Beware who looks in on here.

Hilly · Apr 14, 2017

DrWazzock said:
Very true. It's got to the point where just about every issue has been discussed ad infinitum and opinions are embedded so there is no point in arguing with people who have closed minds, just to be shot down or ridiculed.

TBH I am about done with forums and social media in general. It's all got a bit tiresome and pointless as well as being a security risk and I think I need a different real life hobby.

I like your posts on here so dont stop posting, but i know what you mean it is all a bit pointless, fun tho

RushesToo · Apr 14, 2017

DrWazzock said:
I have become much more cautious about things I post on the web.

Even seemingly innocent stuff can become a problem if the right pedant gets the bit between their teeth. There is no discretion or leeway, everything just follows a set procedure.

The way information on the web is used to profile us and monitor us is much more sophisticated than we realise. Its a whole new industry. Never mind the number of people out their with some sort of chip on their shoulder who have nothing better to do than squeal at the slightest suspicion of a misdemeanour.
From now on, what happens in the countryside will remain in the countryside as far as I am concerned.

Lesson learned.

Facebook collects data about you and then sells advertising spots. This is an example:

A really interesting article here:
http://veekaybee.github.io/facebook-is-collecting-this/

DRC · Apr 14, 2017

DrWazzock said:
Very true. It's got to the point where just about every issue has been discussed ad infinitum and opinions are embedded so there is no point in arguing with people who have closed minds, just to be shot down or ridiculed.

TBH I am about done with forums and social media in general. It's all got a bit tiresome and pointless as well as being a security risk and I think I need a different real life hobby.

Your probably just tired and fed up from lambing . Take a break for a while, but come back and post as your threads are always thought provoking . We all get a bit fed up of this place at times .

DrWazzock · Apr 14, 2017

Thanks. I have got tired and fed up and it has reflected badly in the tone of my posts. Posting after returning from the pub hasn't helped either so apologies for any offence given,

The forum is a great place for ideas and discussion and I'll be back after a decent break from it in a couple of months or so. It's become addictive in a strange sort of way. I need to break the cycle of sounding off and getting into pointless arguments. I need to get out more and broaden my interests outside of farming.

See y'all.

Brisel · Apr 14, 2017

DrWazzock said:
Thanks. I have got tired and fed up and it has reflected badly in the tone of my posts. Posting after returning from the pub hasn't helped either so apologies for any offence given,

The forum is a great place for ideas and discussion and I'll be back after a decent break from it in a couple of months or so. It's become addictive in a strange sort of way. I need to break the cycle of sounding off and getting into pointless arguments. I need to get out more and broaden my interests outside of farming.

See y'all.

Please do come back when you are ready. I enjoy reading your posts, even if I don't agree with all of them.

Selectamatic · Apr 14, 2017

Brisel said:
Please do come back when you are ready. I enjoy reading your posts, even if I don't agree with all of them.

That goes for me too @DrWazzock, from what I can gather, you use older kit to do a good day's work, I always find this more interesting than the latest 40ft Satnav no till tractor harvester thingamy...

Bury the Trash · Apr 14, 2017

lots of good, honest stuff has been written by this poster.

thesilentone · Apr 15, 2017

Interesting seeing people leave the forum (they won't really) they will continue to look, it has become part of your life if you feel the need to leave.

You can see what happens inside the Big Brother house..............

bovrill · Apr 15, 2017

I stayed off FWi for a full year at one point. When I got back on it, it was nearly in its death throes!
And it wasn't like I went to another forum, for various reasons I was off computers completely: no facebook, only occasional looks at emails.
So it is possible.

7610 super q · Apr 15, 2017

bovrill said:
I stayed off FWi for a full year at one point. When I got back on it, it was nearly in its death throes!
And it wasn't like I went to another forum, for various reasons I was off computers completely: no facebook, only occasional looks at emails.
So it is possible.

I stayed off BFF for 3 days.....and look what happened

thesilentone · Apr 15, 2017

bovrill said:
I stayed off FWi for a full year at one point. When I got back on it, it was nearly in its death throes!
And it wasn't like I went to another forum, for various reasons I was off computers completely: no facebook, only occasional looks at emails.
So it is possible.

Was that sometime ago ? In my view, FWI killed off what was once a very good forum.

Tarw Coch · Apr 15, 2017

7610 super q said:
I stayed off BFF for 3 days.....and look what happened

Couldn't cope without you, it was all your fault

Brisel · Apr 15, 2017

thesilentone said:
Was that sometime ago ? In my view, FWI killed off what was once a very good forum.

FW certainly did too little too late. The rot had already set in by not modernising the way that TFF has, plus a few dominant characters just killed any discussion with entrenched positions.

jendan · Apr 15, 2017

Brisel said:
FW certainly did too little too late. The rot had already set in by not modernising the way that TFF has, plus a few dominant characters just killed any discussion with entrenched positions.

Can think of a few on here like that!

CornishTone · Apr 15, 2017

bovrill said:
I stayed off FWi for a full year at one point. When I got back on it, it was nearly in its death throes!
And it wasn't like I went to another forum, for various reasons I was off computers completely: no facebook, only occasional looks at emails.
So it is possible.

FWi went to sh1t in your absence. How does it feel to bring down an entire forum?[emoji6]

bovrill · Apr 15, 2017

CornishTone said:
FWi went to sh1t in your absence. How does it feel to bring down an entire forum?[emoji6]

You pretty much all buggered off while I was gone, and there was almost just that idiot PDBoxer bloke there when I returned, with poor old Peter Wells trying to hold things together!
(FW awards night was a good perk though!)

Y Fan Wen · Apr 15, 2017

CornishTone said:
FWi went to sh1t in your absence. How does it feel to bring down an entire forum?[emoji6]

uk.business.agriculture was, imo, brought down by one person being an idiot. Just checked and it seems to be moribund as the last post was July. Pity, I really enjoyed it. Anybody here migrated from it?

Cowabunga · Apr 15, 2017

Y Fan Wen said:
uk.business.agriculture was, imo, brought down by one person being an idiot. Just checked and it seems to be moribund as the last post was July. Pity, I really enjoyed it. Anybody here migrated from it?

Just had a look and it seems pretty active to me, with plenty of posts in the past week alone. Not anything like as busy as it was in its heyday, but still plodding along. Still hasn't modernised, but maybe it doesn't need to. Its not as if it was aiming to break any records or win the Nobel Prize for Forums or anything.

Filthyfarmer · Apr 15, 2017

Y Fan Wen said:
uk.business.agriculture was, imo, brought down by one person being an idiot. Just checked and it seems to be moribund as the last post was July. Pity, I really enjoyed it. Anybody here migrated from it?

Oz, Jim Webster and Pat Gardener (?)

stick in my mind

Cowabunga · Apr 15, 2017

Filthyfarmer said:
Oz, Jim Webster and Pat Gardener (?) stick in my mind

Cowabunga said:
Just had a look and it seems pretty active to me, with plenty of posts in the past week alone. Not anything like as busy as it was in its heyday, but still plodding along. Still hasn't modernised, but maybe it doesn't need to. Its not as if it was aiming to break any records or win the Nobel Prize for Forums or anything.

Oh goodness me! I had the wrong forum in mind [BFF]. You are going back to Usenet days. A time where dinosaurs had only just become extinct. Yes, Oz and Jim Webster. Wherever did they go? I know one or two that are on this forum were occasional Usenet contributors. Oz, from Oxfordshire, was in perpetual conflict with a foreign chap named something like Torsten Brinch if I remember correctly. It seems like an awful long time ago now.

There was another linked forum [they weren't called 'forums' back then were they] called uk.sci.ag or similar, where a nutter called Archimedes Plutonium had some bizarre opinions.

As an aside, I'm amazed that the human mind [mine] remembers this stuff after all these years. Where in my head was it stored for the decades that I haven't given it the slightest concern or thought?
I think I'm what they call 'flabbergasted' , but in a good way.

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