As stated in a separate thread, puns should only be allowed if original. What is currently happening is that the same 4/5 puns are reused and flogged to death. Richie Towell scores a goal and there is activity in his thread for the first time in a couple of weeks and people drag out the exact same sh1te they posted the last time he did something. It's brain dead stuff. 

"Oh I bet he can't wait to be on the  BEACH on his holidays" AHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHA

A two day suspension should be issued for anyone who repeats a pun that has featured on the last 5 pages of a thread. 

If my plan is instated then we can set up a confidential grass line where people can contact the Mods in a safe space to rat out other posters and have them banned. It will be like post WW2 East Germany. 

That's a classic in fairness 

Look, can we not just ban everyone? I'm mad to see a few posters getting banned.

 

Everytime there's a conversation between two people we should a) label it a meltdown, b) talk about it in the current forum rivalries thread, and c) then ban that person, to make it more like the LOI forum with two new posts per week on it.

 

 

I'm thinking of an X factor style contest where people can nominate a few bad posts each day and from 9pm-10pm that night, there is a vote on the most unpopular post resulting in a one day ban for the perpetrator. 

We had a version of this around my way when we were in our early teens. On a Friday after school, everyone got together at the local green and we played a mass game of heads and volleys. The loser had to go home and wasn't allowed go to Wesley disco that night. It was a game with a real edge as that was your weekend totally ruined. Great craic for everyone else though. You can't bate a bit of mob rule to get the blood flowing. 

Coming from the biggest keyboard warrior on the forum

Simpleton 

 

I was very proud of my "being hung out to dry" one

 

 

 

To be honest, I avoid any threat that I know will be riddled with puns but it's unavoidable when lads turn someone's post on skiing or a gripe with their local postman into pun central.

I'd be delighted to see the back of you if you were talking over everyone, reusing the same couple of unfunny unoriginal puns and ruining every conversation all evening.  

 

What about a vigilante style group who give out beatings to anyone who uses puns online?

Pun-ishment beatings if you like

 

The Pun IRA or Direct Action Against Puns?

 

 

As anybody who has spent more than a few minutes with me will know, I feel puns are a necessary form of conversation, but this constant misuse of the word offended on here is a tad irritating.

It would nearly be impossible for anyone to be offended by them, unless they are half fish, or maybe that towel from South Park.

Towelie would be too high to care

We on a different wavelengths here so we are unlikely to agree on this issue. I think the majority (not all) the puns are highly unoriginal and definitely not funny. You seem to think that they are great craic. 

You're the lucky one as you must be very easily amused. Good for you. 

I am very easily amused. I have never made a pun post on here but I enjoy reading them because it's a section where you just don't take anything seriously - The 2 threads in question are for someone who's been out the setup for a long time and will never come back and the other is playing League 1 football, depending where he ends up next season, things would change, I imagine if hes playing regular Championship football there will be alot more interest in him and thus more serious discussions. But at the current time atm he's playing League 1 football and the League 1 thread has about 4 people posting in it (probably alot more when Sunderland go down) so if our puns are interfering with your interest in him with aww I watch League 1 football every weekend, we know already to be very unlikely unless there's a club you associate yourself with in that league

Long story short - Posts are currently not interfering with any discussions in the 2 threads thus can be easily ignored, there's serious conversations in 99% of the other threads.

 

A no pun thread on Towell? That'll be very dry

 

 

Disgraceful decision to create a separate segregated thread.  It's not what I want so your decision doesn't include me.  Locking threads and creating segregated threads shows a lack of tolerance from decision-makers.  You're not able to share the space with other users.  You want things to be pure that suit you.

I input regularly on the Conor Sammon thread, years ago when he was part of the Rep of Irl squad I posted sympathetic posts that didn't have puns because the punners were in the minority.  But as he was able to concentrate on his club career the punners were the majority and I too changed my style.  Like other contributors I still chronicled his career with info, links and vids but still using puns.

I didn't see puns as devaluing my contribution, just compliant with the environment.

If those resisting puns want to change the environment than they need to post until the punning posts are the minority.  If there are rude posts against them "Pun or GTFO" those posts can be removed and posters disciplined, no poster should feel unsafe when making a contribution.

Puns, like low-support, doesn't devalue the contribution.

Solidarity brother, or sister.

 

We'll need to call in Alan Judge to decide.

 

 

 

 

Cheers for the support, it's nice to know I'm not alone and there's a name for it.

Monty Python troupe themselves provide a response "Something is actually happening!" from the same film. 

Do we need to start having 2 threads for every player so TJ doesn't ruin them all?

Aww you ok hun? xxx  PM me

Pun in, ten dead.

Whoever the mod is I think they are punderful

Saw a van in town earlier, DeWar plumbing. Immediately imagine this conversation:

Customer: thanks for fixing that leak, I'll recommend you to all my friends and family

Plumber: ah no, don't do that

Customer: why not?

Plumber: do I have to say it

Customer: say what?

Plumber: ...

Customer: ...

...

Plumber: don't mention DeWar