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The Thomas Merton Thread

Asset or Annoyance to thaivisa? 47 members have voted

  1. 1. Asset or Annoyance to thaivisa?

    • Asset
      54%
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    • Annoyance
      45%
      20

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I wasn't going to vote at all but this morning i opened a thread wear  :o he has picked me up on my ######in spelling  :D So i vote TW@T

:D

Maybe its TM's annoyance that is the asset.

Well if my dog annoyed me like this to55er, i'd rip his balls off :D

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I for one vote TM is an asset to the forum, despite his often pompous ways,  and despite his posturing, and despite his sarcastic wit (which many people dont seem to get? :o ) he seems like 'one of the good guys'.

toemas merton has the right to express his opinion - just like everyone else.

I voted asset

I am not sure if I am on his ignore list - but I do get the feeling he has yet to forgive me for putting his name on an australian jersey and wearing it to the socail......CFzero

he might be a pompous old git ( not a rare species )- but at least it gives people a goal not to aspire too :D:D

So you're thankful for him because he reminds you of what not to be like?

How perverse are you willing to get!

I can't say I ever got annoyed at the often 'misunderstood' TM to the levels of Daleyboy and Jockstar, but he did wind me up so much at one point that I asked him "Do you just come here to patronize people?".

I will openly admit i have a dislike for Merton. Anyone who accuses another member of this

Quote Thomas Merton

"Or would a Bristol Boot Boy, supporter of the NF, never having left the security of his mummy's purse strings, post it?

You choose."

Now i see this as bad as me accusing Merton of being a pedo, just from looking at his pic, is this right either? You throw enough shit some of it will stick.

You bang on with all these bullshit topics, like you are some sort of political wannabe, when in actual fact all you are is the sad little loner who sits in the corner of the pub with your half a pint of best and no one to talk to, because they don’t want to listen to your shit, so you come on here and go on instead.

You look down on other members as if you are better than them just because you have been to university; well you’re not the only one to go to uni. I have been twice 1st time to study a Bsc in business decision analysis, and the second time a Ba in law and psychology, so get a life you’re not better than the rest of us.

In future do me a favour, if you’re going to have a dig at me stand up and pull your trousers down because i can’t hear what you’re saying.

You seem to spend your entire time on TV trying to bait other members into arguments and flame wars.

I find just about everything about you offensive from your avatar to your self proclaimed pompous up your own ass photo.

I have plenty more i could say but i have better things to be doing other than stroking your already over inflated ego.

Let me just say dont ever catch on fire near me, because i wont piss on you :o

TM accused you of (being a bristol boot boy and )

supporter of the NF,
DAILY BOY replies
I find just about everything about you offensive from your avatar to

it seems his accusation wasnt so far from the truth then.

DAILY BOY

You seem to spend your entire time on TV trying to bait other members into arguments and flame wars.

not doing so bad yourself daily boy.

Let me just say dont ever catch on fire near me, because i wont piss on you :o

I'd prefer to use a baseball bat to extinguish TM. :D

Let me just say dont ever catch on fire near me, because i wont piss on you :o

I'd prefer to use a baseball bat to extinguish TM. :D

Gazza, TM is in England, and using a Baseball Bat just wouldn't be Cricket....................Ah yes, a Cricket Bat :D

Let me just say dont ever catch on fire near me, because i wont piss on you :o

I'd prefer to use a baseball bat to extinguish TM. :D

Really?

I voted asset although Tommy gets up my nose from time to time.

Take off the blinders re. Muslims and their failure to address the radical element and we'll be 'best mates' Tom! :o

Struth! If Boon Mee is willing to be 'best mates' with you TM, you do have problems.

daleyboy - I think you are taking this forum and TM in particular far too seriously.

By the way, which TM avatar do you take offence at? The Star of David? The black labrador? The bald old coot?

By the way, which TM avatar do you take offence at? The Star of David? The black labrador? The bald old coot?

The bald old coot!

The Star of David is a 'cracker'! :o

I can't say I ever got annoyed at the often 'misunderstood' TM to the levels of Daleyboy and Jockstar, but he did wind me up so much at one point that I asked him "Do you just come here to patronize people?".

I will openly admit i have a dislike for Merton. Anyone who accuses another member of this

Quote Thomas Merton

"Or would a Bristol Boot Boy, supporter of the NF, never having left the security of his mummy's purse strings, post it?

You choose."

Now i see this as bad as me accusing Merton of being a pedo, just from looking at his pic, is this right either? You throw enough shit some of it will stick.

You bang on with all these bullshit topics, like you are some sort of political wannabe, when in actual fact all you are is the sad little loner who sits in the corner of the pub with your half a pint of best and no one to talk to, because they don’t want to listen to your shit, so you come on here and go on instead.

You look down on other members as if you are better than them just because you have been to university; well you’re not the only one to go to uni. I have been twice 1st time to study a Bsc in business decision analysis, and the second time a Ba in law and psychology, so get a life you’re not better than the rest of us.

In future do me a favour, if you’re going to have a dig at me stand up and pull your trousers down because i can’t hear what you’re saying.

You seem to spend your entire time on TV trying to bait other members into arguments and flame wars.

I find just about everything about you offensive from your avatar to your self proclaimed pompous up your own ass photo.

I have plenty more i could say but i have better things to be doing other than stroking your already over inflated ego.

Let me just say dont ever catch on fire near me, because i wont piss on you :o

It gives me great comfort to see that the main striker in the attack against TM is a graduate in business studies, law and psychology as well as being in denial of his racism and bully-boy tactics.

Nevertheless he does appear to be more than capable of displaying the erudition and style commensurate with such qualifications in his reposts.

Daleyboy, lightning up and realise all members are assets to Thaivisa, even those who don’t think and feel like yourself.

Otherwise Thaivisa would be as boring as the Women’s Institute on a wet Wednesday afternoon.

Couldn't leave it a mystery, eh Boon? I voted when this topic first appeared. Asset. I read his posts so I can get a read on his style. He's funny and I believe he is a bigger ass than me. Thus drawing attention away from some of the stupid stuff I come up with. :o Though he is not a champion ass. :D No champions medal for you TM. I'll be &^#@ed if I nominate you for an award. :D

I'm calling myself an ass too. Naturally I don't wish to think of myself as a bigger ass though I may well be one. :o

be cool you guys

take a deep breath ,,and counting sheep :o

i like needling people who's opinions needle me so asset is the only box to tick. The day people get banned for bursting bubbles is the day I leave never to return, this is a forum and everyone is entitled to post within the rules. If you don't like what someonesays there is always the ignore button. I don't use it though, leaves a void in the ammo for bursting bubbles

I recieved a call from Thomas the other day when I was on a National Express coach en route to York.

We had a nice chat and he sounds younger than I expected.

I haven't had time to read this thread but I will do so next time I log on.

Which will be in Kung tep mahanna korn.:o

The cited criticisms of daleyboy were unfounded, taxexile, so don't show yourself up quite so by attempting to show they were justified. They weren't.

I'll stop there as this sort of thread just makes everyone appear childish, me included.

in relation to his rant above , i believe they were justified.

but as you say its not really that important.

this thread reminds me a lot of that book , "the lord of the flies"

TM is a lurking TV moderator...otherwise his pedantic drivel would have gone the way of Bluecat and Yohan...

TM is a lurking TV moderator...otherwise his pedantic drivel would have gone the way of Bluecat and Yohan...

A bit off the mark there, Tutsi. You should see what we write about him in the mods forum :o

TM is a lurking TV moderator...otherwise his pedantic drivel would have gone the way of Bluecat and Yohan...

A bit off the mark there, Tutsi. You should see what we write about him in the mods forum :o

What can I say?

True fame at last.

To be the subject of discussions by THE MODS!

It makes ones life pale into insignificance.

TM is a lurking TV moderator...otherwise his pedantic drivel would have gone the way of Bluecat and Yohan...

Yes, but you know how I love to wind him up over Liberal (sorry, Progressive) vs. Conservative issues, tutsi! :o

Ok I wasn’t going to make anymore replies to this thread but seeing as I am still being accused of being a racist I will answer those accusations

To taxexile, forgive me but I don’t know much about religion, but I think that most people who have devout beliefs in there own religion wouldn’t want to see it being amalgamated with several other religions as depicted in Mertons avatar.

To Merton you are still calling me a racist care to back that up with some evidence? I have looked for that particular email I posted about illegal immigrants in the joke section but I must have deleted it. For those that didn’t see it the general gist of it was, a new game show called the illegal immigrant game show, with prizes of free cars, free houses free health care etc, now if I remember rightly these comments were also backed up with some statistics, and it was written in such a way that it was taking the piss out of the govt and not asylum seekers, and it wasn’t something I wrote, it was passed onto me by a Bangladeshi friend of mine.

So tell me Merton, do you never make fun of the Aussies, or the French or maybe the Scottish or the Welsh? If you do, does that make you any less of a racist?

On the note of bully boy tactics, care to explain that one? What bully boy tactics? you keep going on that everyone has a right to their own opinion, well my opinion is I don’t like you, just because you don’t like that does it make me wrong?

If you care to see who the op is, it isn’t me, I am not the one who started the thread on who likes you and who doesn’t, I merely gave my opinion, which like you keep saying I am entitled to.

You live up there in your little village in the Pennines away from the real world; i wonder if your opinion would be the same if the govt housed a group of Albanian gangsters next door to you, how you would feel about letting your child or wife out on their own.

I voted asset.

Some of your political postings get on peoples nerves but the rest of your posts have valid points and added humor that some members fail to see.

Maybe you are not meaning to be humorus but that is the best type of humour to be honest.

TM. Elsewhere in this forum I have stated my opposition to pomposity. Brits seem to lead the world in this trait and you apparently fit the description.

However, I would never advocate censure of opinion.

This forum is a unique place populated by 20,000+ individuals from around the globe. It has become special to me because of the diversity of character that is displayed here. As a normally closed person, I have avidly studied the offerings, helpfullness, friendliness and humour of the membership. All in our own way offer something.

Although some of your stuff I find to be borish, the Professor Fart line alone should enshine you in the tv hall of fame.

I voted asset.

Some of your political postings get on peoples nerves but the rest of your posts have valid points and added humor that some members fail to see.

Maybe you are not meaning to be humorus but that is the best type of humour to be honest.

TM is likely VERY aware of how other people perceive him.

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