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Is this the best football club forum on the Internet?


Hbk69 said:
"Club's", neither do I but whenever someone posts a link to their forums they look utterly amateur.
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It’s clubs’, but clubs’s is also accepted nowadays (though it pains me).
He’s referring to clubs outside of Sunderland, therefore plural, not an individual club’s site.
 
Whenever I go to other club forums either its not very active or therer are four small ones. We have this big one that has lots of areas and variet and is highly active. This is very good by any standards of the small numbers of other clubs I see elsewhere.
 
Hbk69 said:
Still utterly baffled when people other than Sunderland fans are on it mind, the Swindon wrongun etc 😉
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I know you're saying that with a wink, but it is what makes this forum one of, if not the best around. We accept contributions from supporters of different teams provided they are interested in honest discussions, not just wind-up merchants, because we do discuss other aspects of football, not just Sunderland.

Swindon, the two Sheff Wed lads, the West Ham poster, Oakie Stokie (most of the time :)) are all good examples. There have even been decent Mag posters like that Alan Shoulder bloke who used to get on here. It's only stirrers like Cridge and that Scunthorpe bloke who need to be removed
 
Dodgy said:
Anybody who doesn't agree that 12am is midnight is as wrong as anybody who thinks it's not clubs', in fairness.
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As I said, a can of worms. If I could be arsed I would prove to you why neither is technically correct, but it is complicated and involves Latin. There may be people who say that a.m. for midnight is right by convention, but there are others who insist the opposite, and conventions only work if everybody accepts them.
 
Hbk69 said:
Serious question. All the links to other club's forums that are posted look like they're still in the 90s in terms of format etc. The mods on here aren't the best sometimes and ban for ridiculous reasons but overall I'd put RTG up against any other message board, football or otherwise.
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The mods don’t do a lot wrong tbf, it’s got to be a nightmare modding this place with the amount of traffic it gets.
70YearsOfHurt said:
1. It was wonderful at first and has expanded well too. E. G. Football separated from chat and other separations like politics.

I loved it at the start. An opportunity to discuss my club, its team and other fans. Plenty of light hearted and amusing conversations. That has changed with more angry and abusive thrusts.

The information on the board is invaluable.

Sadly I cancelled it twice as years rolled on because of things like disgusting language and abuse as well as cowardly attempts to chase members off the board.
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You’re spot on with that comment, other social media culture has crept in on here and made it a lot more aggressive…there’s a few too many egos on here who think they keep the board going and the place would go downhill without them
 
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Its not even really just a Football forum in truth.
Its a general forum for people in this region who happen to be Sunderland fans.

Most content has nothing to do with football, and I think that's what's made it my most accessed location on the internet for more time than I care to admit!
 
Monkeyspunk said:
Ya knar when you’re having a pap and the cack is half out and half in and you think reet nip ya bot hole and it will snap off but it doesn’t it gans back in . I was thinking I wonder if that’s what it feels like getting bummed.

On what other football site would you get asked such serious questions
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Your user name made me laugh, years ago I was down Crimdon Dene and got an ice cream from the ice cream van and the bloke asked if I wanted Monkey's Spunk on it. Still makes me smile thinking about it 50 odd years later.
 
Silky said:
As I said, a can of worms. If I could be arsed I would prove to you why neither is technically correct, but it is complicated and involves Latin. There may be people who say that a.m. for midnight is right by convention, but there are others who insist the opposite, and conventions only work if everybody accepts them.
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Oh, I fully understand the Latin side of it but thankfully, in the 1400+ years since Latin died out, we've conformed (or at least the correct ones amongst us have), to accepting 12am as being midnight. 12am is the start of the new day and thus, how is it possibly be part of the previous day, when a minute (or indeed, a second) later, it is 12:01am?

As for "conventions only work if everybody accepts them", that would mean that conventions never work. There will always be outliers who wish to prove that black is white, the earth is flat, covid was a fallacy: you name it...
 
Who knows, only a sad sack would rift through them all to find out.

On the other hand, with my red and white tinted glasses on id say yes, 100%
 
Dodgy said:
Oh, I fully understand the Latin side of it but thankfully, in the 1400+ years since Latin died out, we've conformed (or at least the correct ones amongst us have), to accepting 12am as being midnight. 12am is the start of the new day and thus, how is it possibly be part of the previous day, when a minute (or indeed, a second) later, it is 12:01am?

As for "conventions only work if everybody accepts them", that would mean that conventions never work. There will always be outliers who wish to prove that black is white, the earth is flat, covid was a fallacy: you name it...
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From Wikipedia "12-hour clock"

Time according to various conventions
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Midnight
End of day
Written 24-hour time00:0012:0024:00
Digital watches (12-hour)12:00 AM12:00 PM12:00 AM
Digital watches (24-hour)0:0012:000:00
(1953)midnightnoon
12 o'clock noon
12 m.		midnight
12:00 p.m.
U.S. Government Publishing Office (2000)
midnight		12 a.m.
noon		12 p.m.
midnight
U.S. Government Publishing Office (2008)12 a.m.
12 midnight		12 p.m.
12 noon
12 midnight
Japanese legal convention0:00 a.m.12:00 a.m.12:00 p.m.
Japanese common usage0:00 a.m.0:00 p.m.
12:00 a.m.		12:00 p.m.
Chicago Manual of Stylenoon
12:00 m.
, UK standardMidnightNoonMidnight
Associated Press style—noonmidnight
midnight
12:01 a.m.

    • ^ These styles are ambiguous with respect to whether midnight is at the start or end of each day.
    • ^ NIST recommends using 11:59 p.m. and 12:01 a.m. to disambiguate when needed.
 
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