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| One despairs, one really does. --] (]) 20:56, 6 February 2012 (UTC) | |||
| It was reading the ultimate paragraph of this post: that finally convinced me it was time to go, yes, Hans is quite right, I am stuck in a vicious circle and there was no likelihood of things improving. | |||
| I told one of the someone the other day that whenever I start a page, it is seized on by others immediately before it's even finished and warring and argument starts; the last page being a prime example (WP-Own is one thing seizing on every edit an editor makes is quite another) the page was locked for days preventing me from properly finishing it - and I can only think of just one other editor here who knows enough to know where the points I was outlining were leading. I have not wanted to touch it since and complete it - too much stress, too much bother and life is too short. | |||
| There have been hundreds of other similar incidents and I'm tired of it - I start pages in userspace and then lose interest because I cannot face having to justify every commonly held opinion to some idiotic Randy from Boise and his piled on friends, so the pages are never completed. No doubt, some will be screaming WP-OWN, but that cannot be the excuse to allow pages to sink, be over-simplified or just plain erroneous or misleading. Anyhow, I've always said and believed that If one can't write here, one might as well not be here because all that leaves for me here is posting and opining on the talk pages - and that eventually only leads to further bitterness and we have enough of that here already. In short, it's been made clear to me, that I have no future here. Pity really because I would have made a bloody good Arb :-) | |||
| Misplaced Pages is edited mostly by people who know a little about everything and a lot about nothing, and anyone who knows a lot is considered a danger to the project. That's because the under-educated fear exposure from the over-educated and keep them down and themselves on top - and that is certainly true of many of the Admins and it's a practice which begins at the top of the tree, and know that many on top of that tree will be more than delighted to see the back of me. | |||
| Successive Arbcoms have become more and more lack lustre, and the acceptance of the case against Malleus Fatuorum ,in particular the amount and length of permitted spite (evidence - I believe it was called) that was posted against him, is just one more example of the self-satisfied, smug, puritan lynch mob that's allowed and encouraged to rule here. For that the Arbcom, and editors who posted such lengthy vitriol, should be hanging their heads in shame. I hope Malleus and others like him survive because they are a breath of fresh air. However, if nothing changes (and I seriously doubt it will) they'll eventually end up feeling just as I do now - I know of many other editors who are too on the point of going - only the addiction and their friends keep them here. People say that other editors come along, and yes, they do, but for every good new editor who comes along, it seems that ten social climbing, ignorant little would-be admins come too. | |||
| So as you will have gathered by now, I am pretty hacked off with the project, so all that remains to say is thanks to all those who have been my friends and supported what I was trying to do here. Never, is a very long time, but I certainly have no plans for returning unless the admin system changes drastically - send me an e-Mail if it does, but I won't be holding my breath. There's a few unfinished pages here if anyone wants to finish one off or paste into their own space - feel free, help yourself. So long all of you. ] ] 10:04, 7 February 2012 (UTC) | |||
| == 26 October 2011 - Reply == | |||
| I was just typing this reply to a query back in October and got an edit conflict. | |||
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| The Catherine de Burgh User:Catherine de Burgh/Catherine Bonkbuster page reminded me of "Lady Addle Remembers" but when I reread my Lady Addle I saw that except for the theme, timeline, photos, and much else that the two women are quite different, although that is to be expected as "Lady Addle Remembers" is a work of fiction. You can see the difference in this paragraph from "Lady Addle Remembers" pages 10-12: | |||
| This delicate fastidiousness she inherited from my grandmother, the Duchess of Droitwich who always wore white kid gloves in the house because of a rooted aversion from touching anything that had been fingered by the servants. She only removed them when she wanted to touch her husband or children. One morning, however, she absent-mindedly walked into his dressing-room while he was getting up and found that he was being dressed by the butler, and thereafter she wore gloves even when alone with the Duke. My father was a bit of a martinet and insisted on our being educated. We had, besides our English governess, a French Mademoiselle for French, a German Fraulein for German, an Italian Signora for Italian, a Spanish Senorita for Spanish, and a Russian lady who took the dogs out. | |||
| Uncle uncle uncle 16:41, 26 October 2011 (UTC) | |||
| </blockquote> | |||
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| I really think that my beloved cousin, Lady Addle, will be of little interest to Misplaced Pages's editors - not a crowd noted for their understanding of the finer points of life. When darling Blanche left us, panache left the world with her. As for you - one thing my dearest amd much belated mother always taught me was to beware of men wanting to be called "uncle"! Now, did you want something or are you here only to atract attention to yourself? The Countess of Scrotum (De facto) (talk) 21:47, 26 October 2011 (UTC) | |||
| </blockquote> | |||
| As far as I remember, I had noticed the resemblance to Lady Addle and mentioned it - Frank Muir wrote "The Oxford Book of Humorous Prose" which is where I first read Lady Addle. | |||
| Similar faux memoirs which I like are: | |||
| "Augustus Carp, Esq., By Himself: Being the Autobiography of a Really Good Man" ] is a story of "a self-aggrandizing, stuffy, puritanical oaf, who indulges in numerous vices in the name of Christianity, rationalizing his own weaknesses while condemning others for the same acts." according to an Amazon.com reviewer. The real author published the book anonymously - but he eventually revealed himself to be the doctor of George VI. | |||
| "Diary of a Nobody" ] which is gentler and possibly funnier than Lady Addle. Described as a "gentle, loving, intricately detailed, and acute (but never hostile) evocation of late-Victorian London" according to someone on Amazon.com who writes better than I do. | |||
| "The Life and Death of Rochester Sneath" ] the author "sent letters to real people (harasses them, if you will), in this case in the guise of a nonexistent headmaster of an equally nonexistent public school. | |||
| The book consists of a collection of those letters and the various (real) responses received. Many notable British figures, such as George Bernard Shaw and Sir Andrian Boult, sent replies to Sneath's importunate letters, which asked them to speak at an annual celebration (Shaw) and conduct the school orchestra (Boult). Both men, need I say, declined the honor." Humphry Berkely ] the author was expelled from school for two years - but eventually finished and went on to elected to Parliment. | |||
| ] 21:11, 6 February 2012 (UTC) | |||
Revision as of 10:04, 7 February 2012
Retired This user is no longer active on Misplaced Pages.It was reading the ultimate paragraph of this post: that finally convinced me it was time to go, yes, Hans is quite right, I am stuck in a vicious circle and there was no likelihood of things improving.
I told one of the someone the other day that whenever I start a page, it is seized on by others immediately before it's even finished and warring and argument starts; the last page being a prime example (WP-Own is one thing seizing on every edit an editor makes is quite another) the page was locked for days preventing me from properly finishing it - and I can only think of just one other editor here who knows enough to know where the points I was outlining were leading. I have not wanted to touch it since and complete it - too much stress, too much bother and life is too short.
There have been hundreds of other similar incidents and I'm tired of it - I start pages in userspace and then lose interest because I cannot face having to justify every commonly held opinion to some idiotic Randy from Boise and his piled on friends, so the pages are never completed. No doubt, some will be screaming WP-OWN, but that cannot be the excuse to allow pages to sink, be over-simplified or just plain erroneous or misleading. Anyhow, I've always said and believed that If one can't write here, one might as well not be here because all that leaves for me here is posting and opining on the talk pages - and that eventually only leads to further bitterness and we have enough of that here already. In short, it's been made clear to me, that I have no future here. Pity really because I would have made a bloody good Arb :-)
Misplaced Pages is edited mostly by people who know a little about everything and a lot about nothing, and anyone who knows a lot is considered a danger to the project. That's because the under-educated fear exposure from the over-educated and keep them down and themselves on top - and that is certainly true of many of the Admins and it's a practice which begins at the top of the tree, and know that many on top of that tree will be more than delighted to see the back of me.
Successive Arbcoms have become more and more lack lustre, and the acceptance of the case against Malleus Fatuorum ,in particular the amount and length of permitted spite (evidence - I believe it was called) that was posted against him, is just one more example of the self-satisfied, smug, puritan lynch mob that's allowed and encouraged to rule here. For that the Arbcom, and editors who posted such lengthy vitriol, should be hanging their heads in shame. I hope Malleus and others like him survive because they are a breath of fresh air. However, if nothing changes (and I seriously doubt it will) they'll eventually end up feeling just as I do now - I know of many other editors who are too on the point of going - only the addiction and their friends keep them here. People say that other editors come along, and yes, they do, but for every good new editor who comes along, it seems that ten social climbing, ignorant little would-be admins come too.
So as you will have gathered by now, I am pretty hacked off with the project, so all that remains to say is thanks to all those who have been my friends and supported what I was trying to do here. Never, is a very long time, but I certainly have no plans for returning unless the admin system changes drastically - send me an e-Mail if it does, but I won't be holding my breath. There's a few unfinished pages here if anyone wants to finish one off or paste into their own space - feel free, help yourself. So long all of you. Giacomo Returned 10:04, 7 February 2012 (UTC)