Here Here (or Hear Hear) as appropriate.

And don't feel bad Brian old sport weasels can get in anywhere.

Cheer yourself up with another burst of Rita Hayworth

I'm not sure there is someone called Milkman on the Eriba Forum, but I'll check. There wasn't one here and as I was a milkman for many years, it is a name I often go by, so nothing malicious I can assure you. With over 1200 members, it wouldn't surprise me that the name has been taken already!

Going, going gone.

Zitat

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It's called freedom of choice.

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Here Here amen

The thing that worries me is Chris is the most reasonable member of the team what are the others thinking?

Quote: Milkman wrote in post #45

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Yours Pete, but it serves to show what we were trying to avoid on the Eriba Forum.

Good night.

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1200 members, but I bet 90% have posted once or twice or not at all. I also suspect that the number of recently active members is tiny, especially as the most prolific members are on here.

I haven't got the latest membership figures for Caravan Talk but at the start of 2013 they were quoting 3m visits and 14m page views a year and they asked me to be a Moderator. TEF threw me off for daring to write a book about the vans we all love, whose brand is owned by Hymer, not by jumped up self appointed, self important little clique of no hopers.

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1200 members, but I bet 90% have posted once or twice or not at all. I also suspect that the number of recently active members is tiny, especially as the most prolific members are on here.

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It has been rather quiet recently .............but then all us chatterboxes are over here

to be honest I am saddened to read this thing yet again,
what has happened has happened

sure certain parties have been hurt by actions / words but lets move on what is past is past

life is too short to be going on like this,

you'll all end up with stomach ulcers ground down teeth balding hair!!!!..and illness. if you carry on stressing about something that happened in the past, that now we are in the future cannot be changed. I wouldn't wish any of the above on anyone btw,


excuse me while I go and try and stop the nose tap from running
please take a deep breath for me because I cant manage one right now

What Milkman (Steamerpoint) doesn't say about my ban is why?

As I have mentioned previously I suffered 2 bans the first for 7 days (which turned out to be 10 and that was after I chased them to get reactivated) the second was partly because I recieved a gruff email from StuartAB so I replied in the same manner and then posted it online ;-) this was quite quickly removed:-)

I then started to alter my tag / signature line (something I often do / did) only for this to be repeatedly deleted! It was obvious I was being heavily moderated and later it proved to be so as I was banned again! With no communication whatsoever so I once again contacted Milkman (Steamerpoint) to ask why?

I have the emails of that conversation! and have contacted one of the people also mentioned in that email the other I am still trying to track down! BUT I know they are on here (just can't recall the username)

I sent an email to Milkman (Steamerpoint) apologising for any upset (which I thought long and hard about as I was not 100% sure what I had done warranted it!) I then heard back from Milkman (Steamerpoint) and he did say "wait until the dust settles"

That was a little over 3 months ago, from then till now I have heard nothing from them!

If anyone doubts the truth of my account I have the emails I sent and received! Alternatively you can meet me after school behind the bike sheds and we can sort it out in a more permanent manner ;-) ;-)

The truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth.

As for mixing with others, despite my original tag / signature line "doesn't mix well with others but will always show respect" thats true, we like our own company, we obey the rules! we leave it better than we found it.

Now anyone got a picture of StuartAB? As I really really want to avoid him, especially as I'm going to Dorset soon! ;-)

I can only say I think that Chris should concentrate on his own forum and leave us guys in peace to enjoy ourselves. We must be having too much fun on here and it's upsetting him. . Ellen.

Well, well, well. I tune in this morning only to hear "Good morning Vietnam" (as Robin Williams used to say) and that the next round of the Eriba Offensive has begun. Whatever happened to the white flag of a while back?
On the off-chance that the odd member or two on here considers that I may be the Mole in the Hole so to speak - I'm not. I had a few email exchanges with a member of the Eriba Forum admin team the bulk of which will, as they should, be kept private. I can say, however, that apologies were offered for my being wrongly banned and I in turn accepted that of course said Admin/Owners of the Eriba Forum site had the right to manage it as they saw fit whether I agreed with it or not.
In respect of the last point - it has hardly gone without notice that the Eriba Forum site has undergone drastic changes over the past week or so with the promise of more to come. An example of this is the General Interest thread where a long discussion is taking place re photography/cameras which would have been completely unheard of in the past.I think it fair to say that most would be forgiven in thinking that these changes have been brought about in response to an increasingly unsettled membership. That's quite sad really for had certain members of the Admin team pulled their heads out of the sand and woken up to the fact that time doesn't stand still, then perhaps we wouldn't have found ourselves in the position that we are in today with what is considered (wrongly in my opinion) the establishment of a rival forum.
Oh well - I'm now going to enjoy a breakfast followed by getting the shovel out of the shed and fortifying the old trenches once more before the next round of incoming shells. Good morning Vietnam.