My thoughts on the subject? he's got very dark nipples! (Profound is my middle name )

Damn, the amount of time I could waste there...

Johnny Red, your point would be strong if this was series one but it isn't and time and again we are seeing the same old patterns unfold, the faux romances, the corporate judging, the joke contestants, the 'shock' eliminations ... yes we love it but we love to bitch about it too

This is what I was saying though. You explain why you don't like something, you don't just slag them off and the fact people then have a go at you is what I was saying is wrong.
At least you have a reason for why you don't like something not just because you like someone else better

Thank you I'm glad there are people that understand disliking something is different from jealous bashing. Sometimes on this forum you're given the impression any negative statement makes you Hitler lol.

But if it's about undeserved scores, why isn't the "hate and general nastiness" directed only at the judges and producers?

It doesn't explain why there are so many unpleasant comments about the contestants.


Unfortunately, the press now pays some attention to DS forums and quotes them.

Perhaps the way they take the p etc is by posting venom.

I think it helps that we can give technical reasons as well as emotional ones, because we both have dance experience (although mine is not in ballroom or latin).

For me, the emotional aspect is still the most important, but I can still appreciate a technically good routine performed well even if I don't particularly have any feelings for the person dancing it, if that makes sense?

It's why, although Rachel Stevens was technically a great dancer, I just couldn't emotionally connect to her because I didn't feel any joy or love coming from her but I accept that other people obviously did

And it's why Darren Gough will always be my favourite of all the champions because he'd done no dancing at all and he just completely and utterly got it, he got the love and joy that dancing should give you when you're doing it, even if you're no good at it.

Sadly that's because the modern journalist couldn't go out and find a proper story or a proper source if it came up and bit them on the arse and I speak from 20 years experience of being one trained the old fashioned way

Poor Johnny,
Yes, I posted a thread like this e couple of weeks ago, and got slightly scorched for my pains.
The closure of the former BBC boards,(heavily moderated and often censored and with a 3 minute delay to stop overzealous posters getting into flame wars) left many people with outspoken views searching for other forums to post on, and they found this place, which has a one-size fits all philosophy.
Under the BBC régime the 'robust' posters went to town on the Judges Board while timid posters lurked on other boards discussing costumes etc.
Here there's only one list of threads, so robust and timid posters find themselves tangoing together week by week, and some posters just get impatient with political correctness or board etiquette and say what they think without thinking. They don't see their remarks as nasty or bitchy, and we are all seemingly protected by the anonymity of the Internet.
The huge disadvantage of the BBC boards was not their slowness but the fact that they closed up shop so soon after the final, before people had finished expressing their feelings or wishing each other happy Christmas.

You'll see -unless the glitterball allocation is a true farce, Big-Brother style by reintroducing Ann and Anton, we will all get lovey dovey quite soon.

I don't spend my life on this forum.

Interesting that I begin my post with similar phrasing to the OP.

People who live in a sewer don't tend to realise it.

I came on here yesterday morning, and took one look at the list of threads on the main page, and came to pretty much the same conclusion as the OP.

I was particularly stuck by the number of hate threads about Aliona.

I noticed the Aliona threads especially, because one of the first threads I replied to this season, many weeks ago, was one in which someone was making xenophobic remarks about Aliona. They were dressed up in the form of a joke.

Someone says "it's just human nature".

My take on it, is that most of the vitriol comes from the sort of women who, in ordinary society, would be termed 'nasty malicous gossips'. And there are plenty of them.

Just human nature? Not quite.

Female nature.

Interesting in a thread in which the OP laments the general nastiness of the board, you manage to make a rather nasty generalisation about most of the board members and present it as an anti-nastiness post. I don't like the nastiness on here (and I have complained about some of it in October), but I don't make any nasty inferences about those who post nasty posts. Otherwise I would need to make some inferences about you now.

Thank you for just saying exactly what I was thinking! That was a sweeping generalisation and not in keeping with what I think (my assumption only) the OP would want to see on this thread.

Oh Johnny this is only a forum its not real nastiness you know, nobody really hates the celebs on Strictly we dont really know the people personally, silly! Go and join the fluffy bunny forum it sounds more like your thing.

Well I'd like to appreciate that we're all going bitchy/fluffy on this board and not posting about the X-Factor.
Because that would imply that we'd all been lobotomised.

Venom? On the non-app thread? Gerroff. We're too bladdered to be venomous. Or too busy letching after guitarists/actors in fantasy series/60s & 70s popstars.


Misogyny, thy name is Martyboy.

Let me guess - you're single, aren't you?

Can I remind you about your venom towards AW our national treasure. You and a whole crowd of similar posters. My heart bleeds if you have got some payback. Not from me though I've never criticised you.

Yes he will end up in a box like everyone else so it's a transient phenomena.

I have some sympathy with the OP.

It is one thing for people to have an opinion different from the Judges(Kara would have got 40 but for Craig). However I think what Johnny was getting at is that a lot of stuff here is nothing to do with Dancing Ability rather a dislike bordering on hatred for people that
1..You have never met and
2. Have never done you any harm

Finally I come back to a point somebody made earlier namely that the best three over the series are contesting the final.

End of story.

Contradiction in terms alert.

. AW supporters endured months of it.

Thanks for the responses, well most, some were a tad off topic

Let me clear something up, seems to some i have come across as a bit of a delicate thing, wanting to spread love and peace, lol, could not be further from the truth.

I understand we cant all like the same thing, have different opinions, thats fine, hell it would be a boring old world if we did.

My point was purely why is it the fashion now on this board that if you dislike someone on the show you have to denegrate them also, it seems its not enough just to dislike, or not 'get' a partnership.



So likening a grandmother to a transvestite is a silly nickname? i think it goes way beyond that.....a silly nickname is 'the old bird' that James calls her, thats something done with affection at least.

And i really have nothing against the idea of the non appreciation thread, when it first started, i believe due to the sheer number of sacharine sweet threads, there were some funny comments and still are.
But you can be funny without resorting to some of the names being bandied about as our regular poster from Wales so abley demonstrates in his musings.

The sort of hate we see on here is usually down to one thing.

Jealousy

Not necessarily always, but thats my guess

What's your beef exactly?
I'm confused I agree transvestite seems OTT but from my time in Boogie St in Singapore in the mid sixties it really is difficult to tell without a firm grip of the essentials. Old Grey Mare is much more appropriate because she stomps around like an old cart horse. Not only that sexolog's from Grannies delivered in monologue fashion are not endearing.

Lol, well you just rejoiced in the prospect of me being attacked which just adds to the impression you've already given of yourself to so many of us on this board, lovely. Also, I'd like to be directed to the post of mine that is nasty to Ann Widdecombe please? All I've ever done was express dislike of her politics, her attempts at dancing and her arrogance which she displayed week after week. I have never once posted something that was only about being a bitch towards her (like calling her names or ridiculing her appearance) I have reasons for disliking her which is different to what you just did - displaying venom and relishing in someone else's negative feelings.