Absolutely - when life feels like a litter tray, the DOTs are brilliant!

I think you are getting personal now and I am glad that I am part of a suppotive chatty funny internet community. Very different than you accuse it of being.

Quite frankly I rarely put people on jgnore but I am now

before I go

I think you need to be careful not to be offensive and superior about posters in my opinion you may well have offended quite a few posters tonight

I think every dancer is likeable this year, although I must be in the minority when I say I dont really get all this Harry praise, hes my least fave to win.Viva Chelsea

I think perhaps reading the posts on this thread that it probably wouldnt be a bad thing if we ALL looked at what were were posting a little more closely before pressing the post quick reply button. Leaving aside the odd strange person that bursts into the forum posts something horrible and departs just as quickly, we are mostly reasonable people so perhaps we should all try to move forward by turning down a notch on the 'I hate Jason, Harry or Chelsee posts' and others trying to be less sensitive (I fall into this camp this series). Posters that frequent the same threads, get to know each others writing styles and I think perhaps some posters have thought what they were saying was being taken as funny when it wasnt because we didnt understand the humour. Its the season of good will and only a week left of Strictly so lets all give it a try eh ??

Checks for spelink and gramattica errors....reads back....oh bum press post quick reply

You're probably right and what a nice post!

It's Chelsee, my dear.

Harry isn't bad, he's just not as good in his latin generally compared with Chelsee.

yes Jan I do agree with you but I really object to being lectured AT not by you) and accused of being something I am not .

I have typed and deleted so many ends to this post , which ever way I go it seems to get personal which it isn't meant to be. I would just say that for me I have had times when people have posted really dreadful things about people I like. have been upset about that but dont feel the need to personally attack the poster that did it, That is what I absolutely hate.

We are mostly there for our own amusement, so pleased that you find it amusing too.

It is a bit tiresome to be called jealous, hateful, vindictive, self-obsessed, spotty-arsed bitches. Really, the things posters on this board call us are sometimes worse than the things we say about the celebs (although mostly they don't say it directly to the Non App posters). Just my humble opinion, but most of the things we say are said with humor and some mockery of the show and contestants.

Why thankyou, that's most kind. Can I quote you, or get you to write me a reference ?

I like a joke and don't mind a bit of the "knock about" that goes on here, providing it remains good natured. But if someone does post a "serious" opinion or critique of the dancing, something technical, or associated with the choreography, then I'm keen to learn.
I'm no expert, and don't pretend to be..though over the years I do believe I've seen enough to know what constitutes a "good dance" visually. What I don't know are the required elements, and precise techniques of each dance, so I'm probably easily fooled by "showboating". It's then that I appreciate a discussion with the experts on here.

ps..I've never tried the "non-appreciation" thread, thought it was a bit cliquey. Is it ladies only, or can you sign me in at the door ?

We have at least 3 blokes on there, and Hugo is our man who flicks a duster round in there - you'd be right at home!

It sounds irresistible, I'll just go and slip into something more comfortable.

No males too are welcome though we may well ask you what your shoe size is . Do you like pasties?

our most prolific male poster is in bognor and is much missed we have a shrine and candles and everything

another male would be much appreciated or unappreciated as and when necessary

We have a few people who really know their stuff in AT - between dancing it for years, up to teaching it. A regular poster is a former dancer teacher; others know a lot from their armchairs, some just know what they like. So you can get a good discussion on technique. For example, sofakat had interesting things to say about the pauses used in flamenco, explaining why the hesitations in Chelsee's PD weren't mistakes. You should come in, say hello

I love pasties !..I was thinking of changing my name to Ginster.

I'm afraid my feet are tiny, my parents were devotees of the Chinese practice of foot binding, but my little lotus slippers are a knock-out.

Bognor ?..Bugger Bognor..but I'm not that way inclined myself, straight hot blooded male here ( or more Luke-warm blooded to be honest)

Surely nobody is crying out for appreciation in the non-appreciation thread ? I want to be loathed with a passion.

Ginsters

tiny feet

Bognor is where you go when you have gone over the line and place we hover about avoiding sometimes people have to hang on to our ankles when we get too unappreciative

as a final interview question what do you think of gavin henson

Goran Ivanisavic

and Mortan harkett

\if you have any opinion on those we can really get to know one another

Gavin Henson..my opinion would have to be sent via a PM, suffice to say, I'm not a fan. I'm half Welsh (there you are, you've got me confessing stuff already. you Jezebel !) and not many people from the valleys have much time for the preening creep.

Goran..great guy, exciting player. one of my favourites. But I also liked McEnroe and think Federer is the best I've ever seen..does that count against me ?

Mortan Harkett..Who he ?..that was my first response, so I'm guessing no brownie points. But I've Googled, he was the lead singer of A-ha. Well, he's Norwegian and I've got nothing against them. they send us a Christmas tree every year, that must count for something.

Not appreciative enough, but you can come in and improve your technique!

Right, I'm off to bed once I've fed Morton - I keep him in a cage in my kitchen, just so I can look at him because he is a perfect specimen of man!

I'll see your Morten chappy and raise you Andy Garcia ...... ooer missus I just came over a bit funny.

The non appreciation thread is better than paying for a shrink and you can vent all you want. It is my haven from the world of sickly specialness and treacly sweet loveliness. My prickly backbiting nature is acceptable there .... nay it's actually normal !

Pity I have to go to work every day and can't join in properly

I thought my posts were addressing the topic of this thread tbh, and were specifically addressing why you felt you could not get an answer to to a question you were repeatedly asking about Jason, if you have me on ignore because I chose to address your points in what I thought an honest and unoffensive way thats your perogative, Its hardly worth it though, I dont post that much on here and will be gone as soon as the comp is over.
Offending posters was never my intention and I have just reviwed my posts of last night.........really cant see what you mean tbh...........if any gentle minded souls like me on here were offended then I of course apologise to them, and if by saying that I dont find ripping apart the celebs personalities and mannerisms funny makes me superior...........then so be it, I guess.

Trinny and Susannah assured me that if I followed their advice no one would ever notice my low base.

Rushes off to Smiths to see if can claim money back

Maybe I will later this week although pasties may not be a good idea calorie wise before Xmas . But this is why I hesitated to mention the thread, because actually it is no more cliquey than any of the others which may also expect certain behaviours. Also sometimes I might feel a bit sensitive if I post on a regular thread and seem to be ignored when actually the discussion has just moved on and the post missed (that hasn't really happened on 'non-appreciation' anyway). All in all there are posters across all the threads who I like and that's what keeps me here.
(btw I'm not a Jason fan! More a Chelsee/Pasha and recently converted Harry/Aliona fan, but fairly fickle anyway.)

Thanks for that post. I think you're entirely right. any long running thread has a core group of posters that keep it going and in jokes and that sort of stuff.People do ebcome genuine friends and so it can seem cliquey. I think the thing is as Alli says if people do get ignore, it's not a question of "let us shun the newbie who dares cross our threshold" but more often things have moved on and I think we sometimes forget that it is daunting typing that first post and then no-one notices and you kind of think "oh well..." and shuffle off

so yeh try and pop in, we have have some low calories pasties somewhere )

low calorie pasties!

NEVAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ahem to that - I was left wondering though if I'm alone in thinking Chelsee's Paso was overmarked - don't get me wrong I have loved a lot of her dances but that one in particular I didn't think was all that.

Lisa Snowden served one useful purpose for me and that was helping me a Mavian understand the Gethinities rage of the previous year - I was not a happy bunny when Austin was eliminated. The judges over-marking of Lisa was also counter-productive people don't remember what a good ballroom dancer she was now - only how chronically over-marked she was.

I prefered her Jive and A. Smooth, the Paso was still great but I think something with the fan broke as if you look at the training from ITTs it is nearly always open in the dance it wasn't (maybe it preoccupied her a bit). That being said it was better executed than Harry's Charleston which got 39 and there you have the problem no maneuverability with the judges scoring from dance 1