Sparks has lost the plot

bunny shooter

Sparks, a mod in the shooting forum has lost the plot. He has lost what little sense of humour he had.

References to his rifle being a 'pea shooter' have driven him over the edge :pac:

Sparks

Uh-huh. And would you tell the nice ladies and gentlemen about the cause for your infraction this evening, BS?

Bob the Builder

i see a very good drama unfolding.... so whats the story?

Overheal

you have 60 seconds before I send in Bombcat to nuke this thread.

Jesus Wept

Doctor DooM

Le corn du pop, sil vous plait.

Sparks

Rule one in the shooting forum is be civil. As in, that's the first rule in the charter. BS called another poster yellow for not wanting to go to the Emergency Services forum to take issue with Gardai posters there for not knowing firearms law inside and out (despite the fact that not all Gardai are required to know it, only Superintendents, and the fact that the law's so complex the Law Reform Commission just announced it's one of the first areas of legislation that's going to be Restated in their programme of work for 2008/9).
So he got an infraction.
And now we're here, 'cos, you know, I'm mean. And have no sense of humour. At three in the morning after a full day's work.
I guess I'm just unreasonable that way...

bunny shooter

Sparks wrote: »

Uh-huh. And would you tell the nice ladies and gentlemen about the cause for your infraction this evening, BS?

Well, it was a usual nite on the shooting forum, few lads having a laugh.

Then the grumpy old Mod turns up and.....................

I slagged of a member of his pea shooting clique and next minute I'm the recieptant of an "infraction". Now he claims it was persoanl abuse :rolleyes:, which under the charter is a bannable offence. The injured party made no complaint apparently. Sparks feels it was abuse so therefore, that's it :rolleyes:

Can't show ye the posts as Sparks has deleted 'em. (will he post 'em here ?)

He "abused" me in a PM and has hurt my feelings over a previous incident we had on the forum .........................:(

orestes

SDooM wrote: »

Le corn du pop, sil vous plait.

I'll share a Super Size if you like butter and salt?

patbundy

no sparks bunny didnt call you a peashooter .i did ,which you are in real life.you are a mod in a forum where you shouldnt be. when was was the last time time you fired a round?

Overheal

its only an infraction. its like a ban, divided by over nine thousand.

Sparks

patbundy wrote:

why dont we go over to the emergency servicies post and have it it out with them.lets see what they know about firearms law

It wasn't me! wrote:

Because that would be a really stupid idea?

bunny shooter wrote:

You can stay here and mind the women then, Yellow

Now me, if I break the first rule in a charter and the mod only infracts me when the charter says I ought to be banned, I'd imagine the right thing to do is to just shut up and get on with it. Complaining that the mod's unfair because he infracted you (when the rules say to kick your arse to the kerb for a week), well, that seems... daft I suppose.

bunny shooter

My only defence is ..................... I added a at the end of the sentence. I didn't mean it as personal abuse, it was banter. IWM didn't complain apparently.

Would he like to give testimony ? (reckon the pea shooter reference will go against me now )

Where are the posts referring to going fueding ? they are needed for context

Sparks

patbundy wrote: »

no sparks bunny didnt call you a peashooter .i did ,which you are in real life.you are a mod in a forum where you shouldnt be. when was was the last time time you fired a round?

That'd be right before this happened:


The replacement stock (cost, €500 in total) was posted from Belfast on monday, so it's due in tomorrow morning and by tomorrow evening your answer will be July 24th.

By the way pat, you were banned for similar reasons from the shooting forum tonight by another moderator. Are we all dry fecal matter? Is it a requirement for shooting forum moderators? Or is it possible that you and BS and thehair are constantly treating the forum like your own private TXT SPK chatroom at three in the morning and that we're getting sick of the resulting drop in the signal-to-noise ratio on a forum that the Department of Justice and the Gardai read on a daily basis?

patbundy

and whats wrong with the first one sparks?

randylonghorn

orestes wrote: »

I'll share a Super Size if you like butter and salt?

/sigh

Move over, lads.

Did someone declare open season on Mods or what?

Feedback is buzzing to-day.

bunny shooter

Sparks wrote: »

That'd be right before this happened:


The replacement stock (cost, €500 in total) was posted from Belfast on monday, so it's due in tomorrow morning and by tomorrow evening your answer will be July 24th.

By the way pat, you were banned for similar reasons from the shooting forum tonight by another moderator. Are we all dry fecal matter? Is it a requirement for shooting forum moderators? Or is it possible that you and BS and thehair are constantly treating the forum like your own private TXT SPK chatroom at three in the morning and that we're getting sick of the resulting drop in the signal-to-noise ratio on a forum that the Department of Justice and the Gardai read on a daily basis?

What's the stock to do with ?

He wasn't banned by IRL Connor another member of the Pea Shooter clique ?

Sorry Conor )

DOJ and Gardai, well it is a public forum ?

patbundy

Sparks wrote: »

That'd be right before this happened:


The replacement stock (cost, €500 in total) was posted from Belfast on monday, so it's due in tomorrow morning and by tomorrow evening your answer will be July 24th.

By the way pat, you were banned for similar reasons from the shooting forum tonight by another moderator. Are we all dry fecal matter? Is it a requirement for shooting forum moderators? Or is it possible that you and BS and thehair are constantly treating the forum like your own private TXT SPK chatroom at three in the morning and that we're getting sick of the resulting drop in the signal-to-noise ratio on a forum that the Department of Justice and the Gardai read on a daily basis?

no sparks i was banned by conor who must be closer to you than my wife is to to me. i know you mods can read private mails

latenia

Gentlemen please, you both have guns-surely there are cooler ways to settle this than starting a thread in feedback?

bunny shooter

patbundy wrote: »

no sparks i was banned by conor who must be closer to you than my wife is to to me. i know you mods can read private mails

Here, here.

We reckon they are reading our PM's. Can a super Mod check this ? Is it allowed ?

Pat are we washing all our dirty laundry ?

Jesus Wept

randylonghorn wrote: »

/sigh

Move over, lads.

Did someone declare open season on Mods or what?

Feedback is buzzing to-day.

orestes

patbundy wrote: »

no sparks i was banned by conor who must be closer to you than my wife is to to me. i know you mods can read private mails

Right about here is where it all started going horribly wrong for you I'm afraid

Sparks

1) The stock is broken. They generally do not come in two bits like that, because it's hard to put the buttplate in your shoulder and have it stay there when it's not actually connected to the rest of the rifle. Broken stock = unusable rifle.

2) IRLConor shoots .22lr rifles. Same as yours bunny, he's just a lot better than you with them. (he's won national open matches with scores only a few points off the Irish international records).

3) If you think it's a wise idea to post daft twaddle on a public forum the Garda and DoJ are watching less than a fortnight after the Minister announced he'd be bringing in more legislation and tighter controls on firearms, less than a week from licence renewal time (especially when said twaddle is about how you think the Gardai are, for want of a more concise description, stupid poopy-heads); well, you go right ahead and do it. I'll delete the posts since the charter prohibits general muppetry like that and since there's about 200,000 other shooters out there who'd disagree with your proposal. And if I miss them, then the other three mods will catch them, as they have several times in the past fortnight, for the same reasons.

IRLConor

bunny shooter wrote: »

He wasn't banned by IRL Connor another member of the Pea Shooter clique ?

Sorry Conor )

Yes, I banned him. I issued a warning first asking him to give the s*** he was spouting a rest. He then copied the entire page of his warning into a post on-thread so he got an infraction and a ban for it.

I thought you had a .22 too? Wouldn't that make you part of the pea shooter clique?

IRLConor

bunny shooter wrote: »

We reckon they are reading our PM's. Can a super Mod check this ? Is it allowed ?

Mods can't read your PMs.

Xavi6

patbundy wrote: »

no sparks i was banned by conor who must be closer to you than my wife is to to me. i know you mods can read private mails

CHD

Sparks you live in Greystones and have a gun?

I have a job for you.

bunny shooter

The-Rigger wrote: »

Ooooooooooooooooooooooops

:cool:

randylonghorn

bunny shooter wrote: »

We reckon they are reading our PM's. Can a super Mod check this ? Is it allowed ?

Mods or even Smods cannot access PMs.

Guys, not impressing us with your ability to make a well-researched and well-considered argument here.

The fickle mob is already swaying behind the mods, unless you can pull a bullseye out of the hat awful fast ...

bunny shooter

Sparks wrote: »

1) The stock is broken. They generally do not come in two bits like that, because it's hard to put the buttplate in your shoulder and have it stay there when it's not actually connected to the rest of the rifle. Broken stock = unusable rifle.

2) IRLConor shoots .22lr rifles. Same as yours bunny, he's just a lot better than you with them. (he's won national open matches with scores only a few points off the Irish international records).

3) If you think it's a wise idea to post daft twaddle on a public forum the Garda and DoJ are watching less than a fortnight after the Minister announced he'd be bringing in more legislation and tighter controls on firearms, less than a week from licence renewal time (especially when said twaddle is about how you think the Gardai are, for want of a more concise description, stupid poopy-heads); well, you go right ahead and do it. I'll delete the posts since the charter prohibits general muppetry like that and since there's about 200,000 other shooters out there who'd disagree with your proposal. And if I miss them, then the other three mods will catch them, as they have several times in the past fortnight, for the same reasons.

1) I sympatised over your bad luck. What you're going on about it here for is a good question

2) I have no doubt he's a good shot. Where did I claim he wasn't ? However, did I enter those comps ? Answer = No. So how can you claim he's better than me ? You don't know how good or bad I am :rolleyes:

3) The "Olympic" shooters will ensure the rest of us are sacrificed to save them :mad: Time a new LIST was submitted :P

IRLConor

bunny shooter wrote: »

3) The "Olympic" shooters will ensure the rest of us are sacrificed to save them :mad: Time a new LIST was submitted :P

For the gallery:

This is a persistent innuendo that the ISSF/NTSA/"Olympic" shooters stabbed/stab/will stab the rest of the Irish shooting community in the back when talking to the Dept of Justice. Complete nonsense of course, since there's no way of doing that without hurting ourselves but the rumour continues since it's politically expedient for some people to keep spreading it.

bunny shooter

bunny shooter wrote: »

....Can't show ye the posts as Sparks has deleted 'em. (will he post 'em here ?)

I publically call on Sparks to post ALL the posts here and let the viewers see the unfolding drama as it happened and then decide if it was persoanl abuse or banter.

I will PM "It Wasn't Me" to give his opinion here as he is the "injured" party and he didn't actually make a complaint. And in law without a complaint there ain't a crime

bunny shooter

IRLConor wrote: »

For the gallery:

This is a persistent innuendo that the ISSF/NTSA/"Olympic" shooters stabbed/stab/will stab the rest of the Irish shooting community in the back when talking to the Dept of Justice. Complete nonsense of course, since there's no way of doing that without hurting ourselves but the rumour continues since it's politically expedient for some people to keep spreading it.

Forgotten the lists (of pictures) that were never submitted :rolleyes:

randylonghorn

bunny shooter wrote: »

What you're going on about it here for is a good question

I think it may have come up in answer to this post ...

patbundy wrote: »

no sparks bunny didnt call you a peashooter .i did ,which you are in real life.you are a mod in a forum where you shouldnt be. when was was the last time time you fired a round?

But heh, what would I know?

I know the difference between my weapon and my gun, and neither are peashooters, but I only shoot off one of them on a regular basis. :pac:

bunny shooter wrote: »

And in law without a complaint there ain't a crime

Not true in most cases, even in RL.

And the Admins make the law here, and they don't follow that philosophy as far as I've seen.

IRLConor

bunny shooter wrote: »

I publically call on Sparks to post ALL the posts here and let the viewers see the unfolding drama as it happened and then decide if it was persoanl abuse or banter.

The only people whose opinions carry any real weight in this situation (CMods of Sports, SMods and Admins) can all see the deleted posts.

bunny shooter wrote: »

I will PM "It Wasn't Me" to give his opinion here as he is the "injured" party and he didn't actually make a complaint. And in law without a complaint there ain't a crime

This isn't a court.

bunny shooter

Randy,

just to clarify, Sparks mechano rifle fires wee pellets, Pat's reference to "a round" is that most rifle shooters use rifles that use the cartridge ammo system eg .22lr (long rifle)

But you aren't expected to know that

IRLConor

bunny shooter wrote: »

Forgotten the lists (of pictures) that were never submitted :rolleyes:

:rolleyes:

If you want to rehash that stupid discussion here is not the place.

IRLConor

bunny shooter wrote: »

Randy,

just to clarify, Sparks mechano rifle fires wee pellets, Pat's reference to "a round" is that most rifle shooters use rifles that use the cartridge ammo system eg .22lr (long rifle)

But you aren't expected to know that

Sparks shoots .22 rifles as well as air rifles and air pistols. :rolleyes:

bunny shooter

IRLConor wrote: »

The only people whose opinions carry any real weight in this situation (CMods of Sports, SMods and Admins) can all see the deleted posts.



This isn't a court.

I have seen Sparks post a view of deleted posts before, so therefore, check with him first :P He found some at the start of this

If it was a Court there would be a kangaroo in it :P

bunny shooter

IRLConor wrote: »

:rolleyes:

If you want to rehash that stupid discussion here is not the place.

You brought it up :rolleyes:

Had you forgotten

bunny shooter

IRLConor wrote: »

Sparks shoots .22 rifles as well as air rifles and air pistols. :rolleyes:

How many does he actually own ? Or you for that matter ?

IRLConor

bunny shooter wrote: »

You brought it up :rolleyes:

Had you forgotten

Post #30, by you, was the first mention of it.

bunny shooter

IRLConor wrote: »

Post #30, by you, was the first mention of it.

Touche

bunny shooter

I reckon a fair outcome would be to lift the ban Pat Bundy just got, Sparks to apologise for loosing his temper, and the 3 x amigos to refrain from messing on forum ?

IRLConor

bunny shooter wrote: »

How many does he actually own ? Or you for that matter ?

He owns:

1. An Anschütz 2013 (I think) (.22lr)
2. An Anschütz (Don't know the model) air rifle (.177)
3. An IZH-46 air pistol (.177)

I don't own any, since I have nowhere to store one (rented apartment with no solid walls to bolt a safe to). I use DURC's Walther KK 200 (.22lr)

bunny shooter

IRLConor wrote: »

He owns:

1. An Anschütz 2013 (I think) (.22lr)
2. An Anschütz (Don't know the model) air rifle (.177)
3. An IZH-46 air pistol (.177)

I don't own any, since I have nowhere to store one (rented apartment with no solid walls to bolt a safe to). I use DURC's Walther KK 200 (.22lr)

Well I stand to loose more than the two of ye :eek:

5 x firearms plus wasted money on security systems

IRLConor

bunny shooter wrote: »

I reckon a fair outcome would be to lift the ban Pat Bundy just got,

It would have been just a warning if he had dropped it when I asked him.

bunny shooter wrote: »

Sparks to apologise for loosing his temper,

Understandable after having to clean up after ye again. Not to mention the near-constant whining about the moderation in various threads.

bunny shooter wrote: »

and the 3 x amigos to refrain from messing on forum ?

I reckon there's more chance of ye giving me Friday's winning Euromillions numbers.

IRLConor

bunny shooter wrote: »

Well I stand to loose more than the two of ye :eek:

5 x firearms plus wasted money on security systems

Who's talking about losing anything and what has it to do with the topic of this thread?

bunny shooter

So that's an outright refusal

Just as well you're not in charge of any peace processes

bunny shooter

IRLConor wrote: »

Who's talking about losing anything and what has it to do with the topic of this thread?

Sparks will know what I mean, ref his rather personally offensive PM to me earlier

I know he has no honour but I thought you did

IRLConor

bunny shooter wrote: »

So that's an outright refusal

Yes, unless someone uninvolved makes a good case for the ban to be shortened or lifted.