An open letter to Alan Fry

[orudge]

Alan, while I appreciate the extra page views and hence advertising revenue you are bringing to the forum, your endless topics are also eating up bandwidth that could probably better be used on pictures of cute kittens. A high speed line to Orkney is a nice, if impractical, fantasy. But that is all it is. Fantasy.

If you would like to have a topic to talk about all your fantasy stuff, start a new topic and call it "Alan Fry's Fantasy World". You may post in there to your heart's content. Otherwise, I will give you an official warning now for each and every post you make in an "on-topic" topic that involves one of your fantasy schemes, 250mph physics-defying trains, tax evasion, or any of the umpteen other things that have been mentioned. Remember, three warnings will result in you being banned for two weeks - and you already have two. If you come back again after that and get a third warning, you'll be banned permanently.

Take this as a friendly prod, and please do respect it. You are free to post your schemes in your own topic, and I'm sure the rest of us here will enjoy debating them with you. But please stop derailing other topics; it's annoying our regular members who have been here for many years and who actually have some common sense on how things work.

To everybody else: I have locked the main topics that have been derailed by Mr Fry. If you wish to continue discussing the actual original subjects, then please feel free to start new topics. I perhaps should have done this sooner, but I figured they'd eventually run out of steam. It would seem I was wrong!

Feel free to post any questions, debate, criticism, and so on, in relation to these actions here.

[Geo Ghost]

but I figured they'd eventually run out of steam. It would seem I was wrong!

I think we were all expecting that. I'm, in some ways, rather impressed they've all lasted so long. Luckily it seems we managed to whittle down the topics to just 1 for rail.I have been enjoying the debating but I think today things are a bit... well, things are beyond ridiculous now with some of the super-accelerating/decelerating trains today.

Whilst in some ways I don't agree with the sudden locking, I do understand and fully respect the reasons for doing so and that it's in the best interest of the members here.
it has been quite fun though, I must admit. At least now I won't be looking at 20 new pages when checking things from Norway

[Dave]

I agree with the lockings because these topics weren't going anywhere - but as a person that kept biting the bait that was dangled I suppose I'm just as much to blame as anyone else haha.

I've restarted the franchise thread anyway - important re-franchising going on!

[orudge]

Would you mind if I talked about my plan for HS2 (which is not a fantasy, though the trains are very hard to do) on a seperate topic?

You are quite welcome to do that.

[Chris]

Well the only reason I was so persistent was because it was an outlet from revision .

I guessed that this would happen, though I am surprised it took so long!

[GurraJG]

Well the only reason I was so persistent was because it was an outlet from revision .

Guess you'll have to go back to revision then!

[Nawdic]

And you've derailed one of my topics. GO F YOURSELF MR FRY!!

On an On topic note, I never really realised that bandwidth was being exceeded multiple times...

[Geo Ghost]

And you've derailed one of my topics.

Derail is too light.

I think this is a better description of what has happened to the subject in topics.




Hopefully though, we'll be able to have some decent and slightly more calmer discussions again though. As funny as I did find things, it has gotten to the point where things are impossible to follow now.
Seem's I'll have to do something else with my time now

[orudge]

On an On topic note, I never really realised that bandwidth was being exceeded multiple times...

Eh, I wasn't being overly serious with the bandwidth thing - we have plenty of bandwidth. We have used about 20GB more a month for the past couple of months than the same time last year, though, but that's not a problem.

[Chris]

Well the only reason I was so persistent was because it was an outlet from revision .

Guess you'll have to go back to revision then!

Oh well, only one more exam left now anyway .

[Ameecher]

I'll donate some money to the fund, Owen

[orudge]

Very kind of you, sir, I can confirm receipt of your donation. Cheers.

[Geo Ghost]

Wait, I'm suspicious. Did Ameecher pay for this to happen? Conspiracy I say!

[Ameecher]

Wait, I'm suspicious. Did Ameecher paid for this to happen? Conspiracy I say!

Payment on delivery. He delivered, I paid.*

*Whilst this is the course of events, they were not pre-determined.

[Redirect Left]

Surprised those topics lasted as long as they did, being fair

[Pilot]

How hasn't he got his 1,000th Post yet?

[buckethead]

Eh, I wasn't being overly serious with the bandwidth thing - we have plenty of bandwidth. We have used about 20GB more a month for the past couple of months than the same time last year, though, but that's not a problem.

The SROTU has lied!!! This calls for a REVOLUTION!!

[Kevo00]

The fact that a railway manager based in London cannot spell commuter correctly may tell us all we need to know about the state of the railway today.

[EXTspotter]

Maybe he thinks that all that all these passengers are ugly, forming the compund word Communter - a combination of Commuter and Munter. It seems the most logical explanation.

[Ameecher]

I wonder what he makes of tonight's top news story!

And bets on how long until Cameron is bitten by speaking out on it?