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I thought that might get yourt attention, where has our estate agent went to?

He hasn't been online in over a month, did someone upset him?

Rob has been quite ill for a while, but is recovering well and hopes to be back soon.

Well then I think it's only appropriate to send him our good wishes.

Get well soon Robert!

Speedy recovery Robert

Hope you recover soon Robert, its a dull place without you, kev is beginning to seem funny.

Best wishes Robert.

We miss your wit and wisdom.

Lets not go overboard, next you will be missing his jumpers!

Get well soon Robert

Just for you Billy...
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Cheers mate

spooky,

i had been wondering last night where he was...get well soon brief...

Get well soon Robert

Get well soon Robert :)

Get well soon Robert  :kiss:

Wishing you a speedy recovery....Mods are in great demand you know ;D

Get yer briefs well soon....

Ermmm that ain't right...

xxxxxxx

get well soon

Bainn and I hope you will feel much better soon, Robert.

get well soon Rob.

Gwellhad buan!

As Dewi would say......Though i still have a lot of work to do on my accent ;)

Get well soon mate

hope we see you on the forum again soon buddy.take care.

Sorry to hear this....Get well soon mate.

hope you are better and back soon Robert x

Really sorry to her your indisposed, get well soon. 8)

 ;iagree; :goodpost:

Diolch yn fawr iawn

Get well soon mate!

Get well honey x

you found a welsh friend in the jungle then? :D

yes (Ie or Oes?), something like that :)up

Though i may have to invest in some screen wipes if i practice much longer!

do, rwyf wedi cael hyd i ffrind cymraeg yn y goedwig
(yes i have found a welsh friend in the jungle)

ok, i'll be honest i haven't found a welsh friend in the jungle but being a creature of culture.............

<ok - now you have got back off the floor and are no longer laughing then i will continue>

.......... every once in a while i decide to try to learn something different, keeps the old grey matter ticking over. For some reason when i opened this thread i decided to post in a different language and picked Welsh.

(so sorry but my welsh speaking jungle friend is actually called google)

or rwyf wedi cael hyd i ffrind cymraeg yn y goedwig galw google

da iawn :blonde:

Dydw i ddim yn deall ;) (honest)

Ble mae'r toiled? Os gwelwch yn dda!!!! (dang they dont have a smilie with his legs crossed!)

Best Wishes, and Get Well Soon, Robert  :)up

get well big chap:) you sure you and the nun haven't ran away together? you both went away at the same time from blonde:( hurry back :)

Get well soon


Best regards

M

Get well Robert.
 :)up

speedy recovery m8

Get well soon hunny xx

Hope you get well soon mate

Any news on Mr Mcbride?

sadly, no new news

Maybe we should all ask why he has left?

so whats the old news, that he has been ill for over a month? thats a hell of a cold. A lot of people on here like the dude, it would be nice if a more informative post was given, just to assuage his friends on this forum.

See what you can do, try and make his fans more at ease... I'm sure he has a telephone

regards

 ;popcorn;

Why did he leave?

(started the ball rolling)

Folks, please leave this one alone, when anyone knows anymore about RHM the rest of the board will be told. I'd hate him to return to see his abscence used to stir it up.

sorry rod but they guys and girls are truly concerned.

robert is a vital part of blonde and a great guy we all wish him well and hope that he will return soon

 ;iagree; sorry didnt mean to cause any trouble

didnt mean to bump but saw someone was viewing this and thought hmm where the fk is he?

Ahh, the old accidental bump.

better than the intentional one which may incur a ban.

Shoulda phrased better....I wasn't bumping for bumping's sake but still thinking odd that he's been gone for so long and not a word said.

Not interfering with play, so it's OK......

Still haven't heard from Robert, and I beleive that applies to all of the mods

Saw an old thread with an AdamM post.. he hasn't been online since 2008!

Has he given up the game?

I don't know Keith. He was banned from blonde in 2008. I seem to recall he requested this.

Pretty much as far as i'm aware, though as Tighty said the reason he ain't been on here is he got banned,  at his own request from memory.

He was a sparring partner of mine, we used to disagree about alot of stuff but I like to think the disagreements were always civilised and well argued.

Self barring is just strange, why not just stop coming?

In the circumstances it was perfectly sensible. There was no acrimony between he & blonde, (except as below) none whatsoever, though he was miffed - VERY miffed - that he'd been grimmed in a (relatively) small staking exercise by a fellow blonde, a pro player, & one who, at the time, he thought could be trusted.

He was a bit cross with myself, & one or two other Mods, because after the "staking grim" came out on top, several of us, in the Mods room, commented that this was a grim waiting to happen, anyone with any knowledge of the parties concerned could see it coming a mile off. Robert felt we might have marked his card, but we all assumed he realised he was sailing close to the wind. Just a misunderstanding really, & it did not damage our personal relationship.

He's a good man, too, & he lives quite a very interesting life, believe me.

yeah that is quite very interesting.

It's also very interesting that Keith was talking about AdamM and you were talking about Robert HM. lol.

Well at least now we know why he's not around...

lolol comedy. gg kendall.

Lol, yup, gg me. Step aside Ding, I'm taking over.

AdamM's blonde departure was "FACT"" related, and of his own volition. We had been pals for years, but he got all het up over "FACT", & after telling us where to put his Membership, he continued his tirade against blonde & myself via e-Mail Facebook & all sorts. All over a single hand of poker in a two-bit tourney. You could not make this stuff up.

Does he still play live? (AdamM) as I remember first coming across him on THM forum when he made ridicolous claims over his cashing % at Notts Gala. Maybe he "regressed to the mean" in super quick time.

Pity about Robert HM as we enjoyed a good bit of banter with him being a Notts County fan :) I would have probably tilted him over the last six months, tho' I suspect he saw through all the bs there.

SaraM was hot tho.

What is FACT?

Ask Kev.

;hide;

I think some people take poker/internet forums too seriously.

Robert's departure is the first understandable reason for leaving blondepoker I've heard.

gg Dave, thanks for robbing us of the best posters on here.

Obviously the situation wouldn't have arisen without Dave doing what he did (and I'm not defending Dave here btw as he knocked me for a few hundred quid a few weeks ago) but my understanding is that Robert was more angry over the position of the mods on this one, no?

Robert and I knew before most people that Dave had done the stake monies in and in a private conversation that went on via pm Robert told Dave he was to pay him off as soon as he had a result. I thought this was extremely irresponsible and told Dave (who's intention it was at the time to try and claw his way out of it and pay everyone off) that under no circumstance was he to pay Robert HM or I would make public what had happened. I told Dave he was to get the money and pay everyone off equally and at the same time but thought it was extremely irresponsible for him to want out of the stake with his moneys back (particularly when we bear in mind his position as a moderator) whilst he knew stake funds never existed.

I have never been more surprised at a post than this one.

Totally astounding.

now that is interesting

sure is

i have no idea what happened since it seems to be long before my time, but me thinks this recent bump has caused people to put their foot in it somehow?

either way...


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Methinks Grandad Tikay is regretting his post now.

"....but my understanding is that Robert was more angry over the position of the mods on this one, no?..."

I don't accept that for one moment.

As I stated earlier (whilst barking up completely the wrong tree), yes, Robert was cross with myself, & several others,. because he thought we should have warned him of the "high-risk" shall we say of the arrangement. But as we explained, & he accepted, it was our - or at least my - assumption that eveyone knew that - how could they not, it was common knowlerdge? So it was just a misunderstanding. He never knew, but I assumed, as most would, that he did know.

I know nothing of the other matters you mention. But I do know that Robert was incredibly angry that he'd been suckered in a staking exercise, more angry than I've ever seen him. He told me he would do everything in his power, stop at nothing, to get justice.

Everyone has views on this, & peeps have fallen out about it. But the root cause is what people should concentrate on. It was an unwise investment, but that's no excuse for what happened.

Lol, sort of, yes, I accidentally opened a can of worms. My bad, end of, I can't change that now.

You gotta love Bumped Threads though, eh?

I never knew either, but i'll chalk that down to being a little naive.  tbh I was surprised when I got paid back, profit 'n all.

It seems ironic that Dave wanted to pay him but couldn't because he wasn't on blonde and no one could contact him to tell him he needed to do something.

Would have been nice for Dave to pay when he won big recently though, sigh.

hungover- cliff notes please

Just a bit.

An even greater irony is that Robert knew - I told him personally, verbally & in writing, that he WOULD get his money back, 100%. It was just about tiiming, & the deception. The guys always honours his debts afaik - eventually.

No point mate. It's boring. You wouldn't be interested.

There's a bumped burger thread in the lounge that's far more entertaining if you're stuck for something to do.

Robert HM is annoyed at the mods 'handling' in one way or another of the Penly staking thing.

Before anyone but myself and Mr HM know about Robert asks Penly to buy him out of his share.

Dave tells me this and I tell him he's not to pay anyone before anyone else, particularly Robert.

Robert has been absent from blonde for some months.

When I first thought of playing poker for a living someone told me "Don't trust anyone, 99% of poker players are scumbags"

Aassuming what Cos posted is true, this is second time within a week that someone I would have trusted implicitly has done something totally unethical and shady.

I really am shocked and disappointed with Robert.

don't think this is especially true, though I can't speak for conversations he may have had with other mods. He was more annoyed by the manner the staking arrangement went South.

Lol Cos.

He asked for cliffs from this thread not from something completely different.

Although tbf, It says something about the poker world that I'm more surpirsed at Robert's behaviour than Dave's (which ethically was far worse obviously).

can you explain why please Keith, i don't understand what's so bad

For the 2nd time in 15 hours, Camel nails it.

how? dave never set out to screw anyone but ended up doing it as he's a degen and got out of control

robert however, if what cos tells us is true, set out to intentionally screw his mates by the sounds of it

twice in 15hrs is good for a man of Keiths age

I've misunderstood the situation then.  I thought Robert had asked Dave for his stake money back when Dave had obviously reneged on the agreement.  Basically, Dave had broken the 'contract' and so Robert wanted his investment back.   

From what I understand, he was prepared to keep the fact that Dave had spunked the money away confidential as long as he got his money back.

That's pretty unethical from where I'm sitting.

Why should Robert's share of the staking money be more important than that the others?

I'm understanding it as he found out dave had done the stake so tried to get his money back at the expense of his mates (and most if not all of the stakers could be classed as mates of roberts) who he didn't bother to mention it to

fyp

I'd settle for that I think.

keith, why do you say that dave's behaviour was far worse ethically?

So Robert ends up as the primary villain here?

well, I went into the stake fully aware of the risks as I knew what dave's like. I fully expected it to go tits at some point and I fully expected to get paid eventually as well. I have no problem with what dave did to me

I do however have a problem with someone I consider to be a mate intentionally trying to screw me

Oh I see.  I thought it was common knowledge he'd spunked it all.  Didn't realise Robert knew before everyone else.

If Dave hadn't broken the rules of the stake and spunked the money away, Robert wouldn't have felt the need to behave unethically.

this seems really weird and is not making sense to me for numerous reasons but i haven't the time to get involved.

it's OK to make PMs public now?

Boring 3.5 year old thread finally delivers.

Great bump Cos.

You shit stirring git!!

That's the difference between you & Robert - you knew & understood the score, & were happy to take your chance. Robert did not. I don't actually think Robert tried, deliberately, to "screw" anyone, either. He just though, perhaps naively, that once the thing had gone awry, it was every man for himself. A naive thought perhaps, but Robert, if I may say so, was not worldly wise in these matters, whereas you are.  When he realised that everyone else had understood the risk, & nobody had told him, me included, he was "a bit cross". I'm not making an excuse for him, but he's not a deliberately dishonourable man imo.

You can always rely on Mr Papertits to make stuff interesting.

My eyes are bad, I can't read that small bit.

yeah, you may well be right. I'd struggle to think of anyone I know for who I'd consider this to be more out of character

quite. Hearsay, nonetheless.

Isn't Robert a lawyer? I find it hard to believe he is that naive.

FYP

Exactly. It was just a coming together of circumstances. I really don't think Robert would have realised the implications of his attempt to get reimbursed. Nor do I think he can fairly be described as the villain of the peace here.

Poker & money, it does some weird things when it gets out of control.

wiiii, 23,996 posts and finally kinboshi delivers

Can someone pm me with a complete list of scandals and reasons for bannings on blondepoker I might have missed please.

Yes, but does not mean he cannot be naive in certain areas. Many years ago, at the very height of their fame, The Stones were in court with Marianne Faithfull over a drugs bust. Confronted with Mick Jagger, the eminent Judge, when given Jagger's name, said "who?". We all have blind spots.

No no, that's certainly not what I meant to convey.

I don't know whether Robert just wasn't thinking or was asking for his money back as his plan was to leave blonde and he knew he wouldn't get in contact with Dave again once he left. It could have been a whole number of reasons - I'm not accusing him of intentionally setting out to screw his mates.

My point was that he is a bit hypocritical to try and take some sort of high ground amongst the mods when his actions in this instance do not resonate of morality

If all the facts are as presented Tony, I think your judgement of Robert is pretty lenient.

I really like Robert, I hope he has not disappeared from Blonde for good, but I am certainly disappointed with his behaviour in this, and if I had been in the staking syndicate I would have been very very angry.

Again, he did not. He was simply miffed that most of us understood the gravity of the risk, & he did not, & he thought we should have warned him. And we assumed he would have known. It was a simple misunderstanding, not an act of deception.

Possibly so Keith, possibly so.

But you need to take account of one thing. I never knew, & I don't think any of my mod colleagues knew, until Cos Posted it less than an hour ago, of the alleged arrangement Cos suggests Robert tried to make. That was complete news to me. And I'd want to hear both sides of that story before rushing to judgement, too.

Until we do, we can't verify "if the facts as presented are true", can we?

another weird thing about this was that dave said he never even put the money onto blonde where he was meant to be playing, the money was transferred on stars and tilt. so blonde must have known it hadn't been deposited? kev also posted on that thread that he had met dave and everything was OK he was going to carry on with the stake ASAP.

so basically all the mods and cos knew what was going on and nobody said anything. IIRC I was the only person asking WTF was going on and Keith even told me I was out of order for doing that :) if I hadn't we would prob still be waiting for dave/mods/blonde/cos to let us in on the secret.

also i don't understand why a solicitor would get so upset about an hour or two's wages.

 

How did Robert know Dave had spunked all the staking money before anyone else?

It's also odd that the money was never deposited as Dave was playing on blonde. I know because I checked...

presumably he had say $200 or whatever on there and the 000's we transferred paid his rent

everyone who staked penly is/was a sucker/mug. Any kind of research into him and you would find he didnt pay flushy back his wsope plo touch.

If you ever hear anything dodgy about someone, even a rumour just avoid.

That's news to me, I would not know who deposits on blonde, how much, etc, unless I went to the trouble to ask Kev or Rich, & I never have, not once. My awareness came fom the fact it was "in the domain", it was an open secret, everyone seemed to know.

I'm puzzled - I'm sure there is an innocent explanation too - as to how you would know what was & was not deposited on blonde. That info is not available to ANY Mods, except, when wearing different hats, Rich & Kev.

To clarify I didn't know he deposited etc, I checked he was playing games on blonde by searching for his username. It seemed like byron was saying he didn't put any money into blonde at all (sorry if you weren't!) which went against what I found.

Penly's staking started on blonde ... then he posted on his staking thread that he was moving to other sites.

It is all documented on his staking thread, perhaps people should read that before trying to add 2 and 2 and getting 5.



For someone that posted a few mins ago that you didnt have time to get involved,


You sure have made some rash conclusions.

Any chance Blonde can get Dave to do a part II of "in the well".

http://blondepoker.com/forum/index.php?topic=33826.0

Best of Blonde for the record  ::)

I can't see him rushing back especially if he reads this thread.

dave posted that he hadn't deposited onto blonde in his comeback post. i do not remember him ever posting about playing on different sites, maybe once a "can I play a tourney on FT tonight?" post but certainly not a "not playing on blonde anymore" post. what rash conclusions have i made?

have dropped 3 buyins so far while posting on this thread

Maybe that's a lesson to concentrate on what you know about rather than to make assumptions about something which you obviously have no knowledge of. ;)

a borrower nor a lender be

Racialistic imo.

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Well I say that Dewi, but I still end up making mistakes, & lending money bad, from time to time. Some of us will never learn. But it's sometimes hard - & wrong - to reject a genuine overture from someone who seems OK, & is in a spot.

It never ceases to amaze me that people have a very naive view when staking poker players. Why are they busto? Because they are degenerate! Whenever i have either here or live (Gala Notts for example) I have always written it off in my records and if I do get a bink/paid back it always then a nice bonus. I had one guy I long term staked who stiffed a load of us on another site but he eventually paid back  err... 18 months late :)

ditto, my record includes Fergus, Riverdave and that other one that was going to play on Tilt.  To be fair, I've got it all back, thankfully.

I was referring to loans, rather than staking, Simon. When I stake anyone, I write that money off immediately, as you do, & if I get a return, happy days. You don't expect to get stakes back, you hope, but you should expect to get loans back if the people have any class. In a way it comes down to bad judgement of character on the lenders part (or my part), really.

lol, he paid me quicker than someone else paid back their wsop stakers

The best stake I ever made was Simon Trumper. I had a piece in some PLO at the Vic, and my transfer vis dtd online hadn't gone through when he binked. He could easily have said no return but hes definitely a honourable guy.

I ask for stakes occassionally.

The reason?

The exes kill you in big tournaments.

Let's say it's a £5k tournament in London taking 4 days.

It will cost me £100 train fair, plus 4 x £100 per night in a hotel.

I might try and sell 40% of my action at 1.25:1.

It works out that I am playing a £3k event expenses free. That works for me, and I hope gives good value to stakers.

I love my new roflcopter

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'i tripped on my lollerskates at the thought of staknig Penly!'

'roflcopter!

What makes you think that people being staked are busto and degenerate?

I stake a few people long term none of whom are degenerates. They are also not completely busto but they prefer to spend their earnings on living expenses rather than poker.

I myself am on a long term stake and I can assure you that I am very far from busto and reasonably far from being a degenerate.

roflcopter spelling fail.

Posting PMs wholesale is wrong guys, please don't do it without the express permission of those you were conversing with privately

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Ill get some flights booked on my roflcopter!

I know this. I have well over a thousand pms and can't remember doing it before unless purely for humour purposes and knew the other person wouldn't mind.

However, I felt I had to in this one instance as my memory of what happened was initially a little different from how things actually were when I checked my outbox.

Happy for you to write how your recollection was a little at odds with the facts Cos, but not a wholesale copy and paste, sorry

I do the same Tony, but it's not bad advice!

Oh fck!!! You weren't supposed to see that......

Cancel previous statement. I am busto and can't afford to go on holiday with Hopkin.

Why?

That was a message I sent. I never posted anything sent via pm to me.

I really can't be arsed to type it all out.

send me it cos. I'll then post it but only if you agree

but the other parties in the PM wouldn't, or aren't around to agree

Well given what has been said - unfairly it now seems, unless I read it wrong (you know me, I may have....)  - about Robert's ethics, by several people, based on what you mistakenly recollected, perhaps you could & should briefly explain the changed facts.  That would seem right & proper, all things considered.

A brief summary of the facts is all it needs. Everyone will take your word that you are being honest in your revised summary.

Go on, you've typed out a lot of other stuff on the thread.

yead but I was going to do that crossy out thing for their bits so you couldn't read it like this

I'm going to repost once I've been through my pms.

It seems like Robert hasn't been on facebook for ages either.

Hope everything is ok with him.

He hasn't answered texts or messages either. Not just from mods, from a close non-mod friend I mean

I agree, lets hope he is ok

contry to opinion the that robert fell out with the mods and left
he might have fallen out with some people or been upset with them
but at the time he left he was starting a massive criminal case which meant he
had no time for blonde or poker and as far as i am aware he is still involved in this case

Yeah but surely no one would be so busy that they can't reply to a text to say they are ok?

I hope Robert is ok too.

hmm what about your good mates?

nice touch, and yes id trust simon 100% without knowing him at all, but the main key to staking is like punting the horses, long term value. Simon wasnt long term value in that tourny, he had a nice touch which was great for him and his stakers. If you are a staker i reccomend not just looking at hendon mob or OPR results but getting a few character refrences off peers.

rivdave stake bought up in 2 minutes, not much time to get references

eh? people had infinate time to get refrences

I've read the entire thread, and I can't find a post where I told you that you were out of order.

see above

Is that your own quote Dewi?

lol of course Tom ;)

http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/254800.html

I cannot be arsed to listen to crappy greek rumour mongering, I also don't understand why things like this are dragged through forums, poker is full of grimmers, nippers and tossers just man up and deal with it.

I like RHM though and hearsay will not change that.

I thought you had borrowed it.

Let me get this straight. This Robert guy asked for his dollars back when a staking arrangement he was involved in went beserko...and people think his behaviour was unacceptable? What?? I think he seemed pretty mild-mannered about getting grimmed tbh. Many people wouldn't think twice about turning up and batting the guy's head in to get their money back. What do people think are the moral principals regarding getting back the money somebody stole from you? He screwed his mates over? Do me a favour.

;dingdell;
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1,3,2 at the front

no thanks at the back.

was talking about this from the last page of his well, not "out of order" now that I've gone back and checked


i said if i got paid i would go round deleting all my posts which I did do. this thread just feels weird with everyone piling in to slag off robert when he's always seemed a nice guy to me, espec when he's not here to defend himself, all i was saying is that obv other people knew as well, I don't care tbh I got paid ages ago

apologies

'a borrower nor a lender be'

Wasn't funny when boshi first made the joke

Sigh.

If that's what happened noone would have said anything.

The implication that Robert knew before anyone else that Dave had spunked the money and attempted to use his position of moderator to get his cash back was the thing which surprised and upset me.

This fact has since been brought into doubt by the posting of a pm by Cos (which has since been deleted).

So now noone thinks the worse of Robert, and everyone hopes that one day he'll be back on the blondepoker forums.

How could he possibly use his position as moderator to get his cash back?

Did he use his sacred moderator powers to threaten to ban Dave if he didn't get his cash first? I doubt it.

He may have used his position as being first to know to try to get his money back and why wouldn't he? But what did that have to do with being a mod?

If it was common knowledge amongst the mods then they are equally to blame. If it wasn't then how can this have anything to do with the fact that at the time Robert was a mod.

It's not his job to let everyone else know what's going on. Stakers should be aware of their own stakees and are responsible for their own money.

I'm saying nothing bad about Robert because has a legal eagle and I don't won't to be taken to court. ;D

Anyway I remember him as one of the guys who put a lot of work in making the early blonde bashes successful and the man with classic jumpers.

It appears there is lot more to poker than just playing cards!

"Robert told Dave he was to pay him off as soon as he had a result"...where does it say pay me FIRST before anyone else? Can we see the chat convo pleased Cos before you destroy this mans integrity?

Robert has been in contact with me recently to let me know he is okay but has been reluctant to say why he doesnt post on Blonde anymore...tonight it all becomes a bit clearer.

Robert is a good man, pass on my regards plz Suzanne the next time you speak to him.

 ;iagree;

Say Hi from me to Robert if you speak to him again please Suzanne

I don't believe Robert ever said that Suzanne.

Robert wrote to Dave & said, words to the effect, "you've obviously lost interest, you don't update the thread, we don't know what's happening, I suggest you divi up the money & pay everyone out & we move on".

He got no reply, & repeated the message a few weeks later.

Robert was & is an honourable man, & did nothing improper, but he was pretty miffed that things went off-track.  He was also miffed with myself & others that we all knew the score before it all started, & had not warned him. For my part, I assumed HE knew the score as to how it would likely pan out. That assumption turned out to be wrong.

It's somewhat bizarre that he somehow became made out as the bad guy in all this. For the source of the problem, peeps need to look upstream, not downstream. 

I wanted to drop the matter because I liked Robert too from his posts on here (we'd never met).

I wish people would just drop it now - it was a while back and there's obviously stuff going on that's not being said (whole situ is v weird no?).

If you look back through my posts on the thread you'll see I said my memory was hazy on the matter and after checking through my posts I had to correct myself on one thing.

I've since spoken to Dave, who no longer posts on blonde and he said that Robert was pressing him for payment. However, maybe Robert considered that he was due payment before everyone else because he had previously requested/mentioned it to Dave.

I will post on it once more if Dave agrees to log in and look at his pms.

I don't think Robert is a bad guy - he was clearly and rightly angry over this. Dave has assured me that everyone still left to be paid - me, Bongo, Jakally and Robert will be paid as soon as appropriate funds become avaolable to him.

Was.

Epic 'wishing everyone would drop it' fail.

there's obviously stuff going on that's not being said (whole situ is v weird no?).

there isn't!

I wish people would stop posting on the old thread I bumped....lol.

Nice spot MANTIS, though I think most have already worked that out. Bar one.

You could not make it up.

Why is Robert talking to Suzanne but won't reply to others who have tried to contact him. That I find a bit weird.

Unless my memory has failed me, I don't actually think that would be possible.....

Is it really any of your business who his friends are?

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You just don't get it, do you? You are so far out of your depth here!

Robert & Suzanne have been close friends for many a year. Robert disappeared before - you were not around then - & a lot f us, but certainly Suzanne, were very worried about him. It's what friends do - look out for each other in bad tiimes & good.

lol

mate, this is simply ridic, you bumped the thread and now want people to stop posting on it, and as for who Robert chooses to speak to, what does that matter to you?

The only thing that has happened since this was bumped is a lot of people seem to have misunderstood and painted Robert as the villian.

why lol?

Suz - glad to hear you've heard from Robert and he's ok - send him my love if you speak to him again please

Ditto, from me.

*No longer posting in this thread*.

Can't be arsed. Less confrontational this year - don't want or need this esp as I don't think I've done anything wrong.

Sorry Cos. You know I love you but add one from me.

The lol line is pretty poor form and means absolutely nothing.

Lol

as you say.

lol

Double LOL!

Now Lads, get along FFS.  I like Robert a lot, but I also like Cos a lot too.  Me tinks wires just got crossed a bit and really there's no need for a new drama around the camp.   

Suz - please send hugs to Robert from me too next time yer speaking to him.

Cos - you can carry my luggage around Dublin any time.   ;)

Now then, if ye don't cop on, I might be forced to start a reverse sheep thread...and ya know how that goes!  lol

Robert uses his "mod powers" to sticky it?

'Londonderry' resurrected then?   rotflmfao

Yes, so do many of us. Which is not exactly the point.

I plan to confinscate Cos's pick if this continues.

Quick, someone mention Nazi's then the thread offically ends  ::)

Ffs Can't anyone have a breakdown in peace. I haven't read all of this thread but was told about it, I have glimpsed the first two and last two pages. I was ill, still am. I am a recluse, the last place I can cope to be is on a public forum. Mainly I need to keep myself on an even keel and don't want to be affected by that minority of windup merchants.  I never told anyone I was going "missing", it doesn't work like that!. Oh and no one told me to go. A few people did send me texts, voice mails early on and I just couldn't answer them, I regret that but hey, shit happens. One person was more persistant than most, she has known me well for a long time, she managed to get an answer. Thanks for those who sent best wishes and for those that sent other sorts of messages, "thanks a lot", I am sure you may realise my son is a member of the forum.

hi robert, great to hear from you mate. you enjoy the rest and get well.

Nice to hear from you Robert. Good luck to you.

ok thats enough posts from you for now back to breakdown pls

ps welcome back

Hi Robert. You know where we are, if & when you are up for it. I'm sorry this Thread went the way it did, but you & I know the score.

See you soon Big Man. Loving the jumpers, too. ;)

xx

{{{{{HUGS}}}}}

Good to hear from you Robert (although ideally not on a thread like this).  Best of luck with it all and hope to see you and your jumpers in the not too distant future.

:)up

I for one am gutted that Robert has seen this. Maybe some food for thought.

get well soon x

Hope u get well soon robert..

u were the first to welcome me to blonde.. hope to see u back online as soon as possible

Dafydd

Good to hear from you Robert and hope you're back to top form and posting again soon. Take care.

I'm really sad and annoyed with myself that I let one post about Robert put questions in my mind about his integrity.

Robert has been here since the beginning and always been a respected pillar of the community.

I hope he comes back some day to share his unique insights into life.

Hi Robert,

" She " knows I was asking about you, so good to see you post. My door is open if you fancy a change of scenery.

RHM - Legend.

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