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Back in a minute then, gotta read from 5pm onwards.
WOW. So Screamy, are you going to take him on, are ya, well are ya ? He was rude to your friends, you cant let that go now can you ?
Jesus H Christ, you couldn't make it up could you ?
Stuey, I know you can hear me, you're still here lurking aren't you ? What are you going to do, stand at the end of the High Street and shout "this town ain't big enough for the both of us" ?? Do you think it's possible that you may have gotten sun stroke over the last few days ?
Possibly Rich - it's certainly one of the most preposterous threads I've ever read.
It's a small village and you're it's only idiot I take it?
He was accussed of spamming.and we were right as pop eye has said himself that Rhys came on the forum to try and help a friend.........
so you are having a go at us for accusiing us for seeing Rhys for what he is.. a spammer.
he thought instead of popeye paying for advertising he would come on here and pretend he was a unbiased reviewer who wanted to help us.....
when really he only wanted to fool us to having a look at his friends business.......
so as per usual ....our instincts were right.......when someone comes on to praise or slag off something with there first post the it is usally something dodgy......
From what I can tell Rhys was a mate of the owner trying to do him a favour.
So the original suspicions were correct.
A quick look at the Ultraspire website shows that they have 7 retailers in the UK.
One is based in the rhonnda, and the other a place called Brecon, Powys.
Floodies is based in Stevenage, which is a 160 mile drive from the Brecon Beacons. I suppose the question I am trying to ask is:
Do you really think you should be allowed to do races where there is an element of navigation in it?
i know you did the Gobi thingy but are you sure you weren't meant to be doing the mds?
Blimey is this still going on? tell us about Keith Flood where does he fit in to all of this? Is he the owner of the business then?
Anyway 3:28 as a 5K, 10K and soon to be marathon runner - not bad is it?
Its slightly ironic that Stuart is now offering out women given he was the grand protector and high lord of forum etiquette and the code of conduct at 11am. Is it a matter of do as I say not as I do???
Remember this post mate-
And I've just read the code of conduct for this fourm
For those of you who were abusive to my friend Rhys - I will be looking out for apologies
Blimey, I go out for the evening, and look what you've all been up to when I get back. Screamy, I have an epee you can borrow if you need it.
I came in to try and make a defence. I did not go out there for support from friends by asking them to join this thread. It was simply one man making a comment that has turned sour and I am trying to defending my integrity and character to no avail.
I have not, or at least can't recollect making any personal remarks or threats throughout this thread to anybody.
However, there have been a number of slanderous comments coming my way....Why. NOBODY on this forum knows me personally bar two.
I am not the originator of this thread, nor did I instigate it.
I will not be posting anymore comments on this thread.
Thanks Literatin, I don't think I'll need it though, I think a Paddington Bear style "hard stare" will probably do the trick on its own
Popeye- They would be libellous not slanderous as they are written. However the point you make is good in that no one does know you and you work under an internet name, therefore a key feature of libel (a reduction in the perception of you by others) cannot be satisfied as no one knows who you really are!!
One day I might start a thread detailing all the bad things I did when I worked in running retail!
Copied over from Moderators Post:
Yes Wilkie.. up bright and early.
Bad day yesterday. It seems that the harder I tried the deeper the whole got and I just could not find a way out. Simple to just let it go, but unfortunately, I just couldn't..pride (or stupidity) I guess
I can only hold my hands up and appologise to one and all, if I gave offense or came over as insulting, rude or abrasive.
My Moderaters thread was simply to try and get the thread removed, as I was not the originator and never asked for this to happen, but simply got dragged in along the way.
I generally keep a very low profile on this forum and have done so since first joining in 2004.
I do visit and am always interested in what is said, but never intefere.
I just want this to end.........
You didn't come across as rude or abrasive but you did come across as hysterical and irrational - too keen to defend your mate Rhys and not keen enough to listen to what people were trying to say to you.
The bottom line is that his was not a genuine, objective, review. It couldn't possibly be given that he is a personal friend of yours - it's advertising, for free, through posts, instead of paying. In short - spam, whether you condoned it or not; whether you agree with the term or not.
I still suggest you take the matter up with Rhys and ask him not to do it again. If I were you I might also have a word with Stuart who, in a similar attack of blind hysteria, ended up inadvertently making threats to a woman - not good.
I'm a newbie and so thus far I've only read this thread but my sense of humour can relent no more! Can't we just all play nice and agree to disagree then head over to the " my lady shorts" thread where its got to discussing the intimate parts of women instead of inferring that other people are indeed colloquial words for them?!
Except nobody actually did that Lee.
But if the discussion of women's intimate parts is the sort of thing you like I think you might be better keeping that to yourself
If you know the contents of the other thread then you've obviously read more than just this thread!
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For clarification,read not participated in this particular thread,quite obviously I had read the other thread. And my point was that that thread had progressed to discussing things that were not really on point. For the record,as none of you do know me, I attempted to make light of the situation but it seems there is a genuine outrage of "spam advertising",(which the original post may or may not have been) and so I will withdraw and limit my posts to threads that do have a bearing on my running needs.
It all makes perfect sense now. Cheers.
If you stick around you'll find that most threads end up deviating from the topic. Often it's not a bad thing.
I have to say though, I still don't understand why you claimed that people were being referred to as (presumably) c*nts and the like, since that's not what happened at all.
Still, it's not the first incomprehensible post on this thread.
Could be me. They always sit beside me on the bus too.
I think the discussion of lady parts on the other thread was entirely pertinent to the original post.
Lady shorts and lady bits. Definitely a connection
Agree with Screama, most threads end up off course, so to speak!
Just took a long time to catch up with this thread. Looks like Stuey and his mates have totally lost it. Worst publicity campaign since Gerald Ratner went on Wogan. Don't think there will be a "flood" of orders coming from this thread
Definately doesn't appear to have been a marketing strategy to deal with 'what to do if the spamming plan goes tits up and we're rumbled'
We never got our 'friends of the owner' discount either. You'd have thought that all that advice would have warranted some free vouchers!!