I find that very hard to believe given that you threatened legal action to someone on a forum in a hissy fit. You've since claimed more than once that it wasn't supposed to be taken seriously, but you're forgetting that you actually did it twice, the first time in a DM that you copied me into in the mistaken belief that I would a) give a fuck, and b) give you @ChasHarps real identity so that you could pursue your funny little vendetta.
I'm sure you know their full situation as to why they might not be working. People who I know who have had finger-wagging accusations like that for not having been able to work thrown at them from people who have no idea what personal hell they've been through.
One of many confusing elements to this, is why the person thought he could bully a forum owner into revealing the identify and address of an anonymous poster.
You might know Chas personally but there's every chance you don't. Let alone having an address etc.
Can someone tell me what the definition of Spart is as used here? I’ve just had a google and what urban dictionary has offered me is surely not what was intended?!
I originally started this thread to inform people about a Government consultation on private parking matters, which people can choose to read or not, and to respond to the Consultation or not, as they choose.
It appears to have descended into a discussion on my record as a former landlord, and / or comments on my political views, none of which are in any way accurate., or relevant.
I stand by everything I have said in this thread, and if our esteemed forum creator and moderator @drcongo 'doesn't give a fuck' about members posting vitriolic content which goes far beyond acceptable banter, so be it.
I haven't said anything about threats of legal action in this thread, it was you who brought that up.
I did want to try and get the email address of the poster in question, to send him a formal notice to cease and desist making unjustified personal slurs such as 'slum landlord', the exact opposite of what I was, and 'vermin', a totally unacceptable insult.
But taking someone to the High Court for a defamation case is prohibitively expensive, with no guarantee of the outcome, as in Colleen Rooney v Rebecca Vardy. That was never going to happen.
There was a 24 hour deadline in the DM for Chas to remove his post, with an assertion that you "will" commence legal proceedings, and you even gave a monetary sum that you would be seeking. But you weren't serious?
I had blocked bargee, but his posts come up when he is quoted. I feel a bit sorry for him now as I thought he was some sort of sneering high flyer, but reading about his low-life neighbour whose lifestyle leaves much to be desired, it is clear he obviously lives in a rough area not suitable for an upwardly mobile wealth creator. Sell a few properties and get yourself out of that hellhole.
Indeed. But as anyone who works in the legal sector will confirm, the threat of action will often produce the desired result, even though there is no real intention to carry out the threatened action.
Many of my clients have received letters from solicitors threatening hell and damnation, fire and brimstone, and plagues of locusts if they don't pay a sum of money, but when it comes down to it, these are mainly bluff and bluster.
Forgive me but isn’t the Gasroom a forum about football and Wanderers football matters specifically? Or have I missed something?
Unless posts pertain to our Loakes Park like slope parking at AP (or at a pinch on the industrial estate) then wouldn’t it be best if this thread went and wasted someone else’s time elsewhere?
I make it a policy never to block anyone, however idiotic their posts might be. If you can't see the original post, you can't follow the discussion.
I do not live in a rough area, we have lived in this very nice road on the east side of town for 27 years now, and have upgraded the property with all mod cons. I do not own any other properties.
The issue with the neighbour is that his parents own his house, and another house in the same road. They let him live there rent free, and he takes advantage of that.
Thank God for that. And now I know both who Dave Spart is and the details of a ‘sex act’ I had not come across before. Every day is a school day on the Gasroom.
@bargepole Please reread what you have said and reflect on it.
You are basically saying that your threats were ‘only’ bluff and bluster. But you say this is typical of what your clients receive before coming to you for help after feeling threatened and presumably scared and stressed.
What a nasty and horrible world you inhabit if you think it is acceptable to bully and scare people in this way.
Personally I would have no hesitation in describing someone who resorted to that behaviour as “scum.”
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I find that very hard to believe given that you threatened legal action to someone on a forum in a hissy fit. You've since claimed more than once that it wasn't supposed to be taken seriously, but you're forgetting that you actually did it twice, the first time in a DM that you copied me into in the mistaken belief that I would a) give a fuck, and b) give you @ChasHarps real identity so that you could pursue your funny little vendetta.
I'm sure you know their full situation as to why they might not be working. People who I know who have had finger-wagging accusations like that for not having been able to work thrown at them from people who have no idea what personal hell they've been through.
One of many confusing elements to this, is why the person thought he could bully a forum owner into revealing the identify and address of an anonymous poster.
You might know Chas personally but there's every chance you don't. Let alone having an address etc.
Can you use Dr C's official title please: Guardian of the Gasroom.
Is that due to my spilling errers?
Can someone tell me what the definition of Spart is as used here? I’ve just had a google and what urban dictionary has offered me is surely not what was intended?!
You need to keep up with the trends in popular culture to understand the Gasroom.
(Apparently it’s some kind of Private Eye trade unionist caricature from the 70s.)
@Manboobs Dave Spart is/was a leftie character regularly used in Private Eye to denote over-zealous socialists.
People who don't like being called Nazis as it is a lazy characterisation, use it a lot.
I originally started this thread to inform people about a Government consultation on private parking matters, which people can choose to read or not, and to respond to the Consultation or not, as they choose.
It appears to have descended into a discussion on my record as a former landlord, and / or comments on my political views, none of which are in any way accurate., or relevant.
I stand by everything I have said in this thread, and if our esteemed forum creator and moderator @drcongo 'doesn't give a fuck' about members posting vitriolic content which goes far beyond acceptable banter, so be it.
Wait, so your legal action threats were supposed to be taken seriously then? Make your mind up.
I haven't said anything about threats of legal action in this thread, it was you who brought that up.
I did want to try and get the email address of the poster in question, to send him a formal notice to cease and desist making unjustified personal slurs such as 'slum landlord', the exact opposite of what I was, and 'vermin', a totally unacceptable insult.
But taking someone to the High Court for a defamation case is prohibitively expensive, with no guarantee of the outcome, as in Colleen Rooney v Rebecca Vardy. That was never going to happen.
So just to be clear, you weren't joking?
His house. His rules.
There was a 24 hour deadline in the DM for Chas to remove his post, with an assertion that you "will" commence legal proceedings, and you even gave a monetary sum that you would be seeking. But you weren't serious?
I had blocked bargee, but his posts come up when he is quoted. I feel a bit sorry for him now as I thought he was some sort of sneering high flyer, but reading about his low-life neighbour whose lifestyle leaves much to be desired, it is clear he obviously lives in a rough area not suitable for an upwardly mobile wealth creator. Sell a few properties and get yourself out of that hellhole.
Indeed. But as anyone who works in the legal sector will confirm, the threat of action will often produce the desired result, even though there is no real intention to carry out the threatened action.
Many of my clients have received letters from solicitors threatening hell and damnation, fire and brimstone, and plagues of locusts if they don't pay a sum of money, but when it comes down to it, these are mainly bluff and bluster.
Forgive me but isn’t the Gasroom a forum about football and Wanderers football matters specifically? Or have I missed something?
Unless posts pertain to our Loakes Park like slope parking at AP (or at a pinch on the industrial estate) then wouldn’t it be best if this thread went and wasted someone else’s time elsewhere?
This thread was posted in the 'Not Football' section. Therefore, by definition, it was not about football in general, or WWFC in particular,
That 'off topic' section includes threads about cricket, rugby, music, railway ticket office closures, political stuff etc.
Anyone know how I block the ‘not football’ section?
I make it a policy never to block anyone, however idiotic their posts might be. If you can't see the original post, you can't follow the discussion.
I do not live in a rough area, we have lived in this very nice road on the east side of town for 27 years now, and have upgraded the property with all mod cons. I do not own any other properties.
The issue with the neighbour is that his parents own his house, and another house in the same road. They let him live there rent free, and he takes advantage of that.
Thank God for that. And now I know both who Dave Spart is and the details of a ‘sex act’ I had not come across before. Every day is a school day on the Gasroom.
@bargepole how does anyone take legal action against a username?
How could you have possibly been defamed or slandered by someone posting comments about your username - none of us know who you are?
This was always the bit I struggled with most.
Pathetic really and as a result we have lost a valued contributor.
@bargepole Please reread what you have said and reflect on it.
You are basically saying that your threats were ‘only’ bluff and bluster. But you say this is typical of what your clients receive before coming to you for help after feeling threatened and presumably scared and stressed.
What a nasty and horrible world you inhabit if you think it is acceptable to bully and scare people in this way.
Personally I would have no hesitation in describing someone who resorted to that behaviour as “scum.”
I fail to see how a subjective term such as 'scum', however unpleasant, can be ruled slander?
Since @bargepole has been very clear about his location on match days, I'd say he has identified himself and isn't hiding behind a username.
Not sure I agree that any of the terms used against him are necessarily libelous, more a bit like calling the ref a w**ker really.
It's libel as it is written not spoken. And it's also a load of bollocks.
Always knew my O Level law would come in useful one day.
I think its all covered by the 1844 sticks and stones bill brought in by the Whig government after Gladstone called Disraeli a cockwomble .
Oh and I make it a policy never to threaten fellow gasroomers with anything worse than me making a particularly nasty flounce from the forum.
You have been warned…….
You can’t block it, but you can avoid the category by choosing from this menu.
In general, I guess most of us are viewing ‘all categories’.