Damien gets schmaltzy

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So there's this band I like. A lot. Back a few years ago they had one of those email list thingys. A lot of conversation going on throughout the day. It was fun. And most of it had nothing to do with the band. But it was a great bunch of people. I actually met several of them, and even had a brief whatever with an amazing girl I met there. Then the list stopped. It was replaced with a message board on the band's website. It's a totally different group of people with only a few from the old list. And I don't like them. I have tried to be a part of things. I feel like I have a right cause I'm one of the old timers. But whenever I try to post again the reaction is typically either being totally ignored, being made to feel like an intruder, tolerated in a patronizing way or, this last time, being ripped to shreds. It sucksSo that was happening and at the same time I was thinking about A2A. There really is no unifying thing here. I mean not like a band or something clear like that. We're just here. But when I was being made to feel crappy by a board populated with people with whom I'm supposed to have a lot in common, I kept comparing them to this list populated with a bunch of blokes with whom, for the most part, I have very little in common. Yet I feel home here. I feel liked and welcome. And I don't think it's just cause I've been here a long time. I feel like this board is very welcoming to people who make the slightest effort to get along and play nice. Even when I disagree and disagree heatedly, I know that I'm not gonna be marginalized for it (usually). Anyway. I'm just saying this site has somehow beat the odds and become a really cool place to me. I just left that other message board and came here and really had the feeling that I was running from the snobs on the playground back to a friendly place.That's nice. Thanks.

How nice, damien!I, too, feel there are many very nice people here.

I'm new to this, but I feel very welcome.People have made an effort to help me with any problems.

I love you too!!!!

Psh I love him more

Well I also love you, so that entitles me to half of your love for him, so technically I love him more.

Me...Java...Bob...that's a threesome made in Heaven!

Candlelight... Damien Rice playing in the background... I'm there!

Just because you love me darlin', doesn't mean I love you :P snickers

You don't love me? :frowning:

How could I not? :P

People here are pretty nice. A majority anyways, that I've talked to.

But yeah. I definitely agree. The band thing sort of happened with me. There were a bunch of rude newbs. So I just left.

Thats the great thing about this forum, we have a few rude newbies but we don't let them get away with it. Well, one or two sometimes get into the good favour of some members and find a way to get by while still being an absolute shit. But they're usually dealt with eventually.

Dude, I love reading what you have to say. There have been many topics where you enlightened me and I saw it from a different prospective.I have been on this site since July 2002 and I love meeting people, exchanging thoughts and I have made some really life long friendships. I know this site isn't a place to try to "Hook-up", and I'm glad, but I have made some friendship's forged in steel. It's the nature of the beast. You are part of this family. I'm glad your here!

Originally Posted By: RocI know this site isn't a place to try to "Hook-up"...Its not? Well fuck this!

you suck
you all suck
my hatered is like a festering cancer. I wish you were all dead and me along with you.

Quote:I feel like I have a right cause I'm one of the old timers. But whenever I try to post again the reaction is typically either being totally ignored, being made to feel like an intruder, tolerated in a patronizing way or, this last time, being ripped to shreds. It sucksmandude i kinda know how u feel. i feel like that here... alot of times. i have tried to leave i dk how many times but i keep gettign talked into not leaving... i have even tried beggign pete to ban me..lol i don't really feel ignored on here (but i am on another forum..so yea i know) but like here people are good about if there addressed to reply back and answer questions...and stuff. i just feel like people make fun of me and the other don't like me...like i'm a annoying whinning punk. i guess why i stay is cuz of the few i know and cuz there the ones that talk to me and ask me not to leave when i get into one of my i'm leavign stupid a2a rampages... pluse soemtimes pete can;t be on msn wen i might need him and well PM is faster than email.(witch is y i'm here now..ugg and he;s not ) ...poor pete. he'll probly be glad to see me goanyway ..sorry i';m not in the mood to do a spell check so........ yea i hoep maybe thsi is readable.

Quote:poor pete. he'll probly be glad to see me goBy no means! And I'm reading your email now.

Quote:i just feel like people make fun of me and the other don't like meI have honestly never heard anyone say a single bad word about you.

Quote:I have honestly never heard anyone say a single bad word about you. same