Topic: Welcome to RCR.... or maybe not....?!

[loveitspicy]

It's interesting, also, that these threads attract interest like no other, so it can't be all bad.

And paedophiles attracts far more interest than paediatricians, so I'm not entirely convinced that your argument holds water, George ... !
** Phil.

You don't need to be convinced! I see it as a near-fact. Whenever I click on argumentative threads, I see about a dozen member names also listed as viewing the thread. On other threads, it might be two or three people. Let's not bring paedophiles into the discussion.

If you want to use an extreme example, then so will I. With some of the threats made on this thread, it did occur to me it was a bit like the threats made by the commandants of Japanese POW camps in WWII. Like, if even one person escaped, then something like a dozen others might be selected and executed, to punish a high number, just because you have a grievance against one person. Insane.

Colonel Nicholson: Bridge over the river kwai: One day the war will be over. And I hope that the people that use this bridge in years to come will remember how it was built and who built it. Not a gang of slaves, but soldiers, British soldiers, Clipton, even in captivity.  Who built this site and have carried it forward Curry makers in kitchens around the world - i'm standing up now hand on heart! Proud! To say i work in a kitchen with heat flames and the stench of chilli making my nose run and eyes water I'M PROUD  to be a BRITISH INDIAN CURRY MAKER - OK enough i'm overcome with emotion!! Wish i could whistle Bridge on the River Kwai Theme

best, Rich

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[Cory Ander]

Registration problems at RCR is none of this forums business.

This thread should have been deleted (by someone who hasn't promised to only remove spam) at the outset, in my opinion.  And the whole thread still should be. 

All it's doing is bringing this forum into disrepute....and it adds absolutely no value to this forum.

[mickdabass]

All it's doing is bringing this forum into disrepute....and it adds absolutely no value to this forum.

agreed

[George]

All it's doing is bringing this forum into disrepute....and it adds absolutely no value to this forum.

agreed

I agree too, but because there are at least two members who disagree, there's no consensus and, if I deleted the thread, CA would probably be the first person to complain.

[George]

Colonel Nicholson: Bridge over the river kwai:

The trouble is, that film was criticised somewhat for giving a relatively soft view of life in a Japanese POW camp. It was apparently never that soft. I got my thought for blaming (shooting) many people in response to the alleged wrong doing of one, after watching another film online - "The Great Raid", about a POW camp holding mainly US troops. Life in that camp was portrayed as much harsher than in "Bridge On the River Kwai"

[h4ppy-chris]

I vote it stays.

[Les]

CA would probably be the first person to complain.

So What, Is he your master George
No. Just another member of this forum (wait for it)

Les

[Unclebuck]

George stop being a and delete this thread.

[Les]

Here, Here.

Les

[Peripatetic Phil]

You don't need to be convinced! I see it as a near-fact. Whenever I click on argumentative threads, I see about a dozen member names also listed as viewing the thread. On other threads, it might be two or three people.

Yes, a dozen or more members are getting extremely p1ss@d off at deliberately inflammatory statements being made, and at the responses that they predictably elicit.  How you can view that in a positive light I simply cannot understand.  All such threads do is to show the forum in a very bad light, and encourage would-be (and even some existing) members to desert CR0 and join RCR.

If you want to use an extreme example, then so will I. With some of the threats made on this thread, it did occur to me it was a bit like the threats made by the commandants of Japanese POW camps in WWII. Like, if even one person escaped, then something like a dozen others might be selected and executed, to punish a high number, just because you have a grievance against one person. Insane.

In the light of your later comments in the portrayal of the Japanese in BotRK, I have two observations :

1) Read "Spice Island Slaves" by the late Professor Leslie Audus, himself a FEPOW (Far East (former) Prisoner of War); he is not judgemental, but tells the unvarnished truth, which is pretty horrific.

2) During my visit to Kyoto a couple of years ago, I met a very large number of extremely likeable, friendly, polite Japanese people.  I also met one of the Imperial Guards, on duty in the gardens of the Imperial Palace, who in an outburst of fury because my Chinese teacher had stepped three inches over a line, gave a terrifying demonstration of what can happen when a person in authority observes what he regards as "inappropriate behaviour" by someone who (by virtue of the latter's nationality and position) he does not deem as worthy of any respect.  It was the Emperor's garden, and a Chinese visitor had unwittingly trespassed by three inches : the response was so extreme that I felt I was witnessing at first-hand the behaviour of a Japanese PoW camp commandant.

** Phil.