Forums > Social Chat > What's the deal with the Spinning Cross Continental Relay Forum?
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Location: NYC, NY, USA
It made me laugh... I never go there... and now I know why... it seems to be a swamp of misplaced posts and threads.
Maybe there are one or two that actually have to do with the Spinning Cross Continental Relay (I spun those poi years ago. Weren't they retired in the HoP museum or something?!)
Is there still a HoP Cross Continental Relay? And who are all the people posting random threads in that forum? Are any of them NEAR topic? It seems that it has turned into an "I don't understand the 'meet others' function" forum.
Go look. You'll laugh.
Well, shall we go?
Yes, let's go.
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9,232 posts
Location: NYC, NY, USA
... hee hee...
There's even a 25 page Dutch poi spinner "Event and Gathering" thread nuzzled in there. Who knew?!
OK, off to bed with me...
Well, shall we go?
Yes, let's go.
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veteran
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Location: Out, United Kingdom
I think I found the thread you were loking at, but maybe not cos the 2 I read about the Spinning X-Contiental Relay werent very long and seemed to make sense.
Did it ever happen?
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Still wiggling
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Location: Belfast, Northern Ireland (UK)
Hmmm.
The Dutch thread turned up there by accident (yes, they do happen), but that thread has managed to bring loads of people together... people who aren't in either the UK, US, Oz or NZ (yes, those people do exist).
So I don't see much of a problem.
Does it personally offend you NYC?!
(sorry if you really did think it was funny - though American humour must be quite different from Irish! - but that post did come across as sarcastic)
Getting to the other side 
Tantamount to fatuity
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Location: Down the road, United Kingdom
You might want to reword your post Ms Poise as you come across sounding quite nasty to Mr NYC. And thats not very friendly now is it?
Sarcastic or nay, NYC seems to have a point.
The last post that i could find pertaining to the relay kit is from April 2004...
an entire misguided forum soaking up valuable bandwidth.... nope can't see a problem with that either!
Meh
Still wiggling
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Location: Belfast, Northern Ireland (UK)
Really?!
Ohhh. Not intended at all.
(Which bit... for future reference?!)
Getting to the other side
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Location: NYC, NY, USA
I'm not offended by anything or anyone concerning the Dutch thread! I don't see it as a problem.
I was only laughing at the pure randomness of all of the posts on there.
I'm not complaining or whining or even suggesting changing anything. It just struck me as funny in that it was like a forum of lost threads.
Well, shall we go?
Yes, let's go.
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Tantamount to fatuity
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Location: Down the road, United Kingdom
See? he's a sensitive soul and now you've made him all defensive.
*hums a lullaby to try and soothe the delicate New Yorker*
Meh
Still wiggling
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Location: Belfast, Northern Ireland (UK)
Cantus. Hush and stop stirring or I will have to be nasty to you!
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Getting to the other side
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Location: Cyprus
Written by: NYC
I was only laughing at the pure randomness of all of the posts on there.
Thats what i love about the social chat forum:p!
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Written by: NYC
It just struck me as funny in that it was like a forum of lost threads.
Perhaps we can ask the moderators to change the name of the forum 
i am a dutch poier as well and i wouldnt have looked if it wasnt pointed out, but anyway, what started like the question if there where any dutch poiers grew into the "dutch meet up headquarters", quite amazing for such an innocent first post to do
Mickey_D
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Confuse them with stupidity!!
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Carpal \'Tunnel
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Location: Warwickshire, United Kingdom
maybe i'm a little slow, but it appears to have gone missing!
Pooh-Bah
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Location: Southampton, United Kingdom
Oh well.
What a wonderful miracle if only we could look through each other's eyes for an instant.
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Carpal \'Tunnel
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is that a zen saying too?
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Location: South Wales
I noticed that this morning...
Pooh-Bah
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Location: Southampton, United Kingdom
The most zen of all sayings. Except perhaps "Hmm..".
What a wonderful miracle if only we could look through each other's eyes for an instant.
Thoreau
Carpal \'Tunnel
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Location: Bristol, UK
Well spotted. Yes, it's gone. It wasn't being used for anything other than misplaced 'Meet Others' postings. So Malcolm has axed it from the site.
Playing OldSchool Poi
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Location: amsterdam, Netherlands
no, it hasen't been kicked off the site, just moved to the gatherings section, where it belongs...
and before you all start slagging off the dutch in these forums, we do have the most well placed, well organised post ever in the "meet others" section so
to you!!! maybe all of you native english speakers could learn something from that. and while on the subject, how do you expect us to get things like this right when you are the ones making most of the english spelling and grammatical mistakes... how do you expect us to learn?quiz: find the mistakes in this post, and be real clever about it...
eRic.
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9,232 posts
Location: NYC, NY, USA
Written by: Dom
Well spotted. Yes, it's gone. It wasn't being used for anything other than misplaced 'Meet Others' postings. So Malcolm has axed it from the site.
Hee hee... see? Sometimes I'm right.
Well, shall we go?
Yes, let's go.
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the henna lady
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Location: WNY, USA
Last I knew, too, the American relay equipment went to Burningman, and like so many other things and people, they have never been seen again.
Pele
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Not Birmingham?
Tantamount to fatuity
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Location: Down the road, United Kingdom
I blame firepoise...
Meh
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Location: Manchester, England (UK)
Thats kind of a shme in a way, would have liked to have a go, but nevermind did seem quite redundent. And I thought it said birmingham too.
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