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the demise of f365

sharp_yet_blunt [Edit] [Delete] 53 replies 15:57 December 4th, 2008

apparently the forum is gonna be made private next week so no more photoshop threads or chris akabusi sex stories. sometimes i think even companies take the internet way too srsly. whats the point in having a private forum for over 18's yet youre not even allowed to swear or post anything remotely NWS. for all the things crappy about DiS its one of the few forums you can say what you want pretty much. Although that does lead to kissinginkansas threads i guess but its the price we pay.

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I stopped reading when they showed the photos of Marco Foe dying/dead on the pitch.

Just thought it was a bit tasteless.

I've never used the forum, but the site used to me really decent. They changed the layout about five years back, though, and it was never really as good, so i started using Planet Football instead.

kissinginkansas | 4 Dec '08, 16:00 | X | ^ This | Reply
- *be
  
  kissinginkansas @kissinginkansas | 4 Dec '08, 16:01 | X | ^ This | Reply
- on that subject, i never knew how many players had died whilst playing:
  
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_footballers_who_died_while_playing
  
  cyberdemon @kissinginkansas | 4 Dec '08, 16:09 | X | ^ This | Reply
  - HIGHLY INAPPROPRIATE LOL @ CRAIG GOWANS
    
    :(
    
    Royter-Hatfood @cyberdemon | 4 Dec '08, 16:16 | X | ^ This | Reply
    - See also: Hrvoje ?usti?
      
      Royter-Hatfood @Royter-Hatfood | 4 Dec '08, 16:16 | X | ^ This | Reply
      - you frightful bastard
        
        olegrich @Royter-Hatfood | 4 Dec '08, 16:27 | X | ^ This | Reply
      - one of them this year was in my old village
        
        :(
        
        cyberdemon @Royter-Hatfood | 4 Dec '08, 16:27 | X | ^ This | Reply
  - Frank Levick's is horrific!
    
    theguywithnousername @cyberdemon | 4 Dec '08, 17:22 | X | ^ This | Reply
  - :o
    
    The two Juventus youth players that drowned while collecting lost balls from a lake…
    
    marckee @cyberdemon | 4 Dec '08, 17:43 | X | ^ This | Reply
I like the articles, mediawatch, mailbag etc

have never really bothered with the forum, too many try hards imo.

Jack_El_Biscuit | 4 Dec '08, 16:02 | X | ^ This | Reply
I never really read it

There was an epic photshop thread that had me in tears once from there, but apart from that it was alway a bit too smarmy for its own good.

olegrich | 4 Dec '08, 16:06 | X | ^ This | Reply
- was it the teapot one?
  
  kissinginkansas @olegrich | 4 Dec '08, 16:07 | X | ^ This | Reply
  - Actually
    
    it wasn't a photoshop thread, it was one of captions for various footballing pictures. It was genuinely one of the funniest things I have ever seen.
    
    olegrich @kissinginkansas | 4 Dec '08, 16:13 | X | ^ This | Reply
    - Yeah, it was funny.
      
      TheoGB @olegrich | 4 Dec '08, 16:36 | X | ^ This | Reply
      - are you taking the piss?
        
        olegrich @TheoGB | 4 Dec '08, 16:47 | X | ^ This | Reply
        
        No. bobbygeorge posted the thread on here and we all read it.
        
        It was really fucking funny.
        
        Shame they purged it after a while. When we found the thread on here again it was long gone on there. :(
        
        TheoGB @olegrich | 4 Dec '08, 16:49 | X | ^ This | Reply
    - yeah that was brilliant.
      
      the internet: the glory years.
      
      meths @olegrich | 4 Dec '08, 17:19 | X | ^ This | Reply
i did enjoy the Roy Keane diary thing they ran yesterday.

The forum has been crap for a few weeks now.

bobbygeorge | 4 Dec '08, 16:11 | X | ^ This | Reply
Yeah it's ruined

Sad day in the world of the internets.

I'm a member so I'll still be able to view it but I suspect this is the beginning of the end.

Jook | 4 Dec '08, 16:22 | X | ^ This | Reply
Its a dark, dark place.

death | 4 Dec '08, 16:24 | X | ^ This | Reply
what is it?

hollywood_freak | 4 Dec '08, 16:36 | X | ^ This | Reply
- thats rubbish
  
  if they make it private,its a decent forum,iv seen some of the funniest threads of my life on that forum,i know they have had to clear alot of the porn etc away the last few weeks.i think its cos its owned by sky and people have been complaining.
  
  The phohtshop steve bruce thread a few weeks ago was priceless.
  
  And now i dont even think ill even be able to browse if it goes private : (
  
  grover_elliot @hollywood_freak | 4 Dec '08, 16:43 | X | ^ This | Reply
- a football forum
  
  which was the source of a lot of great phtoshops and prankery
  
  sharp_yet_blunt @hollywood_freak | 4 Dec '08, 16:51 | X | ^ This | Reply
Can you explain to me why it being 'private' will mean no more photoshop threads?

I mean, surely the members can still post things so why wouldn't they still be able to post photoshop stuff?

TheoGB | 4 Dec '08, 16:39 | X | ^ This | Reply
- we wont be able to view them without signing up
  
  i guess
  
  Jordan_229_2 @TheoGB | 4 Dec '08, 16:47 | X | ^ This | Reply
  - Dunno. Unless that's a massive hardship I don't really see a problem.
    
    The DVD Forums managed to have 40,000 members with a sign up policy.
    
    TheoGB @Jordan_229_2 | 4 Dec '08, 16:50 | X | ^ This | Reply
    - registration is closed most of the time
      
      i cant register anyway because i dont have a work email address
      
      sharp_yet_blunt @TheoGB | 4 Dec '08, 16:52 | X | ^ This | Reply
      - Ah I see. Yeah that is crappy if it's not an open registration system.
        
        TheoGB @sharp_yet_blunt | 4 Dec '08, 16:56 | X | ^ This | Reply
- i meant
  
  for us there wont be anymore as we wont get to see them
  
  sharp_yet_blunt @TheoGB | 4 Dec '08, 16:50 | X | ^ This | Reply
  - Oh right. Do they regularly get posted then? I've never noticed.
    
    TheoGB @sharp_yet_blunt | 4 Dec '08, 16:53 | X | ^ This | Reply
    - all the time
      
      most of them are crap though. The time they invaded the bbc photo section with photoshops was one of the funniest threads ever. Think they got into trouble for that though. Their stalker thread also got deleted after an irish newspaper ran a piece on it saying how outraged they were.
      
      sharp_yet_blunt @TheoGB | 4 Dec '08, 17:13 | X | ^ This | Reply
...

do they still have that thread where folk post illicit pictures they've taken of women's cleavage etc?...some of the stories that used to accompany them were hilarious...

Also, didn't Kok Wee used to write for 365? A modern legend of the game, for sure.

Reckoning | 4 Dec '08, 16:54 | X | ^ This | Reply
- No
  
  No NWS is allowed on the forum now. No porn, no MoMs, no hitlists, nothing. Boooo.
  
  Jook @Reckoning | 4 Dec '08, 16:57 | X | ^ This | Reply
  - No hitlists?!?
    
    TheSoundofBastards @Jook | 5 Dec '08, 10:18 | X | ^ This | Reply
ever since they banned NWS threads it's been boring

wishpig | 4 Dec '08, 16:59 | X | ^ This | Reply
- what does NWS stand for?
  
  kissinginkansas @wishpig | 4 Dec '08, 17:20 | X | ^ This | Reply
  - Never Wipe Sideways
    
    Reckoning @kissinginkansas | 4 Dec '08, 17:23 | X | ^ This | Reply
  - No Wanking Shots
    
    wishpig @kissinginkansas | 4 Dec '08, 17:24 | X | ^ This | Reply
it went downhill when sky took over

and twish got scared and cracked down on the legends.

then the evening shutdowns.

and now this.

:shakey:

christs_chin | 4 Dec '08, 22:03 | X | ^ This | Reply
- Tke Sky News weather pictures..
  
  ...were beyond funny.
  
  Another week, another victory for citizen journalism at Sky News… As storms battered Britain at the beginning of last week, presenters on the rolling news channel begged viewers to “help us put together the fullest national picture possible” by sending in their photos of the damage.
  
  Hundreds took up the invitation – including posters on the Football 365 web forum, who, finding out that such pisspoor efforts as a shot of a watering can (“the wind blew it round all night”) were being featured on the Sky website at yourphotos.sky.com, rose to the challenge and began to send in increasingly outlandish scenes created using photoshop and snaps lifted mostly from the rival BBC website.
  
  By 11.30am on Tuesday, despite a solemn promise that “your photo will be checked by moderators before it can be displayed”, the 408 photographs in Sky’s “Wild Weather” gallery included a shot of a young Norman Wisdom dismayed by a car crushed by a tree; footballer Carlos Valderama in flooded New Orleans captioned “it’s windy here in Widnes”; a still from environmental disaster movie The Day After Tomorrow captioned “Whitley Bay”; a suspicious number of scenes of destruction featuring either teddy bears or the athlete and television presenter Kris Akabusi; and several shots of fallen trees and flooded streets in which missing toddler Madeleine McCann was clearly visible in the background.
  
  Juninho10 @christs_chin | 5 Dec '08, 00:08 | X | ^ This | Reply
  - That was an epic thread
    
    I remember trying to stifle my laughter and failing miserably whilst reading that in the office.
    
    Jook @Juninho10 | 5 Dec '08, 00:20 | X | ^ This | Reply
  - ...please tell me this thread still exists...
    
    Reckoning @Juninho10 | 5 Dec '08, 09:15 | X | ^ This | Reply
    - Sadly not :(
      
      Jook @Reckoning | 5 Dec '08, 10:25 | X | ^ This | Reply
  - that's agenuinely amazing
    
    brusma @Juninho10 | 5 Dec '08, 09:51 | X | ^ This | Reply
  - That was actually hilarious.
    
    Most of the photoshop threads are gold.
    
    TheSoundofBastards @Juninho10 | 5 Dec '08, 10:26 | X | ^ This | Reply
A comment I left on the BBC website in reply to Mihir Bose

was then quoted on the F365 mediawatch page, as an example of how people hold Mr. Bose in disdain.

Mr_JDTraynor | 5 Dec '08, 00:58 | X | ^ This | Reply
- I know people in the BBC sports desk.
  
  They feel the same too.
  
  "Sources have told me..."
  
  marckee @Mr_JDTraynor | 5 Dec '08, 01:05 | X | ^ This | Reply
  - luckily
    
    iv got a work email address and it seems iv managed to get an account.
    
    At least it still has threads like this
    
    http://forum.football365.com/index.php?t=msg&th=142144&start=0&
    
    grover_elliot @marckee | 5 Dec '08, 10:07 | X | ^ This | Reply
    - LOL Dyers
      
      Great stuff.
      
      Jook @grover_elliot | 5 Dec '08, 10:26 | X | ^ This | Reply
get someone techy to set you up a work email.

one of my friends was working on a company's website when the registration was open in june and he set me up an email address. easy, quick and i get to keep reading the forums.
but yeah, the NWS stuff is missed.

fishplums | 5 Dec '08, 10:07 | X | ^ This | Reply
- i asked if anyone on here would set one up for me
  
  zero reply thread.
  
  sharp_yet_blunt @fishplums | 5 Dec '08, 14:08 | X | ^ This | Reply
I'm a member

I'll post any funny shit that happens on there but to be honest its starting to get boring now with most of the dark humour being banned

interlol2 | 5 Dec '08, 10:22 | X | ^ This | Reply
- just for complete randomness
  
  check out this thread
  
  http://forum.football365.com/index.php?t=msg&th=157856&start=0&
  
  The turtle one is very impressive,poor dog though.
  
  grover_elliot @interlol2 | 5 Dec '08, 10:38 | X | ^ This | Reply

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