There's one person here, for a start, Rod: I'm usually counted as sensible, and not habitually associated with ignorance or stupidity, and certainly not with violence or destructiveness.

The Last Night doesn't appeal to me in the least, but do you know what? I don't watch it, I don't listen to it, and that's enough for me.

If you need to escape from your own site because you need a change of scene, that's one thing, but if you're not willing to abide by the rules* and the tenor of this board, then it's obviously not the place you should be visiting in its stead. Not when you're in this sort of state, at least.

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If posting the kind of things you've been doing is your idea of "livening things up" I for one can do without it. Just for the record: I hope nobody got the idea that I was endorsing Rod's nonsense about grenade attacks in any way when I said the Albert Hall should be replaced by a proper concert hall. As for the Last Night of the Proms, I do find it fairly objectionable and if I were asked I should probably say I'd prefer it didn't happen, but frankly there are so many so much worse things going on in the world (often indeed involving lethal weapons) that I hardly think it's worth making a fuss about.

Certainly is - and you are the principal criminal.


If you think I lose sleep over that, Corkin, you're very wrong.

Why don't you take your infantile views to places where you tell us you're better appreciated?  As you can see,  no-one finds your threats of violence very "funny" here. 

If the best you can do is ad hominem attacks, Rod, you've simply proved yet again that you don't belong on these boards. 

Sadly I've never seen a message from you yet which wasn't couched in terms of personal attacks and insults - of those you are writing to, or those you are writing about. Neither of these have any place here.

Of course what you say is not taken seriously, but I seriously consider that your comments have no place here. I have faith in members here, and the complaint button, and the team of moderators. I look forward to your expulsion.

John W

Read your own messages above - you've called me "stupid" and "self-centred".  Or

I've made an official complaint about you, and I hope that you will be banned as a result.  Personally, Rod - I'd sue the Charm School if I were you.

No, it is not "valid in both cases", nor is the end of any story. Schmidt-Isserstedt was born in 1900 and was by no means the "Luftwaffe pilot turned conductor" as which you describe him, having already had a distinguished conducting career for quite some years before he became a Luftwaffe pilot. His remarks about the Royal Albert Hall, as quoted in the Keith Harvey interview and elsewhere, were concerned purely with his perfectly understandable reservations about the venue's acoustic (which have been improved since he made them but which admittedly remain far from ideal); he made no mention of its management which, in any case, is not responsible for the artist or repertoire choices or the making of other decisions in respect of the Henry Wood Promenade Concert series, since that responsibility rests with BBC, so as far as your jibes at management are concerned, one may presume that you should address those to BBC rather than to the management of the venue itself.

On the basis of all of this, it may reasonably be argued that the gratuitous offensiveness of your statement is of less significance than its litany of inaccuracies.