Article about TT in this week's Weekly Telegraph

Toytown is featured this week in the Expat section of the Weekly Telegraph:

It's net gain for sociable expats living in Germany

Wow, an interview with Edbob:

I saw no bubbly redhead that evening.

Is bubbly journo speak for plastered?

My god they are really scraping the news barrel there.

You missed a nice girl then.

But I did see a few plastered ones later on

I think it rocks... we DO have something special here. I I don't mean "special" like the short bus, I mean realllly special.

When I decided to make some huge changes in my life recently, I found both my boyfriend and a great new job on TT, in just a few short months. Not to mention that the women of the Ladies' Club (sadly missing from the article) were my rock through a brutally hard time not that long ago. Then you have something like Andrew's wake, and how utterly incredible that was to prove that we are not just a bunch of annoying ex-pats, but actually real, true friends.

The potential to meet friends for life runs high here, I think. And that is not to be underestimated.

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BB, if you have such a low opinion of TT, why are you here at all?

Congrats 'Bob'. You are making news! Wow! Meanwhile, Have there been any TT marriages ? Just curious !

surprised it didn't mention the place is infested with pedants

(speaking as one myself )

at least two I believe moko and space followed by crawlie and winegirl

I don't have a low opinion of TT yet I don't think that it is actual news.
But it might bring more to the TT site from amongst those who did not know that TT existed! There are quite a lot of them. 

there are even TT offspring now too I think

Good article, gay photo though. There's no way Editor Bob can convince us that that's him sitting under the tree!

its the weekly telegraph - which has a special section for expats

Nah...

Exactly. It's like a magazine part in the middle, it's not meant to be news.

Didn't keydeck and badger get married, too, or is that just my imagination?

No that's me in the photo. Not my best side though.

Edit: damn, two posts too late. And IPJ, no. You are so way not caught up.

Sure . But I just couldn't leave that unsaid.

Ok, now back to your comment.

I'm very surprised it didn't mention the place is infested with post stalkers, wind up artists, some attention hogs, imaginative and creative writers, liars, overly disputatious and sometimes cranky members, perseverater, members who are sensitive and kind, lofty thread titles starters, and folks trying to peddle all sort of things, including a damn dog.

Oh shit, it sounds like I'm referring to myself .

Certainly a good place to lose oneself in the crowd...

Still, it's exposure and that's OK. Congrats to Howe for his freelance piece.

Bloody hell, I guess he didn't see the petition for English subtitles thread, might not have got such a good write up then . Guess you munchinks already knew EB's name was James...woohooo James

Oh yes absolutely! I totally agree.
I was simply pointing out to some people who thought it was meant to be breaking news that in fact it was meant to be and is an informative article on a facet of expat lfe.

that would just be your imagination.

But Hutcho and Charmed did.

and at least one other TTer found love

This comment surprised me. In Munich I'm sure that's true, but TT Germany is still only two years old and I'm sure there are still huge numbers of expats in Frankfurt, Hamburg and Berlin who haven't heard about the site. The Berlin subforum, for example, is a lot quieter than the Munich one, despite the city having nearly three times the population (and so presumably more expats than Munich).

Pageviews seem to be on the up still as well:

It's not exactly a secret!

a few, as mentioned, I guess the net balance could be negative though if you take into account the marriages TT has broken up...

Aren't we the pessimist today

Hey, tt didn't break up my marriage! It was just witness to the horrible train wreck of my separation, and divorce, and rebound and, life.

I guess I won't be looking for love here.

There was me assuming Howsthat was male.

TT doesn't kill marriages, monkeys with guns kill marriages!

Any idea where I might find one as it could save me a divorce settlement.

You forgot the pedantic moderators totally lacking a sense of humor who edit or "delete" posts at will and change topic witty titles to bland, search-friendly information.

That's an excellent point about there being no "visible" poverty. I hadn't really thought about it, but it's not the chatting with poor people that I mind, it's having to look at them.

Hi Howsthat,

I want to show someone the article but will be writing the link down on a piece of paper for them.. the direct link is too long, but when I go to Telegraph.co.uk and then Expats, I can't find the article anywhere!

Please could you help me locate it?

It'll be easier for me to remember the path.

Woohoo, we's famous.

tinyurl is great for this. TT article is now under this link: http://tinyurl.com/3hwvf2

It is curious though. I expected to be able to navigate to it in "Telegraph.co.uk -> Expat -> Expat Living" but the most recent article there is 30.05.08. Maybe they just haven't updated it yet.

UA you can also just go to (or write down) http://www.telegraph.co.uk/ and type Toytown in search. Or just print this page!

From the expat home page, select Germany in the map at the top-right of the page, and it's the top story (right now).

Ahaaa, thanks Matt T!