Steve-e Posted March 11, 2015 Share Posted March 11, 2015 That's better Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rob D2 Posted March 11, 2015 Share Posted March 11, 2015 I think it's a victim of its own success. You put 10 people in my lounge, I might think one is a plonker. You put 100000 in a stadium , I might think 1000 are.... The larger it gets, the less personal it gets, the more conflict there is. Does anyone remember the 2008 members day ? I was there....it was like family......you'd have to get a stadium now. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LNER4479 Posted March 11, 2015 Share Posted March 11, 2015 You put 10 people in my lounge, I might think one is a plonker. You put 100000 in a stadium , I might think 1000 are.... One plonker is a tragedy; 1000 plonkers is a statistic... (is that Stalin I'm mis-quoting there?) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Talltim Posted March 11, 2015 Share Posted March 11, 2015 Ah, so if you show some modelling, you can be as rude as you like.... It's lucky I'm not rude then! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BG John Posted March 12, 2015 Share Posted March 12, 2015 Does anyone remember the 2008 members day ? I was there....it was like family......you'd have to get a stadium now. And it was dog friendly as well as people friendly! Are they still like that? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pacific231G Posted March 12, 2015 Share Posted March 12, 2015 Having just watched, in dismay I might add, PMQs on tv it is apparent that moaning/ sniping / denigrating others goes right to the top. What a shambles - how the mother of parliaments ever gets anything done is beyond me, concentrating as they do on simply belittling others of a different political persuasion. It would appear that the malaise outlined in the OP is not unusual...... I'd hate to live in a country where politicians have so little passion about what we've put them there to do that they behave like a vicarage tea party and agree politely with one another. If politicians all sing off the same song sheet it's pretty certain that someone's stolen all the other songs. Of course here we're not engaged in poltics so we can be civil to one another. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisf Posted March 12, 2015 Share Posted March 12, 2015 ..you'd have to get a stadium now. That's been tried with less than total success. Chris Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RJS1977 Posted March 12, 2015 Share Posted March 12, 2015 ISA's, tax-free allowance, pension contributions, using tradesmen who are below the VAT threshold, driving the right sort of car, buying clothes etc from Oxfam, how many more would you like? Ed I don't drink, smoke or drive. That cuts down my tax bill considerably! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Mallard60022 Posted March 12, 2015 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 12, 2015 I have been likened to an Emperor Penguin But always though that was a reference to my stature and self-importance (is this topic just about done for yet?)hatre That's interesting. My Radio 4 imagination brain cell had visualised yourself as a James Bond figure, but withoiut the 'bulge' in the pocket (that is the underarm pocket for those that are about to snigger........) Quackers. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Colin_McLeod Posted March 12, 2015 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 12, 2015 This thread is going OT. Some of the recent posts have been positive. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
leopardml2341 Posted March 12, 2015 Share Posted March 12, 2015 This thread is going OT. Some of the recent posts have been positive. Rating given for humour, not sarcasm :-) Edited because my imported smiley was not displayed. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy Reichert Posted March 12, 2015 Share Posted March 12, 2015 A pox on all you house This thread is going OT. Some of the recent posts have been positive. OK. "A pox on all your houses!" Is that better now? Andy Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold roundhouse Posted March 12, 2015 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 12, 2015 I am not negative, just positively challanged!! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Reorte Posted March 12, 2015 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 12, 2015 Get two lots of positive imagination together and you'll get a negative. Ask any mathematician. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Ian J. Posted March 12, 2015 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 12, 2015 Two wrongs don't make a right, and two rights don't make a left. But three rights do Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bernard Lamb Posted March 12, 2015 Share Posted March 12, 2015 This thread is going OT. Some of the recent posts have been positive. Incredible the effect on people of a couple of days of sunshine. Bernard Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ozexpatriate Posted March 12, 2015 Share Posted March 12, 2015 Yes, but......there needs to be a preview button that allows you to see the text in as published form before you hit post. There is one - if you use the full editor, now labelled "Reply with attachments". The default formatted view in the quick editor (as opposed to the text only view with tags) is pretty close to what is published. Your point about proof-reading is entirely valid. I constantly edit my posts to fix grammar and clarity of intent - at least up to the point where some flags are set. If I make a really substantive change I will flag it with "EDIT" somewhere. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium newbryford Posted March 12, 2015 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 12, 2015 Typical RMw This thread is going OT. Some of the recent posts have been positive. It's just typical RMWeb thread drift............. Cheers, Mick Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ozexpatriate Posted March 12, 2015 Share Posted March 12, 2015 I am not negative, just positively challanged!! Get two lots of positive imagination together and you'll get a negative. Ask any mathematician. Two wrongs don't make a right, and two rights don't make a left. But three rights do Andy has levelled a negativity charge. Apparently we need some cathodic protection for RMweb. For this we shall need a sacrificial anode. Perhaps we can find people who will be happy to donate their crumbling Zamak/Masak castings for the purpose. I am given to believe that alloys of Zn, Mg and Al are fit for such uses. Now if we all hold hands and properly ground ourselves, we can shunt the negative charge to earth. /end laboured pun The grumbling that goes on (and, I like many, am guilty of my share, though I'd like to think I don't have a default negative stance) is very much in the category of 'first world problems' an observation which I think is always worth remembering, along with trying to be polite. I will say that I have recently seen people get upset over finding that people simply disagree with them, making accusations like "so we're not allowed to have an opinion" which I find ironic, given that in the act of posting it, it is self-evidently inaccurate. Gentlemen (and gentlewomen) can always disagree without being disagreeable. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium skipepsi Posted March 12, 2015 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 12, 2015 I am only nearly a gentleman do I count? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium skipepsi Posted March 12, 2015 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 12, 2015 Just another thought if we drift off topic so far that we are all at sea will negative bouyancy make us sink without trace? Is anybody out there??? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium skipepsi Posted March 12, 2015 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 12, 2015 OK I am very bored now I will scuttle back to wheeltappers where I belong. edit for poor speeling Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium newbryford Posted March 12, 2015 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 12, 2015 Is anybody out there??? No. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
leopardml2341 Posted March 13, 2015 Share Posted March 13, 2015 No. Liar :-) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Graham Hughes Posted March 13, 2015 Share Posted March 13, 2015 I have three mates, Thereby disproving the stereotype of model railway enthusiasts. You put 10 people in my lounge, I might think one is a plonker. Just as long as the plonker is not still in your lounge when the other ten have left you are OK. I can honestly say I have not had cause for any dissatisfaction or negativity with any manufacturer of UK rtr. But then I have only bought one UK rtr loco in the last forty years and that was the cheapest available one with the quickest drop-in wheel conversions for 2mm FS for track testing. I couldn't honestly say what it is apart from that it is some kind of green diesel, unless I were to look on the box. I love it when I go to a big show and I can walk past the crush at the Bachmann and Hornby stands, knowing that whatever their newest releases are they won't have any relevance at all to my own modelling. One of the benefits of modelling obscure prototypes in unpopular eras in minority scales. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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