Welcome to Rochdale Talk

Hello, good morning and welcome, as Sir David Frost would say.

Sadly, Rochdale Online has closed its forums leaving us with no home to go to so we thought we'd set this up in the spirit of the RO forums which have given pleasure to so many people over the years.

We hope to meet old friends and new so please add this to your favourites menu.

Please read the rules carefully. Most of them are commonsense. We will not tolerate bullying or intimidation but we do aim to encourage a bit of heated debate.

This forum is moderated but we aim to have a very light touch. Please enjoy yourselves and use us regularly. Things may be slow to start with and we will be playing around with the design.

So, it's over to you. It's all yours!

Enjoy.

Well, here I am! and how the heck has my user name already been taken? I've had to add the 2
Had an (almost) sleepless night last night wondering what we was going to do without our beloved RO
Will take a bit of getting used to a new format but I'm sure we can do it.

I see that Charly has pushed her way through into being our first member. Surprise, surprise.

Of course! been sat here trawling for a new home to go to.

We can play around with the format Charly. Loads of skins to choose from.

Just tried to post on the 'other' site and it wont let me post 2...have to wait to post 2nd comment?

me here too!!

Hooray...welcome to our new home

Chill will be with us later

Isn`t this fun!!!!

Are we allowed to post links to other sites?

Now now SB what sort of sites do you have in mind

Pirate ones.

No porn, no advertising, (unless it's something I want to buy) no outright racism and definitely no spam or emails from Uganda offering posters an opportunity to get rich quick from a former Minister of Finance who just needs your credit card details to release $10,000.000 from his Swiss bank account!

I think that the RO forums had it just about right. I thought that perhaps the Mods were a bit heavy-handed at times but I suppose these things are a tough call.

I hope we get a good mix of threads. Nostalgia, entertainment, banter with hopefully not too much politics which did tend to take over sometimes.

I really hope that we attract a good few former RO posters. I was a member for quite a few years and made some solid friendships off it.

I'm new to all this so not sure how it works.

Please invite your friends onto it.

Hi bodies - let's try to automate this post title otherwise people will get very confused.

I'm already confused John, no hope for me.

Charly2 wrote:I'm already confused John, no hope for me.

Finally I have got through after sitting here for 2 hours I nearly lost the will to live but hey ho have managed to conquer so looking forward to some great posts
Oh by the way HELLO everyone

Well done for getting round it Jeanie, bit different from what we're used to eh?

The fairy brain is on overdrive but hello everybody!

Hi

Finally caught up and arrived here.

Welcome home you lot

Thanks

14 members and we've only been up and running for a few hours.

Ann Metcalfe has tried to get on several times and gave up in the ends and has gone off in in a huff nursing a bottle of wine.

Trouble is with her, if it doesn't eat hay and fart a lot she loses patience.

The memberlist has a few familiar names. I decided to shorten mine a little.

Let's see how this goes. I'm sure that some of the local politicians and councillors would have breathed a sigh of relief at the sad demise of the RO forum, hoping to escape close scrutiny and discussion of their performance and actions, and being brought to account.