If You Listen Carefully . . .

On 12/31/2010 2:55 PM Ray Haddad spake thus:

Fuck off, mate. Nobody asked you.

Certainly, Ray; your wish is our command. Why everyone knows that you're practically *legendary* on RMR for the respect you've constantly shown to other posters here.

(Insert sound of multiple irony and hypocrisy meters exploding into tiny shards...)

On 12/31/2010 5:11 PM Twibil spake thus:

Tell you what, Ray (OK, Twibil, I'm talking to him behind your back here); I'll stop posting nasty comments to and about you if you post just ONE lousy message having to do with model railroading, as almost all of the rest of us do here. I'll give you a week to do it. No, make that two weeks, it being the holidays and all. Fair enough?

Amen. I had hoped to actually see some posts concerning model railroading

- so the juveniles are off and running getting further and further off track. Are there no adults present?

You have had me on your ignore list for so long you have missed them all, mate. Take a hike you adolescent, belly-bucking fool. No matter what you idiots think of me, it does not excuse your childish actions. Grow up. Come back when you are not using mommy's computer.

-- Ray

On 12/31/2010 5:30 PM Ray Haddad spake thus:

Wrong on at least two counts there, "mate". You're on no list of all of mine. Regarding having missed your on-topic posts, well, lessee: looking through recent messages in this group, here's what we find:

o Re: Easy method of scaling dimensions on models [12/6/10] - dumb joke o Re: Model Magazine Index - a proposal [11/27/10] - on topic comment o Re: Model Magazine Index - a proposal [11/27/10] - on topic comment o Re: Model Magazine Index - a proposal [11/27/10] - on topic comment o Re: "Front Street" Flat from Downtown Deco [9/4/10] - chiding comment o Re: "Front Street" Flat from Downtown Deco [9/4/10] - chiding comment o Re: "Front Street" Flat from Downtown Deco [9/4/10] - chiding comment o Re: "Front Street" Flat from Downtown Deco [9/5/10] - chiding comment o Re: "Front Street" Flat from Downtown Deco [9/5/10] - chiding comment o Re: "Front Street" Flat from Downtown Deco [9/6/10] - chiding comment

• insults o Re: "Front Street" Flat from Downtown Deco [9/6/10] - chiding comment

• insults o Re: "Front Street" Flat from Downtown Deco [9/7/10] - chiding comment

• insults o Re: "Front Street" Flat from Downtown Deco [9/7/10] - chiding comment

• insults o Re: books for sale [4/8/10} - on topic comment o Re: RMC delivery to foreign countries [4/1/10] - on topic comment o Re: US Army 44 Ton [2/28/10] - snide comment, off-topic o Re: US Army 44 Ton [2/28/10} - off topic, another battle w/Greg Proctor o Re: US Army 44 Ton [2/28/10] - off topic, another battle w/Greg Proctor o Re: US Army 44 Ton [3/1/10] - off topic, another battle w/Greg Proctor o Re: US Army 44 Ton [3/1/10] - off topic, another battle w/Greg Proctor o Re: US Army 44 Ton [3/3/10] - off topic o Re: HO Scale for Sale [7/13 - 7/17/10] and here I'm starting to get tired: 11 posts in this thread, not a single one of them on-topic o Re: Google, questions and laziness [1/10/10] - chiding comment

Total: 5 on-topic posts, 28 others (avg. = 0.018)

(I've left out threads which themselves were off-topic or entirely meta, like "Spam in this group?".) Most of your comments seem to consist of your rants against perceived "netcopping" or other supposed breaches of etiquette, even when the person you're chiding is discussing something related to *model railroading*.)

There it is, "mate", your entire oeuvre for this year. It must be quite depressing to see it starkly laid out that way, yes? A pretty piss-poor batting average there. But all is not lost, you can redeem yourself; all you need to do is start posting some on-topic stuff. What kind of couplers do you use? What about that locomotive color scheme? How about those trains you spotted the other day? Stuff like that.

I see, it's the world versus you.

You have heard that comment Franz Kafka made about that, haven't you?

And the little wee drummer, we flattered his bow And we made a football of his rowdy-dow-dow Threw it in the tide for to rock and to roll And bade it a tedious returning

On 12/31/2010 6:37 PM Lobby Dosser spake thus:

??????

I have no idea what that's supposed to mean (hey, you didn't say there would be a *quiz* on this!), but I defend to the death your right to post it here.

Interspersed in your own, how many on-topic remarks have you made here? You're an abusive bully, mate, and probably have nothing else to do here besides argue and divert a worthwhile thread.

You spent a lot of time trying to make what you did right. Sorry, bub, you remain wrong. Now stop acting like a child.

-- Ray

And you still remain a rude, inconsiderate clod.

-- Ray

Oh dear.

Ray, David and I have often disagreed with each other, and sometimes have done so impolitely and at length. But he stands as a towering intellect and a monomaniacal on-topic contributor when compared with you.

As evidenced by his posts, his primary interests here have always been (A) sharing knowledge and (B) learning new things himself.

Now if only we could say the same things of thee...

See, mate, here's the trouble. He remains wrong. As do you. No matter what I have done or you believe I have done, you're both wrong.

-- Ray

On 1/1/2011 11:47 AM Twibil spake thus: