HBG
 

Is he ok? He seems to have gone awol for some time.

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No idea.
Last thing I saw was when he had a bit of a bust up with the mods or was it Sue a short while back ? :confused:

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He can be a good poster but likes on occasion to pick a fight, and as soon as he gets told off, he is off in a Huff.

That's what it looks like to me, me thinks, if he can't take it, why dish it out?:confused:

Honestly, Who misses him?

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I don't tend to evaluate online personalities as we are all just a bunch of pixels. However, there are several people whose posts I enjoy, and HBG is one of them. I certainly prefer a mix of personalities and think it's a shame that bil is no longer part of the forum, amongst others.

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Maybe he has been banned. He was provoked and got into a swearing contest with anonimouse.

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His last post was on 21st Jan and he has not been banned.

Maybe he's on holiday.

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Set up a splinter group with Bil?:confused:

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Unless we know them personally, that's all we have to go on, by what they contribute here. Whether we do it intentionally or not, we all form an opinion of each other by what we read.

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I may make a judgement on a "personality" through a post but, generally, I keep an open mind.

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Well I just hope he's ok. He's mentioned run-ins with some of his less salubrious neighbours before, so I hope he's not provoked a fight with local scalleys or even mafia-types.

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.....or his guard dog. :eek:

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WOW!!!

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Agree.

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True about and bil and HGB, I feel the same, it is amuch better read with them around, we need them back, the worst posts for me are the "dip the toe in so gently and dont even make a ripple" and the inane posts just to remind us that the are still around or still alive.

:o)

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Oh that's nice, blame me why don't you?

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Well fwiw I sent him a pretty inocuous PM about something totally non-BE related on Jan 31 and haven't had a reply. Fair enough that may be he simply doesn't want to communicate with me about it! But.... hope he's ok.

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I'm afraid I need to quote someone else more famous than me, Mr Murdoch, who recently, famously said, 'This is the humblest day of my life.'

When I logged on a few minutes ago, that's what I was going to say.

To explain, I have posted thousands of times on this forum and enjoyed being a member of an active community discussing matters close to my heart - living in Spain as an expat.

I did, rightly, get a tap on the shoulder from the American lady running the show when I went a bit over the top, not understanding the purpose of the Plaza de Toros sub-forum with the 'blood in the sand' implication.

The tap on the shoulder made me stop to reconsider for a while. I'm not a rude person but believe that freedom of speech is linked to freedom in general, a conundrum which has troubled all of us for thousands of years.

I'm not making a point of it, I'm not clever enough, and I'm dying to post my views on Harry Rednapp, Huhne, the cold snap and other topics.

I'll check my PMs later and reply to those that were kind enough to send them. At the moment, it's too cold to touch the keyboard, it's f****** freezing.

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I didn't realize bil had left, why was that?

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Banned afaik.

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Gone but not forgotten.

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Not 100% sure but it was at the time of the following thread

http://britishexpats.com/forum/showthread.php?t=739473

However a lifetime ban seems rather harsh

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That thread has been "cleaned up" by admin to great degree. As far as I am aware there is/was an explaination of what lead to his banning somewhere in the Spain forum.

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This one maybe?

http://britishexpats.com/forum/showt...&highlight=bil

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I'm useless at posting links to threads, but I think actually it might be one called 'banning' which was around in November.

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This one?

http://britishexpats.com/forum/showt...hlight=banning

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;) Thanks. Now why can't I do that?:(

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Crikey.

Thanks for the info.

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Unfortunately there are more like you on here that think this way too, think as if we are not real ppl. For some it's just a game, a battle of their wits and they do get cross when they are not doing too well.

I think if more on here remembered we are actually real people (and acted like it), they may stop being so rude to each other, or I wonder, do they talk to people face to face in the same way?

There are Just a few people whom calling names and stating openly that they hate a fellow poster whom they know absolutely nothing about, Is the norm, usually just because they have a different opinion to their own.:thumbdown:

It tells me so much about a personality, and IMO makes them look sad.

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[QUOTE=anonimouse;9884537]

I think if more on here remembered we are actually real people (and acted like it), they may stop being so rude to each other, or I wonder, do they talk to people face to face in the same way?

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:nod:
I've said til I'm blue in the pixellated face that we should write/type as if the person were in front of us. That should reduce (though no doubt not totally eradicate) the instances of rudeness etc.
Anyway, it's not going to happen any time soon..............

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DILLIGAF :D

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No body does, that's just it:thumbdown:

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I appreciate it takes a real person with real feelings to post on a forum thread and at no point have I said I don't care about people who post on forums, or I think it is ok to be rude to other posters. I said I don't "evaluate online personalities" which is not the same thing at all. I just don't get emotionally involved as I might in the real world.

If anything, I am a shadow of my normal self when posting as I don't care to share my personality with other pixels.

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Good post.

I agree with what you are saying, everyone has a different way of being, and that reflects in what they write.

What is rude to one, is not rude to another, and to be honest someone(an adult) who is so (emotional) that they get all stressed out over strong discussions on a site, well to me it seems stupid.

The forum refelcts real life, wherever you go there will be a mix of views and personalities, you will agree with some and clash with others, so why should the forum be any different.

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Agree, and if people are intolerant of others, prone to losing their temper, operate off a short fuse, used to getting their own way, then a forum is probably not the best place for them to hang out!;) These spats involving PM's etc are futile, don't prove anything, a complete waste of time. Some people here are advocating that everyone behave perfectly,but then seem to lament the absence of banned members for being the complete opposite. :confused: It was the same in another forum I visit, a member was crude, objectionable, obscene, it was only a matter of time before he was banned, and when he was people were complaining of missing him. :unsure:

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Yeah but can you imagine some of this lot in a bar trying to have a discussion? It would end up being one huge scrap, they or some anyway just can't chat without being nasty.

It don't bother me one bit, if that's what they enjoy in a forum, but I do wonder how they chat to pals in real life, was interested to see others thought's that's all.:confused:

Not seen any being diplomatic as perhaps they might be in face to face chats shall we say.

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Welcome back HBG, good to see you are still around-;)

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I suspect the anonymity that the forum gives makes posters far more forthright than they may be if the debate was in a pub. Similarly the personal attacks that some posters seem unable to control would also be less likely.
I suspect that some of the more restrained posters would be the ones that would become more forceful in open debate.

Isn't this going down the road of a similar thread some months ago?

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Well, thanks, JLFS. Some of the replies got me thinking of out of life experiences, not that I've had any myself.

But such experiences are well documented and relate to a temporarily departed soul floating above life and observing those below acting as though they, the departed ones, have gone for good.

And then they return, armed with the knowledge of what people actually think of them.

It's an eye opener.

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Well I for one don't feel the above I've highlighted are necessarily mutually exclusive. I don't think I've been rude in forumspeak, and wouldn't like to be heard being rude in realtime. Doesn't mean I can't make myself understood, or express fairly forceful opinions.... but that's where real life and pixelland diverge, because you get body language, facial expression, nudges, winks, tone of voice, etc etc and unless everyone takes equal trouble to use the dreaded smileys or bracketed explanations, and so on, we can't hope to actually make the same points in the same way as if face to face. But we could but try????

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Eye............ welcome back HBG, I'm here as a punchbag for you as usual:thumbup: Was only kidding when a said who missed ya.

Wouldn't be the same without you and a few others taking a pop;)

Forgiven...................for now:p