Actually that's a damn good point. A pink bike is totally mainstream compared to that abomination. -- Krusty www.MuddyStuff.co.uk Off-Road Classifieds '02 MV Senna '03 Tiger 955i '96 Tiger '79 Fantic Hiro 250
Well, considering the bloke is always the first to step up to help out, and has personally done me great favours (including lumping 2 hundredweight of piano down a flight of stairs) over the years, he has an enormous amount of leeway with me. And if that includes getting pissed in a pub twice a year, that's fine by me. And contrary to the thread contents, i'll be the first (and definitely not one of the last) to step up and call him a mate. Cheers, Paul.
He may be a loud, tactless **** at times, but I do know that he's always willing to help out anyone if he can. Decent bloke, IMHO.
You just took me back to my college days (and that's a fucking long time ago), but I didn't use the back of the head, I used the front. Mind you, I was hiding behind a wall prior to making the swing and the **** (and believe me, this bloke was a REAL ****) never discovered who clouted him. I even joined in the "search" for the responsible party. Some cunts need a smack, but 16 stone rugby players require the 9 stone "delivery driver" needs to be approached with care. Indeed and a week in intensive care after being left to "sort out the problem" HE began, but ran away from when the "problem" walked up the street 4 abreast, was mine. -- Beav VN 750 Zed 1000 OMF# 19
It's not about the favours he will do people, it's about the inappropriate behaviour. If he could change that, he'd have no problems.
SD says... I'm disappointed in his behaviour being a large part of why I decided to give up organising the B/EOSMs. It takes little organisation, as Jackie will testify once she has done it a couple of times, and I could quite possibly do it as well as the trackday organising, I just don't want to any more because I'm fed up of this kind of thing happening. I understood entirely why Eddie passed it over last weekend. You'll notice I didn't name the perpetrator by his better known previous posting name, but used his newly changed and more recent morphing. This wasn't the first event at the BH where I've had to ask him to tone it down, and it wasn't the first where I've received insults before he carried on as before. In the past I've asked a number of other ukrmers to be more considerate to other users of the pub, but only one has steadfastly refused to take on board my request, hence my 'naming' and shaming. The others, without exception, have been apologetic to anyone they might have offended and toned down as asked. How far do we have to go down the politically correct route before we can name and shame? Isn't 3-4 years of this behaviour enough?
What I want to know is why the landlord didn't have words with the offending person if his regulars were getting upset.
I've no issue with your opinion of Robbo, because it's your opinion. I have no issue with you being upset about his behaviour. I have no issue, (though I'm saddened, and understand) that you are not doing the OSMs anymore. The issue here (imo, and being awkward, for the hell of it) is A: if RW's behaviour is unacceptable, is that *your* problem? AFAIK the BH is a "public house" - with proprietors and bar staff. Is it not their responsibility to control their clientele? They might do this by asking you to have a quiet word, but ultimately, the power of sanction is theirs and theirs alone. Has it been exercised? If not, is it as big an issue as first thought? B: All I was actually picking up on, is that the thread started as a valedictory speech following all your hard work organising these events, for us buggers who do nowt more than turn up (and not always managing that), and ended up in an anti-Robbo free for all. It wasn't a dig at you, at all, more a dig at the torch and pitchfork-waving crowd fighting to climb on the bandwagon. Without exception? Even those who gave you a clip round the ear at the time? Sorry, you've lost me, squire. -- | ___ Salad Dodger |/ \ _/_____\_ GL1500SEV/CBR1100XXX/CBX1000Z |_\_____/_| ..83466../..22358.../..31893. (>|_|_|<) TPPFATUICG#7 DIAABTCOD#9 WG* |__|_|__| BOTAFOT #70 BOTAFOF #09 PM#5 \ |^| / IbW#0 & KotIbW# BotTOS#6 GP#4 \|^|/ ANORAK#17 IbB#4 YTC#4 two#11 '^' RBR Clues: 52 Pts:1005 Miles:3416
SD says... I'd like to think we'd regulate our behaviour before it became a big enough issue for the landlord/lady or staff to have to deal with it. That's part of the reason why we're invited back time after time, we behave ourselves and don't impinge on other's pleasure. I didn't take that as a dig at me. A playful clip is fine when I get above myself, but I stand by what I said about everyone else complying with my request. I've stayed publicly quiet about his behaviour at the *OSMs for 3 or 4 years now, but enough is enough. It was time to say it out loud. It's not enough that he constantly morphs to escape killfiles, he acts like a nob at the place we use for our twice yearly meets and gets us all tarred with the same brush. There's a 'No Cunts' rule on ukrm dos, first put in place as a joke, but I'm fully prepared to impose it.
In uk.rec.motorcycles, Hog belched forth and ejected the following: Mike's asked me to stop swearing so much, too although this wasn't at a OSM[1] but more rather a night I stopped in and got a bit piddly. [1] After Mallory, IIRC.
