Sorry for the inconvenience of you having to wade through our occasional misplaced silliness, MaggieBlue.
As the author of the hockey and cheese threads, I did start them in the members only section. Sometimes though, we might get a bit excited and refer to those members only comments while in the general forum area.
When you login and go through all the unread threads, it might seem that there is too much non peregrine chatter, but most of it is actually in members only sections. TPC usually starts a members only thread and shovels the comments out of the bird related sections.
Hope that kind of explains what happened here.