HoPpers : Why are we all so nice?

Now, I have been on HoP for a couple days short of a year, and it has been a very eventful year too.

I would like everyone's opinion, using the slip provided, as to why HoP is possibly the nicest bunch of peeps it has ever been anyones pleasure to encounter.

At PLAY, I got talking to a small group of the VDubbers who had ambulated over to watch the show on Saturday Night. The comments ranged from 'Ive never seen anything like it, its all so amazing', referring to the performers, to comments like 'You are all so welcoming', 'you hear about the youth of today, and how its so bad, then we meet a group like you', 'the atmosphere here is so wonderful'. I had to agree.
They also couldnt understand that we were, at base, an online community, and that the hard work of Dunc and the gang had all been put in for the community (that is, not just HoP, but the whole juggling/spinning/OM community).



So, why do you think this is?

well i went for the best two its mainly the badgers, but i suppose its because i feel its almost like a family

It has to be the badgers but it also has something to do with the fact that it takes a certain type of nutcase to spin fire round his/her/its head.

Who thinks we need a badger Graemlin?

was all of them except two

sensible us? and i would say there is no one group of people who spin (unless perhaps insane)

good point though flash

id say that there is no other community ive come across where people get on so well

everything except one, i dont think that it attracts one kind of person because anyone in this world can have the same interest and be compleatly different

Them crazy badgers eh?

we're crazy, end of!

I think with the HoP community - the more you put in the more you get out. I think we're people who put in a lot of effort and we are rewarded pretty nicely.

I think there's more reasons than that, Mr Point...

I think that spinners/jugglers/object manipulators are generally really laid back as a whole anyway.

We like an audience. What we do feels so much better when someone says 'wow, that's cool' that we're not gonna turn away new faces...

But, 'tis true. Some of the nicest people I've ever me are HoPpers. I feel proud to be part of this community.

We're similar people who have similar interests, we're also very protective of each other and I'm sure I speak for more than just myself when I say that very close friendships have been formed because we've met through the spinners community worldwide. Those who are agressive are soon made to realise that violent/aggressive behaviour isn't tolerated and through solidarity we get this message across very well, if they continue with such behaviour they would be ousted from the community

So basically, we're a very genial positive collective. Negativity/agression is treated suitably and we act like a huge extended family. Oh hang on, that just means we're Y2K hippies! YEY!

Bl00dy hippies....
Also can all see ourselves to some extent in people starting up, we recognise the dropped balls, tangled poi and smacked heads. common ground (especially facing adversity...evil poi) brings people together. yay! us

All of the above!

it's definitely the badgers!! & those pesky mushrooms that pop up occasionally!!

i'd have to agree with those vdub pepl

i went to play, i'd never been to anything like it b4 and i'm new to this community, so i didn't know what to expect........ but it was great the atmosphere was really good, everyone was really welcoming and friendly. (ok i have to admit i didn't actually speek to that many HOPers cos i'm pretty shy, but was still the best fun i've had for ages)

i think its probabley got a lot to do with thoes mischievous badgers but also the fact that HOP is full of crazy, happy, rather great people who share a lot of common groud and are always willing to help each other out.

cant wait till the next play !!!!!

Well I haven't been HoPping long at all and only knew one or two other people from here before last weekend, but I really felt the lurvrly welcoming family vibe at Play dispite hardly knowing anyone.

My own theory is that to enjoy spinning stuff you've got to be at least a little bit extroverted and that naturally inclines you to talk to other people. But there's always someone who can spin better and twirl prettier than you, and that's really apparent at a meet, so the experience is humbling. There wasn't a shred of gratuitous ego at Play, something that didn't quite surprise, but really really pleased me.

Plus I think eveyone likes showing, and being shown new tricks. So if you're not there actively making get-to-know-you talk you're sharing knowledge, which I know makes me smile 10 miles wide. And smiles are contagious.

So you're left with a bunch of extroverted people who dig what they do, dig what each other does, and no-one's got a big head about it.
Stars are born from big coulds of hydrogen when the temperature is just right, ammino acids form in pools of water when the chemistry comes together, fire starts burning when you've got heat, fuel and oxygen. And friends are made and people are lovely to each other when everyone's interested, everyone's grinning like a bag full of teeth, everyone's doing what they dig and no-one's trying to show anyone else up.

Natural, innit?

Personally, I find the whole "" culture here sickening... but I suppose being a hippy is all about love and happy-drugs...

... and, to meet pleasent people is such a rarity in the world ruled by chavs. So I'm not complaining.

HoPpers are great because they don't judge, they just welcome

It doesn't matter how long you have been on HoP, how long you have been spinning or how good you are, if you make the effort to join in, you are welcome.

The whole " " thing is optional, you always have the opportunity to say "no thanks" to a hug when you're being presented with one and folks would soon know you're not the type who enjoys it. Some folks just aren't suited to close personal contact but it's more of an add-on to the friendly culture not a requirement. At least you like everything else tho

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suppose being a hippy is all about love and happy-drugs...

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Of course it is *winks and nods sarcastically*