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I thought I'd start this, as I very rarely bother looking in the General ED issues bit fo the forum, as when I do, there is usually little that interests me.


HOWEVER (and it's a big however), I have missed such gems as the Squatters on Goose Green, and the deleted (very quickly) CPT Quiz thread), so I'd ask you all, if there is a thread worth reading, with the possibility of a good old disagreement, or laugh, can you please point it out here, so I can go and find it, and make my work days that much more interesting.


There is currently a good one about a 25 year old former Dulwich College student who got kicked in by some yoots. That is not funny. Some of the comments on the thread are.


Cheers.

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Agreed Quids, there have been a few really cracking rows in that section!


Cheers legalbeagle. That proves the necessity for this thread, I would have totalle ignored that thread, and even now I'm 8 pages late.

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Good heavens is that where all the interesting theads are hanging out now? Well thanks for the pointer. There's normally too much righteous indignation in the main section for me to take anything seriously but I'm off to have a gander now.


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Keef, how very remiss of you not to read the ED section regularly. How can you appreciate the 'Murali - Goodrich Road' thread unless you had seen the original one over there?


Now you have no excuse not to contribute to Ted Max's excellent thread.

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daizie Wrote:

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> No ones ever told me so i suppose no


If I were you (which I am not - granted) I would send Admin a PM asking them why. It's only fair that you should be given the reason(s).


What have you got to lose? They are generally pretty reasonable.


While you are at it, you could ask them about the duration of the ban...it cannot be for life (can it?).


Good luck xx

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Yes it can be for life if admin wants. It is admin's forum so admin can ban poeple as admin sees fit.


Note, I have no idea why the bans were put in place, and I think daizie is proper funny (especially when she has ventured in to the family room once or twice), but people need to realise that admin is not employed by some higher power to impose certain rules. Admin set this forum up, and payed for it. Yes people may donate, but that is an individual choice, and a donation, not a sunscription, so if admin decided they didn't like anyone called Keef, and decided to ban me for life, that would be admin's right.


Anyway, about those interesting threads in other sections...

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I cannot disagree with anything you have said there Keef.


Of course, it is Admin's forum etc. But my point is that, given that they are a reasonable bunch and they do run the forum very well, I would have thought that they would have no problem furnishing Daizie with a reason. A life ban - which (to me anyway) would suggest a contravention of the Forum's rules of some magnitude - would (in my opinion) render the requirement to give a reason to our very amusing Daizie all the more necessary. But who am I eh?


Anyway...sorry to divert...back to these amusing threads...

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There's a great thread now about an appalling attack by a gang of kids on a man in Dulwich.

And yup, someone's mentioned the NS words (national service).


And is this right, that daizie does not know the details of her crime? So therefore doesn't even know what she's doing wrong?

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