Club Arnage

It seems that a lot a CAer's are now using  facebook as a means of comunicating and as a forum for discussion. This is by no means a bad thing as it offers a lot more possibilities to play games, take part in quizzes, post pictures etc than the Club Arnage website. It seems to me that as a result this forum is suffering from a lack of new posts and the usual banter. I have absolutely nothing against sites such as Myface and Spacebook, I use facebook myself to a limited extent and think it is a very useful tool to keep in touch with oneanother. But,let us not forget how we all met and became friends. Please don't ignore poor old CA. I know it is usually a bit quiet at this time of year but the way it is at the moment I fully expect to log on one day and see tumbleweed blowing across the screen. As the Aussie advert says .... "Where the bloody hell are you?"

Bob - well said - I agree with you.

p.s. - where do you want me to post my full answer?  - CA, Facebook, Myspace, Twitter, lost and found notice board or in the help wanted in the FT ;D

Wouldn't Freinds Reunited be a better bet

Bob, seems more like a them and us, reminds me of pubescent teenagers at school,let them f**k off elsewhere if that's where they feel most happiest, no loss to me.

I'm sure this is just a CA lull before the 2010 dates get announced......
Then there will be the flurry of activity related to BN tickets and Wokingham meets!

July 2007 had 2232 posts
July 2008 had 1903 posts
July 2009 had   677 posts which is one of the lowest figures

does seem that the post Le Mans dip this year is deeper than normal.

 

I seem to remember it being very quiet on here this time last year.

Nothing wrong with having a Wokingham meet in the next couple of weeks. I'm up for it if there is any interest.

It might well be quiet here, but I tell you, it's none stop action on Arsebook.
Never used Facebook, is it similar?
H

Sounds like a fine idea.

Dx

It is if you're Andrew Lloyd Webber

I agree with Doris - Wokingham meet in a few weeks time - Shall I publicise it on Facebook?? ;)

And Doris - How to we address you know that you've "outed yourself" on facebook??  ;D

site has been very quite for months to me but i put it down to the lack of people going to Lemans due to money commitments etc  ???

Brill, lets make a date....

Yeah, it seems that some people have moved to other places - I also think it's rather quiet here. But there is actually a lot of Le-Mans-related stuff to discuss: The new GT2 Corvette, cancellation of the Chinese round of the Asian Le Mans Series, the declining numbers of entries in teh LMS (BTW-Anone know where the Epsilon Euscadis are?) and last not least: Where is the Commer now????

I'll admit to facebook, it's good for catching up / keeping up with mates, but I'm browsing through here most days.

Don't worry, CA's still at the top of my favourites bar.

Hi Bob et al,
         Still here with  you. Our CA community is much more interesting as FS has already pointed out.
Canada Phil

OK here's one   Friday 21st August usual place 8)

Yep, I can make that one  ;D

It appears to be a global trend to move from forums to social networks like facebook, twitter and many more. Most forums have gone very quiet, CA is not the only one. Of course, a forum is much more suited for a nice conversation, while a social network site is much more about daily life - and if one has only a certain amount of minutes/hours per day to stroll around the www, people tend to go to the busier ones. Not to worry - in a few years something new will appear, and facebook will get quiet too. No need to get harsh, FS :-\

Count me in too ;D

I can't.   :(

Dx

Memo to Landlord of Three Frogs ..... Cancel those extra 5 crates of cider ;D

well I don't know about everyone else but i use fb heaps more than ca because all my friends are on fb, but ca is only a small selection of my friends....i still look on here though, love you all  :-*  :-*  :-*

Ahem
My view is that facebook is for kids. If I want to catch up with or keep in touch with my mates I give them a ring (on one of those old fashioned telephone thingies) and usually arrange to meet them down the pub for a good old chat over a couple of pints of foaming ale!
Talking to each other has been the primary means of communication between human beings since language was invented unless of course you're a teenager. The spoken word seems to have served us pretty well.
Facebook, Twitter and whatever are all b*ll**ks and they exist because someone invented them and told us they were a good idea. Progress? My arse!!

hehe......showing ur age steve  ;)  but i will agree, i can't understand all of the texts some my little friends send me so i guess i'm getting old too, how depressing  :(

It may be depressing but it's a lot better than the alternative.

Dx

Good for me too.

I will second that.

Me too.....I'm old and long in the tooth.I have a facebook account and cannot understand the point of posting..say"going to the pub tonight" and the like.

It just seems to me to be pointless making general daily remarks like that.I know I don't post on here as often as I once did,but if I feel if a thread is worth making a comment,even if I or others get the pi** taken ,then fair enough.

I think even with all the social network sites around there is still a place for CA and other dedicated sites.After all the other sites come and go, and after 12years + CA is still here and thriving.

Andy

Not surprisingly it's people who have never used facebook who seem to think it's sh*t. You're entitled to your opinions.

Steve, you must be very lucky that all of your friends live within drinking distance. My friends are currently spread from Scotland to Brazil and without facebook I probably wouldn't speak to some of them for years at a time. Okay I do have local mates (funnily enough none of whom use facebook  ;D ) who I use the dog and bone for and, forgive me for my sins, occasionally have a pint with.

You know how it is when you bump into someone you haven't seen for ages? Feels good right? (Assuming you actually like them!) Well facebook is like that all the time. Someone may be quiet for ages and then suddenly pop up to announce they've done something interesting. I've made contact with loads of people I thought I would never see again (including old school girlfriends  :-* ) and, personally, I can't see anything wrong with that. There's a big difference between living your life in cyber space and just using it to stay in touch with people. It's also a far better way to get to know people personally than using a forum as people are generally more guarded about themselves.

Perhaps that's the problem with CA now. In the past you could properly get into a slanging match with someone because you didn't know them from Adam. Trouble is, everyone knows everyone else now, and, for the most part, we actually seem to get along. Ironic really that what started out as an internet site for complete strangers with a common interest has now degenerated into extended circles of real life friends  >:D

Twitter, on the other hand, would appear to be a large bundle of shite. Can't be bothered with that.

Well mate I think well have to both agree and disagree!
I think I'm just a bit of a grumpy old git and a luddite to boot. I still think carrier pigeons are a pretty neat idea!!
Oh, I don't know - I just seem to rail against "progress". For instance Le Village at Le Mans irritates me as it's so bland and corporate. Diesels at Le Mans irritate me. Toss pots on stag weekends at Le Mans irritate me. People on trains talking loudly on mobile phones, people driving in the middle lane, Radio 1, Sky TV, computers, call centres, British Telecom, Gas companies selling electricity, Electricity companies selling gas, health and safety nazis, bad manners, poor diction, poor spelling, texting, bad use of the English language, and teenagers. These all irritate me to death. You lot may all laugh at me but I spend my life being irritated by just about everything.
Apparently I'm very difficult to live with.
Can you believe that?

Can we please go back to civility, decent manners, Le Village full of either dust or mud, Group C cars, etc etc.

Sorry folks, I just don't like what's happening and I'm going to get a beer to make me feel better.

Steve

Live and let live - I like the forum because I can log on when I want, choose what I want to look at, not feel guilty about missing stuff or not replying unless it is a question asked of me etc etc. 

Plus a whole raft of other reasons why it doesn't suit to be on Facebook.  So for those on Facebook, don't forget the forum.....

MG Mark

Ditto to what Mark said. Keep posting Steve you may be a Luddite but i don't think you are a grompy old git...yet ;D
Phil

I have to agree with pretty much all of that Rob.

Back in the old days of CA, and I'm talking nearly ten years ago, it was a place where a bunch of LM regulars could go during the winter months and talk horseshit and tell lies to each other about what they'd got up to during previous years. None of us had ever met, I attended the first CA meet at the poo bar and nobody was there so far as I could tell! I honestly imagined that BigH was a fat bearded geography teacher and Smokie was some sort of glorified Hells Angel.

Now that we've all met and worryingly made friends, so much of what CA was about has naturally died off and become something more important. I suppose it's eaten itself.

I have no problem with Facebook, it's a useful tool even though I agree it seems a waste of wonderful technology for people to use it to tell the world they've been to the lavatory.

Twatter (or should I say Twater) on the other hand is for purely venal c**ts.

Fat, and bearded, I can handle.
But 'Geography teacher'!!
You vindictive b*astard.
H

H,

I agree, that was quite uncalled for - I could have understood it if he had said "biology teacher"......

MG Mark

It's difficult enough for me (blimey, I am old you know!) working the right buttons to do CA

trying to work out Facethingy too would be a huge jump into the dark

Do you know how long I have been here not able to even do "add a picture"?

But it is kinda funny realising that I "know" these people that were names for so long, sort of all of a sudden

So

ferarguments sake is the Facethingy worth me worrying myself into new experiences?

or shall me and the dinosaurs just graze around here, quietly

(do you really have to say you're gooing to the bog on Facey?)

Brad,  DON't mention it on facebook, you'll get 500 add oikes/numbheads creating a rumpus and wrecking things.

CA and Fb have thier own niche markets, both can work together as long as they remember thier 'roots'.

That's more like it!!!  ;D

Some people probably don't give a monkey about it, but I personally think it's also nice to get some updates from drivers like Ollie Gavin (video updates), Johnny O (new car updates), Martin Short (new series) and Michael Vergers. I've had some chats with the latter, and FB gives me that chance. I've never seen a driver here on CA - Shorty (used to be?) on tentenths, but that's about it...

I still look in here on most days, and make comment when I can.

Looked at the other options and can't be bothered with them.

CA will always be my first site of choice for finding out LM info.

I like it here, It's warm and snug (perhaps that wasn't the intetion to start with). Although I have used facebook, it may only me but I find it very slow to load and people are sending me virtual thingies which I can't actually eat, sell or shag. What's the use in that? I also get invited to join right wing hit squads and the like.

Hey gents, don't shoot the messenger... H you were the one I was imagining afterall, so how is it my fault?  A while back, whilst I was fast asleep, my (then) girlfriend slapped me in the face and told me to sleep in the spare room because she'd dreamt I'd been having an affair with Kerry Katona. I was surprised as I'd always professed my intense dislike at the hideous whining mono-nostrilled coke hoover (Katona that is, not the ex-gf who was very sweet but also a mentalist)

Anyway, you were a geog teacher in my mind's eye for some years, all terminal morraine, massive unkempt beard, a pipe full of St Bruno, and drunken field trips to Arthog where you'd be disciplined for taking the kiddies to the pub. I also pictured you at Le mans wearing a washed-out Rothmans Porsche rain cheater, and a pair of too-tight cotton sports shorts, the end of your todger just dangling out from the left-hand leg and winking at all and sundry.

Sorry, but that's just the way it is.

I have similar mental images of many of the old timers on here such as Powermite, Rusty and Canada Phil, just ask if anyone wishes to know more, all way off the reality.

so you will be the bloke with the twentyfour lacehole Docs tomorrow evening then Gary

I'd know you anywhere!

The dangers of face book!

Yep, thats why I only add friends as friend over there, and not 'everybody I know'

hence why i have 1 maybe 2 people from my work on facebook as i dont trust them

I never add anyone from work to my facebook friends and block any applications from people.... its just not worth it!

PP

I too have been disciplined over such things... mainly posting pictures! ;)

Us Grumpy ole gits need to stay on CA where we belong mate!

I can look at this site at work

I cant look at facebook as it sends the sneeky beakies nuts

Although there hasnt been much on here a while really .

Oops! Had to modify this as hit the wrong button and posted a quote with a blank reply! Think that shows I shouldn't be allowed on fakeboob (but I am!).

But hurrah to His Lordship for the soap box moment, couldn't agree more and it made me jolly well chortle to boot!

Onward and upward old chap, stiff upper and all that. Isn't it time for a G&T? See you up the Khyber for some tiffin and some light (ale) refreshment?

Yours empirically,

B'stard of Bedfordshire ;)

Were you there in 1982 Andy?? That was my dad on the terraces opposite the pits about 3am in the morning!!  ;)

As Rob and Paddy have said, I think that both are valid but have different uses. Although I don't post much at the moment I check in here every day to see what's happening. I also use FB daily as my friends and family are spreadout around the world and it's far easier to post one pic of the kids horse-riding or riding motocross or just being crazy kids and letting the family get in touch and say 'hey, can I have a good copy of xyz pics pls' than phoning them all up and asking if they want them etc..

That said, it's no substitute for the old fashioned phone call either, but it is very useful.

I'd hate to think just how dis-jointed something like a CA thread would get on Facebook though (when you consider how easily we go off topic here!), it's just not built for that and a forum is still the ideal vehicle.

Right, that's enough boll**ks from me, I'm off for another beer before I run the risk of saying something that could constititute making a serious comment !!!

or the dentist Mr Z?!!!  ;)

But that was serious! I could have died of toothache.

Or how about for accidentally telling the world you got laid...

(http://img38.imageshack.us/img38/9184/ohtracyseriouslyyoudidn.jpg)

Interesting that she said that she hadn't been laid for ages but her relationship box on the left says that she's Engaged. Either she's playing away (from someone she wasn't getting any from ) or it was a damn quick courtship.

Out of two... i'd give her one  ;D

How rude.

>Martini...LB