[Closed] Shall we start again?

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 [s]mark[/s] (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.

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'.

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 🙂

[i]So what is Ro short for then?[/i]

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)

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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.

I kind of like Ro - seems to be winding plenty of people up in these parts and that makes him entertaining for me. He is going against the grain although I suspect almost all of it is deliberate to get a bite...and it works! - so I guess in that respect - his marketing and message delivery is a success.

I say leave him be, he'll either become part of the furniture or move on to pastures new as there will be too many fish in the barrel to shoot.

ro, ever since you appeared on here, about 18 months ago, pretty much evey post has been antagonistic, patronising, arrogant or downright rude. How the hell would you expect the forum members to react?
Either sort the personality issues out or disappear, please!

What DickBarton said.

I'm new on here and don't know any of the specific history, but I've been on the Internet for a very long time and the same stereotypes pop up time and again.

Ro is, I suspect, deliberately winding people up. Then he's sitting and laughing whilst a group of people he doesn't know or give a toss about gets all whipped up into an angry frenzy. Point and laugh at the silly people, isn't it funny, ooh pass the kleenex.

As the old adage goes, do not feed the troll. If I'm right, the poacher will get bored and find another lake when the fish stop biting.

Either sort the personality issues out or disappear, please!

isn't that hopelessly unrealistic? Anyway, I want entertainment and information, not turgid consensus. My only problem with [b]ro[/b] is that he or she doesn't hold my attention long enough for me to work out the message (if any)

ken:

thanks for the essay, but a cursory reading of the thread would have reveled to you that i'm a doc, not a 'marketing professional'. the brightyellowstar site was actually started as a giggle to tease a friend. much to our surprise someone took us seriously and now people actually pay for our services. why, i have no idea. but we're popular 🙂

as for 'recovering from the situation' i actually hope to expand upon it until, like the smell of excrement in a confined space, my essence pervades the entire known universe

dick:

you are correct. my time here will be short but spectacular. this is only fun for a while, then it becomes boring for us all. make the most of me while i'm around.

bigyinn:

see above. be patient.

cougar:

right, but only up to a point. if i believe most of what i say, is it still trolling? of course i'd be surprised (and not a little disappointed) if the majority agreed with what i write. but i generally practice what i preach and it works FOR ME.

there are only so many ways you can express your opinions, and when i'm done, i'm done. there's no point in hanging around and becoming the forum bore.

what's that? i am already? surely not!

sfb:

there IS no message. that's the whole point. it's just words 🙂

my time here will be short but spectacular

Really, so far it's been dull and irritating, a bit like a mosquito bite -I know I shouldn't scratch, but I’m intrigued to see if it will make it any better 😐

you do seem to be a bit of a helmet though. For an educated man you seem to suffer from napoleon syndrome, are you short or do you have a micro penis? This would explain why you try to throw you 'weight'/ego around on a forum full of middle aged men who just want to banter with each other; I am aware not every one on this forum is middle aged its just a sweeping generalisation.

ro what you fail to realise is that people are laughing at you not with you, you're not an enigma you're just a very immature middle aged man.

there IS no message. that's the whole point. it's just words

that's OK then, I'd hate to have missed anything 🙂

alex:

i think it would be wrong of me to boast about my genitalia on an open forum. but let's just say i can't wear lycra. girls faint. usually after they've past through the laughing hysterically phase.

SFB miss the point, surely not!

gary:

as long as people laugh, who cares why?

must be the strong smell of bs. 🙂

I think ro's got flavour...

[i]as long as people laugh, who cares why? [/i]

That says so much about you ro.

yunki:

perhaps, but of what?

SFB miss the point, surely not!

well, most of what I'm getting from ro seems to be confusing static. I assume he does have something to say beyond selfaggrandisment, but I'm never able to put my finger on it, however, as soon as I see a consensus of criticism directed at anyone, my natural reaction is to suspect they are onto something 🙂

samsung?

well done!

This thread started off well, but has gone a bit flat.
It could do with livening up a bit.

Ro, what's your opinion on religion ?

Or bottom bracket facing ?

Or superstar Components, oh hold on you're not fruit are you?

"if i believe most of what i say, is it still trolling?"

Depends on context, but potentially.

Say I don't like Star Trek. So I sign up to a Star Trek website, and spend a morning going round the board telling everyone that they're sad losers. Then I sit back and watch as the chaos unfolds, giggling up my sleeve as the forum regulars go into meltdown, choking on their own bile and vitriol as they take it all far too seriously.

So what you're suggesting is, so long as I *really really* believe that Trekkies are saddos, it's not trolling and therefore acceptable?

we shall discuss components another day. it's on my to-do list.

cougar:

i don't think it fair to express your views / troll a forum where the individuals are genuinely sad. for example, in my dim-and-distant past i once trolled a usenet newsgroup comprising some very sad souls. apart from being too easy - and therefore not much fun - it was Just Wrong, and i've never done it again.

as long as the forum participants are robust enough not to be hurt - other than by demonstrating their own stupidity - i think any forum is fair game.

forums are much like life. there are formal and informal rules on participation and you ignore these rules at your peril. treat a person who expresses contrary views / trolls as you would in the real world and the whole thing is a giggle. it only goes wrong when people get angry, which is just plain dumb.

christ, I've previously assumed you were an attention whore who simply posted ill judged comments, now i know you are and wish you'd just STFU.

qed

So you've a history of intentionally trolling, but it's only fun if it's a little challenging, have I understood that correctly? Just so we're all on the same page.

I think I can see where you're coming from, oddly. I've been known to play devil's advocate in debates because it's often more interesting; however, I believe there's a distinction between discussing a difference of opinion and deliberately baiting people for laughs. Both yield similar results but the former can be intelligent conversation, the latter the behaviour of someone with very serious personality issues.

Many friends then?

coo, somebody's a long way up their own fundamental aren't they??? Hadn't come across ro before, but it's already boring. See ya.

i only have you, alex. only you.

*cue song by yazoo..*

er i've never met you.

that's right. treat me like shit. you use my body then you cast me adrift on the 'tinternet.

damn you, alex222. my mother was right all along.

your mum told me she got fed up of you and kicked you out mainly because you were going through here delicates and putting the soiled ones on. TS

What planet do you come frome ro?