[TW]Fox's 100,000 Marmite posts

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He does come across as a little opinionated but in all honesty I think we need people like that in todays molley coddled, politically correct, world. And from what I've seen he knows his car stuff and therefore I respect his opinion on such matters.

/raises a glass to The Fox.
 
stigggeh said:
I think he is deliberately controversial and find this section of the forum quite predictable and very hostile because of it.
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Couldn't agree more! It's people like fox that prevent others from trying to help in case they write a hex digit from the CAN bus in lowercase instead of uppercase.

Hades said:
He does come across as a little opinionated but in all honesty I think we need people like that in todays molley coddled, politically correct, world.
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Since when has OcUK been PC? You write something in motors, one fool (usually fox) takes it the wrong way and the minions rise.
 
Bit hypocritical when you're complaining about being deliberately controversial and argumentative, no?
 
stigggeh said:
I think he is deliberately controversial and find this section of the forum quite predictable and very hostile because of it.
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I think he appears controversial because he isn't ever middle-of-the-road. He makes his decision and makes it known, and when someone disagrees with it doesn't change his mind if he doesn't feel he should.

That isn't controversy, though. That's not suffering fools gladly, for which I applaud him.
 
thecremeegg said:
Does this guy need his ego massaged any more? Seriously? Sure he says a lot of good things, but he is incable of saying anything without belittling or being condescending....if thats the kind of guy you lot like then remind me never to meet you in real life :p
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IAmATeaf said:
around 69 hours a year spent writing/posting according to my crap maths
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And how many hours a year do people spend watching TV? Or watching football?

Infact from http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&so..._KTaDQ&usg=AFQjCNGWs1Qev4eJcuIuwre1rXcfhjxdwA we can see the average person in the UK spends 25 hours a week, or 1300 - yes 1300 - hours a year watching TV.

Thats the average person. I dunno about you guys but can you imagine our postcounts if we spent even half that posting on the internet? At least arguing about trim levels is more social than watching Corrie.

trentlad said:
He has no life. I can't even imagine how or why anyone would spend that much time being so bitter let alone spending his entire life on OcUK. The poor chap needs help not a salute.
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To be fair, you yourself have posted over a thousand times in just over 6 months. Obviously its not quite the same scale but I do think it's a tad more posts than you need to have made to be able to legitimately question whether somebody else has a life :p

I really do think that posting multiple times on the internet about how somebody else is sad for posting lots on the internet is amusing at best. I think we all need to accept that most of us are a little more sad than your average joe - what would Mr Average make of your sig containing PC specifications?

I've never denied that I'm obsessive, irritating, a bit sad and argumentative and often OTT. But I doubt anyone is perfect :p

And at the end of the day it is just an internet forum about cars. None of what we post on here really matters, anyway. Everyone is free to logout and walk down to the local Vauxhall dealer to pick a new Astra.
 
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He's right though Fox, you obviously have no life.

Likewise, given that I've who knows how many more than 100,000 posts, I can't either. I'm not a manager of teams as widespread as Southend, Telford, Wakefield and Worthing. I'm not a father, I don't live with my girlfriend of 4 years, or own a fast car, or take holidays to Egypt, etc, etc.

No life whatsoever :)
 
The thing is these days wherever we go, we are connected to the internet. How many of you don't have an iPhone or similar? I managed to succesfully argue with MikeHiow about tyre fuel consumption (This is serious business folks) whilst I waite outside yet another boring clothes shop in town. We can now fill time we'd otherwise have been seriously bored looking over the railings in a shopping centre with tediously dull car debate.

Whilst it's questionable as to how well spent this sort of time is, it's not really indicative of a lack of life. You don't need to be sitting in a dark room in front of a 28k modem in order to post on the internet anymore.

I am pretty sad. I've got some obsessional interests and a penchant for extremely dull facts and figures and could argue all day about stuff that just doesn't matter. I freely admit this and I'm not sure why people think its some sort of relevelation when they point it out. What I feel though is that those who chose to criticise it - and this is of course something they have every right to do - are in reality no better. There is nothing thats particularly less sad about taking the trouble to explain why you think somebody on the internet is a loser and needs to get a life.

Also, for the record, I hardly asked for a 4 page thread about me.

Hands up everyone in this thread who considers themselves totally normal?
 
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I've said it before elsewhere and i'll say it again, Fox is the Frankie Boyle of Overclockers

Saying things that members have thought but darent post Since 2002

long may it continue ;)
 
MrLOL said:
Saying things that members have thought but darent post Since 2002
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This sadly is one of my character flaws. I sometimes have issues working out when the time and place for a certain comment is correct. Often I will post what everyone else thinks but hasn't posted, and then discover the reason why they've not posted it is because it wasn't really a particularly good moment to say it, or a particularly good thing to say :p I am usually unable to keep my opinion on anything to myself.
 
bit like frankie boyle's joke about the Queens lady garden ? ;)

You would have been banned long ago if the comments you made werent true half the time. I think we all know that society tells us its good to lie so we dont offend people. But on the internet, whats the need?
 
People calling other people sad while being on the very same forum doing the very same thing are just stupid.

When I am out shopping for example I often have a browse on here on my phone, and I most certainly do the same when in town and the girlfriend is trying clothes on (as you said Fox).

The internet is fast becoming, or is already, the spine of the entire planet.

You carry it around with you in your pocket now, you might as well use it at every given chance instead of standing around pointlessly, so long as you enjoy it.

Its the same situation with 'gamers', people who religiously watch soaps have the nerve to call people who play games 'sad'. Why? It is more stimulating and productive than watching Coronation Street.

People are just stuck in their old ways and love to demonstrate their small mindedness.
 
sigma said:
It becomes a bit more than 'the Internet' when there are meets etc organised.
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It becomes even better when there are meets organised because you get to know the real person, not the internet persona, which helps you understand the posts they make better and understand where they are coming from.
 
funny that the people who get offended by fox and the forthright / honesty of the forums, arent the ones that come to every meet.

Robbie G was on these forums for years before venturing into motors, got offended by fox's posts and stuck around ever since purely to pick fights with him. Dont think he's been to a meet yet ...
 
[TW]Fox;17497303 said:
It becomes even better when there are meets organised because you get to know the real person, not the internet persona, which helps you understand the posts they make better and understand where they are coming from.
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Very much so. I was merely trying to say that we shouldn't have the viewpoint of 'it's only the Internet, so who cares?' because if that was the case then motors would become GD.
 
MrLOL said:
funny that the people who get offended by fox and the forthright / honesty of the forums, arent the ones that come to every meet.
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It's not that funny, I can totally see how I could be perceived to be a complete **** by people who are unfamiliar with how I post. Remember there is no tone of voice on the internet - and with something as simple as tone of voice you can give an identical sentance the opposite meaning..
 
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