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[chief]

HELLO THIS IS BIG BROTHER WILL ALL OF THE WEBTEAM PLEASE COME TO THE DIARY ROOM

[antonye]

Originally posted by the phantom pieman
Which is all well and good, but in one of the threads deleted you and Antonye went out of your way to wind up V man!!

As I said above, I admit that I baited him in the past but it was always in response to his own posts, rather than setting out from the off to do it.

This is the problem with a lot of the loud-mouthed posters - they can dish it out all day but once someone starts giving it back they just can't take it.

I know it's petty and childish (I got told off too you know!) but if someone wants to have a go at winding me up then I felt I was quite within my rights to defend both myself and my family, which is where the posts were aimed as you may well remember.

Could it have been handled better? Yes.
Should it have happened in the first place? No.

I may be getting soft in my old age, but I expect a certain level of respect for others from anyone, no matter what their status or thoughts. You would expect that someone coming onto a public forum would at least have the decency to treat others with respect no matter who they are or what they do for a job - otherwise they make themselves look stupid without any help from others!

[Henners]

Which is all well and good, but in one of the threads deleted you and Antonye went out of your way to wind up V man!! You made comments about his profession along the lines of a "pathetic crimper" ... and then are surprised when he goes out for full retaliation!!!

PP - I'm not proud of what I did on that one night. Eamonn had the good sense to cancel my authority to post and clean the mess up. In mitigation this was my one and only transgretion. I have worked long hours for this club over the last two years, re-energised the Surrey region as RO, helped support the start of the Sussex region, worked with the webteam to get the improvements you now see on this board and regularily give up large chunks of my weekends to doing the membership secretary job.

Then I saw Vman udoing all that hard work and I saw red. I'm sorry for what I did and it won't happen again. I put that note up as a reminder of what I want the club to be - as a reminder to myself as much as for anyone else.

In the spirit of comradeship will you please accept my apology so we can all move on?

PS Vman emailed me yesterday for an application form. I have sent him one adding the reminder that if he joins he will have to live by the rules of the club and not bring it into disrepute. I hope he feels able to respond positively.

[the phantom pieman]

This not my battle to fight. You guys seem to have put in a lot of effort to maintain the BB.

Perhaps "characters" make these pages, but a sanity check is always good.

I was sort of pro Vman, I thought he was being picked on by "the inner sanctum". But I read some of his posts ...And the plea for some sort of readers wives page was probably the banal thing I have read outside of The Sun.

I like the buzz that interesting points of views give, and sooner or later peer group, or waking up and realising you are being a tw4t normally keeps things in check ....

However, a little bit of fun, and slightly less "Cadders" round here might make it a bit more interesting!

But this has been doen to death.

So, who's gonna win the European Championships then?

[andyb]

football....... please.. now we are talking about a load of boring clueless non sportsmanlike, overpaid dull brains!

I think England has got about as much chance of winning that as me getting a desmoRR.....

[NBs996]

Yeah, rock on, andyb!
Why does it cost so much to go watch a game of football anyway? You can sit in the cinema for a couple of hours and see something you've not seen before for just a fiver!

[MarkyMark76]

Originally posted by Henners

PS Vman emailed me yesterday for an application form. I have sent him one adding the reminder that if he joins he will have to live by the rules of the club and not bring it into disrepute. I hope he feels able to respond positively.

If he joins the club, does that mean he'll be allowed back on the board?

[Mark]

Henners, well said, and top marks. There are a few trying like hell to get the club better and bigger profile. Ranging from launching regions, BMF, track days and dyno runs. This all takes time, and effort from these people, sometimes at their own expense. To me, i want to stand up, and be counted. And put back into this club what I have got from it.

I relate to that night, and i agreed with you. I think we're all aloud once in a while to rant when hard work is seen to be un done.

[Henners]

If he joins the club, does that mean he'll be allowed back on the board?

Yes. Vman has apologised to the club for any previous indescretions and an application form is on it's way to him.

[chief]

Henners,
Well said, but letting the "V" one join? is this one of those "keep your friends close but your enemies closer" type of thing?