its not particularly easy especially for those who are slightly older and living 100s of miles away (or even in other nations) what don’t use facebook to work out whether some posts between a group of young lads known to enjoy jokes and banter really are just that or a genuine falling out.
Nor is it easy to be a teenager today, I would say its definitely harder than the 80s/90s.
Nigboat is perfectly welcome to rejoin here, he is not banned or anything like that.
I’ve also seen many younger users suddenly disappear from here just before uni and then come back again in their 20s as graduates – AFAIK PV is not blocked from uni computers or connections provided in hallsm, other students have their own laptops and normal ISP connections so I they must do that because they want to distance themselves from drugs and other distractions when studying
Given changes in society where young people all feel they must have attended university this isn’t surprising.
He also came across as an intelligent young man so that could also have been a factor (and any hostility being because he maybe realised that he might have to stop drugs and partying as much)
