Party animal #6 - TRS

Day 2,646, 06:57 • Published in United Kingdom United Kingdom • by VoodooMike71


It’s that time again; time for a lonely wanderer to up-sticks, move on and continue wandering.

Lonely-ly.





And so I find myself moving on; leaving the ample bosom of The Real Spamicans and thrusting manfully forward into the fleshy folds of the People’s Communist Party. But before this gets too weird, first we must recount 15-or-so days of life in TRS…



I was understandably excited to be entering what is renowned as being the most lolz-with-a-capital-LOL party in the eUK political system. Sure enough, the moment I arrived (OK, that’s enough double entendre italicisificationing now) I was instantly greeted by Wayne Kerr…



And on IRC...


Not sure if Wayne was welcoming me into TRS in an official or unofficial capacity


I joined TRS a few short days before the CP elections. Leo Balzac appeared to be standing as TRS’ candidate, although his bid ultimately failed. Shortly after that he cleared off to PTO TUP.

In the meantime, the TRS PP Karacticus tried to extort money out of new members, while Wayne merrily spammed the party shoutbox with stories of how great he is. Matters turned slightly weird when a cat turned up, but - frankly - not an awful lot happened. It seems TRS is only slightly more active than some of the small parties around it in the rankings, and it retreats into obscurity when compared to the mighty ESO.

Bored and disappointed - and, admittedly, a little drunk - I tried to liven things up a bit by standing as PP (while protecting against disaster by urging members not to vote for me). Given the general level of hostility shown towards me in TRS, I thought this was a sure-fire way of rousing them from the slumbers. But no, it didn’t work (apart from the bit where I urged them not to vote for me - that bit worked perfectly, resulting in a heavy defeat to the venerable Prof J Moriarty).

And so now I find myself moving on. I expected it to be tough to drag myself away from TRS, but frankly it isn’t. And do you know the most disappointing thing? I was looking forward to being in a party with the legendary Woldy, but at no point did I see or hear anything from him. Grumpy face.

Official TRS rating (using the fiendishly clever “how many days’ worth of messages are shown on a single party shoutbox without refreshing” scale I’ve just made up (where the lower the number, the more active the party):



UPDATE!
Since leaving TRS a couple of days ago I've been on the end of a surprising amount of bawww from them. It seems that these days they're more the party of grumpy old sods than the fun-loving giggle-merchants people expect.