to get away from the Damo sub-thread, perhps Dally or support can explain this: http://sport.uk.msn.com/olympics-2012/t ... ker-rights This is not any toy but one linked to a specific time, to a specific event, and to a specific UK based market. Its not a pair of trainers that could be used for 6 months but a toy that shows off our 2012 pride. So why couldn't it be made in the UK? Surely it would have still been profitable?

to get away from the Damo sub-thread, perhps Dally or support can explain this: http://sport.uk.msn.com/olympics-2012/t ... ker-rights This is not any toy but one linked to a specific time, to a specific event, and to a specific UK based market. Its not a pair of trainers that could be used for 6 months but a toy that shows off our 2012 pride. So why couldn't it be made in the UK? Surely it would have still been profitable?

Amounting to a sum total of 0.21 posts per day more than you

Just an update on how to report bullying. I’ve had a private word with someone and who’s advise me to go through the official channels. So if anyone wants to complain about the bullying that I’ve received at the hands of a certain moderator then feel free to report it via email on admins@rlfans.com Personally I just want to move on from this ASAP by acknowledging this for what it is - a quiet night gone a bit rowdy. But it’s my responsibility to make sure that no one else has to go through what I’ve been through on this thread. So I’ll be filing a report tomorrow.

Just an update on how to report bullying. I’ve had a private word with someone and who’s advise me to go through the official channels. So if anyone wants to complain about the bullying that I’ve received at the hands of a certain moderator then feel free to report it via email on admins@rlfans.com Personally I just want to move on from this ASAP by acknowledging this for what it is - a quiet night gone a bit rowdy. But it’s my responsibility to make sure that no one else has to go through what I’ve been through on this thread. So I’ll be filing a report tomorrow.

.....I'd just like to back Rock GodX's theory that Damo is basically a troll, seeking reaction wherever he goes.

He wants a nice quiet time, yet appeals to others to report the so-called bullying he has supposedly received??...

It isn't even subtle, and I find it slightly amusing that some get wound up by him, which is all that has happened....Certainly, no bullying has taken place, only a soft ass would think that.

Whether he has an illness/syndrome/whatever excuse he uses to dodge working, Damo certainly knows what he is doing.....I think the sheer stupidity of most of his posts make him a valuable asset to this forum, but surely people should just learn to treat him as the buffoon he truly is?

ive got an illness/medical condition. i had to give up working in summer 2010 after being off work for 3 months and then working part time for 3 months to see if it worked out for me and the company. it didnt work. i dont get any benefits either as my missus earns a wage slightly above minimum wage so we exist on a pittance these days.
are you judging me too for using my condition as an excuse to "dodge working"??
are you judging others on here who also have conditions that stop them from working too??
im not sure who the "buffoon" truly is in this case!!!!!!!!!

Hillbilly_Red wrote:to get away from the Damo sub-thread, perhps Dally or support can explain this: http://sport.uk.msn.com/olympics-2012/t ... ker-rights This is not any toy but one linked to a specific time, to a specific event, and to a specific UK based market. Its not a pair of trainers that could be used for 6 months but a toy that shows off our 2012 pride. So why couldn't it be made in the UK? Surely it would have still been profitable? It can be made much, much cheaper in the Far East (including shipment) meaning that the UK company can make money on it. The design, marketing, etc will probably have been done here (which will have generated higher incomes to all here than the manufucturing would). These bulk, low-grade items are best dealt with in lower wage economies. If we do it here, we earn lower wages. At the end of the day the punters will only pay a certain price for what i view assuch pointless tat. When you take off the retailers mark-up, the wholesalers mark-up, the UK manufacturers profit, marketing, design, there's bugger all left to actually make it. So, better that the willing masses of the Far East do that. Everyone is then better off - them AND us. However, China is rapidly doing what Japan did and moving beyond that and costs are rising.

Hillbilly_Red wrote:to get away from the Damo sub-thread, perhps Dally or support can explain this: http://sport.uk.msn.com/olympics-2012/t ... ker-rights This is not any toy but one linked to a specific time, to a specific event, and to a specific UK based market. Its not a pair of trainers that could be used for 6 months but a toy that shows off our 2012 pride. So why couldn't it be made in the UK? Surely it would have still been profitable? It can be made much, much cheaper in the Far East (including shipment) meaning that the UK company can make money on it. The design, marketing, etc will probably have been done here (which will have generated higher incomes to all here than the manufucturing would). These bulk, low-grade items are best dealt with in lower wage economies. If we do it here, we earn lower wages. At the end of the day the punters will only pay a certain price for what i view assuch pointless tat. When you take off the retailers mark-up, the wholesalers mark-up, the UK manufacturers profit, marketing, design, there's bugger all left to actually make it. So, better that the willing masses of the Far East do that. Everyone is then better off - them AND us. However, China is rapidly doing what Japan did and moving beyond that and costs are rising.

Dita's Slot Meter wrote:It isn't even subtle, and I find it slightly amusing that some get wound up by him, which is all that has happened....Certainly, no bullying has taken place, only a soft ass would think that. BG doesn’t want to deal with the accusations that he’s a bully so he passes that responsibility onto the admin team. I’m sure that if someone did the same to him with what he’s done to me then they would have been gone by now. To expand on this, yesterday he even used his position as moderator to intimidate a member to not correspond with him in the manner that they did. Bullying is a very gray subject. I’m all for peoples opinions and we just leave it at that. But it’s clear in this thread that BG wants something a bit more sinister out of me as opposed to just a genuine heated debate.

Dita's Slot Meter wrote:It isn't even subtle, and I find it slightly amusing that some get wound up by him, which is all that has happened....Certainly, no bullying has taken place, only a soft ass would think that. BG doesn’t want to deal with the accusations that he’s a bully so he passes that responsibility onto the admin team. I’m sure that if someone did the same to him with what he’s done to me then they would have been gone by now. To expand on this, yesterday he even used his position as moderator to intimidate a member to not correspond with him in the manner that they did. Bullying is a very gray subject. I’m all for peoples opinions and we just leave it at that. But it’s clear in this thread that BG wants something a bit more sinister out of me as opposed to just a genuine heated debate.

Damo this is a battle you can't win, and by trying to protest you're just fighting a battle on terms that they control, the mods are just laughing at you they will say they haven't breached their AUP and that you brought it on yourself. They want to lord their cyberpower over you as this is a web forum and that's a bit of limited power they have in their lives.

Anyway it's not as though this is a case of infringements in human rights, it's just some people writing stuff on a web forum, there might be 4 or 5 getting their kicks out of picking on you but the rest of us can see what their behaviour is and that's why you've had support with people commenting that they are out of order, it's not you in the wrong, they are showing themselves up as sad acts.

The downside of a democracy is you have to listen to all sorts of idiots and on the Sin Bin there are a few users on here who don't have the capacity to handle a proper debate that respects other people, every thread they are in they get involved in some mud slinging insults against each other (we all know who I mean).

So unfortunately if you're going to read the Sin Bin and post in threads you have to put up with the fact this lot are roaming round it, the best way to cut short an argument of personal insults is not to answer to any post that's a personal attack, if someone slags you off online just ignore it, you don't have to justify yourself to randomers on the internet...

Am I to assume the 'delusional, paranoid conspiracy theorist' comment is aimed at me?

If so care to explain why you hold this view?