MP admits he has a taste for Top Totty after beer row (From Swindon Advertiser)
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MP admits he has a taste for Top Totty after beer row
11:10am Saturday 4th February 2012 in News
A SWINDON MP has blasted a Labour MP whose protest led to the banning of a beer called “Top Totty” from the Parliamentary bar.
North Swindon MP Justin Tomlinson, accused the MP – who argued the name demeans women – of a massive sense of humour failure.
And he tweeted: “Have to say I had a pint of ‘Top Totty’ before #stupidlypoliticallycorrect Labour got it banned from Commons bar – highly recommended!”
The beer was removed after Kate Green, Labour’s equalities spokeswoman, intervened in the Commons to complain it was offensive.
The £2.70-a-pint beer was banned from the Strangers’ Bar – where MPs can take guests – within an hour of Ms Green’s complaint.
She said: “I was disturbed last night to learn that the guest beer in the Strangers’ Bar is called Top Totty, and that there is a picture of a nearly naked woman on the tap.”
Brewed in Stafford, Top Totty boasts a pump plate with a cartoon picture of a bikini-clad bunny girl. It is described as “blonde, full bodied with a voluptuous hop aroma.”
Slater’s Ales, the beer’s family-run brewery in Staffordshire, said the outcry has seen its orders double.
Vicki Slater said: “I just couldn’t believe that in this economic climate, a Labour MP would get excited about the name of a beer.
“But after all this fuss, it sold out. People have phoned from all over Britain asking us to supply their pubs – we’re delivering twice as much Top Totty as we ever have before.”
Comments(86)
MrAngry
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11:42am Sat 4 Feb 12
LordAshOfTheBrake
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11:43am Sat 4 Feb 12
If MP's and their "pals" want a drink afterwards let them go the the pubs that us mere common folk need to go to. That would help the businesses in the area too!
That way they may learn a bit about the common folk and actually understand the people they are meant to represent.
I 2 Could B
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11:45am Sat 4 Feb 12
MrAngry wrote:She's a Labour MP. Since when have they had any interest in running the country properly?
Perhaps if MP's focused on running the country instead of petty politically correct nonsense we wouldn't be in such a mess.
Bobby Bee
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11:46am Sat 4 Feb 12
a. heterosexual
b. liking the finer things in life
Liking "Top Totty" incorporates both features.
MrAngry
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12:00pm Sat 4 Feb 12
Robfm
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1:21pm Sat 4 Feb 12
What a strange comment from Bobby Bee.
faatmaan
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1:56pm Sat 4 Feb 12
Knobfm
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2:53pm Sat 4 Feb 12
Then I realised they were saying
Slop! Grotty!
Michael Bosc
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3:01pm Sat 4 Feb 12
I Too
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3:54pm Sat 4 Feb 12
Robfm wrote:What a terribly antagonistic comment.
No doubt the Portman (Industry Good Taste Police) will ban it now.
What a strange comment from Bobby Bee.
Bobby Bee has never insulted you.
I will add your insulting comment to the list that my solicitor has asked me to compile
Jim Royle
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5:12pm Sat 4 Feb 12
Robfm seems to pick fights and insult everyone on here. Why he acts like this site is his I don't know?
As for our mp's they shouldn't be drinking at work. They should be sorting the mess our country is in
I Too
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5:24pm Sat 4 Feb 12
Jim Royle wrote:I quite agree.
Have to agree I Too.
Robfm seems to pick fights and insult everyone on here. Why he acts like this site is his I don't know?
As for our mp's they shouldn't be drinking at work. They should be sorting the mess our country is in
With antagonism over The Falklands / Argentina, the recession, immigration, terrorism and all number of other problems are they seriously that worried about the name of a beer?
It wouldn't be so bad if it was an insulting name. I have told my wife she looks top totty when she has dressed up for a posh night out. She took it as the compliment it was intended to be.
Bobby Bee
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5:52pm Sat 4 Feb 12
I cannot think why you found my comment strange.
Did you not understand it?
I should have thought it very sensible and straightfoward.
Robfm
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8:32am Sun 5 Feb 12
I Too
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9:26am Sun 5 Feb 12
I Too
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9:29am Sun 5 Feb 12
You understand the words, but you want to pick an argument with someone else.
I'll add your comment to the list
Robfm
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11:18am Sun 5 Feb 12
Jim Royle
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11:34am Sun 5 Feb 12
Robfm wrote:Pot calling the kettle black. Grow up you odious buffoon.
Moron, haven't you got a model aircraft to fly.
Robfm
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11:36am Sun 5 Feb 12
Didn't you do well.
Jim Royle
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11:58am Sun 5 Feb 12
Robfm wrote:Wrong! I have made comment on the article. You ruin this site with your fight picking and abuse.
Note second contribution and neither on thread again Jim. Didn't you do well.
I Too
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1:07pm Sun 5 Feb 12
Robfm wrote:Still denying that I am a pilot? Curious? but thankyou.
Moron, haven't you got a model aircraft to fly.
Still being abusive and insulting?
Thanks Bob.
I'll print this and add it to the list.
You really should seek anger management.
Perhaps that will be a topic later in the week
Still About
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4:04pm Sun 5 Feb 12
It lasted several days without incident
Virtually everyone on it had differing opinions, but everyone debated them nicely.
There was no mud slinging, insults or goading of any form.
It wavered slightly off topic at times, but always stayed rellevant throughout.
That was the Oasis revamp thread
That was the thread where Robfm was absent.
I fail to see why the Adver continues to allow him to urinate on these threads.
Come on Adver. Sort it out
Robfm
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6:31pm Sun 5 Feb 12
Scrumping
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7:48pm Sun 5 Feb 12
Robfm wrote:If Newsquest had any common sense whatsoever they would ban you for good. You have been banned from many many other sites as mods try to keep vermin like you away.
Don't you get it Still About, NewsQuest want the site to be visited regularly, you guys give them that by your continual stalking.
Bobby Bee
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10:30pm Sun 5 Feb 12
I have met the person known as IToo and can vouch for the fact that he/she is definitely a qualified pilot.
I believe pictures of your pub have been taken from the air by this person.
It does seem to be that very few of these posts concerns the case in point; namely the beer known previously as "Top Totty"
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itsamess
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12:43am Mon 6 Feb 12
TopTotty is a slang term for top goods.
Robfm
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7:30am Mon 6 Feb 12
top totty Noun. Very attractive woman, or women.
Are so I Too could be male or female. I think Bobby Bee your would have noticed the difference. After all even he knows he's a he.
Punctured bicycle on a hillside
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8:01am Mon 6 Feb 12
NewsQuest want the site to be visited regularly, you guys give them that by your continual stalking.
I can definitely see there is one stalking troll that causes 95% of the aggro on here and that is without a doubt you Robbo.
Your constant abuse of other posters, accusing everyone of lying (when we all know it makes you feel better about your own despicable lies), taking every thread off topic and picking fights with everyone should have earned you a ban by now.
But then you'd just go ahead and use one of your multitude of other logins like you've done in the past when you've mysteriously "forgotten your passward" - a likely story you pugnacious toad.
Robfm
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8:35am Mon 6 Feb 12
He probably got his definition from that well known Cockney, Del Boy.
Anyway nice post on thread, NOT, Punctured.
itsamess
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10:00am Mon 6 Feb 12
I Too
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10:01am Mon 6 Feb 12
I'm quite happy for Bob to deny that I am a pilot.
He denies it because he wants to make out I'm a moron like he just did.
I mentioned the 7 exams required for a JARFCL pilot license.
He'll later deny calling me names even though it's printed all round these threads
Whilst calling me a moron he also contradictingly credits me with being a company director?
Whilst denying my credit status, he has simultaneously invented trumped up dangerous low flying activity.
Choosing to deny my "wings" he has overlooked that I have been working near Brackley because there is an airfield and a race track.
He's now accusing a company director of the next company that someone has moved on to of commiting a crime of .....?
So let him have his denial.
I did offer him an opportunity to retract his allegations.
I also offered to stop telling the truth if he stops lying.
Robfm
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10:14am Mon 6 Feb 12
Complete garbled nonsense as usual.
'He's now accusing a company director of the next company that someone has moved on to of commiting a crime of .....'
Robfm
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10:16am Mon 6 Feb 12
Male or female totty whose poshness is an essential part of the appeal e.g. well educated; mellifluous voice; charming classy manners; sophisticated conversation; expensive clothes; trendy address, etc
Bobby Bee
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11:45am Mon 6 Feb 12
Company director and qualified pilot (both true).
Bobby Bee
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11:45am Mon 6 Feb 12
Company director and qualified pilot (both true).
I Too
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12:45pm Mon 6 Feb 12
Bob. I was working in Brackley and spoke to a local.
That local has gone on to work elsewhere.
Wherever he went, you have contacted the director of that company and accused him/her of some ficticious crime.
Well done.
I Too
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12:53pm Mon 6 Feb 12
Exchanging funny stories about places to lodge.
Punctured bicycle on a hillside
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1:05pm Mon 6 Feb 12
Robfm wrote:So, the complete antithesis of you then.
Ah well Walter changing the words doesn't change the meaning.
Male or female totty whose poshness is an essential part of the appeal e.g. well educated; mellifluous voice; charming classy manners; sophisticated conversation; expensive clothes; trendy address, etc
itsamess
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1:26pm Mon 6 Feb 12
I Too
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3:13pm Mon 6 Feb 12
After making the schoolboy error of thinking I was working locally.
Trying to bail himself out of falsely accusing a company director of a crime that hasn't happened.
He boasts about solving puzzles, but he didn't use ALL of the pieces.
Wrong company?
Wrong person?
Wrong TOWN!
Wrong COUNTY!
:):):):)
Robfm
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7:30pm Mon 6 Feb 12
I Too
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11:19pm Mon 6 Feb 12
Robfm wrote:Yes, but not as sad as your poor memory.
So sad.
Robfm says...
7:27pm Mon 6 Feb 12
Whoops I Too I never said any of those things you claim.”
I wonder which part he can't remember.
Could it be this?
Robfm says... Robfm says...
10:10am Sun 8 Jan 12
AG, I am reliably informed that a small aircraft was breaching minimum flying heights yesterday afternoon and their number was taken.
I understand the CAA will be notified Monday. Of course I have no idea who that was.”
(that would be Monday 9th January)
Or this bit?
Any way as the guy who told me has calibrated high powered binoculars of the military type which calculate height and distance, I guess his report will be rejected. Nothing to worry about I Too.”
OR THIS BIT ON HARD COPY because he was counting on it being lost when The Adver wiped the comments off?
Robfm says... Robfm says...
7:28pm Sun 8 Jan 12
I Too look forward to the photo's. by the way if you were flying below 500 feet as I have been told, then you of course are in serious trouble. have a nice day"
Robfm says... Robfm says...
8:25am Mon Jan12
One last thing I Too as you stated you took aerial shots with your own camera why can,t you put those on flicker. Simples"
Robfm says
8:49pm Mon 9 Jan 12
Binoculars of a military type calculate distance, height, elevation etc. That's how they shoot down planes from the ground.
Deny that I Too"
.................
and so it goes on AND he thinks I'm landing at Redlands in the middle of it all.
**He's not too good at airfields**
or perhaps it's the business?director claims he can't remember
Robfm says... Robfm says...
1:12pm Tue 31 Jan 12
Absolute 100% true. You will however know very soon giving out too much information can be bad for your pocket.
I now know the name of the guest you allude to, it was simply originally he was booked by the agents, your company use, he indeed checked in and paid.
Given your attempts to damage my business directly I have contacted said company.
It could well be you are a Director of said company, either way your actions were unacceptable.
We reap what we sow in life I Too.”
Robfm says...
11:21am Sun 5 Feb 12
Wow I guess your firm were over the moon with you clearly banning you from posting in working hours.
Your F1 customers would probably take a dim view of being associated with a company one of whoms Directors behaved on here the way you do.
Robfm says...
11:50am Sun 5 Feb 12
As much as your posts ever have to do with the threads, merely responding to the childish posts directed at me.
I now note he is conspiring to commit crime on another thread.”
Robfm says...
6:29pm Sun 5 Feb 12
I Too only one conceivable way you could have known the information you did a few threads back and that was being connected with said company and you offered the final proof without any reference to anything I said, when you boasted about your main job.
That and the information from the Agency who supplied Dan, simply completed the puzzle.
I can't can't claim any credit. You did all the work yourself.”
**If only he'd remembered what I said to Itsamess about the airfield and a race track.** (see above note) how embarrasing
We're all placing bets up here now to see how long it takes him to track us down
(he'll get a great reception now that he's shown what a nasty troublemaker he is)
Again, I so hope he used his real name and address when he bothered the other company.
Can't imagine they'll book up with him anymore either.
I'll be back in Swindon in a 2-3 weeks. might go out on a jolly to celebrate.
Robfm says... Robfm says...
10:10am Sun 8 Jan 12
AG, I am reliably informed that a small aircraft was breaching minimum flying heights yesterday afternoon and their number was taken.
I understand the CAA will be notified Monday. Of course I have no idea who that was.”
(that would be Monday 9th January)
Robfm says...
7:27pm Mon 6 Feb 12
Whoops I Too I never said any of those things you claim.”
I Too
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11:57pm Mon 6 Feb 12
9:02pm Mon 30 Jan 12
itsamess wrote:
Used to be a good bikers club in Brackley I Too.
Yes. Amazing coincidence.
There's also Turweston Airfield.
Silverstone is also on the doorstep.
Did I mentioned that my main occupation is........ Etc
itsamess
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12:21am Tue 7 Feb 12
We all know he is incapable of the truth.
He tried to become an MP
He tried to become a councillor for SBC.
He thinks he knows what swindon needs.
Most of all he is the most qualified in every field teacher of law-teacher of children-mathematici
an-medical qualifications--elec
trician-designer-pha
rmacist--psychiatris
t -failed copper--that is just a few of his skills.
Main skill--lazy barman/liar.
Robfm
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9:17am Tue 7 Feb 12
Walter still the fantasist Scientist I see, inventing stories
itsamess
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10:16am Tue 7 Feb 12
itsamess
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10:20am Tue 7 Feb 12
Robfm
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10:41am Tue 7 Feb 12
itsamess
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3:51pm Tue 7 Feb 12
I Too
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11:52pm Wed 8 Feb 12
for all your posturing and vindictive efforts, there is still an almighty twist in this little charade.
You might want to quit playing bully boy, victim, bully boy, victim, and think about who has said what for a little while.
In the meantime, I couldn't care less where you think I am
Robfm
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8:41am Thu 9 Feb 12
Isn't it exciting, NOT.
Punctured bicycle on a hillside
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9:30pm Thu 9 Feb 12
Oh wait.. you already tried that.
I Too
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10:42pm Thu 9 Feb 12
Robfm wrote:You should try not "sampling the wares" before posting. Or at least read what you have written, before hitting the submit button
Ah the 'I couldn't care' position, more and more like Walter every day, so another threat of some sort of action.
Isn't it exciting, NOT.
I Too
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10:55pm Thu 9 Feb 12
Punctured bicycle on a hillside wrote:Tried many times only to trip up in spectacular fashion.
Robbo, have you ever thought of avoiding the much deserved flack you get on here by creating a completely different username so nobody recognises you.
Oh wait.. you already tried that.
Which one is your favourite?
For me, it was Bobs "Keep it Real" persona.
He made out his spelling was worse than usual, insulted everyone for no reason (even people not involved in his feuds). He wrote "thnacks" quite a lot.
Then he forgot which character he was playing and suddenly answered, mid converse, as himself, using the "Keep It Real" login without the deliberate spelling mistakes etc
Far more amusing than anything on the telly.
Robfm
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6:58am Fri 10 Feb 12
The next I am cunning and devious enough to deliberately make mistakes. Do you know how stupid you sound.
I Too
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8:38am Fri 10 Feb 12
It made YOU look very stupid.
You are cunning at all the wrong things. Like telling lies, causing arguments, causing trouble etc.
If you were cunning at business you would spend less time on here and would not have an empty car park.
Still,thanks to your latest tricks, I am now unemployed, so I'll be able to keep an eye on you for a while.
Robfm
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8:47am Fri 10 Feb 12
Perhaps if what you say is true you should look to yourself not seek to offload blame.
Punctured bicycle on a hillside
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10:55pm Fri 10 Feb 12
At least you've cleared that one up Robbo.
Robfm
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9:26am Sat 11 Feb 12
If someone is sacked as opposed to being made redundant, it is like as not their own fault.
Those made redundant when pubs lost up to 50% of the trade were victims of the smoking ban, so not their own fault.
Punctured bicycle on a hillside
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10:01am Sat 11 Feb 12
If someone is sacked as opposed to being made redundant, it is like as not their own fault.
Perhaps you're right, sounds like it was your fault.
Robfm
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10:08am Sat 11 Feb 12
Punctured bicycle on a hillside
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10:15am Sat 11 Feb 12
You failed.
I Too
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6:47pm Sat 11 Feb 12
10:08am Sat 11 Feb 12
" I did my best to pursued my industry to fight,..."
More gobbledy gook from The Bored Barman
Robfm
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6:50pm Sat 11 Feb 12
I Too
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11:19pm Sat 11 Feb 12
Robfm wrote:By "earlier" you meant 5 minutes earlier, whilst I was waiting for my beautiful wife to finish getting ready.
Strange in an earlier comment you stated you were off out, or is there more of you.
That does not alter the fact that your statement is gobbledygoop.
Ironically, as I write this, my beautiful wife is now driving us home early after we have been listening the worst band we have ever seen.
Ironic because, bad as it was, it was still a far more exciting and sociable evening than you could ever imagine in your sad little laptop world
Robfm
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9:13am Sun 12 Feb 12
Your continual inane comments will not help in your search for a job, as you have stated the market place your are in is close knit, do you believe that being 'sacked' by a market leader actually helps you.
All entirely of your own making.
I Too
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10:11am Sun 12 Feb 12
In your saddo laptop world you have no idea why your comment is so hilarious.
Love to stay and chat, but I have real people to meet in the outside world
Robfm
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10:24am Sun 12 Feb 12
Most people in the real world will find your actions despicable, and would not trust you not to expose their businesses to potential ridicule or harm, clearly a view your employer took.
You reaped what you sowed.
By the way I don't have a laptop, hence I only post from my office.
I have no need or desire to surf the net when out. I get important SMS messages sent to my 10 year old Nokia. It works for me.
I've never viewed business tools as fashion accessories.
Just another number
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11:22am Sun 12 Feb 12
Trolling is his hobby -- making people angry by posting inflammatory comments, then taunting them until he can figure out who they are, once he knows you he will do everything he can do destroy your life.
Time to stop feeding the troll.
Punctured bicycle on a hillside
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12:58pm Sun 12 Feb 12
Robfm
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9:05pm Sun 12 Feb 12
Punctured bicycle on a hillside
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9:17pm Sun 12 Feb 12
It's about time you came to terms with your NPD and took a good look at yourself for the hideous sontarian troll that others see you as. Coming to terms with this is the only way forward for you Robbo.
Now, there's a couple of skeletons in the corner of your dingy pub that need serving..
Robfm
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7:27am Mon 13 Feb 12
Just another number
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8:11am Mon 13 Feb 12
Don't you have any friends?
Robfm
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8:36am Mon 13 Feb 12
Just another number
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9:10am Mon 13 Feb 12
Do you intend to provide further proof that you are here for no other reason than to taunt other contributors and post nonsense or are you capable of something other than trolling?
Robfm
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9:19am Mon 13 Feb 12
Now please stop pretending your interest is the forum. As I said to Punctured, feel free to ignore me and I will comment on the topic at hand.
Just another number
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11:56am Mon 13 Feb 12
Your sad attempt at trying to 'make a deal' in order to stop is just another failure on your part to accept responsibility for your actions. You act like a troll, you get treated like a troll. And you deserve it.
Robfm
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12:09pm Mon 13 Feb 12
Just another number
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12:23pm Mon 13 Feb 12
Thank you for yet another example of trolling. Do you have anything else to offer?
Robfm
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12:36pm Mon 13 Feb 12
So post to your hearts content here.
Punctured bicycle on a hillside
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9:24pm Mon 13 Feb 12
itsamess
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9:50pm Mon 13 Feb 12
Punctured bicycle on a hillside
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10:08pm Mon 13 Feb 12
Robfm
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7:32am Tue 14 Feb 12
You of course have conveniently forgot of course that other posters too offered the same thing as a solution but of course it doesn't in with your trolling does it Walter.
I 2 Could B says...
11:25am Sat 4 Feb 12
Because, collectively, we all pander to the individual voice of any who claims their poor little feelings are hurt.
Of course the likes of Kate Green will continue to demand things on the basis of her being 'offended', because she knows full well it's an easy route to getting her own way and making others do what she wants them to do.
Pathetic. The Commons Leader, Sir George Young, should have told her the ale was staying... and that if she didn't like it, don't go into the bar.