Have you clicked the link ? It says Telegraph :rolleyes:

And in the blurb before the quote it says Sunday Mirror. I did wonder about some of the longer words in the quote, but since it said Sunday Mirror at the top…;)

Flood

Sounds like a storm in a tea cup to me, a bit of a lame story and typical jingoistic nonsense designed to stir up paranoid reactions like that above, by Britain’s favourerd right wing rag. 😡

Eh? Thought this was taken from the Sunday Mirror…?

Flood

Been waiting to use this one. Dunno where it came from though.

Flood

Seeing as Flood has abused his moderator powers again by closing a perfectly reasonable thread, perhaps he could do me the inestimable courtesy of explaining why his original attack on me was deleted if it was not considered inapproriate by the person who deleted it.

Thank you.

kev35

May I humbly apologise to you. There was never any intention on my part to hurt your feelings or sensibilities.
I would guess that it was my comments about people who had authored books, etc, being poor spellers that caused that particular post to be deleted, not the assumed attack by me on you which never happened; you can still see my exact quote in the thread of yours that is locked on historic (the one with my reply which made it quite plain that I had not mentioned you – or anyone else – in any way, shape or form). If you let me – or any other moderator or the webmaster – know which word or phrase in that particular post you thought applicable to yourself then we can hopefully moderate it to your satisfaction.
Poor spelling has never been your problem; there has never been any spelling mistakes in your posts that I can recall. In fact I was at a complete loss to see how on earth you had managed to conclude that you were the victim of, to quote you, an ‘unprovoked personal attack’ and ‘insults’ by me (since I only said ‘bad spellers on this forum’, not thread; and I actually meant to say ‘these forum’ anyway) until, searching back for another project, I came across a mention that you were writing a book.
Sorry, I didn’t realise you were an author.

Can we draw a line under this now?:)

Flood

You won’t believe it, but just to chuck cold water on your ego it was not an ‘attack’ on you, and certainly not an ‘attack’ by a moderator since I was posting in the same capacity as you.
If I might quote the ‘offending’ deleted post:

Originally Posted by ollieholmes
Stop slating my spelling. I try to spell but it is not my fault i cant spell. Not everyone out theres a perfect speller.

Nice to see that you ignored the rest of my post…
You know, there are an awful lot of bad spellers on this forum who have authored books, etc. In the past I posted questions asking if their editors worked full time on the corrections needed. You are not alone.

Flood

It was not knowingly directed at anyone who had replied on that thread, and got a very offensive reply (which went unpunished other than being deleted) from someone who really should know better. The gist of my post was that his spelling is not a reason for him to give up his research, since there are others here who have mis-spelt in their posts here who have published in the past; if you believe you fall into this category then that is your conclusion, not mine.

I make this post on the forum, rather than by PM, just to show that nothing is hidden.

Flood

Any coincidence that it was 39 years ago today…?

Flood

Maybe do it for the 80th anniversary. Gives you nine years to do the research, find the pix, talk to the decreasing pool of experience, gain some experience, learn to spell, et al.

Flood