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chucky

Generali wrote: »

I don't really understand why so many are being so aggressive towards Graham_Devon. It's bullying IMO and pretty shameful. Every time he posts 4 or 5 posters seem to jump in to rubbish each word using all the tedious arguments like picking up on grammar or misrepresenting his posts.

Ok, so a few of you disagree with him. Ganging up on individual posters is pathetic. If you drive away each person who disagrees with your views you end up with HPC or Singing Pig - a boring smug board.

It's what was done to !!!!!! too not so long ago. Pitiful.

yes i agree - please stop it.

shame that people only see what they want to see though... :rolleyes:

Mr Devon looks after himself quite well

Really2

Generali wrote: »

I don't really understand why so many are being so aggressive towards Graham_Devon. It's bullying IMO and pretty shameful. Every time he posts 4 or 5 posters seem to jump in to rubbish each word using all the tedious arguments like picking up on grammar or misrepresenting his posts.

Ok, so a few of you disagree with him. Ganging up on individual posters is pathetic. If you drive away each person who disagrees with your views you end up with HPC or Singing Pig - a boring smug board.

It's what was done to !!!!!! too not so long ago. Pitiful.

I agree but perhaps some of the bears need to look at some of there own also.
I had a barrage off some constantly, it sets a precedent for new posters.
But if you get a load report it, get them banned that is what I do

inspector_monkfish

or just learn to deal with it

Really2

inspector_monkfish wrote: »

or just learn to deal with it

I don't agree with that as abuse as nothing to do with debate, If I am trying to gain understanding or my point across the last thing you need is someone like bannedpig coming in with a picture of a caravan saying this is your house and you paid £35000000000000000000 to much for it.

chucky

Really2 wrote: »

I don't agree with that as abuse as nothing to do with debate, If I am trying to gain understanding or my pint across the last thing you need is someone like bannedpig coming in with a picture of a caravan saying this is your house and you paid £35000000000000000000 to much for it.

you've had this, Dan's had this and few others including me have had this but i've never seen seen these posters tell them to stop and throw accusations that you're trying to drive them away...

"If you drive away each person who disagrees with your views".

not sure why mentioning !!!!!! has anything to do with this - he left because he wanted to, no other reason.

inspector_monkfish

Really2 wrote: »

I don't agree with that as abuse as nothing to do with debate, If I am trying to gain understanding or my point across the last thing you need is someone like bannedpig coming in with a picture of a caravan saying this is your house and you paid £35000000000000000000 to much for it.

depends how thick your skin is, and whether you are going to let childish things like that bother you

Really2

inspector_monkfish wrote: »

depends how thick your skin is, and whether you are going to let childish things like that bother you

I don't see the point in it. I would rather see a site without it rather than a site full of it and ignoring it.

I suppose that is how I look at society, the need to ignore childish remarks left me when I was....... I remember, a child

I think people should clamp down on stuff that is excessive but their is a failure to see that both sides do it.

inspector_monkfish

just ignore it dude, and carry on with your life... its not worth it

baileysbattlebus

inspector_monkfish wrote: »

nothing like stating the bleedin obvious.
thank-you:D

I know!!

The trouble with me is that I generally have a fairly optimistic outlook on life - though that did take a bit of a dive towards the end of last year and early this year - it seemed to bad news piling on top of bad news - and I became a bit depressed (is that the right word?) about it all. But in the end I guess I realised that we didn't necessarily have to stock our garage up with non perishables and make plans for a quick getaway!!! Well, not yet anyway.

I take in all the bad news now with more of a sense of "C'est la vie" than anything else. I could be run over by a bus tomorrow.

I aslo try and see both sides of the arguments on here - even though I disagree with some fairly strongly.

The past year or so has turned my thinking upside down really - I wasn't clever enough or interested enough in either our own economy or the world economy and never saw any of this coming until it was slap bang on top of us - all that bothered me was the exchange rate for our holidays and how cheap I could get the flights. I must have been living in a bubble.

Now I watch Bloomberg for the financial stuff and actually read a lot of the links you post. Before the crisis the FTSE was something you did under a table.

I think less of the BBC and our mainstream media than I did before all of this. And have found you have to look for the truth yourself - our media isn't necessarily the best place to find the truth and neither is our parliament.

So it's all been a bit of a steep learning curve for me I'm afraid - but I'm getting there. Thanks in no small part to this board.


ps - still looking at those exchange rates and for those cheap flights!!

inspector_monkfish

baileysbattlebus wrote: »

I know!!

The trouble with me is that I generally have a fairly optimistic outlook on life - though that did take a bit of a dive towards the end of last year and early this year - it seemed to bad news piling on top of bad news - and I became a bit depressed (is that the right word?) about it all. But in the end I guess I realised that we didn't necessarily have to stock our garage up with non perishables and make plans for a quick getaway!!! Well, not yet anyway.

I take in all the bad news now with more of a sense of "C'est la vie" than anything else. I could be run over by a bus tomorrow.

I aslo try and see both sides of the arguments on here - even though I disagree with some fairly strongly.

The past year or so has turned my thinking upside down really - I wasn't clever enough or interested enough in either our own economy or the world economy and never saw any of this coming until it was slap bang on top of us - all that bothered me was the exchange rate for our holidays and how cheap I could get the flights. I must have been living in a bubble.

Now I watch Bloomberg for the financial stuff and actually read a lot of the links you post. Before the crisis the FTSE was something you did under a table.

I think less of the BBC and our mainstream media than I did before all of this. And have found you have to look for the truth yourself - our media isn't necessarily the best place to find the truth and neither is our parliament.

So it's all been a bit of a steep learning curve for me I'm afraid - but I'm getting there. Thanks in no small part to this board.


ps - still looking at those exchange rates and for those cheap flights!!

nice one!
welcome to the real world.