BLUEMOMENT

Nick, I thought it was plain enough.
There is there and here is here.
We seem to have a thread in which you are being overly self satisfied in reporting an event in another place which has only passing historical interest here.
I sincerely wish you to draw a line under this.
Pretending that this is of passing interest only because you administrate a couple of fora is disingenuous of you, and, I believe, unworthy of a generous spirit.
My last word in politic, I wish to go sailing.


There is now a post missing from this thread which therefore makes this reply ermm, well, I don't know........

I agree, time to draw the line. I thought Jim's clarity, persistence, good humour and patience with the cyberstalker and his sidekick were absolutely masterful. It was very well handled and critical in exposing what these guys were doing. OK, they were being deliberately offensive, but why keep it going?

Anyway time to chill out, before this gets any worse. I don't think you could any better than listen to this fine song, with words and music penned by the immortal C John Taylor. Perhaps we could all sing this on the CC2010.

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Jings Jim yer quick man . . . I deleted that post less than two minutes after I made it because you are right - time to draw a line. Problem is once seen the page is cached.

Now, moving swiftly on to C John Taylor . . . I refer you to this site and the comment possibly made by a former member of a caravanning forum not unknown in these parts:

It's so easy, isn't it, to denigrate the memory of a great man and all round artist, who, sad to say, is no longer with us, and therefore not in a strong position to defend himself. It's true, he wasn't "hip", didn't smoke reefers, or use four-letter words in his poetry and songs. But he did bring happiness to the lives of his many devoted admirers.

We spend our summers caravanning throughout Scotland, occasionally venturing further south into England. Our neighbour's son copied all C John Taylor's beautiful works of music onto a cassette tape which we love to play and sing along with as we drive along our beautiful country roads to our next site. You would be amazed at how many people at the sites love and appreciate his work. I do not mean to be unkind, but I'd hazard a guess that C John Taylor is better known than WFMU, certainly within the British caravanning community.

No name attached to the comment, but it has the ring of a certain J. Wheel I thought . . .

Nick wrote:... it has the ring of a certain J. Wheel I thought . . .

Without doubt. His name is immediately under the post.

Incidentally, although best remembered for his paintings and songs, C John Taylor was a very capable poet as well. Just listen to the subtlety of his craftmanship in his poem composed in honour of The Prince of Wales. Amazingly, he wrote it at four o'clock in the morning, after completing a portrait in oils of Prince Charles.

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Sorry Donald,

I have removed the link in your post above as I seem to after clicking it have aquired a horrendous trojan called Vista Antivirus 2010 which I am now struggling to remove from my system . . .

If it was a coincidence and it came from elsewhere then I apologise for editing your post, but I didn't want to risk anyone else getting infected.

(Am posting this on garredfox's laptop, will report further when I have more info)

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You will know immediately if you get this crap, loads of fake warnings, scan offers, click to purchase etc. In case anyone does - here's what just happened:

~ Couldn't run Internet Explorer at all - 'Vista Antivirus 2010 has blocked this program from accessing the internet'

.~ Firefox triggered a fake virus warning but then ran.

~ Couldn't run Malwarebytes Antimalware or AVG

~ Could download Malwarebytes (via Firefox) but could not install it

~ Looked up some nonesense (via Firefox) on removing this but couldn't find any of the registry entries it gave

~ Was about to disable System Restore and boot in Safe Mode to run Malwarebytes then decided to run Sytem Restore instead

~ Set the system back to yesterday

~ When it rebooted ran Malwarebytes - it found one browser hijack item. While it was running AVG also popped up a threat, which was removed.

~ Since then all seems OK, fingers crossed - will post here if anything else occurs. Can't be certain it was Donald's link, but not prepared to take the chance.

Nothing unusual happened here - cleared McAfee firewall at the time. Also had Malawarebytes running in the background. Subsequent scans by both came up with nothing. Had NoScript running at the time as well and noticed nothing unusual.

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Well, it may not have been your direct link I had difficulty downloading the MP3 - it semi-downloaded and stopped so I clicked on another link on the same page which appeared to offer the same download.

There were no other processes running here and it was a file sharing website, so I removed your link as a precaution, hope you don't mind. I was up until quarter to three removing the crap from my system

Nick wrote: I removed your link as a precaution, hope you don't mind. I was up until quarter to three removing the crap from my system

Nope, I don't mind - quite right if there was some other dodgy link on the site. However it has rather taken the shine away from the great C John Taylor's ode to Prince Charles. This is to be regretted, particularly as he was undoubtedly Seil's greatest poet, and this poem was an especially memorable work.

In the best traditions of thread drift I see we've managed to cover global warming, censorship (or what passes for it), C John Taylor, and trojans (or are they worms?).

Shard wrote:In the best traditions of thread drift I see we've managed to cover global warming, censorship (or what passes for it), C John Taylor, and trojans (or are they worms?).

Yes, but should someone from outside Liverpool be an MP for Liverpool?