[The_Guru]

The Dark Night

Local billionaire procures an app to find the safest route home from dodgy areas in cities at night and if needs be automatically contact emergency services if you get mugged.

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jolly roger

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GoodFella

An Italian immigrant in Brooklyn NY is beloved by his neighbours and makes good on his restaurant business. Sees his children go to college.

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jolly roger

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Hey whizz, good to see you. I too had never been banned in my life so I don’t know what that nonsense from Fish was about. But then, it’s the boards: just full of low-life scum endlessly wailing and gnashing their teeth. How’s Mumbai?

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budha

[The_Guru]

drac’s obviously right

 

there’s no excuse for homophobic speech

just as there’s no excuse for racist speech

it doesn’t matter who the whistle-blower is

or who has said what else in the past

 

drac’s obviously right

 

if it’s unlawful it isn’t ok

if it’s a bar it will get shut down for bouncers

beating up on who they want to

 

drac’s obviously right

 

we live in a society governed by law

not by owners of establishments

not by bouncers

and certainly not by people who whisper it about that
they are in exclusive groups of secretive power
and they alone hold the keys to the throne

 

drac’s obviously right

 

you might not agree

it’s your right not to agree

it’s not your right

nor within your powers

 

to prevent anyone saying it:

 

drac’s obviously right

 

and you – you are obviously wrong

 

 

 

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Ihavenoname, budha

[The_Guru]

“And whosoever shall not receive you, nor hear your words, when ye depart out of that house or city, shake off the dust of your feet.

Verily I say unto you, It shall be more tolerable for the land of Sodom and Gomorrha in the day of judgment, than for that city.

Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.”

 

You all seem to think that “everyone here is bad, so that’s fine” – but I am not bad, and never was. Neither should you be. LD got frustrated because I said people chatted in F1 because they couldn’t stand to talk to each other in F3. That was enough to be banned apparently. Maybe the irony isn’t DI talking about going back to F3, maybe it’s the other way around: you guys wanted – and got! – rid of all the people you didn’t want in F1, but can’t stand anyone else saying that’s not your place?

I find the content of your message to be great kenty, thanks, but I also find the structure of it to be condescending and disappointing.  I’m not asking for sympathy, I’m not asking for attention, I’m not asking for reinstatement. It’s just bullshit that someone in a position of power has the ability to stop friends from talking to each other due to a fit of pique.

And that is the ONLY thing I take issue with in my decade plus here.

[P.S. come over tomorrow and let’s make this up over pillow-talk ;) ]

[The_Guru]

I don’t normally post on the forums, I find them an awful place generally, and I don’t normally speak in my “serious” voice but I am going to this once.

Everyone who is left needs to speak out in no uncertain terms against LD. That includes other guides. It’s utterly unnacceptable behaviour – not just on a “what’s best for chat/chatters” level, but on a serious immoral level.

I’m asking for everyone who I ever chatted to here on good terms with for 14 years to make your voice heard by the appropriate channel – the “contact us” form on the front page of the website. I don’t need to / wish to be reinstated – I’m over the road now as Imperator on UKChat if anyone wants to join – but this type of abusive and bullying behaviour should not be left unchecked. I applaud merlin, drac, claire, DivineIntervention, and others for already standing up and being counted.

It’s not as serious as the following poem, but the sentiment is the same. An absolute misuse and abuse of power as a vindictive tool. It makes me really concerned not just about this place, but about the nature of how we are going to be able to have constructive conversations as a society over divisive issues going forwards.

“First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a socialist.

Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a trade unionist.

Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Jew.

Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.”

It’s a shame it had to end this way. I always knew it would end, but I didn’t think I was going to end before JC. May God bless you all.

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DivineIntervention

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Sorry Ari I couldn’t play tonight. I’ve been banned too, for reasons which are still unclear but defy belief. Please give my sincerest apologies to GD. Good luck with the quiz here on out, but I doubt you’ll need it. Hope it was a good quiz today.

[The_Guru]

Great call linda.

 

GD tops nice list for everyone. Thanks for some spellbinding games and the atmosphere of uninterrupted cameraderie that only exists in the Quiz room. :)

Other guides get their shout for doing all your jobs well too.

Then all the good regs.

Naughty list – well, they know who they are, no point to mention.

Merry Christmas all. :)

~ The Guru

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Womanly Woman, ForumHostLD, lindaclemenza7

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Ah, Dofan, my alter ego, conveniently back after I am gone. Wassup hahaha

[The_Guru]

As an outside observer… What the hell are you guys talking about? o.O

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