Be careful Josh, or AF and TK will be after you, lol.
As for not using the other forum, I note that Tracey Tilley posted a question on the 8/01/22 and as of today 25/01/22 has not had a reply. In the January edition of MPH (no full stops) the Computer Officer says "Posting things anywhere else or asking questions elsewhere just won't cut it. You will not be heard where it counts. Post on the 'other' voc.uk.com forum and you will not get a reply, post on this forum and you will". I think it about time that the so called Computer Officer logged in to both forums and answered our questions because at the moment it looks like the only people answering any questions are Pete Appleton and Ernie Lowinger.
I find it extremely comforting that Russell is a fellow insomniac, only probably for completely different reasons, I am laying in my bed, sleeping fitfully whilst being in extreme discomfort following my bilateral knee replacement surgery, just debating whether to take another Tramadol pill or not (I did)
I too was incredulous when I read Phil Mahood’s comments directing us towards the CE offering that is incorrectly described as a forum, it is nothing of the sort, and certainly bears no comparison whatsoever to this fantastic forum.
It prompted me to let my mind search for comparisons or parallels to this situation, and then suddenly I remembered Embassy Records, owned, recorded and pressed by Woolworths, now you would have to be of a certain age to remember Embassy Records, but the business model was thus.
You wait for the most successful artists of the day to release their next highly successful record, so that could be Cliff Richard, Adam Faith, maybe one of the up and coming Liverpool bands, then Embassy records would attempt to copy the recording as closely as possible using session musicians and singers, cut and release a rival record, with the attraction being they were sold at a much reduced cost, well I am sure you can imagine, any kid with any street cred ain’t gonna buy it, I am sure that some lesser informed stupid people did as they enjoyed a modicum of success, but who really wants cheap copies of the real thing, I don’t really know if that stacks up as a comparison, but I have taken a look at the CE offering, now let’s be honest, it really isn’t very good, is it?
A bit like an Embassy Record.
Well thats the fun bit out of the way, but on a more serious point, I think Phil’s wording in the January MPH was disrespectful and disgraceful, of course I can understand why certain members of this club might view this forum as an irritation, and were it a buzzing insect they would probably simply swat it, and from their point of view that would put the whole matter to bed, but it is not an insect, and it can’t be swatted, we all know that moves are afoot to diminish and eventually shut down this forum, otherwise why would Phil have written those words in MPH, I can only presume with the full backing of the EC who now publish and print MPH, which by the way, and considering the circumstamstsnces I thought was a good effort, I found it distasteful reading the minutes of the last AGM, but I understand they are duty bound to print them, I just don’t like some of the stuff that was said, especially when appertaining to Graham, who let’s be honest, has worked his butt off for this club.