I wouldn’t describe it as derailed and spun out of control.
Ok maybe so, but it possibly could’ve.
Maybe, but I think it needs to be remembered that normal conversation in the real world naturally goes from one subject to another.
Lol, how is that relevant to the fact that this obituary thread has turned into a thread about some TCM host who I’ve never heard of and don’t care about?
It hasn’t turned into a such thread, the conversation in it turned to that for a page and a bit. It started out about the death a TCM host(which is on topic) and then turned to his probable replacement. You may not care about some TCM host, it doesn’t mean others don’t though.
My point is relevant in that sometimes maybe conversation has to be allowed some room to evolve and go off on small tangents for a bit. It is the way natural conversation works.
Rest assured if some significant death had occurred in the middle of the conversation, it would have been discussed here and either the tangent conversation would have ceased or would have been delayed. The tangent didn’t really block any on topic discussion.
I don’t care if it blocked on-topic discussion or not, I have no interest in reading about it.
Then don’t.
And even though I keep opening this thread expecting to find something relevant was posted, it keeps not happening.
Oh well. The same sort of thing has happened to me in other threads(sometimes in tangents that you are involved in ) and I have let it pass. Sometimes this has happened in threads I created and tangent(again sometimes involving you) became permanent and I was forced to put up with it.
If others care about it, go make a thread that I can ignore.
I am not sure it was worth a whole other thread.
Sometimes it takes bit to see that conversation is going off in a tangent and sometimes by the time this is realized, the tangent may had ended.
But please let’s spend another few pages arguing about it.
Whatever you wish.
Sheesh.