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Remember the very odd Mancunian?

orraloonorraloon Posts: 7,539
edited September 2016 in The cake stop
The fella is still at it. Manc33 in full flow. Same old same old, and getting the same reactions.

Came across while browsing in another place.

http://forum.cyclinguk.org/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=105564

If you are nostalgic for the days you could wander into the strange world(s) of the Mancman, here you go. No need to thank me.
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  • slowmartslowmart Posts: 4,039
    Just goes to show you can't rationalise the irrational.
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  • ddraverddraver Posts: 21,133
    I really don't know why I find is ilk so fascinating...
    We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
    - @ddraver
  • Stevo_666Stevo_666 Posts: 44,009
    They seemed to have got bored with him eventually as the thread petered out about 5 weeks back. Same censored , different forum.
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  • kingstongrahamkingstongraham Posts: 13,846
    I'm amazed that anyone has the time to argue against someone who asserts that rockets can't move themselves in space. And that gravity isn't real.
  • verylonglegsverylonglegs Posts: 3,500
    I thought he was good value on here as he was bonkers in an amusing kind of way.
  • orraloonorraloon Posts: 7,539
    verylonglegs wrote:
    I thought he was good value on here as he was bonkers in an amusing kind of way.
    I forget why he got hit with the ban stick. He was / is a wind up merchant, but agree he brought in entertainment value.
  • ddraverddraver Posts: 21,133
    It was constant diversion of threads in other sections IIRC.

    It's ok to talk nonsense in here but when every thread in Road General becomes a discussion on Powerlink conspiracy you re not helping yourself...
    We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
    - @ddraver
  • capt_slogcapt_slog Posts: 3,443
    He was a prat.

    Not amusing, just a prat.


    The older I get, the better I was.

  • Stevo_666Stevo_666 Posts: 44,009
    ddraver wrote:
    It was constant diversion of threads in other sections IIRC.

    It's ok to talk nonsense in here but when every thread in Road General becomes a discussion on Powerlink conspiracy you re not helping yourself...
    Those didn't help but it was the conspiracy theory thread that was his undoing.

    His sheer persistence at pushing the same bollox over and over again tested the patience of one of the more authoritarian mods at the time. He got a temporary ban and a final warning that if he did 'one more post like that' then he was going to get a permanent whack with the ban hammer.

    Guess what, he came back after his temporary ban and made several more posts like that :)
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  • Ben6899Ben6899 Posts: 8,172
    Over on cyclinguk, he seems to be implying that we're being lied to about gravity and satellites.

    He's bonkers.
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  • Stevo_666Stevo_666 Posts: 44,009
    Ben6899 wrote:
    Over on cyclinguk, he seems to be implying that we're being lied to about gravity and satellites.

    He's bonkers.
    That sort of stuff is straight off of the flat earth forums. If you want to see fruitcakes en masse, have a dip in here:
    https://forum.tfes.org
    Or here:
    https://www.theflatearthsociety.org/forum/
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  • Ben6899Ben6899 Posts: 8,172
    Oh I've had a butcher's there, before. Madness. And these people are allowed to vote and raise children.
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  • sungodsungod Posts: 13,210
    Capt Slog wrote:
    He was a prat.

    Not amusing, just a prat.

    this
    my bike - faster than god's and twice as shiny
  • pinnopinno Posts: 40,208
    That flat earth site has some very interesting articles. It's only a handful of ignoramus who actually go there believing in it.

    http://forum.tfes.org/index.php?topic=5 ... #msg102411

    Nice sig: "If ignorance is bliss, you should all be delirious".

    https://forum.tfes.org/index.php?topic=5225.0
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  • jawoogajawooga Posts: 530
    Don't know how I followed this click-bate, but thought this Independent page was hilarious.

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/03 ... -theories/

    I got as far as #22/29:
    some censored jobbing journo wrote:
    22. The Philadelphia Experiment - Popularised by the Charles Berlitz novel of the same name, conspiracy theorists believe that during an experiment at the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard in October 1943, the US Navy destroyer Eldridge was rendered invisible. According to some accounts, the scientists on the experiment found a way to bend light around an object but that the experiment went wrong and Eldridge was transported through space and time, reappearing at sea. Several sailors, it is said, were badly hurt when the experiment went wrong and some were melded into the ship's superstructure. The US Navy has denied that the experiment ever took place.

    I particularly like that
    ...the US military replied and wrote:
    The US Navy has denied that the experiment ever took place
  • briantrumpetbriantrumpet Posts: 6,005
    What was much more amusing than his posts was the way so many apparently sane and rational posters got sucked in, thinking they could win the argument through logic...
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  • surrey_commutersurrey_commuter Posts: 12,677
    Whilst I don''t understand his motives you have to admire his skill and patience.
  • pinnopinno Posts: 40,208
    When you have totally convinced yourself that what you believe is true, then you can proceed with a blind conviction. You can source material from the brothers of scepticism in reams.

    One day (and there is a small part of me that hopes it will never happen simply because it may be cataclysmic) he'll be sitting under a metaphorical apple tree and an apple will fall on his head. Then, he'll suddenly see the light.
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  • pinnopinno Posts: 40,208
    The above maybe pure bollox.
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  • pblakeneypblakeney Posts: 14,183
    pinno wrote:
    The above maybe pure bollox.
    And the below.
    The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
    I am not sure. You have no chance.
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    PB is the most sensible person on here.
  • surrey_commutersurrey_commuter Posts: 12,677
    pinno wrote:
    When you have totally convinced yourself that what you believe is true, then you can proceed with a blind conviction. You can source material from the brothers of scepticism in reams.

    One day (and there is a small part of me that hopes it will never happen simply because it may be cataclysmic) he'll be sitting under a metaphorical apple tree and an apple will fall on his head. Then, he'll suddenly see the light.

    He does not believe that rubbish, he continuously morphs his argument so they can not pin him down then goes off on unrelated tangents. His ability to sustain the thread is very clever.

    He has otherwise sane people debating what the edge of the world looks like and the heat resistant properties of giant stickers on the side of space rockets.
  • pinnopinno Posts: 40,208
    UHT paint, now that's a conspiracy.
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  • secretsamsecretsam Posts: 4,617
    Sorry. Our society considers belief in a mythical being in the sky to be worthy of special treatment.

    Compared to that, nothing's that daft
    It's just a hill. Get over it.
  • pinnopinno Posts: 40,208
    secretsam wrote:
    Sorry. Our society considers belief in a mythical being in the sky to be worthy of special treatment.

    Compared to that, nothing's that daft

    How can you walk and surf the net at the same time?!

    You're fly is undone.
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  • briantrumpetbriantrumpet Posts: 6,005
    pinno wrote:
    You're fly is undone.
    You can't say that!

    It's "You're flies is undone", obviously.
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  • pinnopinno Posts: 40,208
    Surely it's 'are' rather than 'is'?
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  • briantrumpetbriantrumpet Posts: 6,005
    pinno wrote:
    Surely it's 'are' rather than 'is'?
    Those are news to me.

    Your welcome.
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  • WheelspinnerWheelspinner Posts: 5,003
    briantrumpet wrote:
    pinno wrote:
    Surely it's 'are' rather than 'is'?
    Those are news to me.

    Your welcome.
    :D
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  • pinnopinno Posts: 40,208
    Wheelspinner wrote:
    briantrumpet wrote:
    pinno wrote:
    Surely it's 'are' rather than 'is'?
    Those are news to me.

    Your welcome.
    :D

    Oh, don't you start.
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  • secretsamsecretsam Posts: 4,617
    pinno wrote:
    secretsam wrote:
    Sorry. Our society considers belief in a mythical being in the sky to be worthy of special treatment.

    Compared to that, nothing's that daft

    How can you walk and surf the net at the same time?!

    You're fly is undone.

    LOL I took a taxi. And no, my fly was securely fastened
    It's just a hill. Get over it.
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