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arthursmedley
11-27-2010, 11:26 AM
As some of my fellow forum members may have noticed, early yesterday evening, on learning that political and religious discussion has now been banned on these forums, I took a swipe at Andy and decided to blame him for the current situation.

On reflection I now realise that this was grossly unfair on my part and Andy, if you're reading this, I would like to offer and hope you will accept my sincere and unreserved apology.

As we have all known and has been pointed out elsewhere today, this ruling has been a long time coming but certainly not unexpected. All I can offer as an explanation for my outburst is my frustration that the breadth of opinion, experience and insight that these boards offer us all has been restricted to a degree.

But it's not the end of the world as we know it and the more I consider the situation the more convinced I become that this ruling will eventually have a beneficial effect by encouraging people who have been reluctant to post of late to return here and hence enrich the experience for us all.

Once again Andy, sorry m8.

AndyJWest
11-27-2010, 11:59 AM
Thanks, Arthur.

I'd better not say too much on the issue, but I'd like to state for the record that with hindsight, I clearly could have handled things better, but do not accept anything approaching sole responsibility for the ban, and I think other forum members need also to consider their role in this matter.

joeap
11-27-2010, 12:32 PM
Well said gents, I must say I like Andy's sig for some reason in this context. http://forums.ubi.com/images/smilies/16x16_smiley-wink.gif

JG52Uther
11-27-2010, 12:57 PM
http://i265.photobucket.com/albums/ii240/Oleggi/ceilingcat.jpg

Urufu_Shinjiro
11-27-2010, 02:12 PM
http://forums.ubi.com/images/smilies/25.gif

major_setback
11-27-2010, 04:39 PM
I blame you all for everything, and I won't take it back!!
http://forums.ubi.com/images/smilies/16x16_smiley-mad.gif http://forums.ubi.com/images/smilies/16x16_smiley-tongue.gif

Now, go away!

AndyJWest
11-27-2010, 05:26 PM
Thanks setback. http://forums.ubi.com/images/smilies/16x16_smiley-wink.gif

Actually, I shot JFK. And JR. And invented Swine Flu. And Spam (both kinds)...

Joeap, the new sig was necessary given the obvious politics (and less than obvious irony - I think at least one forum member didn't get it http://forums.ubi.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_rolleyes.gif). I decided to be more subtle with my dialectics. http://forums.ubi.com/images/smilies/10.gif