It's been a while since I have actively posted on this good ol' forum. I come back to lurk and pathetically weep all over my keyboard when I am feeling especially nostalgic for my mid to late teenage years. The Playful Penguin Place is a ghost town now, though. I remember when I couldn't keep a thread on the first page to save my life, but now there are, like, three months worth of "Feel Any Way (insert month)" threads on the first page. Crazy! I blame Facebook and Twitter, those dirty bastard slags.

Anyway, I miss this place, and especially the days when it was hoppin'.

inthe00s is older than Facebook AND Twitter!! Take that Facebook and Twitter!  8)

It's been a while since I have actively posted on this good ol' forum. I come back to lurk and pathetically weep all over my keyboard when I am feeling especially nostalgic for my mid to late teenage years. The Playful Penguin Place is a ghost town now, though. I remember when I couldn't keep a thread on the first page to save my life, but now there are, like, three months worth of "Feel Any Way (insert month)" threads on the first page. Crazy! I blame Facebook and Twitter, those dirty bastard slags.

Anyway, I miss this place, and especially the days when it was hoppin'.


Skip over the (pages and pages) of threads that contain one-word answers and get caught up.  The PPP and Walrus boards have degenerated into threads that mostly contain one-word answers, but there's still content on the rest of the boards, you just have to wade through a lot of stuff to get to it, but what's still here is still worth reading.  We miss ya and the place could use the help.

It's been a while since I have actively posted on this good ol' forum. I come back to lurk and pathetically weep all over my keyboard when I am feeling especially nostalgic for my mid to late teenage years. The Playful Penguin Place is a ghost town now, though. I remember when I couldn't keep a thread on the first page to save my life, but now there are, like, three months worth of "Feel Any Way (insert month)" threads on the first page. Crazy! I blame Facebook and Twitter, those dirty bastard slags.

Anyway, I miss this place, and especially the days when it was hoppin'.



you missed quite a bit of drama that sent the pioneers packing...  the good old days are but a faint mystery. I applaud your efforts to try and bring them back tho!


welcome back

I, too miss the old days of the board. Many people have jumped ship because they think that Facebook is sooooo much better.  ::)

There are a few of us who have never left-and probably never will. It is us few that really keep this place alive but it definitely not as active as it once was. I do hope that it will once again become the message board of old.


I can hope.  :-\\


Cat

I find Facebook excellent for instant messaging between family that are on the other side of the world, and I hardly use email now.

I sometimes wonder why I am still here on this site, but I have been here for many years and though I don't want to give up on this place, I don't get that exciting feeling I used to get when I come here  :-\\

I still on occasion post in the decades forum, but the topics that I'd like to post in are hard to do for reasons that I won't go on about.  I still like this place and hope it sticks around for many years to come

I sometimes wonder why I am still here on this site, but I have been here for many years and though I don't want to give up on this place, I don't get that exciting feeling I used to get when I come here  :-\\



Same here. I was away for almost 4 weeks recently.



I still on occasion post in the decades forum, but the topics that I'd like to post in are hard to do for reasons that I won't go on about.


;)


I find Facebook excellent for instant messaging between family that are on the other side of the world, and I hardly use email now.


I like Facebook because of that reason....and on facebook I don't usually have to read about how 1995 is like 1972, or what is the mid point of a decade, or other stupid topics. And if there is a post on facebook I don't like, I just click on "ignore" it, and I never have to see it again. It's gone...bye bye!!! (Usually a "any religious" hating or Obama or Republicans hating) Can't do that here

No trolls on facebook, no people posting just to irritate others on facebook. (And if they appear...they are gone from my life with one "click")
On facebook, no attention seeking drama queens who just won't shut up...
No "Like Hi..Fer sure" type posts.
No one arguing wherether someone born in 1983 is an 80s kid or not

Facebook is a safer/fun place..at least for me.  But I still like this place. Like Whistledog said, just not as much.

It's been a while since I have actively posted on this good ol' forum. I come back to lurk and pathetically weep all over my keyboard when I am feeling especially nostalgic for my mid to late teenage years. The Playful Penguin Place is a ghost town now, though. I remember when I couldn't keep a thread on the first page to save my life, but now there are, like, three months worth of "Feel Any Way (insert month)" threads on the first page. Crazy! I blame Facebook and Twitter, those dirty bastard slags.

Anyway, I miss this place, and especially the days when it was hoppin'.


nice to see you again Beth. :)

inthe00s is older than Facebook AND Twitter!! Take that Facebook and Twitter!  8)


16 years old.

I, too miss the old days of the board. Many people have jumped ship because they think that Facebook is sooooo much better.  ::)

There are a few of us who have never left-and probably never will. It is us few that really keep this place alive but it definitely not as active as it once was. I do hope that it will once again become the message board of old.


I can hope.  :-\\


Cat


at least we try.

I sometimes wonder why I am still here on this site, but I have been here for many years and though I don't want to give up on this place, I don't get that exciting feeling I used to get when I come here  :-\\

I still on occasion post in the decades forum, but the topics that I'd like to post in are hard to do for reasons that I won't go on about.  I still like this place and hope it sticks around for many years to come


I've been on here for almost 13 years and I still enjoy being here. :)

There's an instant gratification you get w FB that just isn't here.

You post a photo or make a comment usually it's liked instantly and someone has something meaningful or funny to say.

If I say something here 8 ppl will see it and maybe someone will comment

I find the conversations here redundant and often boring. Mostly I come back out of habit and it's rare but sometimes someone says something interesting or funny.


I find I currently have more topics on my ignore list than on my show new replies to my post list.


The only thread I'm really interested in reading is the what's up this month thread because it's basically this boards version of FB.

16 years old.


Wow!!

I find I currently have more topics on my ignore list than on my show new replies to my post list.




We can create an ignore list??
I didnt know that. Please pm me the details as to how..
Thanks.

We can create an ignore list??
I didnt know that. Please pm me the details as to how..
Thanks.


Click on show replies to my posts. 

Next to each topic is a box. One marks all topics read another marks them unread.
The third option is ignore topic.


Go down the list of threads you've commented in and if you are no longer interested in that topic then put a check mark next to it. Once all the desired boxes on that page have been selected click Ignore Topic.

That way. Whenever you select show new replies to my posts those threads will not appear.

This will not remove them from the boards. Ie if I choose to ignore the I have no life so let me tell you what I ate/bought/got in the mail threads in www they will still show up when I go to www but they don't show up on my new replies page.

Basically I stay away from the big boards I look at new new replies to topics I've posted in and new topics started if they interest me I read them if they don't I don't read them.  If I post in one then get tired of it ... I click  ignore them.  I only go to the individual boards unless I'm looking for something specific.

Snoz, I don't where to find all of this ( I tried looking for it)
I have sent you a pm for help in this
Thanks.

There's an instant gratification you get w FB that just isn't here.


The problem with FB is that it has the memory of a goldfish.

A well-curated forum has a memory that lasts for years.  When people here actually talk about stuff, the content is pretty awesome, and everyone learns something.  Not just us in our own little forum bubble, but random passers-by that might land here via a google search for some piece of obscure information that only we have managed to figure out.

Delete all cookies and pretend to be a n00b landing here for the first time, and you'll discover that 80% of the most recent threads are indistinguishable from the output of a spambot.  I've whined about the signal/noise issue here several years ago, and I've just learned to live with it.  Not my board, not my rules, I'm not paying a cent for this, which makes me a guest here.  It doesn't take me long to skip over the fluff anymore.  It still bugs me to know that if 2014-me googled something and ended up here today instead of in 2006, a glance at the "unread topics" (delete your cookies or log out first to see it from a n00b's eye view!) would lead me to conclude that there was nothing here but spambots.  It amuses 2014-me to know that for every time I see a page of 20 topics, scan the posting times in 2 seconds, and close the window without reading a thread, an actual human being posted every one of those threads manually.  Of course, I've just spent more time writing this paragraph and probably written more words in it than the people cutting and pasting dictionary words spent in the most recently-updated 200 threads, so who's really wasting my time whining about postflation threads again?  Right.  Me! :)

I landed here on a google search almost 10 years ago and found lots of content, so I stuck around.  That's where my bias on signal/noise comes from.  I continue to stick around because the people here are cool, even if their idea of fun is different than mine.

If there are any n00bs who stumble over this post - stick around.  We solve the kind of obscure pop culture problems that people you already know through Failbook can't.  If you're not sticking around to see what we can do, it's not because we suck and Facebook rocks, it's because Wikipedia, RapGenius, YouTube, and innumerable lyric sites and dedicated toy/collectible forums that didn't exist 5-10 years ago are answering your questions before you get desperate enough to ask us. 

Because as much of a quiet backwater as this little forum has become, we'll still be here to answer your pop-culture questions in the event that the rest of the internet hasn't already figured it out.  Join us.  We're nice once you get to know us.

Snoz, I don't where to find all of this ( I tried looking for it)
I have sent you a pm for help in this
Thanks.


I sent you a pm response with pics :-)

The problem with FB is that it has the memory of a goldfish.

A well-curated forum has a memory that lasts for years.  When people here actually talk about stuff, the content is pretty awesome, and everyone learns something.  Not just us in our own little forum bubble, but random passers-by that might land here via a google search for some piece of obscure information that only we have managed to figure out.

Delete all cookies and pretend to be a n00b landing here for the first time, and you'll discover that 80% of the most recent threads are indistinguishable from the output of a spambot.  I've whined about the signal/noise issue here several years ago, and I've just learned to live with it.  Not my board, not my rules, I'm not paying a cent for this, which makes me a guest here.  It doesn't take me long to skip over the fluff anymore.  It still bugs me to know that if 2014-me googled something and ended up here today instead of in 2006, a glance at the "unread topics" (delete your cookies or log out first to see it from a n00b's eye view!) would lead me to conclude that there was nothing here but spambots.  It amuses 2014-me to know that for every time I see a page of 20 topics, scan the posting times in 2 seconds, and close the window without reading a thread, an actual human being posted every one of those threads manually.  Of course, I've just spent more time writing this paragraph and probably written more words in it than the people cutting and pasting dictionary words spent in the most recently-updated 200 threads, so who's really wasting my time whining about postflation threads again?  Right.  Me! :)

I landed here on a google search almost 10 years ago and found lots of content, so I stuck around.  That's where my bias on signal/noise comes from.  I continue to stick around because the people here are cool, even if their idea of fun is different than mine.

If there are any n00bs who stumble over this post - stick around.  We solve the kind of obscure pop culture problems that people you already know through Failbook can't.  If you're not sticking around to see what we can do, it's not because we suck and Facebook rocks, it's because Wikipedia, RapGenius, YouTube, and innumerable lyric sites and dedicated toy/collectible forums that didn't exist 5-10 years ago are answering your questions before you get desperate enough to ask us. 

Because as much of a quiet backwater as this little forum has become, we'll still be here to answer your pop-culture questions in the event that the rest of the internet hasn't already figured it out.  Join us.  We're nice once you get to know us.



I hear what you are saying but the quality of exchange of ideas is not what it used to be. I very rarely go back and re-read threads so I have no need to find them.  The interaction I have on FB is with people I want to talk with (many of whom I used to interact with here) rather than a handful of people I want to talk with and an overload of posts from people who annoy me. 

I'm not saying I've given up here but, for me, it's more like perusing my email and sifting through spam rather than really getting anything out of it any longer. 

It's been a while since I have actively posted on this good ol' forum. I come back to lurk and pathetically weep all over my keyboard when I am feeling especially nostalgic for my mid to late teenage years. The Playful Penguin Place is a ghost town now, though. I remember when I couldn't keep a thread on the first page to save my life, but now there are, like, three months worth of "Feel Any Way (insert month)" threads on the first page. Crazy! I blame Facebook and Twitter, those dirty bastard slags.

Anyway, I miss this place, and especially the days when it was hoppin'.


Nice to see you again, Beth! :)

Yeah, pretty much what everyone before me posted here. The boards have changed and I, too, sometimes find myself wondering why I'm still around. Probably only nostalgia keeping me here... I used to enjoy the Quizzes section, but it looks like just about everybody has given up on that. On the other hand: I'm not doing a very good job in keeping things alive either, so yeah...you reap what you sow.

I feel one of the main changes that have swept the boards is the fact that they've become more serious. A lot of the people that were around when I first joined (in 2005) were genuinely funny, or just plain silly. Others responded to that, and it kept things lively. But people left for various reasons: the younger folk grew up, some found something of a life and someone died (I think we all still miss Isabel :\'( ).
The people that replaced them just weren't as funny (no offense). And then there are some dinosaurs people that enjoy being confined to their private playing ground the PBG.  :D

But seriously... those "olden days" will never come back, mainly because they exist only in our nostalgia-tinted memories. (Yeah, I too have grown up - somewhat).

the Quizzes section

Your "find the artist/author out of this set of obscure tracks" quizzes took a lot of work to create and manage, but they were a lot of fun.  Thanks for those. 

I feel one of the main changes that have swept the boards is the fact that they've become more serious.

Yeah, a big RIP to those who can't be with us, and best wishes to those who left of their own accord for elsewhere.  Ten years is a long time, and some of us have been here for a decaO GOD DONT HIT ME WITH THE BIG STICK-and after a number approximating ten years, it's not so much that we realized we were all growing up, it's that we realized we were all getting old. 

http://i.imgur.com/VAreADe.jpg

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  - Telex, We Are All Getting Old, 1980.

LaNNbGgUGeY
  - Judas Priest, Parental Guidance, 1986.

To the Xers: "We could lose twenty years, right away, so they say?"
To the Millenials: "Is this message getting through?  You'll go through the same thing too!"
To myself: The line "Until your three-piece suit comes back in date" stings as hard today as it did ~20 years ago when I wore one.

Your "find the artist/author out of this set of obscure tracks" quizzes took a lot of work to create and manage, but they were a lot of fun.  Thanks for those. 


Thanks. I don't always enjoy making them (because of the work involved), but the end result makes it all worthwhile. So who knows, maybe one of these days...



  - Telex, We Are All Getting Old, 1980.


Ah, Telex! The quite risqué Belgian entry for the ESC that same year. It earned them a third-to-last place. The world just wasn't ready, I suppose.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6USa0zUMmqI

Telex - Euro-Vision