RosieH

I just want to add that I will drink prosecco with anybody. LM, I haven't lied (and have PMed you the details) and my offer of meeting in person to clear the air still stands.

Ladymuck Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > > RosieH Wrote: > ---------------- > > ...including on another forum and naming people > by > > their initial, which if not to cause illwill > > towards that person is for what exactly? People > in > > glass houses... > > Keef Wrote: > ---------------- > WORD! > > > I had actually let RosieH's comment pass (see > earlier). However, given your latest post Keef, > regrettably I now feel compelled to respond. > > *long weary sigh, coupled with a hint of sadness" > > Presumably you are both referring to this? from > the Nunhead Forum? > > mikecg wrote: > ---------------- > > That poster had it in for me the > > minute I arrived on the site... > > Me (under a different username): > -------------------------------- > mikecg, sorry I have just walked into this...I am > concerned as what you have said here has rung some > very loud bells. Was the...shall we > say...ringleader...who was responsible for the > behaviour described by you a female member of the > EDF with a poster name beginning with "a". I > apologise in advance if I am wrong, but I too have > suffered my share of...I'm not too sure what to > call it...but it was far from pleasant. I was > merely wondering if we were talking about the same > person. Forgive me if I am speaking out of turn. > > > So, to answer your question - no, my post was not > intended "to cause illwill towards that person". > I was concerned that the humiliation to which I > had been subjected might also have been inflicted > upon another user, and I wished to establish (from > that other user) whether "we were talking about > the same person". My apologies if my post was > unclear. The humiliation? No, I can't have this. You have banged on and on and on about this for 6 months, *giggling* about it on various threads - giggling about your own humiliation? Man, you must have been really upset I guess. And now conjuring up some new imaginary slight at the Clockhouse. I was there and I know there was none. I was also there 6 months ago when all this first started and you were really fucking rude to me, but I'm not on here bitching and whining about it 6 months later. So for the love of all that is holy, will you PLEASE just get a grip and let this one go?

Quids you make a good point. But HAL, I think the subject of astroturfing etc is a very valid one for a forum - I've seen it widely discussed and speculated about in plenty of forums and blogs - it's something marketeers (and I think Huguenot is one such, as am I) feel strongly about, at least if they're ethical about it. Also isn't there a legal difference between expressing an opinion and a statement of fact - I'm pretty sure there is, although I'm clearly not a lawyer. Regardless, this isn't a legal forum so we needn't discuss further - can we agree to differ? On another note I wouldn't call Huguenot hot-headed - passionate, and occasionally wrong-headed (i.e. when he disagrees with me) but by and large I find him tremendously rational. As for your killer moniker - well if you choose to name yourself after a malevolent murdering computer, you shouldn't really be surprised if people don't always infer the very best intentions.

Oh god, not again. LM PLEASE for pity's sake, will you let it lie. The whole scenario was unpleasant for all concerned, and you were far far far from being the only one upset. Clearly naively I thought it had been resolved and that you and the forumite in question had made up. Yet you bring it up time and again, including on another forum and naming people by their initial, which if not to cause illwill towards that person is for what exactly? People in glass houses...

Ladymuck Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > RosieH Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > And you consider that to comment on HAL9000's > intentions in this way to be helpful? LM, firstly, I'm sorry that you're upset. But I don't mean to offend when I say that I really can't understand why you are. Surely this is between Huguenot and HAL - they're both big boys and have proven themselves on many occasions more than capable of handling themselves. As for the question around HAL's intentions. Well that requires a longer answer I think. On this particular occasion, I wondered why HAL commented on one aspect of the legal situation, but not another, i.e. that the woman in question may have been breaking the law (possibly unknowingly). That seemed odd to me, because I often think HAL comes on here to be genuinely helpful and I was surprised he didn't include both sides of the legal argument if he genuinely thought the woman innocent of acting intentionally fraudulently. Surely he might have wanted to warn her... But while the wider question's being asked, I also think HAL comes on the forum often to play devil's advocate, and to tell you the truth, sometimes to show off his vast knowledge (I should say that I have no problem with that - LM, you and I both show off on here, and we're far from alone in that). But then, if we're thinking about the wider question, I would also ask, what were HAL's intentions in choosing his forum name? Surely that itself carries certain connotations of mischief (to put it mildly), and could therefore lead other forumites to surmise that his intentions are not always benign? Having chosen that name, why would he assume otherwise?

Sometimes I think there's a tendency towards unbecoming levity when there's a serious point being made. I know LM you're just trying to make things nicer, but I'm not sure it helps. I briefly caught the thread in question before it disappeared and had been about to comment that as a business, deliberately misrepresenting yourself online (astroturfing, sockpuppeting etc) became a criminal offence a couple of years ago*. And I was very surprised that in HAL's posts about legal matters, he didn't see fit to make that point. It didn't seem that the argument was balanced and that leads me to give some credence to Huguenot's comments about HAL's intentions. Huguenot, hope you're still reading - I don't want you to go, please don't. I've enjoyed arguing with you and thinking you an utter cunt back in the day, and now that I don't and we've made friends you head for the Sinagaporean hills? Don't do it mate, you'll be too missed. *edited to say I don't know if that's what was going on - didn't read the whole thread or see the stuff on Facebook

What *bob* said - Stone Roses - 2nd album was shite, whatever any johnny-come-latelys may think

Why thank you PGC *blushes* But the Osmonds? *bows* I'm not worthy, that's soooo cool!

When I said "ugliness" I meant the tone of some of the posts on this thread. Fucking grow up and grow an intellect.

Public Enemy - Manchester Apollo Goddamn I was cool in my younger days

Ugliness.

I took her standing as a bid to encourage a wider debate and open the leadership competition to a broader spectrum than the bunch of male special advisers also on the list. That's no bad thing. And it's good to see a woman on the list. And I like Diane Abbott. So there. And I doubt that she seriously thinks for a moment that she's going to get the gig - in spite of what some grumbling centrists might opine.

Nah, all sorts of crims in my family, but sadly no bank robbers. Was just being Clashish, innit.

My daddy was a bankrobber...

I once did an entire pitch with sugar nipples. The projector wasn't working and I had leaned down to try to sort it out, seemingly pressing my breasts against a plate of sugared doughnuts in the process. I was wearing a black top, so created a pair of gorgeous white sparkly outerwear nipples. Presented for an hour. Won the pitch. No one ate the doughnuts. Wonder if I might bring new boss a plate of iced buns with glace cherries.

So I have a new boss who is clearly big into NLP and body language and all of that "seven habits of highly effective people" bullshit. Anyway, turns out he analyses people by where they choose to sit in a meeting with him (which is tricky when there are four of you around a table that seats six - not that many options). But my future contract with this company rests in his hands. Anyone know anything about this horseshit? Or suggest ways to confound him? I'm thinking it might be early days to sit on his knee...

"Just enough to give your kids a treat..." - doesn't seem so innocent these days does it?

For the record, I'd just like to say that I believe Woof to be an upstanding, charming, handsome and gallant member of the genus canis, and wouldn't think for one second that he would stoop to such vulgarity. I shan't name names, but I can confirm that it was neither dog, nor wolf, but a quadruped of slightly smaller stature. I am just thankful that I did not make it to bed with a packet of Space Raiders. Lord alone knows what might have been insinuated...

Hmm, it's just been suggested to me that yours was a reference to "beef curtains" Woof. Dear god tell me you're not that crass...

Why curtains and not just curtains? What am I missing?

woofmarkthedog Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > BUT I know someone must awaken to a cold stiffened > kebab & not think twice about snaffling it in bed I woke up naked in bed at 5am on Friday with all the lights on and contacts still in next to an unopened bag of beef Monster Munch (actually under the covers with me). Does that count at all? Of course, I was going to dunk them in my Moro mojo...

david_carnell Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > And you thought Woof was disppointing. d_c - didn't I mention that James Martin would be doing a naked fan dance over the prone form of Greg I'm-a-twat Wallace whom gimp-suited dwarves are flagellating to within an inch of his life? Cold curry tastes best like that.

Woof, if that's what you consider dirty, I'm disappointed and pity your poor bored wife... I had you pegged as considerably more sybaritic than you are currently showing yourself. For a properly dirty breakfast, there's nothing better than last night's curry eaten cold from the foil container in front of James Martin.

Yeah baby, football can kiss my ass. Ahma be hotstepping and jazzhanding and making hard rock sound all kiddie friendly, all over this town.

Oh sweet mother of holy guacamole - it really really was. I was, erm, moved.