I think you're daft but it's your money..

Ah, very good, Trashcan!

you should play lotto hot picks. I won £450 on pick 3 last year!

I think if anyone is mentally unstable it is the majority of members of this forum.

What gives you right to judge someone you don't know.

Don't judge this person by your own standards.

Obviously you begrudge anyone donating money to a worthwhile cause.

If someone wants to pay ex amount of money for whatever, it is up to them.

You all make me so sick on this forum, you all think you are so clever, but you are not you are actually all quite sad and living in your own very boring world.

Good luck to the persn who donated the money to Comic Relief at least he/she can be proud that the money will be put to a very good cause.

Tinkle, if you hate everyone on this forum you know where the door is.
By your tone I'm guessing that it was you who bought the tapes. This was a light-hearted thread which has been spoiled by miseries like you

Theres a lot of evildoers on this forum Tinkle..

no there isn't.......everyone on this forum is great.....it's only opinions at the end of the day.....

But I've seen it with my own eyes

I find your comment insulting. You accuse almost everyone on this forum to be mentally unstable.
Then go on to say, what right do we have to judge anyone.
So it's ok for you to judge others ?
Seems a bit hypocritical to me.
If I went on to some forum & found the members annoying me so much, I wouldn't participate.

Sorry to disappoint you, but it wasn't me.

This thread was far from light-hearted, so how can you spoil something that wasn't good in the first place.

Anybody can post on this site even miseries like me and when I want to walk through the door I will.

Your response has proved my point, sad and pathetic.

by the way Scots rool, insulting comment it may be but true all the same.

fair enough, I'm just off to read the book that you wrote entitled "How to win friends and influence people"...... I would suggest that you look at the title of the thread. It doesn't say anything about having a go at anyone who donates money to charity. That's the problem when you ASSUME-you make an ASS out of U and ME!!......

If you think your an Ass then so be it. The fact is maybe it doesn't say that in the title, but that is exactly what was happening and totally uncalled for. This person donated money to a very worthy cause, yet was chosen to be ridiculed.

Why would I want to be friends or influence people who have very shallow opinions.

If you haven't read the book then you should, you and your forum friends might learn something.

Tinkle. I think the fact you said 'all people' on this forum in your post has pissed off some. while I agree there are some who just seem to delight in ripping BB hm's and their supporters to shreds, most people dont.

whoosh, what's that, oh that's the sound of my remark going right over your head.......

Don't flatter yourself, I knew exactly what you meant.

I apologise for using the phrase "all people on this forum" Obviously the people concerned know who they are.

My apology to you and other BB fans.

Tinkle

No you don't. Read the first post again. It states that I can't believe that someone's paid over £200 for 12 VHS tapes. It doesn't slag off the person involved and it doesn't slag off anyone who donates money to charity,
You've decided to interpret it completely the wrong way in order to provoke an argument-pretty arrogant behaviour in my opinion and then you proceed to criticise everyone on the forum. You know you're in the wrong, hence the backtracking on your last post......

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I think the following post proves my point and can only be interpreted in one way.

Original quote 28.2.05 at 2O:00

"However, I still think that spending £1350 on a couple of T-shirts and some video tapes is a ridiculous waste of money and, yes, "daft". Neither do I believe that charity was anywhere near the forefront of her thoughts: she wanted that BB trivia and felt it was worth the money — which, if anything, is a bit sad."

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Is it arrogant to say something in defense of someone who you think is being unjustifiably criticised for their actions.

the bottom line is this person donated a lot of money to charity, for which he/she was criticised by certain members of this forum and if you think it is right to criticize and I am in the wrong for defending this person then so be it, but what a sad world we live in.

The reason I apologised to metafis is because he/she wasn't the one of the people who made the comments in the first place. No way do I think I am in the wrong and certainly I am not back tracking.

Tinkle, I never wrote the piece that you're referring to. I'm referring to the title of the thread and the first post. Don't ever assume that you can read people's minds. The thread started off in a jokey way and you've dragged it down to your miserable level.
I'd looking forward to reading some of the threads that you're going to come up with. What a joy to behold that will be!....
Last edited by cheeks : 05-03-2005 at 06:59

Tinkle, since you've quoted my post, I'll reply to you, though I had intended to abandon this thread.

You emphasise the point that "this person donated a lot of money to charity". That's certainly true, and positive feedback for the two transactions has been posted on eBay by the seller, red.nose.day.

However, the buyer in question has been on eBay only since January. In that time she has bid on five items, all of them BB related. Only two of them (the T-shirts) were charitable sales. She paid large sums for the T-shirts but she also paid a large sum (£265) for the video tapes that cheeks referred to at the start of this thread and, as I said in an earlier post, that was simply a straightforward commercial transaction.

That is why I said that I did not believe that "charity was anywhere near the forefront of her thoughts". It is my suspicion (and yes, merely my suspicion) that had the T-shirts not been a charitable sale, the buyer would have been just as happy to pay large sums for them. You seem to be focussing only on the two charitable sales and disregarding the others that were simply commercial.

Frankly, I think that your heavy emphasis on the buyer's charitable instincts is a red herring. Judging by her bidding history, I feel that her main motive was to acquire BB-related items. Now of course I can't be sure of that; equally, though, there's no way that you can be sure that the buyer's motives were mainly charitable. However, I'd suggest that the evidence of her bidding history does not support your view.

the only point I was trying to make with this thread is that if I get myself organised I could offer a better package than 12 VHS tapes of live footage. If that's the sort of money you can make I might well pursue it....

just seen that another bloke has made £490 from selling 29 tapes. He's just put another 11 tapes up for auction if you fancy handing him your cash!