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   Message 21,982 of 23,974   
   Stephen Thomas Cole to gareth   
   Re: Radio Society of Great Britain - Mai   
   18 Dec 15 16:20:20   
   
   XPost: uk.radio.amateur, rec.radio.amateur.policy   
   From: usenet@stephenthomascole.com   
      
   "gareth"  wrote:   
   > "gareth"  wrote in message   
   > news:n516iq$unh$1@dont-email.me...   
   >> "Ian Jackson"  wrote in message   
   >> news:5PSX4tDwXAdWFwt7@g3ohx.demon.co.uk...   
   >>> I really can't believe the tale of only being able to achieve 1/4 mile on   
   >>> CB. However, if it's actually true, it's certainly line-of-sight - even   
   >>> for the short-sighted.   
   >>   
   >> It isn't true; it is an artifact of those who are desperate to want to   
   >> shout out insults every day.   
   >   
   > There are numerous other examples, by those who are desperate to want to be   
   > insulting,   
   > of them being reckless as to the truth if what they sneer ...   
   >   
   > 1. I have never blown up any TX, let alone an FT101.   
   >   
   > 2. This house is not an ex-council house. In   
   > this road are the first houses to be built for private occupation after the   
   > war, and were opened by the   
   > then housing minister.   
   >   
   > 3. I do not drive a poverty spec car. I buy my cars nearly new (so as not to   
   > lose £1K immediately after signing   
   > the cheque) and with low mileage and then run them into the ground.   
   >   
   > 4. I have never tasted methylated spirits, and will now have been teetotal   
   > under the aegis of AA for 29   
   > years come nect March.   
   >   
   > 5. I did not assault the postman   
   >   
   > 6. There is no leylandii in the front garden of the  house, and there is no   
   > faux stone cladding on it.   
   > These houses were built by the reputable builder George Hazel from Clane in   
   > the 1950s and consist   
   > largely of moulded concrete blocks.   
   >   
   > ... but tell any of that to the losers, such as the Three Amigos, and they   
   > will be deaf to protests in   
   > their desperation to want to shout out insults in the style of 5-year-olds.   
   >   
   > 7. I am neither homosexual nor homophobic.   
      
   FURIOUS backpedal!   
      
   --   
   STC // M0TEY // twitter.com/ukradioamateur   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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