AH puns now banned.

Rabies

After recent debates between AH users, mods, the Admins and those help folk over on FeedForward. Silly puns for the sake of thanks whoring are now banned.

Any questions re this can be posted in the relevant Help Desk forum.

Original funny puns may be tolerated.

Posting a news story to only add a pun is not allowed.

Remember, this is a discussion forum, not a pie eat competition.

Thanks for your time.

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all the above is bulls!t

W.Shakes-Beer

There was a sign on the lawn at a drug re-hab center that said 'Keep off the Grass'.

danniemcq

I was looking through threads yesterday to see if i could find a pun that made me laugh

no pun in ten did

biko

What about punnets?

Lando Griffin

Is this being to be inforced with impunity?

Hasmunch

This is punbelieveable

NothingMan

Did we do something wrong and this is our punishment?

Dravokivich

What would be the punishment?

Max_Damage

Punderful.

TheZohanS

:pac::pac::pac:

Abrasax

Disaster is opun us.

delta_bravo

Rylan

Pun

stovelid

What exactly do you entendre to achieve by doing this?

Rabies

But seriously.

Ever get bored of them?
Same sh!te over and over.

Any chance of decent discussion is lost.
Couldn't arsed reading past page one of most threads lately due to the thanks whoring that goes on.

Anyone miss having a proper on thread moan n' groan and discussion.

stovelid

Rabies wrote: »

Couldn't arsed reading past page one of most threads lately due to the thanks whoring that goes on.

I've just removed my thanks form the OP. It lacks the seriousness befitting a discussion forum.

NothingMan

I was just reading the Otis elevator strike thread, there were a few puns in at the start but most posts are actually about striking and unionisation etc... So maybe we're maturing.

It was really uplifting to see.

TheZohanS

Rabies wrote: »

But seriously.

Ever get bored of them?
Same sh!te over and over.

Any chance of decent discussion is lost.
Couldn't arsed reading past page one of most threads lately due to the thanks whoring that goes on.

Anyone miss having a proper on thread moan n' groan and discussion.

Dislike the stupid puns; the ones that are normally accompanied by ":pac:".

Thanks whoring; well can be partial to that myself from time to time so won't judge.

Moan and groan threads; there are plenty of those here as it is and generally I come here for a laugh and for less serious threads. It's gloomy enough in the real world without saturating in here.

Abrasax

Rabies wrote: »

But seriously.

Ok.

Ever get bored of them?

No.

Same sh!te over and over.

You mean in the scumbag threads, muslim threads, headshop threads, Jake la Motta threads, recession threads, the constantly repeating self-affirmation threads and so on.

Any chance of decent discussion is lost.

It's AH,ffs.

Couldn't arsed reading past page one of most threads lately due to the thanks whoring that goes on.

Skip to page two,that's where all the serious discussion takes place. Or go to one of the serious forums.

Anyone miss having a proper on thread moan n' groan and discussion.

We must be reading different threads. Plenty of moaning and groaning in my AH.

Kasabian

Rabies wrote: »

But seriously.

Ever get bored of them?
Same sh!te over and over.

Any chance of decent discussion is lost.
Couldn't arsed reading past page one of most threads lately due to the thanks whoring that goes on.

Anyone miss having a proper on thread moan n' groan and discussion.

You have decribed AH of late , at least that's what it seems to me.

Wetbench4

What a punderful world!!!

This is the biggest step forward AH has taken since my online life began..

Abrasax

Deleted User wrote: »

This is the biggest step forward AH has taken since my online life began..

'All small step for AH, a giant loss for pun-kind.'

up for anything

Pun my word, sure some are repetitive and unoriginal but the few gems that involve an involuntary guffaw give life to the '**** life in Ireland' threads that proliferate these days as somebody else said.

(Ecclesiastes 1:9-14 NIV) What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun. {10} Is there anything of which one can say, "Look! This is something new"? It was here already, long ago; it was here before our time. {11} There is no remembrance of men of old, and even those who are yet to come will not be remembered by those who follow. {12} I, the Teacher, was king over Israel in Jerusalem. {13} I devoted myself to study and to explore by wisdom all that is done under heaven. What a heavy burden God has laid on men! {14} I have seen all the things that are done under the sun; all of them are meaningless, a chasing after the wind.

And that was written a 1,000 odd years ago!

stovelid

The whole point about puns is that they have a certain lameness about them.

The amount of threads that become overwhelmed with puns seem to be the ones that probably don;t have a discursive future, as it were. I think that if a topic takes hold here and people really want to discuss it, a few puns won;t knock it off tilt, certainly from my experience, anyway.

Deleted User wrote: »

This is the biggest step forward AH has taken since my online life began..

You've been banned?

froog

this is punbelievable.

Gummy Panda

Puns are for Garry Bushell and The Sun readers.

Abrasax

Gummy Panda wrote: »

Puns are for Garry Bushell and The Sun readers.

Not forgetting the 'Bard of Avon' who had 3000+ in his canon.

If it's good enough for Shaky, it's good enough for me.

Kiera

Rabies wrote: »

But seriously.

Ever get bored of them?
Same sh!te over and over.

Any chance of decent discussion is lost.
Couldn't arsed reading past page one of most threads lately due to the thanks whoring that goes on.

Anyone miss having a proper on thread moan n' groan and discussion.

Yes. They are mostly shíte and the same people make them over and over.....:rolleyes:

Rabies

TheZohan wrote: »

Dislike the stupid puns; the ones that are normally accompanied by ":pac:".

Thanks whoring; well can be partial to that myself from time to time so won't judge.

Moan and groan threads; there are plenty of those here as it is and generally I come here for a laugh and for less serious threads. It's gloomy enough in the real world without saturating in here.

Yeah same. We've all thanks whored in the past or present.
Moan and groan threads are AH. But as you said, there is a good reason to come to AH and thats for a laugh. Lately regardless of the thread, the first page or so can be wrecked it puns.

I must be the only one that reads the first post and leaves it at that if there are loads of puns following. Might skim the rest of the thread, but it usually consists of people trying to out do each other.

My pun penis is punnier than yours. Ugggghhhh take it bitch!!

Who cares about puns anyway..

They're just an interlude between the start of the thread and the inevitable slanging match that gets the thread closed.

Earthhorse

Yeah, puns suck big time. tbh Rabies, you shoulda had the balls to sign this piece of legislation into action a few days before your retirement and leave your ex-co-mods to deal with the consequences. Sorta like Bill Clinton pardoning his brother or something.

Rabies

Abrasax wrote: »

Ok.



No.
You mean in the scumbag threads, muslim threads, headshop threads, Jake la Motta threads, recession threads, the constantly repeating self-affirmation threads and so on.

It's AH,ffs.

Skip to page two,that's where all the serious discussion takes place. Or go to one of the serious forums.



We must be reading different threads. Plenty of moaning and groaning in my AH.

you're not here long enough to remember what it was like
All those threads you mentioned were still there, and I think always will be. AH is the melting pot of the general public.

Threads that have links to funny, weird, obscure, news worthy items are still good. Nice source of info at times.
Its what follows is ... meh

Ghost Train

Punish the punning punners?

Rabies

Earthhorse wrote: »

Yeah, puns suck big time. tbh Rabies, you shoulda had the balls to sign this piece of legislation into action a few days before your retirement and leave your ex-co-mods to deal with the consequences. Sorta like Bill Clinton pardoning his brother or something.

Ha ha...

Hmmmm.. I wonder if I can take back the reigns for a few min... do it... then run

pickarooney

Good, original puns are cool. Obviously awful ones are cool too. The ones I can't stand are the well-known clever ones that people keep recycling until you want to punch them in the gall-bladder - the 'calloused fragile mystic' or 'no pun in ten did' ones for example.

Kiera

Rabies wrote: »

Ha ha...

Hmmmm.. I wonder if I can take back the reigns for a few min... do it... then run

When did you step down? I go away for a few days and everything changes

Rabies

Kiera wrote: »

When did you step down? I go away for a few days and everything changes

Hmmm... about a week or so ago.

WindSock

I think the word pun should be banned. Not enough puns can be made from it.

arybvtcw0eolkf

Are you killing off the terrible jokes and other craic that goes along with using AH?.

From the charter;

What is After Hours?
After hours consists of the type of chat you have with your mates after a few pints at a lock in. You might disagree and argue your side, but if you get rowdy, the barmans gonna kick you out, so keep it civil. Typical subjects are anything thats in the days news, a funny story you heard, and terrible jokes and puns.

All I can say is that the unfunny people, you know who you are - have won the day.

Abrasax

Rabies wrote: »

you're not here long enough to remember what it was like
All those threads you mentioned were still there, and I think always will be. AH is the melting pot of the general public.

Threads that have links to funny, weird, obscure, news worthy items are still good. Nice source of info at times.
Its what follows is ... meh

I've been about.

AH is so big and diverse and with so many elements that what annoys one poster will tickle another poster's belly.

And I think there are enough fans of puns that they'll never be consigned to the ranks of 'uncool'.

That said, they can be overdone at times, but any ban or otherwise would be unenforceable.

A lot of things in AH are cyclical and perhaps the current vogue of puns en masse will pass for a while but I'd say there here to stay.

If you can't beat them, pun them.

Rabies

David Unimportant Oriole wrote: »

Are you killing off the terrible jokes and other craic that goes along with using AH?.

From the charter;

All I can say is that the unfunny people, you know who you are - have won the day.

ha ha.... never read the charter

/strokes unfunny bone

phill106

tldr

WindSock

Oh. oh. I have one;

But where will we punnilinguists go to now?


(c) WindSock 2010, unless stated elsewhere

pickarooney

Abrasax wrote: »

A lot of things in AH are cyclical

The are, and so are the posters. The cyclical puppies.

orourkeda

theres a lot of pungent mother punners on this thread

Rabies

Abrasax wrote: »

I've been about.

AH is so big and diverse and with so many elements that what annoys one poster will tickle another poster's belly.

And I think there are enough fans of puns that they'll never be consigned to the ranks of 'uncool'.

That said, they can be overdone at times, but any ban or otherwise would be unenforceable.

A lot of things in AH are cyclical and perhaps the current vogue of puns en masse will pass for a while but I'd say there here to stay.

If you can't beat them, pun them.

Ya...I think that is the point I was trying to make. But done really bad.
Puns can be fun. Too many and same ones over and over are painful.

syklops

froog wrote: »

this is punbelievable.

At least read the flippin thread if your going to post a pun. That pun was used over a page ago!

This is the best news I have received from AH in years.

Gummy Panda

David Unimportant Oriole wrote: »

All I can say is that the unfunny people, you know who you are - have won the day.

Not really.

Most puns on AH were complete and utter garbage. They were used for thank whoring and thread spoiling.

Puns were good when it was only a small amount of people doing it, they had a decent level of wit and good timing on when to use them.

Abrasax

WindSock wrote: »

Oh. oh. I have one;

But where will we punnilinguists go to now?

This dictum from the admins has 'em licked.

Banned Account

Rabies wrote: »

But seriously.

Ever get bored of them?
Same sh!te over and over.

Any chance of decent discussion is lost.
Couldn't arsed reading past page one of most threads lately due to the thanks whoring that goes on.

Anyone miss having a proper on thread moan n' groan and discussion.

tl;dr:pac: