FYI Gary Glitter - An apology

[DTCwordfan]

This is not an easy thread to write - in order to get the right balance.

First of all, I do apologise to all about the one joke on the subject and if I lost it generally.

Like Eddie, I have been involved with the ghastly subject both directly and indirectly. If you want to know the gory details, I had a teacher climb into my bed and he had his hard .... at my pyjama-ed bottom. But how could I even prove it. However, shortly afterwards the said teacher was involved in taking photographs of one of my mates in the school garages and three of us went to the HM and he was instantly fired - and the evidence was there in the camera. In today's environment, he would have been arrested and all the rest.

Like Eddie, I often use humour as a means to de-stress over this ghastly subject - "black" humour being one of the means we Brits frequently use to counter abhorrent or catastrophic events. For that I will apologise as I will for perhaps not making myself totally clear in the comment that those of you who have not had any experience of the "subject" directly or indirectly so, will have no real understanding of the gamut of emotions that run around. If I didn't make that clear, my apologies - wit Ummmm's remarks on this.

However, Ummmm does not get a full apology until she apologises for the continued belittling, snide remarks and insinuations when I was off in the Ed's wilds. I laughed myself silly when she insinuated that I was The Shakesperian (on the "What can I do" thread) and then thought "well, the Ed could take that the wrong way and keep me off longer" - necessitating an e-mail to the Ed to correct that.

There was no way I was him or her, Ummmm, and I think that the user continued on some time before making some daft or crass remark that got him/her extradited from here. If I had run a second account it would have been removed "toute suite".

Remarks such as who to go for dinner with and with what food, I did not appreciate, Ummmm, and what a a cheap shot that was as I could not reply and you knew it.

However, my vent is not against Ummmm. It is Mark Rae who, once again set about revealing personal snippets of information about me, in contravention to the third bullet of the Ed's rules. This is not the first time and I am not the first person to "suffer" at his hands. I refer you to AnswerPrancer's thread on this subject:

http://www.theanswerb.../Question1032469.html

I don't care how you think you got my name, MR, you should not publish it or anything else to the detriment or whatever of the user on here. This is the last I am saying about it on the assurance that you cease this right now, to me or anyone else on here, or I may have to reveal certain things about you.

Anyway, less of that and let's see what has been happening around here.

[DTCwordfan]

I'll have a look over there, NoM, after lunch......Thanks..