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Lair Relocated

Posted by Ash on May 11, 2008

In a cunning move, The Lair of Mr. Blair has been relocated to the Daily Telegraph site.

Time will tell how successful this move is.

Update: Andrea the Mighty reflects.

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66 Responses to “Lair Relocated”

  1. Paco Says:
    May 11, 2008 at 4:50 pm

    My guess is that he’ll eventually be back with a “stand-alone” site. But that’s just a guess.

  2. Ash Says:
    May 11, 2008 at 4:53 pm

    Depends on his contract with News Ltd.

    If they’re smart, they’ve got a talent like Tim locked into a one-blog-only contract.

    Or at least tried to.

    I do hope the good Detective will continue to drop by over here. :)

  3. SwinishCapitalist Says:
    May 11, 2008 at 5:13 pm

    I agree with Paco. My suspicion is that News Ltd, having signed Blair up for his individual style, will now attempt to ’standardise the product’ and render him more or less indistinguishable from most other blogs.
    Bolt’s as fearless as Tim, but most of the commenters lack that wild spark.

  4. Ash Says:
    May 11, 2008 at 5:32 pm

    Quite right Swinish.

    Bolt also has a large Moonbat following.

  5. El Cid Says:
    May 11, 2008 at 6:43 pm

    I posted a comment on the HAIL NEWNESS thread over a half hour ago, it has still not posted. Been so damn long, I’ve forgotten what I said, word for word…but in the nature of…new readers, if you only knew, it would make you hair stand on end.

    I hope they paid Tim, one hell of a salary. I don’t think Tim, is going to care for this…except for the money.

    I’m sure this makes it easier on Tim, but the camaraderie of his “stand alone”, as friend Paco called it, loses.

  6. Ash Says:
    May 11, 2008 at 6:46 pm

    It’s going to be a significant change.

  7. SwinishCapitalist Says:
    May 11, 2008 at 7:07 pm

    Ash - yeah, Bolt and his moonbats. If that’s what Tim is in for the wit quotient is on the way down.

  8. Ash Says:
    May 11, 2008 at 7:17 pm

    Tim will certainly lose his charm if he attracts the same types of moron that Bolt does. And that would be quite sad :(

  9. thefrollickingmole Says:
    May 11, 2008 at 7:26 pm

    I think one of the strenghts of Blairs blog was its ability to shoot down moonbats who posted only half cocked. The epic pile ons were great.
    Pity Andrea cant go on the pay packet and run the moderation side of things though.

  10. Ash Says:
    May 11, 2008 at 7:42 pm

    It was definitely a strength Mole. We were able to have proper conversations using actual facts, and have fun talking about all manner of things.

  11. SwinishCapitalist Says:
    May 11, 2008 at 7:43 pm

    And win music wars. Yeah, I’m bragging. Sue me.

  12. Ash Says:
    May 11, 2008 at 7:45 pm

    No striptease for you then Swinish.

    Surely the Badger is like a trump card?

  13. SwinishCapitalist Says:
    May 11, 2008 at 8:13 pm

    Trump card… I wave from my nostrils at your trump card!
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pB8XedMowDU&feature=related

  14. Rebecca H Says:
    May 11, 2008 at 10:54 pm

    I’m really going to miss Blair’s. Strict news sites with moderated commenting don’t interest me.

  15. 1.618 Says:
    May 11, 2008 at 11:17 pm

    He’s in the loop now..

  16. 1.618 Says:
    May 11, 2008 at 11:19 pm

    Has he really been paid to silence Blair’s site/shut it down indirectly?? have they paid him out for the site?? It can’t take too much time to post 2 stories…

  17. 1.618 Says:
    May 11, 2008 at 11:20 pm

    Also, guess who might have by walk in got a job on a daily newspaper today??? me… giggles what a corker!!!

  18. yojimbo Says:
    May 12, 2008 at 12:36 am

    I wonder what a moderator will do with O/T comments? Sometimes they spark some interesting conversations on threads that have otherwise gone stale. I can see them not being allowed at all, or not!

  19. spot_the_dog Says:
    May 12, 2008 at 1:33 am

    Oh man. :-( I never commented very much at Blair’s lair, but I did get such a laugh out of reading everyone else’s comments. He’s going to lose both the rapid-fire “talking to each other” nature of the thread, plus it will now have to be censored to fit in with Australia’s antiquated and restrictive “no free speech, you might hurt someone’s feelings, and think of the chiiiiildren” Nanny-statedness. Plus now all the f-tards could take over, like at Bolt’s. And we can’t swear at ‘em or nuffin’.

    I’m sure Tim’s posts will still be as good as ever, but in my opinion, half of the fun of reading his blog was reading the comment threads.

    Could the die-hard commenters at least come up with some code words that will pass the moderators’ scrutiny but we’ll know what they mean? Like Bingbing’s FYYSFLT?

    I see that Janine and Richard Ryan have already moved in. ~sigh~

  20. SwinishCapitalist Says:
    May 12, 2008 at 1:36 am

    Just confirm please:

    bingbing*Sorry, Swisnish, I hope you understand. ;-) *bingbing

    I’ve often wondered.

    bingbing*PS Yes, that was it*bingbing

  21. spot_the_dog Says:
    May 12, 2008 at 2:04 am

    #20 Yep. Now quick delete it or the SFLT’s will catch on ;-)

  22. Angus Dei Says:
    May 12, 2008 at 2:29 am

    My opinion?

    Bull fucking shit. This will never be anywhere NEAR as cool as Tim’s “old” site.

    I’m praying for a limited time engagement.

  23. lotocoti Says:
    May 12, 2008 at 3:58 am

    Moderation will be the killer, which will be a shame, considering the entertainment value provided by our friends of the other hand.
    Nothing made a thread run hot like a moonbat who slipped in with the humans.

  24. SwinishCapitalist Says:
    May 12, 2008 at 6:59 am

    Time to go off topic.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GbN9EXYTGnA

  25. tizona Says:
    May 12, 2008 at 7:12 am

    Tim’s new site will be, as one here put it “fascist”.

    Whomever the hell Tim (and I’ve forgotten already and refuse to look it up, even at the top of this post/thread) is with, comments, heavily moderated or waiting for the blessing of powers to be to grant permission (for God knows how long) for them to be posted (”fascist”).

    Lefties running amok, or strange individuals, with Blogs that have words like “paranoid” “delusional” in their headers (that means YOU Miles (damn, did I spell that incorrectly?….Awwwwwww, to fucking bad, Miles).

    Oh Miles, you want to see “fascist” or “comment removed”, come to my site El Cid, for inane idiots, such as yourself, email me. We can swap physical addresses. You are a state sider, I’d love to see you. I’ll even use my own gas to get to you.

    You can find my email address here, or at El Cid. Someone here may even give it to you. Please do email, so we can have a face to face “chat”. You see Miles, I have nothing to lose. Look at my picture on this Blog, I’m a sickly old man on his last legs.

    But, I digress….

    Tim Blair, as everyone knows will no longer be a neighborhood tavern, where friends, tired of the daily bullshit come to meet, in a virtual world. Which is the very reason I started Tizona.

  26. Ash Says:
    May 12, 2008 at 7:17 am

    1.6, I’m sure his contract will have him blogging exclusively for News Corp. No point recruiting a blog master if you don’t.

  27. SwinishCapitalist Says:
    May 12, 2008 at 7:26 am

    I can’t help wondering if News are more interesting in silencing Tim than promoting him. They’re not going to make any exceptions for his blog; it will be the same rules as apply to the rest. In short it will become dull.

  28. yojimbo Says:
    May 12, 2008 at 12:13 pm

    Pluuus!

    Went over to the new site yesterday and discovered a large increase in topics. All well and good in a number of respects but it makes it almost impossible to keep the integrity of any particular thread going. That was the beauty of Blair. People new exacly when a topic was going stale and introduced new elements that people enjoyed commenting on. The difference between that and the new format? In the old format the Blairistas pretty much had control of the site if you think about it. Here, the corporate structure has more ability to dictate. IMHO

  29. 1.618 Says:
    May 12, 2008 at 8:44 pm

    Yo, I agree ‘Blairistas pretty much had control of the site ” which made it indirectly fun and interesting to learn about a little community of people and what they liked to think and do and stuff…

  30. colonelmilquetoast Says:
    May 12, 2008 at 10:30 pm

    Blair News becomes News’ Blair.

  31. colonelmilquetoast Says:
    May 12, 2008 at 10:32 pm

    Blair News becomes News’ Blair.

  32. clairslair Says:
    May 12, 2008 at 11:02 pm

    Hail! Hail! the gang’s all here, still.
    stackja1945

  33. Dminor Says:
    May 12, 2008 at 11:59 pm

    Blair News: still good, not quite so gutsy.

    My own immediate reaction: disaster. The new blog site will have more in common with Andrew Bolt’s than the original Tim Blair. Bolta runs a fine blog, but it just ain’t the same. We’re going to lose that liberated spontaneity most of us cherished so much. As others have said, Tim’s posts were only half the fun. What we’ve got now is more like a sponge cake without icing.

    It’s not fair, dammit! Moderation’s for pussies. I wanna mouth off and I wanna do it now and I don’t want no pansy limp-wristed moderator snipping my choice comments because The Daily Telegraph doesn’t want complaint letters from all those gormless scrotally-challenged PC luvvies.

    IMHO.

  34. 1.618 Says:
    May 13, 2008 at 12:05 am

    Dear Doctor D,

    I have a cure for you. Blog here if you’re feeling mentally unchallenged. We can find lots of topics to rant about.

    Thank you for your lovely kind words to me.

  35. Ash Says:
    May 13, 2008 at 12:11 am

    I’m with you Dminor.

    Tim’s blog will lose a number of things, which are:

    - the spontenaity;
    - a number of the commenters, all of whom are of great quality;
    - the feeling of it being a blog you can go to just to relax and chill out;
    - the ability to ask a question you’re not sure of and get well reasoned answers without a pile on;
    - the instantaneous rapport; and
    - the ability to have see a moonbat go from the process of birth to demise in mere minutes.

  36. 1.618 Says:
    May 13, 2008 at 12:17 am

    You forgot the magic within the blog. A blog is not only an opinion it is a community.

  37. 1.618 Says:
    May 13, 2008 at 12:18 am

    Ashy, you forgot to say, spill KFC gravy on the floor while blogging. That’s what makes it fun. Geez I can’t help but be chatty today… sorry if I am annoying everyone.. but I like today’s little diagram of me in green.

  38. Ash Says:
    May 13, 2008 at 12:21 am

    Being chatty is fine 1.6.

  39. 1.618 Says:
    May 13, 2008 at 12:24 am

    I sent you boulders in the mail ash! :) :))) :))))

  40. Ash Says:
    May 13, 2008 at 12:32 am

    Oh shit, that’s going to make getting the post a bit difficult for me 1.6!

  41. colonelmilquetoast Says:
    May 13, 2008 at 12:34 am

    spill KFC gravy on the floor while blogging

    And then we wrestle? I like your thinking onepointsix! I’m getting hungry thinking about it.

    Not to slight TimB but Blair News was more fun than most because of commenteers. News’ Blair is slow to load (for me at least), pre-moderation is meh and the limit of only 20(!) comments per page makes it tedious. But C’est la vie.

  42. 1.618 Says:
    May 13, 2008 at 12:34 am

    LOL, no just pictures of gigantic sea boulders.. I can roll them in here if you like…LOL

  43. 1.618 Says:
    May 13, 2008 at 12:41 am

    Yes, stay here Colonel and spill KFC gravy.

  44. 1.618 Says:
    May 13, 2008 at 12:42 am

    look, I did another post that makes it 21 posts here… ‘;’;';’;';’;

  45. colonelmilquetoast Says:
    May 13, 2008 at 12:46 am

    KFC gravy + gigantic boulders = keeping the Colonel amused for hours

  46. 1.618 Says:
    May 13, 2008 at 12:48 am

    How come you have a funny man as your avtar colonel?
    Secret herbs and spices…

  47. colonelmilquetoast Says:
    May 13, 2008 at 12:56 am

    1.618, do you find the image irresistibly sexy? I have glasses but otherwise it isn’t my best likeness.

    When I came here I saw RebeccaH, ash & all with a fancy avatar and I thought I needed one. I had been playing with my camera trying to become less of a crappy photographer and had a pic of Prof Farnsworth handy.

  48. 1.618 Says:
    May 13, 2008 at 1:00 am

    Really? he looks like a grommit who’s had a bath for around 4 hours and he looks like a prune alittle…LOL

  49. colonelmilquetoast Says:
    May 13, 2008 at 1:19 am

    FYI 1.6, I’m not pruney

  50. 1.618 Says:
    May 13, 2008 at 1:22 am

    ROFLA.. no the little avtar next to you.. He’s pruney and funny looking…ROFLA like….???

  51. colonelmilquetoast Says:
    May 13, 2008 at 1:30 am

    LOL onepointsix! do you have something on your mind?

  52. Ash Says:
    May 13, 2008 at 1:41 am

    That’s what happens when you spend too much time in the bathtub onepointsixoneeight.

  53. thefrollickingmole Says:
    May 13, 2008 at 1:50 am

    My mole appears to be tempermental, sometimes hes there and others he is swapped for a squiggle. Any one guess why that is??

  54. Ash Says:
    May 13, 2008 at 2:07 am

    If you’re logged in to WordPress, and not just typing your name and email, your avatar should show.

    If you’re just typing in your name and email, it won’t, because you’re not logged in and personalised.

  55. SandiM Says:
    May 13, 2008 at 4:59 am

    Seems we’re all agreed about “the move”. I’ll still read Tim, but that sense of hangin’ out with the gang just isn’t there. And doncha just haaate the moderation? Sheesh! Takes hours to get posted.

    I replied to your comment Tiz (and others of the old gang). One thing I do like is the ‘reply’ link.

  56. SandiM Says:
    May 13, 2008 at 5:01 am

    Ash
    I don’t have to type in my name and email. Does that mean I’m logged into WordPress? My avatar seems to have done a runner.

  57. bingbing Says:
    May 14, 2008 at 9:47 am

    The Old Blair is gone. A bitch since I only just joined up. As many may well know, I’m a regular on Bolt’s. Love it’s style. BUT THAT’S NOT THE FUCKING REASON WHY I SIGNED UP THERE OR SCORED JEDI POWERS HERE.

  58. Ash Says:
    May 14, 2008 at 9:53 am

    Sandi, if there’s nowhere to type your name and email, yes, then you’re logged in.

    If there’s text fields for those, no, you’re not.

  59. bingbing Says:
    May 14, 2008 at 10:03 am

    OK, well fuck it. I can relax here anyway. Even after signing up to blair, hardly spent any time there. To busy chilling here and kicking LT heads at bolts.

    So Blair’s moderated now? See you in a bit. Heard Dickhead Ryan is over there.

  60. bingbing Says:
    May 14, 2008 at 10:46 am

    Didn’t find DH Ryan but found a couple. Now, where was I?

  61. Ash Says:
    May 14, 2008 at 10:53 am

    I hope that all YE AMERICANS know how to behave yourself on an AUSTRALIN site, Please, no singing “GOD BLESS AMERICA” here as Little Johnny did it was bad enough when he did it but he is GONE so GET OVER IT and I hope that you will have some MANNERS posting here.
    RICHARD (Reply)
    Mon 12 May 08 (11:29am)

  62. bingbing Says:
    May 14, 2008 at 10:56 am

    #61 Ash. You fucking legend. Game on.

  63. bingbing Says:
    May 14, 2008 at 11:07 am

    Wonder if this will get through.

    __________________________________________

    Oh, dicky boy. Was wondering when or where you’d vomit yourself up after having been banned from Bolt’s.

    Don’t you get it, troll?

    Enjoy your time here, while it lasts.

    Not that I’m saying or suggesting you do, but you sound like you have an ice/amphetamine problem.

    This is still news limited, Dick, even if it’s not Bolt’s.

    Welcome to the lair.

    ____________________________________________

    Is it wrong that I love troll-bashing? Fixed up (with help of course) NC, paulyG and Reco after all.

    Bones and Inane J…

    PS Don’t forget the new SFLT, Trevor of Wherever.

  64. spacecadette Says:
    May 14, 2008 at 11:15 am

    honey vs. vinegar
    too bad. i love vinegar.
    love them spicy,too.

  65. bingbing Says:
    May 14, 2008 at 11:16 am

    #64 Good ol’ spicy flies.

  66. tizona Says:
    May 14, 2008 at 1:22 pm

    Dear Richard

    Galen replied to RICHARD
    Mon 12 May 08 (02:51pm)

    I’m sure that our friends from the other side of the big blue pond (a) know how to behave,(b)know better than to abuse the Caps Lock Key, (c) have exquisite manners, (d) can confidently feel free to sing “God Bless America” in the presence of mates, and (e) are aware that there are three letters “a” in Australian.
    And they are, as are we, ruefully aware that JH has gone, and wish for us better days ahead after the next election.

    OH, Richard…Stuff it up a wombats ass. Your head too, I might add.

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