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I don't find the Facebook group anywhere near as useful as the forum. The Facebook Group is just a random dumping ground of stuff, where as here the topics are reasonably well organised into groups, so the bits that I'm not interested in - Bob Graham rounds, long distance stuff I can just ignore.
The Shropshire Fellrunning group is good. Relatively low traffic, but not much chaff to wade through. And no one asks what shoes to buy!
I don't find the Facebook group anywhere near as useful as the forum. The Facebook Group is just a random dumping ground of stuff,
That's exactly the reason I don't do facebook.
Let's keep the FRA forum alive :-)
I agree with Dom about Facebook groups and like the idea of having different sections on the Forum but I do prefer Facebook for other reasons. If only I could have a FRA app on my phone that would be great. :rolleyes:
Yeah I agree about the FRA facebook group, which I sort of follow but rarely use, but there are literally loads of great facebook groups - obviously not directly all to do with fell running but many are inter-linked. I'd say that at least 70% of my 'friends' on facebook are absolutely linked to running in the hills so my facebook status is basically a swamp of fell and trail running related 'stuff'. If you add on gubbins from groups like the LL100, the BG group, Settle Harriers, We love the yorkshire dales, I love the lake district, the Fellsman etc etc facebook suddenly really comes into its own. I'm certain that my stuff on there must look weird, particularly to friends like Hester's mum and Hester's mum's sister :) :) but, when viewed from my end, my posts are in reality small beer to what seems to be going on with everyone else.
This is why the forum can sometimes feel a bit stodgy in comparison. Also you don't (or rarely get) arguments on facebook
Maybe because you don't actually have to reply to all, just click like ;) If I didn't know Stolly, I would have thought he was a bird :o
'This is why the forum can sometimes feel a bit stodgy in comparison. Also you don't (or rarely get) arguments on facebook'
Yes you do :-(
See what I did there :-)
Facebook is now a joke, at least on the forum you don't get 40% of the screen clogged up with adverts and most of your ram clogged up with that and other crap. As for the lack of characters, the forum community has been responsible for driving away quite a few. Posters like Carlos, CL, Auntiesally have all been hounded a bit in the past and i miss them now. I actually regret not taking Auntie's slavver with a pinch of salt, the silence of his absence is worse. Others have left because of bickering i feel, it's been a rough few years with metrication and the safety issue causing fights. The demise of XOTF concerns me a bit too.
Good post mapperQuote:
Originally Posted by mapper
Maybe we are getting close to having discussed most things worth discussing. With new races cropping up I suppose it keeps it ticking over a bit, that and a bit of repetition here and there keeps a bit of interest. Fell running briefs on Twitter seams to be a better place to discover results too. Even though I've tried to resist becoming a Tweeter.
I suppose There's always cramp to discuss, that's never had a consensus.😀
I take your point Stolly and I'm pleased to note that core fell running/racing stuff is still getting good traffic.
Down The Pub will probably always be a bit of a variable feast but I could not imagine having some of the great sparring sessions that have occurred here on a bookface page!
Over the years, we have have had some really fun/engrossing/frustrating debates with the likes of Yorkshire Thug, CL, Carlos, Antosocial etc happy to lob bombs into the mix. Other stalwarts like JJ, FITC and DazH have either sadly left us or, like Millipede, Daleside and OneHillWonder have probably got a life!
And where, oh where is Danbert???
Looks like there is no sign of things picking up around here then?
Looks like there is no sign of things picking up around here then?What do you expect at 2.55 in the morning ............... :-)
Get down the gay marriage thread.... that's not QAH
Or FIFA
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Six full stops DT?
You are overly excited!
I had to take my glasses off and look really closely to count those. ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Graham Breeze
Here's a muse worthy of QAH- if we start appearing on power of 10 that makes fell running fashionable the way i see it, and if it's fashionable that means it loses its place as one of the only 2 remaining last bastions of hardcore sport; as no sport that becomes fashionabe can remain hardcore...which means the pot'oylers take the crown of last remaining hardcore sport. All we need is someone from 1D or something similar to admit to having smudged his guyliner in a cave and we've sunk their battleship.
Speaking of hardcore here's a Hixxy classic...
https://youtu.be/7_qYEZztO40
I went to San Francisco in the late 90's and gay naked sea-fishing was the cult sport as far as I could see. Definitely still the truth on Northern cold-water shore marks these days. You're unlikely to find many other GNS-F'ers on say Filey Brigg
"I went to San Francisco in the late 90's and gay naked sea-fishing was the cult sport as far as I could see."
How far could you see, Andy? And, more to the point, why were you looking?
I looked as far as I needed to look. Okay, there was jogging, roller-skating, kite-flying and wine-tasting going on, but the GNS-F scene (little more, in truth, than one bloke standing on the beach with his tackle out, if you'll pardon the pun) was what struck me as the cult thing to do. The presumably English guy I saw in Yosemite running uphill in Walshes seemed just so passé in comparison
GNS-F. Proper hardcore.
No posts on DTP for 3 days now, pretty QAH i'd say, this gaff's like the Marie Celeste.
In that Scotland. Been out sea-fishing today on the beach and caught pollocks
Think you can treat that with horse linament!
The missus fried them in butter and they were fine but thanks for the advice HUGH
Windy today.
not here it aint
Think it might have something to do with last night.
Bank Holidays - always quiet
Rainy
Reeth ;)
I was sposed to be doing reeth with some mates, but they blew me out, then the rain depressed me even more.
Rained all day at Reeth.
Great show though, well worth a visit.
Tough little race with an entertain stile, that just held me up for a minutes breather.
Mucker on Wed Mr B?
No mate, i found it a bit packed last time i was up, big crowd swell from it being on TV. Won't be long before people just realise it's full of old sheep farmers and sweaty runners and it'll quieten down again.
Talk about Quiet
Ventured into the musically weird today, had a listen to Boss Drum by The Shamen which is an album. Apart from LSI all their stuff is a bit off the wall and crap, it's like they had to fill the album up with something after they'd put LSI and Ebeneezer Goode in it, and had no ideas. Just a load of faux acid weirdness going on about spacetime and other bollocks.
Does anyone play on here during the day time?
Does anyone play on here at any time? Bored in a hotel so just browsing.