You wrote this ,...so why are you getting upset .
"Our cultural life was fashioned also by 'throwing ole talk' giving 'fatigue' and 'calling out other publicly' We lived with it and so it was and still remains a way of life."
AB. I'm surprised you opened yourself up for the picong by putting this part in. I'm not sure what else you expected.
It may not answer your question, but when you consider how small the other forums are to the main football one, I think this is more a community of common interest than anything else. It has its own unique flavour because of the people who tend to flock there (regardless of the occasional welcome and unwelcome foreign visitor)
Also this is much more democratic than the calypso ever was. Calypso was always an art. Everybody could say what they want, but not all man could sing a calypso, even it its simpler form at the beginnings. In calypso, if you make the mistake and stink up de stage is slow hand clap and level toilet paper in your tail.
The calypso was a conversation between one man and an audience. Granted he often held up a mirror of the same things the audience were discussing in the rumshop, but at the end of the day, is one man exposing his take on it. You only find he good if you agree with what he saying from before, and you know you can't say it as artfully.
The forum is just the rumshop. It have plenty man like you sit down in a corner mumbling to yourself drinking orange juice, men like Touches who on they third carib and have the main table in stiches, men like Sam does be sharing whisky and telling x rated jokes, men like Berris who downing heavy scotch and cussing anybody who doh agree with him, and men who does show up just to cuss out with other men with the loser having to pay off the other tab.
And some of us does just hover around watching what going on until the barman threaten to throw us out for not buying nothing.
Doh overanalyse it too much eh...
