I have enough seriousness in my life already, I come here FOR the light banter and word-play (and to read UBubba's absurdities of course!).  Sometimes, despite my frivolous intentions, I end up learning something anyway.

I must also add that I just don't get people who come down here from the forums that should be focused on the topic they were created for and feel that this forum should be serious and topic-oriented as well.  It was created as a refuge away from all that!  It's like someone going to a nightclub and not understanding why everyone is dancing or why the music can't be quieter and in the background.  Obviously it's not an environment that was made for them so they should go off and find a more suitable place to hang out.

tom1

I would love to see a coffee house where at any given time we could talk about politics, religion, whatever, without fighting, name calling and threats.

Unfortunately, that is a pipe-dream Tom.  Having been on other forums which specifically have subforums for both politics and religion, I can tell you that what you're suggesting isn't possible.  If you think people get opinionated and defensive about their music creation gear, it's NOTHING compared to what happens when you tear apart their religious fantasies or political idiocies (derogatory adjectives used intentionally for effect  ).

SteveStrummerUK

Beagle

 
as far as inane post counts and yada yada, and Am and +ya.  who cares?

Judging by what others have said upstairs (and not just John), quite a few folk Reece.
 
As I said yesterday, when I read (sorry I don't have a link to it) that: "a small group of posters were spoiling it for everyone else" I felt quite selfish and thoughtless. Guilty as charged m'lud.
 
I don't want to make anyone feel unwelcome here, and if I've been contributing to the (often constant drivel), the proliferation of slightly edited thread titles, and all the other in 'jokes' in doing that, then I think I need to change my behaviour. If nobody else wants to change, that's cool with me too. But that's how I feel.
 
That's not to say I'm not going to be inane, or post daft stuff, but honestly, doesn't 'Am' this and 'Ya' that get just a little tedious after a while? And it must appear totally incomprehensible and very cliquey to anybody stumbling in for the first time.
 
As I say, and I want to be clear - I'm cool with whatever anybody posts, and I certainly wouldn't dream of telling anybody what they should or shouldn't post. That's nobody's job but Cakewalk's. But sometimes I think we just maybe need to step back and see the bigger picture.
 
 
 
 
 
Edit - spelling

 
If I knew how to quote more than one at a time this would be a very big post...
 
The biggest attraction to this forum for me is the different thoughts that others have.
It's fantastic reading different points of view from the folks that post. There are very
many amazing personalities here IMO.
I may not understand their sense of humour sometimes or exactly where they are coming
from but it sure gives me something to think about and I can say I've been enlightened
many times.
 
Ones that have been here for some time know that every time somebody has a meltdown
we go into check mode. Trying to make sure that we are the thoughtful caring people we
are and want to continue to be. You're there with the finest of them Steve.
 
 
 
 
 

tom1


hi CraigB:
someone told the Wright brothers it was impossible to fly a plane.
Sorry, that's my Wayne Dyer response;
I've been reading a lot of his books recently    :) 

The difference is that the Wright brothers were dealing with a physical science issue, not one of the "human nature" variety.
 
"If you want to miss the bumps in the bike lane, you need to concentrate on the gap between the bumps, and not the bumps themselves."
 
Yeah, I went through a bunch of Wayne's material when I was younger too. 

spacey



 
The biggest attraction to this forum for me is the different thoughts that others have.
It's fantastic reading different points of view from the folks that post. There are very
many amazing personalities here IMO.
I may not understand their sense of humour sometimes or exactly where they are coming
from but it sure gives me something to think about and I can say I've been enlightened
many times.
 

 
 
 
 
 

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ , that

bitflipper

Competitive post count padding has got old

He said, with his 17,353 post count since 2008.


I think it should be called The Neighborhood Pub rather than The Coffee House. Coffee houses aren't what they used to be. Most are not social gathering places, they are places where people sit alone reading the newspaper or a paperback. A few old-style coffee shops still exist, but they are withering in the shadow of Starbucks.


Pubs, OTOH, have never gone out of fashion nor been replaced by some characterless chain franchise. They are always tailored to their own clientele. They are places with well-respected rules, but not too many. Nobody gets censored for saying "su****ious" in a pub.

I meet my wife in a pub, it's still our favorite place to meet up with friends to have a drink, a bite to eat, and some great conversation.  Good idea. 


Anyways, wouldn't the Coffee Hose Band rather play in a pub than a Starbucks?  I know I would.

craigb

tom1

I would love to see a coffee house where at any given time we could talk about politics, religion, whatever, without fighting, name calling and threats.

Unfortunately, that is a pipe-dream Tom.  Having been on other forums which specifically have subforums for both politics and religion, I can tell you that what you're suggesting isn't possible.  If you think people get opinionated and defensive about their music creation gear, it's NOTHING compared to what happens when you tear apart their religious fantasies or political idiocies (derogatory adjectives used intentionally for effect  ).

Don't you realize, religion and politics have the largest history of war on the planet.

You-we-us, make the coffee house something different all the time. It was the bacon forum for quite a while. That's ok, bacon is a common. How many attitudes can you derive from bacon? We've seen a few. I'm a ham man myself but I won't go overboard with that preference. This sub-forum is a symptom of what goes on "upstairs" in the technical forums where not many are really technical but want technical answers. Some people bring their symptom to the CH and expect a technical answer, but all we've got for them is humorous banter. That's all we should have. If you're going to get pissed at being made to examine your problems, you shouldn't come here, because, we are not your support group, we are your community, your adversaries, your freinds, your unknown group of enthusiats engaged in the same art. We are not your dumping place.

zungle

What do you want the CH to be?

I'd like a place  where we could talk 

Waaaaaaaaaaay...MORE MUSIC
ie..............
who's the next great drummer........
who's playing what guitars......
post great videos.......
critiques of live performances..........
latest release's.........
What gear is on sale...........
Who's taking lessons........


Pictures of new instruments or old...........
Unfinished Audio samples of  tones and  singing,plugin samples ........
I just would like to see more music topics period.............


More of a musicians coffee house where we are talking music..........


Not Becan, Am or word play...................


Musicians talking what they Love ....................Music...........and all it encompasses...........


 






 

[shrugs]
 
what's stopping you or anyone else from doing that?

Why has this place suddenly gone so serious? If I want serious crap there's always the X1 forum.

Do I really have to take my trousers off and run round the coffee house with my underpants on my head or will it get back to normal soon without that?

On the plus side, I always thought this was quite a cliquey place but was pleasantly surprised when I did start posting here. There's far worse forums on the web than here, although most of the ones I belonged to have been shut down.

That ain't too bright an outlook for here is it?

bapu

Beagle

zungle

What do you want the CH to be?

I'd like a place  where we could talk 

Waaaaaaaaaaay...MORE MUSIC
ie..............
who's the next great drummer........
who's playing what guitars......
post great videos.......
critiques of live performances..........
latest release's.........
What gear is on sale...........
Who's taking lessons........


Pictures of new instruments or old...........
Unfinished Audio samples of  tones and  singing,plugin samples ........
I just would like to see more music topics period.............


More of a musicians coffee house where we are talking music..........


Not Becan, Am or word play...................


Musicians talking what they Love ....................Music...........and all it encompasses...........


 






 

[shrugs]

what's stopping you or anyone else from doing that?

Randy's post about VH has 5 replies and 48 views. And three replies were OT (Disclaimer: I was one of them).


Just an observation.

And yet not a single mention of becan, Am, etc. Kinda refreshing don't ya think? (not yet anyways);)
 
Randy

rsp@odyssey.net


And yet not a single mention of becan, Am, etc. Kinda refreshing don't ya think? (not yet anyways);)
 
Randy

Feigh on you Tofu lovers!!

BECAN Rules!!!!!

So there...hhmmmmpph.






Consider yourself hmmph'ed....