Well finally I have joined that not-so-exclusive club of B&B rejects. I made a commented about the New Forest thread, got the thread locked and when I checked just now I am still called Pig Cat but with what appears to be no privileges whatsoever. It's actually come as kind of a relief because so many others here got nabbed while I was feeling like a bit of a goody-goody. Might have been more satisfying if I'd received an offensive PM with a kind of mock-Mafia tone to it though.
Finally rejected by B&B!
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So I read this thread:
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and Jim's comments.
Whaat?! It's the usual brush discussion, nothing ad hominum or controversial and yet Jim's had complaints? From whom? Why?
Am I missing something here?
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and Jim's comments.
Whaat?! It's the usual brush discussion, nothing ad hominum or controversial and yet Jim's had complaints? From whom? Why?
Am I missing something here?
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Rev-O said:
That Jim, his face looks familiar, he's the double of Roger Thornhill.
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i suppose a few 1984 digs at them, regards re-writing history would be completely missed :roll:
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I can't find you in the members list now PC. You must have written something very very bad indeed.
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I have read that thread a few times and only "ungentenmaly" remarks i seen were from mods, so go on tell us what you said.
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pedro083 said:
It was actually this thread:
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I was either smarmy or snarky or both.
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cur·mudg·eon   /kərˈmʌdʒən/ Show Spelled[ker-muhj-uhn] Show IPA
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a bad-tempered, difficult, cantankerous person
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a bad-tempered, difficult, cantankerous person
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antdad said:
Yes, that's true. Can't say I'm too worried. I notice that the account still remains but is in a shoddy state. I wonder if this is how they keep their large membership total. What they don't say is that half of them have been effectively banned!
Anyway, maybe we should leave this matter now. They get far too much attention here as it is.
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Once again, I think PigCat talks a lot of sense.Pig Cat said:
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Somewhat reluctantly I may as well have my final say about B&B.
The furore over my brush on B&B borders on farcical. I neither "shilled" nor asked anyone to express opinions about my brush. Long ago I had reregistered as Dr Jekyll after my Fido ban, pensioned him off and replaced him with Doddery. They threw in an innocuous "must get one, that looks good" remark about the 2201 that was a bit like filling the sea with a bucket of water compared with the overwhelming enthusiasm expressed by others. None of which I solicited. A guy who has over three hundred brushes claimed it was the best bang for buck on the market. Rudy Vey compared it to a Rooney Finest. Hardly surprising that others bought it and expressed enthusiasm!
I was accused of shilling - paying others to make representation on one's behalf. Utterly false and without foundation. I received a message from B&B which I replied to in a restrained and conciliatory manner.
Then today, I received another message which contained the following:
"I strongly encourage you to take whatever steps necessary to discourage others from hyping your products here"
Since I didn't encourage anyone in the first place I find this a little difficult to make sense of.
Also, "If we continue to see a pattern of otherwise inactive and/or previously banned members hyping your brushes, you run the very real risk of having all present and future references to your business filtered from Badger and Blade"
I'm too much of an English gentleman to say what I really think about this nonsense. It's bizarre.
The furore over my brush on B&B borders on farcical. I neither "shilled" nor asked anyone to express opinions about my brush. Long ago I had reregistered as Dr Jekyll after my Fido ban, pensioned him off and replaced him with Doddery. They threw in an innocuous "must get one, that looks good" remark about the 2201 that was a bit like filling the sea with a bucket of water compared with the overwhelming enthusiasm expressed by others. None of which I solicited. A guy who has over three hundred brushes claimed it was the best bang for buck on the market. Rudy Vey compared it to a Rooney Finest. Hardly surprising that others bought it and expressed enthusiasm!
I was accused of shilling - paying others to make representation on one's behalf. Utterly false and without foundation. I received a message from B&B which I replied to in a restrained and conciliatory manner.
Then today, I received another message which contained the following:
"I strongly encourage you to take whatever steps necessary to discourage others from hyping your products here"
Since I didn't encourage anyone in the first place I find this a little difficult to make sense of.
Also, "If we continue to see a pattern of otherwise inactive and/or previously banned members hyping your brushes, you run the very real risk of having all present and future references to your business filtered from Badger and Blade"
I'm too much of an English gentleman to say what I really think about this nonsense. It's bizarre.