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If you think that a forum member is being a pain in the proverbial(and I have no-one particular in mind when I say this) the answer is simple....just stop posting to that thread.

Take away the oxygen of interest.

I know it is sometimes hard to do this.......and I have often promised to sign myself out of thread and then found myself wandering back to have another shot.

While ever there are posters, the pain in the butt will continue to answer them...and things can get a bit silly.
Painful poster(PP's) will not talk to themsleves.
You know it makes sense...and makes less work for the Mods.(after all they have day jobs)

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Nearly made it a whole 24hrs.:dflam:

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It is hard...and I have fallen a number of times....my excuse.....Old Timers Disease.
It is SO easy to be drawn back by a comment or an aside. To forget that you have signed yourself out of a thread....
But I am going to make a sterling effort.

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Whilst I agree with not giving these people a reason to post, we have seen all too often in the past, them starting threads and simply invading other threads in the desire to be noticed.
While I personally do not have any issue with anyones belief's, I do not want to bebbombarded and spoken down to on a regular basis.
So I cannot promise to keep Stum.
Sorry

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That is alright Si.
I am just trying to be balanced about how some posters seem to take over with threads that become very negative.
It really does put some posters off coming to the site.
It is just a suggestion....not an instruction......I would never have the temerity to tell people what to do.

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I hope it`s OK I do this, but someone sent me a karma message but didn`t leave any clue who it was. They think I was hassling you with my reply Margaret, I think/hope you know I wasn`t but would like them to know also.:)

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Why don't you all put him on your ignore list, that way what ever thread he tries to spoil, his posts will never be seen. Easy & simple end to the problem.

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They may be suffering from Piles in the Posterior... in which case they should see a Proctologist Practitioner, Promptly and Pronto.

Sorry... actually I'm quite enjoying the thread in question...

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thing is it gets addictive ... plus you have the chance to wind someone up ....:p:p:p

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I understand what you are getting at, hon; but I just can't resist posting when I am confronted with pompous ignorance.:D

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Yes, me :D

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I didn't think you were hassling me at all. I don't take affoence so easily from someone whose posts I respect.
If I thought you were hassling me I would sort it with a PM...the best way in the world(not open warfare on the forum).

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I was particular not to mention anyone by name or any post for that matter....this thread relates to all posters who make a nuisnace of themsleves...and then posts get very childish and negative......it is easy to solve don't answer them...if you are enjoying the thread then this advice/suggestion, whatever you want to call it, doesn't apply.

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This is a flawed system, because frequently the replies will add a quote...like I am doing here, so you DO see what the Pain in the Butt poster is saying.
The end of the problem is not giving them the attention that they so dearly crave.....because most of them are attention seeking egotists.
They are not really interested in adding to the forum....they just take away...because some members will be put off posting.

As I said previously...this is just a suggestion...it is up to you as an individual what to do with it..if you think it needs file 13 them put it there.:):)

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and get wound up in turn, then you find the post turning nasty and making work for the mods...who need to step in and keep the peace.

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Good to hear that, but someone thought I was giving you hassle, it wasn`t a nasty sort of message in any way, just a misunderstanding by someone and as it was through Karma so I don`t know who it was so couldn`t message them back.:)

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moi? would I do that to a mod? :eek::tongueout:D:D:D:D:D:p

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Next time he might push you under that bus not pull you off if you do harass him

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ah well you see neil if I do harass him I normally either do it in a pm or in the railway .. if in a pm it cant be put on here .. in the railway normally ends up buying a pint and im forgiven ... and the bus was standing still he'd have to pick his bus driver .. cos some of em still know me from when I worked there so if its one that don't know me im safe ... if its one that knows me .. then theres a chance he would drive over me .... :p

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I agree ... esp. on the being talked down to thingy. I'm not unintelligent ... don't you just love English and its nuanced meanings:D. And I dislike being treated as a moron ... or a mormon for that matter. Problem with arguing about, say, religion with a born again Christian is that one always runs into his/her bottom line: the Bible is the word of God. The beauty of the language in the King James version, I can enjoy. I can go along with the beatitudes. I understand that much of the Bible is metaphor, the parables come immediately to mind ... my good friend, the late Father Bob Ogle, S.J., humanitarian and confirmed socialist had an interesting take on Job, a very problematic book.

Discussing politcs has its pitfalls too. Ideology becomes dogma. Party becomes truth ... a "truth" that views contending political truths as lies ... an interesting distortion of meaning ususally based on spurious logic.

But, bottom line for me is: I just can't resist offering a little ridicule to anyone who talks down to me.;)

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Eric, I would never talk down to you.
I respect other forum members for their input to threads....I respect them for their differing views, which are usually interesting and borne of life experience......but every now and then someone comes along and wants to monopolise, to imply that their ideas, beliefs are the right ones, the only ones. Then things can get personal and sometimes even a bit nasty.

And before you tell me that you were not meaning that I had talked down to you(well, at least that is what I hope).......I know!

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Eric, oh hang on while I get my stool out, NOooo, don't panic, I only mean the one I stand on to talk down to people.....



Well, there we go, consider yourself well and truly talked down to.

Now, if someone can help me off this stool, no?

Typical AccyWeb, not a Charitable Christian amongst us!
:(

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The charitable christian(?) appears not to have been around much today.....unless he has been peeping at the forum undercover as a guest.
Have I missed him?...not a lot. I do hope it wasn't anything we said.

That is sad, because if he got down off that one trick pony of his, he probably has some interesting life stories to tell.

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See! Speak of the devil and he will hear and appear.

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Are we talking about Kevin or DtheP?

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Oh, Less......now I know you are intelligent, so I will let you decide:)

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:DWell I am 6 Foot 2Inches and i have a very tall ladder available, so no one is going to talk down to me.:D

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Do they fit a Perspex dome over the left hand seat so that you can fit in the cock pit?

I used to be 6' 2", but I've been ill, now I have to get a dwarf to reach things from the middle shelves at Tesco .
:(

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Anyone else notice, if you mix Accy Web (AW) with his name (KWard) you get awkward.

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If that was true, he'd fit in perfectly .
;)

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Na come on Neil how do ya wind up a wind up merchant :D:D:D

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How apt is that?

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No, hon; I don't mean you ... although there are things about you that pee me off ... and it's all to do with food. You will go on about all the yummy stuff you make ... you even post pics.:eek: And you always seem to do it when I'm hungry:mad: Shame on you;):D

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Oh I don't know BG, a swift hit in the spuds & well ..... in between your writhing & yodelling on the deck I think most folk would be able to talk down to you, probably something like "My, did that really hurt that much?" :D

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Aww Eric...it is a shame you live so far away...by the time my stuff got to you, it would be cold and mouldy.

Just to rub it in a bit :D...today it is chicken and mushrooms in white wine and garlic sauce(I will only let the chicken see the garlic - i'm not fond of garlic) on a bed of long grain rice.
I will be frying the chicken and mushrooms very soon...so the house will be full of the lovely aroma of what's for tea.

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I know exactly what you mean Eric, just come back from my spaghetti on toast dinner to this...
No need whatsoever, could at least put a pre read warning.:)

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I have made it for the two of us, but I am having to stretch it to three.....as Spindles is coming to tea after school(his mum is not very well today).

Sorry if my menu's are making you hungry.

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I stopped reading after "Today it is chicken ... ";) Me, I'm going to thaw out some bambi burgers, and try to find some buns with not too much green stuff on them. Add lots of salt, ketchup, and prepared, American style mustard ... and wash the whole mess down with a bottle of Chateau Porch Climber, 2013 (August, a fine month:mosher:). And for dessert: a couple of Tim Hortons jelly donuts ... only 4 days old.:theband:

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Eric, Maybe it is the green stuff that keeps you going...natural antibiotic, not 'festered' with by SKG..or Schering or any of the other drug companies.
I work on the principle that if it looks alright, smells alright and tastes alright, then I don't bother what the sell by date is.......isn't that why we have a sense of taste and smell?
Enjoy Eric, enjoy!

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I suspect that Eric may just be in trouble with one of the leading Burger outlets for having revealed the ingrediants of their 'secret sauce'.
;)

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Well, Less I never was keen on loaves and fishes.

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But don't they say a bird in the pan is better than a couple at the end of the street? :D:D
Sorry I just couldn't help having a bit of a dig at a certain person(or two).

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So, you are suggesting I leave the green stuff on:confused: Maybe I'll just keep on throwing the mouldier stuff to the squirrels ... they don't seem to mind it. By the way, if I am not being a pain in the proverbial, the squirrels are getting fat; could you share you fav. recipes for cooking them.;)

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I haven't ever cooked squirrel.......I wonder if chicken recipes would do?
Squirrel and Leek soup doesn't sound quite right.....neither does Squirrel noodle soup.

I have frequently(and by accident - my lamps are dimming a bit) eaten bread that has mould on it....usually toasted, so not that easy to spot.

I hate throwing bread away....I hate throwing anything away( a poverty stricken childhood to blame for this).

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Me too, I can still remember when my sunday breakfast was the top off my dad's boiled egg:( ... I've been told that I can be a proverbial pain in the ass about left overs. I actually make a decent Rescue Soup ... take all the veggies that are on their last legs and make something out of them ... add a little chicken stock, some Italian seasoning, garlic, ginger, toss in any left over meat and you are good to go.

Canadians are real bad for wasting food ... I think it comes from having so much ... in fact, the harvests out west were so good this year that the railways are having a hard time moving it all.

Oh, and scratch the squirrel idea ... I've just been sitting outside (it's +4:cool:; might as well take advantage of the warm weather before the cold front rolls in next week;)) feeding peanuts to the squirrels; one of them actually sits on my shoulder ... another pulls my shoe laces when it wants another treat ... they are just too cute and friendly to kill and eat.:D

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I'm so glad you said that. I know squirrel are classed as vermin, but I think they are cute too!

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Thank goodness I never meet any lambs before they are prepared for the pot, just a larger version of squirrels covered in wool.

Though they do tend to fall out of the trees more often than the squirrels.
http://jjonesmanning.files.wordpress.../lamb-tree.jpg

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I got a squirrel from the farmer's market and it's still in the freezer. Will let you know what it's like when I've cooked it. Think the slow cooker will do.

They also sell free range haggis, may contain shot... escapees from Scotland, shot on the edge of the Solway. :rolleyes:;)

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Haggis......Arrghhh. Hideous stuff.
Think I prefer the shot!

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Haggis Margaret, its lovely stuff, its just a little annoying when all the shoot isn't removed before cooking, it don't half get stuck in your teeth. They'll soon be an abundance of fresh haggis in the shops as the Haggis shooting season opens in a few weeks time;)

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John, I have only made the mistake of eating(or perhaps I should say, trying to eat)it once.
I can gag just thinking about it.
I am told it is an acquired taste. It is something I am not even going to contemplate acquiring a taste for it!

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I've told you before, you need to beat them with a big stick, not shoot them, it ruins the meat. :)

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I have to use a gun these days Dave, the old legs won't let me catch up with um on foot to use a big stick:rolleyes:

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I think Micks days of chasing moving buses are long gone :(

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I think micks days of chasing stationary buses aren't that good these days either Neil:D