No need...

Departing Monday 31 October:

Vueling Zurich - London Luton CHF 93
Eurowings Zurich - Cologne CHF 36
Vueling Zurich - Rome CHF 76
Easyjet Zurich - Amsterdam CHF 99
Aeroflot Zurich - Moscow CHF 291

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Errr, thanks I am not going to read your other posts and try to make a character analysis. I also have no interest in looking at posters' statistics and digging out their older posts like most of the Forum "Legend"s or "Veteran"s do. I have better things to do. I come here occasionally and I have definitely observed that the forum has become a playground for bullies who pounce on newcomers and bash anyone who they do not agree with. When I first joined some years ago, the standard was not that high but it is getting lower as we speak.

Currently wearing a pungent stench of Madras that no amount of Issey Miyake can drown out, but it's Saturday and I'll be reheating the leftovers for tea

I come here and read interesting looking thread sand it is always the same people who respond.: Yourself, Richdog, Slemans (or whatever he is called), Dougal's Breakfast (I must say he is not that bad), PorschXXX, Treverus, Odile (she sounds like a dear old OAP actually) and the like. I am not going to waste time figuring out who is a bully and who is not. But there is enough bullying going around.

Why so high and mighty? I don't understand...

So, just so I'm sure I've understood the salient points of your position:

You've reached a conclusion without having read what I actually wrote, and you have no intention whatsoever of evaluating if that conclusion is valid or not.

You have better things to do. Better, presumably, than standing behind what you write in the sense of formulating it plausibly or even giving it some substance, not to mention actually offering the OP some form of advice?

But nonetheless you've no problem making a character analysis based on some other form of information (perhaps prejudice, perhaps arrogance, perhaps some personal issue with the automatically assigned user status - hard for me to tell).

There is a term for that: "Intellectual laziness".

Enjoy the marketplace, it is probably a better place for you to spend your time.

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If everyone you know agrees with you consistently, they are either not listening, or not capable of critical thought.

On the contrary: EF is like a little girls' tea-party these days, compared to the good old days.

It's a bit boring and it makes me sad.

Go find something more useful to do with your time than trying to find out plane fares for someone or groan/thank people right and left. It is sad really.

I am resplendant in a slightly smoky DEXTRON II. Better than leaded fuel, or burnt diff oil, I guess.

I never really liked those new Japanese whiskies, but I do quite enjoy a chicken madras from time to time.

When I joined there was a guy called Charlie R Soles and than that Lost_in_broad guy who had Denzel Washington as his Avatar (Maybe he still has it actually). So, yeah you might be right actually. It was not that good then either. I kind of liked you then DB. Your posts made much more sense and were funnier than others. But I must say, I have sensed some of the bitterness of the others seem to be rubbing on you. But, still you and your wife (Is she called MathNut?) sound like nice people.

I made a very good career out of "finding plane fares" for people, and am very rarely sad. You must be having a bad day.

WTF so many people posting on Saturday??

What is going on, Coop/Migros are already closed or what???



Edit: oh yeah it's past 4pm...

Resplendent.

Actually, you are right. I have had a bad day today but I am loving this thread.

Me? I'm an arsehole. But the forum used to be populated with all kinds of entertaining arseholes, nasty, bitchy and wonderful to a man and woman.

Remember DaveA? Natasha (htfu!)? Canadian Dude? Polorise? Lob? ... and dozens more... it was rough, rude and never, ever boring.

I honestly don't understand the posts we get these days saying that the forum has turned nasty. It always was nasty! But it's certainly much less funny than it used to be. So many people seem to take themselves so seriously and half the threads seem to be people whinging about forum "bullies".

Have a bunch of college-educated millennials taken over, or something? We'll be having "safe spaces" before we know it.

... and I thought ROT was bad.

Nah. Migros and Coop are still open. Just killing time til the online check-in opens for the flights I've just booked for myself, but got called sad for having all my search screens open and adapting the search for a fellow member. C'est la Vie!

Mods! Mods! I am being bullied! Help!

Ok, so you can read, you just can't be arsed to formulate some form of argument.

I stand corrected.

And cigarettes.

Tom

It was actually just a reference to the number of posts a person must have to acquire one of those statuses. Why would I have a personal problem with your status? After all, all you need to do to acquire those is post here some tripe a couple of thousand times.

Also I do not understand what you are talking about. Intellectual laziness? What does that even mean? Marketplace? Why should I go to marketplace? I am very well read, thank you. Even my spelling is better than yours.