Visitors from Bree-land

Oh Mrs Figg, I shouldn't like to gloat, but I've got Orwell now - because of your unfaithfulness - and you're left with Petty, you poor thing... I shouldn't be gloating, but I am.  

 he wants me to clean his barrel, its barbarism on an epic scale.

Not want Mrs Figg, never want you to. Expect, yes.  

Mrs Figg wrote: he wants me to clean his barrel, its barbarism on an epic scale.

You'll be on your hands and knees scrubbing all day and night, because he'll be-buckie the place as quick as you de-buckie the place. Are you sure you still want to marry him, Mrs Figg?

{{{There's still Halfy, you know. I hear he's a snuggly cuddly sort, and at least he wears pants - apparently}}}

That is outrageous Mirry! I'd go out to drink whilst she is cleaning, I do have some manners you know.  

Besides you are just jealous at giving up the chance to live in a barrel with its own jacuzzi and an infinite supply of crabbit wisdom to hear, from me, every day, until you die.

That's the worst kind of revelation, Petty, and you know it.  No wonder we girls get angry at you.  I mean, saying things likely to be true without a thought for consequences!

Maybe we could mount an expedition back to Bree, it's been totally abadoned as far as I can work out

Sadly I cant help, my Forumshire Outreach and Buckie Program hit a terminal wall when it stopped me being able to sign into visit Bree. And naturally I cant just give in and make a new account due to my stubborn bloody mindedness.   

Bree's really far away though.

Ah but it does have a pub to go into when you get there.

It's so quiet there lately  

  I know

I think we Bree Landers have a bit of a reputation...

Unfortunately. I'm going to wait until it isn't just a flame war.

I feel like I've missed out on some of the history between Stu and Tel, but maybe that's for the best.

Earlier today I looked at Bree's archives...it was quite surprising and disconcerting that 18 months ago there were still Dozens of registered users, now as far as I can work out there are scarcely 20 posters, barely half a dozen regulars.

Hmm.

To be fair, the forum has gone through several long periods of quietness. This isn't the first, but yeah it isn't helping.
I have no problem getting in a heated debate with someone, but that's not really what happens there anymore.

Praise Eru for my Banksian forethought in creating this Thread!  Now you have a place of Refuge until you return (one day) to Bree.

I must say, we've had our 'troubles' here {{{as is bound to happen when you have limp-wristed progressives like Eldo and Amarie in Leadership positions}}}, but we always (kind of, sometimes, after a fashion) make things up, and only one or two citizens have ever left (permanently) in total anger or disillusion. That says something for Forumshire, and our open mindedness, I'm sure, and our willingness (at the last) to accept we don't always have to agree nor waste too much time apologizing about intemperate comments Petty (nearly always) sometimes makes.



{{Not that I altogether agree with open-mindedness, mind!  }}}

Pettytyrant101 wrote:Sadly I cant help, my Forumshire Outreach and Buckie Program hit a terminal wall when it stopped me being able to sign into visit Bree. And naturally I cant just give in and make a new account due to my stubborn bloody mindedness.   

 Up to your old tricks, hmmmm?  

A certain Pilgrim springs to mind

 

Hi Folks!


I haven't been around for a while. What happened to Bree? I cann't even find it on a Google search. It used to be that it would always show up at the top of the list when searching for "The Hobbit Movie". Now it's only the corporate sites, especially TORN stuff at the top. I guess they must have learned a thing or two about how to get your site to the top of the search list. (Perhaps someone also learned how to get a site off of the top and keep it well out of sight, if you take my meaning....)

Hi koriagin, glad to see you here again! We have a bunch of Bree-land refugees here lately. I assume that Bree fell off the Google search results since the site was offline for about a month. Although I just tried visiting, and Bree is back online now!

http://the-hobbit-movie.com/forum/

Oddly, it lists the last post as having been made four months ago, despite only having been down for about a month.

  and   

Glad it's back up...but dammit! Half a dozen threads I started are missing!!!

Bugger.