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Post by Half Machine Lipschitz on Jul 21, 2023 10:46:17 GMT
So, just to be clear, is everyone on here an ex BCB-er? I think so.
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Post by riggers on Jul 21, 2023 10:53:29 GMT
I thought that was probably the case.
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Post by Stacy Heydon on Jul 21, 2023 10:57:59 GMT
So, just to be clear, is everyone on here an ex BCB-er? Pretty much yeah. In some ways it's a bit of a double edged sword because we might seem a bit cliquey and offputting to outsiders. I hope not! But I know some people I introduced to BCB back in the day felt that.
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Post by riggers on Jul 21, 2023 10:59:58 GMT
Yeah, it's weird, as I lurked there for a while and then here..I just enjoyed some of the discussions.
I recognise some usernames that remained unchanged, but I just wondered if there was anyone like me who randomly joined up here.
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Post by Stacy Heydon on Jul 21, 2023 11:07:21 GMT
What was the story with Kenji - was he some guy pretending to be Japanese? He fooled me, and he had about the best taste of anybody there. Ray seems to think so, but I'm still not convinced. It seemed too well done to be an alias for me. And his English did improve a bit over the years..I suppose it's possible that whoever was doing it made sure that they slowly improved the English, but it seems far-fetched to me that someone would go to that trouble.
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Post by Stacy Heydon on Jul 21, 2023 11:09:26 GMT
Yeah, it's weird, as I lurked there for a while and then here..I just enjoyed some of the discussions. I recognise some usernames that remained unchanged, but I just wondered if there was anyone like me who randomly joined up here. There was a guy called Dante, who may possibly have also been from Manchester, but he fell out with JC and got himself banned. He still seems to be posting at Skope's site though. It's a bit of a tangled web!
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Post by rayge on Jul 21, 2023 11:28:37 GMT
What was the story with Kenji - was he some guy pretending to be Japanese? He fooled me, and he had about the best taste of anybody there. Ray seems to think so, but I'm still not convinced. I never encountered him on BCB - his last post was just a few months after I joined - so not sure where that came from. Lots of other people on the site seemed to refer to him that way, though, and I may have repeated that. Some seem to think he's also googa mooga.
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Post by Stacy Heydon on Jul 21, 2023 11:35:22 GMT
Ray seems to think so, but I'm still not convinced. It seemed too well done to be an alias for me. And his English did improve a bit over the years..I suppose it's possible that whoever was doing it made sure that they slowly improved the English, but it seems far-fetched to me that someone would go to that trouble. I never encountered him on BCB, so not sure where that came from. Lots of other people on the site seemed to refer to him that way, though. Some seem to think he's also googa mooga.
It was a Chinese whispers thing. I first heard the theory from Roddy (RcL) at a JU. I think the source for the story is Matty Redsox. The idea that Googa and Kenji are the same is just clueless btw, who thinks that?
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Post by Reactionary Rage on Jul 21, 2023 11:44:56 GMT
Very few Japanese people speak any kind of English at all.
With hindsight it does seem far fetched that some “Japanese” fella on a message board would be that good at it.
Not impossible but far fetched. I’m inclined to agree it was an alias who assumed the “otaku” (?) nerd persona as part of his schtick.
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Post by Half Machine Lipschitz on Jul 21, 2023 11:52:52 GMT
Even if Kenji was the alias of a non-Japanese person, it wasn’t done maliciously. They only ever seemed interested in talking about music.
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Post by harrylemon on Jul 21, 2023 12:00:07 GMT
Whoever Kenji was he did live in Japan, I sent him some stuff years ago.
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Post by rayge on Jul 21, 2023 12:35:11 GMT
I never encountered him on BCB, so not sure where that came from. Lots of other people on the site seemed to refer to him that way, though. Some seem to think he's also googa mooga.
It was a Chinese whispers thing. I first heard the theory from Roddy (RcL) at a JU. I think the source for the story is Matty Redsox. The idea that Googa and Kenji are the same is just clueless btw, who thinks that? I'm not sure, but it may have been skope (apologies to him if he reads this and it's untrue)
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Post by Stacy Heydon on Jul 21, 2023 12:53:58 GMT
Very few Japanese people speak any kind of English at all. With hindsight it does seem far fetched that some “Japanese” fella on a message board would be that good at it. Not impossible but far fetched. I’m inclined to agree it was an alias who assumed the “otaku” (?) nerd persona as part of his schtick. I might be misunderstanding you here, but are you really saying the concept of a Japanese guy with basic English (surely not that unheard of) posting on a music forum is more far-fetched than an english guy pretending to be Japanese for many years, with no real apparent purpose or point?
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Post by Reactionary Rage on Jul 21, 2023 12:54:12 GMT
Whoever Kenji was he did live in Japan, I sent him some stuff years ago. He did buy a shitload of records and of course Tokyo is a mecca for record shops so that makes sense.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 21, 2023 12:57:20 GMT
Was Slider as creepy in person as he seemed to be on BCB? Some of the stuff he came out with about women was.....yeah. One i vaguely remember was fetch me her unclothed and unwashed, or something like that. I know he's probably all talk but still.
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