Gene_Clark 12 Posted December 18, 2011 Share Posted December 18, 2011 Medina was from Surrey or somewhere & came from a family who didn't like football. However his dad's mate was a Mackem, so Medina adopted them & moved to Durham, aged about 18, never having been up north before & started going to mackem games with the ALS bus & joined the SMB messageboard (aka On The Buses, OTB). Through this he met & wooed this enormous & hideous bird called Sarah, who he got engaged to & after about a month they split up, he went back home & became a trainee accountant. The Mackem Boozer was a short lived rival to OTB, set up to protest about OTB's strict moderation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gejon 2 Posted December 19, 2011 Share Posted December 19, 2011 Medina was from Surrey or somewhere & came from a family who didn't like football. However his dad's mate was a Mackem, so Medina adopted them & moved to Durham, aged about 18, never having been up north before & started going to mackem games with the ALS bus & joined the SMB messageboard (aka On The Buses, OTB). Through this he met & wooed this enormous & hideous bird called Sarah, who he got engaged to & after about a month they split up, he went back home & became a trainee accountant. The Mackem Boozer was a short lived rival to OTB, set up to protest about OTB's strict moderation. Sounds like a failed Toontastic Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gene_Clark 12 Posted December 19, 2011 Share Posted December 19, 2011 Bizarrely there have been something like 5 weddings from OTB, plus at least half a dozen deaths; unlike the disparate on-line Newcastle United communities (a good thing IMHO), the Mackems are all on the one forum. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gejon 2 Posted December 19, 2011 Share Posted December 19, 2011 Never actually experienced a death on a Newcastle forum other than Dr Spectrum who is/was a Man City fan who posted on N-O, just stopped posting on that and the City forum he used to frequent, also stopped answering emails Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gene_Clark 12 Posted December 19, 2011 Share Posted December 19, 2011 Never actually experienced a death on a Newcastle forum other than Dr Spectrum who is/was a Man City fan who posted on N-O, just stopped posting on that and the City forum he used to frequent, also stopped answering emails mackems who died included Laputian, Hazey (both cancer), Gary Rowell (car crash), the legendary Blep just this week & a young lad whose dad i worked with many, many years ago, who drowned in the River aire on a stag do in Leeds (i believe his brother is the spennymoor goalkeeper) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gene_Clark 12 Posted December 19, 2011 Share Posted December 19, 2011 wasn't there someone from Skunkers who died of carbon monoxide poisoning? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom 13845 Posted December 19, 2011 Share Posted December 19, 2011 R.I.P the mackems. A lot of people have been posting on here for a very long time so I can imagine it being upsetting for fellow posters, mackems or not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChezGiven 0 Posted December 19, 2011 Share Posted December 19, 2011 One or two have nearly succumbed to boredom on here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gene_Clark 12 Posted December 19, 2011 Share Posted December 19, 2011 R.I.P the mackems. A lot of people have been posting on here for a very long time so I can imagine it being upsetting for fellow posters, mackems or not. it's all to do with the changing nature of social interaction in the world isn't it? also, the fact that messageboards are microcosmic by their nature; hence you get people who believe in X ranting hysterically at people who believe in Y, as they somehow imagine following the same football team makes it more likely you'll agree about everything else in the world. rationally, that is plain daft Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom 13845 Posted December 19, 2011 Share Posted December 19, 2011 Pretty much yeah! Especially if boards have been around a long time as posters become quite familiar after a while and even some personality comes through! There's been some very repetitive debates on toontastic mind! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gene_Clark 12 Posted December 19, 2011 Share Posted December 19, 2011 Pretty much yeah! Especially if boards have been around a long time as posters become quite familiar after a while and even some personality comes through! There's been some very repetitive debates on toontastic mind! frankly, talking about Newcastle United is essentially a fairly repetitive subject. also it is interesting to compare band messageboards to football ones; with the exception of The Fall's, every music board i use is a gentle, friendly, inclusive sort of place. you never get the nationalistic, xenophobic, intolerant posturing that seems to be the staple of some football boards (though not this one in most instances) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom 13845 Posted December 19, 2011 Share Posted December 19, 2011 I don't visit specific band forums but I do frequent music radars forum which is pretty good. Good for shifting guitar gear - if you need too - and the crack isn't too bad. There's a few morons on there but none of the above I suppose. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gene_Clark 12 Posted December 19, 2011 Share Posted December 19, 2011 "music never lets you down; football always does" - as my mate Dave is fond of saying Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TicTacWoe 0 Posted December 19, 2011 Share Posted December 19, 2011 Never actually experienced a death on a Newcastle forum other than Dr Spectrum who is/was a Man City fan who posted on N-O, just stopped posting on that and the City forum he used to frequent, also stopped answering emails Years ago I was a lurker on tynetalk (before it turned into a ghost town due to an exodus) and towards the end of my time on there one of the moderators died suddenly, very young if I remember right. Was one of the best/most reasonable posters on there too. It's a very strange feeling when someone who you've never met but have been reading the thoughts and experiences of on a regular basis just disappears like that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gene_Clark 12 Posted December 19, 2011 Share Posted December 19, 2011 A friend of mine from a particular band's website (he'd arranged a meet up at a big London gig in July 2006) died in may 2010; he'd been ill with cancer for a while, but he went downhill rapidly & died in a fortnight after a relapse. The band were touring them & they attended his funeral (as did about 40 messageboard members) - each December there is a charity gig in his memory & we've raised about £5k for Cancer Relief. He was a genuinely great guy & I was honoured to have known him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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