Welcome & Comings & Goings (Page 1 of 101)

I'm afraid I will not be on here very much (or not at all) for a few weeks. Christmas shopping and stuff. I feel some people will not miss me.

Hello everyone!  I seem to drop in every so often, but I've been in and out of AJB for six years now.  Now I've returned to an upgraded site; those of you who are new might not remember the old site, but many of us have fond memories of it.  Even as we press into the next decade and evolve with the times, the ever-friendly atmosphere is still the same as it was when I first joined in 2003.

For all those who are new to AJB, I'll tell you that this is a great place.  Asking for help does not require a high post count here, and we have no seniority or hierarchy based on sheer post numbers.  Remember, it's quality over quantity!  There are many great people here... and if you're like me, you might get busy and leave for a while; but in your travels across the Web, you'll always find yourself coming back to AJB. 

Cheers to the new site, everybody!  I look forward to seeing you all on the forums, once again! 

Last edited by The Sly Fox (3rd Dec 2009 07:11)

Hello everyone!
I've been a member at MI6 forums under the name 'G section' for about a year and a half, so hello to any fellow MI6ers on this site! I've been reading this forum for ages now and am actually surprised that I've never registered here.
I was born in Norwich, UK and have lived there all my life (albeit a short one).

My parents introduced me to James Bond when I was only very young (about six years old), when watching OHMSS on television. To this day, OHMSS remains one of, if not my favourite Bond film. My favourite Bond actor is Timothy Dalton, although I like them all really. I started reading the Ian Fleming books when I started High School, 4 years ago, and my favourite Bond book is You Only Live Twice.

Outside Bond, my favourite films are Blade Runner, Rear Window (anything by Hitchcock will do), Once Upon A Time In The West, The Bridge On The River Kwai and The Italian Job (the British version of course).

Other than Bond my interests include Rugby (Union in particular), Football (that's soccer to those in the States), History, Geography and acting.

I look forward to talking to everyone on the forums.

Cheers,

Matt

"I tried to bring the movies back to something that was more like Ian Fleming" - Timothy Dalton
"Bond was escapism, but not meant to be imitated in real life." - Sir Roger 'The Legend' Moore
"The best research for playing a drunk is being a British actor for 20 years." - Sir Michael Caine

Thanks very much for the welcome.

I'd rather there be no Bond films at christmas. Just watch ITV's horrendous cuts and you'll see what I mean.

"I tried to bring the movies back to something that was more like Ian Fleming" - Timothy Dalton
"Bond was escapism, but not meant to be imitated in real life." - Sir Roger 'The Legend' Moore
"The best research for playing a drunk is being a British actor for 20 years." - Sir Michael Caine

Thanks very much Pendragon!

Oh and as it turns out, Die Another Day is on this christmas, Napoleon Plural.

"I tried to bring the movies back to something that was more like Ian Fleming" - Timothy Dalton
"Bond was escapism, but not meant to be imitated in real life." - Sir Roger 'The Legend' Moore
"The best research for playing a drunk is being a British actor for 20 years." - Sir Michael Caine

Welcome aboard, Mike!

Hi,
This is my second post here. I posted this on another section of the forum but it was suggested that this would be a better place for it.
I am looking forward to reading through and adding to the posts.
My favorite Bond has too be Sean Connery followed by Daniel Craig, the reason being both are exude danger from every pore of there being.
Post again soon.

Steve
"It don't mean nothing"

From a befriended forum member, I have heard, that several people here on the board have been asking about me.

Thank you very much for asking, I am doing well. Rumours, that trans-gender operations were due this year and I don't have the time to post are totally false!

Truth is, that I am keeping away from AJB since November 2009 because I have been criticized by AJB Moderator Moonraker5 in a totally inacceptable way in a thread, which has been deleted in the meantime.

I don't want to bore with all details and I'd like to point out, that I know, that I am far from being perfect. It is absolutely ok to criticize me for what I DO.
What is not ok is to get on me in public for what I AM. Mods are asking us members to be respectful against each other and I expect the same thing from Mods.

In the thread in question, Moonraker 5 was getting on me in a very personal way such as discussing my qualifications for being an AJB Moderator. Something, that I have never ASKED to be, something I never WANTED to be. But putting this into the context of my personality is way out of line and I feel  having been displayed "pants down" that way.

I repeat: NOONE!!!!! has the right to do this! Not my boss, not my friends and noone on AJB,

To make things more bad, Moonraker5 does not even feel the need to even reflect his actions or to get into any kind of constructive discussion with me regarding all this. The only message, which I have received from me on my complaint via pm was, that he'll forward any word to the mod's forum.

AJB remains  to me to be the best board which is about 007 and is still a well-moderated forum. But this does NOT mean, that everything is perfect and everything has to be accepted. Mods have a functuon and a uniform, but they are not Gods!
As long as the powers from AJB do back up such a behavior, I stay away from AJB.

Kind regards

M.

Those who want to contact me, please shoot me an email over my webpage. Thanks!

Last edited by Higgins (14th Jan 2010 16:47)

Glad to hear that you are doing well Bondtoys!

Thanks again for your support last August during the Ted Kennedy tribute thread.  What started out as a simple thread to pay respects to someone who just passed, turned into a hate-fest by an idiot here who always had to start trouble - hopefully he continues to stay away! 

The mod's did nothing to lock down what turned into a political argument, but I appreciate your efforts to keep the peace and keep the thread on track!

It was good of you to step in, you are a stand-up guy!  Best regards!

Bondtoys,

Glad you have not packed up entirely.  I can't speak to what went on because I was not involved in that thread or aware of it.  All I can say is that I believe AJB needs your expert knowledge here.  Sometimes things can get out of hand I suppose.  We are all human.  If the thread dissapeared, pehaps that's for the best.  Hope to see you squeezed into your Madagasscar shirt around these parts soon.

DG

So, what sharp little eyes you've got...wait till you get to my teeth.

"People sleep peacefully in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf."  Richard Grenier after George Orwell, Washington Times 1993.

It is unfortunate you feel that way, but you have passed your thoughts on to the forum owner as I and the other moderators are aware. 

The moderating team are well aware that for some time you do not think that AJB is well run and that standards have fallen "drastically".  This was before your beef with me, and before you accused another moderator of having a personal issue with you because he also asked you to reign in your remarks.  There has been some discussion among the moderators - actually long before anyone actually suggested to you that you were upsetting people.  Your beef is not simply with myself, nor the other moderator you have accused of having a personal vendetta against you, but with the standards of AJB itself and how it is moderated.  Perhaps being in that bubble I have a warped view of what's going on, but I would say with some considerable confidence - backed up loudly by the others in the team - that AJB has been really rather consistent over the years.  It's regrettable you feel otherwise since those standards had to be applied to yourself.

To paraphrase from SiCo's conclusion in the moderator forum in early December "The consensus still stands."

Bondtoys, I have no intention of continuing any 'argument'.  I will say that I am not hiding behind anyone; I stand by my action. I have nothing further to say here or by any other means.