"I've been coming to this here thread for discussions, rumours and flaming of each others ungodly factions since I was a bairn back in 19-tickety-boo and nobody can dang well force me to read some new fangled news-thread-contraption, not even if they give it a shine and pave it with gold. No siree, I'll stick it out in this here mosquito-infested-mud-hut here in prime The Rumour Thread territory, looking for Gnashtoof cavalry 'till the day I die - or my name isn't Old Man Carnelian"
My brain, when considering the News Thread.