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[sam]

Almost looks like a name tag, doesn't it. To be worn with



I started a thread in the style of an AA meeting about getting banned often, simply entitled Banned Anonymous. The first few comments were encouraging. Then it got ugly; not surprising in an environment where members can get tetchy merely by the act of replying to them. I didn't stay anonymous, as someone soon felt free to use my full name (it's no great secret, but still). One guy even snarled at me* for having the temerity to ask permission to reprint his funny post – as the thread was invisible to guests, it seemed only polite. When I then bid him a nice life, he replied that he definitely wouldn't. Well, quite.

Ah, mem'ries

Former ACFer Greenbank turned up saying something about a quid pro quo, as I had "banned thousands" back at ACF. I would have enjoyed that conversation!



https://www.notanothercyclingforum.net/acf/index.php?topic=4077.0

You're welcome.

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I hadn't brought up THE TOPIC; others did. The fact that I have the opinions I do, mostly expressed offsite, was apparently enough.

All this does is further highlight how free speech has been affected by the fear to talk openly about issues that affect women far more than they do men. Most cycling forums are mostly men.

There's some background on the site owner in this thread.

I haven't been able to come up with an appropriate alternative initialism. It's tough! Close but no cigar:

Lads
Frightened of
Gender
Critical
Speech


*Can't be sure, but I think this was the guy:

Funnily enough my uncle Arthur, a wealthy man, went through a period where he refused to use money and instead relied on Cowrie shells, a notion he had picked up in his readings, which were wide and shallow, like a mysterious lake in a science fiction story. He was also tedious, like a science fiction story. Uncle Arthur held some sway in his local village and managed to impose his mania on most of the smaller shops but had less success when he was 'in town' seeing his stock broker and stocking up on tweed and devilled eggs. The whole thing only lasted a couple of weeks but three bankruptcies and at least one ruined marriage ensued. I did hear rumours of trouble at the meat rack of Picadilly Circus too but that was a side of Uncle Arthur's life of which we never got to the bottom.
Overall his life was one of cautionary tales, whether it was the rejection of money, the year when he would only communicate by semaphore or his libel suit against Dad's Army.

If so, you can see why I asked, no?