From britdisc-owner@csv.warwick.ac.uk Tue Mar 24 18:10:49 1998 Received: (from daemon@localhost) by pansy.csv.warwick.ac.uk (8.8.7/8.8.8) id SAA01912 for britdisc-outgoing; Tue, 24 Mar 1998 18:02:49 GMT Received: from venus.le.ac.uk (pp@venus.le.ac.uk [143.210.16.123]) by pansy.csv.warwick.ac.uk (8.8.7/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA01893 for <britdisc@csv.warwick.ac.uk>; Tue, 24 Mar 1998 18:02:45 GMT Received: from harrier.le.ac.uk by venus.le.ac.uk with SMTP (local); Tue, 24 Mar 1998 18:02:22 +0000 Date: Tue, 24 Mar 1998 18:02:19 +0000 (GMT) From: "B. Ravilious" <br5@leicester.ac.uk> X-Sender: br5@harrier To: Britdisc <britdisc@csv.warwick.ac.uk> Subject: The Drugs Dont Work In-Reply-To: <DE5F813EE256D1118E8400A024889FA60F82F6@dns1.kbw.co.uk> Message-ID: <Pine.SGI.3.96.980324172132.18989A-100000@harrier> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-britdisc@warwick.ac.uk Precedence: bulk On Tue, 24 Mar 1998, Roger Thomson wrote: > Dear All, > > My final words on tournie reports as Ben's flower pot appears close to > bursting: Flobalobalob > 1) We all agree we need good ones. > 2) We agree it takes >1 person. > 3) We only need to decide whether it should be an Ultimatum, TD or > BUF-driven job. I don't know who decides, that's officialdom's job and > you lot wear the uniforms. At the moment Si Hill is dealing with it, > cheers Si. As far as I know, things are in such a state at the moment > that we'd struggle to work out who won such and such a tournie two years > ago if we didn't know it was Shotgun. We should be archiving this shit > on the web. You guys want to look back and tell your grandchildren don't > you? 'We came second in this....'. More seriously, it's good for > publicity/recognition/sponsorship/history (when we're the biggest sport > in town rather than the smallest pondlife wearing cleats) etc. > > SERIOUS READERS PLEASE LEAVE THIS MAIL NOW. > On a lighter note: > > 4) Sort it out you load of noncers! > 5) Chris Hughes may think he can delegate to me, but Chris, you delegate > down the food chain, not 400 generations into the future. By the way, > how's your pet sabretooth? Harsh - but fair! > 6) Quote Ben Ravilious: "I am grateful to you for the British Open. I am > not *quite* so grateful to Roger who seems to have had an awful lot of > 'good ideas' just as I'm in a blind panic trying to get Tour 1 > organised! I just don't like being lectured by players who dont *appear* > to do any organising themselves." Shit Ben, do you think the best > team in this country runs itself? Well it doesn't. Nor does the Gun > website, the Gun accounts; Hey Nolan, how much will you pay me not to post your last letter?! And which team had to be bailed-out by a certain other top UK team cos they didn't get their entry fee in on time? > oh and while my memory's working, Strange > Blue didn't start all by itself either all those years ago while I was > at university. Better go check 'em out then cos all their best players deserted long ago.... > but my toys are still in the pram. As are your tantrums. > > Flame all you like - but didn't your Mum ever tell you: 'don't play with > fire'? > > YOU'LL ONLY GET BURNED! Raaaaaa! > Kind regards, > > A de-fingered GUNNER > > 'He's rude and he knows he is, he's rude......' OK Roger, you're pretty experienced in this game and you've done a lot in the past. But the one thing I notice about this sport is that it is filled by apathetic players, and worse, apathetic players with a gob on them. Perhaps you're not apathetic but your general tone is one of "you should do this, that and the other" which is not conducive to discussion or motivation. I can't help but notice that you voice isn't really represented in the BUF. Why don't you get a little more involved in that? Well its long past my bedtime now and the floor is a mess of mangled toys...seeya.... Ben