Is Bellgab Forum Dying?

[zeebo]

Just add a John Gray Sucks Page.

You're on the right track, but how about something a bit broader - a Guests that Suck sub-forum.

[starrmtn001]

You're on the right track, but how about something a bit broader - a Guests that Suck sub-forum.

[(Sandman) Logan-5]

AKA: Hotel California.

Hat's off to you Starr, you're exactly right.

[(Sandman) Logan-5]

Since we're all "residents" now of BellGab, I must confess I've had this sinking feeling for a long time that we didn't end up in "the good place."

What are you talking about ? We've even got a pool...   err, cesspool, in the sewergab section. 

[jazmunda]

What are you talking about ? We've even got a pool...   err, cesspool, in the sewergab section. 

It's actually a boiling pit of sewage.

[Ciardelo]

It's actually a boiling pit of sewage.

And if anybody knows about sewage, it's going to be the poo emoji.

[MV/Liberace!]

What are you talking about ? We've even got a pool...   err, cesspool, in the sewergab section. 

SewerGab.com

"An Internet Sensation"
     -Barbara Walters

[MV/Liberace!]

I wonder how much time surpassed between MV's first "hello world" post on GeorgeNoorySucks.com until the first reply and was he on tenterhooks the whole time. What if no one had replied?

The forum's first post:
http://bellgab.com/index.php/topic,2.msg2.html#msg2

[Ciardelo]

The forum's first post:
http://bellgab.com/index.php/topic,2.msg2.html#msg2

"What about the ratings, Michael?" you might ask.  "The ratings are great." you say.  And you might be right.  I haven't denied this.  However, when listening to the crop of people who call this show regularly in 2008, it's clear to me why this is; George has built a new audience.  The callers today don't sound to me like the same demographic of people who called back in the 1990s when Art was in the big chair.  Today, the C2C audience sounds less educated, more left-wing, and are comprised of a greater number of new-age "wicca types" who blather on and on about natural healing methods.  Rather than talk about nuclear arms technology or the science behind the secrets of our universe, they prefer to talk about seeing 11:11 on their Chinese-made alarm clock and pontificating for five minutes over what that really could mean.  They incessantly go on and on about the year 2012, and they are incapable of believing anything other than what Alex Jones tells them.

+1 lol

[jazmunda]

The forum's first post:
http://bellgab.com/index.php/topic,2.msg2.html#msg2

That 16 hours, 16 minutes and 51 seconds must have been excruciating.

Pity MV

[Luka Megurine]

Today, the C2C audience sounds less educated, more left-wing

LEFTISTS BLOWN THE FUCK OUT!

[(Sandman) Logan-5]

It's actually a boiling pit of sewage.

LOL - JC will be right at home.

[ItsOver]

What MV's first post really meant.

"Hi, I'm MV.  I'm 28 years old.  I collect souls for BellGab for a living..."

[jazmunda]

What MV's first post really meant.

"Hi, I'm MV.  I'm 28 years old.  I collect souls for BellGab for a living..."

I wish the second post would have been: a/s/l.

[Nobody]

LEFTISTS BLOWN THE FUCK OUT!

While I can't quite say it blew them out, I can say that accompanying picture didn't do my eyeballs any favours.

(Nudists Against Trump?)

[Dyna-X]

MV's original post derided C2Cs uneducated callers and the sites namesake measured the credulity of some guests based on his own scientific knowledge.

Yet in reality, anti-intellectualism here is enforced by peer pressure.  The mental schism is staggering. Why not just call this place BarGab and be done with it?

[Dr. MD MD]

MV's original post derided C2Cs uneducated callers and the sites namesake measured the credulity of some guests based on his own scientific knowledge.

Yet in reality, anti-intellectualism here is enforced by peer pressure.  The mental schism is staggering. Why not just call this place BarGab and be done with it?

[Ciardelo]

MV's original post derided C2Cs uneducated callers and the sites namesake measured the credulity of some guests based on his own scientific knowledge.

Yet in reality, anti-intellectualism here is enforced by peer pressure.  The mental schism is staggering. Why not just call this place BarGab and be done with it?

[Dyna-X]

Good point, but would the CCrane work at Walden?
Art says it has the power and strength and that's what I want in a radio. Should I trust him?

[Ciardelo]

Good point, but would the CCrane work at Walden?
Art says it has the power and strength and that's what I want in a radio. Should I trust him?

I bought a table-top CCRadio based on Art's recommendation. While I don't live at Walden, it does pull in stations other radios of mine can't or won't. 

[Dr. MD MD]

I bought a table-top CCRadio based on Art's recommendation. While I don't live at Walden, it does pull in stations other radios of mine can't or won't. 

Won't? You think your radio may be exhibiting willful intentionality in this matter? 

[Ciardelo]

Won't? You think your radio may be exhibiting willful intentionality in this matter? 

Yes.

Slackers. Each and every one.  They could do it if they wanted to.

[Nobody]

Yet in reality, anti-intellectualism here is enforced by peer pressure. 

Can you please furnish (i.e. quote back) a couple of examples of peer pressure-enforced anti-intellectualism on BellGab? 

I ask because, at the risk of sounding foolish myself, I am having difficulty seeing what you're seeing.

[Ciardelo]

Can you please furnish (i.e. quote back) a couple of examples of peer pressure-enforced anti-intellectualism on BellGab? 

I ask because, at the risk of sounding foolish myself, I am having difficulty seeing what you're seeing.

You don't even live in America. WTF is your problem?

[Ciardelo]

Dyna-X, let's ride sometime eh?


https://youtu.be/2KPplYp7K7M

[Ciardelo]

There's this bar near my house um, spread, we can go there:


https://youtu.be/RdR6MN2jKYs

[zeebo]

...anti-intellectualism here is enforced by peer pressure.  The mental schism is staggering. Why not just call this place BarGab and be done with it?

I would challenge this somewhat.  I've made a fair number of snooty intellectual posts and rarely been mocked about it.  Maybe folks have just scrolled past to get to the next dancing anime gif, but at least they were (technically) tolerated.  And Dyna I implore you to remember we had a multi-page discussion about calculators on the Hoagie thread.   

[Dyna-X]

There's this bar near my house um, spread, we can go there:


https://youtu.be/RdR6MN2jKYs

One of my favorite movies! I grew up only about a mile from where they filmed all the cop cars rolling down the embankment in the chase scene. (US12 & Illinois 176)
The bar hopping scene in the area and neighborhood parties in the 1970s and 80s were phenomenal for what looks like a sleepy area. The neighborhood pizza place was ran by a real mafioso.

[MV/Liberace!]

Yet in reality, anti-intellectualism here is enforced by peer pressure.

[Dateline]

I know CPR.