So please confirm / deny . Do you believe you are the biggest NMA fan or not ? Its all been a bad misunderstood joke right ??
Don't you British have a saying "taking the piss" out of something? That thread was probably the biggest piss take ever at this site and it caught out many, many members. I didn't intend that at all. I just wanted to give folks a laugh -- I co-wrote two songs with Justin Sullivan? -- but instead some people (you included) can't even tell if it is serious!?! I played straight man, set up a fun thread for people to give any silly reason why they should be considered the biggest NMA fan and no one delivered anything. No one was creative enough. Instead they stupidly think the thing is a serious thread. Yup, that Region free DVD player makes someone The Biggest fan. Good God, folks, get a sense of humor. Eight pages of serious responses to a thread where a guy claimed he co-wrote two songs with New Model Army. My God.
Space, I cant help but fully agree with you here, as I said in my last post. It has been an interesting study in (at least ONLINE) human behavior to see people react since you started posting your (to me, fairly clearly) absurd claims in your posts. Maybe I wasnt as affected because I wasnt around here to see your "earlier nastiness" to get any "bad taste".
But it has been intriguing at the least to see how people react to the character you were playing. I am almost sad you had to break character as you clearly have here.
But as to what Master Ray said in his last paragraph about this becoming a place to expect a fight, I posted here a LOT in the early 2000s for years, and there was a LOT of fighting over a great many issues of the world, people, the band, etc etc. Most of it was fairly cordial, albeit heated at times. Are NMA fans NOT very passionate people? I think they DO tend to be. I remember people being quite angry with me due to my support of the growing anti smoking laws, my positions on a great many things actually, and in the end, esp my opinions on the aftermath and future direction of rebuilding after Katrina hit. There were fights about stray cats and what to do about them, infidelity in relationships, and everything else under the sun and moon.
Some fights I wasnt involved with at all, some people here then definitely angered people more than I did. Sometime Joolz came in and virtually gave us all a slap and reminder to be a bit more considerate of the band and ourselves, and even rarer, Justin made a brief appearance to do the same. It was ALWAYS a place with arguing, as many online forums.
I think, Master Ray, with all due respect. This is nothing new here and I hardly see it as all Space's fault.
But what do I know? - I really havent been around here much for years till recently, and why? Well it mostly came down to there just being not much going on here anymore, which perhaps also led to less "fights waiting to happen" for a while. I still dont see much going on in the Everything Else other than the same threads on top that have been there for years. Nothing of what that section used to be.
And honestly - expecting someone from New York to not outwardly act as though NY is the center of the universe, well you would not be dealing with a New Yorker then.
Taking the piss out of any New Yorker about their town is libel to get one punched in the nose from my experience.
Its almost as bad as expecting someone from America to not act as though America isnt the greatest country in the universe.
But I digress...
Anyway, just my 2 cents.
And Space, I am still just slightly curious who played the white Gretsch. Maybe a hint?
The Ian Curtis one was easy for me, the Joe Strummer was just some internet searching based on the sticker on the guitar, but I give up on the White Gretsch...
