Get a life
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7322347.stm
This John blokes a bleedin nutter. Theres bands i really like and some other celebs but i wouldnt jack in my job for 6 months to go everyday to some trial ! Bizarre.
This sad muppet is 53 and must have family/wife/kids he should be supporting instead of acting like a little 5 year old . Embarassing. Seemed 'proud' he even got a mention in the summing up !
I know some people who are big Diana fans or royalists but this is just ridiculous. Think he should be sectioned.
This John blokes a bleedin nutter. Theres bands i really like and some other celebs but i wouldnt jack in my job for 6 months to go everyday to some trial ! Bizarre.
This sad muppet is 53 and must have family/wife/kids he should be supporting instead of acting like a little 5 year old . Embarassing. Seemed 'proud' he even got a mention in the summing up !
I know some people who are big Diana fans or royalists but this is just ridiculous. Think he should be sectioned.
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i salute him, he is what i call a 'true brit'.
It brings a tear to my eye to see that 'our' english rose can still touch the hearts of everyday people. She was the people princes. god bless her, and lets hope out future king can show the kind of goodness she blessed upon us all.
Sad muppet, agreed. But there is no reason he should have wife, family and kids. I'm 36 have no kids, and had a vasectomy last year.
I don't think he should be sectioned. I live with someone who has on occasion been sectioned. Being a complete arse, isn't enough to be detained. :)
Like i say i know a few people who really like the royals and Diana (i dont mind em) but every day for 6 months at 5am for nothing ?!? Not like he can do anything apart from just listen. Weird.
True if being a complete arse meant you got detained i think myself and others might be off to the looney bin ;)
It's the kids I feel sorry for...lets think of the children people...
i have a nagging feeling that this bloke takes it up the brown. (the guy beanz is talking about)
whereabouts?
up kings road.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=552372&in_page_id=1770
Hmm going on holiday with his sister, no mention of kids/wife. Bit strange, or hes from Alabama
"I'm going down in history for this," says John Loughrey. "It wouldn't surprise me if there wasn't a portrait of me hanging in Kensington Palace in 100 years time."
He should have a large plastic penis strapped to his forehead, like Gamestage.
I really don't like this trend of suggesting anyone who doesn't follow the regimented definitions of "normal" as defined by the Daily Mail should be locked up. This forum would get awfully quiet if that were the case.
This guy has hurt no one. He shouldn't be condemned. It's up to him if he wants to do something the rest of us see as a waste of time. There isn't any evidence he has a wife, or children (who, judging by his age, in all probability would be adults by now).
How did i know you were going to disagree ? ;)
Believe me because of my retro hobby i dont take the mick out of people with another 'different' hobby such as train spotting, bird watching etc.
But i'm sorry, on the level of 'being different' where i'm on a certain rung of the ladder due to playing 25 year old computer games its nothing compared to this person. Granted hes not hurting anyone at all, i dont think hes a violent nut, more a harmless 'ha ha look at him' type of nut. But if this was normal we would all be doing it.
If i was laughing at some bloke who has a collection of sea shells hes collected for 20 years then yeah i get your point, i'm a hypocrite but i'm sorry my personal view is that this bloke is several more rungs up the nutter ladder than me and my old computer games
Hmm you sure about that?
His ex employer after he quit
Or the taxpayers who are probably giving him social security
Edit: Removed the wife and kids thing
Sorry if its not PC or not but this blokes a nutter.
what happened to the stuff about the 60 year old, i had a great joke about karingal at the ready. :(
Ha ha sorry had to edit as i went into my usual 'write a book' mode when i replied !
this fine site
Or if you should need a new forum try
this one
Already a member. Managed to get 5 gigs from that site as i've been a facepainter now for 15 years.
Compared to them I am but a youngster. :razz:
Did you get good money from that Diana trial?
Yeah but meeting up with John outside the court at 5am every morning was a bit of a nightmare. Plus when i got the gig i was told i was going to be drawing lion faces etc (my speciality) instead of 'Diana' and 'Dodi' which wasnt too hard to do.
Still its money at the end of the day
QFT. I was about to lay into the guy when I realised that you do have rather a good point. YS3's been around for a while, and more than once I've taken time off work just to program stuff. (And I've spent an alarming amount of time re-jigging badly-written comics, too.)
And I actually dragged the missus out of her sick bed to help me pick up Thingley's Speccy collection too, so I'm worse than Superfan already.
But when you took that time off was it a) unpaid for 6 months and b) did you write CLIVE and SINCLAIR with blue paint like a child on your face for that time ?
Quitting your job is not a crime, and not generally seen as hurting society. If we want to get to that level of pedantry, then didn't you hurt Britain by quitting the country? Did you pay back all the money the UK paid to teach you to read and write?
Since he quit voluntarily, he would not be elegible for unemployment benefit - he would have had to pay for his "venture" out of his own pocket. His sister presumably appears to be supportive of what he did. Based on the evidence so far, the only person who has the moral authority to deliver this man blistering criticism is his sister.
Last time I looked, this was a substantially free country, and quitting your job to attend a court case is not a crime. It just seems really petty that people on a forum dedicated to a long obsolete computer think that someone who is harmlessly eccentric should be condemned and suggest that they should be "sectioned". It's not about political correctness (which is abhorrent in itself), it's about live and let live.
I know exactly what it's like to be "laid into" because I didn't conform, and I refuse to lay into someone who is doing something that may be weird or eccentric. Deriding someone because they may be eccentric is something that bullies do on a school playground, and I'm so glad I left that world behind when I was 18, never to see it again. From the evidence presented so far, this man merely seems eccentric but harmless, and I ain't gonna knock a guy for that. It's his life, not mine. I see no evidence that this guy is depriving his children of anything, indeed, there is no evidence that he even has children or a wife - and the circumstantial evidence seems to point to him being not currently married or married at the time he decided to do what he did.
a) No. But then I'm young(ish) and have no savings to splurge - if I had a few grand in the bank I'd definitely take six months off and get on with my Contact Sam Cruise remake.
b) No. But I did try to grow a beard like Clive's. (It didn't work out - beards are an awful lot of hassle.)
If he was sponsored to attend court everyday for Diana and to give money to one of her charities i dont think anyone would really knock it but like Miles says turning up everyday with the words plastered over your face is a bit OTT and not helping his cause.
Granted people are different but i'm sorry, if there were 1,000 Diana fans outside everyday of court for 6 months then perhaps fair enough but its just one bloke, so to me its not normal and nice or not i'll take the p*ss out of him. He doesnt care (probably listening to the voices in his head instead ;)
Like Miles says hes an obsessive and I personally think - very odd.
When i was single I tried to pull a stunning younger model like Sir Clive but sadly that didnt happen ;)
was she bald with glassers?
flipping heck you must have problems if thats beyond you. :)
Huh? who said it was...you said he didn't hurt ANYONE
I disagree...I'm sure his employer was none too happy with him quitting as he would have to spend time finding a replacement and probably lost 'production' in the process...and the taxpayers then footing the bill for his social security cheque.
EDIT: Note I said social security...NOT unemployment benifit...2 different things.
I was on Social security when I was 18...easy to get...whether your fired/quit/never worked...its welfare basically NOT unemployment benifit. When your unemployment benefit runs out..then you go on Social Security.