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Hey Jim


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To Cindy and all our friends,

After typing for yet another half hour, To have our blog deleted in defence of Larry"s The Parrot  Speaks (Just Joking). Its Time.

We have enjoyed the time we have pasted, information back and fourth, to help and be helped.

Everyone has a right to voice their opinion without been bullied.

We wish each and everyone safe and enjoyable travels of our great land.

Cindy, you favour a few on here with donations. Ours from herein have been donated to the more needy.

I have removed both our Grey Nomad stickers from our van, to become yet just another pair of fair dinkum Aussies

to travel this great land.

Live and Learn by your mistakes

Warn Regards Jim & Lambie



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Sorry to see you leave Hey Jim - I too sometimes feel that the bullies and the righteous from this site can be frustrating and unfortunately they seem to lack basics in manners and tact.

I still however believe it to be a worthwhile site regardless of some slings and arrows - Take care in your future travels.

I said it the other day in a post - It's better to be a has been, rather than a never was and never will be.

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Long ago I learned not to invest to much into these internet forums they are established for the benefit of the owners and nothing else - and that's kind of fair enough.
Just chip in a bit here and there if you feel so inclined although, frankly, you're often competing with people who think they know lots of stuff about highly technical subjects when, in fact, they don't.
If you want to do an on-going blog and put in all the effort that entails then either (by far the best) set up your own domain or use Google blogs.




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Farewell Jim I have enjoyed your input here, Wishing both you and Lambie very safe travels. All the best Landy

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What have I missed?????????? Sad to see you go Jim - you were a great contributor - you will be missed, like many others.

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Sorry to hear you are leaving the forum, Jim. Just to be clear though, I haven’t deleted yours or anybody else’s comments in relation to Larry’s The Parrot Speaks. Not sure what happened to your comments but I can assure you they weren’t deleted from this end. I wish you both you and Lambie well in all your future travels. Thanks for your highly valued contribution to the forum over a long period of time.

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Jim.

Lots of posts disappear into Cyberspace.

I did two on Friday. both didn't get there.
Same as several Emails lately too.

I think I'd be blaming your carrier rather than Cindy.
She's pretty fair.
Smacked my fingers and deleted a couple of mine.
and let a couple through which I thought were Hmmm. I wonder.

If you post and it appears on page. (Same bluish colour.)
Then afterwards disappears. Yep. Usually somebody has to do that.
But if you post and it doesn't appear on the page as posted.
(Same colour as page). still in that white box.
Just disappears. It's the net mate.

Welcome to cyberspace.

generally called "frustration" on a good day.


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Bruce and Bev


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Jim - I see your account is still active and being the curious bugger you are, hopefully you will have a read at your last post and see Cindy had nothing to do with it.

Macka is spot on - I too have had my posts and comments just suddenly disappear off the site - the joys of the internet!

C'mon back Jim..........you will be missed by many here

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I left once and have returned, don't go, do what I am doing, select the posts you want to be involved in and the posts you dislike, do something silly like say the moderators are going to love this or where is my rock, I need to hide! It is not worth getting personally involved in a post. There are some people posting, if I met them on the street, I would take a swing at them because their posts are regularly obnoxious, out of line and should be controlled more by the moderators.
This is supposed to be fun, turn the angst back against them and have some fun taking the mickey out of them!
Use your age and life history and drag up some really good put down lines to respond to the negativity that is often displayed on this site. And, please, moderators, allow this thread to continue, for at least a short while, let us see what develops as far as negativity posts.
It would be really interesting to see who responds.

Jim,
Please don't go out on a post that may or may not have disappeared, just get back in there and enjoy the environment.

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We enjoy your considerable input to the forum. Computers do some strange things on occasions. Don't let a glitch annoy you. why not stay?

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All the best out there in the Long Paddock Jim.

I would like to meet you out there somewhere one day, but who knows.

I will miss your input on this forum. Good Luck.



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Not nice to see people leave, but all the best Jim.

I do however, continue to see a great deal of irony in the posts of many at times on here!



-- Edited by TheHeaths on Monday 27th of February 2017 08:00:51 AM

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It is interesting to see that none of the obnoxious members are not here encouraging Jim to stay?

If Jim should leave (I hope not) it will another victory for the ignorant and uneducated.



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G'day Jim & Lambie,
I'll remain only if you good folk stay.....otherwise I'm out as well.....there's still more roses than weeds in this GN garden...if only we had a button we could press at times for a small squirt of 'Round Up'..eh?....lmao...all the best.....Hoo Roo

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For all you who have experienced text disappearing into the ether I recommend that you try Firefox and load the Add-on Lazarus. (It is available, or used to be, for one or two other web browsers.) When things crash you open up your reply panel, right click into it and select the appropriate piece from the pop-up menu. This has saved me many times when I have clicked the wrong button or windows has locked-up/crashed.



-- Edited by PeterD on Monday 27th of February 2017 08:59:20 AM

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DMaxer


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If "none of the obnoxious members are not here", doesn't that mean that they are here?

 

Just as in life circles, anonymous forums have people joining to contribute and people leaving for whatever reason. The fact that someone has decided to leave a forum should not give a licence to others to immediately criticize other forum members who have held a contrary view to the departing forum member.  I certainly held a contrary view to most if not all of Jim's tirades. I guess that must make me obnoxious, ignorant and uneducated!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



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Jim & Lambie,

We have yet to meet you but have valued your posts and experience.  This site will be the poorer for your going.

 

Pete & Maz

 



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DMaxer..'Jim's tirades'..?..tirades =violent declamation, an invective, a harangue.....?......I personally never found Jim's posts to be so....we have, however, finally agreed about something mate...I do concur with the last four words of your above post....Hoo Roo

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Landfall wrote:

It is interesting to see that none of the obnoxious members are not here encouraging Jim to stay?

 

 I imagine by obnoxious, your referring to to contributors who's views differ from your own.wink



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