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Are these laws common for interweb sites? Please do not stray from the topic, or you may be smote by lightening (as seen above)

The laws are mainly @rse covering because the BBC is under constant scrutiny.

They do help to maintain a certain level of civilised debate. Apparently. So

Oh, and welcome, most warmly.

I have browsed here for a little while, and was going to reply to a conversation that I saw. But then, reading the laws,

* Are considered likely to disrupt, provoke, attack or offend others

That quite quickly kills all of the God vs everything else threads now, doesn't it?

* Are considered to be off-topic for the blog, discussion or site to which you are posting

That pretty well puts a close to any journals or common chat stuff too.

Wot does the song say, "Should I stay or should I go now?"

>>That quite quickly kills all of the God vs everything else threads now, doesn't it?<<

I'm guessing you're not as new as you're making out.

I did say that I have browsed for a while.

Then don't get hung up on the rules! Post. Take part. If you like it stay; if not, don't. What's the worst that can happen?

(Actually the worst that can happen is that the BBC rozzers will come and take away everything you own, but we try not to mention that).

pffft.

I've been disrupting, provoking, attacking and offending others since pretty much forever.

I do like your style, swl. But I sense that life here might not be so tolerant for a newbie.

You never know, don't worry about the rules. Try and break 'em, see what happens

You seem to be trying to create problems before they've happened, which is the sort of thinking that will be self-fulfilling. It's only a bunch of electrons whiizzing around, after all.

Ooh! Is this a new song thread?

You want it all but you can't have it *hic*


Seriously, if you have browsed here for a while, then you know we are more tolerant than most other BBC sites.

Whether you stay for 3 hours or 3 days, the choice is yours. You have already posted more than Nighthoover ever did!

Now to have a gander at that newbie list

lil x

Joins in a song of welcome for the new newbie




nah - most of the stuff that goes on here is mostly harmless, doesn't startle the children and doesn't require notices.


Have a and mingle

Lanzababy

At the least, the welcome of the residents is warm and varied.

Hi, Whenever. What exactly did you expect to find? "Here is a pink fluffy pillow, feel free to eat it as it was made by Mister Wonka"?

Meh. People usually find themelves as welcomed, or as unwelcomed, as they choose to.

Wait and see - I promise you I won't be killed for finishing the previous sentence with a preposition.

That's cos we don't get out much...

sorry KB my response was to When Ever...

By the way When, I know your brothers What & For. I briefly had a thing with your sister Don't, but that never got far. How's your father Can't? Still the same?

My experience is that this site is far, far more civil, especially to newcomers, than the vast majority of sites on the intertubes, and the moderators are very tolerant (except on the weekends) of all sorts of stuff which might strictly break the House Rules. I don't think anyone around here wants nastiness, and in my experience, nastiness is pretty rare.

So, come on in and join some conversations.

We had, or perhaps more aptly, we have* a saying, in our family, which is somethign like:
"Its as wakky pokko as a bag of eals hanging from a carbinated lampost under the bridge'
I'm not quite sure what relivence that has here, but I'm sure if only I could make any sense of it we'd be some way further towards understanding whatever it was we wer etrying to understand, qua the underderstanding over of it all, like.

As Mr Silsby said, rules are only ther eto be broken... to which I say 'nipples'... But that is kind of a robust encapsulate all kind of response for such situations as may require an all encompasing response.

I'd personally not get yourself hung up on the T&Cs, no one else seems too well, cept maybe the great giant lobster theif, but honestly, if you spent all yout time trying to follow the logic behind any letalone all of the actions of the great giant lobster theif then, well, maybe we'd understand more about eals than we already did.

Anyone got any tea?

'ere you go!



Is 'no spitting' not still in the House Rules?