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Re: Introductions
« Reply #550 on: September 05, 2012, 12:21:40 PM »
The problem with you and me, Leonard James, is we agree on too many topics, so we seldom have an exchange, which is sad, because there is no poster, all the way back to the early days of the Beeb, I have enjoyed posting with more than you.

Now about the grit, I have decided to redirect the grit mostly to the topic at hand and not the poster, forums are supposed to be a non contact sport, but I tend to leave figurative bruises and lacerations on certain posters. Change comes grudgingly later in life, but I am optimistic about my chances.

Tomorrow, LJ, I intend to really let my hair down, and, yes, ladies, I am grateful i still have my hair, and start a thread about a topic that genuinely interests me, and on which, I must modestly admit, I am expert. In all my years posting, I've never nailed this topic down satisfactorily; the posts generally got knocked down on the BBC for being off topic and I never could find a category where the thread would not be off topic, or so the mods determined such, and later, on this forum when i could post on the topic, I was too jaded from past BBC experience to bother.

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Re: Introductions
« Reply #551 on: September 05, 2012, 12:27:34 PM »
Great, Jimmy! I look forward to reading it. :)

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Re: Introductions
« Reply #552 on: March 08, 2013, 03:58:11 PM »
It is hereby announced that those erstwhile members Nearly Sane and Visiting Asylum have been subsumed like two Gregg's Sausage Rolls into one entity in part created by The Vlad, The Brown and  the  Chunstinator (dir Sergio Leone, mus Ennio Morricone) to be fourhens known as the the one, the only, the unbeaten fattest, sultanest and higgghhhhheeesssssst FEEEEEE LOOOOOO SOOOOOOO FEEEERRRRR!!!!!!

And in other news, evidence of massive flood discovered when th efat sultan of philosophy moved in bath

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Re: Introductions
« Reply #553 on: March 08, 2013, 03:59:26 PM »
beans, beans, beans.....
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Re: Introductions
« Reply #554 on: March 08, 2013, 04:01:34 PM »
Jim,

What on earth did my previous post sound like?


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« Reply #555 on: March 08, 2013, 04:05:53 PM »
TW+beans+bath equals hot air?
"for, as long as but a hundred of us remain alive, never will we on any conditions be brought under English rule. It is in truth not for glory, nor riches, nor honours that we are fighting, but for freedom - for that alone, which no honest man gives up but with life itself."

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Re: Introductions
« Reply #556 on: June 25, 2013, 11:30:00 AM »
A big "hello" to Helen, our first new member since April.

You join us at an interesting time for the board.
and to everyone else out there the secret is to bang the rocks together guys

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Re: Introductions
« Reply #557 on: June 25, 2013, 11:38:56 AM »
Hello Helen, pull up a chair, settle in and I hope enjoy yourself.

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Re: Introductions
« Reply #558 on: June 25, 2013, 01:40:35 PM »
Being the sceptic I am it seems a little strange that just after Phil/Ralph is permanently banned again, a new poster pops up, especially as there has been no new ones for a couple of months. If Helen is a genuine poster then I humbly apologise for my scepticism!

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« Reply #559 on: June 25, 2013, 01:48:19 PM »
floo, you're a cynic!
Welcome, Helen.
"for, as long as but a hundred of us remain alive, never will we on any conditions be brought under English rule. It is in truth not for glory, nor riches, nor honours that we are fighting, but for freedom - for that alone, which no honest man gives up but with life itself."

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« Reply #560 on: June 25, 2013, 01:48:56 PM »
floo, you're a cynic!
Welcome, Helen.

We shall see!

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Re: Introductions
« Reply #561 on: June 25, 2013, 02:09:28 PM »
Oh dear, it looks like "Helen" didn't last very long.
and to everyone else out there the secret is to bang the rocks together guys

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Re: Introductions
« Reply #562 on: June 25, 2013, 03:32:51 PM »
Sometimes cynicism is the correct response :)

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Re: Introductions
« Reply #563 on: June 25, 2013, 04:09:59 PM »
Sometimes cynicism is the correct response :)

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Problem is surely when a new member joins, cynicism openly expressed is never the correct response since in the case of being wrong it is far more costly and unpleasant than the fleeting joy of being right if one's cynicism was correct?

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« Reply #564 on: June 25, 2013, 05:47:45 PM »
In this case it would appear that scepticism was the right response!

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Re: Introductions
« Reply #565 on: June 25, 2013, 05:49:40 PM »
In this case it would appear that scepticism was the right response!

Only if you are happier to make the board unwelcoming and being right than to have a board that is welcoming.

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Re: Introductions
« Reply #566 on: June 25, 2013, 05:52:27 PM »
In this case it would appear that scepticism was the right response!

Only if you are happier to make the board unwelcoming and being right than to have a board that is welcoming.
So, you're happy to welcome clones or sockpuppets of banned members? ;)
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Re: Introductions
« Reply #567 on: June 25, 2013, 05:56:33 PM »
In this case it would appear that scepticism was the right response!

Only if you are happier to make the board unwelcoming and being right than to have a board that is welcoming.
So, you're happy to welcome clones or sockpuppets of banned members? ;)

No, I'm unhappy if when someone joins they are immediately portrayed as a sock puppet. I'd rather be wrong most of the time and get a few more new members because of that than right most of the time and chase posters off because of some sad need to prove my 'foresight'

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Re: Introductions
« Reply #568 on: June 25, 2013, 06:58:25 PM »
In this case it would appear that scepticism was the right response!

Only if you are happier to make the board unwelcoming and being right than to have a board that is welcoming.
So, you're happy to welcome clones or sockpuppets of banned members? ;)

No, I'm unhappy if when someone joins they are immediately portrayed as a sock puppet. I'd rather be wrong most of the time and get a few more new members because of that than right most of the time and chase posters off because of some sad need to prove my 'foresight'

I agree with NS. Considering how few new members we're getting these days it isn't very welcoming if we treat everyone who joins as if they are a clones or sockpuppet of a banned member without any evidence to indicate that they are.
and to everyone else out there the secret is to bang the rocks together guys

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Re: Introductions
« Reply #569 on: June 26, 2013, 10:32:43 AM »
In this case it would appear that scepticism was the right response!

Only if you are happier to make the board unwelcoming and being right than to have a board that is welcoming.
So, you're happy to welcome clones or sockpuppets of banned members? ;)

No, I'm unhappy if when someone joins they are immediately portrayed as a sock puppet. I'd rather be wrong most of the time and get a few more new members because of that than right most of the time and chase posters off because of some sad need to prove my 'foresight'

I agree with NS. Considering how few new members we're getting these days it isn't very welcoming if we treat everyone who joins as if they are a clones or sockpuppet of a banned member without any evidence to indicate that they are.

Agreed,
..besides it's more fun playing 'spot the Ralph'.
I'll name him in seven (posts)!
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Re: Introductions
« Reply #570 on: June 26, 2013, 02:54:05 PM »
Are you the Michael we posted with on the real No Greater Love.

Nglreturns really means no got love returns, LOL/

If your not Michael/dove then welcome anyway.
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Re: Introductions
« Reply #571 on: June 26, 2013, 03:39:43 PM »
Are you the Michael we posted with on the real No Greater Love.

Nglreturns really means no got love returns, LOL/

If your not Michael/dove then welcome anyway.

Michael?
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« Reply #572 on: June 26, 2013, 03:41:58 PM »
SEb, it can't be you....'cos Michael is who the JWs think Jesus was, and you don't fit the bill.


Probably.
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Re: Introductions
« Reply #573 on: June 26, 2013, 03:42:56 PM »
SEb, it can't be you....'cos Michael is who the JWs think Jesus was, and you don't fit the bill.


Probably.

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« Reply #574 on: June 26, 2013, 03:44:11 PM »
If you find yourself in urgent need of a doorknocking session, seek help.
"for, as long as but a hundred of us remain alive, never will we on any conditions be brought under English rule. It is in truth not for glory, nor riches, nor honours that we are fighting, but for freedom - for that alone, which no honest man gives up but with life itself."