[News] Should we Bring Back National Service?

[Sid and the Sharknados]

Can you stop trolling my thread with off topic comments - it is very annoying. If you have no interest in discussing the topic why are you even posting on here?

Then go and have a conversation about your engineering business on another thread please.

You are deliberately trolling this one.

No I'm not. It was raised as an example of something the government could get people to do as National Service. That simply isn't what trolling is.

Edit: I should probably emphasise that it's very much not my engineering business. I'd be f***ing loaded if it were.

 

[The Clamp]

Can you stop trolling my thread with off topic comments - it is very annoying. If you have no interest in discussing the topic why are you even posting on here?

Then go and have a conversation about your engineering business on another thread please.

You are deliberately trolling this one. It’s not the first time you have used this tactic to derail threads either.

He’s really not trolling, mate. It’s just the way the conversation has gone.

I’d respectfully suggest you either steer it back on course or if it’s bothering you, ignore it.

I’m still engaged with the thread and enjoying it so I’d rather it remained open if possible.

 

[The Clamp]

Just for the record. When I suggested layabouts could be put to work on infrastructure works such as flood defences, I meant more on the side of sand-bagging flood-vulnerable streets and properties ahead of storm warnings.
Putting the pebbles back on the beach after heavy storms.

As opposed to designing and constructing legacy flood defences for towns and cities

 

[Crawley Dingo]

You don't serve you don't get to vote.

service guarantees citizenship.

 

[The Clamp]

Ah, now here’s a troll.

That’ll be enough for me. Crawley Dildo is the death nells for any thread.

Peace

 

[Bry Nylon]

Can you stop trolling my thread with off topic comments - it is very annoying. If you have no interest in discussing the topic why are you even posting on here?

Then go and have a conversation about your engineering business on another thread please.

You are deliberately trolling this one. It’s not the first time you have used this tactic to derail threads either.

Earlier you said you had no intention of revisiting this thread, yet here you are. You may have started the thread but (on NSC) that doesn’t, never has and never will, give you the right to police it, should it organically veer off onto a different path. It’s pretty much how 80% of threads on here go - much as face to face conversations do.

 

[swindonseagull]

Having served 30 years in the RAF the last thing the 'professional' military want or need is undisciplined press-ganged people who dont want to be in the military.....Hey John we know you dont want to be here but here is a gun.....

I voted absolutely not no way never.

 

[Sid and the Sharknados]

Just for the record. When I suggested layabouts could be put to work on infrastructure works such as flood defences, I meant more on the side of sand-bagging flood-vulnerable streets and properties ahead of storm warnings.
Putting the pebbles back on the beach after heavy storms.

As opposed to designing and constructing legacy flood defences for towns and cities

Yeah that makes more sense.
Still not sure I'd trust the sort of person we're talking about to put up a sandbag barrier my house depended on up though.

This is the thing, National Service involved pretty much everybody, not just layabouts with nothing better to be doing. That's basically just a government labour scheme (not a bad thing in itself but it's not the same thing).

 

[Zeberdi]

Earlier you said you had no intention of revisiting this thread, yet here you are. You may have started the thread but (on NSC) that doesn’t, never has and never will, give you the right to police it, should it organically veer off onto a different path. It’s pretty much how 80% of threads on here go - much as face to face conversations do.

I merely came in to try and ask if we could get the thread back on the topic of the poll not to contribute to the discussion and here you are back making it about me again and trying to bully me off the thread again.

Tbh -‘ policing’ threads is usually the mods job but you are more interested in making digs at me. So I’ll fcuk off again.

Thanks for the moderation input

 

[The Clamp]

A Sunday flounce. How delicious.

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

I mean, you're perfectly entitled to ask for your own thread to be closed, but some of us are still enjoying the conversation.

Yeah. Hang him! Or maybe a stoning? I have a load of rocks left over from building a dry garden.

 

[Zeberdi]

A Sunday flounce. How delicious.

‘Flounce‘ usually means someone has chosen to flounce in temper - if you read earlier posts and posts on a certain other thread, you’d realise that it is the mods trying to shut me down not the other way round. I backed off earlier because my posts were being knitpicked and pulled apart by a mod then that was followed up by another mod telling me not to open the thread in response to my lighthearted comment that there was no ignore function for a threadstarter. I thought thetefore I would let the discussion about NS continue without my input - until it stopped being a discussion about national service - I‘m not in the mood to subject myself to any kind of hostility from people behaving like wankers at the moment, my fuse is very short. Usually when a mod throws it back in someone’s face after they said they would back off from the thread, it is a clear indication that their continued input on that thread ( on NSC?) is not welcome or valued - it is has been made clear for a very long too by certain mods I am fair game because I post so much, make too long posts - so no not flouncing, just reading the room and saying I will not participate in this thread topic any further because I don’t want to subject myself to passive aggressive behaviour.

Please continue …

Yeah. Hang him! Or maybe a stoning? I have a load of rocks left over from building a dry garden.

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

I merely came in to try and ask if we could get the thread back on the topic of the poll not to contribute to the discussion and here you are back making it about me again and trying to bully me off the thread again.

Tbh -‘ policing’ threads is usually the mods job but you are more interested in making digs at me. So I’ll fcuk off again.

Thanks for the moderation input

I fear he's channeling Kenneth Williams (carry on Cleo? Could have been carry on Caesar)..

Except he's got it inferyou

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

Flounce usually means someone has chosen to flounce - if you read earlier posts you’d realise that it is the mods trying to shut me down not the other way round.

Not you, you twit.

 

[Bry Nylon]

I merely came in to try and get the thread back on the topic of the poll not to contribute to the discussion.

Tbh - that is usually the mods job but you are more interested in making digs at me. So I’ll fcuk off again.

Thanks for the moderation input

Wrong. (Part of) the moderators role is to allow the conversation to evolve and go where those participating in the thread wish to take it.

You had no intention of trying to steer the thread back to whatever the opening question was; you came on here requesting the thread be closed because the latest contributions weren’t to your remit.

Threads are very rarely closed on here. They reach a natural end and then quietly sink down the pages. Your request to close an active thread simply because you don’t approve appears to me to be arrogant and classically attention seeking.

Be sure to let me know if you want any more moderation input.

 

[The Clamp]

Flounce usually means someone has chosen to flounce - if you read earlier posts you’d realise that it is the mods trying to shut me down not the other way round.

I’m only pulling your leg. I enjoy your posts and we get on. And I was enjoying this thread.

Anyway, it’s a good thread and an interesting discussion. Thanks for posting it originally.

 

[abc]

The possibility of conscription or a voluntary form of military service came up in various news stories last week in the context of Ukraine and given how significant that is, I thought it worthy of a poll or discussion..

It was and still is, so fair play to you for starting the thread

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

Can you stop trolling my thread with off topic comments - it is very annoying. If you have no interest in discussing the topic why are you even posting on here?

Then go and have a conversation about your engineering business on another thread please.

You are deliberately trolling this one. It’s not the first time you have used this tactic to derail threads either.

On this occasion I think you are being oversensitive. @Sid and the Sharknados is one of the good guys.

Edit as is @The Clamp

 

[Zeberdi]

On this occasion I think you are being oversensitive. @Sid and the Sharknados is one of the good guys.

Edit as is @The Clamp

Probably. Apologies to all.

But it is clear the Mods think I post too much (have somehow imposed my ideas on this thread too) so I’m not flouncing - I’m reading the room and fcuking off the thread when I have been clearly invited to..

 

[Bry Nylon]

I fear he's channeling Kenneth Williams (carry on Cleo? Could have been carry on Caesar)..

Except he's got it inferyou

I don’t have it in for anybody, I can assure you. But if the bar is now being set so low that any thread that deviates from the OP is now considered “trolling” then Bozza may as well kick the whole thing into touch now.

Alternatively, we can continue in the same spirit and with the same ethos that has kept this place vibrant, dynamic, irreverent, funny, sad, poignant, informative and most of all just damn good fun for over a quarter of a century.

NSC is privately owned and run site, not some council-funded community hub.