No interest in Facebook, so I for one have missed the forum.
Thanks Brett much appreciated :cool:
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No interest in Facebook, so I for one have missed the forum.
Thanks Brett much appreciated :cool:
I do look at fb too but much prefer here. As said above "thank you Brett" :-)Quote:
Originally Posted by JohnK
Please don't make me log in again when it comes back, I'm getting on a bit and remembering passwords is a bit of a problem;)
I like the facebook page but glad to see the forum back.
Well done Brett. I thought the forum had died forever. Can't do with that Faceache thingy. :(
Thanks indeed, Brett. Another old codger in the same mould as JohnK & mapper.
I'm probably of the age (35) where I should prefer the Facebook page.
However it is not a patch on this forum. Daily questions about gear, adverts for trail races, etc... whilst it could certainly be argued that this site could do with an increase in numbers, it is an absolute mine of great info if you care to look. And I've never understood the accusation that I sometimes hear, that this is an 'unfriendly' site, perhaps that is something of the distant past...
Forum is far better, glad to see it back :)
Hurray it's back. Now then is a buff a hat?
Same old folks ��
Now, now....
As much as I like the forum I do think the facebook page has its merits. The forum seems to have quietened right off this past year or so, once upon a time there was many many posts about the numerous fell races, epecially the classics, but now they are few and far between.
I dont think there was one solitary post about the recent Ennerdale race, in the past there has been pages and pages, both in the build up to it and afterwards, thats just one example, many well established races come and go without even a mention on here. Whereas on facebook there is often loads of photos and many accounts of peoples experience. I think this generally has a lot to do with it been a newer and younger audience, many first timers who have many questions, and I agree that some of the questions people post seem quite tedious, it does offer up some lively debate. It often reminds me of the forum from a few years ago.
Nice one Brett....beltin
The problem with Facebook is that news is here today and gone tomorrow - with the forum we have history!Quote:
Originally Posted by Fozzy42
Unless it gets hacked and all previous is lost!Quote:
Originally Posted by Welsh Harrier
Would love to revisit the heady days of the Gravy Boys invasion or Yorkshire thug battering everyone in sight! Oh, and the lascivious goings on of the Masters Lounge....who could forget that??;)
I was in USA for a few weeks and when forum went down, lost a daily fix of fell running news. kept thinking I was going to miss some historic BGR action!! Similar to others don't really like FB as you have to scroll through endless posts of shizzle, where at least here the shizzle is all listed in the contents lists!1 Great to have the forum back.
Hadn't noticed it had gone. My pc had to go in for emergency surgery recently, so not been around.
that's what makes it so personable.Quote:
Originally Posted by Stagger
Thanks Brett
Afraid the forum has lost the "critical mass". It is no longer the "goto" place for up to date info on fell running, which is a great pity as it is a far superior resource for fell running info. I learned so much on here during my BG attempt a couple of years ago.
I think we need to make a concerted effort to use the forum more as it is far far better than fb for information. I'm as guilty as the next person of looking at this forum on a daily basis to catch up but not actually posting. It is a far superior fell running resource to fb. I did not realise just how much I used it until it was unavailable. Well done Brett on that perfect marketing trick there ;-)
I am similarly guilty as RTS... As mentioned, the forum is a fantastic resource of information, useful information posted years ago can be read back through years hence. Often it is not necessary to ask a question as the question/answer are already there to be read. You don't get that with social media.
When doing the BG and first doing long races such as OCT I spent many a fruitful lunch hour or evening reading through the threads and absorbing the helpful thoughts and advice posted there.
Or even Mike Bate. It might have been unedifying but people did log on in huge numbers for the blood bath ...which they don't now with peace, love and psychotherapy.Quote:
Originally Posted by Wheeze
"Remember what the fellow said…in Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder, bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo Da Vinci, and the Renaissance.
In Switzerland, they had brotherly love. They had five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce?
The cuckoo clock".
(The Third Man - from the film, not the novel)
And chocolate. And a brilliant railway system.Quote:
Originally Posted by Graham Breeze
The cuckoo clock originated in Germany.
Well of course: but why let dull facts get in the way of a great film script?Quote:
Originally Posted by gej
(Although the origins of the first cuckoo clock remain unknown, evidence dates similar, though primitive, objects to the mid-17th century. The first known description of a coo coo clock dates back to 1629 when a German nobleman named Philipp Hainhofer described a clock belonging to Prince Elector August von Sachsen. In 1650, scholar Athanasius Kirche documented the elements of a mechanical cuckoo clock in an engraving in a handbook on music, Musurgia Universalis. In 1669, Domenico Martinelli penned a handbook on elementary clocks, Horologi Elementari, and described how the cuckoo call indicates the time.
The first Black Forest cuckoo clock is attributed to Franz Anton Ketterer, a clock maker from the village of Schönwald, who, inspired by the bellows of church organs, started incorporating the cuckoo’s sound into clocks. By the mid-18th century, many clock-making shops in the region were producing cuckoo clocks with wooden gears. Today, Ketterer is known as one of the founding fathers of the Black Forest clock making industry).
Thats what is great about this forum not only do you find all you want to know about Fell running and even running in general plus all things outdoorsy, but you get bonus asides about the most diverse subjects brilliant:)Quote:
Originally Posted by Graham Breeze
I agree, it's a mine of information. I learned something else from it as well: JohnK is French. An English person would have said: ".....you get bonus asides about the most diverse brilliant subjects". ;) :pQuote:
Originally Posted by JohnK
Some of the more colourful forum member seem to be likened to UKIP in terms of their arguably extreme views, now what would have happened if we'd had a forum referendum on the issues.