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2 hours ago, Neal said:

are we really having a discussion on who is a real blink fan and who isn't?

what afucking shitshow, felt so embarassed reading the last few pages of grown men defending their fandom for a band.

grow the fuck up.

Embarrassing isn't it, need to give their heads a fucking wobble and go outside for a bit. 

I feel like this is what it would be like to be a member of a One Direction forum sometimes. 

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8 hours ago, vic vinegar said:

 

By your logic, Davey Jones shouldn't be on the boards giving his input because he thinks they started selling out during Dude Ranch or some shit.

Sorry the majority of blink fans are lukewarm on the new shit and are voicing it...?

I think you’ve misunderstood what I’ve been saying. Never have I said people shouldn’t give their input. I’ve been saying people who no longer like the band probably shouldn’t listen to them if it’s not to their taste anymore rather than get riled up and keep posting the same negative comments over and over.  Davey says he still enjoys listening to them for the most part. He even said he liked Parking Lot which in my opinion is one of the worst blink songs they’ve ever released. 

I’m lukewarm on the new stuff too. I’ve said this. This isnt something I’m arguing against. How you feel about the band is pretty much the same as me. I was just commenting on the people who constantly bitch and moan like they’re expecting every release to be a lost track from untitled even though they’ve spent the days leading up to the release already criticising it and saying it’ll be terrible.

Anyway this is the last I’m gonna say on the subject. Everyone is misinterpreting what I’m saying and it’s pointless to continue. 

(And I’ve never said anyone is a true fan or isn’t a fan regarding what era they like or dislike. That’s been done by many people, not by me. No one has the right to say someone isn’t a fan of the band because they like certain songs). 

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8 minutes ago, Kay said:

I just find it hysterical that people think the shit posting here is some passionate angry people constantly posting whilst spitting rage and boohooing in the corner just because blink doesn't sound the way they want them to.

Do you know why I post here? I get bored, talking shit on the internet is entertaining, and blink is the only subject I'd choose if I had to go play mastermind. That's literally it, if this place closed tomorrow the overall impact it would have on my life would be minimal, I'd just end up spending more time on reddit to compensate. No one here is genuinely heart broken or furious or cry wanking over the current state of blink. it's old fans who are invested enough to continue checking the music out but continuously disappointed and like having a place to moan about it before wambling onto the next thread. 

No one gives anywhere near as much of a fuck as some clearly think they do. 

This is pretty much spot on, most people here who criticise Blink have fairly well thought out rational points that create discussion. 

What Ghent appears to want is a bunch of dribbling morons who can barely string a sentence together other than 'I LISTEN 2 BLINK IN MI CAR ON DA WAI 2 WORK 2DAY, SO GUD DUD!'

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Shit has certainly changed around here.  And not only Blink's music.
Never have I seen, in the 15 years I have been on this site, so much whinging and bitching between people.
Why can people just accept others' opinions?  Without blasting someone purely because they don't have the same opinion?

I'm definitely not the biggest fan of their new stuff.  At all.  I just can't get sold on Skiba as much as some do.  And I think Mark is trying way too hard too.  But that's just my opinion.  I'm not going to flame on people for thinking differently!

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40 minutes ago, Kay said:

I just find it hysterical that people think the shit posting here is some passionate angry people constantly posting whilst spitting rage and boohooing in the corner just because blink doesn't sound the way they want them to.

Do you know why I post here? I get bored, talking shit on the internet is entertaining, and blink is the only subject I'd choose if I had to go play mastermind. That's literally it, if this place closed tomorrow the overall impact it would have on my life would be minimal, I'd just end up spending more time on reddit to compensate. No one here is genuinely heart broken or furious or cry wanking over the current state of blink. it's old fans who are invested enough to continue checking the music out but continuously disappointed and like having a place to moan about it before wambling onto the next thread. 

No one gives anywhere near as much of a fuck as some clearly think they do. 

Everything you said goes for the other side too. I think you think people care a lot more about you guys then we actually do. We’re not sitting here spitting rage and head butting the wall because you guys are dissing nu-blink. We simply shake our heads, question why you’d waste so much of your time and then go on enjoying ourselves. 

It’s just shit talking from both sides.

 

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33 minutes ago, ...Dan... said:

This is pretty much spot on, most people here who criticise Blink have fairly well thought out rational points that create discussion.

To be fair, for every one actually well thought out and rational point that gets posted criticising blink there two posts from Scott, jan or Oliver that are complete rubbish and add absolutely nothing. This was just two pages back:

”Anyone happy with BIOMY is on a wum and not a real fan imo”

There’s nothing rational or well thought out about that. And unfortunately cause the bullshit posts like that tend to outnumber the actual well thought out ones 2:1 most people just see the bullshit.

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6 minutes ago, Russel Coight said:

Everything you said goes for the other side too. I think you think people care a lot more about you guys then we actually do. We’re not sitting here spitting rage and head butting the wall because you guys are dissing nu-blink. We simply shake our heads, question why you’d waste so much of your time and then go on enjoying ourselves. 

It’s just shit talking from both sides.

 

I honestly didn't think you were either, but from the last couple of pages with everyone going on about it it sure seemed completely unnecessary. 

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everybody who is not a real blink fan should get a two week ban imo. That way they can set their priorities straight and decide if they want to stay or not.

 

can't be arsed with those phony wannabe fans that dislike the skiba era. This place needs a cleansing asap so we can worship blink 182 like we are meant to do

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18 minutes ago, Kay said:

I honestly didn't think you were either, but from the last couple of pages with everyone going on about it it sure seemed completely unnecessary. 

Both sides have been going at it though so I don’t see how it’s apparently only the nu-blinks overreacting. Seriously read back this entire thread, I think you’ll find just as much unnecessary shit from both sides.

 

14 minutes ago, Neal said:

everybody who is not a real blink fan should get a two week ban imo. That way they can set their priorities straight and decide if they want to stay or not.

 

can't be arsed with those phony wannabe fans that dislike the skiba era. This place needs a cleansing asap so we can worship blink 182 like we are meant to do

The “real fans” bullshit was started by Scott who is on the dislike skiba side of the argument. So you’re simply talking shit. 

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1 hour ago, Russel Coight said:

To be fair, for every one actually well thought out and rational point that gets posted criticising blink there two posts from Scott, jan or Oliver that are complete rubbish and add absolutely nothing. This was just two pages back:

”Anyone happy with BIOMY is on a wum and not a real fan imo”

There’s nothing rational or well thought out about that. And unfortunately cause the bullshit posts like that tend to outnumber the actual well thought out ones 2:1 most people just see the bullshit.

That's a fair comment, I didn't see that post. 

I think the mud slinging just gets a bit pathetic from both sides, I suppose it's only natural for me to notice the side who generally has a differing opinion to mine.

I know I criticise the new line up a bit but I feel I can at least make rational points about why I think that. I don't think I have ever seen any of the fanboys (other than Rybread) actually counter with anything interesting to say, you either get called a Tombot, a wannabe music producer or some other shitty generic one liner.

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1 minute ago, ...Dan... said:

That's a fair comment, I didn't see that post. 

I think the mud slinging just gets a bit pathetic from both sides, I suppose it's only natural for me to notice the side who generally has a differing opinion to mine.

I know I criticise the new line up a bit but I feel I can at least make rational points about why I think that. I don't think I have ever seen any of the fanboys (other than Rybread) actually counter with anything interesting to say, you either get called a Tombot, a wannabe music producer or some other shitty generic one liner.

yeah basically my feelings. I just didn't pay attention to Scotts post because it seemed more like trolling than anything else, people seriously engaging with it had me a bit like "really? you think he's serious?" 

Whilst I disagree with people like RyBread he always puts efforts into discussions, brings the news most of the time, and isn't usually overly childish or insulting. it's the "can't have a negative opinion or you're a tombot racist" side of it that gets incredibly tiresome. 

That being said, we also have that trolling knobhead on our side of things who just comes across as a fucking idiot (Oliver makes good points, or whatever he's called) so there's douchery on both sides. 

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Yeah, I always found it weird how some people think the criticism aimed at blink by some of us (I'm one of the vocal ones about it) means we are raging and crying about it. I don't think of it that way. I just simply state my points and opinion in a calm and rational matter. I mean that's how I feel like when I'm typing them out haha. It isn't like we are 10 year old kids, smashing up our keyboards and fuming about a shit blink song. People do that with PS4 or Xbox, not music.

What I can say is that most of the more negative critics of blink in recent years are just guys that still love blink and always will love blink, and are passionate about blink. We'll always check out new blink because blink is a big part of our lives. Majority of us have posted and looked on these forums for years. We're part of the community. We just feel blink are capable of way more. We are still here because we hope blink might release amazing shit again. We feel disappointed but at the same time, we aren't actually bothered. Like Kay mentioned, some of us are bored and some wanna pass time. These boards are cool for that kinda stuff. Debating and shit like that. We'd rather debate over shit we are passionate about.

Just because we criticise blink, it don't mean we aren't fans. Same goes for the likes of the Kansas Krew and Rybread. Just because they seem to love everything blink do since Tom left, doesn't mean they aren't real fans either. You got davey, who is passionate about blink. He loves the Raynor era of blink but is vocal about the 99-05 era of blink. But he seems to actually like Neighborhoods and California. You got a lot of us who love every form of blink until Tom left. But there's still songs we love after all that. I fucking love Los Angeles and Long Lost Feeling.

Blink might release a lot of awful shit in my opinion, but they still have way better songs and are more consistent than any other band that is around IMO. California has almost 30 songs and I like 10 of them. Other bands will have a whole album where I don't like it or only like 1 song. Blink are still the best there is for me. I just feel blink are capable of having an album where every song is damn good. But blink is a big part of my life. They're a huge influence on me. I like the two new songs, although I'm still a bit divided on BIOMY even if I do like it. Just those damn gang vocals let it down for me.

All I can do is make a playlist of the best blink songs in the Skiba era of blink, and call that playlist my blink-182 album. And I'll be vocal about what I like and don't like on these boards. Cause there's sometimes about an hour in my day where I just wanna sit down, chill out with a lucozade bottle and sit at my desktop with my Macbook on and debate something I'm passionate about.

Blink-182 is the best.

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There’s extremists on both sides as well as rational thinkers. For every time Ghent calls someone a racist, Oliver claims he can out-write  and out-perform current blink. People talk shit. We might get real deep into it every now and again but nobody is losing sleep over it.

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6 minutes ago, Russel Coight said:

There’s extremists on both sides as well as rational thinkers. For every time Ghent calls someone a racist, Oliver claims he can out-write  and out-perform current blink. People talk shit. We might get real deep into it every now and again but nobody is losing sleep over it.

Haha true, but that's the entertainment of the blink boards. Oliver is one crazy fucker but these boards would be shit without him. Ghent and Scott are similar, except one is British and the other is American, and the British one is more on the negative side of blink and the American one is more on the positive side of blink. At the end of the day, they both still come up with funny one liners without any real discussion like 80% of the time. 100% agree that there's no one that is losing sleep and is too bothered about it. We're all just huge blink fans that just come on here to type out shit when we're bored and have nothing better to do.

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