Sockies and the replies that follow...

[Board Game Geek]

If I may indulge the esteemed members of CUK for a moment, but I have noticed something disturbing.

When a sockie starts a new post, eg Wilmslow's anctics on the motorway, there then follows quite a diatribe about the rights and wrongs of the original post.

The disturbing part being that the event is most unlikely to have happened, or even if it did, not to the imaginary persona of Wilmslow as such. Perhaps to the person behind Wilmslow, maybe.

In essence then, we have a probably imaginary event, created by a definitely imaginary person, on a message board that exists in virtual space, populated by other persons who also use imaginary avatars to discuss sometimes imaginary events.

If anyone asked me about CUK today, I'd be inclined to suggest that it's an imaginary self-help and abuse group for people with imaginary multiple personality disorders.

I am of course, Spartacus.

[cojak]

I, of course, neither know nor care...

[Scary]

Can't post a full answer until I've landed with this pasta.

[sasguru]

Can't post a full answer until I've landed with this pasta.

WHS. We're formation flying from Rome, don't you know.

[EternalOptimist]

Think of it as a set of thought experiments and you wont go far wrong. Take any of this stuff as reality and you are as loopy as a loopy loop fruit

[BrilloPad]

If I may indulge the esteemed members of CUK for a moment, but I have noticed something disturbing.

When a sockie starts a new post, eg Wilmslow's anctics on the motorway, there then follows quite a diatribe about the rights and wrongs of the original post.

The disturbing part being that the event is most unlikely to have happened, or even if it did, not to the imaginary persona of Wilmslow as such. Perhaps to the person behind Wilmslow, maybe.

In essence then, we have a probably imaginary event, created by a definitely imaginary person, on a message board that exists in virtual space, populated by other persons who also use imaginary avatars to discuss sometimes imaginary events.

If anyone asked me about CUK today, I'd be inclined to suggest that it's an imaginary self-help and abuse group for people with imaginary multiple personality disorders.

I am of course, Spartacus.

Are you suggesting we go out and join TRW?

Please don't : its a cruel and unforgiving place. cuk is the light.

[Board Game Geek]

Think of it as a set of thought experiments and you wont go far wrong. Take any of this stuff as reality and you are as loopy as a loopy loop fruit

But...suppose CUK is reality and everything else is just an illusion, as in The Matrix ?

That would mean that both Ferret and Scotspine are Agents (Smith and Jackson).

Agent Ferret: I'd like to share a revelation that I've had during my time here. It came to me when I tried to moderate your threads. I realized that you're not actually posters. Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment, but you posters do not. You move to a thread, and you multiply, and multiply, until every natural commonsense is consumed. The only way you can survive is to spread to another thread. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. A virus. Posters are a disease, a cancer of this planet, you are a plague, and we are the cure.

That said, SasGuru must surely be the wise Morpheus.

SasMorpheus : Unfortunately, no one can be told what CUK is. You have to read it for yourself.

SasMorpheus: You have to let it all go, Neo. Fear, doubt, and CUK. Free your mind. I have

Which mean Zippy has to be the way cool Trinity.

Zippinity: Touch me and that hand will never touch anything again.

Which leads us to Neo, and none better than our much-loved sockie himself...

Wilmsneo : I know kung fu. The lady who lives next door to me said that the local WI run a class. So I went along and it was closed. I got the days mixed up, and didn't have change to get the bus home...

[hyperD]

BGG

I think one phrase is good to explain your post:

"It's good to rant"

[OwlHoot]

.. When a sockie starts a new post, eg Wilmslow's anctics on the motorway, there then follows quite a diatribe about the rights and wrongs of the original post.

The disturbing part being that the event is most unlikely to have happened, or even if it did, not to the imaginary persona of Wilmslow as such. Perhaps to the person behind Wilmslow, maybe. ...

FWIW I reckon Wilmslow is genuine, although his motorway antics may have been slightly exaggerated.

What probably really happened was he was cycling down a country lane on his trusty old sit up and beg delivery bike when suddently up behind him rushed a farmer driving a tractor full of hay. At that moment the farmer took a long swig from his brandy flask, and veered across the road as he impetuously tried to overtake Wilmslow, causing the hay to sway dangerously. As Wilmslow swerved to avoid this, another farm labourer shot past out of nowhere on foot, herding a couple of cows, and Wilmslow, thinking like lightning, was left no choice but to steer into a ditch.

[shaunbhoy]

That said, SasGuru must surely be the wise Morpheus.

SasGuru is the Forum Baldrick

HTH