Topic: Southampton cruise boss admits Liverpool is better destination

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Answer: I KNOW WHERE YOU COME FROM YOU SAID IN ONE OF YOUR PREVIOUS POSTS.

GOODBYE GORDON, KEEP CHECKING THE SPELLING AND ANNOYING EVERYONE, DONT LET THE REPUTATION SLIP. I MYSELF AM SIGNING OUT AND LETTING YOU WIN, BECAUSE I CANNOT BE BOTHERED, HAPPY NOW? YOU HAVE WON SOMETHING FOR NOTHING!

MY GOD, I thought that I could tell a good 'lengthy' tale, but you take the biscuit and I didn't fully realised how I had 'got under your skin' and provoked you so much. Answer: YOU DID

Lets get one thing straight, you do not speak for the entire membership of the forum when you claim that my utterings inspire no-one but, at best are amusing and regarded with condescention, those are YOUR opinions and are NOT shared by all. Answer I AM NOT, JUST US IN OUR HOUSEHOLD

Whilst I am no sort of Prophet or Counsellor, however I 'inspire' readers (if at all) is expressed by them privately, although some do post words of encouragement for public consumption. Answer NOT 'READERS' JUST US IN OUR HOUSEHOLD

My use of the word 'cousin' is perfectly innocuous (as in American cousins) and you clearly reside in the south east of the UK. NO ANSWER BUT NOT RIGHT - VERY DIVISIONAL

Evil is in the eye of the beholder. Answer: DO YOU BEHOLD EVIL, I DONT?

The libelous and insensitive 'words' used to describe me, are unworthy of one who 'comes-across' as being an intelligent person and your excuse for using them is unacceptable. Answer: MAYBE

I believe that your choice of vernacular was prompted by an over-riding combination of emotions such as anger and a personal dislike of me that clouded your judgement. Answer: MAYBE

Likewise your description of my 'offerings' as being, (in your opinion) non-informative, are also subjective, as I DO take part in debates other than cruise terminals and the old chestnut 'the great north-south divide' which has existed since, what we now call the UK, when England (and Wales) was ruled by minor kings and tribal chieftains, and I'm sorry but I can't turn the clock of history back. Answer: REALLY! ARE WE STUCK IN THE PAST.

I will admit to being a touch sarcastic on occasion, it rather depends on the person I am corresponding with. Answer: MAYBE

My usual demeanour being, 'when in Rome, do as the Romans do,' or 'an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth' and never forgetting that 'attack is the best form of defence.' Answer: REALLY!

As regards your misplaced belief that, in some way I was trying to stir-up some sort of racial discontent, is again wrong, perhaps I should have anticipated your impulsive misinterpretation by using the terminology, 'illegal immigrants.' Answer: ATTACK IS THE BEST FORM OF DEFENCE (in your words)

And to further correct you, it was not I who introduced ethnics into the debate, it was yourself by commenting on how well your community harmonised with each other, then went on to identify the various nationalities who made up this community, nothing whatsoever to do with cruise terminals and their dispersions or conglomerations. Answer: EXACTLY MY POINT YOU TURNED IT INTO SOMETHING ELSE

My 'reputation' that you infer I assume, is the misguided one in which you associate my (sometimes) outspoken and forthright arguments on the cruise forum and apart from that, I have to advise you that my personal reputation is unimpeachable and is established over many years in several influencial positions which I have held, notably in public service under the auspices of the representation of the public act. Answer: ME TOO!

Apart from our differing opinions on the desirability of including Liverpool as an alternative to Southampton as a cruise terminal, I have no particular axe to grind with you personally, and I have not denegrated you personally as you have me. Answer: GOOD

We will probably never ever meet and what we amount to is 'ships that pass in the night' and that this present association is, at best, tenuous and I consider it best to terminate it here as it is going nowhere apart from continuous fractious exchanges. Answer I HAVE TRIED TO DO THAT ALREADY

There are no winners or losers as regards our differences of opinion.

However there are, in very truth, winners and losers in the quest for a diversity of cruise terminals; on the one hand you have 'winners' who are those content with the status quo, and the 'losers' are those who are denied an alternative choice by reason of (chiefly) economics in which social demarcation, north, south, east or west, plays little part where policy is influenced by profit and economy of administration by the operators. Answer: AGREE

Finally, and acknowledging your hope that we will be able to enjoy as many future cruises that reasonable health, life-expectancy and life savings will allow - at risk of further annoying you when you corrected my reference to, 'me and my wife' as being incorrect and should have been, 'my wife and I.'

I have been in the habit of using the latter in describing us (my wife and I) as a couple, until I was corrected in a spell-check/grammar check, that advised me that 'me and my wife' was the more correct terminology. Answer: DONT TAKE ANY NOTICE OF COMPUTERS GRAMMAR THEY ARE ONLY MACHINES

I realise that there may be regional differences in terminology and pronunciation, such as U being pronounced as a phonetic U by some, whilst others, depending on the region, pronouncing U as a phonetic A, as in Batter for Butter and I feel sure that followers of this 'thread,' and there are quite a few, will no doubt comment on their particular anomolies which do not concur with 'standard' BBC spoken English. Answer: THOUGHT IT WAS MORE LIKE BARFF AND BAATH

Yours Sincerely
Gordon Rhys-Williams
Wales near Chester[/QUOTE]
BYE GORDON AGAIN

I think it's one nil , to Gordon.

This has been a very typical thread where Gordy is involved. He has this knack of really upsetting people.

It's been very entertaining and, as I said before, our Gordy is still the 'joker' of the forum. He's also the only member, as far I'm aware, to have been barred from the forum then allowed back in.

I look forward to the next 'Gordy' thread!

cheers
Harvey

Very interesting...not the topic, dry as dust that is, what I find interesting & refreshing to a point is that nobody has been ganged up on & Admin have allowed the thread to continue without zapping posts from anyone they don't like, making a nonsense of those remaining.

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Very interesting...not the topic, dry as dust that is, what I find interesting & refreshing to a point is that nobody has been ganged up on & Admin have allowed the thread to continue without zapping posts from anyone they don't like, making a nonsense of those remaining.

As long as no one is being bullied or libelled then there is an argument for just letting things run and not having a heavy-handed censor.

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As long as no one is being bullied or libelled then there is an argument for just letting things run and not having a heavy-handed censor.

Let's face it, we don't have to read it...and I haven't. Let them get on with it. We can just ignore.

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I think it's one nil , to Gordon.

Ooooh your so chauvenist! Ha ha

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As long as no one is being bullied or libelled then there is an argument for just letting things run and not having a heavy-handed censor.

Well it appears I was wrong & Gordon got banned ...charming. I hope those concerned are ashamed of themselves.