and love the cock?

Okay, that was a wind up but I think Mr. Pole is quite vocal, can stand up for himself and although he insists on using the first person, it's tolerated because he is interesting. I love the ebb and foul mouthed dialogue flow of Kevin Smith fillums, will you come to my aid wayfarer?

..what makes you and Wayfarer think that Bargepole is male?

I think she's fascinating.

I'll leave it to someone else to point out the difference between first and third person.

...Elopegrab.

That is all.

but decided I wouldn't touch it

In a similar way to Macca's claim that She Loves You was ground-breaking and astonishing because no-one had written a lyric that spoke of love from the perspective of a third person before. I remain unconvinced that George Martin's jaw dropped with incredulity at such audacity. He probably smiled and nodded.

are of the view that if the punt propelling tool wishes to continue to refer to itself in the third person, then we reserve the right to continue to object to it by whatever means available. Childish? Yes. But no more than referring to yourself in the third person.
To be fair, I would say that the lack of replies to it's posts are more to do with the content of said posts. Some of it's posts get more replies than others, which is the same for us all.
Besides, it's made it's lack of concern clear, here. http://www.wordmagazine.co.uk/content/the-third-person-a-cautionary-tale

Writing about yourself in the 3rd person is somewhat grating and self-indulgent. The negs probably reflect this.

That writing in the 3rd person is vaguely amusing in a "Bill Bailey would like the eggs of numbing inevitability" way.

Anyone who doesn't get that quote needs to reassess their situation and watch all of the man's live shows. Amazing.

And no "Accidental" negging. Yes?

... if perhaps the the use of the second person present tense is less or more annoying?

Yes you are...

an element of sympathy when one reads the constant carping about dear old Bargepole. He's a decent old cove, y'know.

and more attention-seeking than a four-year-old in a tutu, but it doesn't do much harm. I just wouldn't want to sit next to him on a long bus journey.

..and would quite happily take him on a bus journey, firmly leashed of course.

I (no - we; see how hard it is to keep it going?) think he may be another Facebook casualty who now addresses the entire world as if he was updating his status. Perhaps he also says 'lol' instead of actually laughing?

premiership footballer. As well as speaking about themselves in third person, they alsways manage to place absolutely everything into the perfect tense.

you all for your concern, but the site really doesn't need comments like the second one of this thread, which reflects a marked decline in the standard of the site lately, esspecially in terms of bad language and lack of tolerance for other peoples opinions and points of view.
also,are there really no topics better than this to discuss. bargepole thinks we should be told.
finally Bargepole has zero interest in people who take the easy option of an anonymous neg vote rather than taking a minute to explain their views.

has never referred to himself in the third person. Until now.

Sheev's original appelation was an in-joke that only he got - as the only other people who would have understood it were either dead or living in remote villages in the Himalayas and unlikely - sad to report - to be active Word bloggers.

Sheev actively - as is the liberal's curse - would heartily defend the right of anyone to call themselves what they will and refer to themselves as they wish.

More importantly - to say what they want - even if it is arrant nonsense - like the notion that Queen are any good.

As long as - as Mr Hepworth observes - everyone's plays nice. Ish.

Sheev wishes all fellow Wordistas - top of the evening

oṃ śāntiḥ

more than a hint of the House of Lords. This is something I find faintly amusing for some reason I cannot put my finger on for the moment

This thread is unnecessary but does at least have a happy ending.

The Bargepole is dead Long Live The Bargepole!

Steely Dan and Richard Thompson, eh??

Talking about yourself in the Third Person occasionally could be amusing. Doing it all the time is affectation, or could be construed as a lack of confidence in one's opinion - the inability to say 'I think' or 'I believe', (although in a board of this nature most of us take subjectivity for granted).

As another commentator recently said, 'Talking about yourself in the Third Person is only acceptable for - Those of unsound mind, actors reading a bad monologue, or 5 year-olds.

If we wish to communicate well with our peers, surely we use forms of speech and writing with which they are comfortable, rather than enforcing a construct where (to paraphrase McLuhan) the medium seems to be more important than the message.

That Bargepole has been rehabilitated (partly) at the expense of me! -10 and counting. Wayfarer would never refer to himself in the third person, and he laughs at your little arrows of disdain. Ha!

On this site?
Heaven forfend.

I had a bit of a dig at bargepole on the American telly thread. Thought long and hard about it but felt his/her post was so overtly negative and not based in anything that playing his/her choice of words back at him/her with reference to the third person thing would highlight the poor spirit of the post. Been wracked with guilt ever since at being a bit negative myself. I've only done the voting things twice though so not guilty there!

I've always enjoyed Bargepole's distinct style on the blog.

Blogging about blogging.
I don't think there's any harm in it.
But is there anything to be gained?
I was going to start a thread to that effect, but I didn't want to be blogging about blogging about blogging.

Correct me if I'm wrong (and feel free to beat me severly if someone's already brought this up) but I seem to recall a gossip column in the late (lamented?) "Punch" magazine being called "Bargepole" - and if my ever-decaying memory fails to deceive me as usual - I'm pretty sure was written in the third person.

In that context, I'd kind of assumed the Bargepole on here was paying his/her own tribute to said column - maybe I'm wrong?

Anyway, man.of.soup has far more to worry about than whether someone blogs here in the third person, so urges a sense of perspective on this forum, allied to an almost Edwardian degree of ridiculously good manners (growing bigger mutton chops would almost certainly assist).

PS I agree with everyone who noted the decline in manners and increase in aggression on this forum - how abut we don't just play nice but grow the f*** up a bit too?

I'm the hundredth post on a really silly subject.

Leave the 'pole alone - we may become subject to a Panaorama expose of cyber-bullying

Look - I think Abba are crap - surely that's worse than anything Bargepole has written. Third person or otherwise.

Get the negs flying in

just to make something clear, I am no troll

... for polls.

In fact, I think I'll do one.

... after dinner.

it
stop...

I don't really like the third person thing - its a bit 6th form.

But what I REALLY don't like is that all of the posts by B/P have been heavily voted down, almost on principal. There's no place for that sort of thing.

It's why people preceive this country as going to hell in a handcart...!If it isn't affecting your life, stop being mean to people.

- will make sense to long time Popbitchers - surely the creepiest example of third person speech.

It has ceased to be - interesting, amusing, diverting, illuminating, relevant or enlightening.

Please can it be allowed to rest in peace.

All of you, stop fighting.

Or I won't ask you what you've been reading every 6 weeks or so.

So there.

...it took me to read this thread. Enjoyed, as ever, the semantic jousting on all sides and glad to see good sense prevailing.