With sadly over 4,000 posts I also have not been banned (yet) but I have had a few posts deleted in my time if that counts.

I have also had some deleted and I've nowhere near that number of posts :hmm:

Hey wow I'm a one thousandaire! and never even noticed. Just need to get a bit sadder to match Peter's posts ;)

You poor old thing, FBM.

It's just not fair, is it?

There you are, in your twilight years, and all you want is a bit of excitement in life. A bit of fizz, a touch of sparkle, a hint of living dangerously.

Yes, there's the regular rush of adrenalin when they bring the tea-trolley round, and you have the thrill of discovery: will it be custard creams, choccy digestives or...in a moment of madness...garibaldi?

But what you're really yearning for, the escape to the wild-side, back to the carefree days of youth, full speed ahead and damn the torpedoes.....what you really want, what you really, really want is to be banned by Pprune, knowing that your name will pass into legend, that threads will run for weeks debating your legacy, and that folk will post reverential comments along the lines of "FBM...love him or hate him...you have to say, he really knew his biscuits"

But no...not after ten years, a thousand posts, nothing. Not even a hint of a reprimand. Not so much as a gentle chiding about a repost, not a thread you started moved to a more appropriate forum, not a request to keep your image postings to the forum recommended dimensions. Nothing.

The trouble is, old mate, you're too nice. You're not just square, you're a hypercube. You're Cleggy from Last of the Summer Wine, never an unkind word or deed, when what you really want to be is Compo, the scruffy miscreant - all ferrets and binder twine, winding up the Nora Batty.

But we're all friends here, and as such we hate to see you pining away, unable to fulfill your dreams. So, here's what we're going to do.

You're going to pretend to take huge exception to something I've posted, and call me a very, very bad name. Something to do with donkeys, maybe. I'm going to pretend to be upset, and complain to the beak. When he - presumably in a state of shock - asks you to withdraw the comment, you call him the same thing....twice....in public. There won't be any alternative then....like Nora Batty setting about Compo with a broom, you'll be out on your ear. Grinning like a maniac.

Job done. As I've said, we're all your mates here, and we're here to help. I know you'd do the same thing for me, old timer. I know you would. :ok:

:=You absolkute effin bleedin soddin b'stard how dare yo speak to em like that I'll hav emy nurse thrash you to withjin an inchof your scrawnylife wiv me Zimmer...why..I'll...I'll...come round there on me mobitiyt scooetr and I'll...I'll...:{:p
:D;)

Mods......I'd like to lodge a complaint.

I love it when a plan comes together.

Um... doesn't FBM have to insult and alienate the whole group, then describe some entirely unusual and seemingly unsafe flying technique as being normal, then mention getting shot at a few times while flying a night approach to minimums with an engine shut down, and several other system failures, then describe how he performed a glide landing, while his keys freefell 18,000 feet, to incur the wrath of the moderator?

Pilot DAR: Shush now, FBM's rolling with it.

FBM: You might want to improvise with a "Canadians - why do they all have flappy faces like Terrance and Phillip?" thread to help things along....but, on second thoughts, you don't know who Terrance and Phillip are, and if you did, you'd only be upset at the whole concept. Hence disregard all after "FBM's rolling with it" above.

Pilot DAR: Disregard all after "FBM:" above.

FBM will not be able to respond for 24hrs.......... :}

We will all look forward with great interest to hear what occupied FBM for 24 hours... Gift of a PPRuNe spa day?

Well there we go and now you know, it is a simple tariff.

Cusing - 8 hours,

Thrashing with zimmer frames - 6 hours,

Threatening GBH - 6 hours,

Mention of saucy nurses - 4 hours,

now does that come to 24 hours.

all mild in comparison with what some have done on here. :)

There are some things which make this forum so enjoyable

Debate on what binds us
Mods with humor
British humor in general

:ok::ok::ok:

Can't wait for Flybymike to tell us about his withdrawal symptoms!

Just off to work and will be back around 2300ish. Might let him out the dungeon then....! :suspect:

Stage three is to send a rude and insulting PM to the mods*.

Go on, FBM, you know you want to! :E

SD

*That's what gets you permanently banned.

Saab Dastard is a Mac user.

I am shocked and saddened by FBM being banned.

It must be terrible to reach a 1000 unblemished posts and now this un-called for and un-instigated banning!

Where is this forum heading :ugh:

and the tariff would be?

It's what gets you permanently banned. Come on Fuji, read the small print and keep up!
:p

The only reason I got banned was because I was told you need at least one ban before you become eligible as a moderator.

I can feel it, soon the mods will be divulging their junior-mod-selection criteria!


:D

Call that an insult? I guess you didn't want to be banned, MJ! ;)

SD