Where were you the day the Thorp Board died?

SS76 - 8-21-2015 at 06:08 PM

somewhere in New England

Six66Mike - 8-22-2015 at 09:52 AM

Taking a dump.

panzerkreuzer - 8-22-2015 at 12:52 PM

maybe on facebook like the rest of you.
btw, is BD still alive?

Discipline - 8-22-2015 at 03:49 PM

BD is alive and well. He's just working insane hours these days.

JawnDiablo - 9-4-2015 at 02:24 PM

I drank out of my Thorp coffee mug today at work...................................

that's all I have

barc0debaby - 9-6-2015 at 10:51 AM

My little sister knocked my Thorp mug off the table and broke it. RIP.

Monkey_Julius_BoWaffle - 9-8-2015 at 02:56 PM

What the hell did happen to this place? Did everyone simply give up on msg. board posting or move elsewhere? This was a pretty active place back in the earlier to mid 00's.

Discipline - 9-9-2015 at 11:06 AM

It was dying a slow death, and then a new Thorp was started on Facebook. It's not too active either.

JawnDiablo - 9-9-2015 at 01:30 PM

for fucks sake I have over 12K posts on here..........that's a lot of time

Discipline - 9-11-2015 at 09:03 PM

Yup. I spend, or spent, a lot of time here over the last 10+ years. Sad to see such a decline.

Six66Mike - 9-12-2015 at 09:41 AM

Thorp needs to put out some more records!

lifeisabitch - 9-15-2015 at 10:48 AM

there will be more sgr stuff coming soon... and some new merch in the merch now store... Big D is alive and well as well as Andy, work is being done behind the scenes....
it is easier to just post on facebook, everything in 1 place kind of idea, but really I don't post much of anything anywhere except for work pics with as busy as I am...
miss this place but real life has gotten so good don't have as much time to be virtual, that is a good thing

morgan - 9-18-2015 at 07:50 PM

I still like to check out the message board from time to time. Definitely slowed down a lot though. I think the fact that most of us are friends with each other on facebook probably contributed.

Discipline - 9-19-2015 at 05:44 PM

That, and a large percentage of the regulars are in our late 30's-early 40's. At that point a lot of people become busier with families, work, etc. The internet becomes a bit less important. I have no life, so I still lurk.

DaveMoral - 9-28-2015 at 08:23 PM

I drop by occasionally. I'm friends with a few of you on Facebook. I didn't know there was a Thorp group. Am I in it? haha.

random - 10-3-2015 at 04:22 PM

"Subject: Where were you the day the Thorp Board died?"

Probably lurking. Haven't posted or even logged in for a bit, but still checking in. Nice to see some of the old regulars never left.

Not on the Facebook group. OK, not on Facebook. Might be in a closer time zone a year from now, though, in case the board is still alive (even if just on life support).

MattyA - 10-6-2015 at 10:07 PM

Exactly what discipline said, busy with life.

Monkey_Julius_BoWaffle - 10-17-2015 at 06:11 AM

Quote: Originally posted by Discipline

That, and a large percentage of the regulars are in our late 30's-early 40's. At that point a lot of people become busier with families, work, etc. The internet becomes a bit less important. I have no life, so I still lurk.

This is a bit of a long post that sort of rambles around several different topics, but to begin with, Your "I have no life" statement unfortunately/fortunately(?) describes me as well. No wife, no kids, no family....yep. No life. Some great friends (whom 9 out of 10 have either already been divorced once or twice and/or are on their second or third marriage or have divorced once and that fucked them up to the point that they have remained single ever since or, for the 1 of 10 that are STILL actually married? They seem so miserable it's unreal. That 10% tell me "we're staying together for the kids"...which sounds noble and all, but? Are you doing MORE damage by staying together while hating one another than you would be if you simply divorced?).....Damn, I'm glad I never did marry. I was in an 8 yr. relationship. Beautiful girl. Great figure. I looked her up on Facebook a few years ago and she's HUGE. NO, that did NOT make me feel good AT ALL to see her in such a way (we just grew apart, I have no ill will towards her at all. I was her first everything....from kiss to virginity and she was [usually] GREAT to me, I was just an idiot often times and took advantage of that fact).

She married a guy that just being purely honest is NOT a very great looking guy but he DID come from a family flush with $$$. I don't know if she just got "comfortable" in the marriage or if it was in her genes to, at a certain age, "fill out" (EXTREMELY).

I felt SO SORRY for her.

But I can't lie. I'm SO HAPPY that I did not marry her or the other girl that I came very close to marrying. Both would have been mistakes.

Most of my friends also have children and they tell me that I'm missing out big time via the fact that I do not have any children of my own. I "get" what they are saying, but at 39 years of age? I'm happy to be child free.

Maybe there will come a day when I will "have a life" and either be married or have children and all that good jazz. But I'm okay "having no life" for now. Maybe I'm just a selfish SOB, but I LOVE the fact that *I* am the only person that I am responsible for right now.

It's weird the way diff. msg. boards are. I know of some that, as the regular posters have aged? They post MORE (and are MORE "cranky" as well). It's sort of like an "escape" from their real lives or something to that effect. Whereas, with other forums? Once the regulars aged into their early to late 40's? Those forums became virtual ghost towns (I guess this forum would fit that profile for the most part).

I got home internet access in July of 1998 (I'm sure many had home internet access prior to that). But I have been online ever since. At some point, during my first year of being online, I discovered Usenet and various Newsgroups and posted often to those. Then, EZ Board became the big thing. Then PhpBB, etc. Of course, in-between all of that was the once KING "MySpace" (full disclosure? I LOVED MySpace....I will NEVER like Facebook the way I once did MySpace). In the final years of MySpace's dominance, there came a little site called Youtube. And then? The dreaded FB. (even the comment sections of MANY websites these days force you to post from a FB account...FB has REALLY "centralized" the internet). Google Blogs began blocking SO MANY great blogs (I remember back around 2007/2008? If you wanted an album and absolutely COULD NOT find it ANYWHERE? You could turn to the Google Blog search and almost like clockwork? You'd find it. It was amazing (while it lasted). I'm talking incredibly RARE and OOP albums (for example, the old punk band The Depressions, who, after a stabbing death at one of their shows changed their name to the DP's for their second album. I could not find it ANYWHERE and I was a HUGE Depressions fan.....until good ole Google Blog search! BOOM. There it was! Much more poppy, but what the hell? I love it nonetheless).

Okay, I have went WAY the hell off topic here (this is a post that finds myself being very nostalgic, longing for the days of old....every bit as much as it finds me being thankful that I can still be an immature jackass If I WANT to be because I have no one to bitch at me or whine about it if I am).....

I not only miss the days when the Thorp Board was more inundated with posts/topics/etc.....but I miss the days of the internet of old altogether. The internet has REALLY changed IMO since the advent of Facebook becoming so huge. IMO, it has NOT been a change for the better either. But that is simply MY opinion.

JawnDiablo - 10-29-2015 at 04:22 PM

IMO, it has NOT been a change for the better either.

Nailed it.

barc0debaby - 10-31-2015 at 01:41 PM

I was 19 when I first posted on this board, now I'm 28 with a real job. Still lurk here frequently, post every once in a while.

Quote:

I not only miss the days when the Thorp Board was more inundated with posts/topics/etc.....but I miss the days of the internet of old altogether. The internet has REALLY changed IMO since the advent of Facebook becoming so huge. IMO, it has NOT been a change for the better either. But that is simply MY opinion.

There are plenty of boards that are still as they were before facebook got big. I think the big problem is that this was always a small, tight knit community. When the handful of regulars stopped posting frequently the impact was far greater than on much bigger forums.

Wasn't aware of the facebook group though, anyone got the link for that?

sentrand - 11-1-2015 at 07:52 PM

probably facebook

Discipline - 11-2-2015 at 10:35 PM

Quote: Originally posted by Monkey_Julius_BoWaffle

Quote: Originally posted by Discipline

I get that. I never, at any point in my life, wanted to have kids. I don't like them all that much, and I would be a terrible parent. Never cared about marriage, but after a long relationship I realized I would a terrible husband. A lot of that comes from realizing I'm a selfish bastard. I want to do what I want, without having to worry about what the wife or kids want. For the most part, I prefer my own company to that of others. My kids have paws, and I like it that way, since I like cats far more than people.

There are things I'd like to change, I wish I could get my back fixed up enough so I could go back to work again, but unfortunately that isn't going to happen. Plus I'm a mental case, so I'm fucked either way. I just wish workers comp paid as much as people think. So life goes on as it tends to do. I make what I can out of it. New Sheer Terror records always help.

forsaken - 1-14-2016 at 08:08 AM

Well I've been on life support, in a coma and learning to walk and type again. Don't know what everyone elses excuse is.

Six66Mike - 1-17-2016 at 09:09 AM

Wait, what?

Discipline - 1-21-2016 at 12:11 PM

Quote: Originally posted by forsaken

Well I've been on life support, in a coma and learning to walk and type again. Don't know what everyone elses excuse is.

Seriously? Dude, what the fuck happened, and are going to be okay going forward?

Monkey_Julius_BoWaffle - 2-3-2016 at 01:07 AM

Quote: Originally posted by forsaken

Well I've been on life support, in a coma and learning to walk and type again. Don't know what everyone elses excuse is.

Holy shit man? Like the others asked...WTF happened? How are you now? That SUCKS man, I really hate to heart that.

I wish that this forum was like it was back in 2005/2006...hell, even some years afterwards, but damn, it's just DEAD. So bad that I only come here to look like once a month (if I remember). I just find it sad because I fucking LOATHE Facebook. Fuck FB.

I much prefer actually posting HERE to fucking around on that stupid fucking site that is becoming a government "registry" - "watch you if need be" site. A "confirm your identity by sending us a scan of your Drivers License" and you "HAVE to use your REAL names now unless you can prove your in a popular enough band" bullshit. (Those using fake names, etc.? If they haven't gotten you yet - your time is coming).

Does anyone else not find it AMAZING how quickly they ascended and completely squashed what had, only one to two years prior, been THE biggest social site on the web ("MySpace" - which I STILL MISS and think was 1000x more fun/superior to FB which I mostly find boring as shit). I'm not generally a "conspiracy theorist", but I almost can not HELP but think that they had a little "help along the way". With MILLIONS of people having an account? It just creates an environment where, if someone becomes suspected of (whatever)? They are EASILY found - and then, if they have FB on their smart phones? Track-able too! I just think that there's something to it all....

Were it literally not for 5, maybe up to 10 people - old friends that are now living long distances away? I would ABSOLUTELY have deleted my account when they locked me out and made me send them a scan of my DL to "prove I was me" - and I was using my REAL NAME to begin with!).

I've never mentioned it on here and I'm sure that no one really cares, but me and GG Allin were friends and therefore, many of HIS closest friends became MY friends and, it's THOSE people (some of the old Jabbers members included) that is keeping me on FB for the most part. Otherwise? They would have been told "FUCK OFF" when they requested my DL scan (I DID get to block the DL# - and like a MORON I FORGOT TO - but they wanted the photo, birth-date and my name, promising to immediately "destroy" said document post approval).

It took them about a week and they basically said "thanks for confirming your identity! Your account is now unlocked"....I just think that it's a load of bullshit. Whatever though. Their site? Their rules. I can bitch and whine 'til I'm blood-red in the veins and you can see my pulse in my protruding neck veins but? Absolutely ZERO will be achieved. And thus? The beat goes on....

Discipline - 2-3-2016 at 05:43 PM

Those name rules are crazy. Paulie had the same problem, among many others.

Monkey_Julius_BoWaffle - 2-10-2016 at 02:15 AM

Quote: Originally posted by Discipline

Those name rules are crazy. Paulie had the same problem, among many others.

Oh wow, I did not know that. That sucks.

I have a feeling that MOST (maybe even ALL, by some point) will be required to "prove" who they are. I think it's complete bullshit. But again? Their site? Their rules. And they KNOW IT too.

I STILL think that they had some heavy-handed "helping hands" in some really high places helping them become THE biggest social media site on the web and pretty much becoming the death knell of MySpace. It was like, one day EVERYBODY had a MySpace account. A year later? It was a virtual ghost-town. There's truly nothing that great about FB comparatively IMO. So how the HELL did they pull that off. And now? There have been movies made about it, they are an actual stock option, etc. I just really think it was more than simple "luck".

I don't feel the same way regarding Google. I just think that they became one of the best search engine options and grew over a 5 to 10 yr. period of time, carefully creating other options (Google Earth, for example) to go along with their search engine. I just think that they worked hard, hired incredibly intelligent people and picked/chose their non-search-engine creations very carefully over time.

I just feel different in regards to FB. I may be WAY off & totally wrong, but, I just can't shake that feeling....