So long folks, it's been fun.
The censors have been at it again, and deleted my recent (humorous) post. It seems "some people were offended". I can't stand any more of this political correctness crap, so I will bid you all goodbye.
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So long folks, it's been fun.
The censors have been at it again, and deleted my recent (humorous) post. It seems "some people were offended". I can't stand any more of this political correctness crap, so I will bid you all goodbye.
I am sorry you feel that way. In most cases I am pretty liberal and definately not politically correct.
As I have said before I have to look after the majority and when I get complaints or think that some one has gone too far they will get censored'
You went too far. You were stirring. You offended some. You got the message deleted.
I don't mind stirring either as long as it is clever.
I must agree with . No, not this case in PARTICULAR but in general. I too am guilty of having a somewhat sexual cast to many of my posts. The only times that I have ever been censored were well and truly deserved. :)Apart from the above, I really do abhor censoring. Still, it isn't MY bulletin board, it belongs to others.
Goodbye Ken,
You are correct, not everyone reads comments the same way and perhaps some people were offended. We are all guilty of that at one time or another.
I feel you did have some useful contributions at times and it is those contributions I will miss.
- Wood Borer
I hate to see anyone leave this BB. Your contributions will be missed.
Sorry to see you go Ken, whilst I don't always agree with your posts at least they were interesting.
Peter.
Oh fer chrissake will everyone just stop throwing their toys out of the cot. It's a discussion forum. Yes, there's going to be disagreements and not everyone is going to get on like a house of fire. That's life. Good with the bad and all. Get over it.
:confused:Quote:
When you are as opinionated as me you can't afford to be thin skinned or lack a sense of humour
Ken
Don't go. Look I'll get off my bike and pick up your dummy for you. I'll even make a deliberate spelling mistake or three for you to correct. :D I don't want to be the only Nazi left in the bunker. I didn't mean that jibe about you being the one everyone hates. I'll even vote for you on that poll.
Come back. Or do a doorstop and sign on as a different person ;)
Really, don't go Your opinion is valued.Also Silent C's quote says it all.
Jim
ps. As the French guard in "The Holy Grail" says, "come back and we'll taunt you some more" :D :D :D
Hey Ken,
You have trodden on a few toes on this board during the time that I have visited it. Maybe some people just left quietly.
The moral of the story: Don't pour boiling water over someone, if you are not prepared to be on the receiving end one day.
You are a big boy, no need to throw your toys out the cot, just accept that whatever you did was not acceptable, ( I didn't see the post in question ) but life goes on. Some of your posts are very informative and we enjoy some valuable feedback from you, but the choice 'to go or not to go' is yours mate.
Cya around
Joe
dont let the door hit you in the ***(cop that naughty word detector)
on the way out and please pick up the dummy ....wouldnt want anyone to trip on it!
Pete :p
Weak as **** kenmil. I always thought you was a girl and you have proved me to be right.
This will get cencored and rightly so but I'm not goin to complain because the cencorship will be completely justified. Just like some of the pathetic **** yous have posted in your time on this bulletin board.
You have often had constructive imput to which I would think most members were appreciative. However I have seen yous have have a lot of hurtful, biggoted and often, bordering on slanderous imput and have alienated a lot of peoples.
The Don :mad:
Dead right Donk it certainly has been censored :mad: Neil :mad:
Ken,
I will miss your candid contributions. Such straight forwardness is refreshing in this day and age of bum lickers and yes men. Don't let being censored put you off.
Don, At least Ken contributed. Fourteen Posts in five years? I don't think I need to say any more. But I will. I find your post more offensive than any that I have ever seen from Ken and I do not refer to the swearing.
Dan
Neil,
can we have a dummy spitting forum where "last posts" can be recorded and duly scoffed at ??? :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes:
what a friggin' joke...
All you can expect from a Triton basher, they just hate to be wrongQuote:
Originally Posted by Zed
:D :D :D
Hey Sprong take it easy man. There is nothing wrong criticising Triton. I sincerely hope that my criticism against Triton has not offended you.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sprog
Kindest regards :)
Well I haven't spit the dummy have I, so no, no offence.Quote:
Originally Posted by Wongo
:D :D :D
But bashing the triton is sooo satisfying
I bash it, kick it, swear at it, would love to throw it (but probably hurt my back!) and even blow it up when it refuses to behave and sucks away all my valuable time :mad:
Then again - maybe I have an anger management problem :(
PS bye bye Ken
Hey Ken, hasn't this been done before?
As one who has been known to (unintentionally):-
a)cause offence
b)hurt people
c)provide wrong, incorrect and totally misleading information
d) never let the truth get in the way of a good story.
I feel I can say with some heartfeltedness (cop that for a word that doesn't exist!!) "If you can't do the time don't do the crime.
I would like to apologise now to all the people I am going to offend for the rest of the year, it really isn't intended. A new apology will be issued prior to January 1st, and Neil, in the event that I do something which you think is offensive, please feel free to do whatever you think needs doing.
Aren't some of us forgetting:- This forum isn't about the forty or fifty people that contribute regularly....it has a squllion potential lurkers, and what we say/do and how we behave is searchable on Google and everywhere else. Some minimum standards of behaviour are laudable, (as long as I dont' have to meet 'em).
Neil, Can we find an animated spitting dumming that we can add to the smilies menu?:D
P
I looked, couldnt find one. :D :o :)Quote:
Originally Posted by bitingmidge
Closest too it is..........http://instagiber.net/smiliesdotcom/...her/11baby.gif
Al
Ozwinner,
it will cost a fortune in dentist bills if you keep the grinning toothed creature.
- Wood Borer
If you respond your gold membership will explode
Well then I think that we should throw down the challenge to the IT people on this board to create one. :DQuote:
Originally Posted by ozwinner
I'm an IT person myself but I'm a dinosaur so I don't have the skills to do it.
Anybody else up to the challenge?
PS
'bye Ken
Ozwinner,
its Gone forever!!!!
Gold Member RIP
But just remember Diamonds are a Girls best friend, so things may not be to bad
I like bashing my titon and I'm not going to spit the dummy.
Why oh why would Ken have suddenly found a conscience?
It scares me that such a hard nose chap could suddenly turn to water and just leave, especially when he had achieved such notoriety on the polls. :D
You can all make all the spelling mistakes you like, out of respect for Ken I will not help any of you anymore ;)
Is that what they call it these days,.......................OK :DQuote:
Originally Posted by hovo
Al
I have returned(momentarily) to render an explanation, viz;
On the Polls forum, there is a poll for "The most controversial subjects on this forum" and my name is listed as one you can vote for. I have no problems with that, and in fact, thought it was quite funny. As the poll progressed, I was lagging behind in the voting, so I jokingly asked "do I have to post a multi-controversy thread ?", to which some devil (who shall remain nameless) replied "Yes".
I then posted a thread entitled something like "Orange is the preferred colour for gay handtool users who cannot spell".
Now I would have thought that anyone with a modicum of intelligence could tell this was a tongue-in-cheek post and was not in any way serious. Nevertheless, the moderator saw fit to delete it because "a couple of people were offended by it", and then explained his action by saying " I have to look after the majority". Not sure when a couple became a majority, but then I wasn't all that surprised given my history of conflict with the moderators here.
When you have to pull someones sorry **** out of the fire on numerous occassions because companies that they have insulted threaten to sue, we do get really off. It is not so much a conflict but someone has to protect people from their own stupidity. This is an open forum that is read by a lot of business people and a heap of nameless people from 6-106 and all races, religions and sexual pursuasions and I have to weigh that up against the mutterings of a hastily entered answer. Guess What, you lose. .Bob Willson - My post was not sexual as you put it.
Wood Borer - You are right, not everyone reads everything the same way, and indeed, some just sweat on something to be offended by.
Grunt - Thank you for your kind comment.
Sturdee - Ditto
SilentC - I am not thin skinned, and I can take being poked fun at, because I am quick to do it to others, but this wasn't about other posters having a shot, at least not out in the open.
DarrylF - I agree it does sound like a bit of "toy throwing", but I strenuously object to what I see as selective moderating.
Gatiep - I set out to step on toes sometimes, because that is what makes for lively discussion. I can take as good as I give, but the people who are so offended by what I write rarely have the courage to challenge me about it. They prefer to contact the moderator to profess their offended state.
fxst - Thank you.
Don K - I don't think I need to respond to you, although you do present a rather interesting spelling improvement challenge. :rolleyes:
DanP - Thank you for your kind words.
Zed - Fair comment, because I know this may seem like a dummy spit.
Sprog - Why do you always feel the need to group posters as either Pro or Anti Triton ? Are you that insecure about your orange beast ?
Bunyip - Thanks, I got a laugh out of that.
Bitingmidge - Very good, as usual. Made me smile too.
I didn't put it! Read what I said again.Quote:
Originally Posted by kenmill
Kenmil, why go now? You've got a gold member and you'll keep it for much longer than ozwinner had his.
Bob,Quote:
Originally Posted by Bob Willson
Sorry if I misinterpreted, but when you said "I too am guilty of having a somewhat sexual cast" I took it you meant we were both guilty of the same offence.
Ken
Don't let the dh's get to you.
Dave.. ;)
Thanks for the four line reply Ken. As the youngsters say nowadays: " Whatever."
I spent enough energy on this subject, will rather look at constructive threads, as nothing constructive will come out of this.
Cya
Joe
I agree.
Ken - I haven't seen too many problems with your previous tea cup storms - to the contrary some have been a good read and balanced out otherwise one sided topics. However, to be putting urine in the pockets of moderators at the frequency and flow rate that you have will get you nowhere, especially when they are more often than not doing you, and the rest of us, a favour.
Ken
I guess I'm in the minority, but I've always managed looked past your ascerbic wit and seen someone willing to challenge groupthink and political correctness. I didn't always agree your comments (some of them made me wince) but I'm sorry to see you go. :(
At the end of the day, its Iain's and his delegates' forum and if they feel the need to use the black pen its up to them.
Oooooh!
Touched a nerve there did I ?
I'd just prefer to see what is said or written, even if its in poor taste, along with all its objections instead of having it all blanked out. Any censorship gives me the creeps 1930s-Germany style.Quote:
Touched a nerve there did I
Having said that, I've seen a lot of "spirited" opinion published on this forum, which keeps me coming back.
I agree that censorship is not necessarily a good thing because it is often used by people to hide or distort the truth.
The big difference between what did and the Nazis is that isn't forbidding someone to make certain comments he is just stopping those comments being broadcast from this Forum. People can make those comments on their own website or perhaps on billboards in their front gardens. In Nazi Germany people who made unfavourable comments about the goverment or it's policies disappeared.
has clearly indicated the reasons for doing so and I have no problems with his actions or reasons.
- Wood Borer
Andrew,
My post was to the Dummy Spitter, not about your post.
:D :D
It was not my intention to label as a murderer, and I'm not 100% sure that this could reasonably be implied from what I wrote. I think its a cheap score to suggest I'm doing that. However, To : If you got the impression that I framed you as a murdering blackshirt I sincerely apologise. It was not my intention :o :o :o
My point was that the threat of censorship never helps a community running on free opinions like this forum does. If I had a sh*t experience with a retailer I think others would want to hear about it and this forum is a good medium. If I thought a product I bought had shortcomings I think others might want to hear it and this forum is a good medium. If I had a joke in poor taste which aims at some sacred cows this forum is a good medium. Why would I bother if thought I might be silenced because my style was frank or offensive? If you want tainted opinions with a distinct absence of what the commoner thinks, here's a tip : read woodworking magazines, look at glossy product brochures and, dare I say it, watch the DIY TV shows. The strength of this forum runs on its openness, not its exclusivity.
In short I don't agree with 's decision but I accept it because this is Iain's forum and he has delegated moderating to . I wouldn't want 's job on this forum, by the way. :D
Anyway, the main thing I wanted to do was to apologise to for any unintended offence. I don't want to go on and on about this issue before people get sick of me too.:)
Sprog - no probs. Thanks for the clarification. :)
NDRU,
I don't think anyone could accuse you of putting in a black or brown shirt with what you said. We all have different ideas about levels of censorship and where and if and how it should/should not be applied.
I am happy to discuss the matter over a beer and I am sure the pub would run out of beer long before we all agreed.
Now what would be the best beer to drink?
Have a good weekend,
Wood Borer