User:Totnesmartin/Bad idea

RationalWiki:Saloon_bar/Archive35 so i can find it again.

Things not in Wikipedia that I could do

 * Paddling - redirects to stuff about canoeing, rather than ankle-deep-wading with your trousers rolled up.
 * How-tos and recipes.
 * Stuff in the way of a banterish, good-natured comment site. Rather like a rather liberal one I found somewhere.
 * "Why X is great and Y is crap"/"why Y is great and X is crap" twin articles.

Timeline

 * 1990s: cd-rom boom. I get a bad idea about doing one. Lack of even basic computer skills stops me. Plus, the internet kills off cd-roms as a home knowledge/entertainment medium.
 * 2006: outraged by a Wikipedia article title ("it's CHIPS not french sodding fries!), I get the idea of a British English WP space. I decide this is a Bad Idea, mainly because I'd have had to a)stick to Wikipedia's way with the language (ie boring and tedious) and b) know something about setting it up.
 * 2007: Experiment with writing about my music on Bluwiki (I think it's still there actually). Decide that Bluwiki isn't much good. Consider, briefly, an A Band website.
 * 2009: Get the Bad Idea of a wiki "about Britain and Britishness". Make up imaginary categories for: proper breakfast, fat Northern comedians, gobshites, shitholes etc. RWians completely fail to talk me out of it.
 * Now: This Luc Ferrari track is really annoying.