Weather thread 2011

[strudders]

Wow and still it drags on.

Weather people! It's about weather.

If you want to drag it on and make a point to to wibble and general discussion.

Now it's started raining here and I blame everybody!

Sod the lot of you.

[Absolutenewbie]

wow, blown.out.of.proportion.

Everyone should chill out! It's a forum about something everyone is excited for, yet people are getting all pi$$y and acting in a bloody immature manner. I'm new to it all, but I'm guessing the intention of this forum isn't for people to feel alienated and offended, be that by other posters, or by a moderator!

Also, use of the word sexism insinuates prejudice or stereotyping, when said pictures I believe do not have content which clearly does either, which makes that terminology void in the argument.

On a brighter note, the weather forecasts in general look better, but either way, I'll be enjoying myself if I'm soaking wet or baking hot.

[nickharley]

christ lets get back to the important thing .........................

THE WEATHER

looks like a change is on the way http://www.theweatheroutlook.com/forecasttab/glastonbury/10

[Hinkersbyname]

I don't get who those pictures are meant to be degrading to? Forgive me if i'm wrong, but it can't be those women or they wouldn't have got them out? I can see why some people wouldn't like looking at those kind of pictures, but it's not about degrading those women at all? I think it's just a joke that got out of hand and there's no longer any

NFRNFC

like there should be...come on, it's going to be sunny and very hot and we're going to get burnt from el scorchio!!

ITS A WEEK TODAYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!

Edited June 15, 2011 by Hinkersbyname

[Lentus]

Wow and still it drags on.

Weather people! It's about weather.

If you want to drag it on and make a point to to wibble and general discussion.

Now it's started raining here and I blame everybody!

Sod the lot of you.

[tinselmouse]

I like the look of this, what's the credibility of this site like?

[adamski]

christ lets get back to the important thing .........................

THE WEATHER

looks like a change is on the way http://www.theweatheroutlook.com/forecasttab/glastonbury/10

[rischbrit]

That's looking a lot better isn't it? Higher temperatures and we're nearly there!!

[yasgursfarmhand]

That's looking a lot better isn't it? Higher temperatures and we're nearly there!!

[brettredmayne]

WorthyFM

Glastonbury mudwatch - we're onsite and it's bone dry and dusty! #glasto #twisto

about 1 hour ago retweeted by me from Mobile Web

[nickharley]

I want to be able to play here comes the sun knowing George Harrison is telling the truth.

[adamski]

WorthyFM

Glastonbury mudwatch - we're onsite and it's bone dry and dusty! #glasto #twisto

about 1 hour ago retweeted by me from Mobile Web

[eFestivals]

I'm arguing a point in a civilised manner, yet you insist on firing off personal insults at me. Calling people "small minded arseholes" when they've politely disagreed with you is frankly pathetic behaviour.

You banned someone for calling you a c**t, yet when you're the admin you're more than free to fire off personal insults to all who disagree with you, right? I'm not going to stoop down to your level thanks.

If you knew even a tiny bit about me, you'd know "small minded" is pretty much the last thing I am.

Posting pictures of women in beachwear isn't really particularly degrading, is it? They're all things most women would happily wear in public - the only exception being those pictures of women wearing only body paint (though I daresay we'll probably see some of those at Glastonbury). Pictures of women in beachwear are seen everywhere - they're used to advertise things, they're in magazines (and not just FHM/Nuts), many female friends of mine have pictures of them in beachwear as their Facebook profile picture. That indicates that society doesn't really see pictures of women in beachwear up as being degrading.

Society certainly would see genuine racism or homophobia as degrading however. Or, for that matter, genuine sexism. Something which you seem to have trouble differentiating from a few members posting a few pictures.

you're welcome to see it like that. Yet you're also able to see the posts in here from more than me saying that you're wrong and which say you're not as reasonable as you wish to believe. And given that I share that view, then I'm not able to see your words as the "civilised" you believe them as but as Neanderthal at best.

If we want to take what goes on within the rest of society as the benchmark, then full blown hardcore porn is no less acceptable than anything posted in this thread, which is a plainly ridiculous way to go.

While pictures of scantily clad women might have a proper place, as yet you or no one else has been able to justify how their proper place is in a thread about what the weather will be next week - tho some of those who posted them have now recognised for themselves that they have no place here. The simple fact is that the pictures being posted here were being posted for sexist reasons and nothing else. So give me that justification for how I'm wrong or recognise yourself that you're wrong.

Your one view is just your one view. There are other opposing views - as demonstrated by some posts in this thread, and the complaints I've received by females who don't wish to offer themselves up as a sacrifice to your small minded and distinctly male viewpoint, and the ridicule they fear they'd suffer if they posted to tell you you're wrong. They are already feeling bullied by the 'male club' that's operated in this thread. Why do you think I should be siding with the bullies against those females?

As I've said, I don't expect perfection. Whatever my own views might be on this subject and others, I'm able to recognise that the rest of the world operates in different ways at times - and I'm not into banging my head against what I consider to be a brick wall of ignorance continually. Yet all the same, when things go as far as they were going in this thread, and two days of asking for it to stop has had no effect, do I allow the sexism to run riot or do I show those other views some deserved respect? From where I'm sat, there's only one answer.

As for you saying "a few members posting a few pictures", you've just shown just how small minded you are - or is it just very very stupid? It certainly wasn't "a few" people or pictures. It was constant, and completely unnecessary. As well as more too.

If I've got it wrong then please do tell me what place those pictures had here in this thread at the rate they were being posted, and what they've got to do with the weather.

[bunchy]

Gonna be SUNNY, SUNNY, SUNNY!

[Lentus]

Is it going to be hot? Guaranteed answer now please

[brain yolk!]

WorthyFM

Glastonbury mudwatch - we're onsite and it's bone dry and dusty! #glasto #twisto

about 1 hour ago retweeted by me from Mobile Web

[eFestivals]

THIS IS STILL GOING ON? You stated a few hours ago that you had better things to do but you're still arguing with strangers on the internet? You banned someone for using the c word yet are dishing out similar insults willy nilly? You're derailing the most active and largely followed thread ON YOUR OWN FORUM continuosly, even when people try to get it back on track?

My god, man, get a grip. I don't like to get into internet arguments, but jesus you're annoying. Probably get banned for this eh.

If you don't like it, just f**k off, eh? That way you get to ban yourself.

These forums are operated for the benefit of everyone that might wish to use them, not just the small minded who wish to have all of their own desires fulfilled while not giving a f**k about the desires of others for something better than this thread has become.

I'm not going to allow you or anyone else to bully me from trying to get things onto a reasonable level.

[Porcelina]

No, it's simply me making sure it finishes here and now.

If that requires me to keep posting back against others comments, then that's what is going to happen.

You trying to ridicule me doing the respectful thing isn't helping. The smarter minds have grasped that already.

Edited June 15, 2011 by Porcelina

[The Pumpkin King]

christ lets get back to the important thing .........................

THE WEATHER

looks like a change is on the way http://www.theweatheroutlook.com/forecasttab/glastonbury/10

[bunchy]

:angry: :angry: :angry:

ENOUGH!!!!

This is the Weather Thread...

Please go somewhere else and squabble

[Colin Zeal]

I'm arguing a point in a civilised manner, yet you insist on firing off personal insults at me. Calling people "small minded arseholes" when they've politely disagreed with you is frankly pathetic behaviour.

You banned someone for calling you a c**t, yet when you're the admin you're more than free to fire off personal insults to all who disagree with you, right? I'm not going to stoop down to your level thanks.

[wolfticket]

Wow, the weather thread is getting heated. Hope this will be reflected in the actual weather.

[glasgowpete]

TO RAVE PROPERLY, we need sunshine puhlease.

[4AssedMonkey]

Avoiding the childish and pointless debate and getting back to the important business of the weather, TWO are fairly well respected and I'd take that forecast TBH. Cooler temps I can live with as long as it's dry. The amount of rain in the run up is a worry though as the site could well be muddy and churned before all the foot traffic arrives.

Still, I'm staying positive and there's enough highs around on the GFS data that one could swing in and change the game. Also, GFS shows no more than light showers over the full 5 days. By Sunday we should have a clearer idea.

Devonhammer, RIP.

[eFestivals]

I'm not questioning your morals, I'm questioning your tact in preaching them. Sometimes it's better to sit on the sidelines after showing your cards than desperately trying to lay down an ace at everybody who doesn't call your bluff.

Also, using words like 'ridicule' followed by a slice of condescension doesn't really do much for your noble cause. It's not me who has exposed their burning emotions in this noble plight. You saying I've ridiculed you doesn't entail that I have ridiculed you.

you're ridiculing the reasonable view I'm trying to get across by saying it's unnecessary to get across that reasonable view.

Yet the very fact that requests over two days that it stops had very little effect shows that it is necessary. It's necessary until such time as everyone has got it that such things are not acceptable on these forums.

If that means I have to take further steps to hammer that home then I will do.