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to think it hasn't really been a year since Nick died on the Archers?

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M3lon · 18/02/2019 12:29

I mean it hasn't has it?

I feel like the Archers are playing with us...trying to make it seem like time is passing much faster than it really is!

Surely its barely been 6 months at the absolute max?

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Bellagio40 · 19/02/2019 00:30

I can’t believe it’s a year since Nic died either, or nearly three years since the tuna bake fiasco

ErrolTheDragon · 19/02/2019 00:56

Maybe I'll change my name to DadDadDadDad and I'll get somewhere!

G'wan, I dare you!

I can't imagine the real thread taking to my assertion that there is an Archers conspiracy funded by Putin to undermine radio 4 listeners confidence in reality....

Oh, I can, though best to plant such a thought after a dull episode.

You're right, btw, it doesn't seem anything like a year since poor Nic died. I was more cross with the SWs for doing that than sad, tbh though.

Crunched · 19/02/2019 01:12

the official Archers thread is far to intense for us casual users.
I’ve been casually dismissed the MN Archers Mafia. It doesn’t feel nice...

SaturdayNext · 19/02/2019 07:49

I knew it was a year because I remember listening to the build up a year ago when I was away on holiday.

No-one gets eaten alive on the official Archers thread, it's easily the most civilised thread on MN.

OnceUponAGiraffe · 19/02/2019 07:54

The tuna bake fiasco was the weekend my son was born. I can confirm it’s nearly theee years away.

ErrolTheDragon · 19/02/2019 07:58

No-one gets eaten alive on the official Archers thread

Maybe some posts get sniffed at, a la Snell? That could be unsettling at first

LillianGish · 19/02/2019 08:04

I’ve been casually dismissed the MN Archers Mafia. It doesn’t feel nice... Is that really true Crunched? New posters are usually warmly welcomed - any unpleasantness is usually firmly stamped on - even swearing is discouraged (though that suggestion wasn’t well met - there has to be some way of expressing dislike of Pip ) One of the reasons I love thread so much is because it is so civilised. It’s also a good place to come if you dont know all the names and backstories because there is invariably someone there who does and there are all kinds of farming, legal, gin experts etc to comment on the the various plot twists and answer random queries.

Iwantacampervan · 19/02/2019 08:06

I remember missing a train because I was sitting in my car when Shula's first husband died.
That was 25 years ago (apparently as it doesn't seem that long ago)!

JessieMcJessie · 19/02/2019 08:34

The talk of Nic at junior church this week made me quite sad, Will Grundy was morose enough when he was happily married without them inflicting whiny Widower Will on us. Though the actor has done a better job than I expected him to. Mind you I am also still angry about them killing Nigel though and Lizzie’s therapy this week brought it all back- felt like therapy for me too!

Re them playing with real time re characters’ ages, did you know that the actress who plays Peggy Woolley (June Spencer) is 99? Astonishing.

thislido · 19/02/2019 08:43

The main Archers thread is big - I think the number of posters, the rate of posting and the nature of the posts means posts are quite often not individually responded to but that doesn’t mean you’re being ignored, or at least I don’t look it at like that when it happens to me. I know I read and value posts which I don’t actually type a response to, I like to think others do the same with mine! That same thing is happening on this thread btw - Broomstick I’m sorry about your friend, I can completely identify with not being able listen to certain things after a loss - for me at one point it was any music with lyrics.

I suppose it’s “cliquey” in the sense that it’s a group that’s evolved it’s own norms and a handful of words/acronyms/phrases which aren’t immediately intelligible to a newcomer, but if someone asks these are always explained. When I started positing on there I was aware I wasn’t part of the old guard and never will be, that’s just a fact, but I felt anyone could join in.

It is generally civilised. I can think of a couple of posters who are so direct and so sure of themselves that it borders on being rude and dismissive but I’ve noticed that’s their posting style on all boards

VanillaSugarr · 19/02/2019 08:48

I’ve been on the Archers thread and was warmly welcomed. I’m not a regular listener so I don’t post that often, but the MNers gave me useful background info about Nollie and her annoying mother.

Yes, it’s a year because I remember sitting in my car listening to it outside my former house. We moved last spring.

LillianGish · 19/02/2019 08:55

When I started positing on there I was aware I wasn’t part of the old guard and never will be Not true at all Thislido - after all your name change came about as a result of a misreading (or possible mistyping) on there - I already think of you as one of the gang.

ErrolTheDragon · 19/02/2019 08:57

I can think of a couple of posters who are so direct and so sure of themselves that it borders on being rude and dismissive but I’ve noticed that’s their posting style on all boards

There are some posters whose style is so distinct that you can tell who they are after a name change. The one I'm thinking of is extremely civilised though.

As to posts being ignored - even the previously alluded-to DDD had to practically beg for a pun to be acknowledged!

JessieMcJessie · 19/02/2019 09:00

Stop talking about the other board on here! You’ve just stifled a nice discussion about Nic.

ErrolTheDragon · 19/02/2019 09:01

The concept of an 'old guard' is a bit daft anyway, in the context of a thread discussing the worlds longest-running drama - it's 10 years older than I am!

ErrolTheDragon · 19/02/2019 09:01

Sorry, quite right Jessie.

thislido · 19/02/2019 09:14

Yes, sorry, having had our friendly advances rebuffed we appear to have just taken over this thread as well

Thanks LilG, that’s nice to hear - I was posting under an entirely different name again previous to the latest security cock-up but not been around since the early days, although I suppose I lurked a long time before posting. I’m the one who said it’s odd when you lurk for ages because you feel like you know everyone and you forget when you start posting that no one has any idea who you are!

QuaterMiss · 19/02/2019 09:31

This 'old guard' stuff ...

Pretty much everyone (except PseudoBadger who started the threads) has name-changed several times over the 99 threads. (Including me.) So at this point there are probably only a tiny handful of posters who I 'know' from the early days. And often there'll be a conversation between a dozen or so newer posters for whom my ancient forgetfulness wisdom is completely irrelevant.

It is a shame about Nic - but lots of knotty stories should arise in her wake.

MereDintofPandiculation · 19/02/2019 09:33

I’m the one who said it’s odd when you lurk for ages because you feel like you know everyone and you forget when you start posting that no one has any idea who you are!

Yes, thislido, that's it precisely. Not just when you start posting. I'm a frequent poster on there, but I seem to be invisible to other posters. I suspect it means I'm either completely boring or completely out of tune with the others and should stop posting. But it's difficult to read something and not express your reply.

Bittermints · 19/02/2019 10:08

MereDint, you're not invisible to me! I love your username without having the slightest idea what it means.

I've changed names a few times over the years but I don't know why I bother because as soon as anyone asks about some obscure point of Archers history I knock out several hundred words in response.

R4 · 19/02/2019 10:09

I seem to be invisible to other posters
Not at all. Besides, how can you be invisible with such a fabulous name? It makes me smile every time I see it until it reminds me of Adam.

QuaterMiss · 19/02/2019 10:24

True Bittermints - you're not really putting in the right sort of invisibility effort!

MereDint I'm pretty sure I commented on your current name when it arrived!

I do feel rather argumentative on this ignoring point. There's no gang. There's no coordination of responses. Sometimes someone new or old will say something hilarious - but if I then read a dozen later posts I may forget to comment on it at the end. My responses on that thread, as on any other, will depend on how often I've visited the thread that day and on what else I'm doing in real life.

And to reiterate - the reason I'm on this thread is to encourage as many listeners as possible onto the other one. Because that makes it more fun. (And there's a secret bounty for luring in new victims ...)

thislido · 19/02/2019 10:25

This 'old guard' stuff ... we’re human, Quater, we want to be part of the group

MDOP I’m sure I’ve responded to you before because I remember trying to decide which part of your username to bold in my reply! Don’t think you’re boring or out of tune though. I read and mentally nod in recognition of hundreds of posts that I don’t reply to, happy in the possible delusion that others do the same to my posts.

MereDintofPandiculation · 19/02/2019 11:11

Bittermints pandiculation = yawning. I came across it in de Quincy's "confessions of an Opium Eater" which I bought second hand when I was about 11 because it had a beautiful gold-embossed leather cover. If you google "mere dint ..." that's about the only hit you get. It seemed to make a nice sort of title (me? superficial?). Sorry R4 about the Adam connection - he wasn't in my mind until the Competition. thislido - I think of it as title Mere/name Dint of Pandiculation (you've probably never heard of the honourable title Mere, now sadly almost obsolete )

Bearing in mind the discussion on this thread, it's rather ironic that SaturdayNext's post to the Archers thread drawing attention to this one has so far gone completely uncommented on so far. I think because everyone's busy talking about Russ and Lily. Quatar's right, I'm sure, that there's no deliberate coordination of posts or exclusion of newbies. And I suppose the ones who get more interaction are the ones who take a more active part - DDD keeping his spreadsheet and being able to throw in stats, the various people who suggest thread titles etc.

MereDintofPandiculation · 19/02/2019 11:13

Oh dear. Repetition of "so far". And I actually previewed that post! I'm losing all ability to write logically and concisely.

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