I myself have got many of my UK friends and possible long lost relatives pissed off at me on this forum, I accept and realize that fact, but we bounce back, and let bygones be bygones, and for the most part, I have always liked most of you.

I acknowledge the fact that some of you I don't like or enjoy and admitted that openly.

But me and this forum and you folks endure with me and put up with stuff and we continue on.............

Question is..................................

Why did RA rub you in such a bad way I can't figure this out, and I may be dense but I don't think he was just a troll ?

I think he tends to wind people up on purpose and perhaps he hits nerves or something. Personally I have no beef with the guy. I don`t agree with him on all things, but that can be said of everybody here I imagine. I think the point is to be respectful when we disagree. Maybe we could all improve in that regard but to me those are the tensions across the forum. It is a small forum so you notice those people you could avoid more easily on a larger forum. That to me is the reason we have such division on this forum at times. There are for me a few people who I know will never "like" me or even be respectful in their disagreement with me but then there are a fair few who I think I can discuss and disagree with and stay friendly with.

RA plays one of the oldest games on the web.
Deliberately attempt to wind people up, then play the victim whose 'freedom of speech' is being restricted when he achieves his goal


No-one here is a novice at this stuff. We've all seen that crap 1,000 times. Usually by schoolkids.
To be absolutely honest, he's not even very good at it.

It was no surprise someone eventually gave a bored sigh and sat him on a step.

Why do people think everyone on a forum is gonna be chums?

I don't walk into a pub, hear some punk on the jukebox then assume I'll agree with everyone in the pub on all matters!

People join a 'truth' forum yet seem to half expect this means we're all cut from the same cloth.

We could all agree money is of no use, I doubt we'd all agree on the best system to replace it.

The problem is when 'opponents' are unwilling to engage in dialogue or are blatantly swerving an honest discussion. I have had (in the long distant past!) had conversations, with what we now know as NaN's, about the effects of capitalism/industrialisation on migration, when the facts were being dealt with a common ground could be found, when facts are ignored or swerved I resort to type and call them out for the swerving cunts they are. Apparently this forum has lost out on 'certain posters' because of this kind of posting, on a bigger forum their swerving would have been less obvious and they'd be more comfortable hanging around for longer. As it isn't bigger they weren't comfortable.

I have no real issues wth RA - tbh half the time I could not really understand what he was trying to say - but it takes allsorts to make up a forum and I am sure we can all be annoying or weird at times.

Well he is banned if you haven't seen

Banned for what?

He was on his final warning about six months ago, since which he behaved like a complete tit. I consider the attitude towards him to have been incredibly lenient and tolerant.

He'll only go back to the DIF and post a load of halfwitted nonsense on there, anyway. There are plenty more forums open for him to tit about on.