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Bruce Sutherland
United Kingdom
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 Posted - 15/07/2012 : 18:00:43
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You know who you are, please desist.
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paul55
Luxembourg
732 Posts |
Posted - 15/07/2012 : 18:53:34
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Bruce,
I have made several postings today regarding a PA gearbox,do you mean me? Sorry if I have upset you.
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Wyn Lewis
United Kingdom
153 Posts |
Posted - 15/07/2012 : 19:23:35
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| I'm sure it doesn't relate to you Paul. I will be watching this thread though as I suspect it could be interesting. On a separate note, I'm just back from the VSCC meeting at Pembrey. Well done all MG entrants. |
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paul55
Luxembourg
732 Posts |
Posted - 15/07/2012 : 19:25:37
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Cheers Wyn, but someone has put a bee in Bruce's bonnet. I'll be watching it as well!
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Onno
Netherlands
1059 Posts |
Posted - 15/07/2012 : 19:42:25
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You do not have to read them.
A bit like saying there is only cr@p on TV, you can turn it off
Onno "D" Könemann |
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Bruce Sutherland
United Kingdom
1579 Posts |
Posted - 15/07/2012 : 20:28:24
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Onno,
How right you are  , but it still irritates.
Bruce. (PB0564) |
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Onno
Netherlands
1059 Posts |
Posted - 15/07/2012 : 22:49:24
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I decided a few years ago not to let things people put on the internet bugg me.
Can't say I always live by it but it works 90% of the time ;-)
Onno "D" Könemann |
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DickMorbey
United Kingdom
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Posted - 16/07/2012 : 08:38:07
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Good morning Bruce and all other Triple-M chums.
How should I put this? I don't know precisely what triggered Bruce's post, but it has helped me add a new section to my emerging thesis which, if it had a title, would be named: "The Internet: delight or despair?
By this I mean that the internet is a potent resource, but it's also a potentially corrosive medium. In the context of a fraternity such as ours it would be nice to feel that written exchanges could be conducted with courtesy and in accordance with that spirit which unites us all.
By and large that is so, but of course - thinking broadly here - some postings are made hastily and erroneously, while some may contain opinions with which some of us disagree. But I like to believe that we all come here with a common aim, namely that of sharing enlightenment.
So therefore perhaps all of us should keep in mind a couple of principles derived from recent and very distant history:
"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it" - Evelyn Beatrice Hall's biography of Voltaire - 1906
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"a lie will go round the world while truth is pulling its boots on" - Shakespeare - Henry IV Part II (16th century) - and he derived it from Virgil's Aeneid (29-19 BC)
So there's really nothing new in this at all!
Best wishes
Dick Morbey
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Keith Durston
United Kingdom
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Posted - 16/07/2012 : 09:36:32
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Dick,
Sage words indeed and beautifully crafted.
Keith |
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Onno
Netherlands
1059 Posts |
Posted - 16/07/2012 : 10:01:09
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Dick
I have only one thing to add to that.
"the right to say anything does not mean you should"
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spitfire
United Kingdom
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Posted - 16/07/2012 : 10:03:02
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Hi all on this Merry go Round!
I too, was intrigued by Bruce's comment.
I wasn't sure where the niggle emanated from.
Can't members with a well sorted car, all original, understand the frustration  of trying to RECOGNISE what you have (bought) before you?
You(have to)come this site, flagged up as the fountain of knowledge for the MMM owner.
Half the information is locked away in members' heads and half of it is being directed to another site.
It is this "cap in hand" HAVING to ask that produces this instance! None of us want to join a club just to ponce information. Most of us are pretty adept at building, taking apart and rebuilding Our own playthings.
I like Dick's quotes on the matter. The corrosive observation is spot on as well. Through our discussions we confront everyone's perception of what is right and proper.
Like a postman walking across your front garden to go next door, a boiling red mist clouds our rose tinted specs!
I am in no doubt that Bruce was trying to have a lie down after I kept wittering on about an MMM photo database.
I cannot believe the hours and days I have wasted of my life on my little monster of a car.
They do have a habit of sucking every drop of sanity out of our laid back souls.
You can be standing on a beautiful beach but the grain of sand stuck between your teeth is occupying all of your senses.
One man may be sitting having Sunday lunch, his family around him...a gleaming P type on the sunlit drive in in a manicured garden. Whilst another is twisted and streaked, combat style with the grease of a dozen greasenipples, trying to scr@pe a spring washer from behind some bowden cable. **** and clay, ain't they!
Glad we're all human!
And I agree with Onno's last comment. I have the greatest admiration for our friends overseas who love our British cars. I have a house the other side of the world. It is much more important to have "friends" who will help you UK side, understand when you can't just pop down the road and see someone to sort an  issue. |
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Bob Stringfield
United Kingdom
854 Posts |
Posted - 16/07/2012 : 10:09:49
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Colin Butchers
United Kingdom
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Posted - 16/07/2012 : 10:43:32
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Hey Spit, How many hours and days can you have "wasted on your little monster of a car". You have only owned it for six months. Hardly a life-time.
I think that the late Denis Thatcher got it right (even if some of you thought that his missus didn't). He said that he preferred to keep his mouth shut and be thought by some to be a fool, rather than to open it and thus remove all doubt."
Wise words indeed.
I could also add that the length of some postings seems to be inversely proportional to the quality of what is said.
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Nick Feakes
USA
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Posted - 16/07/2012 : 14:21:55
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I think the time has come to draw this thread to a close
Nick
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