Tony 1 and Tony 2 (you will need to sort out between you who is the number 2), Lee Fletcher, Ray Wood- what is it with you guys!? Seriously, you know it's not normal right? Well obviously it feels normal to you but it really isn't. There is a weird obsession you have with Steve Pope and the BS. What happened all those years ago? Steve must have committed the most heinous of crimes for you to still be wasting cloud capacity with the petty scribblings posted here, on Fishing Magic and of course the wonderful River Telegraph.
Any bit of news, any slight or possible hint that something might be up- into print you go. Looking for angles and opportunities to present something that somehow undermines what the BS is about. And yet, at the same time you predict the demise of the BS, it's all coming crashing down and it's a total irrelevance. In which case, why on earth has a Facebook page been set up (The River Telegraph) where 99% of the posts are anti-BS nonsense. Usually based on something someone has said or announced on the BS FB page and then regurgitated in some distorted version to further the rhetoric of imminent BS destruction. That really isn't normal behaviour chaps, it really isn't.
Look, you can't go through life without upsetting someone or being upset by someone. But most people, normal people with a rational outlook on life, get worked up when the episode occurs. There might be fisty cuffs, a scuffle even. Some crockery might get broken, and a wicker basket containing a house plant and a packet of Jaffa cakes, could get crushed. It's horrible, we get it. But fairly soon, things settle down and people move on. Crockery is replaced and more Jaffa cakes are purchased. The wicker basket goes into the skip and isn't replaced because no one liked it anyway.
You see my point?
By all accounts this nonsense between some of you chaps and Steve relates to something that might have happened literally years ago. And I can only assume, given its a large dark cloud that never leaves your air space, that it was something so terrible, so profound in its horror, that letting go, moving on, simply isn't feasible. It can't be simply down to fair debate and challenge can it? It goes way beyond that. Plus why would you feel the need to challenge the workings of the BS, given that you all feel it's an irrelevance and close to extinction. I mean, a normal person wouldn't bother would they? Surely a normal person would find a cause worth fighting, something that really mattered and devoted their energies to that cause. That's got to be right hasn't it, for a sane and secure society to muddle along.
You cant be doing this for the benefit of BS members and prospective members can you because that would be massively arrogant and presumptuous. No one has appointed you have they- to speak on their behalf? Perhaps people can work it for themselves, you know if they want to join or not. But anyway, that doesn't matter either, because no one is joining apparently and the lights are going out as the door is finally shut.
You see, it's all a bit weird.
I fell out with a friend at school. Horrible situation that was. He stole my girlfriend which just wasn't the done thing. Annoyingly there was no internet back then, so I couldn't post embarrassing photos of him on YouTube or unfriend him on Facebook. Instead I had to settle for having sex with my ex girlfriend's mum who my mate and I always agreed was much hotter. We both moved on with our lives, it was along time ago.
Personally, I can't take any of you seriously at all. On the River Telegraph FB page, where it's all about freedom of speech and healthy debate apparently, with all the misinformation, distorted truths and God knows what else being posted on there, I asked to become a member so as to join the debate- you know, to actually make it a debate by offering an alternative view point. But my membership was not accepted and I was blocked. Why would that be? I mean, here we had a BS committee person, happy to enter the ring and deal with all those questions you felt had never been properly answered. Very disappointing.
It's only fishing chaps.
