Whats happened to Grumpy?

[Chancer]

I know it is a bit like missing a headache or a boil on the bum (perhaps I have the Stockholm syndrome) but the forum is not the same without my tormentor and cyber-stalker, it has been two months now since I last was on the receiving end of his particular style of posting.

What has become of him? Did the moderators ask him to "dah-do one R*n R*n" whilst I was absent or has he found more rewarding victims elsewhere?

I always thought that he must have been someones brother in law or lovechild (like Gunner Graham in Dad's Army) to have got away with some of his postings.

[bubbles]

Reminds me of a motoring incident recently involving my brother.

When attempting to leave a supermarket carpark, he accidently nudged his vehicle into the one behind.

Unfortunately the driver was present and emerged from his car; a very very short man he was and so angry that he was turning a peculiar shade of puce.

"I'm not happy. I'm really not happy" he shouted.

"Ah, which dwarf are you then?" replied my brother.

[Benjamin]

Be afraid J.R, be very, very afraid.

[JohnM]

Sorry to be a pedant, but Gunner Graham was in "It Aint Half Hot Mum".

[mint]

[quote user="J.Rs gone native"]

I know it is a bit like missing a headache or a boil on the bum (perhaps I have the Stockholm syndrome) but the forum is not the same without my tormentor and cyber-stalker, it has been two months now since I last was on the receiving end of his particular style of posting.

What has become of him? Did the moderators ask him to "dah-do one R*n R*n" whilst I was absent or has he found more rewarding victims elsewhere?

I always thought that he must have been someones brother in law or lovechild (like Gunner Graham in Dad's Army) to have got away with some of his postings.

[/quote]

Excuse my ignorance, JR, but what the hell is the "Stockholm Syndrome"?

As for your "tormentor and cyber-stalker", I have even less clue to their identity.

Oh well, just call it my age!  I find that I am less and less "with it" these days........

[Russethouse]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockholm_syndrome

Its when the victim of an abduction forms an attachment to the abductor

[NormanH]

Don't worry...I am still here. Is that grumpy enough for you?

[Sunday Driver]

[:D][:D][:D][:D][:D][:D]

 

 

[Théière]

[quote user="Russethouse"]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockholm_syndrome

Its when the victim of an abduction forms an attachment to the abductor

[/quote]

Probably because there is absolutely nothing better to do in Stockholm or Gothenburg or Tranemo or Boras [Www]

[mint]

Ah, RH, thank you for the explanation.  I now know what the term means.

Teapot, I don't know any of those other places you mention.  Do they also have "syndromes"?[:D]

[Chancer]

[quote user="NormanH"]Don't worry...I am still here. Is that grumpy enough for you?
[/quote]

Sorry it is not you qui me manque Norman, by comparison you dont even register on the scale of grumpiness [:D]

[Théière]

[quote user="sweet 17"]

Ah, RH, thank you for the explanation.  I now know what the term means.

Teapot, I don't know any of those other places you mention.  Do they also have "syndromes"?[:D]

[/quote]

I don't know but they are all  Sweden [:)]

[Patf]

JR - I've no idea who you're talking about. I've got a good memory, and have done a search, but come up with nothing.

Except there might be a simian connection?

[woolybanana]

Grumpy has to hang upside down in a dark cellar during the summer, fasting. However, as the days shorten, he unfurls his wings and begins to hunt again, seeking the blood of virgins, which is a challenge these days. So, hungry all summer and having to accept used goods explains why he is so bloody grumpy!!!

[Edward Trunk]

In the 1980s I spent two weeks in a small town in the middle of Sweden in the middle of winter. The sun rose at 10am and set by 2pm; alcohol was available only from the official liquor shop and was prohibitively expensive; there were 2 cafes in the town; one was owned by the Lutheran church and the other was known as "the sinful cafe" because it had a fruit machine. At the end of my time there I had lost the will to live.

[woolybanana]

You never lived in the Aveyron in winter!!

[Tancrède]

[quote user="sweet 17"]what the hell is the "Stockholm Syndrome"?[/quote]

In the good old days  -  before we started having 'syndromes'  -  we used to call it  Doing a Patty Hearst.

[mint]

[quote user="Gengulphus"][quote user="sweet 17"]what the hell is the "Stockholm Syndrome"?[/quote]
In the good old days  -  before we started having 'syndromes'  -  we used to call it  Doing a Patty Hearst.


[/quote]

But "syndrome" gives it a sort of quasi-medical legitmacy, don't you think?

[Chancer]

[quote user="Patf"]

JR - I've no idea who you're talking about. I've got a good memory, and have done a search, but come up with nothing.

Except there might be a simian connection?

[/quote]

Simian eh!

Now I am the confused one [:)]

Between my beach boys reference and WB's second posting you should be able to work it out.

[gosub]

The missing person may be lost in the aveyRON.

[AnOther]

We do have- or at least had - a real Grumpy [;-)]

http://www.completefrance.com/cs/user/Profile.aspx?UserID=83629

[Patf]

[quote user="woolybanana"]You never lived in the Aveyron in winter!![/quote]

Ahhhhh - NOW I know.

The monkey clue was to another member who got a bit cross now and again, and hasn't been seen lately.

[Quillan]

Just to say that the person you are all taking about has left the forum (of his own free will) and will not be returning. I believe he is active on another forum (I don't know which one, he never said).

[woolybanana]

Which is a pity really as he did have good knowledge of the tax system and was always pretty straight and honest. His loss leads towards even more blandness.

[Chancer]

Thank you Quillan, I wont be celebrating though [:(], I never took his jibes/attacks/call them what you wish to heart and I tried to give back as good as I got whilst trying at all times to remaining polite which was at times quite a challenge.

Now I can finally get rid of that annoying apostrophe in my user name, the only reason that I stubbornly held onto it was the knowledge that it wound him up and his inability to ask me to remove it in a civil way [6].

So in memory of the dear departed member who has left this forum a blander place I have decided to choose my new username in his memory and have selected one of the milder names that he liked to call me which if only he had known I took as a compliment [:)]