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mentalist Oct 23rd 2011 2:29 pm
Man United v Man City
 
Just wanted to see the result in print before opening a bottle of Jacobs Creek to celebrate.

jdr Oct 23rd 2011 4:21 pm
Re: Man United 1-6 Man City
 
Originally Posted by mentalist (Post 9691007)
Just wanted to see the result in print before opening a bottle of Jacobs Creek to celebrate.
Great, some people may of recorded to watch later, use the ferkin spoiler. :frown::frown:

flares Oct 23rd 2011 6:32 pm
Re: Man United 1-6 Man City
 
MAN U FANS. Your '19' flags and scarves, turned upside down, will make ideal Christmas presents for City supporting relatives

borrowed from TopTwips twitter feed

iamthestig Oct 23rd 2011 7:31 pm
Re: Man United 1-6 Man City
 
Worst result in a derby since Denis Law's back heel...

scrubbedexpat094 Oct 23rd 2011 10:42 pm
Re: Man United 1-6 Man City
 
I'm over a Blue Moon. City 'til I die :thumbsup:

Bob Oct 24th 2011 2:55 am
Re: Man United v Man City
 
There are spoiler tags to post spoilers in a thread, but people can avoid those threads.

Not when you post the result in the title!

Plenty of folks around the world record events for later viewing, you just don't ever post the result as a thread title.

flares Oct 24th 2011 3:32 am
Re: Man United 1-6 Man City
 
Originally Posted by jdr (Post 9691169)
Great, some people may of recorded to watch later, use the ferkin spoiler. :frown::frown:
Crap off

if you don't want to find out about something that's happened in the recent past be it sport, soaps, current affairs or anything else don't go on internet chat forums/twitter etc as new stuff does tend to be discussed...

Gadaffi's dead you say...I'd sky plussed last Thursday's news to watch when I had a minute. Thanks BE you've ruined it for me

mentalist Oct 24th 2011 4:39 am
Re: Man United v Man City
 
Originally Posted by Bob (Post 9691742)
There are spoiler tags to post spoilers in a thread, but people can avoid those threads.

Not when you post the result in the title!

Plenty of folks around the world record events for later viewing, you just don't ever post the result as a thread title.
Rag!

jdr Oct 24th 2011 9:09 am
Re: Man United 1-6 Man City
 
Originally Posted by saudiflares (Post 9691762)
Crap off

if you don't want to find out about something that's happened in the recent past be it sport, soaps, current affairs or anything else don't go on internet chat forums/twitter etc as new stuff does tend to be discussed...

Gadaffi's dead you say...I'd sky plussed last Thursday's news to watch when I had a minute. Thanks BE you've ruined it for me
You`re so ferkin ME ME ME, you ignorant dickhead.

iamthestig Oct 24th 2011 12:18 pm
Re: Man United 1-6 Man City
 
Originally Posted by jdr (Post 9691990)
You`re so ferkin ME ME ME, you ignorant dickhead.
I'm with saudiflares, if I don't want to see a result, I just don't go online or listen to the radio, no point throwing a paddy about it.

It's not as though every match score is announced here every weekend, it was a big derby match between #1 and 2 in the PL, and a shocking result, so someone was bound to post the score...

scrubbedexpat141 Oct 24th 2011 12:33 pm
Re: Man United 1-6 Man City
 
Originally Posted by iamthestig (Post 9692263)
I'm with saudiflares, if I don't want to see a result, I just don't go online or listen to the radio, no point throwing a paddy about it.

It's not as though every match score is announced here every weekend, it was a big derby match between #1 and 2 in the PL, and a shocking result, so someone was bound to post the score...
I definitely wouldn't go trawling through the Middle East part of BE looking for football scores if I lived in Spain

flares Oct 24th 2011 12:38 pm
Re: Man United 1-6 Man City
 
Originally Posted by jdr (Post 9691990)
You`re so ferkin ME ME ME, you ignorant dickhead.
...not feeling the teddy bear love, jdr :cool:

iamthestig Oct 24th 2011 1:12 pm
Re: Man United 1-6 Man City
 
Originally Posted by Scamp (Post 9692282)
I definitely wouldn't go trawling through the Middle East part of BE looking for football scores if I lived in Spain
He probably wasn't, you can view "Today's Posts" and see all the BE forum's threads in one hit.

scrubbedexpat141 Oct 24th 2011 1:30 pm
Re: Man United 1-6 Man City
 
Originally Posted by iamthestig (Post 9692333)
He probably wasn't, you can view "Today's Posts" and see all the BE forum's threads in one hit.
That's got to require a level of boredom above most surely?

Bob Oct 24th 2011 1:51 pm
Re: Man United 1-6 Man City
 
Originally Posted by saudiflares (Post 9691762)
Crap off

if you don't want to find out about something that's happened in the recent past be it sport, soaps, current affairs or anything else don't go on internet chat forums/twitter etc as new stuff does tend to be discussed...

Gadaffi's dead you say...I'd sky plussed last Thursday's news to watch when I had a minute. Thanks BE you've ruined it for me
The result was in the thread title.

People browse the forum by looking at recent posts, it'll come up.

You just don't put results in the thread title on forums, especially ones where folks will be all over the world.

Bob Oct 24th 2011 1:57 pm
Re: Man United 1-6 Man City
 
Originally Posted by Scamp (Post 9692282)
I definitely wouldn't go trawling through the Middle East part of BE looking for football scores if I lived in Spain
Yeah, but if it were posted in a thread, you could easily avoid it, just like it's easy to avoid reading FB if you have friends who'll likely post results, or twitter etc...if it's posted in the title of a thread though, and you go to the home page and it was the last post, it'll appear, it'll also appear when you hit the recent posts link.

Bit harder to avoid that way, and why should someone avoid the site entirely just because someone else is being selfish?

It's simple forum etiquette, BE isn't any special there.

Bob Oct 24th 2011 1:58 pm
Re: Man United 1-6 Man City
 
Originally Posted by Scamp (Post 9692346)
That's got to require a level of boredom above most surely?
No, it's how a lot of people browse the forum when they want to see recent posts rather than going to a specific area of the forum.

charismatick Oct 24th 2011 3:32 pm
Re: Man United 1-6 Man City
 
Originally Posted by jdr (Post 9691169)
Great, some people may of recorded to watch later, use the ferkin spoiler. :frown::frown:
I can never avoid the live scores. Last week, just as I was sitting down to watch a crucial match my mother in law calls- no danger there so I picked it up and she starts talking about the match, no doubt because she doesn't know else to talk about with me. I said "STOP! I'm just sitting down to watch it" and she says "oh they better win this thing!". I knew it was just about over so right then I knew whatever happens it's going to be tied near the end. After hanging up I fast forwarded to the end and watched the last 5 minutes..All day I was avoiding people, places, and letting the phone go to voice mail and she ruins it with one ill timed phone call.

I'm not going to say she did it on purpose, but she definitely did it on purpose. She swore to my wife that she never gave me the score and that's probably true, but she gave me a big clue and just by the tone of her voice I knew the outcome was in serious jeopardy

jdr Oct 24th 2011 4:03 pm
Re: Man United 1-6 Man City
 
Originally Posted by iamthestig (Post 9692333)
He probably wasn't, you can view "Today's Posts" and see all the BE forum's threads in one hit.
Glad someones got a bit of sense out there. :rofl:

jdr Oct 24th 2011 4:09 pm
Re: Man United 1-6 Man City
 
Originally Posted by saudiflares (Post 9692292)
...not feeling the teddy bear love, jdr :cool:
It doesn`t take a lot of intelligence to think that someone may of recorded it and may not want to see the score, you could of at least not put it in the title. :rolleyes::curse:

UKCityGent Oct 24th 2011 6:57 pm
Re: Man United v Man City
 
There is an advice line for Man United fans 0 16 161 16 16

Spugsy Oct 24th 2011 7:30 pm
Re: Man United 1-6 Man City
 
Originally Posted by jdr (Post 9691990)
You`re so ferkin ME ME ME, you ignorant dickhead.
Um.

Why is your avatar a teddy bear?

OleJanx Oct 24th 2011 8:43 pm
Re: Man United 1-6 Man City
 
Originally Posted by Spugsy (Post 9693045)
Um.

Why is your avatar a teddy bear?
Probably because he's preparing to throw it out his pram!

scrubbedexpat141 Oct 25th 2011 4:46 am
Re: Man United v Man City
 
It's pathetic.

If you are going to moan about seeing the score somewhere then become a hermit for the day.

Regardless of if it's in the title, in a thread, over text, on the news, on BBC sport, you can avoid it if you want to.

Just don't moan about it. Find something else to make your life that little bit more exciting than watching a repeat of a match and not knowing the score.

Jeeeeeeeeeesus.

mentalist Oct 25th 2011 5:38 am
Re: Man United 1-6 Man City
 
Originally Posted by Spugsy (Post 9693045)
Um.
Why is your avatar a teddy bear?
Just to get this thread back on track...United 1-6 City, yeh yeh yeh...and why is your avatar a zebra's head, Spugsy?

Brains1983 Oct 25th 2011 7:12 am
Re: Man United v Man City
 
last time man u got that ****ed their airplane crashed!!

scrubbedexpat141 Oct 25th 2011 7:20 am
Re: Man United v Man City
 
Originally Posted by Brains1983 (Post 9693837)
last time man u got that ****ed their airplane crashed!!
That's amazing.

Prepare for backlash.

littlejimmy Oct 25th 2011 1:05 pm
Re: Man United v Man City
 
Originally Posted by Brains1983 (Post 9693837)
last time man u got that ****ed their airplane crashed!!
BACKLASH BEGINS

You blithering idiot. It's "aeroplane" where I come from...

co durham boy Oct 25th 2011 1:46 pm
Re: Man United v Man City
 
Originally Posted by Brains1983 (Post 9693837)
last time man u got that ****ed their airplane crashed!!
Ouch.....!

Welivehere Oct 25th 2011 1:48 pm
Re: Man United v Man City
 
Originally Posted by Brains1983 (Post 9693837)
last time man u got that ****ed their airplane crashed!!
Poor taste....

Bob Oct 25th 2011 11:20 pm
Re: Man United v Man City
 
Originally Posted by Scamp (Post 9693723)
It's pathetic.

If you are going to moan about seeing the score somewhere then become a hermit for the day.

Regardless of if it's in the title, in a thread, over text, on the news, on BBC sport, you can avoid it if you want to.

Just don't moan about it. Find something else to make your life that little bit more exciting than watching a repeat of a match and not knowing the score.

Jeeeeeeeeeesus.
omg....a simple apology and it won't happen again would be the usual response for being a bit of a knob, rather than dragging it out, kicking and screaming, especially when one wouldn't expect a result in a thread title.

Bob Oct 25th 2011 11:21 pm
Re: Man United v Man City
 
Originally Posted by Welivehere (Post 9694489)
Poor taste....
...ketchup will fix that.

scrubbedexpat141 Oct 26th 2011 4:02 am
Re: Man United v Man City
 
Originally Posted by Bob (Post 9695578)
omg....a simple apology and it won't happen again would be the usual response for being a bit of a knob, rather than dragging it out, kicking and screaming, especially when one wouldn't expect a result in a thread title.
Not my thread mate, nothing to apologise for...don't understand the issue - if you don't want to see a result, don't look, definitely don't moan like a bunch of ****ing queers. It's a game of football.

Boomhauer Oct 26th 2011 11:36 am
Re: Man United v Man City
 
It would serve Balotelli well to cut down on the showing off.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8HKSXSU148

He got yellow carded for his t-shirt antic in the Man U game.

Sandboy Oct 26th 2011 11:39 am
Re: Man United v Man City
 
Originally Posted by Brains1983 (Post 9693837)
last time man u got that ****ed their airplane crashed!!
what an arsehole - are you 12 ?

Bob Oct 26th 2011 5:38 pm
Re: Man United v Man City
 
Originally Posted by Scamp (Post 9695934)
Not my thread mate, nothing to apologise for...don't understand the issue - if you don't want to see a result, don't look, definitely don't moan like a bunch of ****ing queers. It's a game of football.
I didn't say you'd need to appologise...but it still stands, only a numpty posts a result in the thread title, where someone can't avoid seeing it unless they spend a day in a black hole, which is daft...when everyone else seems to understand this simple principle.

And I didn't even give a shit about the result, I already knew it and don't even care about either team. Still annoying when some spanner posts a spoiler in the thread title.

Perthbum Oct 26th 2011 5:42 pm
Re: Man United v Man City
 
Originally Posted by Brains1983 (Post 9693837)
last time man u got that ****ed their airplane crashed!!
Spoiler :frown: I was going to watch the news in 5 mins and you tell me their plane has crashed.

mentalist Oct 27th 2011 12:38 pm
Re: Man United v Man City
 
Originally Posted by Bob (Post 9695578)
omg....a simple apology and it won't happen again would be the usual response for being a bit of a knob, rather than dragging it out, kicking and screaming, especially when one wouldn't expect a result in a thread title.
It seems to me (Bob) that you are the knob (or would you prefer numpty) for making such a drama out of a little indiscretion. As Scamp rightly says, he wasn't the instigator of the post. It was me and quite frankly I found your reaction embarrassing to say the least. If it had been simply 3-1 then I wouldn't have bothered but six, come on. Be a man about it. If you had supported a football team all your life and watched them play at the likes of York, Halifax and Gillingham not so long ago, wouldn't you let your hair down just a little after a result like that? No, don't answer that.

Bob Oct 27th 2011 7:15 pm
Re: Man United v Man City
 
Originally Posted by mentalist (Post 9699185)
It seems to me (Bob) that you are the knob (or would you prefer numpty) for making such a drama out of a little indiscretion. As Scamp rightly says, he wasn't the instigator of the post. It was me and quite frankly I found your reaction embarrassing to say the least. If it had been simply 3-1 then I wouldn't have bothered but six, come on. Be a man about it. If you had supported a football team all your life and watched them play at the likes of York, Halifax and Gillingham not so long ago, wouldn't you let your hair down just a little after a result like that? No, don't answer that.
OMG, seriously, you posted a spoiler on the thread title, a simple apology is a simple thing to do for not thinking of others.

It's just as simple as that, anyone that does it gets the same thing, regardless of the result or the sport.

BE isn't a special little snow flake in this regard. It's also not a very hard concept to grasp, more so for a site with an international following of posters.

kimilseung Oct 27th 2011 7:21 pm
Re: Man United v Man City
 
It is simple, keep the spoiler out of the title, simple universal forum etiquette. I am amazed this is contentious.

Thanks Bob, for trying to keep it as an expectation.


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