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I've realised over the last few months that these boards seem to evolve around London meetings and people in London going on about all things 'Capital' which may come across as rather inclusive and Londoncentric - I hope this isnt putting other 'users' off from joining in or even coming to these events - I for one am a keen foe of cliques and would be horrified if that's how people outside the M25 thought about it - please everyone tuck in to the greatness that is everyone on this board
does this make any sense?
Couldn't you have just put this in a PM?
oh sorry.
is it really offensive?
Nope,
I was just messing. I agree with you.
Plenty Prole :-)
I half talk about the Londoncentric thing with my tongue firmly in cheek.
It's the biggest place in the UK! of course most users would be from there, I think it's wonderful that some people not only have a virtual relationship with other board members but something in reality as well.
any sense ?
No !
Did the fact that much things resolve around London annoy me.
NO !
I'd agree
Until I started posting I felt this place was less London-centric.
Shit, maybe it's my fault?
yeah
I've felt really bad about it as well recently, obviously the DiS meetups are great but the social board is starting to live up to it's name.
So what's outside of the m25, you say? dragons?
outside of Paris
there's riots apparently...
It'd be humourous
if you thought that DiS didn't have that effect on people Prole.
cliquey - yes it has become less inclusive as a site but I suppose people outside of London have found other things to do and other sites they prefer to visit as a result.
Everything is organised through here but London represents the majority of this board and a few posters who used to use it frequently and were non london based have vanished. Nothing to be that guilty about though.
When we get bored of it we can just stop logging in.
i hopefully...
one day will make it to a DiS event :'(
well I was just trying to address
a reason why the user volume has gone down - its ace meeting everyone I was probably just trying to say something positive or something
t'be fair...
I lurked for a long while when I lived in Cardiff, because
a) i was scared.
b) a lot of the events weren't really relevant (because 75% of it is in london) and there was a very similar messageboard which was more relevant for meetups/gigs etc in Cardiff which i used more (and still post on regularly)
c)i didn't have as much free time in work ;)
Fair enough, it might be londoncentric but if more events were organised by people outside the capital then maybe it would become less so. ya need more regional DiS representatives... everyone's being magnetically pulled to lahandahn tahn...
Yes
I regularly greet visitors to london by rubbing an A-Z in their faces, followed by a slap with a jellied eel. LAAHVERLY JAAHBERLY
that would be a good idea
and DiS sponsored events - its a good way for the 'site' to 'grow'> i'd support that - it means a weekend away and cheaper beer.
London is ace though.
catch 22
how do you attract non Londoners to a London centric site? short answer is you can't. The social board has made this site less faceless and people less anonymous to each other. I guess other people have done what you have and found something similar closer to home.
i don't see the problem
with some people speaking a lot of London events.
There's many other threads...
yeah but
its fun meeting people up and down the country innit - well I enjoy it anyway
It costs
too much money to meet people from London and the train journey is the most painful journey I've ever done.There's loads of ace things about the capital though.
Wishpig is right too :D
come to
the Bristol meet up on Monday!!
we'll kick London ass!
i am preparing a dartboard with a map of London on it (triple 20 is crablin's house)
well you know what I think
of Bristol - but it does get better in hindsight! Monday is a school night though!
Bristol
is the London of the west, but, liek, so much better
i hear you're about in December Prole?
Monday meet-up
I will be precisely one day late, sorry.
:(
That's not nice
its ok
i never get the triple 20 anyway
NO
I agree - treble twenty on cliquemaster Crabby's house :D.
you londoners
need to learn. learn by having people who say "is it??" (meaning is that true? or honestly?) shove our darts IN YOUR FACE.
I may actually come on mon...
do!
not sure of the definite plan yet, perhaps 5ish in the Old Duke, then off to BSP, rock on!
I'm there!
DiS in BriS!!!
(where's the old duke?)
that's weird
Moribund how did you know i was back round my old hood in december?
Brizzell is very pleased with itself in parts so I'd say it was the Notting Hill of the south
i think
you mentioned it, slagging off the Hatchet which i am yet to forgive you for ;)
i'd call it the Japan of Asia
Actually, saying that...
I'm in Cardiff this weekend (going to forward russia at cardiff barfly and twisted by design in dempseys). if any cardiff DiSers fancy a pint of brains, then let's do it kids.
dont forget chip alley!
yes the Hatchet - it was good when I was 16 on the way to a (whisper it) Neds gig but it got a bit gothed up when I came back from Uni after the Britpop wars - still its not Edwards on Corn Street
oh dear its gone a bit Avoncentric!
since theres...
so many londoners as im going on monday i want to find like a good market... i went to covent garden last time and it was utter balls for good t-shirts etc? any good places to check out (dont mind small independant stores and stuff also)
.
this place is hideously london centric, but as has been pointed out, if so many users come from there, that's inevitable.
I do think it's a little unnecessary to decie online who's coming to what events and so on - surely if you're friends off the internet, you could discuss that sort of thing in private?
i dont mind...
them discussing it online
.
well i don't always, but someimes....
IN defence of Londoncentricity..
a key member of DIS staff has bravely ventured out of the ol' smoke and is taking in the fresh air of Bangor North Wales.
I never felt that this board was
Londoncentric. Until I moved here. So either:
a) I just didn't read the threads and it didn't bother me at all
b) it's my fault. sorry!
I'm getting the funbus
To Cardiff from Victoria tomorrow, I will be going to lots of pubs apparently and will only be at Twisted by Design if I can trick the others into thinking it's chart music.
once more
can i invite people to the mini Bristol meetup on Monday 28th November pre-British Sea Power
in the Old Duke at 5ish, it shall be immense
i'm going to wee on a map of London in front of whoever wants to watch (this is a lie)
Look
stop going on about it.
For fucks sake this forum is so Bristol-centric.
Hmph.
Post-club posting
is soooo passé, Mr. Tom.
My bad
At least I didn't manage to do some stupid intentional drunken mis-spelling or whatever.
I think I'm making less sense this afternoon.
you're under-selling it moribund
start a proper thread for it.
a proper thread with some idea of where the old duke is.
I intend to shit on a Postcard of the London Eye.
Cardiff forum
"there was a very similar messageboard which was more relevant for meetups/gigs etc in Cardiff which i used more (and still post on regularly)"
eek your not on about Clique are you? Or South Wales Massive?
the old duke is
full of people in yellow chinos enjoying the George Melly-esque jazz - I like it though as a mate of mine knows the landlord ad lets you stay for 'extra supping time' fantastic - and only a stone's throw from the Llandogger Trow - bugger
my housemates
work there which is my main reason for going. A lot of the jazz (Code Red) is unlistenable wank and some of the people in there royally piss me off.
Shit, i'm meant to be bigging it up :(
well
98% of the media industry is in london apparently
so it kinda makes sense
about a quarter of the uk population has reasonable access to london for a night out
stuff
and there were DiS nights in manchester
and in essex
and in bristol
but nobody went
so what's the point?
DiS
Had a cardiff night once, years ago. I think it was when Adam Anonnymous was still writing here.
Raz
I don't think that was the point being made, it was all the "SO LETS ALL MEET AT THE PUB, WHOS COMING?" threads, appearing a bit too frequently. I can see how they would be a bit alienating.
Is that why you didn't come?
yes
it was too (homesick) alienating for me, even as a londoner, there was no need to be so camdencentric.
why is that bad?
i don't understand
it's an invitation to socialise
all you have to do is accept or decline
or arrange one elsewhere if you're not from london
or am i missing some huge point here?
Makes sense to me
London smells though.
I wouldn't want to go there.