Guest 675- Registered: 30 Jun 2008
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Is it just me or has Bern suddenly gone quiet? Where are you girl, we miss you?
Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong.
Richard Armour
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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bern resigned a few days ago chris as you know.
i was sent the facebook page with it on that also contained your post chock full of factual inaccuracies seemingly designed to stir the pot for reasons known only to yourself.
Guest 675- Registered: 30 Jun 2008
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You will have to message me with the 'inaccuracies'.
Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong.
Richard Armour
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
would better if you copied your post on here so that i cannot be accused of making things up chris.
we can go through it bit by bit then.
Guest 675- Registered: 30 Jun 2008
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Following Bern's posting on a completely separate 'Social Network' the following discussion followed. Humour, satire or "inaccuracies', I let you all decide.
Kathy Bailes really bowing out?
28 May at 20:04 · Like
Bernie Mayall Probably, maybe.......I am a bit irritated at the moment, but respect that blasted forum as a good place for news and views. To be honest it does give a platform to those who would otherwise probably not share or air their opinions for such a wide audience, so a heartfelt round of applause for that. But the damned political visual impairment and the tit for tat stuff is finding its way right up my nose!
28 May at 20:09 · Like · 1
Kathy Bailes ah well, maybe just take a week off then!
28 May at 20:10 · Like
Peter Garstin Not the Dover Forum, surely?
28 May at 20:13 via Mobile · Like
Bernie Mayall You recognise the description Peter.....?
28 May at 20:14 · Like · 2
Chris Precious And there, I just put a message for you on the Alex D, sorry I mean Western Heights, thread. :)
28 May at 20:21 · Like
Bernie Mayall And I have replied...there is a beer with my name on it Chris and it is near to one of yours ditto!! ;)
28 May at 20:25 · Unlike · 1
Melissa Clements Gd on u bern xxxx who needs the sickening bromance between dippy sansum dixon and the blokes who endless bicker whose better in politics zzzzzzzzzzzz
28 May at 21:08 via Mobile · Unlike · 1
Sid Perkins Comer on Bernie, surely you want to go out in blaze of inglory sans Rick and myself? No point in just sneaking away, where's the fun in that?
28 May at 21:18 · Unlike · 3
Bernie Mayall A kind of self-immolation by Forum? Sounds attractive.......hmmmm....may need to think about that!
Tuesday at 07:07 · Like · 1
Heidi Hunt i left a few years back because of the very same reasons. they are either point scoring or blowing up each others a..'s god knows what tourists must think if they stumble across it!
Tuesday at 07:11 · Like · 1
Melissa Clements Well comes to something when forum allows one of dovers unsavouries who cant string a sentance together and petty name calling over a normal person.
Tuesday at 07:37 via Mobile · Like
Bernie Mayall There are normal people on there....?!
Tuesday at 07:38 · Like
Melissa Clements Haha well more normal than that certain lame excuse of a man lol
Tuesday at 07:41 via Mobile · Like
Chris Precious For your consideration, some topics to get you banned. Insulting the Labour Party, Atheism, the idiocy of some posters or questioning the running of the forum. Have fun, I have actually had some better (and more interesting) debates on here - without people thinking they are under attack because you disagree with their point of view on one subject.
Tuesday at 07:53 · Like · 1
Beth Webb You leaving facebook? It's been really nice getting your posts. Love and laughter go with you!
Tuesday at 10:54 · Like
Bernie Mayall No Beth, a local Dover Forum. A good one, but becoming a little narrow. I will have a bit of a forum holiday and see what happens! Chris - I am so tempted to post about one of the taboo topics and see. Watch that space!
Tuesday at 13:47 · Unlike · 2
Bernie Mayall Chaps, I can report that I am now suspended from the forum.
Tuesday at 14:01 · Unlike · 3
Melissa Clements Haha what did u say ....... Lol
Tuesday at 14:02 via Mobile · Like
Chris Precious Tell me the thread, please. This I have to read. :) x
Tuesday at 14:05 · Like
Bernie Mayall I think this is it..........I believe I have been shopped!!
Tuesday at 14:08 · Like
Jen Sutton ‎*ahem* i am vageuly normal... and Sid.. I miss your lovely face!!
Tuesday at 14:11 · Like
Bernie Mayall I miss Sid too. And I defy anyone to prove their normality!!! And a good thing it is too!
Tuesday at 14:12 · Like
Jen Sutton I said vaguely...
Tuesday at 14:13 · Like
Bernie Mayall ‎:)
Tuesday at 14:13 · Like
Bernie Mayall Silly really - I support the Forum, which is probably why I am so annoyed that it is being taken over by a lot of eejits! Not all, I have to add - there are lots of relatively sound people on there. But swamped by FWits!!
Tuesday at 14:20 · Unlike · 2
Chris Precious So I had better not post a thread about the Labour Party plot, instigated by Tony Blair, to turn the country Catholic as a defence against AD's Knights of the Church of England for a restored British Empire, all to be promoted by the forum as a means of gathering Atheists to be burnt at the stake then. Oops. :)
Tuesday at 14:24 · Like
Melissa Clements Well lets hope they all still enjoy dovers version of rab c nesbit and blakey :) lol
Tuesday at 14:37 via Mobile · Like
Bernie Mayall Chris - you promised not to tell!! So we'd better keep schtum about the Tory plot to lure all the unemployed and those on benefits into a pit up at Western Heights and fill it in with quick setting cement, thus achieving not only the removal of all those who are a drain on society, but sorting out the Western Heights planning permission issue all in one hit.........
Tuesday at 14:41 · Unlike · 2
Beth Webb Glad we're not losing you, I enjoy your good sense.
Tuesday at 16:21 · Like
Bernie Mayall Beth, you are very kind indeed. And I enjoy your contact too!
Tuesday at 16:31 · Like
Bernie Mayall Hi guys - would someone be kind enough to let the members on the forum know that I am suspended? I have yet to hear in person from anyone about this, I should add...........
Tuesday at 20:27 · Unlike · 3
Chris Precious How did you find out?
Tuesday at 20:42 · Like
Bernie Mayall I tried to log on!! Won't do that again!
Tuesday at 20:45 · Unlike · 2
Sid Perkins Bernie! You've been and gone and done it then? So the reprobate in you won through eh? That's how we all find out. They don't have the common decency to communicate their action or even offer a warning. The Gordion knot is cut in secret. Jenn, I get to see my lovely face (are you sure about vague?) every day, how lucky am I? ha ha!
Wednesday at 16:26 · Unlike · 2
Bernie Mayall Sid, I am outraged and disappointed at the level of discourtesy! I had no idea regular, productive and articulate contributors were treated like that. I can see no excuse for it at all. Even if someone is displeased with criticism, there is no need for discourtesy of that sort. Emails take no time to send. There is a tacit acceptance of a "good manners at all costs" on the threads, but clearly that isn't carried further into real life. Well, pishposh is all I can say. I have joined the Reprobate Club with no regrets.
Wednesday at 17:29 · Like
Max Headroom come back bern you will be missed greatly.
Yesterday at 09:55 · Like
Max Headroom come back bern you will be greatly missed
Yesterday at 09:59 · Like
Bernie Mayall Thank you Max, you are kind! Not my call, though - I am suspended. The view is great from up here! the forum is a good one, and I would enjoy being lowered from my suspension, but that would not change the fact that it has been taken over and brought low by silliness and idiocy from some and needs a bit of a sort out. Present company accepted of course!!!!
Yesterday at 15:45 · Like
Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong.
Richard Armour
Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
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Phew, real subversive stuff.
I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
Guest 670- Registered: 23 Apr 2008
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I do not post on here very much at all now and when I do I like to avoid politics as I have been accused of empty talk because my opinion differs from certain others.
In defense of Bern I must say we had our disagreements but I always respected her opinion as she did mine. She was a valuable contributor and I will miss her and all the other sensible ones that have left the forum. There are still a number of good people left but 2 or 3 individuals seem to have monopolised many threads to the detriment of others and to the forum itself as people are reluctant to post for fear that their opinion will be ridiculed.
Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,883
I can see nothing wrong it would be a shame if we have lost one of our more knowledgeable posters, I think we need to be told what is inaccurate so we can comment.
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Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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I had no idea this was going on. Why was Bern suspended ? I would say she was one of the most articulate and intelligent posters on here.
A big shame and a big loss.
I miss Sid's postings, but I thought he had gone working abroad again, was he suspended too ?
Roger
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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the initial post on the thread seems to have gone missing but never mind it will turn up somewhere.
let's take things one by one chris "insulting the labour party" could get one banned.
have you not seen comments from barry and roger amongst others?
in fact barry has a highly successful blog that does mostly that.
Ross Miller
- Location: London Road, Dover
- Registered: 17 Sep 2008
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FFS most of those comments are tongue in cheek jokes - think it is time some people on here grew a pair
"Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today." - James Dean
"Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength,
While loving someone deeply gives you courage" - Laozi
Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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Is it possible to insult the Labour Party Howard ?
Roger
Brian Dixon
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i see a former forum is still tissed off with certain forum members,but hey who cares about her opinion.the ex is m.c person.
Guest 655- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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I do it often Roger, and will keep on doing it!!!!
Clearly a lot of very tongue in cheek stuff though but Bern being suspended!! She was always one of those who has always been among the more thoughtful and intelligent and someone I always really enjoyed debating with. I did recognise the frustration she was feeling on a couple of threads, funnily enough with the same people I often get that way over too!!!
Come on back Bern - don't leave it just to the barbarians....
Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,883
I was suspended for three days for innocently voicing an opinion so nothing would surprise me, maybe it depends on who gets upset.
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Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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Well.
I have had a trying afternoon, rounded off with a meeting with old cronies where the subject of C2H5OH never came up, (except when it was my round).
I do recall Bern being 'chided' to relax, but I know of no further indiscretion.
While I am sure that I, and only, I am surprised by my own 'longevity', I am pleased that dear Bern has got the weekend off. Who knows, but I might find something by way of distraction between now and Wednesday.
Dash-it-all, I'm missing Star-Trek!!!!!
The internet is NOT real life. Happy Birthday each, just the same.
Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
Guest 675- Registered: 30 Jun 2008
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Barry, I refer you to Bern's first answer. Probably and Maybe hardly sound like resignations, and the rest does speak well of the forum.
Bern's original post, on a separate network where people regularly vent their frustrations etc, was this.
There comes a time in a womans life when she has to say bye bye to the forum. Bye Bye forum. I will so miss the inane posts, the idiocy, the deliberate twisting of words, the dumb-arse prattle, the ignorance, the bias and bigotry and the inverted snobbery. Not.
No resignation was ever sent to this forum and the post was explained in the thread, as can be seen above.
Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong.
Richard Armour
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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thanks for that chris.
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
tom,dont forget the voyeger re runs on sky along with tng and stargate.
but going back the thread i miss berns input on here.
Guest 675- Registered: 30 Jun 2008
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Two episodes of TNG have just been remastered for the big screen.
Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong.
Richard Armour