Parlez-vous Francais?

The look Adie gave Bonners when he found a room key in with his ferry
ticket, passport etc. would have made a Paddington Hard Stare feel
somewhat inadequate.

 

Hog :

If it were the wild and generally debauched lifestyle coupled
with long and feature packed holidays to remote, breathtaking
parts of the world, then no.

Unfortunately, it's mostly work and the current lack of cleaning
staff about the house.


Or did you mean for everybody else?

 

No.[/QUOTE]

The whole concept of irony seems to have escaped you Des..

Phil

 

*nice*

 

Not by anyone with an ounce of common sense. He's his own man, is Doc.

 

I don't really care now, anyway. I don't x-no-archive any more, and it's
not as if I'm hard to find.

 

The Older Gentleman :

Only because no-one else would have him.

 

ba-doom-tish!

 

Doc Gonz0 wrote
Eew, I hate Advocaat [1]

HTH

Paul.

[1] Sorry to hang off your post Doc, but Des doesn't archive his posts.

 

Oh shit. That means I'm French? No one told me.

 

Desmond Coughlan muttered

Is this bit "... they enjoy total and complete immunity from
criticism, thanks to the special status as pin-ups that they enjoy
among the Inner Council. Many Goils make the most of this protection,
by posting some of the most fuckwitted, inane, moronic, dipshitted,
thoughtless, downright spastic comments ever posted to a usenet group.
Dare to point out their colossal stupidity, however, and both they and
Level I, will accuse you of being a 'woman-hater'.
....." also 'tongue in cheek'?

=8-0

 

I'm not having a go at you here Des, but that is *not* tongue in
cheek. If you'd deleted most of the polemic, then maybe, but with
that venom in it, no way.

Seriously, mate. Get a life. This is just usenet, it doesn't matter.

 

Desmond Coughlan :

So when you wrote it on here, it was also tongue in cheek?

Ah! As was the CAT stuff, and the rattle throwing, and the
Frenchness, and everything!

I've got it now, you're not really a twat, just the worlds
worst sit-down comedian.

 

My question was rhetorical...

 

Desmond Coughlan muttered

Ah, I see. Funny is as funny does, I guess. Try reading it from the
point of view of a "dispassionate passer-by" and see if the humour is
still there.... then again smoke induced humour is generally
transitory and the next day you can't remember what was _so_ damn
funny....

Cool. I know you have been on the receiving end of some serious shit,
but what goes round comes around, as Bear has found out.

 

I can't square your final remark with the real sense of feeling and
belief in the preceding comments. Now either you really do believe those
comments - and you've written some of them many, many times - and are
prepared to stand by them which makes the "tongue in cheek" reference
superfluous.

Or else you would have no need whatsoever to make them other than to
waste our time or make yourself appear to be something you aren't.

Which is it?

Oh and I was mortally offended to be lumped into the "others" category
in your "analysis" of ukrm cliquedom. You should know I'm *far* more
important than that.

 

Fact is of course, some posters to UKRM are more equal than others.
There's an underlying theme to much of your moaning that indicates that
you rail against this supposed injustice but FFS understand it and live
with it.

How did Bear come to be in a position to criticise you and others
without being challenged? Is it because there's a secret conspiracy
that has Bear on a protected list of posters and you blacklisted for
undisclosed crimes, or is it a result of the fact that he has
successfully fought his corner and brow beaten into submission those
who argued against his strongly expressed views in the past?

Can you accept that just because no one follows up in opposition to a
poster it doesn't mean that all agree with him? Perhaps it simply
means that they can do without the argument that *will* ensue so they
don't bother.

I know that for my own part I frequently form the view that another
poster's comments are fatuous or downright twatted but I would rarely
point that out as I tend not to seek out conflict. Others frequently
take the opposite course and charge in to set the world to rights. If
they pull it off without being made to look a **** then they earn the
kind of kudos which in future will discourage others from challenging
their views. That's the way it worked for Bear (up to a point when,
IMHO he went too far) and it also works for some others here.

Btw, complaining that "it's not fair" has the opposite effect. Muchos
negative kudos points.

 

But why do you have any expectation at all that anyone on UKRM will come
and "defend" you? It isn't as if UKRM owes you anything. It doesn't owe
me anything or I it. When push comes to absolute shove it's a pile of
words displayed on computer screens.

Yes there are friendships and relationships that sit behind that but
they have a value of their own and they are, in reality, completely
separate from the cyberspace world of UKRM. If you were secure in those
friendships and relationships you would know that they would have more
strength and value than the nonsense that is chucked around on here.
For those few people who I consider to be friends from this group I know
that to be the case.

Well please shut up about it and stop recalling old boring tedious
pieces of history. Then some of us might start to believe that you are
actually aren't bothered about it.

 

Succinct

 

which to me says it all. You aren't going to change. This is all just
one big game on your part.