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Well from what I’ve seen in the last 6 months and earlier when I was a member in 2006, it was never the case that “general chat” was limited to astronomy related matters. Indeed out of the top 30 topics on today’s list, this is 19 (two thirds) of them.
Dangers in doing the right thing
I sure miss Australia...
Happy Bithday Quark
Just a Poll but no Posts on Global Warming
My new offroader
Who wants to know what there last name means?
Collecting Fossils
Hi all
Derivatives- say what?
AB gadgets ....
CSIRO Gagging Climate Debate
Bird (Australian edition)
ABC1 Sunday 8th Nov 7:30pm – Darwin’s Brave New World
ffloods again
Should we allow the greedy to rule the earth
Boat Refugees
Heads up: Movie "Amelia" hits Nov 12th
What is the best and worst employment you ever had
Spontaneously Combusting Elephants
In theory General Chat may be exclusively about astronomy related stuff but that’s not what it is in practice (as the above list demonstrates) and it never will be. Sure maybe in the next few days the “non-astronomy” related stuff will fall off a bit but soon it will revert back. Because at the end of the day its like Fred (Bassnut) said. This forum isn’t just about astronomy, its a social gathering as well and people like to talk about what they want at social gatherings and not just look on with obedient admiration at what the clique wants to talk about. And if you think that’s an exaggeration, what’s really irksome about the above list is that two of the topics were started by a favoured member of the forum who at the same time angrily complained that someone else’s thread was not astronomy related.
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