How to greet a Newbie

[custardtart]

Hmmm, as I mentioned in a previous post, I just bought an MG RV8 and have been looking for some help from related forums.

Following a posting on the V8 register asking for info on Air Con compressors & Tyres I got the following helpful response!   No hello, just what is below!

Thank god we don't greet Newbies this way!!  

Visitors posting messages on the V8BB are required to disclose their full name and we do not accept tags like Custard Tart. Please do not post further messages in that way.

Regards,

Victor Smith

V8 Webmaster

V8 Register – MG Car Club

[Asterix]

Tell him you're dyslexic and your real name is Gus Turdcart

[JeffC]

Tell him you're dyslexic and your real name is Gus Turdcart

 

[bhouse]

I think i tmust be an MG thing. I was the subject of no end of abuse when some MG enthusiasts I knew discovered that I was using a Midget as a donor for an XI. Very rude, they were...

Brian

[Stevo]

If they are the rules, fair enough, did you read the 'before you post read this thread' thread?

It is a bit of a rude response but presumably it happens all the time, and that is the standard response.

I used to be a member of a programming forum and they were really strict about user names, the problem is that most of the users were from non english speaking lands and had names like 'Needa Krappa' and they were always getting into trouble with the mods.  

[hilux]

When I had a Rover P5B Coupe many years ago I joined the Rover P5 owners club.

I used to go to weekly meets with a good friend of mine but we decided to start our own in the Carpenters Arms in Harpenden Herts around 1992.

The owner John Tibble had a Mk II Jag and alongside us the Carpenters Arms Car Club formed.

Peter and I stopped the Rover Club meets as we like drinking beer and talking cars and all sort of wierd and wonderful people (with beards and sandals) would turn up drinking orange juice and talking about widgets and bushes etc.

One evening we went with our assorted classic cars to the MGOC meet at nearby Redbourn. They billed it as "MG`s on the common" who all parked up outside the Cricketers Arms (IIRC) with their TD`s and TF`s 1600 twin cams and B`s etc................................and they were stuck up, snobbish and totally blanked us all............. so we p*ssed off vowing never to move over for an MG owner or stop if they were in trouble.

A footnote was that Peter, John, Corky and I and some regulars from the Carpenters decided to have our own "Classics on the common" the next year in Harpenden at the same time so as to p*ss them off.............as you know the rest is history with us all bowing out after a couple of years as Peter and John turned our little meets into the 2nd biggest classic car show in Europe.

So...........all down to a load of stuck up tw*ts. Not that I`m bitter or anything but they really were bl**dy rude and obnoxious.

If you`ve anything you`d like to discuss re V8`s try this forum, very useful.

[dombanks]

i found the v6 part of the mondeo owners club a little naff like that. they were no where near as helfull as here. not so   retentive but still a pile of pap.

also the FOG frontera owners group sort of went that way but i think a slinter group formed which is better. t

[Blatman]

Hmmm, as I mentioned in a previous post, I just bought an MG RV8 and have been looking for some help from related forums.

Following a posting on the V8 register asking for info on Air Con compressors & Tyres I got the following helpful response!   No hello, just what is below!

Thank god we don't greet Newbies this way!!  

Visitors posting messages on the V8BB are required to disclose their full name and we do not accept tags like Custard Tart. Please do not post further messages in that way.

Regards,

Victor Smith

V8 Webmaster

V8 Register – MG Car Club

Scan/fake up a deed poll document and email to the "gentlemen" of the V8 Register... or maybe we should just set Buzz on them... or me...  Blatman is my real name after all...

[oldman]

k****l!I got told off on the RX8 website for saying k****l.k****l eh

[CrashBangWallop]

I hate websites that do that.  We're told from all the security boffins that you shouldn't give any personal details away online, in public - like revealing your name on chat sites, etc.  What's got to do with them?  Admittedly, you could just give a false normal name, but there's no fun in that.

I tried joining an animation site a couple of years ago and called myself Neil Whatsittoyou.  After many to'ing and fro'ing with an American admin that didn't appreciate my sense of humour, he didn't let me join.  I tried joining again calling myself John Doe, but he was certainly on the ball and stopped me again.  I feel sorry for any John or Jane Doe's that really are alive.

Thanks,

Neil Whatsittoyou

[Blatman]

QUOTE

Admittedly, you could just give a false normal name, but there's no fun in that.

Depends on the name you use...

Sincerely,

Sqdn Ldr (Retd) Cuthbert Arbuthnot Farquaharson DFC

[cast iron]

Mr Custard

Look up Stirling garage just outside Edinburgh ask for Andrew Morrison. He used to be a rover dealer and a phenomaly quick racing driver. He is a very nice helpful chap and will be a mine of info for the V8. He sold a couple (which was quite rare!)

He currently runs in the Northern Saloons with a Seat Touring car

[greenandmean]

Tell him you're dyslexic and your real name is Gus Turdcart

    Peter you get worse or is that better

[mrtsbrother]

I'm not stuck up!!!

But must say I am not into the MG 'scene'

for a good forum for MG related stuff try www.mg-rover.org

Nick

[V 8]

mondeo owners club

FOG frontera owners group

Please tell me you're joking goodness me