Chilip Phidlow wrote:docchevron1472 wrote:I must say I a tad surprised at you not only signing up here, but also posting your original post on BXC that got pulled, followed by your next thread that got pulled, closed the site and then came back again!
My first post was a poll and that really precipitated something. I think Mountainman was the only one to see it - but maybe you did too!? It was intended to prevoke a response - but maybe I was hoping too much that it would be allowed to remain longer than 0.5 seconds.
As it is, it's water under the bridge. Glad Jon's back.
Yeah, I saw it, and then it went.
Fair play on having a further stab at it though. You were the only one of the "leech camp" (sorry to call it that and all, but ya know what I mean, it's always been us and them so to speak) that had the balls to stand up and say something in public.
Phil (er, Phil Chidlow, as opposed to Phil Hod! wrote:Hands up time: I have been guilty in the past of believing the BXC forum would (should?) be a BX-fan's utopia where the common interest would bond all and sundry in some sort of dream-like state of euphoric community. Well, perhaps not that extreme, but you get my point.
Thats the point Billy kept trying to make though isn't it?
BXC had an incredible spirit of selflessness, where we'd all help eachother out, and not expect anything in return for it.
Tim rather turned it into a business, which soured the vine.
All this "I saved it from scrap cos no-one else wanted it" is utter crap.
The green hornet for example. I know of three people that wanted it, me included, but Tim beat us to it. Ok, thats life and all, and as it goes I found a better car not long after, but to say "look at me, I saved another car no-one wanted" is shite. He was just quicker than the rest of us, since some of us have a life and dont spend 24hours a day on BXC endlessly hitting "refresh".
Phil wrote:I had been considering joining the Project for a while, but worried I'd be tarred with the same brush (unfairly I think
) as (in particular) another member of the BXC who is less, well, pragmatic?!
Careful Phil, you'll be tarred as a bully ya know!
Phil wrote:I try not to bad mouth anyone. But doesn't mean I can't fit in here.
We all bad mouth eachother here, and it's accepted, because we all know it aint meant in malice, as said by others here, it's like going to the pub with your mates and ripping the piss out of eachother, but we all wear long trousers and take it in the manner it's intended.
Equally, the "do anything to help a member out" philosophy that once existed on BXC is now very much alive and well right here.
I'm fairly sure that of the many many parts that have changed hands here, no-ones been charged any money at all for them, we do it cos we like eachother!
Phil wrote:After all, what's the point (seriously) of having two Forums the same? And trying to behave the same on both too? If I had enough hair, I'd be letting it down. This looks like it might be fun.
Non at all, but this place has never, and will never, be like the BXC.
This place is what BXC SHOULD have become when there was nothing left to say about BX's, but it didn't, and suffered for it.
Very few posts over here have owt to do with BX's at all really, and even if a thread starts off about BX's, it dont stay that way long!
Fun it is, and shall remain so.