Dubris today

• howard mcsweeney1

  • Location: Dover
  • Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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  19 March 2009     18:0817733
  #1      
  according the above mentioned column our victor has been striped up(to use the vernacular), by a national tabloid.
  the whole affair seems a serious betrayal of trust.
  
  i would urge everyone not to buy the paper in sympathy with the victims financial loss.
• Guest 640

  • Registered: 21 Apr 2007
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  19 March 2009     19:3117738
  #2      
  The Dubris column today had a different look about it, a different personality you might say. Yes saw the item about Vic and if all true well its a pity but Im afraid Vic is not doing himself any favours. He is playing with fire dealing in the ruthless arena of a national tabloid and the whole episode, which he forever seeks to prolong, has decidedly killed any chance he might have had at any kind of re-election success.
  
  His behaviour is very erratic lately. He tell us he has quit this forum...when people do that I normally delete them from the membership, as playing the quitting card then not quitting then quitting is generally seen as just messing other members about. No sooner has he quit then he posts again. However Vic being Vic I give him the benefit of the doubt....but
  email: dover7@msn.com
• Guest 649

  • Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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  19 March 2009     20:0217739
  #3      
  Paul,Sorry but I did not say that, I said that I am not posting at this time because I have run out of steam, I am not upset by any posting about me and I am still looking in and love to do that, if I find my old flame again for posting ,and I know I will at some point.
  I must say like most times I do have alot on at this time so I am off to bed about 2030hrs.
  If you wish to take me off there is nothing I can do to stop that, only to say that I am still the king of River.
  
  King Vic 2nd
• Guest 643

  • Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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  20 March 2009     01:0917749
  #4      
  "I would just like to thank all of you for the fun and posting about me and to me over the years but we all move on, I fill I can not add anymore to the Dover Forum so I will not be posting anymore but still looking in I love to read all what you all have to say aboutDover E.T.C."
  
  Sorry Vic but that's what you said and Paul was not mistaken. I think a lot of us breathed a sigh of relief to be honest.
  
  
  My personal view is that your silly stories about both Status Quo and you being the king of River are very very childish.
  YOU made the mistake about Francis Rossi - You and only YOU. Why should we be ridiculed because of what you did?
  And you are NOT the king of River - for goodness sake grow up man. What you are is a resident of Dover and if you genuinely thought anything of your town you wouldn't do what you're doing to it.
  
  A joke is a joke but your so called humour just isn't funny, specially from a man of your age, and one who tells everyone he's a councillor.
  
  Paul if I were in your shoes I know what I would do .......... but I'm not unfortunately.
  There's always a little truth behind every "Just kidding", a little emotion behind every "I don't care" and a little pain behind every "I'm ok".
• Ross Miller

  • Location: London Road, Dover
  • Registered: 17 Sep 2008
  • Posts: 3,709
  20 March 2009     01:2117750
  #5      
  Vic may be a fool but mostly he is a harmless fool who if he is hurting anyone it is himself.
  
  IMHO ad hominem attacks just show the attacker has lost the argument
  "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 674

  • Registered: 25 Jun 2008
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  20 March 2009     07:2717753
  #6      
  Jacqui,
  It will be sad not to hear from you even though your postings in past few months got less and less.
  
  I do wish you well in whatever ventures you become involved in, in the future.
  
  
  On VIC I'm afraid I cannot support your comments, we have all warned VIC on the political side of the signs that as a politician his days are probably numbered, but at the end of the day it's up to VIC whether or not he should stand.
  
  VIC will always be Vic, and will always bring a little humour to what can sometimes be seen as a very serious forum, and although like other posters(yourself included)I have commented upon and sometimes even disagreed.
  That is what the forum is all about.
  
  I think its wrong to attack one individual for what you say he may be harming the town, because if we took your line that could be said of all 45 District Cllrs County Cllrs etc etc.
  Me, I prefer to have a laugh, post and comment/disagree when the need arises and value and support the right for people to post as long as it doesn't offend.
  
  I hope you will reconsider your position, but whatever you decide I wish you well
• Bern

  • Location: Dover
  20 March 2009     08:0417754
  #7      
  Taking oneself, and even others, too seriously is a mistake. Annoyance with childish things is understandable, but I guess I expect us to manage that annoyance in a grown up way. There are other far more toxic posters and councillors, some of whom mask lack of talent and lack of sense of humour with bravado, noise and umbrage. I know what I prefer.
• Guest 640

  • Registered: 21 Apr 2007
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  20 March 2009     08:0817755
  #8      
  Keef I think youve got the wrong end of the stick this time...not for the first time eh!!lol
  
  Jacqui is NOT leaving, she was QUOTING Vics original comment where he stated that he(Vic) was leaving...which Vic had oddly denied in the earlier post above.
  
  Vic can be good fun but I think he has shifted lately into the bizarre and my feeling is he is perpetually trying to catch the attention of the Dubris column with everything he writes.
  
  Last week he irritated other members by a daft King of River thing in the middle of a serious discussion. I asked him at that point to keep the frivolity to the relevent threads...after which he promptly issue the "Im quitting" statement.
  
  I think everyone has to be prepared to take a little bit of editorial control from time to time...heaven knows its rare enough.
  email: dover7@msn.com
• Guest 649

  • Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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  20 March 2009     15:0017770
  #9      
  Thank you all for that I have taken it all in .
  Lost my job as King of River never mind nothing last forever but it was good fun, but as from now I am back to just old Vic Matcham .
  
  Vic Matcham
• Brian Dixon

  • Location: Dover
  • Registered: 23 Sep 2008
  • Posts: 23,940
  20 March 2009     16:3717774
  #10      
  reading the dover express today was quite depressing,what with the cost of the windfarm inquiry etc,i looked forward to reading dubris to cheer me no such luck evan more depressed after reading that and the letters page,so carried on only to find more doom and gloom so in the end i gave up had a nice cuppa and some lunch,feel a little better know.
• Guest 653

  • Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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  20 March 2009     18:4617782
  #11      
  You should have got the "Your Dover" paper Brian, there was a lovely letter from a resident of Dover writing about that well-known Councillor and good egg - ME !!
  
  There was also a story on page two about the business support body that I believe should be started - so not all doom and gloom.
  
  
  
  
  Roger (tongue in cheek)
• Guest 649

  • Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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  20 March 2009     18:5017783
  #12      
  Paul said Vic has shifted lately into the bizarre,
  it is not called bizarre it is called old age funny things happen to you when you get old .
  About the Dubris column it is only fun so they tell us,yes I have been in it alot and I do not mind that, if it makes the public smile that ok with me but must say at times like this week what it said about me was below the belt I have nothing togain myself by seeing my name in it.
  
  I remain yours faithfully Vic M
• Brian Dixon

  • Location: Dover
  • Registered: 23 Sep 2008
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  20 March 2009     20:0917789
  #13      
  roger, the ways things are going in the town it seems all doom and gloom,ditz has come to a standstill,market residents of the market square are moaning about a none exsistant tv screen,shops closeing left right and center.and what happens nothing.
• howard mcsweeney1

  • Location: Dover
  • Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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  20 March 2009     23:0317820
  #14      
  this is the problem brian, it always appears to be one step forward two steps back.
  
  there are rumours that the DOE are causing problems with the intended screen, i really hope that these are just rumours.