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Michael Scott: An Oasis in a Sea of Sh*t

Funny how everybody hated on him, what with his gaffs and repeated cliches, and soft soap questions at interviews but he was undeniably a huge fan, truly intoxicated by the sport and his excitement could be quite contagious.

He was basically similar to Murray Walker in the glory days of F1, a true enthusiast. I have heard interviews with Murray away from his commentary duties even after his retirement, and he was as sharp as a tack despite the commentary gaffes. I don't know if that is true of Nick as well, having not encountered similar interviews with him away from his commentary role.

I do suspect both Carmelo and Rossi/his entourage are missing the frequent exaltation of Valentino as "nine times world champion" during the race commentary.
 
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I have a confession.












I am actually Carmelo.
That is all.
While what you say often corresponds with what I would expect from Carmelo, it is quite unlikely he would have your command of adolescent English idiom.

I have actually admitted Carmelo is doing some good things for the sport in general. As a merchant banker it must be very difficult to give up on mining the motherlode which Valentino constitutes, but someday the sport must go on without him, as a rider anyway, and I don't believe in his current manifestation that Valentino is doing himself, or the sport long term, any favours. He doesn't even seem to be enjoying himself overly as I have said; I would have no problem with him continuing for the pure love of it as I assessed him as doing in 2013 as I have also said.
 
I have actually admitted Carmelo is doing some good things for the sport in general. As a merchant banker it must be very difficult to give up on mining the motherlode which Valentino constitutes, but someday the sport must go on without him, as a rider anyway, and I don't believe in his current manifestation that Valentino is doing himself, or the sport long term, any favours. He doesn't even seem to be enjoying himself overly as I have said; I would have no problem with him continuing for the pure love of it as I assessed him as doing in 2013 as I have also said.
For all that I have railed against Vale from Sepang 15 onwards, there is no getting away from the fact that he is still competitive and his performances as a rider are not like watching an ex-champion fighter being beaten, he is always a threat come Sunday. There are times that he still seems to enjoy a race, but that is something that only Vale truly knows.
I agree with you Michael, as is evidenced by the new race direction scrutiny, currently Vale's approach has not been for the betterment of the sport.
When Vale does retire, unless some crazy young buck storms the big class, Marc is easily the natural successor. Unfortunately, as one of you dudes pointed out, (apologies, I can't remember who), Marc's star is at its zenith during the Rossi period, so, for many, (not including myself) will always be tainted, which is an immense shame.
Marc is the only rider that has me on the edge of my seat when just riding around an empty track, all on his lonesome.

On a side note, I can't stop myself referring to Carmelo as Carmen Electra.
I think I have a problem.
 
For all that I have railed against Vale from Sepang 15 onwards, there is no getting away from the fact that he is still competitive and his performances as a rider are not like watching an ex-champion fighter being beaten, he is always a threat come Sunday. There are times that he still seems to enjoy a race, but that is something that only Vale truly knows.
I agree with you Michael, as is evidenced by the new race direction scrutiny, currently Vale's approach has not been for the betterment of the sport.
When Vale does retire, unless some crazy young buck storms the big class, Marc is easily the natural successor. Unfortunately, as one of you dudes pointed out, (apologies, I can't remember who), Marc's star is at its zenith during the Rossi period, so, for many, (not including myself) will always be tainted, which is an immense shame.
Marc is the only rider that has me on the edge of my seat when just riding around an empty track, all on his lonesome.

On a side note, I can't stop myself referring to Carmelo as Carmen Electra.
I think I have a problem.

Sure, absolutely no doubt that he is still unfeasibly/remarkably good.

But if the only thing that will satisfy him is a 10th title and he needs to beat a 25 year old MM to attain his object I fear his hopes are forlorn, and I resent he and his fans having trashed every other rider of quality for the last decade or more. If he won a 10th other than on merit it would trash all his other titles anyway. I would have been quite happy to acknowledge him for winning the 2015 title on merit as he looked like doing for most of the season, it was not his problem that Jorge couldn't ride in the wet, but being close to winning that title doesn't mean it should have been conceded to him imo.
 
You sure synn isnt rog?

He sure is carrying on like a pork chop.

And he cant stand me and is carrying on some age old sook at you Kesh...

It is clear that you're the one still sooking and sulking about Rog, a man who hasn't posted on here for years but still keeps being brought up by you and Kancer. I replied to you the last time you came up with this theory Barry, as it is clear your association with Kancer is approval of his cowardly history on the subject. I've reflected on why you think synn is rog, and I've concluded that its because he makes you feel the same, that being inadequate. You were never roger's match, and in similar fashion you're chasing every post to try and make yourself feel better than synn. The only thing you've succeeded in doing is making yourself look more foolish.
 
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Thank you jumkie.

Im not sure that you realise that your disapproval of me is actually a badge of honour to me.

Especially when you carry on with the petty name calling just like synn does.
 
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It is clear that you're the one still sooking and sulking about Rog, a man who hasn't posted on here for years but still keeps being brought up by you and Kancer. I replied to you the last time you came up with this theory Barry, as it is clear your association with Kancer is approval of his cowardly history on the subject. I've reflected on why you think synn is rog, and I've concluded that its because he makes you feel the same, that being inadequate. You were never roger's match, and in similar fashion you're chasing every post to try and make yourself feel better than synn. The only thing you've succeeded in doing is making yourself look more foolish.

Good lord Jum - nobody gives a .... about that and nobody wants to hear you airing your petty grievances here. Some harsh words were spoken on the internet years ago and you're still trying to set one side of the forum against the other like a bunch of Afghani hill tribes demanding an honor killing. And now you and Knockdown are vilifying Baz because he doesn't toe your party line.

You claim to like this forum. If so, stop trying to divide and conquer. Stop trying start a flame war that nobody wants. When they Semper Fi - this is not what they meant.
 
That was my original thought from the minute he appeared on the forum. He certainly has Rog's incoherent rage. It would explain why he is reluctant to post a photo of himself... and Rog fancys himself a martial arts guy. He has Rog's dog-won't'-let-go-of-the-bone growling thing going. The fact that he knew to go to my website to try (and fail utterly) and dig up things to mock me on, is a strong indicator that this is not a new person on the forum.

Your immediate "theory" the minute anybody appears who doesn't agree with you is to imagine it must be an old boogyman come back to torment you. You’ve accused Synn of being several people now, particularly Roger. Your lack of self-awareness has, in my personal experience, been quite the staple. Speaking of incoherent rage on repeat, this ground had already been covered in the first race thread of the season, which you destroyed as usual, by jumping at the opportunity to use synn as cover for yet another attack on Roger. You’re the worst no-.... Sherlockancer and sidekick Little Watclone, trying to unlock the mystery of why Synn, Albert Tatlock, and anybody can readily know tidbits about your life. Perhaps it is too obvious to you, hiding in plain sight, readily available all the threads that you have engaged in a plethora of flame wars and all the information it contains. As Albert Matlock said, it wasn’t that difficult to find info on you, all he had to do is Google keywords: Keshav, ......., flame war.



And note: He's always polite and deferential to Jumkie and Arrib neither one of which are bopper friendly. .

Nice of you to put it in bold, you got my attention, which is obviously what you wanted; I had been skipping over most of your aimless, disjointed, incessant reactionary blathering nonsense. Not surprised that you are bewildered why posters might treat me “deferential” to you, the forum Kancer. I won’t speak for Arrabi, though this is twice now you’ve brought up his name, even after he told you KayDee that Synn is not Yama San, another one of your spectacular failures of self-control. You haven’t stopped to reflect, as if you possessed that capacity, to ponder why you have received in return the measure of your attacks upon new and old members. You have an peculiar tendency of thinking yourself the forum nanny, patrolling the threads for any new member that needs to be pummeled into submission, and when they don’t acquiesce, your method is to reply to every single post, you’ve managed to run off people this way. Since before the Qatar thread you’ve been particularly relentless trolling and responding, and I must note here, to my disappointment, many have joined in, some of whom I’d say is out of their character. To these others, I can relate too, I’ve been caught up myself, though I would ask them (particularly my friend MikeM) to take a step back, as Barbedwirebiker tried to plea, before he was attacked and silenced by you Kancer and Barry. Not to mention Daniboy who pointed out the same double standard, then was also attacked by the same two culprits, you Kancer and Barry, no exactly a coincidence when this keeps repeating itself.


I've been wondering if the whole, "I'm a pastafarian living in Italy" thing is some kind of dodge. This could be just Rog - only a Rog who's learned how to use spell-check.

Only thing that seems off is his cunty way with Mikey M - which would be out of character. But hiding behind a ........ avatar might be just what he requires to liberate himself from the bounds of human decency.

He's never actually said where he's from - tho he uses a lot of Pommy expressions.

Your brainstorming aloud trying to formulate a coherent thought is both fascinating and disturbing. Maybe Roger was RockGod and Yama san and Synn, and… all along; I’ve concluded that you suffer from some permanent effects of hallucinogenic drugs, I’m not kidding, which in a way I pity you. Your use of Synn as cover for a repeating loop of attacks on Rog is reminiscent of some flashback like some Groundhog’s Day obsession in your damaged brain.

This is why there was not point in trying to normalize interactions with you on the forum Kesh, as I’m sure you thought you were attempting with the standard thorny olive branch you extent once I expose you for a disturbing person. Your attempts at civility is exactly like your “pledge” to stop rubbishing threads, which once it roundly mocked for disingenuous, you tried to save face by saying you were just trolling. First try to exercise self-control in your replies before you start making pledges you have no intention of honoring.
 
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Your immediate "theory" the minute anybody appears who doesn't agree with you is to imagine it must be an old boogyman come back to torment you. You’ve accused Synn of being several people now, particularly Roger. Your lack of self-awareness has, in my personal experience, been quite the staple. Speaking of incoherent rage on repeat, this ground had already been covered in the first race thread of the season, which you destroyed as usual, by jumping at the opportunity to use synn as cover for yet another attack on Roger. You’re the worst no-.... Sherlockancer and sidekick Little Watclone, trying to unlock the mystery of why Synn, Albert Tatlock, and anybody can readily know tidbits about your life. Perhaps it is too obvious to you, hiding in plain sight, readily available all the threads that you have engaged in a plethora of flame wars and all the information it contains. As Albert Matlock said, it wasn’t that difficult to find info on you, all he had to do is Google keywords: Keshav, ......., flame war.

OK - then you've made it clear. Your petty ........ is more important than having a friendly place where people can talk about racing. Go for it. But you'll have to do it on your own.





Nice of you to put it in bold, you got my attention, which is obviously what you wanted; I had been skipping over most of your aimless, disjointed, incessant reactionary blathering nonsense. Not surprised that you are bewildered why posters might treat me “deferential” to you, the forum Kancer. I won’t speak for Arrabi, though this is twice now you’ve brought up his name, even after he told you KayDee that Synn is not Yama San, another one of your spectacular failures of self-control. You haven’t stopped to reflect, as if you possessed that capacity, to ponder why you have received in return the measure of your attacks upon new and old members. You have an peculiar tendency of thinking yourself the forum nanny, patrolling the threads for any new member that needs to be pummeled into submission, and when they don’t acquiesce, your method is to reply to every single post, you’ve managed to run off people this way. Since before the Qatar thread you’ve been particularly relentless trolling and responding, and I must note here, to my disappointment, many have joined in, some of whom I’d say is out of their character. To these others, I can relate too, I’ve been caught up myself, though I would ask them (particularly my friend MikeM) to take a step back, as Barbedwirebiker tried to plea, before he was attacked and silenced by you Kancer and Barry. Not to mention Daniboy who pointed out the same double standard, then was also attacked by the same two culprits, you Kancer and Barry, no exactly a coincidence when this keeps repeating itself.




Your brainstorming aloud trying to formulate a coherent thought is both fascinating and disturbing. Maybe Roger was RockGod and Yama san and Synn, and… all along; I’ve concluded that you suffer from some permanent effects of hallucinogenic drugs, I’m not kidding, which in a way I pity you. Your use of Synn as cover for a repeating loop of attacks on Rog is reminiscent of some flashback like some Groundhog’s Day obsession in your damaged brain.

This is why there was not point in trying to normalize interactions with you on the forum Kesh, as I’m sure you thought you were attempting with the standard thorny olive branch you extent once I expose you for a disturbing person. Your attempts at civility is exactly like your “pledge” to stop rubbishing threads, which once it roundly mocked for disingenuous, you tried to save face by saying you were just trolling. First try to exercise self-control in your replies before you start making pledges you have no intention of honoring.

OK - then you've made it clear. Your petty ........ is too important to put aside and you're willing to start another flame war and .... up the forum again. Go for it. But you'll have to do it on your own.
 
Synn must be laughing at the number of posts dedicated to whether he is or isn't Rog. He's in Barry and Kesh's heads.

Though I’d like to point out by only two individuals, Kancer and Barry. Despite several respected members trying to modulate their wild ideations, these two have clung like mules onto the plot devised by their mulish mind: Synn must be the ‘same guy’ years before with the audacity to pushed back after we attacked him. Yeah, that’s insane. They can’t possibly imagine Synn as one of a long list of member that have been attacked by Kancer from the onset and has returned the treatment, albeit in spades and quite successfully made Kancer and Barry look foolish. Yet Kancer struggles to make the connection as to why there is some “differential” treatment? We may be on polar opposites of the debate RC6, but that hasn’t stopped me from attempting to engage you, as well as others who have presented their view logically. Sure, its difficult to keep from insulting each other as we navigate the argument, and who doesn’t like a nicely placed dig or two, its part of the fun; but as you see with those you have engaged like MikeM and JP, they make robust reasoning’s for their positions, which I believe you can respect.
 
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