So to sum up, none of our resident or peripatetic trolls or doom-mongers have a bad forecast to make about Green, nor any dread saying to sooth.

At least when it all goes tits again, we can't be accused of not having heeded dark warnings, so that's a relief.

"The permanent Adeybull knowall sycophantic endorsement of Marc Green (until it goes tits up again)" would be a more apposite thread title.

That's right, though I guess, even as we discuss this, there are people going troll troll trollety troll all over the internet dredging up something or other. Still, we all need something to give our lives purpose, do we not?

Sadly, we on the boards don't get to endorse [or otherwise] appointments at the club. We are left with a fait accompli, as it were. That said, taking a positive outlook tends to leave one more at peace with the world than the constant looking to find fault.

Much as, if I'm totally honest, we've heard far too much rhetoric and seen far too little action from all of those involved over the past few months [or more], I for one, am prepared to support those who are in charge until it goes, in your words, "tits up". Not uncritically, of course, but being negative just for the sake of it isn't really my style.

I don't think it would. Do we need this sort of gratuitous, sneering personal attack on the forum? I would hope not. I find it both ironic and regrettable that an anti-troll thread I started has attracted this type of ad hominem trolling.

But predictable surely?

I have never used Ad Hominemenom as a word in type or speech. In fact I can't even spell or say it. I don't even know what it means, I know Bill & his mates on Substandard use it regularly. I blame Green.

You did. You used it 8 or 9 words ago

No, I'm not counting your Latin primer lessons.

Non torsii subligarium.

Brings back horrible memories.......6 years in a catholic boarding school. I thank all deities every day I was an ugly child

It is somewhat ironic that someone like FA who, in an argument is like a starving dog with a juicy bone, could start a thread like this. After all, I am sure that when he finally gets something right then we will never hear the end of it.

The thing is, it is a discussion board. Some people dare to cross the party line and say something that upsets the hierarchy. Then the sycophantic footsoldiers join in to decry the people who dare speak.

It goes on and on, until, SHOCK!!! The naysayers were right all along. The hierarchy then, given the chance to be magnanimous in defeat have a chance to smooth the waters but instead then decry the people, who they have shouted down for so long because they have the sheer cheek to come on here and get their own back?

You really cannot make this up.

apparently I do......regularly.......although if I was making stuff up, I was doing so with 100% accuracy

Except you're not being invited to make stuff up. You just have the opportunity to share your prescient pearls, so when you are "proved right" you'll be able to point to your wise words. Think of it as a personal service!