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« Reply #5265 on: 20:11:15, 24-03-2008 »
Just catching up here. Inks, from a quick read of all this, I'd err on the side of caution. Don't much like the sound of it.
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« Reply #5266 on: 20:17:15, 24-03-2008 »
Someone on the R3 BBC MB, with an ID of 2134613, which is an even older membership than mine is having a right go at me.

I wish I had never gone over there.  If I knew who he/she was it wouldn't be so bad.  As it is, I just feel upset that one of the original BBC posters is doing this
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« Reply #5267 on: 20:19:22, 24-03-2008 »
Quote from: Antheil the Termite Lover on 19:12:38, 24-03-2008
Bejazuus.  It is so long since I lived in a bin bag as a student that if I disappeared I would expect a bit more hue and cry not some bluddy middle class "well I sent him a text"
Well if he's started living out of a bin bag, it's a recent development: I was in his room three weeks ago with a dude who was checking the radiators, and he had plenty of stuff lying about in the room (and, to my recollection, not a bin-bag in sight; certainly not ones with garbage-collection freshly applied to them).  It's pretty (95%) obvious that he's left of his own will, in some premeditated fashion, and been pretty accommodating in that way of his that he is (leaving money, &c.). 

Quote from: strinasacchi on 19:56:07, 24-03-2008
All these spiffing new ways of communicating, and communication seems more difficult than ever.  Did you particularly dislike him?
Not at all; indeed I had a certain fondness for him.

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If not, it only seems human to try to reach him by the most direct and immediate means possible in such strange circumstances.
I did try calling just there, but his phone was off; straight to voicemail.

Look; I figure I'll drop his name into the police station tomorrow (I'm going to be down by it anyway), see if they care at all.  A certain amount of detective work has resulted in me finding a single, yellow, foam earplug, some German pharmaceutical magazine, and a novel, 'Dazzle'.  In the bag marked with the collection label was, so far as I could see, a pair of runners and a rucksack.  In the other, open and unlabelled back there were some towels on top.  And, underneath the bed was a DHS box, and in the DHS box was another box, with some German address on it.  On the back of his door, two beermats, one pictorial, the other about men's cancer screening.

Quote from: Antheil the Termite Lover on 20:17:15, 24-03-2008
Someone on the R3 BBC MB, with an ID of 2134613, which is an even older membership than mine is having a right go at me.

I wish I had never gone over there.  If I knew who he/she was it wouldn't be so bad.  As it is, I just feel upset that one of the original BBC posters is doing this

:/  Sorry to hear that antheil.
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« Reply #5268 on: 20:22:59, 24-03-2008 »
I've just been reading that Anna!  Is there no way you can find out who it is?   It won't be any of our former friends that's for sure.  Most of them are over here anyway.

I've been posting over there on the choir thread, on the platform 3 (about religion and stuff) and on the breakfast thread and I don't really recognise anyone from before.  I thought Groby Lington might be Sydney but they express different views.  Jean Hartrick is still there and kleines but they all post under their own names anyway.  Most of us that travel from board to board still use our own names.
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« Reply #5269 on: 20:58:40, 24-03-2008 »
Anna,

I've just been posting over there (on the WAM portrait) and checked the thread. That pesky poster has an old ID, yet he's only posted on THAT thread. Seems he must be an old poster who registered other logins but didn't use them?
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« Reply #5270 on: 21:08:34, 24-03-2008 »
It's pretty horrible at TOP Sad

I haven't posted on the BBC MBs since last May and that was on Mornington Crescent not R3.

Bet my id is older than all of you: 725005.

(7 * (-2 + 5) + 0) / 0.5 = 42

I notice that the R3 MB still says "The changes Radio 3 made to its message board in February 2007 are intended to make the board more inclusive and to create stronger links between programme makers and the Radio 3 audience. "

(hollow) ha ha ha
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« Reply #5271 on: 21:10:05, 24-03-2008 »
Quote from: John W on 20:58:40, 24-03-2008
Anna,

I've just been posting over there (on the WAM portrait) and checked the thread. That pesky poster has an old ID, yet he's only posted on THAT thread. Seems he must be an old poster who registered other logins but didn't use them?

Or he/she has unsubscribed from all their other threads using h2g2 or Jont's script.
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« Reply #5272 on: 21:30:41, 24-03-2008 »
Quote from: Andy D on 21:10:05, 24-03-2008

Or he/she has unsubscribed from all their other threads using h2g2 or Jont's script.

Andy,

Eh, I don't know what that is. You mean you can remove 'evidence' that you posted elsewhere?

There's other rubbish going on too, folk winding up rb who I think has stopped posting.

I still browse r3mb for the good programme/music interest that still gets posted there, and which has dropped off here in favour of more and more quizzes, weather, and 'fun' threads.  Undecided

Yeah, I know I've done a quiz this holiday weekend, but that 'chafe moment' thing keeps telling me such 'fun' is a waste of good time when I could be doing really useful things. I'm still not trying hard enough to drop myself out of the 'top ten posters' and 'top ten time logged in' stats  Sad


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« Reply #5273 on: 21:44:01, 24-03-2008 »
Quote from: John W on 21:30:41, 24-03-2008
You mean you can remove 'evidence' that you posted elsewhere?

You can indeed remove any or all threads from your BBC discussions list. Either by doing it the long-winded way at h2g2 (which I believe a certain "Anna" used to do Wink) or quickly by using a FireFox script which several here used to use.

If you don't know what h2g2 is - google it.
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« Reply #5274 on: 21:48:29, 24-03-2008 »
Quote from: increpatio on 20:19:22, 24-03-2008
It's pretty (95%) obvious that he's left of his own will, in some premeditated fashion, and been pretty accommodating in that way of his that he is (leaving money, &c.).
I think you're right, and I also think that in those circumstances I can imagine not wanting to ring him, because if someone leaves like that they pretty obviously don't want to talk - but having thought about this for an hour or so, I think you and your flatmates ought to report him as missing, for two reasons:

(a) if you don't do so now, it might look odd subsequently that you didn't do so, should anything untoward happen/have happened;
(b) as you say he seems to have been very accommodating in having left his room tidy and even left money, apparently to cover bills/inconvenience. But ...... I live in a flat with a fairly high turnover of flatmates (although it seems more stable just at the moment). One guy who was here for a few months last year was very difficult to live with and to get on with; in the end he did leave, and he didn't offer to leave a forwarding address or his phone number (which I'd never had). I was quite relieved to make a clean break, but I now wish I'd asked him for some sort of details, because quite a lot of post still comes for him and although I do return most of it to sender it still doesn't stop coming. If your flatmate has simply decided to leave, and doesn't want to be contacted, it's still in your interests to cover yourself and to try to minimise the possible inconvenience to you in future from it.
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« Reply #5275 on: 22:11:45, 24-03-2008 »
tinners is dead right. Report it now, Inks. I've come across this situation, or something like it, before, at least a couple of times in my life. WAY better to report than not.
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« Reply #5276 on: 22:23:00, 24-03-2008 »
incs, I'm with tinners and Martle here. I think in this instance it's better to make a bit of a fuss as opposed to shrugging your shoulders. I, too, have been in a similar situation. I reported it and never regreted it.
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« Reply #5277 on: 22:57:05, 24-03-2008 »
I'll do it tomorrow afternoon on my way to the social welfare office.

Also, a friend of mine pretty much got a full-cover photo in the Irish Independent supplement on Saturday, but it wasn't the particularly happy sort:



terror on our streets

One thing I'm so often conscious of is how much more dangerous it is for women to walk around alone than dudes: I seem to be able to walk around Dublin at odd hours without so much as the slightest feeling of unease (though I know that I can count myself lucky), so I tend to be internally pretty cavalier about the dangers.  After reading that article though, and walking home around midnight, I was a lot more wary of myself.
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« Reply #5278 on: 23:27:18, 24-03-2008 »
That's shocking, inky. Makes me so angry that those bast***s get away with violent attacks like that. Angry
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« Reply #5279 on: 23:33:22, 24-03-2008 »
Quote from: increpatio on 22:57:05, 24-03-2008
Also, a friend of mine pretty much got a full-cover photo in the Irish Independent supplement on Saturday, but it wasn't the particularly happy sort
But that article's not reportage, it's pornography. It quivers away at how bad everything's become with barely the slightest interest in looking for viable solutions, and comes up along the way with ill-thought-through observations, such as 'There's a culture of demand for instant gratification' (compare that use of the word 'culture' with Germaine Greer's if you like!), and claims apparently based on statistics but in reality unprovable by statistics, like 'Dublin is drowning in a sea of alcohol and other substances such as cocaine, which is claiming a growing number of lives'.
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