NOOL Years Honours List

Well here we are again.

I've been thinking about this for a couple of days and I can't really say 2008 was a classic year for the site.

Online we slagged off the reissues and piracy and graphs took over for a while. We annoyed one another, came to terms with the loss of the band and got upset about a picture of a ladybum. I really do think that the overall standard continues to fall. I have stopped trying to read everything that is posted, preferring to stick to threads and posters who I know I will be interesting. The way we treat new posters is disgusting and there have been a few threads on the sane side that should have been removed. I would prefer to see more heavy-handed moderating on Digital Republic to achieve a quality that we can be proud of. At times it's a terrible reflection of us, the band, the labels and the heritage. BCD, with the right kind of eyes, remains a vibrant and interesting place where good ideas, information and writing can be found. WIM and Ceremony have developed well and I like them both.

Offline, despite being in partial exile for various reasons, I've have still managed a few drinks, a trip away and the good friendships will always prevail. La distance n'est pas rien, la première pied est la plus difficile. Et le temps.

Happy New Year everyone.

That's some good stuff you're on there Col

Col, you forgot BCD was taken over shortly by us septics as a debating forum of our presidential election. Know a few less people now read my posts because of it... haven't figured out if that's a negative or a positive yet though... will get back to you on that....

oh, and Liam was fun to toy with as usual.

spent even less time than last year on the board this year.

make of that what you will

I found the US election fascinating. The debate on here made up for not hearing what Hunter S Thompson had to say on it.

2005 was a classic NOOL year (not sure what it was like between 2000 and 2002 because i didn't visit the place again for those years after the old Temptation site of 1999-2000 was shut down) but 2008, sadly, came nowhere near.

Happy NY to u all....

Anybody on the piss yet?

yeah.... happy New Year to all noolers on this fookin lovely planet.

Diamond 383 wrote: I found the US election fascinating. The debate on here made up for not hearing what Hunter S Thompson had to say on it.

i found it trying. I pretty much stayed away.

FAO Chrissy x x x

Well, agreed with what Col says - not many moderators seem to visit these boards anymore, either to moderate annoying people or to remove the spam messages that appear on a daily basis...

Most of the forums (bar Behind Closed Doors and Music For Pleasure) seem to be littered with spam mobile phone messages and the like - a sure sign that a forum isn't being moderated properly. Either moderate properly, or close the particular forum down...??

I can't believe that it took so long for Andrew King to remain on this site - the kind of comments he was coming up with were way over the mark...

Ah well, anyway, Happy New Year in advance - I'm shortly off to a mate's house to start the celebrations in style!

Diamond 383 wrote: FAO Chrissy x x x

unf unf

The Board has been ruined by geeky Americans posting nothing but shit. Constant pointless news articles, unfunny youtube videos, never ending attempts to demonstarte that they get English humour are just three of the crimes.

As for reflecting bad on the band. Well, I dont think there is anything that anyone could post on the board to make the band look worse when compared to the way they treat the fans. One of my finer posts of the year was the "the 2006 tour would have been a lot better if they just stuck all the fans on a conveyor belt and had the band spit in their faces, charging £40 a time for the privilege"

I didnt buy the remasters but predicted long before they were released they would be treated with the disdain that was eventually the finished result. Disdain with which we have all become accustomed to. People can say what they want about my opinions on New Order, but I cannot think of a single thing I have said this year that has not been in anyway 100% correct.

I dont know why Shug is saying this is a mirror image to 2004. There was the legendary Barcelona away trip, and its not like there wasnt loads of gigs that people went to. Proof positive that New Order are Dead and Buried, and life goes on. Personally, when New Order reform, I can guarantee that I wont be there. But there were good nights out to be had watching: The Whip, Interpol, Editors, The Cure (with Dave Clark, who i bumped into by accident) CSS, and thats just what I went to, and I was a hermit this year by my own standards. Its been nice to see the Ceremony forum (well, up until today) move on from being a New Order live gigs forum to a proper social forum, especially as it seems to keep te american pricks out of there most of the time.

The following people have invited me into their homes, gave me a floor to sleep on and fed me: Al and Gemma, Dave, Sandra, Alex. Tim also deserves a mention as he paid for the Barcelona hotel and I didnt pay him for months.

who is this wanker above?

Uncle Liam wrote: The Board has been ruined by geeky Americans posting nothing but shit. Constant pointless news articles, unfunny youtube videos, never ending attempts to demonstarte that they get English humour are just three of the crimes.

As for reflecting bad on the band. Well, I dont think there is anything that anyone could post on the board to make the band look worse when compared to the way they treat the fans. One of my finer posts of the year was the "the 2006 tour would have been alot better if they just stuck all the fans on a conveyor belt and had the band spit in there faces, charging £40 a time for the privilege"

I didnt buy the remasters but predicted long before they were released they would be treated with the disdain that was eventually the finished result. Disdain with which we have all become accustomed to. People can say what they want about my opinions on New Order, but I cannot think of a single thing I have said this year that has not been in anyway 100% correct.

I dont know why Shug is saying this is a mirror image to 2004. There was the legendary Barcelona away trip, and its not like there wasnt loads of gigs that people went to. Proof positive that New Order are Dead and Buried, and life goes on. Personally, when New Order reform, I can guarantee that I wont be there. But there were good nights out to be had watching: The Whip, Interpol, Editors, The Cure (with Dave Clark, who i bumped into by accident) CSS, and thats just what I went to, and I was a hermit this year by my own standards. Its been nice to see the Ceremony forum (well, up until today) move on from being a New Order live gigs forum to a proper social forum, especially as it seems to keep te american pricks out of there most of the time.

The following people have invited me into their homes, gave me a floor to sleep on and fed me: Al and Gemma, Dave, Sandra, Alex. Tim also deserves a mention as he paid for the Barcelona hotel and I didnt pay him for months.

Add to that list parochial mancunians

johnny wrote: 2005 was a classic NOOL year (not sure what it was like between 2000 and 2002 because i didn't visit the place again for those years after the old Temptation site of 1999-2000 was shut down) but 2008, sadly, came nowhere near.

What made 2005 so memorable? Was it the touring?

Anyway, happy new year to everyone.

Liam, your quote of the year contains a spelling mistake. Please try harder next year. It's also shite, but we'll let that go on the grounds that nobody expects any better.

Generally, the people who come on here specifically to complain about things and pick on people stopped depressing me this year. I can ignore them quite well, and occasionally they make me laugh.

I also love the ones who always promise to leave, then don't. Particularly when they claim to be leaving at a particular post count, date or whatever.

Okay I'm sober for a while today. This is a wonderful community and what I noticed is that the world crisis that started in.. eh.. October (?) barely had any reflection on the dear pages of our forums; that's a good sign. But think how many won't survive the upcoming year and won't come here because they will lose jobs, computers, etc. In spite of this, HAPPY NEW YEAR!

carl jenkins wrote: who is this wanker above?

You need at least 3 0's after your current post count before you've earned the right to call Liam a wanker.

I mean he IS a wanker and all, but only those of us who've had to deal with him for years have the right to CALL him it.

As someone said a while ago....he's a cunt, but he's OUR cunt!

I should wish you all a happy 2009, but it did fuck all good when it came to 08, I shall therefore, in a bid to use reverse psychology on the universe at large, wish you a FOUL 2009, awful luck and illness to the lot of you.

Hopefully that'll work and 09 will be great for all of yous.

Think of me at midnight.....stuck in work listening to whiney morons and drunks.

And Col.....you need to read Liam's post through again, there's a few spelling mistakes and some genuinely SHOCKING Engerlish, almost bad enough to be from one of the backward colonials.

As I have said hundreds of times, my typing is fucking terrible. And I dont proof read.

Doctor? wrote:

carl jenkins wrote: who is this wanker above?

You need at least 3 0's after your current post count before you've earned the right to call Liam a wanker.

I mean he IS a wanker and all, but only those of us who've had to deal with him for years have the right to CALL him it.

As someone said a while ago....he's a cunt, but he's OUR cunt!

I soooo want to be part of his club Cambo. Sounds like sooo much fun! I finally found out this year that irony has nothing to do with taking the wrinkles outta my dress shirts... can Liam now come sleep on my floor? Please?:D

EdelBrock wrote:

Doctor? wrote:

carl jenkins wrote: who is this wanker above?

You need at least 3 0's after your current post count before you've earned the right to call Liam a wanker.

I mean he IS a wanker and all, but only those of us who've had to deal with him for years have the right to CALL him it.

As someone said a while ago....he's a cunt, but he's OUR cunt!

I soooo want to be part of his club Cambo. Sounds like sooo much fun! I finally found out this year that irony has nothing to do with taking the wrinkles outta my dress shirts... can Liam now come sleep on my floor? Please?:D

Depends if you expect your poor dog to sleep on it afterwards really

Liam's most welcome on my sofa any time....although the near liquid geekiness of the TARDIS interior might cause a brain malfunction.

(besides, I reckon he has quite a directory of folks to stay with over here.....if he ever feels the need to stoop to return).

As kind as the offer is, the chances of me ever requiring any kind of accomodation in Bangor is near zero.

Uncle Liam wrote: As kind as the offer is, the chances of me ever requiring any kind of accomodation in Bangor is near zero.

I rather thought as much.

A bit of a Billy Connolly....."not goin' back unless it's in a wellington bomber loaded with horseshite"

It's an even more tragic place these days too.

Liam you're not fucking staying at my house, EVER.

Doctor? wrote:

Liam's most welcome on my sofa any time....although the near liquid geekiness of the TARDIS interior might cause a brain malfunction.

You should have plenty of room in there anyway, by the way, how many tardis' (or should that be tardi?) can you fit in a tardis?

My take on the year is that while the site has had more than it's fair share of planks, and at times I've taken them too seriously and got into arguments that were quite pathetic, and the level of spam has increased considerably, the site is still interesting, informative and entertaining. I just think the moderators need to be given more power, i.e. to delete spam and remove offensive (that is very offensive as we're all offensive at some point) members.

Happy New Year everyone.

This year wasn't quite as fun, interesting or just plain stopping in for as much as it was last year. Plenty of pointless crap to talk about, I'm sure. And the [severely] offensive members that probably should've learned to, simply, put their big-boy undies on and get over it.

That said, hats off to the few posters that didn't give me hell [or at least didn't give me so much of it anyway], and here's to a better year. For all of us.

I just lament those heady days of the 80s when i was allowed to go to London and Manchester for days and nights out.Now i'm only allowed to go if i'm a Viking.

johnny wrote: I just lament those heady days of the 80s when i was allowed to go to London and Manchester for days and nights out.Now i'm only allowed to go if i'm a Viking.

Uncle Liam wrote:

johnny wrote: I just lament those heady days of the 80s when i was allowed to go to London and Manchester for days and nights out.Now i'm only allowed to go if i'm a Viking.

what, you mean i'm allowed to go to London and like, Manchester and stuff even if i'm not from either?

I keep coming back for the occassional gem that pops up - The scans of the cancelled US JD gig stuff was a highlight for me this year.

However... It does feel like the site is waiting for someone to flick the life support button into the 'off' position. Spotnick is AWOL, the news page is really the olds page and moderation is negligable.

Newbies are treated like rotted dog turd, which is really sad. The humour here is great, once you get it, but the pseudo punk trolling that newbies receive is really unwarranted.

As for posted 'shite'; well the site has always had a lot of shite posted on it, overall this hasn't changed in the few years that i've been posting, although there is a lot less posting, so maybe the shite smells stronger?

I reckon NOOL will survive, but it would be good if someone dedicated to moderating and updating the site would take the keys over from Nicos...

Happy NOOL Year!

johnny wrote: I just lament those heady days of the 80s when i was allowed to go to London and Manchester for days and nights out.Now i'm only allowed to go if i'm a Viking.

EHHHH??

You got some new lass that likes driving you to the train station but only if you are wearing a helmet and carrying a broadsword, shouting Danish?

I think Johhny's caught the last train out of coherenceville ;)

Doctor? wrote: I think Johhny's caught the last train out of coherenceville ;)

Time for bed I reckon. He's on the last train to twatsville.

Burt Reynolds wrote:

Doctor? wrote: I think Johhny's caught the last train out of coherenceville ;)

Time for bed I reckon. He's on the last train to twatsville.

Still....at least J has to consume 4 gallons of beer to reach this level of bellendedness......Mansour-bin-rapist could eclipse this while still asleep.

Doctor? wrote:

Burt Reynolds wrote:

Doctor? wrote: I think Johhny's caught the last train out of coherenceville ;)

Time for bed I reckon. He's on the last train to twatsville.

Still....at least J has to consume 4 gallons of beer to reach this level of bellendedness......Mansour-bin-rapist could eclipse this while still asleep.

Lets just hope it's temporary. We can be forgiving to non-newbies, and Johnny is part of the furniture. Hopefully he'll wake up and start up a thread about windmills or sheds.

Absolutely.....wouldn't be new year without ONE of your mates going off on one would it.

It's a man's $DEITY bestowed right to be a total plank after a skinful once in a while.

Burt Reynolds wrote:

Doctor? wrote: I think Johhny's caught the last train out of coherenceville ;)

Time for bed I reckon. He's on the last train to twatsville.

I've noticed you've taken a dislike to me since i've been chatting on the phone to a certain someone you seemed to previously regard as your territory, Burt. Oh dear Have i trod on your shoes?

johnny wrote:

Burt Reynolds wrote:

Doctor? wrote: I think Johhny's caught the last train out of coherenceville ;)

Time for bed I reckon. He's on the last train to twatsville.

I've noticed you've taken a dislike to me since i've been chatting on the phone to a certain someone you seemed to previously regard as your territory, Burt. Oh dear Have i trod on your shoes?

not at all. Far from it. No dislike here, although your behaviour tonight is going down like a lead balloon, sir

And I don't do territories.

Israels still a cunt of a place

I welcome all NOOLers (well at least you must have 100 posts) to come to my house and rest in my drawing room, if happen to travel through South Texas! Great dinners and music (strictly dub & New Order) guaranteed!

johnny wrote:

Burt Reynolds wrote:

Doctor? wrote: I think Johhny's caught the last train out of coherenceville ;)

Time for bed I reckon. He's on the last train to twatsville.

I've noticed you've taken a dislike to me since i've been chatting on the phone to a certain someone you seemed to previously regard as your territory, Burt. Oh dear Have i trod on your shoes?

WHO who WHO........no one EVEr rings me!Only the solicitors ,police and job finders INC.Can my pretend SHEDheads give us a bell.I did change my number but surely you can guess it!

Rocket Mick wrote: WHO who WHO........no one EVEr rings me!Only the solicitors ,police and job finders INC.Can my pretend SHEDheads give us a bell.I did change my number but surely you can guess it!

Give us a RING Mick!

Diamond 383 wrote:

Ooohh Colin,Yes!

Some sore heads today

Happy New Year peeps x

There'll be some sore somethings when I get round to kicking them them all in.

Behave yourselves.

Dodjem wrote: Some sore heads today

Happy New Year peeps x

Yer right there,

my heads pumping,i had someone singing into my voicemail at 5 o clock this morn....

Twice J? it wasnt that bad.......

...eh actually,it was!

Jumped out of bed just now. The sun is bright. New Year!!! (The only country that still in 2008 is Kiribati)

Resisto todos mas la temptacion.

Diamond 383 wrote:

Col, surely you know this one is waaaay more comfortable:

Happy New Year to each and everyone of you!!

Ya set of bastards!!!!

Happy New Year everyone! I have not been here long enough to comment on the quality of the site but I have read some interesting threads and been very jealous of many of you for the gigs that you have attended!

Diamond 383 wrote: La distance n'est pas rien, la première pied est la plus difficile. Et le temps.

Happy New Year everyone.

Bien dit.

Meilleurs voeux pour 2009.