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ghoti_mhic_uaitWhen I was a teenager, I listened to the Archers. I don't so much anymore, unless someone is talking about it and i want to hear, but I listened from about 16 (because all my friends did) for maybe 10 years or so.
When I got to the point where I was doing most of my socialising online, therefore, it was reasonable for me to seek out a news group about the Archers.
And what a news group it is! Other groups are slowly fading, but umra remains. A friendly and high traffic group, full of old jokes but always willing to explain.
Some of us even still listen to the archers - the rest of us get the gossip from the group, like relatives who've moved away but still want to read a letter about e silly thing Aunt Helen did now or the news of this year's pantomime.
I got a few of you there, and I'm very grateful for you. I love that it's still there after my recipe groups and my knitting groups have turned to dust. Usenet had a special feel to it, distinct from other forms of socialising. When Monica Ferris talked about rec, craft.trxtiles. needlework i understood despite not reading the group, because i knew how Usenet works. Were it not for umra, I would miss that.
When I got to the point where I was doing most of my socialising online, therefore, it was reasonable for me to seek out a news group about the Archers.
And what a news group it is! Other groups are slowly fading, but umra remains. A friendly and high traffic group, full of old jokes but always willing to explain.
Some of us even still listen to the archers - the rest of us get the gossip from the group, like relatives who've moved away but still want to read a letter about e silly thing Aunt Helen did now or the news of this year's pantomime.
I got a few of you there, and I'm very grateful for you. I love that it's still there after my recipe groups and my knitting groups have turned to dust. Usenet had a special feel to it, distinct from other forms of socialising. When Monica Ferris talked about rec, craft.trxtiles. needlework i understood despite not reading the group, because i knew how Usenet works. Were it not for umra, I would miss that.
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Date: 2015-12-12 10:12 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-12-12 10:58 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-12-12 11:06 am (UTC)I listened to The Archers constantly from birth to 1977, then on Sundays until about 1988. I pop in to it now and then, but mostly get my info about it from Facebook these days. It doesn't feel like I'm missing much, though it does mean that sometimes I have to remind myself that Walter Gabriel and Joe Grundy aren't exactly current reference points. (Heck, even Nelson's been gone nearly 20 years.)
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Date: 2015-12-12 06:02 pm (UTC)I miss the Gabriels.
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Date: 2015-12-12 10:37 pm (UTC)[1] I haven't heard this week's omnibus yet, so he could have snuffed it since last week!
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Date: 2015-12-14 08:45 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-12-12 12:08 pm (UTC)[says [email protected]]
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Date: 2015-12-13 11:19 am (UTC)