As the ban hasn't arrived yet, I'll be nice and you be nice.

Now, would anyone care for cake?

what a spectacular entrance..

Banned for serving cake?

ro everyone deserves a second chance, by about 3rd or 4th chance you've probably run out of luck though. Personally I suspect your ability to "play nicely with other children" won't see out this thread.

yes, i thought it rather memorable, but fun, no?

no hard feelings i trust?

now, if anyone would SERIOUSLY like to donate kit, i'd be delighted to assist. after all, you know what i look like and i'm sure one of you would pummel me to death were i to affix your bits to my kona.

nickc, i'll take that bet 🙂

a ban is a mark (ooops) badge of honour :o)

Shall we start again?(

How about just not bothering?

fine, cynic-al, sulk if you wish.

see ya.

Just go away, or are you having trouble taking the hint! 🙄

simon, you say the sweetest things. so you're donating bars and stem, right?

here's a plan:

all those who hate me / didn't get the joke / just can't be arsed, skip ANY thread started by 'ro'.

simple.

simon, you say the sweetest things. so you're donating bars and stem, right?

by the time I have finished with a component it's a safety hazard 🙁

all those who hate me / didn't get the joke / just can't be arsed, skip ANY thread started by 'ro'.

actually, I don't know what this is about, but then I'm slightly Aspergers with names, particulary anonymous pseudonyms, and can only remember one other conversation…

so buy some and donate them. be pro-active.

[quoteskip ANY thread started by 'ro'.

simple.[/quote]

Now where's the fun in that!

Crikey, its like theres a car, rolling down a hillside, in flames, and every time it rolls over an oseritch bounces out and explodes………….

We've been here so many times………

So what is Ro short for then?

Now where's the fun in that!

precisely. does that mean you'd like cake too?

So what is Ro short for then?

donate something substantial and i'll tell you.

Talkemada, I assume…

Crikey, its like theres a car, rolling down a hillside, in flames, and every time it rolls over an oseritch bounces out and explodes………….

that was genuinely funny 🙂 where have you been all this time?

i wish i'd known that chap, talk-thingy. we only crossed paths once. was he any good?

was he any good?

No and neither are you. As I don't trust you I'll just presume Ro's short for Rose!

@ ro

all those who hate me / didn't get the joke / just can't be arsed, skip ANY thread started by 'ro'.

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There was a joke?

rose will do fine 🙂

i have to go to bed. as you now know, i need my beauty sleep.

please surprise me tomorrow morning with a nice list of things you'd like to give away. or maybe just cake. yes, cake would be good.

10/10 for your tolerance, mr chipps 🙂

So what is Ro short for then?

Is it cos he's only got little… Oh sorry..

There was a joke?

well i was laughing. weren't you?

Ro, I don't know you but…are you on strong medication or something?

Ro, I thought you'd gone to bed.

Put the shovel down.

Good night.

Not so much

crikey, big dave:

tsk, tsk. no cake for the naughty boys in the class. back to your seats, both of you!

i'm… addicted… to… the… internet…

Are you a real qualified medical doctor, or do you use the title doctor after doing a PHd?

Ro, just go to bed so we can talk about you and not to you 🙄

Woo hoo, Home time 🙂

Ro is short for Roscoe P Coltrane (and about as smart)

I always support the underdog by principle, so I'm willing to make a donation, however, buying things to be shipped by hand to V, which in most cases would mean they had travelled right round the world seems monstrously inefficient, are there no bike shops there ? If not, is the cycling effort to be sustained indefinitely by hand carriage ?

you didnt tell me what time you are picking the wheel up

now, after all last night's excitement, where were we?

in the cold light of day i'd have to agree that my original idea ia a Bad Idea. frankly, i wouldn't send bits of kit to a complete stranger to take to a land i'll never see for people i'll never meet, so why should i expect you to? it just seemed a fine idea at the time it entered my head. but i guess it's kinda impractical.

someone suggested buying kit in laos. there are two good bike shops in vientiane, but i think that's wrong too. if you want to give money to the people of laos, there are better ways. the original idea was to give outdated kit to people who could still wring some life out of it, not start another bloody charity. nice concept, poor implementation. let's leave it be.

that ends this thread. i think i've won our bet, nickc 🙂

Yes you did. Nice one

Ro

You just don't get it do you.

The problem people have on here is not with your idea regardless of the impracticality of it all. People on here are very generous. There is a constant stream of freebies being shipped amongst the folk on here and there has been a large number of bike builds coordinated on here for folk who have had bikes pinched or are trying to get a bike together for a worthwhile cause. The problem lies totally with you.

As I said yesterday you come on to the forum and generally p!ss people off with your holier than thou attitude and general abuse that you've heaped on people and then get the 4rse when people tell you to get bent.

As a marketing professional (I use the words professional and marketing in the loosest possible sense) you should be very aware of the fact that it's not the message but how it's delivered that counts. Unfortunately for you your delivery was way off the mark, although looking at what you've written, how you've behaved and your general attitude I don't think you'd be able to do it any differently.

If you are what being a "Professional Marketeer" is all about then thank god I've got a proper job and my contact with folk like you is reduced to an absolute minimum. Although if you were any good you'd be working for an agency in London and earning mega bucks. Maybe you're going for the "tallest pygmy in the room" thing as a Communications & New Media Director in Vietnam.

I wish you no malice and all the best with helping the kids of Laos with attaining their cycling dreams but I think you're never going to recover the situation you've got yourself into on here.