On 06/03/2014 14:12, wrote:
Discussion title: "None of the ****s currently here can hold a candle to the trolls we used to have."

Brian Robertson was funny for about 5 minutes, but his distinct predictability and lack of intelligence have got old very quickly. I now skip over his posts as soon as I realise it's him (and not whoever he's impersonating), which never takes very long, because it's always the same old hateful bull**** (he seems to hate pretty much every group except "cyclists", and seems to have adopted them as "his" group specifically because of the self-righteous belligerence that group so often exhibits).

I know that others skip his posts as well (even cyclists like Rob Morley), and most have given up replying to him. He's just not very inventive. And it's not really that funny when someone (even an extremely dickish individual) has an obvious, serious and deadly addiction (long-term alcoholics' bodies are in a worse state *by far* than those of heroin, crack or even meth addicts; those telling him he needs help NOW are absolutely spot on, and he would do well to swallow his pride and go to his GP).

Crispin has become (more of) a joke and a self-parody, and it worries me that we have (ex-)teachers like that. His blatant trolling the other day, when calling for draconian restrictions on motorists and saying it was "win-win", crossed another line. The old trolls were never that blatant. And his vindictive persecution of another poster and his snobbish prejudice against tradesmen is most ugly (not to mention boring).

So, the question (to the reasonable posters) is: if you could press a button which replaced the current trolls with the old ones, would you do so? For all their disingenuous lies, would you rather have Numbnuts, Porky, mileburner and the old Crispin than the current lot? I think it was much more fun then, even if we didn't necessarily know it.

Mason was just as stupid as Robertson but in a different and less predictable way. And his alcoholism wasn't as serious as Robertson's.

Chapman was a lot less clever than he thought, but (of course) still much less stupid than Robertson, and it was extremely amusing when, time and time again, he tried to impress his fellow cyclists by "masterfully" insulting those he disagreed with, only to instead cop yet another earful off the likes of Ian Smith for "crapping in his own swimming pool". He never learned and so it was the gift that kept on giving. "This time, unlike all the others, I'll get it right and effortlessly outwit and vanquish my opponents while receiving rapturous applause from all my fellow cyclists"...oh no you won't! But do keep trying! :-)

What does the lack of decent psycholist trolls indicate? Have Judith and co finally managed to "destroy URC" as they supposedly vowed to do? Will the funny trolls ever return? Who will email Chapman to ask him? (Actually, don't bother...he lurks here to this day!)


By the way, I've just reported you for abuse as well ;-)

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Judith