Hello everyone on MoanZone.
Tiz me again, the lovable archivist most you admire and, secretly, wish you could spend more time with - for despite your having pops at me and letting your personal feelings too often influence your comments, and despite frequent loaded mentions of Greg in the Queen vaults or archive (as if that were a bad thing), doing nothing, or doing everything wrong, or not doing it how YOU would do it... nearly all of you would love to be here in this fascinating archive area with me looking at these very old and dusty, but utterly captivating old analogue tapes; Queen history.
Anyway, I haven't been here on QZ for a month or two, and I know you will have missed my inimitable presence and rare wit, so since I have 15 minutes to kill, I thought I'd address you all, my moaning, droning, mono-toning public here on MZ... much like our dear Queen Lizzy II the reigning monarch addresses her adoring public... when there's bugger all else to do and troop has been fully coloured.
I will be back asap to review your wonderous replies to this thread, but in 15 minutes I must away again to continue logging extremely interesting tapes to have come to light recently. Don't you just love it when someone decides to clear out an attic or garage or shed, and they find 4 boxes of old and long forgotten work in progress tapes? I love it. I get all excited. It's fantastic to see what lurks on these old things.
ANYWAY... one question I'd like to put to you - hence the title of my little thread here...
I have just noticed that I, Greg Brooks, have 139 'threads' to my name. 140 now. I think this surprising total also includes threads I have responded to. Thus I have written 139 comments since 'joining'.
Now then... i know how long it has taken me to write those things... and quite frankly, it is TOO long. I think I've spent too many of the precious hours of life we all have, commenting on this site. Life is simply too precious, let's face it. The odd note here and there on a web site is fine, but I think 139 is too much. I would rather it was just 39, and so would you too, no doubt.
However... I see that poor old YourValentine has.... now get this... over FOUR THOUSAND!!! Yes you read correctly, OVER 4,000. not 40 or 400 or 140, but FORTY HUNDRED.
Jesus Christ! over FOUR THOUSAND 'contributions' to Queenzone. Can this be right? Someone please tell me that this person has not sat down at home and written 4,200 'things' on this site. I say 'at home' because it must surely be the case that YV does not work, has no job. It must be the case that she sits at home day and night scribbling down innane comments for the adoring QZ masses to lap up. Over 4,200 pearls of wisdom from the dull and resentful YV must have taken her, collectively, days and days and days, probably in fact entire MONTHS of her life to impart. Let's examine this point.
If YV only spent 5 minutes per 'thread', x 4200, that would total 21,000 minutes, or 350 hours, that's 14 days (2 entire weeks).
And the ever worrying if people like him John Stuart is up to nearly 3,000 thread contributions too, and his entries are usually, typically, HUGE. John must spend AT LEAST half an hour at a time when he addresses you all with things to impress you and gain him the respect he so desperately craves.
3,000 threads at half an hour a time is 1,500 hours... or 90,000 minutes.
NINETY THOUSAND MINUTES!!!!! 62 days. Over 2 months of 'stuff'.
When do these people find time to have a life??? When???
When do they actually squeeze in LIVING? And family, and holidays and romance, and children and pets, and a million precious things?
YV and JSS have over 7,000 thread contributions to their names collectively. I honestly find this an incredible fact. Don't you? You should do.
They each could have written a book in that time, or researched a magazine feature. Or visited Australia or Japan, or spent weeks helping out at orphanages around
I think I have a better post count them both of them :)
I do think I have a life, you dont see me bitch like you do, so I guess you do have quite a bit of time trying to figure out more ways to moan and cry.
Greg miscounted - he has 141 posts.
I too have over 4000 posts. That averages 2 posts per day over more than 6 years.
I must kill myself, as I have wasted 15 minutes of my life by reponding to posts every day for 6 years. I wish I was more like Greg.
Gregs long rants might take him 30 minutes to write, but generally most Queenzoners posts take less than 5 minutes to write
Greg... honestly... stop fighting and arguing like college girls and... gimme the boxes...
Is boring...
Lot of people would give everything for being in your place... and you are making ridiculous fighting with Q.Zoners...
Cmon man...
Take care.
Patricio.
deleted user 29.09.2006 22:46
I can't believe you take the time to write so much. Good job, seriously.
The *best* part of Greg's rants is that he thinks highly enough of them to post them as "Serious Discussions". All of Greg's posts should carry the disclaimer: ***FOR ENTERTAINMENT PURPOSES ONLY***
Personally, I find them hilarious.
Grouse hunters have beaters
Guns n Roses have Axl's management team
the USA have GW Bush
and Queenzone has Greg Brooks
where the fuck would the world be without someone to stir the fuck out of it?
What you failed to notice Mr. Brooks is that YV has been registered much longer than yourself. I'm sure if you were here for the same length of time then you would achieve a similar post count.
Waste time working out whether I am right or wrong, just like you have in your original post in this topic, if you like. But why not take your own advice and do something constructive yourself, instead of becoming what you hate - a grumpy member of MoanZone.