Maybe ‘cuz I’m old?

[WalterTrull]

Or maybe because I’m shallow, or maybe just plain lazy.

If a thread is longer than 3 pages, no matter how interesting the subject, I won’t bother. If an OP is longer than 1 screen, my eyes start to glaze over. Over 2, I hit the back button.

Catch me with a simple, intriguing premise, nice concise paragraph. You’ll hook me and I’ll ask. Links! Links!

Thread drift is Satan’s design. True believers spin off.

(Yeah, I know, I’ve been guilty, - so’s your old man!)

 

[Mister Silver]

I can sometimes last longer than three pages, but after a while I do get bored with the thread.

The past two days, however, there haven't been any interesting threads that warrant my attention.

 

[Thief]

Or maybe because I’m shallow, or maybe just plain lazy.

If a thread is longer than 3 pages, no matter how interesting the subject, I won’t bother. If an OP is longer than 1 screen, my eyes start to glaze over. Over 2, I hit the back button.

Catch me with a simple, intriguing premise, nice concise paragraph. You’ll hook me and I’ll ask. Links! Links!

Thread drift is Satan’s design. True believers spin off.

(Yeah, I know, I’ve been guilty, - so’s your old man!)

likewise.....

i will scan a thread for the sight of a catch phrase
often times there is none

 

[Thief]

of course there are several running threads at any time that seem to lean toward that game thread.....
last post is the winner!

 

[Revoltingest]

Some should learn to appreciate brevity.

 

[Mister Silver]

Some should learn to appreciate brevity.

Love the new avatar. How was the ear removal?

 

[Revoltingest]

Love the new avatar. How was the ear removal?

What?
I can't hear you.

 

[sun rise]

If the OP is a diatribe I tend to skip it then and there. Long running threads are not an issue for me but when posts come in every 5 minutes, forget it, except for one or two joke threads.

 

[`mud]

I think I'm one of the oldest ones here,
79 next week....any one else here older ?
Anything past 6 lines give me a headache,
unless there's a lot of numbers in it,
then I fall suddenly into a chaotic slump.
And my blogs are always a joke, right ?

 

[Thief]

yeah....when you get older....
people flip flop on your words
cause you talk like you did 50 years ago

so you're either funny....ha ha
or funny .....odd

 

[`mud]

You callin me odd ???

 

[WalterTrull]

You callin me odd ???

Nah, you're not odd, just old. Boy are you old. Man, now I see how young I am at 74 that I'm going right out to frolic. Can someone point me to a daisy field?

 

[Thief]

You callin me odd ???

no.....I refrain stating the obvious

I was just posting a perspective....generally speaking

 

[DavidFirth]

Yeah, if I see a thread for the first time and it's more than a few pages long I generally skip it and look for one much smaller or that just got started.

 

[`mud]