How long has this place got?

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How long before RYP scuttles this scurvy ship?

Imminent - we are at DEFCON Fucking 1! Buckle up, it's been a lovely war.
5
10%
Two weeks max - if the vlindsay story runs for another 7 days then he will be getting twitchy and tetchy
1
2%
One month max - we are one lawyer's email away from the red button being pushed
2
4%
Six months - the patient is now definitely dying but life support will continue until all residual brain activity ceases
4
8%
Never! BFC will never die, we will rebound and go onwards to new heights with interesting and amusing people engaged in free discourse (been a bit too much 'free discourse' if you arx me)
30
61%
Who fucking cares - I'd rather twitter twats and fuck facebook buddies
7
14%
 
Total votes : 49

Re: How long has this place got?

Postby coldharvest » Mon Aug 19, 2013 10:14 pm

Kurt wrote:
Aryan wrote:The fate of this place was sealed when RYP ordered the nuking of Fansy's thread. His chief minion didn't follow through (yet), but the wheels are now in motion regardless.


I don't understand. Who ordered what? And by minion do you mean me?

when did you get promoted to minion?
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Re: How long has this place got?

Postby Kurt » Mon Aug 19, 2013 10:16 pm

coldharvest wrote:
Kurt wrote:
Aryan wrote:The fate of this place was sealed when RYP ordered the nuking of Fansy's thread. His chief minion didn't follow through (yet), but the wheels are now in motion regardless.


I don't understand. Who ordered what? And by minion do you mean me?

when did you get promoted to minion?


Since I left out all that poison for the flying monkeys.

I mean...really, how long can we allow a species to live that both can fly and fling poo?
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Re: How long has this place got?

Postby RYP » Mon Aug 19, 2013 10:56 pm

we are all minions.
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Re: How long has this place got?

Postby bearanddragon » Tue Aug 20, 2013 3:40 am

i really like this site and reading everyone's comments. but i think the concept of a forum in general needs to modernize. I do most of my online stuff through a phone nowadays, and so apps such as facebook - which I think like everyone here shares a love/hate relationship with - tend to be easy. An app, or an easy way to integrate with a phone would keep me posting much more regularly.
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Re: How long has this place got?

Postby Kurt » Tue Aug 20, 2013 3:48 am

bearanddragon wrote:i really like this site and reading everyone's comments. but i think the concept of a forum in general needs to modernize. I do most of my online stuff through a phone nowadays, and so apps such as facebook - which I think like everyone here shares a love/hate relationship with - tend to be easy. An app, or an easy way to integrate with a phone would keep me posting much more regularly.


You are right.

Just out of curiousity does the BFC size down to your phone? It does not with mine.
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Re: How long has this place got?

Postby nowonmai » Tue Aug 20, 2013 3:56 am

Kurt wrote:
bearanddragon wrote:i really like this site and reading everyone's comments. but i think the concept of a forum in general needs to modernize. I do most of my online stuff through a phone nowadays, and so apps such as facebook - which I think like everyone here shares a love/hate relationship with - tend to be easy. An app, or an easy way to integrate with a phone would keep me posting much more regularly.


You are right.

Just out of curiousity does the BFC size down to your phone? It does not with mine.


It does with mine

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Re: How long has this place got?

Postby svizzerams » Tue Aug 20, 2013 4:10 am

http://www.tapatalk.com/faq.php <-- might be a mobile solution.
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Re: How long has this place got?

Postby RYP » Tue Aug 20, 2013 4:28 pm

good point. We need to join the face down generation...particualarily in areas of great peril
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Re: How long has this place got?

Postby coldharvest » Tue Aug 20, 2013 8:56 pm

Even the loyal peanut gallery who will be in the last Hilux with you as the drones are circling overhead are incapable of maintaining the required energy to keep a place like this vibrant and relevant.

....being one of the peanuts I feel it necessary to point out that Robert is a fuckin' solid individual
who will always to go to the wall for his friends.
Ms. V is a dumpy middle-englander who abused the hospitality of the BFC....that's not Robert or Kurt's fault.
....and she had written her thesis before she became a mod.

....I mean fuckin' seriously....a Ph.d for being a BFC voyeur?

as far as the energy to keep this place vibrant....fuck, what are you? a paying customer?
I've spent years being funny here.....that and a slap in the mouth will get you a fight in any town.
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Re: How long has this place got?

Postby nowonmai » Tue Aug 20, 2013 10:49 pm

coldharvest wrote:
Even the loyal peanut gallery who will be in the last Hilux with you as the drones are circling overhead are incapable of maintaining the required energy to keep a place like this vibrant and relevant.

....being one of the peanuts I feel it necessary to point out that Robert is a fuckin' solid individual
who will always to go to the wall for his friends.
Ms. V is a dumpy middle-englander who abused the hospitality of the BFC....that's not Robert or Kurt's fault.
....and she had written her thesis before she became a mod.

....I mean fuckin' seriously....a Ph.d for being a BFC voyeur?

as far as the energy to keep this place vibrant....fuck, what are you? a paying customer?
I've spent years being funny here.....that and a slap in the mouth will get you a fight in any town.


Would that he gave as much of a shit about you.
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Re: How long has this place got?

Postby RYP » Tue Aug 20, 2013 11:56 pm

I found the original letter in which I was asked what I thought of a study of the Flag...2008. For fuck's sake. Half a decade ago...

and yes, as I have said before the people on this forum are quite pleasant and interesting. That goes for Cold who I consider a friend even if he did hold me hostage and force me to pay him a ransom to release me.
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Re: How long has this place got?

Postby nowonmai » Thu Dec 05, 2013 8:57 pm

Four months on, would you still vote the same?
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Re: How long has this place got?

Postby Kurt » Thu Dec 05, 2013 8:58 pm

nowonmai wrote:Four months on, would you still vote the same?


Well, not while I was gone.

But now, sure.
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Re: How long has this place got?

Postby RYP » Thu Dec 05, 2013 11:26 pm

Nowanmai lives in a permanent state of 2008
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Re: How long has this place got?

Postby JITW » Fri Dec 06, 2013 4:43 am

The decline of the BFC has nothing to do with RYP or anyone else here - Forums are just dead in general, people use apps now and forums are hard to read on an iPhone, people want 'instant gratification' that comes from checking in on a phone whenever they have a sec, no one wants to wait until they get home to check whatever forum they post on and most sites like this are blocked at work but they can still use their phone.

Its that simple - I give forums in general less that 2 years before they go the way of VHS


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