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[Brian]

Certainly my typing is as patchy as ever ("receded"): you might blame the running and hiding on that.


Re this Christi, is he/she the post-Saulian-era troll in residence? There certainly seems to be a whiff of the mystique accompanying most forum trolls of proficiency, about him/her.

Christi appeared more or less a week ago, and is indeed our current troll in residence. (S)he posts enigmatic or just plain stupid questions around the forum and tells us how much she worships the actor David Ogden Stiers; there was one exception, when she mysteriously started a Victor Herbert thread which I believe will prove useful.   

[Dundonnell]

I have now taken a vow of absolute silence on this subject

[knight66]

I don't think the Mods here have been under any illusions. Right at the start of Christi's visit to us, three of us wrote and offered advice. My own PM was returned to me in its entirety without comment. From that I took the idea that here was someone we were not going to be able to help.

I have been deleting his/her posts whenever I caught them before others here replied to them. However, (Now here is a warning if ever I gave one.) Gurn was listening to some Vivaldi yesterday and whilst listening he has reduced Christi's post count to two. Who knows what would have happened had he been listening to Wagner!

Further postings of the sort we have been experiencing will also be deleted, along with posts that quote them.

Mike/Knight

[DavidW]

Who knows what would have happened had he been listening to Wagner!

He would have fallen asleep and Christi's posts would have remained intact.

[karlhenning]

Fear the Wubba-Wubba!

[not edward]

Welcome back!  Ah, Edinburgh in the winter!  I've never been, nor am I sure it is in my future (the winter bit, anyway).

It's not that bad, really, though it's rather gloomy at times.

Moving from Edinburgh to Toronto has certainly stiffened my sinews for cold winter weather. I guess it's about time to kick it up a notch and relocate to Ottawa or Montreal (hey, might as well take advantage of the French classes I've been taking of late).

[Kuhlau]

For anyone interested, Christi has turned up in at least one other classical music forum, posting a similar level of drivel as has been the case here. This will give you a taster: Country.

(I've deliberately not copied and pasted the OP from the above-linked thread, as it would've weakened the laugh you'll get when you click through. Trust me, it's worth it. )

... Gurn was listening to some Vivaldi yesterday and whilst listening he has reduced Christi's post count to two.

So, Gurn has disemboweled Christi's corpus?

FK

[karlhenning]

Hard to surpass Vivaldi in his sheer capacity for supporting mass keystrokes (mouse-clicks, too).

[knight66]

He would have fallen asleep and Christi's posts would have remained intact.

Sir, You underestimate the Gurnator. I have known him last to the half way point of the Liebstod and that is long enough to half said poster's output.

Other sites may be more homely for our neophyte.

Mike

[Dundonnell]

It's not that bad, really, though it's rather gloomy at times.

Moving from Edinburgh to Toronto has certainly stiffened my sinews for cold winter weather. I guess it's about time to kick it up a notch and relocate to Ottawa or Montreal (hey, might as well take advantage of the French classes I've been taking of late).

No it certainly isn't that bad

I went to school and university there

[Szykneij]

Other sites may be more homely for our neophyte.

Mike

Apparently not. Christi has just started a new thread.

[adamdavid80]

Mod Christi!!!!!!

[Brünnhilde forever]

I tried to annoy Christi into leaving, but she didn't, so Gurn deleted our short exchange. 

[Ugh!]

The mods, like the authorities, should be informed that you cannot improve a social structure by attempting to eliminate the perceived causes of other people's failings to control themselves.* Consequently, and as an aid to improvement, the further interference by authority exacerbates an already prevalent nuisance by 1) constricting diversity and thus ingenuity, and 2) reinforcing the double standard that authority acts to curb uncontrolled aggression--normally directed at just one person or a small group of people--but fatally ignores to act to curb uncontrolled regression in the form of a passive victim mentality that is forever disclaiming responsibility--normally resulting in all members, or society, having to suffer as either non-problems are removed or, more commonly, new rules are established which enervate the whole for the sake of a disfunctional minority. The mods, just like the US government with its "bold" bailout plan, are acting when it's too late, throwing good after bad, in the fallacy that one sacrifice could possibly resurrect what is already dead. Thus by inference, and against the occasional display of pagan rites, the mods are most likely Catholic, which might without elaboration explain the lot.

Anyway I don't wish to make a big deal about this. What's done is done. I only wished to say that the lot of you don't really know what you're doing, that is all.

As a social analysis this post is hilarious, thanks, you brighten up my day 

[karlhenning]

Ah, so it's "constricting diversity," is that the tale? 

[Christo]

Thus by inference, and against the occasional display of pagan rites, the mods are most likely Catholic, which might without elaboration explain the lot.

  :D Missed that beauty, last Month. Thanks, Ugh!, for delving it out! 

[Kuhlau]

Someone called Holly posted something here and quoted me (I know this, because I have the email notification to prove it). But what happened to that post?

FK

[Brian]

Someone called Holly posted something here and quoted me (I know this, because I have the email notification to prove it). But what happened to that post?

FK

The whole thread where Christi introduced herself got deleted.

[Bulldog]

The whole thread where Christi introduced herself got deleted.

That was a good decision. 

[Gurn Blanston]

That was a good decision. 

I completely agree with you. Thanks.