Recent glut of inane posts.

andrew4232



Joined: 04/07/2009
Posts: 1543

Message Posted:
25/07/2011 19:39

just how much longer do we have to endure the constant driffle of people people making inain / stupid posts on here like its one of those face book type sites

newscoop


Joined: 23/12/2007
Posts: 2197

Message Posted:
25/07/2011 19:56

I'm saying nothing about the spelling on this one.

DoctorW


Joined: 28/11/2010
Posts: 334

Message Posted:
25/07/2011 20:02

Forever Im afraid.



From the amount of posters on them, you have to admit they are popular. Everyone I know slagged off the News of The World but it was the most popular Sunday paper. With the different perspectives of different members there are sure to be lots of different likes and dislikes.



The only answer is to filter out the posts that you are disinterested in. This however is sometimes difficult when the threads you are interested in get hijacked and go completely off topic.



The only answer to that one is tough moderators who will remove the offending posts, but all too often it is the thread itself that is removed.

sienna


Joined: 09/01/2009
Posts: 1627

Message Posted:
25/07/2011 20:02

what a load of driffle perhaps it will get in the dictionary

DoctorW


Joined: 28/11/2010
Posts: 334

Message Posted:
25/07/2011 20:10

QUOTE:



'A man must be a damned fool, who cant spell a word in two different ways'



-Winston Churchill - A great leader and a dyslexic.-



One for all you trainee skool teechers who mark a post on the speling rather that the content.



Can you ever expect to be as great as he who spoke these words?

No1Doyen


Joined: 04/07/2008
Posts: 16617

Message Posted:
25/07/2011 20:39

Andrew. We are gradually weeding out the idiots, those with an agenda.

stockiefan


Joined: 04/05/2009
Posts: 574

Message Posted:
25/07/2011 20:40

This thread says it all! Why post this drivel?

Tootie


Joined: 28/08/2008
Posts: 2037

Message Posted:
25/07/2011 20:51

Bill, Have you removed my post. ?

Roomy


Joined: 20/02/2011
Posts: 836

Message Posted:
25/07/2011 20:55

Yes, this is about as inane as it gets.I think he should be banned for life for starting it.Hahahahahahahaha...

DoctorW


Joined: 28/11/2010
Posts: 334

Message Posted:
25/07/2011 21:19

Welcome to another edition of:



'ROOMY TALKS RUBBISH'

Roomy


Joined: 20/02/2011
Posts: 836

Message Posted:
25/07/2011 21:37

The Doctor insults someone again, well done Doc, join the list of whingers that are trying their utmost to destroy the board, tell you what matey, why don't you post a list of those you want to stay here, it might be shorter than the one of posters you want to to be banned or forced to leave because of your childish attacks.

DoctorW


Joined: 28/11/2010
Posts: 334

Message Posted:
25/07/2011 21:56

Certainly no insult Roomy - Just plain fact.



If your brain engaged before your keyboard you would see your remark was quite insulting to the original poster, and extremely childish in its nature.



And I do not want to see anyone banned, nor have I a long list. What I would like to see is those offenders that do not follow the rules receiving warnings as to their behaviour. Only after repeated warnings or extremely bad behaviour do I feel anyone should be banned.



I am sure that should moderation be tougher then the board would be much improved.

Roomy


Joined: 20/02/2011
Posts: 836

Message Posted:
25/07/2011 22:07

Welcome to another edition of:









"DOCTORW TALKS RUBBISH".







Hahahahahahahahaha...

Mambosun


Joined: 27/05/2011
Posts: 112

Message Posted:
25/07/2011 22:14

do not read the drifffle then

Roomy


Joined: 20/02/2011
Posts: 836

Message Posted:
25/07/2011 22:17

What is this driffffle then?

DoctorW


Joined: 28/11/2010
Posts: 334

Message Posted:
25/07/2011 22:36

Thank you Andrew for this very useful post.



The fact you were able to get several examples of what you are talking about attached to it, was a work of genius.

mmmmmm



Joined: 19/12/2008
Posts: 8398

Message Posted:
25/07/2011 23:42

re msg 5



Sadly, not everyone thinks of Churchill as a great leader..



I mean Saddam wasn't the first to order the gassing of the Kurds, and Nazis got tried and hung for sending Jews to their certain death - but Churchill agreed to send Cossacks back to certain death... after WWII



As, ever - your examples can be found 'wanting'

DoctorW


Joined: 28/11/2010
Posts: 334

Message Posted:
26/07/2011 14:14

Agree with you Mark, (a first maybe). Not everyone WOULD think of Churchill as a great leader, we all have different thoughts on different matters. Churchill was many things, a drunkard, supposedly an anti-semite, and many others that you can drag up off the net. He was human and like all us us he had his faults.



He was however a leader that inspired Britain (for all his faults) through its darkest days. Without him we may not be here having this conversation, its difficult to see any other leader at the time inspiring the British people. Its also easy seeing others who would have gone down the appeasement route, which would have left europe looking much different than it is today.



However to the british people at that time and to many since, he was a great leader. More importantly in this case he was dyslexic which was the point I was making to the people who appear only to read posts to rubbish others spelling ability and not look at what is beyond.

mmmmmm



Joined: 19/12/2008
Posts: 8398

Message Posted:
26/07/2011 15:56

re 18



A long winded confirmation of you choice being a bad example to 'prove' another one of your dubious posts thanks ;)



BTW.. My Wife is Russian and would remind you that YES, the west sent vital arms, etc in the early part of the 'Great Patriotic War'.. and we might be speaking Russian now, not German ;) !!

andre514


Joined: 05/10/2010
Posts: 763

Message Posted:
26/07/2011 16:32

.....I really think starting a thread about "inane" messages is inviting trouble



actiually I first read it as "insane messages" but nobody has commented yet

on announcements concerning the future of the "eurozone"

andre514


Joined: 05/10/2010
Posts: 763

Message Posted:
26/07/2011 16:37

mark message19:



my missus is russian and when i told her why most of the arctic conveys never made it to murmansk

she said she thought it was because they'd never been sent in the first place



then there was the time I asked if her-long russian lasting tights were made in a tank factory...

it is possible to dodge flying plates, and indeed according to tin pan alley may even be a sign of love

Clarissa2


Joined: 12/06/2009
Posts: 1476

Message Posted:
26/07/2011 16:39

Re: Msg 20,

"...but nobody has commented yet

on announcements concerning the future of the "eurozone"



Maybe because everyone is concentrated at the moment on the announcements about the American debt .

DoctorW


Joined: 28/11/2010
Posts: 334

Message Posted:
26/07/2011 16:43

Youre back 6ms,



My examples can be found wanting?



In 2002 the BBC did a programme called the 100 greatest ever Britons. In a poll of over 1000,000 viewers Winston Churchill came top. with 447000 votes, beating his nearest rival by 56000 votes.



I personally wouldnt have voted him as the greatest Briton but its clear from this poll that my description being found wanting is hardly the case. Unless you consider so many other people found 'wanting'. We are all welcome to our own opinion, but I think you are probably out of line on this one.



I think the fact that so many voted for him as the greatest ever Brit should lead one to believe that at least he was just a teeny bit great?



Oh, and my thought on who should be the greatest ever Briton - Isambard Kingdom Brunel who came second in the poll!

Clarissa2


Joined: 12/06/2009
Posts: 1476

Message Posted:
26/07/2011 16:53

Re: Msg 20,

"...why most of the arctic conveys never made it to murmansk

she said she thought it was because they'd never been sent in the first place..."



How interesting, coincidentally I've been reading the book recently about the Arctic convoys and how many brilliant young British pilots lost their lives escorting the convoys.

martinD41


Joined: 06/09/2010
Posts: 3001

Message Posted:
26/07/2011 17:57

msg23 Winston Churchill? Isambard Kingdom Brunel? What about Lord Nelson,William Wilberforce or Dr Samuel Johnson...seems the voters needed a history lesson before the Poll took place...........Winston Churchill, absolute nonsense...............Ask Field Marshal Sir Alan Brooke..........

andre514


Joined: 05/10/2010
Posts: 763

Message Posted:
26/07/2011 18:15

message 24:



my anecdote may have been slightly exaggerated,

nonethess less even now most russians have little sense of the west helping much

despite the hundreds of thousands of trucks and 'planes shipped, mainly via persia



according to a recent book one or two raf pilots were even beckoned shoreside

by nkvd officers, arrested as spies and disappeared into the gulags

probably due to chagrin I'd guess that their original nazi allies proved "unreliable"

...though they felt the west had thrown in the towel too easily over czechoslovakia



but hey...we are supposed to be discussing inane posts not irrelevant ones

hwilde


Joined: 16/09/2010
Posts: 230

Message Posted:
26/07/2011 18:46

Without a shadow of a doubt the most influential Englishman was Samuel Pepys. (1633 – 1703)



As Secretary to the Navy he created the "modern" navy. Without him we could never have won the Battle of Trafalgar 100 years later and there would have been no British Empire as we would not have ruled the waves for 100 years. Truly the greatest Englishman ever.

deputydawg


Joined: 30/03/2010
Posts: 1727

Message Posted:
27/07/2011 01:06

When Mark made the point that Churchill was not viewed to be the greatest by everyone I immediately recalled that there had been a poll which he won handsomely but I could not remember the detail of that as set out by Dr W. So I suppose it could be said that Churchill was the greatest as there can hardly be a poll where somebody gets a perfect score. Personally I feel equally blessed that we had Churchill, Brunel, and Nelson plus others in their times when they were the best at what they did and made massive contributions. Let us be grateful that Churchill did not become an engineer, Brunel a politician, and Nelson anything other than a Sea Lord rather than try and make impossible comparisons !

andre514


Joined: 05/10/2010
Posts: 763

Message Posted:
27/07/2011 16:55

wasn't it the bbc that held a vote and oliver cromwell came top of the list?

...wot, secretarianism in the uk how can that be?!?



in true democratic style the beeb bowed to popular outrage and altered

the result to winston



wherever churchill sent the cossacks, he was planning to use poison gas....

against german invaders in 1940



churchill was guilty of gunning down welsh miners at tonypandy but also

of dangerously underestimating the turks in 1915, something that resonates

with the modern history of cyprus too



churchill for all his many faults courageously resisted doing any deal in

1940 when most opinion in whitehall was for compromise sell-out to hitler

Geoff


Joined: 25/06/2008
Posts: 1370

Message Posted:
27/07/2011 18:24

Churchill was so popular that he got chucked out at the first post-war general election.

The nice people of Coventry were not impressed when 40 years later (40 year rule) it was revealed that he ignored decoded German msgs that they were going to blitz the City because any resistance by the RAF would mean the Germans would know their enigma codes had been broken.

What rubbish! Any new codes would have also easily been broken by the English.

I was a student in Coventry 1963-5 with GEC PlC. My landlady lost 3 family members in the bombing raids, and she was most unhappy when she found out it could all have been avoided.

Not surprising that in recent years Churchill's statue in Whitehall has been desecrated several times.

Geoff

Famagusta City

Roomy


Joined: 20/02/2011
Posts: 836

Message Posted:
27/07/2011 18:31

He made some good speeches

andre514


Joined: 05/10/2010
Posts: 763

Message Posted:
28/07/2011 02:37

it's worth remembering that apart from churchill,

the late queen mother was central to britain escaping hitler's control



although most of the paperwork has mysteriously disappeared from view,

her dislike of "that woman" wallace simpson was so intense baldwin and co

were obliged to take notice ...and eventually edward was pushed into

abdicating, something that was not required constitutionaly

philbailey


Joined: 17/01/2011
Posts: 3534

Message Posted:
28/07/2011 02:40

Ironic the OP knocks faceache

sorry facebook

is one of the few people who has a picture on here

Jeannie


Joined: 04/08/2009
Posts: 3283

Message Posted:
28/07/2011 02:45

andre514 - that's a very interesting comment.



Depending on what you read (of course), her "dislike" (in fact, I think it actually bordered on hatred) could have been based on the fact that she rather fancied Edward for herself??



I know it is widely believed that due to Edward's abdication (because of "that woman") the late Queen Mother felt her husband was forced into a position for which he was totally ill-equipped.



Obviously, this is conjecture and, as I said, dependent on what you may have read.



Since Edward was not, as you said, required constitutionally to abdicate, how much sway do you feel the late QM had over the government at that time?



(Curious) Jean (because I appreciate your posts )

JohnW


Joined: 23/04/2009
Posts: 601

Message Posted:
28/07/2011 07:17

Geoff



It would appear that story is not true. These days with the internet it doesn't take too long to get at the facts:



http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/men/article3661600.ece

andre514


Joined: 05/10/2010
Posts: 763

Message Posted:
28/07/2011 12:12

jeannie,



any selected documents or recollections from the period may be

suspect due to "subsequent developments" after the abdication,

as well as the weeding of awkward letters



a fact rarely commented upon is that wallace, duchess of windsor

spent her later years living as companion to lady diana mosley

nee mitford, widow of the fascist leader, in the south of france



geoff,



I'm not sure about the story concerning "enigma",

but in professor r v jones' book the jamming of "x-gerat" a

german bomb aiming system, failed coventry because the

chosen frequency was off by a whisker



churchill was popular as a war leader but all apocryphal evidence

points to a desire for a better society after the war and in this the

forces' vote was said to be crucial



nonetheless churchill won the 1951 general election after a section

of the public became discontented with the real cost of "socialism"

Jeannie


Joined: 04/08/2009
Posts: 3283

Message Posted:
28/07/2011 12:17

andre514 - Many thanks. Very interesting, especially the bit about Wallace Simpson living as a companion to Lady Diana Mosley.



Jean