Originally Posted by two tubes of toothpaste (Post 11292428)

PDT wasn't a place "off-topic" with "a Spanish flavour", most of the threads were about how Islam is shafting Britain and UKIP.

I seem to have an extra comma left over from somewhere...

Originally Posted by Dick Dasterdly (Post 11292436)

ABSOLUTE NONSENSE.

TIO is like a Sunday afternoon tea-party compared with what PDT once was and to me the main problem up there is sheer boredom beyond belief which is so obviously why they've turned to us.

The whole point of PDT was a bit rough and tumble for those who preferred something a little more lively.

No one is forced to enter the Plaza if the feel they can't handle it or it is not for them and that point has been made very,very clear by the mods.

As for getting shredded on TIO, I get the impression that most of them couldn't even shred their way out of a paper bag.

I can only presume that those who complain about PDT are of limited forum experience.
I've seem many very successful far rougher forums with no quarter asked or given and at the same those involved making really interesting contributions,...

...... rather than the pathetic stream of endless boring one liners up on TIO which I believe it was Bev who actually said she wished to avoid.:confused:

Why should our contributions be used to try and breathe life into them ?

OK it's within forum authority rules to do so, but I note that even our well respected ex mod, Mitzy, does not agree with what is being attempted and IMHO it shows an even worse lack of respect to posters contributions, than many on here are apparently being pilloried for.

Originally Posted by Dick Dasterdly (Post 11292488)

You're obviously not up to date Mr.S.O.S. they are not all UKIP as I have already mentioned and in reply to Mr Toothpaste, you have pretty well answered his enquiry.

I prefer to see issues fully discussed where possible, rather than the flippant replies, one liners which you mention, mostly involving sad attempts at sarcasm or cynicism as an attempt to brush over the issues.

Originally Posted by Dick Dasterdly (Post 11292488)

You're obviously not up to date Mr.S.O.S. they are not all UKIP as I have already mentioned and in reply to Mr Toothpaste, you have pretty well answered his enquiry.

I prefer to see issues fully discussed where possible, rather than the flippant replies, one liners which you mention, mostly involving sad attempts at sarcasm or cynicism as an attempt to brush over the issues.

Originally Posted by two tubes of toothpaste (Post 11292497)

Giggle.

Originally Posted by Dick Dasterdly (Post 11292565)

Kind of proved my point, eh ?

Having seen a few of your postings elsewhere and no doubt with your long term experience of BE and knowledge of my posts I kind of thought you might like this.;)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKMD_8-tj5c

Not sure why, but you kind of remind me of another very unpopular poster, ........could be your twin brother I reckon.. ;)

Originally Posted by jackytoo (Post 11292475)

A lot of these posts sound very friendly and conciliatory. Please forgive me for being a bit sceptical but I recently started a thread (now closed) where I had the misfortune to do a typo in the thread title ( long nails and ipads:blink:). Interesting read

http://britishexpats.com/forum/showthread.php?t=834357

Originally Posted by two tubes of toothpaste (Post 11292396)

You have only to take the example of EMR, someone who's views I cannot find a common cause with, 9 times out of 10, but who is, to me, a bloody hero to stand up to all the shit the people here have thrown at him.

Originally Posted by Domino (Post 11292453)

considering the comments you have made in PDT and the attempts to derail (unsuccessfully) Gibraltar........
sounds like a turkey voting for Christmas

:blink:

Originally Posted by Fredbargate (Post 11292809)

I'm still of the opinion they are one and the same.

Originally Posted by Fredbargate (Post 11292809)

I'm still of the opinion they are one and the same.

Originally Posted by Fredbargate (Post 11292809)

I'm still of the opinion they are one and the same.

Originally Posted by two tubes of toothpaste (Post 11292823)

In the same way that I am not entirely unconvinced that you are not in anyway whatsoever unconnected with the entity that uses the nomenclature "Fred James".

I also think that Mitzyboy posts most of his stuff under the username of "Jackytoo".

That's paranoia for you.

Originally Posted by Mitzyboy (Post 11293312)

Are you suggesting that Jacky and I are intimate?